Apache OpenMeetings - Features and overview
Openmeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools. It uses API functions of Media Server for Remoting and Streaming Kurento.
OpenMeetings is a project of The Apache Software Foundation, the old project website at GoogleCode will receive no updates anymore. The website at Apache is the only place that receives updates.
News
Version 9.0.0 released!
Release 9.0.0, provides following improvements:
CVE-2026-33005: Apache OpenMeetings: Insufficient checks in FileWebService
CVE-2026-33266: Apache OpenMeetings: Hardcoded Remember-Me Cookie Encryption Key and Salt
CVE-2026-34020: Apache OpenMeetings: Login Credentials Passed via GET Query Parameters
were fixed, please check Security Page
Security:
- Weak hash functions are dropped
- 'Remember Me' is more secure
- All libraries are updated to most recent versions
- fabric.js is updated to most recent version
- Dark theme is added
- File deletion via trash button click is fixed
Other fixes and improvements
15 issues are fixed please check
CHANGELOG and Detailed list
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Community
Who we are
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Feature details
Audio and Video Conferencing
There are four options to use OpenMeetings audio/video functions, which you can select during a conference session.
- audio + video
- audio only
- video only
- picture only
Additional you can change video-/audio-quality, choose multiple camera resolutions (4:3, 16:9 or 3:2) and choose your input devices.
Meeting recording and Screen sharing
- Recorded sessions contain everything including sound recorded from all audio streams in exactly the way you've seen it in the conference.
- Recorded sessions can be downloaded as MP4 files.
- Possibility to select the desktop or one of your windows for sharing.
- Different quality steps for Screensharing.
- Watch and organize recordings in an integrated Drag and Drop File-Explorer
File Explorer
Advanced File-Explorer in every conference room, Drag and Drop interface for managing uploaded files, including the possibility to create a document tree with folders.
Private and Public Drive in File-Explorer. The File-Explorer has two different views, one is the Private Drive and the other the Public Drive. The Private Drive always contains the same files. Those files are visible only to the user currently loggedin. The Public Drive is not bound to the user, but to the conference room instead. All users in the conference room have access to the Public Drive.
Moderating System
During a conference, the moderator can adjust the user permission to every user individually.
Allow/Deny moderation
Allow/Deny right to draw on white board
Add/Remove presenter role
Allow/Deny screen-sharing/record screen
Allow/Deny Remote Control Screen
Allow/Deny right for 'Mute others'
Let one user to speak while others are muted
Allow/Deny Video
Allow/Deny Audio
Multi-Whiteboard and Chat
Multi-Whiteboard, you can add new whiteboard instances, each white board can have the full range of tools and documents inside.
Save white boards. You can save each whiteboard instance as a file. The file is located in the File-Explorer and can be drag n' drop'ed to the white board again and organized like any other document, image or folder.
White board with drawing, writing, Drag n' Drop, Resizing, Images (Drag n' Drop from File-Explorer), Symbol(s)/Cliparts.
Full-fit does rescale the document on the screen to be 100% visible on all screens no matter what kind of screen resolution different users have.
You can import from a wide range of document formats (PDF, DOC, ODT, PPT, et cetera...)
User and room management
You can manage users and multiple organizations in a single OpenMeetings instance. You can also create users that only have access via the SOAP-API.
MyRooms section. Each user has by default 2 personal rooms that are always accessible exclusively for that user. There are buttons to enter those rooms from the Dashboard.
You can assign conference room to all users, or you can assign them only to specific user-groups.
Private message center
Send users messages and organize them in folders. You can book conference rooms by sending private messages. The booked event automatically is in your and the participants calendar, changes to that event will be populated to all users booked to the event.
User contacts, you can search users and add them to your contacts. You can even give them the right to see your calendar.
Plan meetings with integrated calendar
- Plan your conferencing and invite attendees from OpenMeetings or External.
- The invited attendees will recieve an E-mail with details to the meetings and a link with a secure hash to the conference room.
- Share your calendar with your contacts.
Polls and Votes
You can create a poll with yes/no or 1-10 questions, let the user vote and see the voting results.
Polls can be stored and results viewed as pie-chart