Adobe Connect 12.5 Release Notes

This document contains details about the Adobe Connect 12.5 release, including release dates, technical requirements, upgrades, improvements, and known issues.

Overview

Adobe Connect enables you to create rich digital training, webinars, and collaboration experiences. For an overview of Adobe Connect, see www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect.html.

Adobe Connect 12.5 is a minor release introducing new features, improvements to existing features, greater accessibility, and fixes to known issues.

Release dates

Adobe Connect 12.5 will roll out in the following phases:

Hosted services:

Upgrades will begin on Sep 16, 2023. See Adobe Connect Downloads and Updates to determine the upgrade date for your account.

On-premise deployments:

Will be available from Oct 9, 2023.

Managed services:

Contact your Adobe Connect Managed Services (ACMS) representative, or private cloud provider, to schedule an upgrade.

What's new in Adobe Connect 12.5

Chat Panel

Adobe Connect 12.5 introduces Chat Panel — an in-room chat with a fixed location and not tied to any layout.

  • Chat panel will not be recorded and will not be present for playback in recordings.
  • It will have same the capabilities as a chat pod (including accessibility features like increasing font size)
  • Hosts will have option to enable/disable chat panel from room preferences. It will be turned off by default for all rooms.

 

Simplification of In-Room Experience

This release brings in several ease of use improvements to the in-room experience. 

  • Microphone controls will show muted or unmuted states, in place of the current disconnected, connected, muted, or unmuted states.
  • Camera controls in main room menu will show ‘Turn On Camera' or ‘Turn Off Camera' states. Pause camera option is now available only on individual video cells.
  • A new action has been added in Pods menu to allow hosts to clear all in-room session specific data in a single click. 
  • A new easier way to switch pods has been introduced which allows hosts to change/switch pods easily.

 

Recording view stats

  • Recording view stats are now available for Enhanced Audio/Video recordings also. This will be available only for recordings which have been moved to content folder.

 

Accessibility fixes

Multiple accessibility issues mostly related to keyboard access and a few related to contrast ratio have been fixed.

 

Miscellaneous changes

  • Various Adobe Connect Central Homepage fixes
  • New Training and Webinar room templates added.
  • Upload for .flv and .f4v files is now blocked in Adobe Connect Central pages.
  • Fixes for latency/lag issues introduced in edited recordings
  • In-Room menu labels have been updated to have capitalization consistency.
  • Library upgrades:
    • Tomcat has been updated to ver 9.0.76.

 

Updated Installer for On-Premise customers

An installer will be available for on-premise customers to upgrade to 12.5.

 

For more information on the new features and enhancements in Adobe Connect 12.5, see What's New in Adobe Connect.

System requirements

For the latest system requirements, see the Adobe Connect Technical Specifications page.

Upgrade paths for on-premise deployments

Here are the prerequisites for this release:

  • From Adobe Connect 9.x, upgrade to Adobe Connect 12.4.1 before applying this patch
  • From Adobe Connect 10.x, upgrade to Adobe Connect 12.4.1 before applying this patch
  • From Adobe Connect 11.x, upgrade to Adobe Connect 12.4.1 before applying this patch
  • From Adobe Connect 12.x, upgrade to Adobe Connect 12.4.1 before applying this patch

Issues resolved in server version 12.5

Issue Tracking Number

Issue Description

4134371 Fixed an issue where the timestamp for chats weren’t displayed in the timezone of the Adobe Connect account in meeting recordings.
4135129 Fixed the display of radio buttons in powerpoint files within Firefox browser.
4136393 Fixed an issue where it was not possible to scroll the chat pod.
4136558 Fixed a security concern with https caching.
4136638 Fixed an issue where MP4 files shared in standard room meeting weren’t visible during recording playback in browsers.
4140402 Fixed an issue where the share pod controls were visible in recordings when sharing a presentation.
4141398 Fixed an issue where the poll results were not showing in reports sometimes.
4142211 Fixed the capitalization of room name in the room entry screen.
4142687 Fixed an issue where changing the font size of closed caption caused the text to overlap.
4142702 Made the delete button in chat pod accessible through keyboard.
4142753 Fixed an issue where a recording session failed to start sometimes.
4143732 Fixed an issue where the on-demand webinar recording failed to load sometimes.
4143895 Fixed an issue where the recordings were sometimes distorted.
4144071 Fixed the end time for room transcripts.
   

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