Our latest Sametime release, now available for download, enriches the user experience with new capabilities to deliver a frictionless meeting and chat platform at an affordable price. Our goal is to provide a more secure, private, engaging, and flexible workspace for business collaboration. Whether you need Safari browser support, faster search to locate shared information, or the ability to quickly share content with others, you will see it reflected in our new release.  

Let’s review some of our new capabilities now available: 

  • Host and attend your Sametime meetings on Safari  
  • Don’t misplace important information — quickly find 1:1, group, and meeting chats using our latest chat conversation filters 
  • Easily add a Sametime meeting link to a calendar invitation with one click, using our new enhanced Outlook add-in 
  • Share content from your mobile device — click a button to share a URL, picture, or article straight from your phone to Sametime chat 
  • Stay connected and up to date — use push proxy to receive call, meeting, and chat notifications instantly for iOS and Android mobile devices 
  • Receive and answer your Sametime chats from an Apple Watch 
  • Keep better track of your meeting time — view meeting duration timer once meeting has started 
  • Network performance indicator for each meeting participant that shows connection quality 
  • Updated Keyboard shortcuts to access meeting controls while in the meeting 
  • Improved microphone and camera access user experience 
  • Chat updates, including ability to rename group chats, meeting chat and group chat icon updates, right-to-left language support, and much more 
  • Simplify your Chat-only deployment with Kubernetes package 
  • Sametime admins can now monitor their deployment and get statistics using out of the box packaged Grafana dashboards for chat and meetings 
  • Embed chat and meetings features in your own apps via our APIs – download the zip file for APIs straight from the API page 
November 28, 2022