Fix

• Fixed an issue that caused Ad markers to disappear on the googima ad client. 

General Improvements

• Fixed an issue between audio tracks with the same language. We have added an additional check for role to identify unique audio tracks. 
• We have improved our handling of of text tracks on Dash streams. All text tracks will be selectable now even if they are duplicates. 

Updates

• Updated our Shaka dependency to v3.3.2 
• Updated our HLS.js dependency to v1.1.5 

Fixed

• Fixed an issue with the recommendation shelf. 
• Fixed an issue with display cues when switching between text tracks that are the same language. 
• Fixed an issue that caused Ad blockers preventing player events from firing. 
• Fixed an issue with some DASH streams not playing on Safari 15.0 and higher. 
• Fixed an issue where ad markers where not appearing with the googima client. 
• Fixed an issue with the mute button not working correctly while casting. 

New Features

• New Seekbar with chapter and ad markers. 
• Added support for selecting captions based on the caption language. 
• Developers can now use our ViewModels to power their Custom UI. 
• Added support for Custom Styling.
  

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where onAdBreakEndEvent & onAdBreakStartEvent triggered twice.
• Fixes a bug where the Normal (1x) playback rate would not appear in the UI if there was no 1.0 rate defined in the PlayerConfig. 
  

Improvements

• Updated ExoPlayer to 2.16.1. 

New Features

• Studio DRM with JW Platform launch!
• Initial release

General Improvements

• Removed unused query parameters from being appended to shared URLs. 
• Removed the "Next Up" video playlist messaging on LIVE/DVR streams while casting. 

Updates

• For player breakpoints where the submenu can cover the entire player - video will now pause when the submenu is active and resume when closed. 
• Added 50% font opacity option. 
• Added support for larger values in liveSyncDuration. (Warning added for values over 45 seconds) 
• Added support for labels for captions on Dash streams. 

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where if a player is set with the starttime property and startOnSeek: "none" the player would not skip the preroll. 
• Fixed an issue where the playlistItem event triggered three times on playlist item change during live streams. 
• Fixed an issue with orientation not locking during fullscreen playback on Android Chrome. 
• Fixed an issue with duplicate/ghost items appearing in the captions submenu when casting on Chromecast. 
• Fixed an issue where the getDuration value would be infinity for all VOD streams in the playlist if the first item on the playlist was a LIVE stream during casting. 
• Fixed an issue with the recommendation playlist shelf widget appearing empty if thumbnails failed to load properly. 
• Fixed an issue where the duration property did not appear for players being generated with the ID+json tag for SEO/search on Android Chrome. 
• Fixed an issue with VASTXML config not working properly with the VAST ad client.
• Fixed an issue where the consent string did not pass properly in Freewheel. 
• Fixed an issue with thumbnails displayed at the end of the playlist item for the playlist/recommendation overlay. 
• Fixed an issue when clicking on a non linear ad didn't send a proper network request to the URL in NoNLinearClickTracking tag in the VAST XML. 

General Improvements

Updated the JWP Management API for the MRSS Imports POST action (Create an import) so that all of the "ingest_metadata" settings will be defaulted to true if it is undefined:

• In the past, these were defaulted to false
• Now, these need to explicitly be set to false if desired

See Create an import for more information.

Updated the User Agent for resource retrieval on MRSS Imports to display JWP rather than a generic python library

General Improvement

Added YahooSSP as a Player Bidding Ad Partner

Fix

• Fixes issue that prevented uploading Bitcode enabled .ipa to App Store Connect 

General Improvement

Custom Parameters can now be imported directly with videos imported by MRSS Feeds to make importing this metadata easier:

• Custom Parameters can be specified to be added to all videos imported via a specific MRSS feed. When desired, these can use the default custom parameters set at the property level.
• Custom Parameters can also be parsed from custom name-spaced fields on the MRSS feed to import custom parameters that differ for each video.

See Set up a new import feed for more information.

Features and Improvements

• Added openAdClickthrough() API to support using custom ad controls.
• Added transitionToFullScreen() and dismissFullScreen() APIs to support programmatically entering and exiting fullscreen mode.
• Exposed skip offset through the meta ad event.

Fixed Issues

• Fixed certain side-loaded caption options not displaying.
• Fixed play button not displaying when player is loaded from complete state.
• Fixed crash when setting an out-of-bounds captions/audio index.
• Fixed certain caption options being omitted when playing HLS content.
• Fixed content not replaying when replay is set to true.
• Fixed VMAPs not working when using the JWAdsAdvertisingConfigBuilder API.
• Fixed crash when JWPlayerViewController deinitializes.
• Fixed crash when accessing certain JWPlayerViewController properties before the “onReady” event.
• Fixed skip button not working on second ad of an ad pod.
• Fixed skipping of second ad in an ad pod.