Fixes 

• Fixed an issue causing incorrect emsg messageData to be emitted.
• Fixed an issue causing some mid-roll emsg cues to be missed.
• Fixed a bug where the url to a side-loaded thumbnails track was displayed instead of subtitles when casting.
• Fixed an issue where an audio-only HLS stream with alternate tracks never buffers or plays.
• Fixed overlapping right-to-left text displayed over ads in the Google IMA client.
• Fixed a bug causing captions to not be cleared when going to an ad break on iOS Safari.
• Fixed a bug on IE11 where the volume slider could not be used.
• Fixed an issue where the player errors or gets stuck in an idle state when loading the last playlist item if it is rejected by the async playlist API callback.
• Fixed a bug where some captions were displayed incompletely on browsers were HLS streams are not rendered natively. 

New Features

• New VUDRM cluster based in Oregon has been released and is serving traffic
• NGINX VOD Module support added to CPIX API Harmonic support added to CPIX API
• GEO-based restrictions can now be set in VUDRM token policy

Updates

• Added support for triggering the on('meta') and on('metadataCueParsed') methods based on in-band emsg timed metadata.

Updates 

• To the VAST ad client, added support for the jwpseg macro from within VAST tags contained within a wrapper.
• Improved playback resilience and error handling with some bad VPAID ad creatives.

Fixes 

• Fixed an issue in the VAST client preventing some ad creatives from properly timing out.
• Fixed a bug causing captions in some DASH streams to abruptly stop displaying.
• Fixed an issue in the VAST client where the player would not request additional ads after one ad in a pod timed out.

Service release, no new features.

Updates

• Improved compatibility with the AMP framework and quality assurance capabilities of our amp-jwplayer component.
• To supplement documentation we maintain on amp.dev, we created JWP developer documentation on embedding an AMP player and working with AMP analytics.
• Added a configuration option, playlistIndex, which enables a playlist to be loaded and start playback from any item within it, not just the first. The default of this option is a 0 index.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug preventing captions from working on some live streams.
• Fixed a problem with Chromecast where captions were not casting.
• Fixed an issue where the wrong captions track appeared to be selected if both in-manifest and side-loaded captions tracks are present.

Known Issue

• The video-seconds-played trigger listed for configuration in amp-video-analytics does not work properly in this release. This will be fixed in a future release. All other triggers listed should operate as expected.

Updates 

Core Player

• Added a new property, cueType, to the addCues event, which adds a custom CSS class that can be used for additional cue styling in the format of .jw-cue-type-{cueType}.
• Added a new CSS class .jw-cue-type-ads to ad cues so they can be styled separately from other cues, such as chapter markers.
• Added support for 608 caption track names defined in the parent manifest via #EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=CLOSED-CAPTIONS tags.

Advertising

• To the VAST client, added support for the VAST 4.1 viewableImpression node, which adds a tracking pixel to the page when the adImpression event fires based on whether the ad is viewable at that time.

Fixes

Core Player

• Fixed a bug preventing captions from being cast to Chromecast.
• Fixing an issue occurring in some environments where resuming a stopped live stream turns captions off.
• Fixed an issue causing some HLS streams to stall when upshifting quality in Edge.
• Fixed a bug where captions no longer displayed after ads in Safari.

New Features

• New VUDRM cluster based in Bahrain has been released and is serving traffic
• New endpoint for VUDRM CPIX API has been released to work with USP version 1.9.5
• Infrastructure update to ensure the latest security patches are running on all VUDRM clusters.

Service release, no new features.

Service release, no new features.