Updates

Core Player

• Added the ability to disable keyboard shortcuts via a toggle in the right click menu.

Advertising

• In VAST and Google IMA, added support for IAB GDPR Transparency and Consent Framework v2. This framework introduces major enhancements and efficiency improvements, including mobile CMP support. It also expands the consent string to include ‘transparency’ features, including publisher controls and additional flexibility for vendors.

Fixes

Core Player

• Fixed a bug causing player touch events to register on the element beneath the player in Safari iOS.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the player from being in focus when playback was initiated via the play button.

Advertising

• Improved the floating player to ensure that the “X” to dismiss is present during ad playback without needing to hover or click.

Fixes

Core Player

• Fixed an issue where a dismissed floating player floats again when scrolling.

Advertising

• Fixed a bug in VAST that added a skip button to ads that were not configured to be skippable.

Service release, no new features.

Service release, no new features.

Updates 

Core Player

• Improved accessibility on iOS in Safari by inheriting all captions styles set on the device.
• Added automated translation support for Greek.
• Added internationalization support for all fields in the keyboard shortcuts menu released in JW8.8.0, as well as automated translations for all 24 supported languages.
• Improved float on scroll behavior on mobile so that the player sticks to the top when it reaches that position, rather than first scrolling out of view and popping back into place. With this change, the float on scroll feature is truly “float on scroll” on desktop, but more accurately behaves as “sticky” on mobile.

Advertising

• In VAST, added support for the [DEVICEUA] tracking pixel or __device-ua__ in the ad tag, which sends the user’s device agent. Also added the ad tag support in Google IMA.
• In VAST, added support for the [PAGEURL] tracking pixel, which sends the page where the ad is intended to play.
• In VAST, added support for the [REGULATIONS] and [GDPRCONSENT] macros, which tell the ad server if GDPR regulations are being used and if consent has been granted, respectively.
• In VAST, added support for the [ADSERVINGID] macro, which adds the AdServingId value to the tracking pixel, which is parsed from the <AdServingId> node.

Fixes 

Core Player

• Fixed a bug causing a black screen during playback of an audio-only mp4, rather than the poster image persisting in the player.

Advertising

• Fixed a bug in DAI where the player buffered infinitely after resuming playback from a mid-roll.
• Fixed an issue in Google IMA where custom macros added in the custParams block were not being replaced by the correct values.
• Fixed a bug in VAST causing the skip button to show on nonskippable VPAID ads when vpaidcontrols: true.
• Fixed a bug causing VPAID creatives to be cancelled after 15 seconds due to stall detection.

Service release, no new features.

Updates 

Core Player

• Added support for updating aspectratio, width, height, and stretching configuration options via the setConfig() API.

Advertising

• Added support for Ad Placement Type (placement). The options are: article, banner, feed, floating, interstitial, slider, or instream. By default, the player will set instream players to instream and outstream players to article. These defaults can be overridden to reflect the appropriate placement type.
• Added the ability to autopause ads based on player viewability by setting ”pauseAds”:true in the autoPause block.
• Added support for displaying VAST icons contained in ad tags.
• Added support for calling jwplayer().skipAd() with VPAID ads.

Fixes 

Core Player

• Fixed open vulnerabilities to XSS attacks.
• Fixed a bug preventing thumbnails from displaying in the playlist overlay on IE11.

Advertising

• Fixed an issue causing the wrapped ad tag to not be included in all ad events.

Fixes

Core Player

• Fixed an intermittent issue causing captions to no longer render after seeking.

Fixes 

Core Player

• Removed three lines of logs appearing in the console for every HLS embed.
• Fixed an issue where resuming a stopped live HLS stream did not display enabled captions automatically in browsers other than Safari.
• Fixed an issue where resuming a stopped live HLS stream with WebVTT captions showed a duplicate track in the captions menu.
• Fixed misalignment of WebVTT captions in IE11 and Edge.
• Fixed an issue causing the playlist overlay to flicker and the countdown to be removed when resizing the player between breakpoints.

Advertising

• Exposed additional metadata about ad creatives in the adImpression and adError events
• In Google IMA, added duration to the adImpression event
• Fixed an issue where a Javascript exception to be thrown when all ad tags in an ad pod 404.
• Fixed an issue where a media time event would fire during an ad break.
• Improved URL detection for players embedded in Google AMP pages to filter out invalid urls.
• Fixed an issue where an ad error caused by an invalid root domain would result in an uncaught exception.

Service release, no new features.