When using Evercast for Chrome on macOS 15.3.1 (Sequoia), the Mute audio button wasn't working correctly.

Forensic watermarking is now available in Evercast Suites beta. The watermarking is visually imperceptible, and will secure video streams in active speaker view, grid view, and thumbnails.

Note: forensic watermarking requires the suite to be set to private, and will automatically disable recordings and the single-use guest invite feature.

When viewing file streams, URL streams, and Box streams, you'll now have a control bar at the bottom of the stream that lets you play, pause, move back/forward one frame, and see the timecode.

Fixed: When using Evercast in a web browser, invited participants were not able to view recordings for that room.

Room owners and room admins will see two new buttons in the draw tool menu. The Clear stream button instantly clears all drawings (from one or more participants) on a stream, and the Clear room button clears all drawings in a room, on any stream.

Room admins can now control whether a room is public or private.

Room admins can be given a chat manager role, which lets them clear and/or download the chat history.

Fixed: The download speed was not calculating correctly in the Network connectivity info panel.

Fixed: In the Safari browser, in Device settings, the Camera and Microphone dropdown menus weren't showing the selected devices.

We updated the information in the Network connectivity info panel.

You can put a room in both Theater mode and Do not disturb mode at the same time.

Room admins can remove viewers from a live room that's in Theater mode.

We made some updates to our UI.

Fixed: Room admins can now edit the room name and access in the Room settings window.

Fixed: Some guests using SSO were unable to enter rooms with a room link.

Rooms now have a Theater mode, which allows one-to-many streaming with up to 100 people in a live session. Attendees will either be contributors (able to speak, show their webcam, stream video, and screen share) or viewers (able to see and hear everything, but muted with no webcam video). You can turn on Theater mode in the Evercast Admin Portal.

For rooms in Theater mode, you can designate invitees as contributors or viewers from the Room access menu or from Admin Portal. Guests who are sent a special invite link will automatically join the room as viewers.

The updated Participant list shows which people are active contributors and which people are viewers.

We updated Do not disturb mode on Evercast for Chrome. When a participant tries to enter a room in Do not disturb mode, their request will be sent to a room admin. If approved, they will automatically join the room. If denied, they will be returned to their dashboard.

Fixed: Room admins can start and stop recordings, clear the chats, and invite users to the room.

Fixed: Network connectivity data was not being sent properly from Desktop 3.2 users to web users.

We made a minor security enhancement.

Fixed: Users were receiving an "unsupported browser" warning when trying to use Evercast with Chrome on a Chromebook.

We updated our messaging for removing a room from your dashboard.

You can run Evercast on the Safari browser, if you are using macOS Ventura (or higher). Known issues: We do not have support yet for Admin Portal or Chats / Notes downloads on Safari.

We added a Do not disturb (Beta) feature for active rooms. During a live session, you can enable Do not disturb and lock the room so nobody else can join. New participants who attempt to enter the room while it's locked will receive a "Private room" message.

Permissions managers can activate Do not disturb in Admin Portal. The feature can be turned on for the entire organization, or on a room-specific basis.

Note this is a beta feature in active development and we welcome your feedback.

We added welcome messages to provide more information while your room is loading.

We optimized how the web app processes thumbnail videos, to increase system efficiency.

Fixed: Sometimes in a room with multiple people, some participants could not be heard by others.

Fixed: On Evercast for Chrome, the main window was not correctly showing the active speaker.

Fixed: On Evercast for Chrome, EBS streams were not correctly auto-muting at the start of the stream.

Fixed: We improved the security of our Draw Tool.

We added support in Admin Portal for future watermarking features.

Fixed: If a user created a new account and accidentally typed an extra space before or after the email address, that user would not be able to log in properly.

In the Network connectivity info panel, we improved the accuracy of our calculation for Download speed.

The top of your dashboard now displays your email and device ID, and shows if you are logged in with SSO and/or MFA.

We removed the special invite link from within live MFA rooms.

Private MFA rooms will also require MFA in order to access recordings.

We improved our login process when using company SSO.

We added multi-factor authentication (MFA) for joining rooms.

A room requiring MFA can only be private and can't be changed to an open room.

The Special invite feature will be disabled for MFA rooms.

Permissions Managers can enable MFA in the Admin Portal. You can set MFA to be required across your entire organization, or on a room-specific basis.

We now use adaptive video streaming for video conferencing, to reduce bandwidth and CPU consumption.

You can now view network connection information (such as upload speed and connection type) for other participants in your room. This can help diagnose whether issues with streaming quality are being caused by poor connectivity.

To access this feature, click on the Network connectivity icon in the lower corner of someone's thumbnail:

A window will pop up over the thumbnail showing that user's connection information. To close the window, click on the X.

Known issues

The Network connectivity icon in the lower corner of your thumbnail now has more information: download speed, upload speed, round trip time, and jitter.

This information can be used to diagnose issues with streaming quality or room performance.

Fixed: Users on different platforms were seeing inconsistencies in Draw Tool drawings.

Fixed: We fixed a login error that occurred when SSO authentication was used with a special invite (single-access link) to a private room.

Fixed: We improved our instructions for login errors.

Fixed: We added more instructions to the EBS Stream keys window.

The Mute for all feature has been added to the participant thumbnail settings. This allows room owners to mute individual participants so that no one in the room can hear them.

The Mute all feature has been added to the More menu on the bottom toolbar. This allows room owners to mute all participants in the room at once, with a single click. The streaming content will not be muted.

Room owners can use the Remove from room feature in the thumbnail menu to remove a participant from their live room.

When Support moves a room to another server for performance reasons, participants will be informed of the move without having to quit and rejoin the room. Any active recordings will be restarted on the new server.

Fixed: Existing Evercast users can join a room with a single-use ("special guest") access link, without having to log out and enter the room as a guest.

Known issue: A small number of users are having difficulty with single-use access links and SSO sign-in. We are actively addressing this bug and expect to have it resolved soon.

We made improvements to our authorization/authentication service.

Fixed: We increased diagnostic messages from the web and desktop apps to our servers, regarding connection strength.

The Special Guest Invite feature lets a room administrator create a single-use link for a guest to join a private, live Evercast room. The access link expires five minutes after being generated or after the first use of the link, whichever comes first.

When the current room session is over, the special guest will no longer have access to the room.

We added a Network connectivity icon to the lower corner of the participant thumbnails.

Click on this icon to bring up a window showing your real-time internet connectivity details. This information can help you troubleshoot any connection issues.

In a live room, the thumbnails have a new menu that appears when you click the "three dots" on the top right corner of a participant's thumbnail. You can control features such as sound, camera, and spotlighting that user so they are shown on the main viewer window. When an option is selected, its icon is shown on the bottom of the thumbnail for visibility.

When a user is muted, a mute icon shows on their own thumbnail and is only seen by that user.

In a live room, the toolbar at the bottom of the screen has been improved with explanatory text under the buttons and some improved icons. The toolbar will remain active for four seconds after a participant enters the room.

In a live room, a new menu option for Always show toolbar has been added under the Layout button to give users the option to pin the toolbar to the screen so that it won't autohide after the user navigates away from it.

In the lobby, texts and icons were improved to make them more user friendly. Highlights include changing the Go live button to Enter room and changing Open Device Selection to Settings.

Fixed: Some buttons in the live room didn't have proper padding.

We made internal improvements and maintenance to the platform.

Fixed: When using a room's URL to access the room, users were directed to the dashboard instead of the room's lobby when selecting the option to sign in.

We made internal improvements and maintenance to the platform.

We made internal improvements and maintenance to the platform.

Fixed a bug where some of the settings in the Room settings window couldn't be configured if there was only one room credit.

Fixed a bug where users sometimes experienced either a blank screen or an infinitely spinning wheel when trying to enter a room.

We made internal improvements and maintenance to the platform.

We made internal improvements and maintenance to the platform.

We made improvements to the text on the Reset password screen, including instructions on how to reset your password.

Notifications in the Alerts pop-up window are now displayed in the proper order.

Texts were improved and updated across the application to make them more concise, correct, and readable for users.

The text in the Alerts window is now stylized and any links are clickable.

When None is selected for the microphone in Device Selection, now the microphone icon displays the word None below it in both the lobby and in the live room.

Fixed a bug where the activate 2-step verification link didn't work unless the user was signed in.

Fixed a bug where editing a note duplicated it from another participant's point of view.

When a participant had no camera selected and started drawing, other participants couldn’t see the drawing.

Fixed text and formatting on the 2-step verification token expired screen.

We made internal improvements and maintenance to the platform.

We made improvements to the text you see in the drawer (bottom part) of the live room and to the lobby. This is so that the texts you see on screen are clear and simple.

Fixed a bug where the audio stream was failing even though the video was seen.

We made internal improvements and maintenance to the platform.

Fixed an issue that caused participants to get an “Oops” error when trying to join a room.

Due to performance and usability issues, the message that showed when a participant was muted and started talking has been removed. This feature will be re-engineered soon.

Fixed performance issues that caused participants to be dropped from a room.

When a participant is muted and starts talking, a message now shows to remind them they are muted.

If a participant is using push-to-talk, a message now appears when they enter the room to remind them that they are muted.

If a participant is in the lobby, now the screen shows that a session is in progress, along with the number of participants in the room.

Now room participants can select HD 4K resolution when sharing a screen.

The following usability and text changes were made in the Draw Tool:

If there are drawings on the screen previous to when a recording started, now those existing drawings are included in the recording playback.

Various formatting and usability issues were fixed across the application.

Draw tools now default to the Evercast vibrant red color.

Fixed a bug where users were able to view deleted recordings.

On Windows OS, the Alt key now works when selected as the push-to-talk key.

We made internal improvements and maintenance to the platform.

In a live room, the room name now appears at the bottom of the screen next to the Exit button so that participants are aware of which room they’re in.

Formatting and usability improvements were made to CSV files downloaded from the Chat or Notes sections.

A room owner can now export and download chats and notes.

When a recording starts, a notification now shows for both the room owner and all participants.

The warning message that displays in the dashboard when a recording is in progress now shows up when there is any number of people in a room.

The dashboard now shows if there are one or more participants already in a room.

Participants who are muted when changing devices now stay muted after the device is changed.

In a live room that’s being recorded, the Stop Recording button is no longer visible for participants who didn’t start the recording.

Additional bug fixes and improvements.

We made internal improvements and maintenance to the platform.

We made internal improvements and maintenance to the platform.

Fixed the text instructions on the sign-in page for a private room.