temporarily. The Jitsi team emphasizes that "they are never stored to any persistent storage and only live in memory while being routed to other participants in the meeting", and that this measure is necessary due to current limitations of the underlying WebRTC technology. No need of new client software installation. Jitsi Videobridge Jitsi Videobridge is a video conferencing solution supporting WebRTC that allows multiuser video communication. It is a Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) and only forwards the selected streams to other participating users in the video conference call, therefore, CPU horsepower is not that critical for performance. Jitsi Desktop Jitsi spawned some sister projects such as the Jitsi Videobridge Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) and Jitsi Meet, a video and web conferencing application. To prevent misunderstanding due to the increasing popularity of these other Jitsi projects, the Jitsi client application was rebranded as Jitsi Desktop. Originally the project was mostly used as an experimentation tool because of its support for IPv6. Through the years, as the project gathered members, it also added support for protocols other than SIP. Jitsi Desktop is no longer actively maintained by the Jitsi team, but it is still maintained by the community. Features Jitsi supports multiple operating systems, including Windows as well as Unix-like systems such as Linux, Mac OS X and BSD. The mobile apps can be downloaded on the App Store for iOS and on the Google Play Store and F-droid platform for Android. It also includes: Attended and blind call transfer Auto away Auto re-connect Auto answer and auto forward Call recording Call encryption with SRTP and ZRTP Conference calls Direct media connection establishment with the ICE protocol Desktop Streaming Encrypted password storage using a master password File transfer for XMPP, AIM/ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, YIM Instant messaging encryption with OTR (end-to-end encrypted) IPv6 support for SIP and XMPP Media relaying with the TURN protocol Message waiting indication (RFC 3842) Voice and video calls for SIP and XMPP using H.264 and H.263 or VP8 for video encoding Wideband audio with SILK, G.722, Speex and Opus DTMF support with SIP INFO, RTP (RFC 2833/RFC 4733), In-band Zeroconf via mDNS/DNS-SD (à la Apple's Bonjour) DNSSEC Group video support (Jitsi Videobridge) Packet loss concealment with the SILK and Opus codecs Reception In an April 2020 test of video conferencing services, US product review website Wirecutter recommended Jitsi Meet as one of its two picks (after the