{"id":5126,"date":"2025-05-04T13:49:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T13:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.alfaview.com\/?page_id=5126"},"modified":"2025-05-20T13:15:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:15:41","slug":"release-notes-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/support.alfaview.com\/en\/release-notes\/release-notes-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Release notes 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

alfaview Client Version 8.61.0 (22.12.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Media sharing with audio: a new feature on Windows which allows you to additionally share audio from your computer.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Pop out windows for media shares will not stay on top of other applications anymore.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Direct messages you replied to now stay in your list and do not disappear automatically.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.60.0 (06.12.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.58.2 (24.11.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>To make it easier to add new rooms, we have added a button on the home screen that allows you to open the room and department management directly from the alfaview client.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.58.1 (09.11.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Fixed a crash on macOS Ventura when the Continuity Camera feature is used.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.58.0 (07.11.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.57.0 (25.10.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Individual media shares can now be popped out in separate windows by double clicking on the thumbnails and via right click.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Secondary menu panels (e.g. participant list) can now be popped out in separate windows by right clicking on the respective icon.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Fixed application sharing issues while using Windows 10 in tablet mode (e.g. Microsoft Surface).<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.56.0 (12.10.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>The microphone is now turned off completely when the microphone button is inactive. For technical reasons, the microphone indicator will still show as active on iOS.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>On Android and iOS, alfaview will now report if microphone permissions are missing.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.54.0 (10.10.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.53.1 (10.09.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.53.0 (31.08.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/strong><\/td>The shape of the blur area on face video streams was updated.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Acoustic Echo Cancellation performance was improved in particular on Android devices.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.52.0 (17.08.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/strong><\/td>The shape of the blur area on face video streams was updated. We also fixed an issue where the blur would be applied incorrectly in some device orientations.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>We fixed an issue where sometimes a small noise could be heard by other participants in the room when returning from a break or when switching microphones.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.51.0 (03.08.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Feature update<\/strong><\/td>Speaker View
<\/strong>A new video layout is now available. Using this view, the active speaker is shown in a larger area than the others. All the other participants are presented as thumbnails under the speaker video. When VIP attendees are present, the speaker view switches among them only. Toggle between gallery and speaker view via the status menu at the bottom left.<\/td><\/tr>
Feature update<\/strong><\/td>Blur surroundings<\/strong>
\u201cBlur surroundings\u201d is now also available on mobile devices. The visual quality has been improved and an option to control the focus area was added.<\/td><\/tr>
Feature update<\/strong><\/td>Users can now pop out their own face video to a new window.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Fixed a potential issue with delayed camera image on Android.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.50.1 (26.07.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Blurring of the background is temporarily disabled on mobile devices.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.50.0 (20.07.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Feature update<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/td>It is now possible to blur the background of your face video stream.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.49.1 (08.07.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/td>We have fixed a visual glitch with scrolling the participant list with a touchpad on macOS Monterey.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>We have fixed a problem which caused spectators to be unable to see participants’ videos.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.47.0 (10.06.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Feature update<\/strong><\/strong><\/td>There\u2019s now a red badge next to the settings button to indicate when a new update is available (for desktop devices except MSI package).<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.46.1 (07.06.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/strong><\/td>Fixed a problem where sometimes user\u2019s desktop would be visible while sharing a full screen application.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/strong><\/td>Fixed a problem where application sharing would be disabled.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Application sharing is now correctly disabled on Windows 8.0. The lowest supported version is Windows 8.1.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Fixed a problem which caused the camera menu to be enabled even when there were no cameras attached.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.46.0 (24.05.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Feature update<\/strong><\/td>You can now share a specific application window by selecting the option \u2018Application\u2019 in the media share menu. For now, this feature is only available on Windows 8.1 or later.<\/td><\/tr>
Feature update<\/strong><\/td>You can now control your camera while you are in a meeting by turning the camera off or showing your video only to VIPs. You can find the options under the newly added camera button in the main menu.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>On Linux, alfaview now no longer has a dependency on a system-provided OpenSSL library.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.45.0 (12.05.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Feature update<\/strong><\/td>The raise hand feature is available by default in all rooms. See Room features<\/a> for more details on the feature.<\/td><\/tr>
Feature update<\/strong><\/td>We have added a new option in the settings menu with a link to the alfaview release notes.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>We have fixed a crash on iOS 12.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Acoustic Echo Cancellation is now less aggressive on Windows and macOS, when using a USB or Bluetooth headset.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.44.0 (25.04.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>We have improved our Acoustic Echo Cancelation.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.43.0 (12.04.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Feature update<\/strong><\/td>You can now leave a room easier via a button in the secondary menu.<\/td><\/tr>
Feature update<\/strong><\/td>We have added a search button to the status menu.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>We have fixed a potential crash when switching audio devices.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.42.0 (28.03.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.41.0 (15.03.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Feature update<\/strong><\/td>Users with multiple accounts are now asked to select the desired account after logging in.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.40.0 (01.03.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.39.0 (15.02.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.38.0 (01.02.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Screensharing is now also available on Linux with Wayland using Sway.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>The second camera media share now picks better resolutions for some camera models.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>We have fixed an issue with screen sharing on macOS which prevented the mouse cursor from being captured under certain circumstances.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.37.0 (14.01.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Screensharing on Mac now uses less system resources.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

alfaview Client Version 8.36.0 (04.01.2022)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>We fixed an issue where bluetooth headsets could not be used with some iPads since alfaview 8.33.<\/td><\/tr>
Resolved issues<\/strong><\/td>Improved performance, usability, and stability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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