August 17, 2023

Firmware Release 2.2(1) delivers the following new features and enhancements:

Quick access to speed dials

You can now call out the speed dial list with a finger swap down from the top of the phone screen. All your speed dials can be found on both the pull-down list and the Speed dials tab. The Shortcuts tab no longer contains BLF shortcuts with speed dial.

On a phone with multiple lines configured, you can choose a specific line to call a speed dial number. If you don't specify a line, the primary line will be used to make the call.

For more information about this feature, see Use speed dials on your phone.

Active call bar

If you move away to other screen during an active call or meeting, you can see an active call bar at the bottom of the phone screen. The active call bar appears as a green bar on the call hold screen, different from showing the active call duration on other screens. Tapping or swapping up on the bar brings you back to the active session.

The active call bar isn't available on the conference participant list.

For more information about this feature, see Return to the active call or meeting.

No password warning

The phone now displays the No password provided warning on both the phone screen (Settings > Issues and diagnostics) and the phone web page when there is no password set for the user and administrator.

To enable this feature from the phone administration web page, use the Display Password Warnings parameter under System Configuration section from Voice > System.

For more information about the feature, go to the following links:

• Check phone issues and diagnostics
• Access control parameters

Factory reset with SIP-Notify

You can initiate a factory reset of a phone when the phone is deleted from server. Once deleted by the administrator, phone will receive SIP-NOTIFY message with event:factory-reset and performs factory-reset accordingly.

May 11, 2023

Firmware Release 2.1(1) delivers the following new features and enhancements:

Meeting features

In this release, we deliver the following features and enhancements:

• Your phone supports joining meetings that require a meeting PIN. When you join a PIN-protected meeting on the phone, you're prompted to choose your role and enter the PIN code.
• The participant list shows the participants with their roles and the video and audio status. The invitees that aren't present are listed in the lower part of the list.
• The audio mute status is now synchronized across multiple devices, including the phone, connected headset, and Webex App. This ensures that the user's audio status remains consistent across all devices when they join a meeting with the phone.
• In addition to using the camera shutter, you can also use the on-screen Stop video and Start video buttons to turn your video stream on and off during a meeting.
• The meeting recording indicator displays on the header of the meeting screen. When the meeting is being recorded, you can see . means that the recording is paused.

These features don't require additional administration configuration. For more information about how to use these features, go to the following links:

• Join a scheduled Webex meeting with your phone
• Turn your video stream on or off during a meeting
• Mute or unmute yourself during a meeting

Participants list on conference calls

The Participant button on the conference screen allows the host and the participants to access the participant list. The host who has added people to the call can remove their invitees from the call. The participants can only view who else is on the call.

The Participants button is initially available to the host only. Administrators can configure the programmable softkeys to enable participants to view the attendee list.

To enable participant phones to get the participant list, use the Callinfo Subscribe parameter under Voice > Ext(n) on the phone administration page.

To configure the Participants button, configure the Connected Key List and Hold Key List fields in Programmable Softkeys under Voice > Phone.

For more details about this feature, go to the following links:

• Use your phone for an ad-hoc conference
• Configure conference settings for phones

New supported languages and soft keyboard for multiple languages

Your phone now supports locales in Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Traditional Chinese. The latest locale installer is available on the Cisco Software Download site.

Multilingual soft keyboards are available on the phone when the system language is set to a language other than English. Users can easily switch between the English keyboard and the system-language keyboard.

The soft keyboard doesn't currently support Korean, Japanese, and Traditional Chinese. When you set your phone to any of these languages, only the English keyboard is available.

For more information about the soft keyboard, see Soft keyboard on your phone.

March 20, 2023

Hot Desking

The Hot Desking feature is generally available with Firmware Release 2.0(1) since March 20.

Hot Desking allows your organization to make the best use of office space. People using shared workspaces can sign in and book a shared phone for their workday.

For more information about Hot Desking, go to the following links:

• Configure Hot Desking
• Use a shared desk phone (Hot Desking)

January 17, 2023

Firmware Release 2.0(1) delivers the following new feature:

FIPS mode enabling

You can now enable phone with Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance. This validation is required after OpenSSL Cisco OpenSSL 7.2.440 is ported to SL 2.0 as secured communication system through cryptography is important.

To enable this feature from the phone administration web page, use the FIPS mode parameter under the Security Settings section from Voice > System.

October 13, 2022

Cisco Video Phone 8875 is launched with Firmware Release 1.0(1).

For the phone specifications, see Cisco Video Phone 8875 Data Sheet.