BigBlueButton 3.0.40

BigBlueButton 3.0.40 adds an option to turn off the chat announcement of a user's away status. It also moves the players for recordings made with BigBlueButton 0.81 and 0.9 into a new optional bbb-playback-presentation-legacy package, so install that package if your server still serves such recordings. On the server side, bbb-web moves to Grails 8.0.0 / Spring Boot 4.1.1 with embedded Tomcat 11.0.27. This iteration also fixes webspeech captions transcribing a different microphone from the one used in the meeting, push-to-talk leaving users marked away, and presentation pan/zoom in recording playback after a screenshare ends, along with a broad round of dependency updates. Below is a list of the pull requests in this iteration, grouped by component.

Link to installation command / instructions / schedule / planned features: https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/3.0/new-features

Big THANK YOU to all community members who helped for this release - both through sending pull requests and through reporting bugs or requesting enhancements! :confetti_ball:

HTML5 client

fixes

• fix(client): re-arm stale connection watchdog after each stale period by @ritzalam in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/25950
• fix(html5): keep unused webpack cache entries for the default period by @imdt-claudiop in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/25962
• fix(audio-captions): transcribe the microphone in use in the meeting (webspeech) by @antobinary in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/25927
• [3.0] fix(audio): remove the away status when talking with push-to-talk by @Tainan404 in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/25940

features and refactors

• [3.0] feat: Add option to disable announcement of user away status in chat by @samuelwei in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26089

test and CI

• [3.0]test: Improve failing tests on layouts and recording by @antobinary in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/25931
• test: Add shared notes access coverage by @imdt-claudiop in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26015
• ci: post the in-progress tests comment once per run by @germanocaumo in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/25903
• [3.0 port] test(whiteboard): port the same-run camera re-sync baseline, blur the idle viewer before the Pan screenshot by @antobinary in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26208

locales

• [3.0 locales] Updates for project BigBlueButton v3.0 HTML5 client by @transifex-integration[bot] in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/25955, https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26225

Core

• [3.0 port] fix(akka-apps & bbb-graphql-middleware): Log Failed Middleware Reconnection Requests and Deliver Stream Replay 3.0 by @paultrudel in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/25977
• [3.0] fix(core): Authorize presenter changes by the request sender by @imdt-claudiop in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/25899
• [3.0 port] build: upgrade bbb-web stack to Grails 8.0.0 / Spring Boot 4.1.1 by @antobinary in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26014
• [3.0] build(bbb-web): bump embedded Tomcat to 11.0.27 by @antobinary in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26240
• [3.0] build(bbb-web): bump the Gradle wrapper to 9.8.1 by @antobinary in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26258

bbb-export-annotations

• [3.0 port] fix(bbb-export-annotations): wrap exported text exactly as the client does by @antobinary in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26012

Recording

• fix(record-and-playback): deploy Gemfile.lock along with Gemfile by @imdt-claudiop in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/25961
• fix(recording): restore presentation panzoom after screenshare stops by @Tainan404 in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/25992
• [3.0] build: move the 0.81 and 0.9.0 presentation players to an optional package by @imdt-claudiop in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/25836

Packaging and configuration

• [3.0]build: Update versions for Go 1.27.3, Gradle 9.8.1, and Node 22.23.4 by @antobinary in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26146
• build: let the build system name the version the legacy package pins to by @antobinary in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26256

Documentation

• [3.0] docs: remove the dead captions value from disabledFeatures by @Tainan404 in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/25972
• docs: iteration doc sync for 3.0.40 by @antobinary in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26249

Chore

• build(deps): bump joi from 17.13.6 to 17.13.8 in /docs by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/25945
• build(deps): bump brace-expansion from 1.1.18 to 1.1.21 in /docs by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/25944
• build(deps): bump axios from 1.18.0 to 1.20.0 in /bigbluebutton-tests/playwright by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/25943
• build(deps): bump dompurify from 3.4.14 to 3.4.16 in /docs by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/25941
• build(deps): bump brace-expansion in /bbb-graphql-client-test by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/25949
• build(deps): bump compression from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2 in /docs by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26027
• build(deps): bump source-map-js from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2 in /docs by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26026
• build(deps): bump proxy-addr from 2.0.7 to 2.0.8 in /docs by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26025
• build(deps): bump shell-quote from 1.10.0 to 1.12.0 in /docs by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26024
• build(deps): bump compression from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2 in /bigbluebutton-html5 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26032
• build(deps): bump proxy-addr from 2.0.7 to 2.0.8 in /bigbluebutton-html5 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26031
• build(deps-dev): bump source-map-js from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2 in /bbb-graphql-client-test by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26040
• build(deps-dev): bump shell-quote from 1.8.4 to 1.12.0 in /bbb-graphql-client-test by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26039
• build(deps): bump source-map-js from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2 in /bigbluebutton-html5 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26033
• build(deps): bump katex and mermaid in /docs by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26034
• build(deps-dev): bump compression from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2 in /bbb-graphql-client-test by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26041
• build(deps-dev): bump proxy-addr from 2.0.7 to 2.0.8 in /bbb-graphql-client-test by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26042
• build(deps-dev): bump brace-expansion from 1.1.16 to 1.1.21 in /bigbluebutton-tests/playwright by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26043
• chore: resolve npm audit warnings in bigbluebutton-html5, bbb-export-annotations, bbb-shared-notes-server, bbb-graphql-actions, bbb-learning-dashboard, docs, bigbluebutton-tests/playwright and bbb-graphql-client-test by @antobinary in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26195
• chore(core): bump dependencies versions as required by @antobinary in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26199
• chore: BigBlueButton 3.0.40 iteration by @antobinary in https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/26044

Full Changelog: https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/compare/v3.0.39...v3.0.40

Release name

Passing -v jammy-300 to https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bbb-install/blob/v3.0.x-release/bbb-install.sh will always install the latest released BigBlueButton 3.0 version.

If for some reason you would like to install this specific release, pass -v jammy-300-3.0.40.

We still recommend using -v jammy-300 as this repository is continually updated with each BigBlueButton 3.0 release.