We've made migrating to the cloud even easier. Use the Cloud Migration Tool to move scheduled meetings to the cloud, so that your users don't have to reschedule them. Provision your users on Cisco Webex cloud, and then use the tool to step through the process. For more information, see the Administration Guide for Cisco Webex Meetings Server.

Participants can now receive an External Site warning message when the host requests to open a website on the participant's computer.

Meeting hosts can now send invitations to 500 email addresses. The previous limit was 200. Also, hosts can choose to notify only newly added or removed participants when they edit their meetings.

This maintenance release adds support for the following browser versions:

Microsoft Windows

• Chrome Version: 79–90

• Firefox Version: 71–88

Mac

• Chrome Version: 79–90

• Firefox Version: 71–88

This maintenance release supports Webex Meetings Application version 39.5.27.148 for Mac and Windows.

To start and join meetings hosted on a 4.0MR4 site, we strongly recommend that mobile users upgrade their Webex Meeting Mobile applications:

• Webex Meeting Mobile for Android 41.5

• Webex Meeting Mobile for iOS 41.5

This maintenance release supports the following Cisco Network Recording Player versions:

• Windows: 39.5.27.148

• Mac: 39.5.27.148 (online), 39.05.21.00 (offline)

You can install the latest version from the Downloads page of your Cisco WebEx site. When you download the Cisco Network Recording Player, select Windows or Mac from the operating system drop-down list. The Windows player is the default download.

We've updated the following components:

• Webex Meetings Client 39.5.27.43

• Network Recording Player 39.5.27.43

• Webex Meetings desktop app 39.5.27.43

We've also added support for TFS and URL-Protocol, for starting meetings and playing NBR recordings.

This patch introduces support for MacOS 11, Big Sur.

To match the functionaly avaible for Microsoft Windows, this maintenance release includes Health Checker for Mac.

Microsoft Windows

This maintenance release adds support for the following browsers:

• Chrome versions 77 and 78

• Firefox versions 69 and 70

Mac

• Chrome versions 77 and 78

• Firefox versions 69 and 70

• Safari version 13

This maintenance release adds support for Cisco Unified Communications Manager Release 11.5 SU8, 12.5, and Release 12.5(1) SU1.

We've added support for macOS Catalina (Version 10.15).

This release provides a new in-meeting experience that allows hosts and meeting participants to customize how they want to view a meeting. We've maximized the meeting space available for video meetings, added new layouts, and simplified the meeting controls. For more information, see Managing Webex Meetings Guide for Cisco Webex Meetings Server Release 3.0.

Attention

Cisco Webex Meetings Server Release 3.0MR3 supports the display of 1–6 video streams.

This maintenance release supports Webex Meetings Application version 39.5.15.4 for Mac and Windows.

This maintenance release supports the following Cisco Network Recording Player versions:

• Windows: 39.5.15.4

• Mac: 39.5.15.4 (online), 39.05.12.00 (offline)

You can install the latest version from the Downloads page of your Cisco Webex site. When you download the Cisco Network Recording Player, select Windows or Mac from the operating system drop-down list. The Windows player is the default download.

This maintenance release requires Webex Productivity Tools version 2.82.7000.1229.

With this maintenance release, attendees can enable the Automatically show me the full-screen video option in the Audio and Video Connection dialogue box. If this option is enabled, the full-screen video view opens when the attendee connects to meetings.

To start or join meeting from iOS or Android on a 3.0MR2 site, Cisco strongly recommends using the following application versions:

Android: Cisco Webex Meeting Mobile 11.2

Apple iOS: Cisco Webex Meeting Mobile 11.2

If a user joins a meeting started from CWMS Release 3.0MR2, by using an earlier versions either mobile app (11.1 or lower), video and VoIP may not work as expected. For more information, see Caveats.

The default avatar for anonymous call-in users is updated to a more intuitive phone icon, instead of the CU initials.

The Webex Desktop App on Mac now supports 64-bit, which is required by the latest and future macOS versions.

The application sharing dialogues are optimized for high-resolution monitors—3K or higher. Support for higher display resolutions is limited to Microsoft Windows 7 or later.

WebEx behavior and consistency is improved in multiple-monitor environments—particularly when moving windows between monitors that have different resolution settings.

File transfer and file sharing dialogues are now optimized for high-resolution monitors. The Closed Caption panel is optimized for high-resolution monitors, and can be controlled through the text zoom setting in Windows. Support for higher display resolutions is limited to Windows 7 or later.

Microsoft Windows users can now easily report problems with CWMS, by clicking Help > Generate Problem Report.

Attendees can now lock the video window focus to the meeting participant of their choice. This applies to the main video window, as well as to any of the thumbnail windows on the first page.

Note	Attendees cannot lock the main window, if the host locks the main window for all participants.

Meetings now automatically end at a specified time, when there is only one person who is left in the meeting.

Site administrators can specify the time in the Common Site Settings.

This feature is enabled by default.

Users can switch between a full video screen and the full content view, even when content is being shared.

By default, CWMS uses advanced screen sharing in Microsoft Windows 10. Advanced screen sharing prevents crosshatch-patterned windows from appearing for others where meeting panels are open on your screen. However, if you experience problems, or if your computer does not support advanced screen sharing, you can switch to classic screen sharing.

This maintenance release adds support for the following browser versions:

Microsoft Windows

• Chrome Version: 67 and 68

• Firefox Version: 61

• Edge (Windows 10 only): 42.17134.1.0

Mac

• Chrome Version: 67 and 68

• Firefox Version: 61

This maintenance release adds support for Cisco Jabber Release 12.1.0 with some limitations.

The following defect is open for Cisco Jabber Release 12.1.0:

For more information about other Jabber limitations, see Caveats.

This maintenance release adds support for Cisco Unified Communications Manager Release 11.5 SU5.

This maintenance release adds support for macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 and macOS Sierra 10.12.6.

This maintenance release adds new UDP ports for medium and large (including expanded) systems. The following additional UDP ports are now required for audio and video data transmission:

• Medium system: 9010 and 9011

• Large system: 9008 and 9009

Before you upgrade or update a Medium or Large system to CWMS Release 3.0MR2, the required ports must be open. There are no new port requirements for Micro or Small systems. For more information, see the Planning Guide for Cisco WebEx Meetings Server Release 3.0.

This maintenance release supports WebEx Meetings Application version 32.15.20.116 for Mac and Microsoft Windows.

This maintenance release supports the following Cisco Network Recording Player versions:

• Windows: 32.15.20.116

• Mac: 32.15.20.57

You can install the latest version from the Downloads page of your Cisco WebEx site. When you download the Cisco Network Recording Player, select Windows or Mac from the operating system drop-down list. The Windows player is the default download.

This maintenance release supports WebEx Productivity Tools version 2.82.7000.1213 for Windows.

Starting with this maintenance release, port 64002 is used for recording playback, which is initiated from an external network over IRP. For more information about port configuration, see the Planning Guide and System Requirements for Cisco WebEx Meetings Server Release 3.0 available from https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/conferencing/webex-meetings-server/products-installation-and-configuration-guides-list.html.

This release adds support for the following browser versions:

Windows:

• Chrome Version 66

• Firefox Version 60

• IE Version 11

• Edge (Windows 10 only) Version 42.17134.1.0

Mac:

• Chrome Version 66

• Firefox Version 60

• Safari Version 11.1

This maintenance release adds support for Citrix XenDesktop and Citrix Web Interface 7.12 and 7.15.

This maintenance release adds support for Cisco Unified Communications Manager Release 11.5 SU4 and Release 12.0(1) SU1.

This maintenance release adds support for macOS High Sierra 10.13.4.

This maintenance release adds support for ESXi/vCenter 6.5.

Important

Before updating ESXi to 6.5, verify that your datastore is formatted with VMFS 5. ESXi 6.5 hosts cannot access VMFS 3 datastores. ESXi hosts must meet the minimum hardware requirements for ESXi6.5.

This release supports WebEx Meetings Application version 31.23.4.23 for Windows and Mac.

This release supports the following Cisco Network Recording Player versions:

• Windows: 31.23.4.23

• Mac: 31.0.0.1100

This release supports WebEx Productivity Tools version 2.82.7000.1202 for Windows.

You can require administrator approval of requests for Host privileges on the system. You can also enable automatic approval for requests and specify domains, from which to accept all requests and domains from which to reject all requests. The system handles all automatic approvals within 24 hours.

Note	All requests that do not match the approval or rejection criteria require manual approval or rejection.

As a site administrator, you receive email notification about all requests for Host privileges and can choose to either approve or reject the requests. Host privileges require a license. A request from a formerly licensed Host can be approved only if there is an available license.

For more information about how to manage licenses and this feature, see the Administration Guide for Cisco WebEx Meetings Server Release 3.0.

By default, an image with each account holder's initials (an avatar) appears next to their name in the meeting client. You can enable this feature to allow them to change their default avatar to an image of their choosing. You'll find the setting on the Meeting Settings page in Site Administration.

Account holders can crop their new image before they upload it on their Account Settings page. The supported file types are PNG, JPG, JPEG, and GIF. The system stores all avatar images as JPG files. Therefore, if the uploaded file is an animated GIF, the system displays only the first frame. The minimum dimensions are 60 by 160 pixels and the maximum file size is 5 MB.

This release adds support for Cisco Jabber Release 11.9.1.

Hosts can use the Media Viewer Panel and a third-party closed-captioning service to provide closed captioning for their meetings. This feature improves the Section 508 compliance level for Cisco WebEx Meetings Server. You'll find the setting on the Meeting Settings page in Site Administration.

The base deployment models are micro (50), small (250), medium (800) and large (2000). You can extend the capacity of a large deployment, from 2000 up to 4000 ports. You can reduce the capacity of an extended system deployment, down to the base large deployment of 2000 ports.

To extend or reduce the system capacity, you add or remove up to 3 extension units. Each unit of growth consists of the following components:

• One media

• One web

• One IRP (only if public access is enabled)

Note	Each extension unit adds up to 700 more ports, up to the maximum 4000 ports for the system. When you add 3 extension units, you double the system capacity by adding 700 + 700 + 600 ports.

The Extended Capacity feature requires a license. For more information, contact your Cisco Account Manager. You can also see the "Managing Your System Capacity" chapter in the Administration Guide for Cisco WebEx Meetings Server.

To prepare a multi-data center (MDC) system for the upgrade to CWMS Release 3.0, we recommend that you back up all certificates and the private key. For security reasons, we recommend that you back up private keys to FIPS 140-2 certified storage. For more information, see the Before You Begin an Upgrade and the Restoring an SSL Certificate after Disaster Recovery sections of the Administration Guide for CWMS Release 3.0.

These steps are not required for a non-MDC system. For a single data center, certificate configuration is restored when the upgrade is complete.

This release adds support for the following browser versions:

Windows:

• Edge (Windows 10 only) 40.15063

• Firefox Version 56–57

• Google Chrome Version 61–63

• IE: 11.0.9600

Mac:

• Chrome Version: 61–63

• Firefox Version: 56–57

• Safari Version: 11

This release supports WebEx Meetings Application version 31.20.2.18 for Windows and Mac.

This release supports the following Cisco Network Recording Player versions:

• Windows: 31.20.2.18

• Mac: 31.0.0.1100

This release supports WebEx Productivity Tools version 2.82.7000.1198 for Windows.

The following issue, present in earlier releases is resolved. While using Productivity Tools to schedule a meeting, hosts received the following message in error:

Only 99 invitees can actually join the online meeting.

Under the following circumstances, a meeting can continue for more than the 24-hour maximum meeting duration:

• All attendees for a regular Webex meeting are dial in (audio-only).

• No attendee starts the web portion of the meeting.

In this case, the meeting continues as long as one attendee remains in the conference. If all dial-in attendees disconnect from the conference, the meeting ends within 24 hours of the start time. The meeting ends immediately if the meeting ran past the scheduled end time.

Note	This scenario applies only to regular Webex meetings joined only by dial-in participants. This scenario does not apply to Personal Conference Number (PCN) meetings, or to regular Webex meetings joined by web participants.

EMC SourceOne

WebEx Productivity Tools does not support EMC SourceOne. Users of EMC SourceOne can experience performance issues.

CWMS supports macOS 11.x, subject to the following limitations:

• The Webex Meetings client application for CWMS isn’t designed for macOS 11.x. We tested for compatibility and made fixes to provide best-effort support.

• M1 chip support is pending validation testing.

The Microsoft Edge browser does not support the playback of Webex recordings.

When you deploy the CWMS OVA file on vCenter 6.5, the following restrictions apply:

• Because of browser limitations and the CWMS OVA file size of 16GB, you must deploy the OVA file by using the URL and not the local file upload.

• Choose the vCenter FLASH based client. This selection is required to successfully populate the vApp properties for VM configuration: hostname, domain, IP address, subnet and DNS configuration.

Multi-data Center Licensing

Multi-data Center (MDC) licensing is required to join data centers to a system. Each data center requires an MDC system license; a MDC system requires a minimum of two licenses, one for each data center. A Single-data Center (SDC) does not require a system license. See "About MDC Licensing" in the Cisco Webex Meetings Server Administration Guide for your release: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/conferencing/webex-meetings-server/products-installation-guides-list.html.

Host Licensing

The way Host (user) licenses are counted changed significantly in release 2.5. A user can host a maximum of two simultaneous meetings, consuming only one license. Previously, a user that hosted multiple meetings consumed multiple licenses. A Host licenses is not required to schedule or attend a meeting. See "License Status of Users" in the Cisco Webex Meetings Server Administration Guide for your release: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/conferencing/webex-meetings-server/products-installation-guides-list.html.

Extended Capacity Licensing

The base deployment models are micro (50), small (250), medium (800) and large (2000). You can extend the capacity of a large deployment, from 2000 up to 4000 ports. You can reduce the capacity of an extended system deployment, down to the base large deployment of 2000 ports.

To extend or reduce the system capacity, you add or remove up to 3 extension units. Each extension unit adds up to 700 more ports, up to the maximum 4000 ports for the system. When you add 3 extension units, you double the system capacity by adding 700 + 700 + 600 ports.

To enable this feature, you require an Extended Capacity license.

This release supports TLS 1.1 and later; TLS 1.0 is not supported, with one exception. Client connections from Cisco Webex Meetings Server (CWMS) to an SMTP server using TLS 1.0 are supported.

This release supports using any unique Active Directory (AD) field as NameID for SSO configuration. We recommend following AD attributes for NameID for SSO configuration:

• Email

• SAMAccountName

• UserPrincipalName (UPN)

• TelephoneNumber

• EmployeeNumber

• ObjectSid

If you have VMware snapshots on your existing (pre-expansion) system, remove them before beginning the expansion.

System expansion requires Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) attaching, from the original system to the target (expanded) system. If you leave snapshots on the original system and attach it to the target system, the target system won't power on because of snapshot inconsistency.

Cisco WebEx will not support the following browsers after February 2018:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 8

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 9

Note	End of support for these browsers includes Compatability Mode.

Cisco WebEx will not support the following operating systems after February 2018:

• Windows Vista

• Mac OSX 10.7

• Mac OSX 10.8

Cisco WebEx is also retiring sharing of .swf files in meetings. Users will no longer be able to select .swf files from the File Share option in the meetings.

Automatic upgrade fails for a system configured with High Availability (HA). To work around this issue, log on to the newly-deployed Admin system. Open the CLI and run the following command:

sed -i "s/find/findall/g" /opt/cisco/webex/webadmin/scripts/remoteGetSecondaryVMs

After the script runs, repeat the update procedure.

Updating from Release 3.0 Patch 1 (3.0.1.33) fails because there is incorrect data in the cwms.pub file. Before you update from 3.0 Patch 1, apply the following workaround for this issue.

1. Go to https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvj70890.

2. Download the attached file: fix_update.zip and copy it to /archive directory on the primary Admin VM.

3. Use SSH to connect to the primary Admin VM, and navigate to the /archive directory.

4. Unzip the file: unzip fix_update.zip.

5. Make the unzipped file executable: chmod +x fix_update.

6. Run the executable: ./fix_update.

7. After you see the Success message, proceed with the update.

The Cisco Webex Meetings Server upgrade can fail if you are using VMware vCenter 6.5. This issue occurs because the ciscoOrion_versionStr.orion variable is empty. You can work around the issue by entering the correct CWMS version for the variable. For more information, see Troubleshooting Guide for Cisco Webex Meetings Server Release.

The following caveats (bugs) are closed for this release.

The following table lists caveats that are open in this release.

The following table lists caveats that were open in a previous release and that are fixed in this release.

There are no closed caveats for Cisco Webex Meetings Server Release 3.0MR3 (Build 3.0.1.3119).

There are no open caveats for Cisco Webex Meetings Server Release 3.0MR3 (Build 3.0.1.3119).

The following table lists caveats (bugs) that were open in a previous release, and fixed for this release.

The following table lists caveats that are closed in this maintenance release.

The following table lists caveats that are open in this maintenance release.

The following table lists caveats that were open in a previous release and that are fixed in this maintenance release.

There are no closed caveats for Cisco WebEx Meetings Server Release 3.0MR1 (3.0.1.1068).

The following table lists caveats that are open in this maintenance release.

The following table lists caveats that were open in earlier releases of Cisco WebEx Meetings Server, and resolved in this maintenance release.

The following table lists caveats that were open in earlier releases of Cisco WebEx Meetings Server, and resolved in this release.

The following table lists caveats that are open in this release.

There are no closed caveats for Cisco WebEx Meetings Server Release 3.0 (Build 3.0.1.27).