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. |
