Release Notes

Use this section to grab the latest updates for specific builds and releases of all Glance products. For more context on what releases cover and what action is needed to take advantage of each release, see this table about Glance’s Service Components.

Release Notes are positioned from most recent release.

4.8 Glance Client – 11th of September, 2019

Overview

With this release, Glance is retiring the Panorama brand. The client is now simply called Glance, and supports all the same functions as Panorama. The 2.x Glance Client will be retired at the end of 2019. We recommend you download the latest client here.

Key Improvements from 2.x

Screen share quality: Your screen will appear sharper and clearer to guests, and they will see updates more quickly.

Gesturing: You can allow a session guest to point to things on your screen with their mouse.

Compatibility: Sessions will run more efficiently on the latest versions of Windows and macOS.

Redesigned interface: The user experience has been redesigned with a modern look to get you into sessions quicker.

Upgrades and Improvements

• Refreshed the sound effects for starting and ending sessions.
• Improved support for ultra HD displays on Windows.
• Reconnecting prompts on macOS will fade away after a few seconds.
• Updated the Zoom toggle button while viewing a desktop on macOS.

4.8 Website – 11th of September, 2019

Improvements and Fixes

• Redesigned the client download page to offer the new Glance client, GlanceGuest, and optional extensions for Chrome and Firefox. The extensions facilitate using Glance from web apps like Salesforce.
• Editing Users: Fixed a performance issue for some customers where in-line user editing could be difficult at times due to the overall number of users. Now, instead of editing in-line, the Administrator is taken to a new Edit screen which makes updating users fast and efficient.
• Editing Users: When editing a user in Card view, the fields are now labeled externally to the field for an improved experience.
• Updated the Password Requirements instructions to be more clear.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Single Sign-on Password Reset setting not to stick.
• Moved the Glance CDN from AWS to glance.net.
• Set GlanceGuest Mac 4.8 as the default for sessions with customers on macOS. They will upgrade automatically.

4.8 GlanceGuest Mac – 11th of September, 2019

• Performance and compatibility improvements

4.7.1 Mobile SDK – July 24, 2019

Enhanced Agent Video in Mobile

Agent Video for Mobile sessions is now available to agents using Google Chrome on desktop devices, no native client required. This delivers significantly improved picture quality and framerate while consuming less bandwidth. It’s also available to agents using ChromeOS.

Default UI

Our SDK now includes a default user interface for most typical uses, making it easier and quicker to set up and start Glancing. It includes sample prompts for customers to explain the Glance experience before a session begins. You can customize these panes to fit your branding and experience.

Support for iOS ReplayKit

In the iOS SDK, we’ve added the option to capture the screen with Apple’s ReplayKit framework, which improves your app’s overall performance during a session. App users will be prompted to allow your app to capture their screen before a session starts.

Improvements and Fixes

Added support to start sessions with keys after initiating Presence for 1-Click Connect.

4.7.2 Update – August 2, 2019

Added support to start a session with a random key after initializing Presence for when 1-Click Connect is not available.

4.7.1 Website – July 24, 2019

Improvements and Fixes

• Added logging to Access Logs to show when users make changes to Settings or Role privileges. 
• Added an option to prevent users from resetting their password, so that they can only authenticate to Glance via single sign-on. You can find it in Security Settings.
• Clarified wording that we require CSV files for bulk updating users.
• Fixed an issue with bulk updating users where uploading a modified user export file would set a role name as a password.
• Fixed an issue in bulk uploading whereby an error would occur if more than 10 columns were used in the CSV file.

4.7 Website – June 28, 2019

Agent Screen Share Toolbar

When enabled, agents will see a toolbar at the top of their viewing window. This toolbar includes an information panel with customer device details, a zoom button, and a settings section. If your agents have permission to use Agent Video, a button is available to turn Agent Video on/off.

If enabled, this toolbar appears for agents joining screen share sessions started by customers from desktop and mobile devices. It is not used in hosted sessions to Show your screen or View a customer’s screen. To enable the toolbar for your agents, please contact Glance.

Improvements and Fixes

• Added the ability for admins to export Cobrowse masked elements as a CSV file for both staging and production environments.
• Fixed an issue in the Portal tab with add/update users where uploading a CSV file with blank lines would halt the upload. Blank lines are now ignored.

4.6 Cobrowse – May 23, 2019

Optimized Asset Management

Cobrowse Asset Management from the 4.4 release has been made more efficient, allowing agents to more quickly load their initial view of what customers see. Instead of sending fonts, CSS styling and image assets from the visitor to the agent in every session, Cobrowse can temporarily cache assets to use for other sessions, improving overall performance.

You control which types of resource files are eligible to be cached. If your agents need to view assets with personal information, such as images, the service can be configured to never cache images.

Cached assets are regularly refreshed to ensure the agents see exactly what customers see, and unused assets are removed.

Other Improvements and Fixes

• Added support to Enhanced Agent Video to specify a single default camera in Chrome settings.
• Improved support for embedding the Cobrowse viewer inside an iframe.
• Worked around a Safari problem where some pages wouldn’t tell Cobrowse that page assets were available, halting the session.
• Enhanced scroll synchronization to account for website visitors switching between pages in a single-page application.
• Added support to Cobrowse Asset Management for blob CSS.
• Fixed an issue that made dropdown menus on some pages look transparent.

4.6 GlanceGuest Mac – May 23, 2019

Faster Joining

We added a Safari extension to GlanceGuest so that your customers showing their screen don’t need to download the client for each session. They must enable the extension in Safari preferences, which we explain how to do on-screen when your customers get the client.

Optimizations

GlanceGuest now performs better in macOS High Sierra and Mojave.

Sound Effects

Your customers will hear new sound queues when your agents connect and when sessions end.

4.6 Website- May 23, 2019

Improvements and Fixes

• Added support for the GlanceGuest Safari extension.
• Fixed issues that occasionally prevented guests from joining View sessions, such as when hosting a View session without a key.
• Allocated more screen space in My Account for enhanced reports.
• Added a security option that enables administrators to prevent users in the group from reusing passwords.
• Fixed a Chrome-specific issue that didn’t allow admins to delete users in the Portal.
• Fixed an issue that caused bulk updates to users to fail if there were duplicate Glance addresses for users. We’ve identified how duplicate Glance addresses were created and will address it in an upcoming release.
• Fixed an issue that occasionally miscategorized Cobrowse sessions as Video sessions in the Activity tab.

4.5.1 Cobrowse – April 19, 2019

BETA: Enhanced Agent Video in Google Chrome

Agent Video is now available to agents using Google Chrome, no native client required. It also delivers significantly improved picture quality and framerate while consuming less bandwidth. Just like before, Agent Video works for website visitors using all major browsers with no setup or configuration required. Agents using ChromeOS may use this feature. This feature is in beta, so we appreciate feedback.

Scrollable Elements

When Cobrowsing with customers on pages with individual iframes, divs, or other scrollable elements, agents can now remotely scroll through those for the customer.

Presence Instances for 1-Click Connect

Glance now runs multiple instances of Presence to improve scalability. These are created and configured by Glance.

Other Improvements and Fixes

• Added functions to accommodate JavaScript libraries from Sarissa, hui.js, VWO and Salesforce.
• Improvements to Remote Control mode to better synchronize agent cursor position on the customer side.
• Optimizations to improve compatibility on IE 11.
• Improved masking to support canvas elements and dynamically added <option> elements.
• Added measure to prevent showTerms prompts from appearing when a session is running.
• Improvements to gesturing to avoid accidental tiny boxes and stuck cursors.
• Added support for a second agent in a session to follow the scroll position if the first agent scrolls the visitor’s page.
• Other compatibility and performance enhancements.

To upgrade your version of Cobrowse, contact Glance.

4.5 Mobile SDK – April 1, 2019

NEW FEATURE: 1-Click Connect on Mobile

Our Mobile SDK now supports Presence, which enables agents to proactively offer Glance sessions to your app users with one click, no session key required. If the customer is also present on your web site, they will see a session offer wherever they were most recently. When a customer is on the phone with your agent, the Glance SDK can send a local push notification to help bring your customer back to your app and accept a session. No more button hunting.

Improvements and Fixes

• Improved stability in Android for sessions running when a visitor switches apps.
• Improved stability for sessions running in iOS over a tunneled connection.
• Adjusted order of operations on iOS to ensure that the visitor’s keyboard is masked before a screen share starts.
• Fixed an issue in Android that could cause Agent Video to disappear.
• Added support for vector drawable cursor on Android.

4.5.1 Update – April 26, 2019

• Support for 1-Click Connect from Salesforce.
• Improved stability for Presence timing and prompts.
• iOS-specific fixes for windowing.

4.5 Website – March 28, 2019

Improvements and Fixes

• Additional security measures for user password resets.
• Added Access Logging to track when users sign in and make changes in My Account.
• Fixed an issue that allowed users in multiple groups to retrieve session details for groups that they used to be affiliated with.
• Fixed an issue that prevented guests from joining sessions hosted by a pooled account doing many sessions at once.
• Fixed a typo on the new Join Pages where there was an extra space at the bottom between a word and a comma. You probably didn’t notice it , but we did.
• Groundwork for upcoming features.

4.4 Website – February 15, 2019

New Feature: Renovated Session Join Pages

When you invite guests to your Screen Share sessions, they go to Join Pages that guide them to connect to your session. We have rebuilt these pages with several major improvements:

• View with Sharper Image Quality: When hosting your session with the Panorama client, your guests will see your screen with enhanced image quality and lower latency. For more information, see our release notes for our Webviewer.
• Easier Experience: When hosting sessions to view a guest’s screen, your guest will enter our redesigned flow to get the Glance client and join the session. We have rebuilt the experience from the ground-up for every browser to make sure that your guests connect as quickly as possible without getting stuck or confused.
• Restyled: We’ve streamlined the look of the Join Pages for simplicity and consistency with our branding.
• Rebrandable: You are able to customize your group’s Join pages with your logo, font and color. You can even set a redirect page for guests to go to when your sessions end. For more on how it works, check out this guide.

These pages will be activated for all customers in the near future. Before then, you can customize these pages and test them out by starting a session and going to these addresses:

https://www.glance.net/visitor/join/?GlanceConnect=

https://www.glance.net/join?username=<your Glance address>

Security Upgrades

• Various remediation steps from burp scans, static analysis and penetration tests.
• Set restrictions to limit Partner API operations to https only.

Improvements and Fixes

• Adjusted the Chrome Extension offer to session guests so they don’t need to download Glance again if they join another session later. The Chrome Extension only allows Glance.net to communicate with the Glance client and does not collect personal information.
• Added limits to the Default Glance Address field in the Portal’s New Account page to enforce character limits on a Group’s Default Glance Address suffix.
• Fixed an issue that allowed admins to provision a user with a space in their Glance address.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Firefox users on macOS from connecting to View Desktop sessions.
• Fixed an issue that caused various Portal functions to fail because of multiple contact records for individual users.
• Fixed an issue that prevented deleting users in the Portal if they were in multiple groups.
• Numerous tweaks and adjustments to scale better after learning from stress tests.
  Other minor adjustments and improvements.

4.4 Cobrowse – January 9, 2019

New Feature: Cobrowse Resource Management

When cobrowsing certain websites, sometimes agents couldn’t see exactly what customers see because of how the website stored stylesheets, fonts or images. We had a manual setup process to resolve this for each client’s website. Now, our cobrowse script will be able to capture, store and display those assets to agents automatically, so those manual steps won’t be needed anymore.

End of support for TLS 1.0

In order to meet current security standards, agents and visitors will no longer be able to connect to the Cobrowse service using TLS 1.0. This is a server side update which will soon impact even customers using pre-4.4.0 versions of cobrowse. Cobrowse will no longer be usable on Internet Explorer 10. For more information, see our TLS deprecation plan.

Improvements and Optimizations

• Improved handling for canvas updates to avoid overlapping images when the new images have alpha channels.
• Optimized handling for dynamic changes to inline CSS, significantly improving rendering elements like SlickGrid.
• Optimizations to make updates to agent view quicker while viewing PDF’s in cobrowse.
• Enhanced scrolling synchronization to account for page elements that load after a scroll position is sent to the agent.
• Adjusted scrolling to better accommodate Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad on the agent side, and avoid jitteriness on the agent side.
• Adjusted how inline styles are captured to handle cases where styles are used to cloak elements of a page.
• Various performance improvements for large pages with many input elements to prevent the Cobrowse script from impacting the customer experience during a session.
• Optimized Cobrowse script to better handle DOM diffs.
• Optimized handling for capturing text entered into input fields to improve performance on pages with lots of inputs.
• Other improvements for handling content in iframes.
• Various security improvements.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that would sometimes prevent PDF’s opened by the customer from appearing for the agent.
• Fixed an issue where text in a field deleted by the customer would still show to the agent.

4.3 Panorama – December 14, 2018

Glance’s online services will be dropping support for TLS 1.0 soon (more information here). This version of Panorama for Windows introduces support for TLS 1.1 and 1.2 alongside numerous other improvements and fixes, detailed below.

New Features

• Better Cobrowsing: Panorama’s embedded browser for Cobrowse sessions has been upgraded, supporting our latest improvements to deliver an exactly matched view of what customers see on your website.
• Show That Again: Panorama will now remember which monitor or app was shown during last session and automatically show that the next time you click Show.
• Future Ready: Added support for messages about Glance trials, subscriptions, billing and upgrades.

Upgrades and Improvements

• TLS 1.0 no longer supported in Panorama client.
• Improved Uninstaller to more thoroughly remove Glance files.
• Improved Panorama UI to accommodate taskbar positions other than the bottom.
• Adjusted Panorama UI so it won’t overlap on top of another activated app.
• Removed legacy plugins and menu options.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that prevented Panorama from installing for certain user types in Windows.
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes make an error pop after ending a Cobrowse session with Agent Video.
• Fixed an issue where Agent Video wouldn’t work with some webcam configurations.

4.3 Cobrowse – October 10, 2018

This release contains a new Cobrowsing feature:

• Cross Domain iframes: The ability for the cobrowse session to include the contents of iframes which are on a different domain from the parent page

This feature is an extension to Cross Domain Cobrowse – the ability to start cobrowse on one tagged domain and continue on another.

This release is opt-in: please contact your SE for details.

Improvements and Fixes

• Integration: Angular objects containing the word ‘iFrame’ now properly treated as objects/classes instead of iFrames.
• Usability: Menu does not disappear from the Agent side when Customer closes it; now handled.
• Usability: Improvements with handling refresh/reload of objects which led to content disappearing instead of reloading.
• Usability: Text header content missing due to CONTENT diff handled incorrectly for element with a child comment node. (IE 11 only)

4.3 Website – October 1, 2018

This is a minor update, mostly focused on scalability and usability. A detailed list is below, but we do not expect any customer impact.

Improvements and Fixes

• Browsers: Safari 12 is now supported.
• Security: Performed annual External Penetration Testing and implemented security improvements.
• Partner API Enhancement: Get a list of Roles. This provides the ability to get a list of available roles for employee provisioning.
• My Account: Permission setting to enable joining SDK settings.
• Screenshare webviewer: Remote control restrictions are now supported.
• Screenshare webviewer: updated UI and new Zoom button that can be moved side to side.
• Website: general usability and stability improvements.

4.2 Website, Cobrowse, GlanceGuest – June 26, 2018

NEW FEATURE: MultiView

Building further upon our foundational changes in Glance 4.0, we are proud to announce a new capability for a Glance user agent to view multiple desktop computers at the same time.

When you need to see a customer’s screen, you can now guide them to one universal URL for your company. Upon arriving, your customer will be guided to download a ~3MB client, which will then present to them a session key to give to you. From your CRM console or a specific join page, you can click Join, enter the key, and you’re Glancing!

To view another computer, simply repeat this process with your customer on each computer you need to view. You will have a view of each desktop in its own browser tab.

This comes with numerous other improvements:

• NEW Session Start page: a ground-up redesigned page that more clearly guides customers on how to download and invoke the Glance client on all major browsers on Windows and Mac.
• This page is translated in English, French, Canadian French and Portuguese.
• It can also be branded with your own font, logo and brand colors.
• NEW GlanceGuest client: a refined UI for Windows and Mac that more clearly displays what customers can control without getting in the way.
• You can also now gesture while viewing a Mac desktop.
• Improved security: only authenticated Glance user agents may join sessions started by customers.
• No client software needed: Agents can view desktops with the new Webviewer introduced in our 4.1 release, which features better picture quality and improved stability over weak connections.

The new GlanceGuest client will be rolled out initially to specific customers before becoming the standard client for all users viewing customer desktops.

Other Improvements and Fixes

GlanceGuest client

• Fixed an issue that would cause Mac users to download Glance again after joining a second session.
• GlanceGuest client can be moved around the screen from blank space at the top, in addition to the grippy dots in the top-left corner.

Glance Website

• Increased the amount of user activity you can view from the Activity tab in My Account.
• Added a message to screen share join page about data collection for GDPR compliance.
• Added a security.txt file to the website for ethical disclosures of any found security vulnerabilities in the future.
• Fixed an issue where users without a Glance address were displayed improperly when viewing them from the Activity tab in My Account.
• New Feature: You can now export a list of all users and their roles from the Portal.
• Added new error messaging for SAML requests to more easily troubleshoot configuration errors.
• Numerous database optimizations for faster reporting.
• Added diagnostic tracking to the MultiView start page.

Cobrowse

• Upgraded a compression library to avoid an issue on some web pages where the agent didn’t receive a full recreation of the customer’s page.
• Changed how the Cobrowse script captures the agent’s cursor during page loads to avoid an issue on some pages where the agent cursor would get stuck.
• Fixed an issue that prevented an agent from requesting remote control through a UI other than Glance’s built-in options when the view is in an iframe.
• Added logic for pages that don’t define a doctype for iframes to avoid rendering the view in quirks mode.
• Added support for comment nodes to avoid an issue on some pages where text would not appear in the agent view because of comment nodes on the page.
• Modified how Cobrowse retrieves stylesheets to increase the chance of using the correct path when the path changes.
• Other minor improvements and fixes.

4.1 Website, Panorama, Mobile SDK, Cobrowse – May 24, 2018

Panorama, Cobrowse, Mobile SDK, Glance for Salesforce

This release builds significantly upon the foundational changes we made in our 4.0 release and 4.1 website release. We have a new product for Mobile now available, and we have made significant improvements to other products.

NEW: Glance App Sharing for Mobile

We are proud to officially launch our mobile SDK for iOS and Android that allows screen sharing within a mobile application for live in-app support. It uses the same screen sharing technology we have refined over many years, optimized and refined for service and support scenarios for customers on mobile devices.

Mobile SDK Features

• Customer can share their screen with an agent directly from the app, no configuration or installation necessary.
• Embedded VoIP client for in-app voice calls that can be integrated with your company’s Voice system.
• Field masking to protect customer information within your app.
• Sharing locked to your mobile app only – no customer information in other apps is ever visible.
• Agent can point and gesture with their mouse to guide the customer through the application.
• One-way agent video shows the customer who they are talking to for better trust and satisfaction.
• Same Glance standard for scalability and reliability, even on older devices or weak internet connections.

Improvements and Fixes

Cobrowse

• Adjusted how Cobrowse gets element id’s from web pages to avoid errors in some page designs.
• Added toggleable function to Cobrowse that regularly checks if input values have updated to avoid text entries not appearing in Cobrowse sessions on some page designs.
• Improved Cobrowse reliability for some pages that throw security errors when polling for changes in the <style> tag.
• Added functions to Cobrowse to work around some web page designs that were preventing the agent from seeing images and resources on the page.
• Improved Cobrowse’s ability to retrieve styles on pages where styles are generated dynamically.
• Added capability in Cobrowse to mask elements in the document head

Panorama client

• Updated video sharing capabilities in Panorama to work with sharing a mobile device’s screen.
• Clarified error messages in Panorama for incorrect URL invocations
• Added the capability to Panorama to join a screen share session started by an anonymous user in a group directly from the app and from a protocol handler via a web page.
• Removed the option in Panorama to encrypt screen share sessions. All sessions are now encrypted by default.
• Added a capability to cobrowse with a customer to a screen share join page when escalating from Cobrowse to Screen Share.
• Fixed an issue in Panorama that wouldn’t let you log out and in as a different user after authenticating via SSO.

Glance for Salesforce (2.87)

• Added capability to Salesforce to join screen share sessions started by anonymous users in a group.
• Fixed an issue in Glance for Salesforce that prevented you from joining Cobrowse sessions if you did not have SSO set up.

Screen Share Webviewer

The Screen Share Webviewer features better picture quality and stability over weak internet connections. It is currently only available in a few use cases, but will be more widely deployed over time.

• Added capability to automatically reconnect to sessions if there is a drop.
• Added new icons for a more modern user experience.
• Built remote control functionality.
• Fixed an issue in the webviewer that sometimes made it impossible to toggle the zoom.

4.1 Website – April 26, 2018

New Feature: Enhanced Partner API

• You can now provision users with Roles at scale. Create a Role in the Admin Portal with the permissions you need, then define which Role your users should have when you make the API call. See our Partner API documentation for more details.
• You can now retrieve user details via the Partner API with a new ShowUsers call. It works for one or many users. See documentation for details.

Security Upgrades

• Updated our Privacy Policy for GDPR compliance
• Changed method for joining Screen Share and Cobrowse sessions from GET to POST.
• Adjusted Admin Portal to protect against cross-site scripting.

Improvements

• Standardized the user deletion tools across My Account, Admin Portal, and the Partner API so that Glance addresses are reusable.
• Laid groundwork for joining screen share sessions from a web page with agent video via the Panorama client.
• Improved accessibility for Cobrowse sessions.
• Added “Yesterday” option to reporting tools for session history.
• Changed Roles in the Admin Portal to display in alphabetical order.
• Added options in Admin Portal to choose from multiple subscriptions for users.
• Improved screen share session reliability in moments where session servers are briefly unavailable.

Other Fixes

• Fixed an issue that prevented you from starting a Show session from Salesforce in Edge.
• Fixed an issue that prevented guests from join a keyless screen share session from the generic session join page.
• Adjusted web service timeouts for more reliable reporting.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.

4.0 Website – March 13, 2018

Overview

The Glance 4.0 release includes numerous under-the-hood adjustments to our software and services which add a new capability for an individual to start a Screen Share session as an anonymous user within a certain group for an authenticated Glance user to join. This matches the model we designed for Cobrowse some time ago to fit service scenarios instead of our original model of a session host inviting guests to view content.

This structure has several key benefits:

• Makes it easier to implement Glance Screen Sharing into native applications on desktop and mobile devices for integrated visual engagement.
• Enables capability for agents to be able to join multiple screen share sessions at once.
• Allows Glance administrators to get reports on agents joining sessions.
• Better security.

Other Enhancements

• Added capability to accept POST method for authentication when joining Glance sessions.
• Wrote API’s for iOS to support the anonymous visitor call model for screen share and field masking (API’s for Android are forthcoming).
• Added capability to join a screen share session started by an anonymous visitor in a group with our new webviewer.
• Built gesturing capabilities into the new screen share webviewer.
• Improved fallback measures for when session servers are not available.
• Optimized database queries for better performance and scalability.
• Updated UI in client screen share viewer.
• Added capability to Panorama client to join a screen share session started by an anonymous visitor in a group.
• Created diagnostic tools for troubleshooting reverse screen share sessions.
• Improved error reporting for web requests made by client.
• Improved server selection logic for when sessions are started.
• Adjusted the Settings page in My Account to reflect new screen share capabilities and more clearly describe permissions.
• Added support for Glance users in multiple groups to join sessions through universal join by setting a preferred group.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented some iPhones from starting a session in certain network conditions.
• Fixed an issue in iOS that sometimes made masked information briefly un-masked to the viewer.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes made the screen share viewer only see black when joining a session from Edge.
• Fixed the Glance address suggestion tool when signing up for a new Glance account.

3.8.10 GlanceGuest – Feb 8, 2018

This release also includes fixes included in GlanceGuest 3.8.9.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that prevented agents from being able to control elevated apps like Task Manager and Registry on Windows during View sessions with customers.

• Fixed some uncommon issues that would prevent users from joining View sessions from Internet Explorer.
• Fixed a couple of uncommon issues that would make the GlanceGuest UI freeze on the desktop.
• Fixed an issue with View sessions that threw an error on 32-bit versions of Windows 7.
• Fixed an issue that prevented agents from using remote control when trying to View a customer’s screen.
• Fixed an issue that prevented agents from switching to see a different monitor when trying to View a customer’s screen.

3.8.8 Website – Jan 19, 2018

Improvements

• Rewrote the language from the ground up for guests joining View sessions started by agents to view their screen to more clearly describe to guests how to download and install Glance in the latest browsers.
• Laid hooks into join pages to support localization in the future.
• Released a new version of the GlanceGuest client for sessions to View someone’s screen. This one doesn’t require your guest to have admin privileges to run.

Fixes

• Optimized some old queries to run more efficiently on our newly upgraded database.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented VoIP calls from connecting in some call routing systems.

3.8.6 Panorama – Dec 22, 2017

Enhancements and Improvements

• Added a capability to pass the agent’s name through to the customer’s browser during a cobrowse session to use in customer UX.
• Improved ability to capture cursor images.
• Improved native viewer’s ability to work with weaker Internet connections.
• Set screen share sessions to be encrypted by default.
• Set a framerate cap for Agent Video to optimize performance on some devices.
• IPv6 compatibility.
• Under-the-hood improvements for future features.

Fixes and Adjustments

• Fixed an issue for users with remote control privileges that caused View sessions started from Salesforce to have remote control enabled, even if Glance for Salesforce was set to start with it disabled.
• Adjusted how Panorama client for Mac handles protocols so that it can start or join sessions from web pages, even when the client has not been launched.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Panorama for Mac UI to freeze when starting a session with an invalid video device name.
• Fixed an issue with iOS device sessions that could cause Panorama to send the screen at the wrong resolution.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the G menu to not open while cobrowsing via Panorama.

3.8.5 Website – Nov 29, 2017

Enhancements

• Adjusted Glance website to accommodate the ability to cobrowse with a customer to the screen share connection page when escalating from Cobrowse to Screen Share

Security Enhancements

• Added capability to store, organize and report on data in compliance with data purging requirements

Fixes/Improvements

• Fixed an issue with VoIP that in some instances allowed agents to dial back into conference bridges that were supposed to be terminated after a completed call.
• Fixed an issue that caused session servers to hang if the connection to the database server got interrupted
• Fixed an issue that caused guests joining a reverse screen share session to receive the wrong client installer when the host required information from the guest upon joining
• Fixed an issue that prevented Glance internal reporting tools from showing active sessions
• Revoked unnecessary grant operations to read only reports formerly intended for session reporting

3.8.1 Website – Sept 27, 2017

New Feature

• Customers can set the preferred version of Glance for their users to automatically download if they don’t have it already. This prevents users from getting the wrong version of Glance which may not support custom settings.

Fixes

• Resolved a discrepancy between Glance’s account system and Stripe that prevented customers from seeing charges to their card.
• Adjusted how sessions end so that guests are always taken to the correct page.
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes prevent agents from escalating a cobrowse session to screen share when customers were using Safari.
• Fixed an issue that prevented guests from getting the new Webviewer when joining screen share sessions.
• Fixed an issue that prevented users from Showing from Salesforce with single sign-on when they didn’t have Glance installed.

Security Improvements

• Locked preferences at the group level so that administrators can force users to encrypt screen share sessions.
• Removed unnecessary redirection feature for joining sessions.
• Resolved a production defect for handling excessive logins.

Back end Improvements

• Improved how Glance provisions customers with Cobrowse.
• Improved internal reports for troubleshooting.

3.8.0 – August 31, 2017

Screen Share Updates

• Deploying Infrastructure to Enhance Web Viewer
  • Enhanced picture quality with no software download for viewer.
  • Improved framerate and performance for guests on weaker connections.
  • Future client and server updates to enable these enhancements.

Cobrowse Updates

• New Feature: Agent Report a Problem
  • If agents see pages which are not showing correctly because of misconfiguration or other issues, they can report it directly from the cobrowse interface.
  • Admins can enable the agents to report a problem from their online account under Settings.
  • Problem report appears in a pop-up window that can be set aside to fill out later at the end of the call.
  • Glance collects which page it happened on, pages visited before it, browser details, time, and other info.
  • Agents can provide additional information on the problem.
  • Admins can review summaries of problems reported and reports in detail.
  • Glance can see problem reports and assist with troubleshooting.
  • See screenshot below

Website Updates

• New Feature: Additional Reporting Tools
  • Reports can be run by user roles.
  • Added option to export Activity Summary.
  • Added a report showing least active Glance users.
  • Session Activity .csv export columns have been renamed so they are easier to understand and use in excel pivot tables.
  • Reports UI has a new interface that can be expanded/collapsed to more easily view relevant information.
  • Adjusted Session Activity exports to count cobrowse sessions that escalated to screen share or agent video as one session

• Reporting improvements
  • Created reporting tools for large-scale enterprise customers to check for potential connectivity issues.
  • Added client details of participants to session records.
  • Added details to session reports to indicate when a Cobrowse session started from Glance Presence service.
• Other Improvements and Fixes
  • Glance admin shows enterprise customers accurate subscription status.
  • Improved security based on pen-testing results.
  • Adjusted how Billing Contacts are created and managed.
  • Session guests from uncommon locations will no longer prevent exporting Session Activity.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented trial users from seeing their changes to their account information.
  • Removed the option to export session activity for users with no session activity.
  • Updated styling for trial signup page.
• Other Fixes
  • Added a setting to control when a group can use Glance Presence service.

3.7.5 Client – July 31, 2017

Panorama Client Updates

• New Feature: Show an App (Beta)
  • Admins can control what users can show with Glance by whitelisting applications or desktops on the server through their online admin account. Users could then choose between showing a desktop, one application, or several applications at once.
• User Interface Improvements
  • • Adjusted the back button design in Settings so it’s more noticeable.
    • Added a minimize button to the main Panorama panel, which feels better.
    • Added a feature that allows Panorama to remember which screen the user last showed.
• Other Improvements and Fixes
  • • Added a feature to join a screen share session and begin an Agent Video session.
    • If a user attempts to launch a Panorama function (e.g. show) from Salesforce, for which they do not have permission, user will see an error message.
    • Fixed an issue where Panorama wouldn’t overwrite previous versions. (MS Windows only)
• Apple Macintosh-specific Improvements
  • Fixed a rare issue where the host user on Mac couldn’t take back remote control

AJAX Viewer Updates

• Fixed an issue with gesturing not appearing on guest user view in some scenarios.

Archived Cobrowse Release Notes

3.3.0 Release Notes

Enhancements

• Separate script for Cobrowse
• Trusted domain settings
• visitor connectivity
• SockJS client upgrade

Updates and Fixes

• API Updates
• Bug Fixes

Separate script for Cobrowse UI

The Cobrowse user interface functionality now resides in a separate Javascript file. The default user interface can be suppressed in favor of a custom UI by adding an attribute data-ui=”custom”to the cobrowse<script>tag.  A number of methods and events have been added to the Cobrowse API to support custom UI development.

Trusted domain settings

There are now two separate domain lists on the Cobrowse Settings account page:

• Cross Domain Cobrowse
• CRM and Chat Integration

Add domains to the Cross Domain Cobrowse list when a visitor navigates to those domains, and a cobrowse session with that visitor needs to be launched thereafter. Add domains to the CRM and Chat Integration list if pages on those domains should be trusted to invoke cobrowse functionality. See the Cobrowse Settings page in your account for more information.

In addition, a full hostname can now be specified as a trusted domain. Previously only a domain name could be specified.

Visitor connectivity

A visitor’s Cobrowse session will now reconnect after a temporary loss in Internet connectivity, improving session stability in cases where visitor network connection is unreliable.

SockJS upgrade

The Sockjs client used by cobrowse has been upgraded to version 1.0.3.

API changes

The following changes are documented in detail in the Customizing Cobrowse documentation.

• The reason for a session ending is now passed to the sessionend event handler.
• New methods for storing data on the cobrowse session
• GLANCE.Cobrowse.InvokeVisitor() API function
• There are a number of new methods and events to support creating a custom UI.

Bug fixes

• In the Cobrowse button customization tool, the option to hide the Cobrowse button also hides the yellow Cobrowse session border. This bug has been fixed so that only the button is hidden, and the border is still displayed. (9234)
• An additional Agent Video stream opens on the agent side when using Glance Panorama. This bug has been fixed so that there is only one stream on the agent side. (9229)
• When a visitor using Safari clicks the back button, the agent view dims and does not update to match the visitor’s view. This bug has been partially fixed. For Safari 9, the agent browser still fails to follow the visitor’s view if the visitor repeatedly uses the back button (9405)
• Cobrowse fails on websites that use Sarissa: a library which provides cross browser support for AJAX requests. This bug has been fixed so that cobrowse is now Sarissa compatible. (9486)
• In Internet Explorer 9, the cobrowse session fails to start on the first attempt after a browser restart. (http pages only) (9139)
• Scrolling does not work for websites with a fixed element at the top of the browser window (9381)
• A <base> tag with no href in the body of a document prevents the agent’s view from rendering correctly; style sheets not downloaded (9391)
• “500 Internal Server Error” when joining a session started from file:// url (9268)

3.2.0 Release Notes

Enhancements

• Separate script for Cobrowse
• Trusted domain settings
• visitor connectivity
• SockJS client upgrade

Updates and Fixes

• API Updates
• Bug Fixes

Separate script for Cobrowse UI

The Cobrowse user interface functionality now resides in a separate Javascript file. The default user interface can be suppressed in favor of a custom UI by adding an attribute data-ui=”custom”to the cobrowse<script>tag. A number of methods and events have been added to the Cobrowse API to support custom UI development.

Trusted domain settings

There are now two separate domain lists on the Cobrowse Settings account page:

• Cross Domain Cobrowse
• CRM and Chat Integration

Add domains to the Cross Domain Cobrowse list when a visitor navigates to those domains, and a Cobrowse session with that visitor needs to be launched thereafter. Add domains to the CRM and Chat Integration list if pages on those domains should be trusted to invoke Cobrowse functionality. See the Cobrowse Settings page in your account for more information.

In addition, a full hostname can now be specified as a trusted domain. Previously only a domain name could be specified.

Visitor connectivity

A visitor’s Cobrowse session will now reconnect after a temporary loss in Internet connectivity, improving session stability in cases where visitor network connection is unreliable.

SockJS upgrade

The Sockjs client used by Cobrowse has been upgraded to version 1.0.3.

API changes

The following changes are documented in detail in the Customizing Cobrowse documentation.

• The reason for a session ending is now passed to the sessionend event handler.
• New methods for storing data on the cobrowse session
• GLANCE.Cobrowse.InvokeVisitor() API function
• There are a number of new methods and events to support creating a custom UI.

Bug fixes

• In the Cobrowse button customization tool, the option to hide the Cobrowse button also hides the yellow Cobrowse session border. This bug has been fixed so that only the button is hidden, and the border is still displayed.  (9234)
• An additional Agent Video stream opens on the agent side when using Glance Panorama. This bug has been fixed so that there is only one stream on the agent side. (9229)
• When a visitor using Safari clicks the back button, the agent view dims and does not update to match the visitor’s view. This bug has been partially fixed. For Safari 9, the agent browser still fails to follow the visitor’s view if the visitor repeatedly uses the back button (9405)
• Cobrowse fails on websites that use Sarissa: a library which provides cross browser support for AJAX requests. This bug has been fixed so that cobrowse is now Sarissa compatible. (9486)
• In Internet Explorer 9, the cobrowse session fails to start on the first attempt after a browser restart. (http pages only) (9139)
• Scrolling does not work for websites with a fixed element at the top of the browser window (9381)
• A <base> tag with no href in the body of a document prevents the agent’s view from rendering correctly; style sheets not downloaded (9391)
• “500 Internal Server Error” when joining a session started from file:// url (9268)

Archived Screen Share Release Notes

2.11 Release Notes

Updates and Improvements

Glance Screen Share 2.11 for Windows newest improvement:

• Better integration with Chrome browsers.

2.10 Release Notes

Updates and Improvements

Glance Screen Share 2.10 for Windows new updates and improvements:

• Performance improvements showing webcam video (available on certain subscription plans).
• Fixed issue on Windows 8.1 regarding the Change the size of all items display setting.

2.9 Release Notes

Updates and Improvements

Glance Screen Share 2.9 new updates and improvements:

• Ability to show your webcam or other video sources with certain subscription plans.
• Capabilities for integrations with partner applications.
• Fixed issue where screen border can appear on the wrong monitor in multiple monitor configurations.

2.7 Release Notes

Glance Screen Share 2.7 for Windows has some new updates and improvements including mobile capabilities, Instant Join, and encrypted.

Glance goes mobile

Guests using mobile devices such as iPads, iPhones, and Blackberrys can now view your sessions. Virtually any device with a browser can join a Glance session!

Mobile guests join the same way desktop users do—just open up a browser and type in your Glance Address. For example: johnsmith.glance.net

Instant Join

With Instant Join your guests join your screen share sessions instantaneously and with the fewest clicks.

To choose instant join:

1. Single-click the G icon in the notifications area of your desktop and then choose Settings.
2. The Glance Settings window appears.
3. Choose the Options tab.
4. In the Have guests join: section, select the Instantly (no download) option.

For remote control or to show animations choose Glance’s high performance plug-in option instead.

Encrypted sessions

To encrypt your sessions for added security:

1. Single-click the G icon in your notifications area of your desktop.
2. Click Settings
3. Choose the Options tab.
4. In the During my sessions: section, check the Encrypt my sessions box.

Additional updates and improvements

Glance 2.7 includes additional updates and improvements:

• Updated UI settings.
• Improved messaging regarding your account status when starting Glance sessions.
• Improved layout and clarity of messages that guests see when joining your sessions.
• Better Join experience for guests with JavaScript disabled.
• Session info window can now accommodate longer Glance addresses.