Increased End-to-End Encryption and enhanced meeting security

Improvements

Pre-meeting experience

• Enhance meeting security with Auto Admit - Auto Admit is designed to make users' life easier as a meeting host while increasing the security of your meeting.

In-meeting experience

• Italian spoken language - During the meeting, the host can select Italian as the spoken language for the meeting, which then appears in the closed captions and transcript.

• Increase end-to-end encrypted meetings to 1,000 participants - Users can now host up to 1,000 participants joining end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) v2 Webex meetings

• Visual changes to the meeting preview window - The window size has been changed to be smaller than the meeting window and not be expandable.

• New End control button and keyboard shortcut when using remote control - Added a new End control button to the control bar at the top of the screen, and a new keyboard shortcut SHIFT+ALT+R.

• Auto-switch camera setting in Windows - Windows users can choose from Preferences -> Video -> Camera -> Automatically select camera to enable or disable automatic camera switching when they connect a new external camera to their Windows computer.

Webinar and webcast experience

• Attendees can join from the browser by default (Online Webinar) - Attendees joining Webinars scheduled by online users can now join a using their browser by default.

• Pre-assign attendees to breakout sessions - Hosts and cohosts can now pre-assign attendees to breakout sessions from the webinar information page​ .

• Stage manager in Webex Webinars - Host and cohost can now give your webinar a professional and polished look by adding a background wallpaper and logo to the stage, customize the speakers’ name label with name and subtitles.

Slido experience

• Second poll flow - Added a Plus sign + button to continue adding multiple polls to your event from the Slido integration for more efficient event creation.

• Mandatory field in survey - When users create a Survey (from Slido Administration or any integration sidebar), they can mark any questions as required.

• Open text topics in slidolabs - This feature helps achieve better meetings by providing instant context to the moderator. Filter responses in the open text poll by their topics.

• Webcast support for more than 10,000 users - Slido is now supported for Webcast mode for 10,000 or fewer users.

Post-meeting experience

• Changes in retention storage policy for Webex Meetings - Webex is removing the option to retain post-meeting data (recording and transcripts) for an indefinite period.

Webex Meetings for Android

• Android 6 and Android 7 end of life support from January 1, 2023 - Starting January 1, 2023, Webex Meetings isn’ t going to be supported on Android 6 and Android 7.

Administration experience

• Administrators can reassign a new host for scheduled meetings and Webinars - If a meeting host leaves the company, or moves to another group, then the host becomes invalid for their scheduled meetings. The administrators can reassign a new host for the scheduled meetings.

• Cohosts and meeting participants can do a cloud-based recording - For this feature, two Control Hub toggles are added. Webex administrators can decide if they want to allow host, cohost, or meeting participants to record meetings in the cloud.

• Flow updated for a user joining a meeting and signing in or signing up for a Webex account using Google credentials - Due to a change mandated by Google, starting with the January 43.1 update, the flow for users when joining a Webex meeting and trying to sign up or sign into their Webex account using Google credentials has changed

• Custom Dictionary – Beta release - The Custom Dictionary feature in Control Hub allows administrators to specify custom out-of-vocabulary words that are not part of the standard dictionary, so that when these words are uttered in meetings, they can be transcribed more accurately  in the closed captions and transcript.

• IT administrator settings template policy improvement for recordings - Settings template in Control Hub gives IT administrators the capability to apply policy per org, user, and group for meetings held within and outside of their company.

• Add support for NDI video export for meetings and webinars - Meeting and webinar hosts can now enable NDI® streaming technology for their meetings and webinars. NDI is used in many video production environments to transport video streams over the network, between applications, and hardware devices.