Changelog #037 - 2023-01-18

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In this release, we delivered a number of improvements and fixes across the platform. Highlights include new REST API endpoints, improvements to daily-react, longer streaming durations, and more.

daily-js

0.37.0

• Added a type definition for the "not-allowed" fatal error for cases when users are not allowed to enter a meeting.
• Fixed an issue where an error could be thrown while formatting a number used in a telemetry calculation.

react-native-daily-js

0.35.0

• Added a type definition for the "not-allowed" fatal error for cases when users are not allowed to enter a meeting.
• Fixed an issue where an error could be thrown while formatting a number used in a telemetry calculation.

daily-react

0.7.0

• New hook, useAudioLevel: this hook allows you to monitor the volume of a given MediaStreamTrack. Read more in our useAudioLevel docs.
• DailyAudioTrack and DailyVideo now both accept a ref and additional HTML attributes to be passed to the underlying DOM element.
• DailyAudio now accepts a ref as an imperative handle. The assigned ref has a couple of getter methods to query for a subset of <audio> elements. Check our DailyAudio docs for detailed information.
• useDevices now returns a new initial state, "idle", for camState and micState. Before this release it defaulted to "pending", which is now only true while a request for device access is actually pending.
• Improved the speaker slot assignment logic in DailyAudio.
• useLocalSessionId now correctly returns the local participant's session_id after leave()-ing a call and preAuth()-ing again.

0.7.1

• Fixed an issue where camState returned from useDevices() switched back to "idle" when muting the camera.
• Fixed an issue where useLocalSessionId returned a stale session_id when the local participant was updated immediately before calling leave().

Daily Prebuilt

• Added a microphone test feature to the precall lobby. This allows users to test how their mic sounds before joining a call.
• Updated the React button in the tray from a smiley to a heart icon to better align the button stylings in the tray.
• Fixed an issue where participant names would appear out of alphabetical order in the People panel.

REST API

• Official documentation our API rate limits has been added.
• Added a new API endpoint that allows you to fetch presence data for a specific room.
• Added a two new API endpoints that allow you to fetch information about meetings when those meetings contain a large number of participants. The first endpoint provides data for a specific meeting. The second endpoint provides a paginated list of participants for a specific meeting.
• Added a few performance optimizations to the rooms creation endpoint.
• Fixed a bug so that the logs endpoint properly returns a HTTP 400 when no meeting was found for the given user session ID.

Live streaming & recording

• The default streaming maxDuration is now 7 days and is separate from the recording maxDuration of 3 hours.
• Added support for customAudio tracks in recordings.
• Enhanced our media pipeline to ensure all recordings will continue to upload in the event of a recording failure error.

VCS

• All meetings that are streamed or recorded with non-custom layouts are now powered by Daily VCS in the backend.

Additional

• The oldest supported version of daily-js is now v0.27.0.