General Improvement

The All Content Page has been deprecated and will no longer be accessible. Custom Reports allows users to retrieve and export all the same data with more flexibility and capabilities. To create a matching custom report, utilize the following parameters:

• Metrics: Embeds, Plays, Completes, Complete Rate, Time Watched
• Group By: Media
• Timeframe: Update as desired

General Improvements

VMAP with Player Bidding is now supported:

• Player Bidding can now be enabled and configured when selecting the VMAP option under "Configure Ad Breaks"

The "Advertising Limit" and "Streaming Limit" Email Notifications have been deprecated and will no longer be accessible:

• Please contact your Account Manager for any questions
• Note that the "Import Errors" email notification is still available if enabled

General Improvement

Dynamic Playlists created through the Management APIv2 has a new sort option for sorting by duration:

• In the coming months, this will also be added as a new sort option for Dynamic Playlists created in the Dashboard.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the “View as Raw XML” link throwing an error for some MRSS feeds on the MRSS Import Page
• Fixed an issue where “Copy to Property” from the Media Library Page would result in reduced resolution thumbnails instead of the highest quality thumbnail

Update

• Added support for the ad tag macro __addtl_consent__ for use with CMPs that support Google’s Additional Consent Mode. 

General Improvements

• In Firefox, the PiP button should no longer cause problems clicking the next-up overlay. 

Fixes

• Fixed a bug with DASH playback that caused the audio of the first source to continue playing when switching to another DASH source via the API. 
• Fixed a bug in the Google IMA ad client where ad tag macros where not replaced inside of a VMAP. 
• Fixed an issue with the amp-jwplayer component where the __gdpr__ and __gdpr_consent__ ad tag macros were not being replaced. 
• Fixed an issue in the amp-jwplayer component that caused pre-roll ads to fail when using data-config-json. 

General Improvement

MRSS Imports page has been updated to make it easier for customers to setup and track status on their MRSS feeds to import new videos into the JWP platform:

• Improvements were made to the page layout and design
• Improvements were made to more frequently refresh the status of imported media

See Set up a new import feed for more information.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where uploading an alternate audio track that contained surround-sound content and had a non-ASCII character in its display name resulted in HTTP 500 delivery errors.
• Fixed an issue with MRSS Imports API PATCH calls where a PATCH call overwrote fields that were not included in the request.

Fix

• Fixed an issue where VMAPs with embedded VASTAdData tags were not displaying advertisements. 

Updates

• Added support for Google Search's video key moments seekToAction markup. Players with generateSEOMetadata set to true will now have the required fields to enable Google to not only index videos, but also generate chapter markers with AI and surface those in enhanced search results. JWP is working in partnership with Google to improve organic search traffic for all of our publishers. 
• Added support to automatically seek to and start a video on a specific time with the jw_start url query parameter. The parameter takes a number, in seconds. For example https://www.jwplayer.com/?jw_start=20 will start the 1 minute 3 second video on our home page at the 20 second mark. 
• Updated the HLS.js dependency to v1.0.12. 
• Extended playlist.onXhrOpen configuration to support DASH streams. 
• Improved image size decisioning for JW Platform streams. When the player loads an image, whether it's a poster image or thumbnail, it now uses the closest available image size rather than one fixed size across the board. This will improve data transfer as well as user experience. 

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the Freewheel ad client where custom key value pairs weren't being sent in the ad request as expected. 
• Fixed an issue where the embed url defined in the SEO video object was invalid for JW Platform streams. 
• Fixed a bug causing the HTML page URL to be requested multiple times when casting. 
• Fixed a bug occurring during live streams where the About This Video modal cannot be closed and a console error is thrown. 
• Fixed an issue where embedded TTML captions in MPEG-DASH live streams were not displaying as expected. 
• Fixed an issue where some DASH audio tracks were labeled with only a two-letter ISO code instead of the full English name. 

New Features and Updates

• Interfaces have been localized for international languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
• All strings within the interface can be localized by overriding the string keys within an app’s string tables. These keys are documented in our online documentation. 

Improvements

• Google IMA is updated to reflect the user’s desired language, or the language specified in the IMASdkSettings config object. 

Fixes

• The onSizeChanged event was firing event when the size of the player did not change. This event has been fixed to only fire when the size changes.
• Fixed a bug where the user could skip Google IMA mid rolls by pausing the player after seeking past the midroll.
• Fixed bug introduced in 4.2.0 where certain caption tracks were not selectable.
• Fixed bug where side-loaded WebVTT files were not parsing correctly if the file contained control characters.
• Fixed bug where first frame of a video was being displayed before a pre-roll. 

Features and Improvements 

• Added localization support for languages: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
• Added localization support by IMA with IMASdkSettings configuration
• Added support for in-manifest WebVTT captions when casting to Chromecast
• IMA midroll and postroll ads are now pre-requested to improve the transition between content and ads

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where empty IMA ads caused the player to become unresponsive
• Fixed a DAI bug on Android API 5.0 where the ads do not play
• Fixed a VAST bug where after skipped midroll the progress bar goes to the end of the stream.
• Fixed a bug where IMA midrolls would not be requested as expected during video playback

General Improvement

•  To the VAST ad client, added support to automatically make ad breaks with the same offset into an ad pod when loaded in a VMAP ad tag. 

Fixes 

• To the VAST ad client, added support to automatically make ad breaks with the same offset into an ad pod when loaded in a VMAP ad tag. 
• Fixed a bug preventing auto-advancement to the next playlist item when casting.
• Fixed an issue causing some captions track names to display as a two-letter ISO code instead of the full word. 
• Fixed a bug preventing the settings menu from working after using the setConfig Javascript method. 
• Fixed a bug preventing the fullscreen button from displaying during IMA ad playback on some desktop browsers.