Vonage Video API Release Notes

June 1, 2026

Updates for Audio Connector

• Added support for base64 audio encoding (see Audio Connector).

May 28, 2026

Updates for Media Connection

Video Forward Error Correction (FEC) has been enabled between our Media Router and all the other services, such as Media Archiver and Media Broadcast, to enhance media stream reliability, especially in the case of inter-service network variability. Additionally, FEC is now available for all the subscribe streams, including from our Media Router to subscribing endpoints.

Resolved an issue with Single Peer Connection, where bandwidth was being allocated to muted streams.

Updates for React Native SDK (version 2.33.1).

See the release notes

May 20, 2026

Updates for Vonage Video Connector Server SDK (version 1.0.1).

Improvements:

• Enabled traceability of Video Connector sessions in Video Inspector & Advanced Insights.
• Corrected log levels to reduce verbosity.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue where the application could become unresponsive during shutdown when a large number of streams were simultaneously being unpublished, unsubscribed, and disconnected within the same session.

See the Video Connector documentation for details.

May 19, 2026

Updates for Video API client SDKs for OpenTok.js (version 2.34.1, Standard environment).

See the release notes:

• OpenTok.js release notes.

Native Video iOS & Android Reference Apps (version 1.2.0).

• See the iOS release notes.
• See the Android release notes.

May 13, 2026

React Native SDK update (Standard environment) & Video Express update

Updates for React Native SDK (version 2.33.0). See the release notes

Update for Vonage Video Express (version 1.10.3) See the release notes. Note that Vonage Video Express has now been deprecated. We recommend transitioning to the Video API Reference App.

May 6, 2026

Updates for Video API client SDKs for OpenTok.js, Android, iOS, Windows, and Linux (version 2.34.0, Standard environment). See the release notes:

• Video Android SDK release notes
• Video iOS SDK release notes
• Video Linux SDK release notes
• Video Web release notes
• Video Windows SDK release notes

April 13, 2026

OpenTok.js (Enterprise environment)

OpenTok.js 2.33 is now available in the Enterprise environment (in addition to the Standard environment). See the release notes and the enterprise environment information.

March 30, 2026

React Native SDK update (Standard environment), Video Reference App (Web, iOS, Android VERA) and Platform and Developer Tools update

Updates for React Native SDK (version 2.32.1). See the release notes.

Native Video iOS & Android Reference Apps (version 1.1.0).

• See the iOS release notes.
• See the Android release notes.

Updates for Video Web Reference App (VERA) (version 1.4.2). See the release notes:

• Web Reference App (VERA) release notes.

March 23, 2026

Platform, Developer Tools and Insights API updates

Updates for Audio Connector

• Added created/destroyed stream event. Your WebSocket server receives a message when a stream is created or destroyed during a session. (see Audio Connector Stream event messages).
• Added support for 24 kHz sample rate. (see Audio Connector)
• New feature in Playground Playground now includes support for publisher max bitrate and video presets and session migration
• New query options for the Insights API. Advanced Insights API now supports Post-Call Transcriptions metrics. See the Insights developer guide for details.

March 16, 2026

Post-Call Transcription (PCT) minutes were added to the Vonage API Dashboard.

March 12, 2026

Platform Updates

Updates for Experience Composer

• Improved video framerate when using VP9 codec.

• Experience Composer instances will respect platform server migration events by stopping gracefully and sending a callback to the customer.

• Experience Composer instances will respect moderator sent force disconnect & force unpublish events by stopping gracefully and sending a callback to the customer.

March 10, 2026

Client SDK (Standard environment)

Updates for Video API client SDKs for OpenTok.js (version 2.33.1, Standard environment).

• See the release notes: OpenTok.js release notes.

March 9, 2026

Video Native Reference App (iOS and Android VERA) & Platform Updates

Updates to Media Connection (Early Access)

• Forward Error Correction (FEC) has been enabled between our Media Router and Media Archiver to enhance media stream reliability, especially in case of internal network problems. The feature is currently available only in Early Access environment, please contact Vonage support if you are interested in enabling this feature.

• Native Video iOS & Android Reference Apps (version 1.0.0). See the iOS release notes See the Android release notes

March 4, 2026

Platform Updates

Updates to Media Connection

• The platform now supports Media Mesh, reducing latency and improving audio and video quality for geographically distributed sessions. With Media Mesh, each participant automatically connects to the media router in their nearest regional datacenter, optimizing media routing based on actual participant locations. Media traffic between participants in different regions is routed through internal high-speed connections to minimize latency. This feature is automatically enabled for all routed sessions (sessions not created with relayed media mode).
• For more information on routed vs. relayed sessions, see Media Router and media modes.

March 3, 2026

Video Web Reference App (VERA) update (version 1.4.1)

Updates for Video Web Reference App (version 1.4.1). See the release notes

March 2, 2026

Video Inspector update

• New Feature: Live captions support. The Inspector tool now supports live captions.

• Fix: Packet loss reports. Inspector charts now display publisher packet loss more accurately for routed sessions.

February 26, 2026

Platform Updates

Updates for Audio Connector

• Added Notify event to Audio Connector. Your WebSocket server can optionally send a text-based control message (NOTIFY). This can be used as a marker to correlate application events with the audio flow. See Audio Connector Notify Message.
• Added custom HTTP headers to websocket:cleared message. See Audio Connector Custom headers.

February 25, 2026

React Native SDK update (Standard environment)

• Updates for React Native SDK (version 2.31.2). See the release notes.

February 19, 2026

Platform Updates

• New feature in Playground Playground now includes support for Live Captions.
• SIP quality metrics support for the Advanced Insights API. See the SIP Quality Metrics section of the Insights developer guide for details.

February 18, 2026

Client SDK (Standard environment) & Platform Updates

• Updates for Video API client SDKs for OpenTok.js, Android, iOS, Windows, and Linux (version 2.32.1, Standard environment). See the release notes:

• Video Android SDK release notes

• Video iOS SDK release notes

• Video Linux SDK release notes

• Video Web release notes

• Video Windows SDK release notes

Security updates for Video API platform (Standard and Enterprise environments)

• Enabled support for TLS 1.3 to enhance security. The platform now supports both TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3.

February 12, 2026

OpenTok.js update (Enterprise environment) and Platform update

• OpenTok.js 2.32 is now available in the Enterprise environment (in addition to the Standard environment).
• See the release notes and the enterprise environment information.

Updates for Audio Connector

• Fixed an issue where an unidirectional Audio Connector session could remain active longer than expected.

February 3, 2026

Updates for Precall

• Precall tool, during and after the network test, now displays additional information about video Media mode, Ice candidate and connection protocol.
• Precall was updated to use latest version of Network test js library.