March 2025

What's New in this Release

The following new feature is introduced in Cisco Spaces Beta UI:

Cisco Spaces: Space Utilization App Deployment Status View

The Deployment Status feature in the Cisco Spaces: Space Utilization App provides insights into the status of your deployment. Users often encounter gaps in key metrics within the app, which typically result from incomplete deployments. For instance, the Daily Utilization Chart requires both capacity (configuration) and occupancy data, while the Density Chart needs area specifications (configuration) in addition to occupancy data.

Similarly, to effectively track room utilization, digital maps must be available, and sensors need to be attached to the rooms defined in these maps. By visiting the Deployment Status section, you can pinpoint any missing elements and take the necessary actions to fill these gaps and to ensure that charts and reports are accurately generated as expected.


Note


Users with ACT or UNLIMITED licenses can access this view.


The following backend change is introduced in Cisco Spaces Beta UI:

Partner Firehose: BLE RSSI Event Support for Meraki Networks

The Firehose BLE RSSI Update event is now available for Cisco Meraki networks using Cisco Spaces, similar to Catalyst. Customers and partners can enable and access BLE RSSI events through the Firehose API for their Cisco Meraki networks. Contact the Cisco Spaces support team for backend configuration assistance.

What's Changed in this Release

The following enhancements are made in the Cisco Spaces dashboard:

  • Cisco Meraki Direct RADSEC support: Cisco Spaces now supports Cisco Meraki Direct RADSEC, and it is available for Early Field Trials in production environments. This feature is supported on Cisco Meraki AP firmware versions 31.1.6 and later.

    Previously, OpenRoaming integrations with Cisco Spaces routed RADSEC packets through the Cisco Meraki cloud proxy, which affected performance on earlier firmware versions. With the introduction of Direct RADSEC from Access Points these additional hops are eliminated, resulting in a more stable and reliable integration model.

    To enable this feature on your account, please contact the Cisco Spaces support team.

  • OpenRoaming Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) Root Certificate Authority (CA) support in Cisco IDP Server: The Cisco Spaces cloud IDP server now supports the new root of trust from the WBA.

    As part of the OpenRoaming Federation update, the WBA transitions to issuing certificates under a new Root CA. To ensure seamless authentication and continued compatibility, the Cisco Spaces cloud IDP server now supports this new root CA, along with the existing chain of trust.

    This support now extends to OpenRoaming authentication via Cisco Meraki.

  • Captive portal updates: Cisco Spaces: Captive Portal app is enhanced to include a field called Page Title.

    You can now modify the captive portal page title directly from the Cisco Spaces dashboard by navigating to Header/Branding > Page Title. The updated Page Title is displayed in your Cisco Spaces: Captive Portal app.


    Note


    • The page title for existing portals defaults to Cisco Spaces. For all new portals created, the account name serves as the default page title. You can edit the page title.

    • This feature is only available in the Cisco Spaces beta UI.


    Figure 1. Cisco Spaces: Captive Portal

Issues

Issues describe unexpected behavior in the Cisco Spaces application.

Open Issues

This section lists the open issues in this release of Cisco Spaces.

Table 1. Cisco Spaces Open Issues
Issue Identifier Issue Description

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IO Spaces dashboard displaying data for Space Utilization in Beta mode for Generic vertical tenant.

Resolved Issues

This section lists the issues that have been resolved in this release of Cisco Spaces.

Table 2. Cisco Spaces Resolved Issues
Issue Identifier Issue Description

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Roles - Mapservice app is not listed during create/edit role.