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Demo Video of new features in version 1.6

• You can login using your Facebook account now
• Private message center, send users messages, organize them in folders, you can book conference rooms by sending private messages, the booked event is automatically in your and the participants calendar, changes to that event will be populated to all users booked to the event.
• User contacts, you can search users, add them to your contacts
• Share your calendar with your contacts
• Add offerings and interest to your profile to find people with similar interest
• Reworked Full-fit functionality, Full-fit does rescale the document on the screen to be 100% visible on all screens, no matter what screen resolution you got. So the zoom might be 60% on one pc and 79% on a participant with different screen resolution
• Objects drawn on the whiteboard do now zoom according to the document and the zoom itself can be now between 0 and 200% of the actual pixel size
• Encrpyted PDFs do work now
• The backup does contain various fixes and includes the complete folder structure of the recordings + recordorded files, and all data that is generated by the new features private messages and user contacts
• Some new timezones and fixes for the release 1.5 regarding wrong time zones in some mail notifications

We are facing some strange behaviour with the new FP 10,1,53,64. Some Windows user seem to have a Plugin crash as soon as you publish the stream. The funny thing is that I have the same Windows7, FP 10,1,53,64 on another device, working fine ). While some people tried 2-3 boxes and all crashed (.

The behavior can be quite easily duplicated: You can just goto the Youtube Self Recording application (http://www.youtube.com/my_webcam) as soon as you hit on the button in the Security Dialog, Flash Player crashes.
Here are some sample screen

Crash:

There is no difference in IE or Firefox. The webcam the user was using was a cyberlink webcam. Other Laptop’s with integrated webcam did crash too.

There seems to be already some buzz about that at:

http://flashvisions.com/general/flash-player-10-1-1015364-crashes-when-accessing-webcam/

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3031253#3031253
And somebody proposes a workaround:

http://sixby9.co.uk/general-computing/solution-webcam-crashes-or-hangs-flash-and-browser/

Hope guys @ Adobe will come up soon with an update, before my clients bang my head against the wall )

We are happy to announce Version 1.3 of Openmeetings and its new features:

• Drawings stay on slide when you turn the page of a document on the whiteboard
• Restricted Room Type further optimization for 100++ participants. We have done some Stress test with the University of Umeå from Sweden and Vasaa in Finland with about 120-130 participants in a Single Conference Room (Type Restricted). They went successfull. Thanks to the Team of http://www.openkvarken.fi again
• Quality Settings in Screen Sharing Clients, contributed by Giovanni Possemato / Bitflow (http://www.bitflow.it) + RTMP-Tunneling Version of ScreenSharer fixed
• New SOAP Calls to get User-Object List including Streamname to broadcast a Video Stream out of a Conference directly
• Screen Sharing/Recording is now a separated right, therefore new layout for User-List in all room-types
• Option in Room-Settings and Administration “Audio Only” so users can only do Voice Conference in those rooms
• Video Pod hidden (Conference-Roomtype) or minimized (Webinar/Restricted-Roomtype) if User selects only Audio as device to broadcast
• Activity-Icon highlights when user speaks, now also in User-List (Room-Type Conference) instead of Video-Pod
• System Backup and Import - You can export now completely Users + Rooms + Organizations + all associations + all uploaded Files into a single ZIP and re-import that ZIP in a freshly installed OpenMeetings (of course you need an OpenMeetings Version greater 1.3 to be able to import the ZIP again) see also UpdateOpenMeetings

Major Bug fixes:

• Invitations Password does not work
• Reminder Email not beeing send before scheduled Meetings (now send 15 minutes upfront no matter if ICAL or simple Mail)
• lots of small things

http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/wiki/ChangeLog

Downloads:

http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/downloads/list

The SugarCRM and Moodle Integration is fully upwards compatible.