Jitsi on AWS 4.1.1: Ubuntu 24.04 and a Year of Upstream Catch-Up

May 1, 2026

Our AWS Marketplace Jitsi pattern now ships Jitsi Meet stable-10888, jumping from stable-9823 across roughly 16 upstream releases. The pattern itself moves to Ubuntu 24.04 and picks up the FOSSonCloud rebrand.

We just published version 4.1.1 of the Jitsi on AWS by FOSSonCloud pattern to AWS Marketplace. This is a patch release that pulls in roughly a year and a half of upstream Jitsi Meet changes, moves the underlying AMI to Ubuntu 24.04, and completes the FOSSonCloud rebrand.

What’s in this release

Jitsi Meet stable-10888 (up from stable-9823)

The previous pattern release pinned stable/jitsi-meet_9823 (November 2024). 4.1.1 moves to stable/jitsi-meet_10888 (March 2026) — roughly 16 upstream stable releases worth of fixes and features. Notable upstream changes during that window:

  • Inline web authentication — auth now happens in the same window instead of a popup, fixing flows that broke when popup blockers fired
  • Customizable side panels — a new CustomPanel extension point lets integrators add their own toolbox panels alongside chat, polls, and participants
  • Expanded external API — the iframe API now sends full user context, fires participantMuted for all mute state changes, and exposes upload/delete events for the file-sharing feature
  • File sharing polish — upload-button tooltip, prejoin drag handling fix, and an updated test suite
  • Transcription configurability — operators can now allow custom transcriber languages via config
  • Recording limit removed — the upstream artificial recording limit is gone
  • Connectivity diagnostics — stats-based video freeze detection and analytics events when video decode fails
  • Cryptex (encrypted media headers) support added to the SDP/Jingle translation layer
  • Build modernization — upstream now builds on Node 24 LTS, with iOS/Android SDK build caching for faster CI

No CVEs were called out by upstream in this window, but the bundled lib-jitsi-meet was bumped repeatedly and Prosody got a number of nil-check and authentication-edge-case hardening fixes worth picking up.

Pattern-level changes (not from upstream)

  • Ubuntu 24.04 — the AMI moves from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04, picking up newer kernel, OpenSSL, and systemd
  • FOSSonCloud rebrand — product listing, console text, and metadata updated to match the new brand

The dual-load-balancer architecture (NLB in front for UDP video traffic plus TCP/443 to an ALB behind it for HTTPS termination via ACM) is unchanged. The CustomDotEnvParameterArn, CustomConfigJsParameterArn, and CustomInterfaceConfigJsParameterArn SSM-driven customization hooks introduced in 4.0.0 still work the same way.

Fresh deployments

Subscribe on AWS Marketplace and launch. You’ll need a Route 53 hosted zone and an ACM certificate in advance — the template handles the rest, including VPC, NLB, ALB, ASG, Secrets Manager, and CloudWatch wiring.

What’s next

We’re tracking the next Jitsi stable cut and will follow up with a 4.1.2 once there’s a meaningful delta. Issues, feature requests, and operator notes are always welcome on GitHub.

— FOSSonCloud