Self-Hosted BigBlueButton: When Control Becomes a Liability

Organizations often underestimate the maintenance demands of self-hosted BigBlueButton, leading to security risks and performance problems that a managed service can prevent.

Releases

BigBlueButton 3.0.30 Released: Per-Meeting Recording Format Control

New per-meeting recording format options, plugin actions for screenshare and presentation upload, and session token hiding.

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BigBlueButton 3.0.28 Released: Breakout Room Enhancements and More

Focuses on breakout rooms with lock settings inheritance and recording parameter passthrough, plus LiveKit settings, accessibility improvements, and recording fixes.

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BigBlueButton 3.0.27 Released: Whiteboard Panning and Security Updates

Whiteboard panning, presentation security improvements, recording fixes, and BlockNote performance enhancements

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BigBlueButton 3.0.26 Released: BlockNote Fixes and LiveKit Improvements

BlockNote shared notes export and placeholder fixes, LiveKit dial-in audio fix, whiteboard touch handling improvement, and bbb-web /create response fix.

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BigBlueButton 3.0.22 Released: Security Fixes and Client Improvements

A security-focused update resolving two vulnerabilities, along with annotation, audio, and breakout room improvements.

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BigBlueButton 3.0.16 Released: Performance and Sync Improvements

Performance improvements to backend components and presentation conversion, along with several client bug fixes.

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BigBlueButton 3.0.14 Released: Performance Improvements and Client Fixes

Performance improvements, client-side fixes, and plugin enhancements including a new PLUGINS_ONLY layout type.

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BigBlueButton 3.0.12 Released: Startup Crash Fix and More

A maintenance update fixing a startup crash regression, with improvements to the learning dashboard, poll annotations, translations, and database performance.