The Vocera Messaging Platform (VMP) provides an enterprise messaging solution designed to address the unique communication challenges of healthcare. Users can leverage the communication capabilities of VMP from the Vocera Collaboration Suite, Vocera Secure Texting, the VMP Web Console, and the Vocera badge and Smartbadge.

For detailed documentation on Vocera Messaging Platform, refer to Vocera Messaging Platform.

For the previous versions of the release notes, refer to the Vocera Release Notes Library.

Before you can install this release of the Vocera Messaging Platform, you must install version 5.6 or later of the Vocera Voice Server and version 5.0.6 or later of the Vocera Smartbadge firmware. See the Known Issues section of these release notes for more details.

This release includes the following new features and functionality.

• Deletion and importing of multiple voice groups now more efficient

  If you need to delete or import a large number of Vocera Voice Server groups, the operation now happens more efficiently.

• Option for automatically logging out inactive personal devices

  A new VMP Administrator option, "Time of inactivity for auto logout of personal smartphone client", enables you to automatically log out personal VCS devices after a specified period of time. The default value is 2 weeks.

• The App Key ID can now be updated

  If the APNS token is regenerated, it is now automatically downloaded and installed by VMP from the Operational Tools portal.

• Support for MS Graph authentication

  MS Graph may reuse email IDs, which was previously causing issues with alert initiation via email integration. VMP is now able to properly track already handled emails and now uses case-sensitive IDs.

• Additional performance improvements

  • The thread pool has been increased for status notification updates.
  • The getoptions query has been optimized.

The following list contains fixes and improvements made to version 5.10.0 of Vocera Messaging Platform.

• CMSG-14697 Messages sent from the Vocera Voice Server Staff Assignment and Web Console are now sent as text messages and are not enunciated.

• CMSG-14773 In the VMP Web Console, if you send a mass alert with a large message body and many multiple-choice responses, the scroll bar no longer disappears if the browser size has been reduced.

• CMSG-14819 When VMP receives a BadDeviceToken error from APNS, it correctly resets the token in the VMP database when a new token is received from the VCS client.

• CMSG-14837 If a VCS user logs out while Tomcat is not working on the Vocera Voice Server, the logout is now processed properly.

• CMSG-14845 When VMP cannot identify a message sent from the Vocera Voice Server, the log is now updated with a warning instead of an error and administrators are not sent an email message.

• CMSG-14975 If an escalation distribution list has a branch that includes a distribution list and this distribution list has texting disabled, members of the distribution list who have forwarding enabled do not have messages sent to their forwardees.

This section lists important feature changes.

• The "Time of inactivity for auto logout of smartphone client" option has been changed to "Time of inactivity for auto logout of shared smartphone client". This enables separate auto logouts for personal and shared Vocera Collaboration Suite devices.

This section lists known issues and limitations in this release of the Vocera Messaging Platform.

• CRVC-26275 When you are using VMP 5.10 with Vocera Voice Server version 5.8, the sender name and timestamp of Vocera Voice Server user console messages cannot be displayed in B-series badges.