Introducing the Jitsi Meet Flutter SDK
Flutter‘s initial release occurred in 2017, the same year as the introduction of our mobile apps and mobile SDKs. For those who are unfamiliar with it, Flutter is one of the most popular frameworks for […]
Author: Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
Introducing the Jitsi Meet React Native SDK
Ever since we introduced our mobile apps to the world back in 2017 they have been backed by React Native. Using React Native allowed us to reach feature parity quickly since all logic is shared […]
Self-hosting a fully-featured Jitsi Meet instance just got as easy as pie
Hey there Fellow Jitsters! Have you ever considered adding telephony to your Jitsi Meet self-hosted instance? Up until now you only had the option to run Jigasi and deal with telephony yourself. Many of our […]
Trust, but verify: introducing user verification
It’s been a while since we introduced End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) over two years ago. Back then we started with a simple model consisting of a passphrase everyone needed to type and later migrated to a […]
Introducing whiteboards in Jitsi Meet
Trying to explain something to someone and they just don’t get it? If an image is worth a thousand words how about a diagram? Today we’re excited to announce the availability of whiteboards in Jitsi […]
Low-latency conference streaming to very large audiences
Jitsi today supports life-streaming conferences to large audiences through our Jibri tool – this tool renders all the media from the conference, and forwards it to a streaming service such as YouTube. This approach works, […]
Enhanced noise suppression in Jitsi Meet
For a while now Jitsi Meet has been using the RNNoise library to calculate voice audio detection scores for audio input tracks and leveraging those to implement functionality such as “talk while muted” and “noisy […]
A stepping stone towards end-to-end encryption on mobile
It has been a while since our first release of end-to-end encryption for the web app and ever since we have tried to enhance and improve it. One of these enhancements was the introduction of […]
Introducing Car Mode!
Virtual / hybrid meetings are part of our everyday life now. Some meet in their home office, kitchen, slouching in the couch, while taking a walk, or even while driving! We won’t encourage you to […]
Jitsi as a Service: a two-way street, by Tsahi Levent-Levi
Tsahi Levent-Levi, also known as BlogGeek.me, has established himself as, arguably the most prominent WebRTC analyst. He has been commenting on the industry for the past decade, while also training WebRTC professionals, co-running the testRTC […]
Jitsi is back at Google Summer of Code
Hey there Fellow Jitsters! We’ve got some great news to share: Jitsi has been selected to participate in Google Summer of Code 2022! We had a several year hiatus, but we are thrilled to be […]
Introducing the Jitsi Meet React SDK
Today we are releasing an often requested feature / package from the Jitsi community. We’re happy to announce the availability of the Jitsi Meet React SDK. This new SDK simplifies the integration of the Jitsi […]
Power up your Jitsi deployment with JaaS
The 8×8 Jitsi team is building its next great service and we need your help! We are currently working on a service that would let Jitsi users easily connect their self-hosted Jitsi deployments to 8×8’s […]
Who won over the classroom?
As you may know we have worked with the European Commission on a hackathon focused on Jitsi for education. The awards ceremony tool place this past Monday. You may watch it here: Now that we’ve […]
Winning over the classroom with Jitsi
Hey there Fellow Jitsters! Today we are very excited to announce we are launching an education themed hackathon together with the European Commission. The ultimate goal is to improve Jitsi for education usage, which has […]
March update: virtual backgrounds, new toolbar UI and more!
Hey there Fellow Jitsters! You might have noticed some changes on meet.jit.si. We rolled out a new release yesterday and we want to tell you all about it!
Join us in the #HackingFromHome hackathon!
Ever since the project’s inception as a multi-protocol chat client back in 2003 collaboration has been at the heart of Jitsi. Protocols came and went and now thanks to WebRTC anyone can use Jitsi Meet […]
Jitsi Meet features update, April 2020
Hello Fellow Jitsters! While we work on making sure our infrastructure is able to cope with the recent surge in traffic, we have managed to ship some features we think you may like, let’s go! […]
Google Summer of Code 2020
Last week our friends at Google announced the list of organizations selected for the 2020 edition ot their GSoC 2020. We have been privileged to partake in GSoC on multiple occasions, but there are many […]
Introducing: Presenter Mode
NOTE: As for 2023 this feature has been replaced by the ability to share camera and screen video simultaneously and has thus been removed. Jitsi Meet has had the ability to share your screen with […]
Open Source SFUs
Today we are trying something new. We invited Tsahi Levent-Levi to write a guest postfor us. For those working with WebRTC for some time Tsahi will be a faminilar name. Tsahi has been working in […]
Jitsi Meet now available on F-Droid
Hey there Fellow (Android) Jitsters! We have a good one for you today. Well, technically it went up on Friday, but in case you missed it, here we go: Jitsi Meet is now available on […]
New mobile releases and open beta access
Hi there Fellow Jitsters! Today we are happy to announce Jitsi Meet for mobile 19.4! You can check the release notes here, but we’d like to talk about a couple of the new features here, […]
JVB 2.0: preparing our video router for the next 10 years of video conferencing
Today we’d like to share a very important milestone for the Jitsi project: we just finalized the first version of JVB 2.0, the evolution of our trusty Jitsi Videobridge. What is the JVB? You may […]
Jitsi Meet for mobile 19.0 released!
You might have noticed an update to Jitsi Meet on your Android or iOS device, that’s because our brand new release, 19.0 is out! “19.0?! What did I miss?!” we hear you say. The first […]
Santa Claus video chat powered by Jitsi Meet
Every once in a while we learn about a project like no other using Jitsi Meet. Today we’d like to share one such project: Papa Noel Online and its sibling project Los Reyes Magos TV. These projects […]
Remote desktop control and always-on-top view with the new Jitsi Meet desktop app
We recently blogged bout Google Summer of Code 2018 and the 3 projects which finished successfully. Today we are going to talk about one of those projects: Jitsi Meet Electron, or the Jitsi Meet desktop […]
New Jitsi Meet Mobile now with Live Streaming, better performance and more!
It’s been a while since we have last written about our mobile apps. We have been busy improving them, and now that 1.18 is available for Android and iOS, let’s talk about the release! This […]
Jitsi meets Docker
Jitsi Meet is composed of several components which work together for delivering the best video conferences, as you are used to already. When it comes to deploying these to production, there are, of course, many […]
Jitsi Meet stable releases, now more discoverable!
If you have been following the Jitsi Meet development for some time, you might have noticed the sheer amount of git tags. We make tags for every successful build our CI makes, and also every […]
GSoC 2018: ready fuels!
It’s that time of the year again! We are incredibly happy to have been chosen again as an organization for Google Summer of Code. After the tough process of choosing candidates and projects, here are […]
New Jitsi Meet mobile versions released!
With 2017 close to ending, we have one more Jitsi Meet mobile release for you! In this release we focused on two main areas: the welcome page and error handling. The welcome page has been […]
Jitsi Meet wins the Open Source Classic award at DINAcon 2017
We are humbled to share that Jitsi Meet has won the Open Source Classic award at the DINAcon awards 2017, which took place in Bern (Switzerland) last Friday. The list of nominees was impressive, so […]
Introducing the Jitsi Meet mobile SDK
Jitsi Meet has been available on mobile for some time now. The app works on both Android and iOS, and while it uses meet.jit.si to create conferences by default, it works with any custom Jitsi […]
Jitsi Meet now on mobile!!!
Yes! Jitsi Meet is now available for Android and iOS!!! Join your Jitsi Meetings from your phone!
Google Summer of Code ’17 is ON!
After a break of a couple of years, Jitsi is once again proudly participating in Google Summer of Code! Check out our project ideas and let’s have fun together this summer (while you are getting […]
Jitsi: State of The Union
Check out what’s in and what’s coming for Jitsi in @saghul’s FOSDEM presentation.