v11.5 [Aug 26, 2015]
Chat alert sound menu
Broadcast messages with rich text and emoticons
Multiple device messaging (cloud)
Mentions in chat window tray
Remember open conversations on Sign In.
v11.1 [Sep 23, 2015]
May include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
v11.0 [Mar 18, 2015]
Far End Camera Control
Collaboration Meeting Room Conferencing
WebEx Personal Room Conferencing
Audio and Video Bridge Conferencing
DTMF Digit Management
Headset Selection from Conversation WindowsSennheiser Headset Support for Call Management.
v10.6 [Nov 9, 2014]
Chat and Presence:
- Alert When Available: Set your client to notify you when a contact becomes available. Right-click over the user's name to select the Alert When Available option. You are notified the first time the user next becomes available. A message notification is displayed on the top-right corner of your screen to alert you that the user is available.
- Locations: Create, define, and display your location in your client for your contacts to see. Configure the Locations feature using the Location_Enabled parameter, and users can define their settings in the Options menu.
- Spell Check: For Windows 7 and Windows 8, you can define a default language from the Options menu. From the chat window with another user, you can personalize the language for chats with that user that is different from the default language in your client.
- Print Chat: You can print a conversation with a right-click from a chat window with another user or by pressing CTRL P. You can also highlight a portion of the text to print it.
- AutoSave Chat: From the Options menu, you can automatically save chats to your computer when you close a chat window. Once the chats are saved to your computer, search the chat files or use your Windows file search capability to search the chat files. You can save peer-to-peer and group chat conversations. This feature is off by default.
- Client Behavior at Start Up: By default, the client opens in a minimized state. However, you can configure the client to open in the same state that it was in when you last closed it. For example, if you last exited the client with the Jabber window open, then the next time you start Jabber, the window is opened. You set the HonourLastWindowState parameter to true. The option to Start Cisco Jabber when my computer starts must be enabled by the user for the parameter to take effect.
- Remove Group Chat Participants: The person who starts a group chat can now also remove group chat participants. Removed chat participants can be re-invited to the chat room at any time.
- Conversation Tab Reordering: You can drag and drop any kind of tab in your conversation window to put them in your preferred order. You can drag and drop tabs from person to person chat, group chat, and persistent chat room conversations. You can also drag and drop tabs from persistent chat room searches and filters, and all types of call tabs for audio and video.
- Conversation Tab Switching Shortcut: You can move between chat tabs by using CTRL TAB keyboard navigation, or use CTRL SHIFT TAB to move up and down between tabs for each conversation.
- Chat Security Labels: Label chats with security labels are now available, such as "secret" or "top secret", or your company can create its own labels. Compliant with the XEP-256 standard.
- Passwords for Persistent Chat Rooms (on-premises deployments only): Persistent chat room administrators can restrict access to rooms by adding passwords to them.
- Save Chat History to Outlook Folder: Enable saving chat history automatically in a Microsoft Outlook folder. This feature is off by default. Prerequisites: Microsoft Exchange 2010 or 2013.
Sharing
- Share Menu: A new menu is available from chat windows to share your screen and start instant WebEx meetings. To access these options, select the More button from the conversation window.
- Size Limit for File Transfers: Define a file size limit for Cisco Jabber users when transferring files.
- File Transfer enhancements (on-premises deployments only, prerequisite: Cisco Unified Communications Manager 10.5(2) ): In addition to standard file transfer between peers, you can now transfer files in group chats or persistent chat rooms. You can also use this feature to enable file transfer compliance, where you can manage screen captures and file transfers to restrict who can send and receive files, and keep a history of the file transfer and screen captures for auditing purposes.
Voice and Video:
- Do Not Disturb: Call alerts and ringers are suppressed when your presence is Do Not Disturb, or in any red presence state. If you receive a call while in Do Not Disturb, you still see a missed call notification on your client. However, if you are using a headset with its own ringer, then the call rings is not suppressed on the headset. Both administrators and users can change settings for this feature.
- Call Notifications on Other Device: For users who do not want to interrupt their work to answer the phone, you can now disable incoming call alerts, which requires the call to be answered from a desk phone or a headset.
- Mute Before Answer: When you are joining a call, you can now mute your phone before you connect to the call.
- Audio Device Selection: You can select your preferred headset or other audio device directly from chat windows. A new option allows you to open audio options in the Jabber client, and select your microphone, headset, and ringer preferences.
v10.5 [Jun 13, 2014]
1. User Management
Single Sign On
- Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an XML-based open standard data format that enables
you to access a defined set of Cisco services seamlessly after verifying credentials with an Identity
Provider. You enable SAML SSO in Cisco WebEx Messenger Services, Cisco Unified Communications
Manager, or Cisco Unity Connection. It is deployed in the Jabber client using service discovery.
Reset Jabber
- Resetting Jabber gives users the ability to reset Jabber to the originally-installed state.
Telemetrics
- In this release, the client can be enabled to help improve your Cisco Jabber experience by sending
anonymous data to Cisco on elements such as call analytics and call quality.
2. Calling Features
Personal Ringtone
- Users can select a ringtone for incoming calls from a menu of distinctive ringtones for their client in
the Options menu, under Sounds and Alerts.
Hunt Groups
- Hunt Groups enable incoming calls to be directed to a group of users. The call route is based on a
number of factors, including first available , longest Idle, broadcast hunting and circular hunting. You
can use Cisco Jabber and deskphones to answer hunt group calls.
Call Pickup
- Call Pickup allows users to pick up incoming calls from their own group. Group Call Pickup and
Directed Call Pickup allows users to pick up incoming calls to another group or individual, respectively.
You can use Cisco Jabber and deskphones to answer call pickup calls.
Video Call Quality
- Improvements in video image edge interpolation deliver smoother and sharper video calling for users
in call scenarios.
Audio Call Quality
- The G.722 wideband audio codec is now introduced as the default codec for calls to Cisco IP deskphones
and other portfolio endpoints, which delivers a superior call experience to the user. You can provision
other audio codec selection preferences in Cisco Unified Communications Manager, if required.
Plantronics Call Control
- In addition to Jabra and Logitech headsets, users can now use Plantronics accessories to control their
calls on Cisco Jabber to adjust call volume, answer and end phone calls, and mute.
Self-view
- Users can move and resize the self-view window on video calls.
3. IM and Presence
Screen Sharing
- In addition to the video screen share (BFCP) feature that is available to video-enabled clients when on
a call, users can now screen share directly from an IM conversation when video share is not provisioned
or available. Users can share their screens from IM with up to five other Cisco Jabber for Windows 10.5 users in a
group chat.
Remote Desktop Control
- When screen sharing from an IM, a user can request permission to remotely control the desktop of the
user who is sharing the screen. Either user can revoke the remote desktop control at anytime. Remote
desktop control is not currently supported while on the Expressway for Mobile and Remote Access.
IM Notifications
- This release offers incoming chat message alerts, new chat alert sound and IM badges in the
Windows taskbar. In addition to your Cisco Jabber client icon flashing on your Windows taskbar, users
also receive notifications that pop up on their screens when they have a new message. IM notifications
are displayed for chats, group chats, and in persistent chat rooms.
IM Do Not Disturb
- The client now offers Do Not Disturb in the client to suppress IM notifications. Only notifications
are suppressed and not the messages. Users can configure the notifications in the Options menu.
Spellcheck (Windows 8)
- Spellcheck is available for instant messaging chats on Cisco Jabber clients running on Windows 8
operating system. Language support is dependent on those supported by Windows 8. Spellcheck is
active only for the language defined for your operating system, not the language defined for your Jabber
client.
Added Emoticons
- The selection of emoticons has been increased for users in their chat conversations. The existing
emoticons have also been redesigned for improved user experience.
