Cloud 4.1
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Last updated March 11, 2020Introduction
These release notes provide you with information about the latest upgrade to the StarLeaf Cloud, Portal, and endpoints. This is a feature release and is effective from November 2016.
These release notes also document StarLeaf Microsoft Outlook Add-in for Windows.
All upgrades take place outside of normal office hours for all regions. Endpoints automatically restart and reconnect to the Cloud after the upgrade.
StarLeaf operates a system of rolling upgrades across our data centers, which are distributed globally. New features may be enabled separately.
New features
Cloud version 4.1 provides the following new features, which are each described below:
Feature | Description |
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Improved Skype for Business interoperability |
A successful call through a restrictive firewall to a Skype for Business client is now more likely because:
For more information, refer to Skype for Business and Lync Integration |
New audio codec | Cloud 4.1 introduces AAC-ELD. This is a highly-efficient audio-compression standard that allows high-definition audio even in low-bandwidth conditions. |
Click-to-call improvements |
Content send for browser-based video calling Users of StarLeaf Click-to-Call browser video calling can now share their screen with the person or conference at the other end of the call. This new feature is available where the browser is Chrome or Firefox. (In Cloud 4.0 participants using browser-based calling could receive, but not share content.)
The picture below shows a browser-based call with shared content.
TCP media support With Cloud 4.1 StarLeaf browser-based video calling no longer requires UDP ports to be open on your firewall; however, StarLeaf calls prefer to use UDP if possible because that provides superior call quality. Browser-based calling can now use TCP instead of UDP. This allows:
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Issues resolved
Bug fixes effective in StarLeaf Cloud 4.1:
ID | Description |
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10402 | Guest users of StarLeaf Cloud can now dial the 7-digit conference number. They no longer need to dial the complete conference URI. |
10437 | StarLeaf Cloud upgrades will no longer overwrite settings for third-party microphones attached to StarLeaf room systems. |
10500 | In the previous version, the sending of DTMF tones failed in a call that was using the StarLeaf Endpoint Control API. StarLeaf Cloud 4.1 fixes this issue. |
StarLeaf Microsoft Outlook Add-in for Windows
Download the latest version of the Outlook Add-in here.
New features
Feature | |
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Meeting room calendar integration |
If you use Outlook Calendar to schedule meeting rooms, it is useful to integrate that with the StarLeaf Outlook Add-in. This means that when a user schedules a video meeting, and books a meeting room, the Join Now button on the meeting room system in that room will automatically light up when the meeting is due to start. To enable this feature, you must contact StarLeaf technical support. For more information about the StarLeaf Outlook Add-in, refer to Outlook Add-in for Administrators |
Known limitations
For interoperability issues, refer here.
Reference ID | Description |
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5454 | Breeze fullscreen mode is not supported on Mac OSX versions below 10.7. |
9922 | Limitations in the add-ins for Internet Explorer and Safari determine that, currently, calls from those browsers (WebRTC) to audio-only users are not supported. |