With the release of v4.7.1, we have fixed several bugs.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Apple’s supplied caption styles were not being rendered as expected.
• Fixed an issue where the player was not able to play local MP4 files when the internet connection is lost.
• Fixed an issue where the audio track selection wasn’t working as expected.

With the release of v4.7.1, we have upgraded ExoPlayer as part of our updates and fixed several bugs.

New Features

• Upgraded ExoPlayer to 2.18.1
• Optimized ProGuard rules
• Added PauseReason on PauseEvent

Bug Fixes

• Preventing debuggable webView visibility in web inspector.
• Fixed crashes from Nullable mediaurl on ExoMediaPlayerController.
• Fixed crashes from IMA ads when muteAd API is called.
• Fixed LifecycleOwner from JWPlayerSupportFragment to prevent plays on background after removed.
• Fixed an issue with IMA DAI TagParameters not being sent.

New Feature

Google SEO Optimization can now be set up on the JWP Dashboard:

• This new player configuration automatically populates the necessary structured data used by Google search crawlers to index videos in Google Search with Key Moments.
• This player configuration can be controlled in the JWP Dashboard or directly in the Player Configuration.
• For customers who want to implement Key Moments within their own VideoObject structured data, our Google SEO Optimization support page has guidance on how to fill out the necessary parameters to deep link to specific timestamps with JWP.

Bug Fix

Fixed an issue where Starter accounts were unable to update their player settings.

New Features

• Custom Reports now has a last run time displayed near the Run Report button.
• Custom Reports now has a clickable link for Media in the results table. This link navigates users to the Media Details page when Group By - Content - Media is selected.
• Custom Reports Preview button was relabeled Run Report.
• Custom Reports now has a gear icon in the results table that allows columns to be hidden so full values are viewable.
  
  Read additional information on creating custom reports.

With the release of v8.26.1 we will slowly be introducing a new UI for Chapters! Hope you all enjoy!

New Features

• We have revamped our old Chapter UI to a more modern look.
• Updated our Shaka dependency to v4.2.1.
• Updated our HLS.js dependency to v.1.2.1.
• Added better error handling for Buffer Append errors in HLS.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Chromecast would not update the playback URL when the web player did.
• Fixed an issue where the pause request would be ignored while the "player is buffering".
• Fixed an issue where the volume did not persist after being changed and the page would be refreshed.

Bug Fix

In the Filter By Tag module for Manual and Dynamic playlists, a user can make use of a scroll bar to manage a large list of tags.

JW Player has just released v4.7.0 for the iOS SDK. The notes for this release appear below. If you have any questions about a release note, please contact your JWP representative.

New Releases

• Support for ARM64 simulators. Note that the Google Cast SDK and Googel IMA SDK are not supported when running in the ARM64 simulator environment.
• JWPlayerViewController has a new property: handleCastingInternally. If set to false, a ChromeCast session will not be initialized by the SDK, instead the session must be initialized by the developer. By default, this value is true.
• The behavior of playback on external devices can be configured or disabled using JWExternalPlaybackSettings. This object can be created using JWExternalPlaybackSettingsBuilder, and set in JWPlayerConfigurationBuilder.
• Caption rendering can be disabled by setting JWPlayer.suppressesCaptionRendering to true. Caption events are still reported even if rendering is suppressed. By default this value is false.
• When using JWPlayerViewController, additional controls may be hidden: full screen button, languages button (audio and captions), and the settings button.
• When using Google IMA, the ad impression event populates the following new information in JWAdImpression: adId, creativeId, and creativeAdId.

New Releases 

• Persists user caption selections between playlist items based on the caption label.
• When casting a multi-source MP4 video, we now cast the source marked as default if one is available.
• Added new API to enable and disable Caption rendering.
• Added new API to listen to new CaptionText cues.

Bug Fix

• Prevent a possible null pointer in our IMA implementation. 

In v4.6.2, we've exposed several events and addressed various bugs.

New Releases

• An error event is fired when the internet connection is lost.
• A new metadata array is exposed in the adMeta event.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issues causing the app to quit unexpectedly.
• Fixed an issue where system captions styling was being ignored.
• Fixed an issue where the player was getting stuck after playing IMA ads in autostart mode.
• Fixed an issue where video content was playing from the beginning when a Chromecast device recovered the connection.
• Fixed an issue where captions were not displayed while seeking in the middle of a caption cue range.
• Fixed an issue where audio stream continued playing after calling the stop() API.
• Fixed an issue where the startOnSeek ad rule was being ignored for VAST ads.
• Fixed an issue where scrubbing past a midroll ad the player wasn’t triggering the ad playback in Google IMA DAI.
• Fixed an issue where the fullscreen button was not reflecting the current fullscreen mode state in the ads UI.
• Fixed an issue where the playlist/recommendations UI was displaying the PiP button despite PiP being disabled.

New Releases 

• Background audio notification improved on Samsung devices
• onAdPlay andonAdPause now have a playReason and pauseReason.

Bug Fixes

• Seeking in fractional seconds
• Infinite buffer after a casting session ends
• Crash when using AndroidX FragmentContainer with the JWPlayerFragments
• PlaylistItemCallback functionality when used with a PlaylistItem with ads
• API stop() method would result in an unresponsive player
• PiP events not firing
• Sideloaded captions were not selectable when Casting
• Captions accessibility settings not applying
• The receiver would not remain paused when Casting was started while paused on the sender.