Backstage

New

• Introducing Studio and polls for live streams
  • Use Studio to bring up to 9 speakers into a video conference, and stream the presentation directly from Backstage. Learn more
  • Create and run polls from the Studio before and during your streams. Learn more
    
    
• Usage report
  Download a single report on your workspace dashboard, containing a variety of metrics broken down daily.
  
  
• Deprecation notice
  Starting January 15, 2021, following capabilities and modules will be deprecated and will no longer be available:
  
  AR scanner / AR quiz / Brainstorming / Connection wall / On-site tools / Panel discussion /
  Q&A (non-live stream version) / Ratings dashboards.
  
  This will allow our team to focus on improving the features that deliver a better virtual, hybrid and in-person events to all our customers.

Apps

The latest version of the iOS and Android app is currently 1.58.1.

Changes

• Web: New video player with streamlined design, better error handling and wider browser support.

Fixes

• Web: Unread notification bubble is not displayed for messages sent by a user.

Modules

Activity challenge (v1.19.0)

Fix

• In Backstage: Resolved issue preventing emails from being included in exported leaderboard data.

Agenda (v3.20.0)

Fixes

• In app: Improved scrolling to current session.
• In app: Resolved issue with text "You've been registered for this session" not showing for registered sessions.
• In app: Improved synchronization between "Live session" quicklink and the red line indicating agenda progress.

Contacts (v1.6.8)

Fix

• In Backstage: Resolved issue preventing the "Connect" button appearing when receiving connection requests from other participants.

Feed (v1.19.12)

Fix

• In app: Resolved issue preventing a link from a page image to a feed post from working.
• In app: Resolved issue that hid the icon for posting a comment or a new post in web app.

Live streams (v1.6.0)

New

• Backstage: Introducing Studio. Learn more.
• Backstage: Introducing integrated polls. Learn more.
• Backstage: You can now configure a single live stream to always open when users logs into the app. Supported only on the web app.

Live polling (v2.4.3)

Fixes

• In Backstage: Fixed an issue with multiple polls opening at the same time.
• In Backstage: Resolved issue with a missing screenshot export for a live rating question.

Meetings (v2.6.0)

Fix

• In app: Hidden and cancelled participants are no longer shown in suggestions screen.
• In app: Edit meeting button added to navigation bar for mobile apps.
• In app: Support added for dark mode.

Notifications (v1.6.1)

Fix

• In app: Notification bubble clears after opening notification list more consistently on the web.

Participant matching (v1.2.5)

Fix

• In Backstage: Adjusted matchmaking logic.