Cisco Webex Latest Release - 42.7

Overview

Your Webex service will be upgraded to the Latest release 42.7 according to the Cisco Webex maintenance schedule.

Summary of the upcoming release is below. 

For users

Webex Pre-Meeting Experience

• Audio and Video statistics moved into Meeting settings. In the desktop app for Meetings and Webinars, Cisco consolidated these statistics into Meeting settings under the Statistics tab.

• Share, Mute, and Unmute in Webex Meetings directly from your task bar in Windows 11. To share the application in Webex, hover over the application in the task bar and a pop-up appears with the option.

• Attendees can hear music during a practice session in a Webinar. The host can upload a music file in the scheduling process, when the practice session starts, this music file play by default for the attendees. Attendees can mute the music as needed.*

• Practice session - add text message in a Webinar. The host can now edit and customise the message content that attendees see when practice session is in progress. When the practice session starts, this message is shown to the attendees.*

• Webex now supports right-to-left languages, including Hebrew and Arabic.

In-meeting experience

• Improve Embedded App Discovery.  The App Gallery now includes the following enhancements:
  •  Every app in the app gallery has a short tagline or description that describe what the app does.
  • The user can search for an app.
  • The app gallery has two tabs - My Apps and Discover. In the My Apps Section users can select to favorite an app. It also shows apps suggested for the user. *

• New keyboard shortcut to select multiple apps to share. In the desktop app Share Content window, you can now hold Shift in Windows and Command in Mac to select multiple apps in Meetings and Webinars.

• Web App and PWA for Chrome OS: background noise removal now available in Firefox, Chrome 97+, and Edge 97+. Previously, the Webex Smart Audio noise removal option was only available by request. In this update, this option is now available by default. In order to use this feature in Safari and older versions of Chrome/Edge, this still must be enabled by request. Contact your Account Manager to have this feature enabled. 

• Web App PWA for Chrome: share 4K content. Like the desktop app, participants who joined from the Meetings web app or PWA for Chrome OS can now share 4K content in meetings and webinars.

• Web App PWA for Chrome OS: improved media quality when TCP/UDP is blocked. The Meetings web app media quality has been improved for users who have TCP or UDP blocked, where previously they may have experienced degradation in audio, video, and content sharing. Due to a current limitation in Safari and Firefox, if you’re using a proxy in your browser configuration, you may not benefit from this change when you use these browsers.

• Anyone can launch Slido in Webex Meetings.
  •  You don't have to be host or cohost to launch Slido anymore.
  • ·Participants in the same organization as the host can also to launch Slido.
  • ·Host can override anyone’s Slido in the meeting.
  • ·Host can enable or disable the ability for anyone to add Slido to the meeting. For more product details, go to the Slido Community help article.

Media enhancements

• Dedicated network origination port ranges. In this update  the network port numbers that we use to initiate media streams are being changed. This allows customers to appropriately mark Meetings network packets for audio and video Quality of Service (QoS) to properly prioritize Webex media on their network. Meetings app now originates media traffic within the following dedicated port ranges:
  • Audio—52000 to 52049
  • Video—52100 to 52199

• The video port range is used for both main video and content sharing video. This feature is enabled by default.*

Device enhancements

• Immersive share on video devices. Users on on-premises registered video devices can now see presenters in front of shared content.

• Remotely control interpretation on device (Mac). When the Webex Meetings app for Windows is paired with a new cloud-registered device that is supported for Simultaneous Interpretation (attendee view only), the interpretation controls can be toggled remotely on the app (or directly on the device). In order to use this feature, your administrator will have to set this up in Control Hub. Follow this Cisco' s Configure simultaneous interpretation for your organization in Control Hub article for more details.

Post-meeting experience

• Webinar attendance report includes email address column for webinars with webcast view. This way it is easy to accurately identify who the attendees are.

Webex Meetings for iOS and Android

• Facebook Portal users can login using QR code or six-digit pin making it easy for users to login.

Webex Meetings for iOS

• Webex Meetings Apple CarPlay UX improvement. Webex Meetings users can view their upcoming meetings after connecting their iPhone to Apple CarPlay dashboard and can join the meeting with one click.

Webex Meetings for Android

• Virtual background support for GIF and MP4 animation has been added as part of this release. GIF is currently not support for Android.

VDI experience

• Quarterly release and N-7 support of VDI plugin. Every four months there is a new update for the VDI plugin, which is aligned with slow channel (4x.2, 4x.6, 4x.10). Each plugin supports eight higher versions of the Meetings app. 

For administrators

• Innovate to audit more administrative activities in Control Hub admin audit log. With this update, the administrator can go to administration activities in Control Hub to audit these activities. It covers all options relevant to Webex Meetings and Webinars in Control Hub managed sites.

• Option to disable all post-meeting emails.The existing site administration setting for Send notification email now controls the email notification flow for both recording-generated emails as well as other post-meeting content emails (highlights and meeting transcript), which can now be enabled or disabled using a single toggle.*

• Compliance feature for IT administration to block use of VoIP in meetings for their regulated users. This new setting is a part of the Control Hub settings template. The IT administrators can choose a particular user, group of users, and organization level external meeting setting for whom these settings would apply.  To use this feature, you have to update to the latest version of Webex Meetings Desktop app.

• Site administrators can set if webinars need to have numeric password for users joining using a phone in addition to the mandatory access code. Previously, it enforced dial-in in users to enter both numeric password and access code.*

*This feature is available on a delayed release cycle. Check status.webex.com/maintenance to see when it’s available on your site.

Go here for more details on what's new in the 42.7 Latest release.

Impact description and actions

• Review the above features and inform your users
• Follow 'Next steps' below

Next steps

Refer to the below resources for support through this upgrade process:

• Customer Monthly Update 42.7
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Latest Channel Guide for IT Managers

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