Migrating safely to BigBlueButton 2.4

You must have heard about the latest release of BigBlueButton 2.4. Sharing our process to safely migrate our BBB servers running 2.2.x or 2.3.x to 2.4. 1. Take Backup # Note down your BBB secret so that you can set the same secret after upgrading to the 2.4 version...

Log4j in BigBlueButton

Background Log4J Zero day was announced on Fri, Dec 10, as the highest (10.0 CVSS) critical Log4j vulnerability was discovered. The Log4Shell vulnerability was exploited by attackers worldwide, allowing malicious strings to be logged.Apache Log4j is an open-source...

BigBlueButton: Call timed out error 1006

Problem Recently lots of BigBlueButton administrators have reported Call Timed Out 1006 errors while using BigBlueButton, especially on a Chrome Browser.  If you use the latest version of (96.0.4664.93) to join a BigBlueButton session, then while checking the...

Six more Reasons to love BigBlueButton!

Today we ran a trial of BigBlueButton 2.4 [alpha 2] and we would love to share our first impression! While you can read the release note, the following are the top six features that we believe will help you conduct better online classes on BigBlueButton: 1) Real-time...

Securing BigBlueButton: Restricting access to whitelisted IPs

You can configure the Nginx server of BigBlueButton to allow incoming requests from only the white-listed public IPs. Here is how to do it: Create a file allow.nginx in /etc/bigbluebutton/nginx Add to the file white-listed IPs in the following format:allow...