Release Notes v2.11.10

📅 Two-way sync for Google Calendar

• You will now automatically see booked sessions, planned meetings, or webinars scheduled in your Google Calendar.
• This will require you to resync your external accounts.

💬 Option to disable private chat

• As the host, you now have the option to enable/disable the private chat function for your participants.

🎉 Live interface improvements

• You can now keep both the agenda and the interaction widgets (Chat, Polls, Questions, Notes, Takeaways, etc.) open simultaneously while in a live session or event.

⌨️ Embedding codes for landing pages & registration forms

• You now can generate embedding codes for an event’s landing page and registration form.

⚙️ Improvements and resolved issues

• When entering a room in Breakout rooms, the pre-join screen now automatically fills in your name and email address for you.
• Google contacts are now properly displayed after importing.
• Improvements to the AI Copilot’s performance when used in agenda items
• Updates to the warning message displayed when enabling automatic transcribing
• Improved how the URL for duplicated rooms is generated
• Improvements on how items are numbered when reorganizing agendas
• Improvements on how registration forms show results in preview mode
• Upgrades to the ChatGPT model
• Fix for the error appearing when canceling and rescheduling bookings

Release Notes v2.11.9

🔗 Update to URL format for rooms, book me and events

• We’ve updated the way URLs for sessions, rooms, bookings, and events are generated in order to contain only the basic, necessary information.
• To use this new URL format, please go to Profile → Account Settings → General → Workspace slug to create it.

🔜 Exit page: offer with call to action

• As the host, you now have the ability to redirect your participants to a custom URL after a booking, event, room, or a session ends. This can help your conversion and engagement rates.

⚙️ Improvements and resolved issues

• You can now edit email templates without triggering the sync modal (in case you have your email synced)
• Limitation errors are now translated into your different languages
• Embedded booking component is now displayed properly
• Fixed error for owners when adding a new member
• Microsoft contacts are now imported properly
• Fixed bug where speakers couldn’t share their screen even with necessary permissions
• Fix for My Product tool to display the tool’s logo in the Share Palette, not the custom branding’s logo.
• Fix for the Booking forms to display the Schedule button properly
• Improvements for how feedback from the exit page is displayed in Memory
• We’ve increased the character limit to poll answers to 1000 characters, and to questions to 2000 characters.
• Pabbly integration is now available for Tier 3 users.

Release Notes v2.11.8

🛑 Passwords for sessions and events

• You now can add a PIN code or a password for Instant sessions, Planned sessions, Room instances, Booked sessions, and Events.

✍️ Annotations on PDFs

• You can now draw, comments, and annotate directly on PDFs embedded in Sessions.

⏺️ Consent pop-up in recordings

• The Pop-up asking for consent to being recorded is now hidden in the recording video.

🎉 Whitelabel improvements

• We’ve removed the sign up button for participants and added a custom spinner that aligns with your brand colors.
• This only applies to AppSumo Tier 5 & Business plans.

💬 New language: Traditional Chinese

• We’ve added a new translation language: Traditional Chinese.

⚙️ Improvements and resolved issues

• Pitch links are now working as expected
• You can now edit email templates without triggering the sync modal (in case you have your email synced)
• Google sync improvements: recurrent sessions are now displayed correctly

Release Notes v2.11.7

✍️ Feedback page for the host

• At the end of a session, booking, room, or event, hosts can collect feedback from their participants. Hosts can see the feedback in the Memory of that session or event.

⚙️ Improvements and resolved issues

• Fix for the New York timezone which was delayed by one hour
• Fix for the Microsoft calendar sync to display all events
• Fix for the AI Copilot to generate summaries and agendas properly

Release Notes v2.11.6

🤖 AI Copilot for agendas - updated

• The AI Copilot has been improved to generate content for the entire agenda item (title and description) and recommended duration.

🏠 YouTube Tutorial & Help Center links in the app

• A new notification has been added in Home containing YouTube tutorials and Help Center links.

🗺️ App translation update - new languages

• Users can now translate the app’s interface into Russian and Portuguese (BR).

⚙️ Improvements and resolved issues

• The “Join” button is now available for participants when the host starts the event from the backstage.
• Fix for guest name displayed as “undefined”.
• Email improvements for the Russian language.
• Speakers can now join the backstage of an event without issues.

Release Notes v2.11.5

🎤 Event speakers - updated

• The process of adding new speakers has been improved and simplified. You can now easily invite previous speakers to new events.

📑 Registration forms - updated

• The registration form for both Events and ‘Book me’ sessions has been improved to simplify their configuration process.

✅ Participants’ consent for recording and transcript

• You now can inform participants that the transcript and recording are active and explicitly ask for their consent.
• This setting can be enabled from a session, room, booking, or event’s settings → Access → Recording consent.

⚙️ Improvements and resolved issues

• Custom branding colors are now applied to the Booking Form.
• The file type recordings were downloaded as, has been fixed.
• Fix for saving Takeaways in Memory.
• Fix for how the Russian language was displayed in chat.
• Reminder emails are not sent anymore if the booked session is canceled.

Release Notes v2.11.4

🎉 Public API - updated

• The Booking API has been updated to accept new booking features, like multiple intervals, adding additional guests, and registration forms.
• New API requests have been added for Events, Booking - Team routing and Rooms.
• New API Key role has been added: Guest. This role can be set on an API Key so that it can be used only for API requests like "Create a booking as guest" and "Register to event as guest", to allow Guest users to use them.

🧠 Memory

• You can now filter sessions in Memory after their type (room instance, booking, event, instant session, or planned session).
• You can now view the entire list of your past sessions or events in Memory. A new filter has been added, and you can look up all your sessions or events, not just for the past 180 days.

👍 Redesign reactions animation

• The way reactions appear live when one participant sends a reaction has been redesigned.

⚙️ Improvements and resolved issues

• Timezone issues for bookings and recurrent sessions have been fixed.
• "Disable notifications" feature doesn't work

Release Notes v2.11.3

🎨 Custom branding - more tailoring options

• You can now change the color of your navigation menu. You can switch between a light or a dark version.
• You now have the possibility to change the style of your video tiles.

⚙️ Improvements and resolved issues

• Workspace members will now receive email reminders to activate their accounts.
• Keyboard shortcuts for changing view modes are now working as expected.
• Before closing Booking or Rooms modules, you’ll now be prompted to save changes (in case you made any).
• Takeaways are now visible to all guests in Memory.

Release Notes v2.11.2

📅 Calendar

• You now have the option to customize your Sessions calendar and set Sundays as the first day of the week.

🔴 Recording view mode

• You now can select what view mode you want to see in the recording.

⚙️ Improvements and resolved issues

• The file recordings were downloaded as has been fixed.
• Takeaways has been fixed to not clear its contents during live sessions anymore.
• Takeaways has been fixed to display the content properly in Memory.
• The description limit for events has been increased to 5000 characters.
• The button for removing an agenda now prompts a confirmation modal to approve the action.

Release Notes v2.11.1

📄 Agenda redesigned

• The agenda has been redesigned to offer you a better experience while creating or using it live.

🔴 Recording view mode

• You now can select what view mode you want to see in the recording.

⚙️ Improvements and resolved issues

• Takeaways emails can now be personalized from Custom emails.
• The Takeaways email has been fixed.
• The Polish app translation has been improved.
• The email sync while using Cname has been fixed
• Improvements for the link input box in My Offers
• Copy updates for booked slots

Release Notes v2.11

📩 Custom email templates

• It’s now possible to go onto your profile and customize the email templates.
• You can edit the subject and body of each email template. Plus, create your own unique email signature that will apply to all emails.
• For custom emails to work, you need to sync your email account with Sessions. If you disconnect your email account, the system will revert back to the regular Sessions email templates.

🔴 Recording download update

• It’s now much faster to download recordings. As soon as a session with a recording ends, the processing of the recording will start automatically and it will be ready for you to download when you check it in Memory.

⚙️ Improvements and resolved issues

• Fixed Cname SSL long waiting time.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

Release Notes v2.10.9

💬 Private chat

• Participants can now communicate with each other privately during meetings. Moderators can't see private chats between participants.
• Private chats can be started by searching for a participant, right-clicking on their name, and selecting “Send private message”.
• In Memory, private chats will only be visible to those who partook in them.

👥 User roles and permissions

• Workspace admins can now create custom roles for their workspace members and set the permissions to suit their organization’s unique needs.
• Permissions are grouped into 3 categories:
• Sharing and managing includes the permissions for sharing agendas and resources, account settings, and managing people.
• Creation and access includes the permissions for creating events, sessions, bookings, rooms, and more.
• Privacy lets you choose whether members can view each other (as contacts).

Release Notes v2.10.8

🔊 Conference View Modes Update

• A new conference view has been added: Audience. This mode displays the current speaker on the screen along with an audience bar that shows other participants.
• Speaker mode has been renamed to Spotlight. Its design has been updated to display only the active speaker, specifically the one currently speaking.
• A new option, "Fit video to screen", has been introduced. This option functions in conference mode when no tool is active and adjusts the current video stream to fit the available screen size.
• When a tool is introduced, whether standalone or within an agenda, the gallery mode is disabled.

⚙️ Improvements and resolved issues

• Resolved an issue that made booking form answers invisible on the booking details page
• Addressed an issue preventing the embedded booking feature from functioning correctly with multiple duration options.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements

Release Notes v2.10.7

🟢 Pabbly integrations

• Users can now integrate Sessions with Pabbly and automate workflows.

⚙️ Feedback menu redesign

• Feedback menu has been renamed to 'Help' menu.
• Help menu has now improved accessibility, allowing you to easily reach the Help Center, get in touch with support, view our roadmap, connect with our community, or schedule a demo with the Sessions team (option for workspace admin).

⚙️ Improvements and resolved issues

• Fixed an issue where the booking reminder email for owner had the participant timezone displayed.
• Fixed an issue causing duplicate participant registrations in events.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements

Release Notes v2.10.6

📅 ‘Book me’ update

• We’ve simplified the way booking forms work: There is now only one step in the booking process and the required and custom fields will show up simultaneously.
• The option to allow participants to invite additional guests to a booking can now be enabled/disabled from the General tab on the Booking setup page.

🏷️ ‘My offers’ - new feature

• You can now create offers/announcements and share them on the main screen during meetings and webinars.
• Add a small image, catchy title, description, and a custom CTA button to your announcement and redirect the participants to an external link.
• Offers is a widget that is disabled by default. When enabled from the Settings menu -> Widgets section, you can import/create your offers and all participants can see them in the widget.
• If you want to set up an offer in advance, you can do so in Account Settings -> My offers. They can then be imported live when you need them.
• Offers can only be created and operated by the main host of a session, assistants and speakers will not be able to launch this feature.

❌ Remove yourself from session

• You can now remove yourself from a session and not have it displayed in Calendar.
• Look for Remove session under More options (3-dot menu) on any session listed under Today’s sessions in Sessions Home or in Memory. If you remove yourself from an ended session, all the files, chat messages, and questions you sent will also be removed.

⚙️ Improvements and resolved issues

• Agenda item title max character limit increased to 500.
• Agenda item description max character limit increased to 1500.
• Translation updates.
• Copy session link from a Room now copies the Room link, not the current session link.
• Additional timezone issues fixed (Mexico and IST).
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements

Release Notes v2.10.5

📅 ‘Book me’ - team routing option

• Users can assign up to 20 workspace collaborators to a booking. This means that the booked sessions will now be distributed between them.
• Workspace collaborators can have different permissions when it comes to editing the booking page, assigning a session to other team members, or accepting a booking.
• The booking’s owner can choose if the bookings will be assigned to the team according to their availability, or they can create a priority list for the team. The booking system will then take into consideration first priority, then availability.
• The booking’s owner can choose to split the schedule into days and/or hours, and assign individual team members for each schedule section.

📅 External calendar update

• Users can now enable/disable external calendar filters from the app. If a user doesn’t want a certain external account to be taken into consideration for their availability, they can disable it from the Sessions Calendar.

🎉 Join session updates

• The process of joining a session with a large number of participants has been improved.

⚙️ Improvements and resolved issues

• When inviting team members to be Room assistants, they will receive an email notification about their new role in your room.
• Disable booking page: an option to cancel future bookings or disable the page entirely has been added.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements

Release Notes v2.10.4

🏠 Rooms update - share room with workspace members

• Owners of a room can now share it with all workspace members. They’ll automatically be promoted as assistants who can share agendas/resources, invite participants, etc., inside that room.

🎤 Events & webinars - registration form update

• The titles of mandatory fields from a registration form can now be edited in order to accommodate users’ native languages.
• If a user edits the title of a mandatory field in the ‘Custom fields’ section, the name change will apply to all future registration forms. If a user edits the title of a mandatory field in the “Form fields” section, the name change will only apply to that event’s registration form.

⚙️ Improvements and resolved issues

• Translation updates
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements

Release Notes v2.10.3

🧠 Memory review update

• Hosts can now view more information about their participants: when they joined, when they left and how much time they spent in the session. - This information can be exported as a CSV file.
• Hosts and Assistants can also find this information in the list of participants, for each attendee individually.
• Host and Assistants can now copy a participant's email address (if available).

⚙️ Improvements and resolved Issues

• Editing session names in Memory will not trigger an update email.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements

Release Notes v2.10.2

🎉 Session settings update

• Hosts or Assistants can now choose if they want to show or hide the participants list from their attendees.
• This option can be found in Settings → Widgets.

🗺️ App translation update - new language

• Users can now translate the app’s interface into Chinese (Simplified).

🎤 Dry runs for events & webinars - update

• After a dry run ends, the content in the widgets (Chat, Polls and Questions), will be erased in order for the event or webinar to start with a clean slate.

⚙️ Improvements and Resolved Issues

• Added information tooltips for Logo/Logomark regarding recommended size, file format and ratio.
• Improved error messages when uploading favicon or logo.
• Fixed timezone detection issues.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

Release Notes v2.10.1

🎤 Dry runs for events & webinars - update

• Hosts or assistants can now start an event or webinar’s dry run (backstage) anytime. They are not restricted anymore to one hour before the event starts.

🤲 Custom domain updates - Favicon

• Users can now change the favicon when they have the custom domain enabled. This will be visible only when using Sessions on the custom domain URL.

🖼️ Custom branding - update

• We’ve redesigned the custom branding setup page and added an option to upload an additional logo, used for smaller placement (Logomark).

🗺️ App translation updates - new languages

• The following languages have been added to the translation list: Japanese, Dutch and Polish.
• A user’s language will automatically be selected based on their browser’s language. Users can also change the default language from the Sessions app → My Profile.
• We’ve also improved existing translations based on the feedback we received.

✍️ Agenda items improvements

• The settings button for tools will be available on any agenda item with a resource (tool, file, link) embedded, in order to facilitate the configuration process.
• Speaker notes have been redesigned. They now appear as a new section for each agenda item.

Release Notes v2.10.0

🖼️ Advanced custom branding

• A Workspace color theme is now more visible throughout the application, mostly in UI elements.
• Cover banners for the Lobby and a session’s live wallpapers are now visible in pre-join screens.
• Your own logo will now completely replace Sessions’ logo in the entire app.

🤲 Custom domain updates

• We’ve redesigned the process for setting up a custom domain, making it more helpful for users to create their domains.

Release Notes v2.9.9

⚙️ Improvements and resolved Issues

• You can now choose a default language for live sessions from My Profile. Any changes made during a live session will also be updated in My Profile.
• Controls for the Agenda, Tools or Files embedded in a live session are now also accessible from the header’s right side.
• A session’s total duration has been added in Memory, in the Analytics tab.
• API: added “sessionLink” for “Create a session” and “Create a booking” endpoint response
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements

Release Notes v2.9.8

⭐ Settings modal improved

• The settings modal for Instant/Planned Sessions, Events, Bookings and Rooms has been improved to allow hosts more control over the audience and the online interaction itself.
• Users can now create settings templates that apply to every type of session or event. These can be set up and modified from the user’s profile. When creating a new session/event, Sessions will default to the settings configured in the template.
• Users can now enable or disable the follow-up email that is automatically sent at the end of a session/event.
• Users can now enable or disable interaction tools (chat, Q&A, polls, notes, etc.).
• Notifications settings have been moved. Only Hosts and Co-hosts can change them.

🟧 Zapier integrations

• Users can now integrate Sessions with Zapier and automate workflows.

⚙️ Improvements and Resolved Issues

• Translation updates.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

Release Notes v2.9.7

📅 ‘Book me’ updates

• Users can add multiple time durations for a booking. When visiting the booking page, guests choose the length of a booked session first, and then proceed with the rest of the registration steps.
• Users can now select how far in advance a booking can be made without limiting the overall availability of a schedule (especially for long-term or indefinite availability schedules).
• Users can now set up a lead time on how close to the current moment they can be booked. For example, users who select 24h, they can only be booked the next day.
• A booking’s 12h/24h time format will now auto-change according to a user's browser settings. However, guests can also manually change the 12h/24h time format from the timezone dropdown.

🎉 Recurrent sessions updates

• Hosts and Co-hosts can now add agendas to their recurring sessions.
• Updates made on the agenda in the Lobby (before it begins) of a recurring session will automatically update all the other recurrent meetings.
• Updates made on the agenda during a live session won't affect the other recurrent meetings.

🔊 Conference enhancements

• We improved the conference to offer more stability to users.

⚙️ Improvements and Resolved Issues

• Increased the maximum allowed characters for agenda item description to 600.
• Translation updates.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

Release Notes v2.9.6

🌐 Sessions Public API

• Users can now employ our Public API collection to automate processes between Sessions and their own platforms, enabling them to create sessions from third parties.
• Public API collection offers access to actions such as creating, updating and deleting booking pages, booking meetings, and sessions' participants.

📩 Download transcript as PDF

• Host and Co-hosts can now download the transcript from Memory as a PDF.

⚙️ Improvements and Resolved Issues

• The metadata from Session links have been removed.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements

Release Notes v2.9.5

🗺️ App Translations

• Registered and non-registered participants can now choose to translate the app’s interface into one of the following languages: Czech, English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, or Romanian.
• The option is available for sessions, events, rooms, and bookings.

📅 "Book me" feature improvements

• Users can now add a form for others to fill in before booking a meeting. The answers will be available on the Booking page and sent to the host by email.

Release Notes v2.9.4

📅 "Book me" feature improvements

• Users can now add and delete a custom schedule for their bookings.
• The appointments in shared calendars from external calendars are now considered for the user's availability in the 'Book me' feature.

✍️ Sync personal emails with Sessions

• Users can now sync their Google or Microsoft emails with Sessions and send invitations from their personal accounts.

🔴 Recording & Transcript improvements

• Host and Co-hosts will now be notified to ask for consent from their participants before starting the recording or transcript.
• Participants will now be notified before and/or during the session that the recording and transcript are active.
• The Host or Co-hosts can now start the recording from their mobile devices.

⚙️ Bug fixes and improvements

• The Events feature has been improved.

Release Notes v2.9.3

📅 “Book me” feature improvements

• Users can now add a time buffer between their booking events.
• Those booking a meeting can now cancel or reschedule a session. This option will be available in the confirmation email they receive after booking a meeting.
• Users can now set up a custom slug for their booking link.
• Users can now set up time intervals for their bookings. They can also set up a maximum number of bookings per day.

🎤 Dry runs for webinars & workshops

• Hosts, assistants and speakers can now meet for a dry run before the webinar, workshop, or event starts. The agenda, tools and files embedded can be edited during the dry run.
• Attendees will not be able to join it.

🌐 Webhooks

• Users can now create webhooks that can inform other external systems of specific actions such as planning, starting, or ending meetings, bookings, and webinars.
• Users can tailor webhooks for personal usage or expand their reach to the entire organization (Admins only).
• Users can include custom headers in the webhook requests to have more control and flexibility in how they use this feature.

⭐ Onboarding

• The onboarding flow has been improved so new users can better understand the platform.

Release Notes v2.9.2

✍️ Saving agendas in Lobby as templates

• Agendas created or edited in a Planned session’s Lobby can now be saved as templates by the Host.

⏸️ Pausing agenda autoplay

• Hosts and Co-hosts can now start or stop the timer when using the Autoplay feature on agendas.

📃 Formating Speaker notes

• Hosts, Co-hosts and Speakers now have more text formatting options for Speaker notes.

Release Notes v2.9.1

👋 Takeaways redesigned

• Sessions’ Takeaways tool has been redesigned and repositioned next to the other interaction tools (Chat, Polls, etc.).
• Users can import meeting summaries into the Takeaways tool, allowing them more time to focus on the actual meeting and less on admin work.
• With the AI Copilot, users can now rewrite their takeaways into different formats: bullet-point, action items or other styles based on custom prompts.
• Hosts and Co-hosts can add or edit Takeaways during the live session or in Memory.

🍿 Interaction tools as pop-ups

• Users can now open interaction tools (Chat, Questions, Polls, etc.) as pop-ups. Hosts and Co-hosts can now open interaction tools as pop-ups for their participants. This helps the audience focus on specific tools when it matters the most.

🧠 Link to Memory in emails

• After a session ends, participants will receive an email with the link to that gathering’s Memory. The email will be sent for Instant, Planned or “Book me” sessions, as well as Events.

📧 Multiple email reminders

• Hosts can customize and send multiple email reminders for Planned or ‘Book me’ sessions and Events.

🎯 Assistant option more visible

• The option to promote participants to assistants is now more visible and accessible to Hosts.

🎉 Live session: footer redesigned

• The footer available in live sessions has been redesigned to offer more control and a better experience to the user.

Release Notes v2.9

🏠 Rooms

• Users can now create permanent meeting rooms. Each room has a customizable link that doesn’t change.
• Inside a room, you can host an unlimited number of sessions. Once a session created in a room has ended, you will find it in Memory. This means you can easily keep track of all the activity that took place in your room.

🎉 More control for Moderators

• Host and Co-host can now take control of presentation-style tools embedded in a session or event. These will display a button allowing Hosts or Co-hosts to take over instantly.
• Event Speakers assigned to an agenda item will have control by default of the tools embedded.

⚙️ Improvements

• Customizable background for ‘Book me’ sessions
• Other improvements and bug fixes

Release Notes v2.8.8

🤲 Custom domains for Workspaces (CNAME)

• Workspace Admins can now link their custom domains in Sessions, creating a more personalized user experience.
• Users can now have more personalized URLs for their meetings and events.
• Users can still access the Sessions domain even if they have a custom domain linked. They can use custom URLs, or they can continue to use Sessions-provided URLs.

🖼️ Whiteboard templates

• Users can now create Whiteboard templates and add them as resources in their agendas.

Release Notes v2.8.7

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Overview page for all Workspace Events

• Workspace members now have a page dedicated to their organization's events. This feature is useful internally since members can have an overview of their colleagues' events, or externally: the page can be shared publicly, showcasing the organization's events for all those interested.
• The page will display details such as the date, time, and the host.
• Users can list an event on the workspace Events page with a simple toggle. This gives them control over what event to showcase or not.
• The page will display events in all stages (drafts, published or passed) if they are marked to be listed. Users can un-list the event, hiding it from the page if it has passed.

🖼️ Custom branding on Landing pages

• If the Custom branding feature is enabled, the logo and primary color will be automatically showcased on an Event’s Landing page.

✍️ Formatting options for descriptions

• Hosts now have various formatting options for their sessions or events descriptions.

📑 Customizable ‘Book me’ Landing page

• Users now have the option to customize their ‘Book me’ Landing page when it comes to descriptions, layout and branding.

⚙️ Improvements

• Redesign for Lobby, pre-join screen, and exit session.

Release Notes v2.8.6

📃 Improvements to note-taking tools

• My Notes and Takeaways have been improved to offer a more user-friendly experience.

🔴 Recording improvement

• Poll pop-ups will no longer show up in recordings.

📊 Poll & Question pop-ups

• Participants can now close Poll pop-ups without voting. They can also close Question pop-ups that are displayed on the main screen.

⚙️ Improvements and Resolved Issues

• Other minor improvements and bug fixes

Release Notes v2.8.5

📩 Email reminders for all sessions

• For Events, Planned sessions & 'Book me' meetings, Hosts can now set up one-hour, one-day, or three-day reminders when configuring their gathering. The reminder will be received by all the attendees invited with their email addresses.

✍️ Speaker notes for agenda items

• Hosts and Co-hosts can now add speaker notes to each item on their agendas when building it.
• Speaker notes are visible and editable only by Hosts and Co-hosts, before a gathering starts or while it's live.

🔎 Search feature in transcripts

• Users can now search within a transcript during live sessions or in Memory once it's over.

⚙️ Improvements and Resolved Issues

• Improvements and bug fixes to the Whiteboard Sessions' native tool.
• Improvements to the platform's accessibility

Release Notes v2.8.4

🎉 AI Copilot improvements

• Users can now generate titles and descriptions for individual agenda items using the AI Copilot. The AI will populate the agenda item according to the user's input within the prompt.
• Users can now generate action points with their summary.

📂 Duplicate agendas

• Users can now easily duplicate agenda templates they created. This comes in handy when users want to edit agendas without modifying the original template.

🔴 HD quality for recordings

• The recordings feature has been improved to render HD quality (1080p).

❓ Questions improved

• Hosts and participants can now delete questions submitted.

⚙️ Improvements and Resolved Issues

• Improvements and bug fixes for Breakout Rooms
• Improvements to the recording quality
• Improvements to a session’s emails containing Takeaways and My Notes

Release Notes v2.8.3

❓ Questions redesigned

• The Questions modal's UI has been redesigned to be more user-friendly and intuitive for both moderators and attendees.

✍️ Smoother event collaborations

• If a user tries to add Event collaborators with email addresses that are not part of their own Workspace, they will be notified to first add them to their Workspace.

👋 'End session' button redesigned

• The 'End session' button for Hosts and Co-hosts has been redesigned.

⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts for Conference

• Users can now use keyboard shortcuts within a Conference. E.g. Switch views, start/stop video, start/stop recording, etc.

Release Notes v2.8.2

🙌 AI-generated polls

• Hosts and Co-hosts can now leverage Sessions AI Copilot to instantly generate relevant and engaging polls for their participants.

🖼️ Custom wallpaper for the live session

• Workspace Admins can now set a custom wallpaper for their live meeting or event, so that all sessions have a consistent and branded appearance for their participants.

🔴 Recording to start automatically

• Users now have the option to set their recording to automatically start when the session or event begins, ensuring they will never forget to start the recording again.
• This option can be enabled from Settings before a meeting or event starts.

📄 Adding new resources whilst using an agenda

• In the past, if users had an agenda during your session and then decided to showcase a new resource, the agenda would be removed. Now when a user adds a new resource while they have an agenda attached, this will be added to the current agenda item. It will automatically replace the existing resource (if there is one), without removing the agenda.

🔊 Notification to unmute videos

• If autoplay doesn't start the sound of a YouTube, Vimeo or locally uploaded video, a button will be displayed, instructing participants to unmute the video.

🏠 Home redesigned

• AI Copilot, Events, and Bookings are now displayed in Home, making them easier and faster to access for all users.
• In order to have a better overview of one’s schedule, Home now displays only the user's current-day sessions.

⚙️ Other improvements:

• Improvements to the AI-assisted agendas flow and how users interact with this functionality.
• The character limit for any session or event's title and description has increased to 250 and 2000 characters, respectively.

Release Notes v2.8.1

✍️ Real-time transcriptions and translations

• Users can now enable real-time transcriptions and translations in their preferred language.
• Transcriptions can be accessed from Memory after a session ends.

🎉 Event summaries and action items AI-generated

• Hosts and Co-hosts can leverage AI to summarize all types of sessions and generate action items during live gatherings.
• Hosts and Co-hosts can edit generated summaries and action items, which will be available to all participants.
• Summaries and action items can also be accessed and edited in Memory.

💬 Chat improvements

• Users can now delete messages sent in Chat.
• Users can now upload files directly in the Chat, replacing the Storage feature. Files will be stored in a dedicated tab within Chat, and can also be accessed while live or from Memory once a session ends.
• Users can now redirect questions asked in Chat to show up in the dedicated Questions feature.

Release Notes v2.8

📃 AI-generated agendas

• Users can now leverage AI to generate agendas for meetings, webinars and workshops. These will automatically include a title, description and a time limit.
• The option to create agendas with AI is available in various places within the app (in Agendas, Lobby, Events, and during live gatherings).

✅ Advanced session & event analytics

• Hosts and Co-hosts can now access detailed analytics regarding their participants’ engagement and content consumption during webinars and workshops. This way, organizers can optimize future events to provide the most relevant content for their audience.
• Hosts and Co-hosts can now create UTMs in the Event section (under Sharing and tracking), where they can track visits and registrations based on different UTMs. This is available and can be downloaded from Memory’s analytics section.
• Hosts and Co-hosts can now download the participants’ list, which includes names, roles, registration form answers and attendance status from Memory. Memory will display the following event analytics: the number of participants who registered and completed the registration form, the number of participants who attended, and the number of chat messages, questions, and polls.

Release Notes v2.7.2

📃 Event Landing page improvements:

• Hosts can now choose in what order to display the speakers on the Landing page.
• The UI has been improved to accommodate mobile devices better.

🔊 Events improvements:

• Hosts can now invite participants before the event starts, directly from the Event’s setup page. These attendees will not be required to register for the event.
• Hosts and Co-hosts can now find a speaker's invitation link inside the app, making it easier to share it again in case the speaker can't find the original email.
• Hosts can create and edit an agenda directly on the Event set-up page.

🎤 Conference improvements:

• Users' audio feedback will now be visible on the microphone icon when they speak.
• Other minor improvements to the Conference layout

Release Notes v2.7.1

🖼️ Upload Custom Background

• Users are now able to upload custom background images. The app supports .jpg, .png, and .webp file formats.

⚙️ Improvements and Resolved Issues

• Other minor improvements and bug fixes for Conference and Events.

Release Notes v2.7

🗣️ Advanced settings for speakers

• When setting up a session, event or ‘Book me’ availability, moderators can now restrict permissions to certain advanced and access settings only to speakers and hosts.

🔴 Cloud recording as participant

• The recording will now be automatically created from the perspective of a participant.

💻 Share screen tunneling effect prevented

• When users share their window or entire screen, a dark mask will cover their live meeting in order to prevent tunneling effect. Users will be notified why this will appear and can choose to ignore it and continue screen sharing or stop.

⚙️ Improvements and Resolved Issues

• Other minor improvements and bug fixes

Release Notes v2.6

🎉 Improved View Modes

• There are now only two View Modes: Gallery and Speakers. Hosts have the option to enforce their chosen view onto their participants.
• Gallery is the default mode for all sessions.
• Speakers mode displays up to four video streams belonging to appointed Speakers and/or attendees in the spotlight. If there are no Speakers or attendees in the spotlight, the most involved and active users will take center stage.

🖼️ Fixed aspect ratio for video streams

• Users’ video streams will now have a fixed 4:3 aspect ratio in the pre-join screen and throughout the session.

⚙️ Improvements and Resolved Issues

• Other improvements and bug fixes for the stability of the platform

Release Notes v2.5

✌️ Duplicate events

• Hosts and Co-hosts can now duplicate an event with everything it entails (agenda, tools, speakers, etc.), except participants.

🔊 Conference enhancements

• We improved the conference to offer more stability to users.

🎉 Resources website

• We’ve created a space dedicated to Sessions resources: Help Center, blog articles, video tutorials, release notes, webinar announcements, and many more.

⚙️ Improvements and Resolved Issues

• Other minor improvements and bug fixes for the Events feature

Release Notes v2.4.2

📃 More file formats supported

• Users can now upload and share more file types, such as Documents (.doc, .docx, .odt), Spreadsheets (.xls, .xlsx, .ods), Numbers (.numbers), and Pages (.pages). Once uploaded, these resources can be found in Files.
• Users can also now upload .odp files in Presentations.

💻 Ending Instant sessions

• Users can now manually end Instant sessions when they close the meeting.

⚙️ Improvements and Resolved Issues

• Other minor bug fixes and improvements

Release Notes v2.4.1

⭐ Easier access to events for speakers and co-hosts

• An event’s speakers and co-hosts now have, by default, permission to join the session. They don’t require the Host’s approval to enter the event.

⌚ Overall agenda time

• A session’s agenda now sums up the time estimations for all items and shows the agenda’s overall duration when editing it live or in the Lobby before the meeting starts. It is also displayed in Agendas.

💻 Improved quality and performance for presentations

• Users can now enjoy higher quality and overall better performance when viewing or sharing PDFs and presentations.

⚙️ Resolved Issues

• Other minor bug fixes and improvements

Release Notes v2.4

💻 More customizable Events

👉 Registration form

• Organizers can now add a registration form for their event. They can ask attendees to fill in their name, email address or other details relevant to them, like location and social media links. 
• The registration form is by default enabled, and organizers can fully customize it to include any requirement they may have. 
• Event Moderators and Speakers aren’t required to fill out the registration form.

👉 Advanced settings

• During the preparation stage of an event, organizers can access and edit advanced settings. These include two predefined sets of recommended settings ideal for managing participants easier during webinars, events or workshops.
• These settings can always be customized to suit the user's needs as much as possible.

👉 Participants' details

• Organizers can now see the complete list of participants who registered for the event, including the host, co-host and speakers. The list can be exported as a CSV file, and it will contain details submitted by participants in the registration stage.

🧠 Public access to Memory

• Users can now share a session’s Memory publicly. Anybody with the link will be able to access it, not just participants who joined or were invited to the session. 

🗓️ 'Book me' feature redesigned

• The setup stage for the 'Book me' feature has been redesigned to be more detailed and to include settings for accessibility and participant management. 
• This feature offers more flexibility when users set up their 'Book me' page. One of the most significant changes is that users can now customize their schedule to include multiple windows of availability per day.

⚙️ Improvements and Resolved Issues

• Other minor bug fixes and improvements

Release Notes v2.3

🛠️ Multiple My Product Tools per Workspace

• Admins can now configure more My Product tools per Workspace, which allows them to embed an unlimited number of web-based apps or platforms directly into a live session. 
• My Product tools can now be enabled or disabled. This allows Admins to choose what My Product tool to share with their Workspace members.

⚙️ Improvements and Resolved Issues

• Other minor bug fixes and improvements

Release Notes v2.2

🛑 Stopping participant’s screen share

• Hosts and assistants now have the option to stop a participant’s screen share if need be. 
• When Hosts and assistants share a file, tool or agenda while a participant shares their screen, the latter is automatically stopped.

⚒️ Easier setup for Planned Session

• The setup for a Planned session has been redesigned to be more intuitive for usersThe new setup allows users to preview agendas.

💡 Signing in with Microsoft

• Users will now be able to sign in to Sessions using their Microsoft account.

⚙️ Improvements and Resolved Issues

• Other minor bug fixes and improvements

Release Notes v2.1

🙋 Audience management

• Hosts and Assistants can now clearly see in the Participant’s modal all the people who’ve been invited via email. 
• They can also see the participants who are already in the Lobby, waiting for the Planned session to start. 

⚙️ Improvements and Resolved Issues

• Other minor bug fixes and improvements

Release Notes v2.0

💳 Pricing Plans

• Our pricing plans include a Free, Pro, Business and Enterprise tier. Before you commit to one, you’ll get an unbeatable 60-day free trial. We want you to try Sessions 2.0 for free, so you can evaluate what works best for your team. When you’re ready to grow, we’ll meet you every step of the way.
• As the Workspace Admin, you’ll always have an overview of how many new active contacts joined your Workspace sessions. You’ll never have to remember these details, just check this info in your Sessions profile.
• As a token of appreciation, our community members who previously received a Life-Time or a 12-month free Deal get free access to the PRO plan for life.

📑 Synced Agendas

• Work smarter, not harder! Edits you make to an agenda from a Planned session’s
  ⛱️

  Lobby
  will also apply to the original template stored in Agendas - and vice-versa. So until the meeting starts, changes you make in either Agendas or a session’s Lobby will be synced.
• The same principle applies to a new agenda you build directly in the Lobby. You will automatically find it in Agendas.

🎯 Updated Interface for PDFs

• View a PDF in an interface that’s most familiar to you, with the usual left-side navigation menu, actionable zoom-in/zoom-out, and fit-to-page/fit-to-width buttons.
• PDFs are collaboratively showcased in Sessions, allowing your participants to browse through the file at their own pace. If you want the audience to follow your lead, you can always deactivate the collaborative mode for PDFs. 

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