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Jitsi Meet Desktop

MEETINGS
Velocity5.0

Desktop application (macOS, Windows, Linux) for the open-source Jitsi Meet video conferencing platform.

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A maintenance-mode Electron wrapper that reworked its window model and now gates remote control on consent.

electrondesktop appvideo conferencingmulti-window uiconsent controlsplatform maintenance
◆Current state
Jitsi Meet Desktop ships every month or two and most of what lands is upkeep: Electron bumps, a new static AppImage builder for Linux, authentication popup fixes. The exception this year was 2026.6.0, which redesigned the main UI into a list of conferences that open in their own windows, following the two-window layout added a month earlier. The newest release restores remote control, a feature that had been absent, and puts a translated native dialog in front of it so the remote party has to be granted access explicitly.
◆Where it's heading
The project tracks upstream rather than leading: Electron version bumps set the pace, drop old macOS versions when Chromium does, and features like picture-in-picture arrive only once the jitsi-meet server supports them. Against that background the window-model redesign and the consent-gated remote control read as the two places the maintainers are willing to spend design effort — how calls are held on screen, and what a remote participant is allowed to touch. Expect the cadence to stay tied to Electron's, with occasional deliberate work on the desktop-only surfaces the web client cannot cover.
◆Prediction
The next releases will most likely be Electron and dependency updates with little user-visible change, with the desktop audio capture groundwork started for macOS the most likely candidate to surface as a real feature.

◆Recent moves

  1. 14d ago

    Remote control returns behind a translated native consent dialog

    Remote control returns to the desktop app, this time behind a native consent dialog that is translated rather than English-only. Restoring a removed feature with a permission gate in front of it is the pattern this project follows on anything that touches another participant's machine.

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  2. 1mo ago

    Electron 43 bump and new static Linux AppImage builder

    An Electron 43 bump and a switch to a new static AppImage builder on Linux. Packaging and runtime upkeep with nothing a user would notice.

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  3. 2mo ago

    Main UI redesigned to a conference list with per-call windows

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    The one release this year that changed how the app is used rather than what it is built on: conferences became a list, and each call opens in its own window. It is the payoff of the two-window layout added the month before.

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  4. 3mo ago

    Two-window layout; groundwork for mac desktop audio capture

    A two-window layout arrives, along with groundwork for desktop audio capture on macOS. The layout work is what the conference-list redesign built on three weeks later.

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  5. 4mo ago

    Electron 41 update and picture-in-picture restore fix

    Electron and electron-builder updates plus a fix restoring the main window from the picture-in-picture widget. Routine dependency maintenance.

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  6. 6mo ago

    Fix for authentication popups

    A single fix for authentication popups. A patch release with no other content.

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