JW Player has just released v8.25.8 for the web player. The notes for this release appear below. If you have any questions about a release note, please contact your JW Player representative.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that wouldn't allow you to close the stats panel overlay.
• Fixed an issue that caused embedded HLS caption to show the wrong attribute value.
• Fixed an issue that caused poster images to be missing from HLS audio only streams with autostart enabled.
• Fixed an issue that caused the player to pause unexpectedly when it was in view and unmuted when autoPause.viewability is set to true.

New Releases

Custom Report details page has been updated with the following new features for the results table:

• Added a Download CSV option which matches the table results
• Enhanced table to be responsive based on the browser size

Usage page now includes Bytes Delivered for Broadcast Live channels in Current Usage section.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in Custom Reports with the display of certain metrics based on the rounding logic.
• Fixed an issue in Custom Reports where the graph display didn’t match the table in some scenarios.
• Fixed an issue in Custom Reports where certain versions of web browsers would lead to a “Something wrong” error page.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in Custom Reports with the Download CSV option for reports using the OTT Apps data source so that the CSV matches all of the chosen filters.
• Fixed an issue in Custom Reports where filters could be saved but then led to an error while running the report.

JW Player has just released v4.6.0 for the iOS SDK. The notes for this release appear below. If you have any questions about a release note, please contact your JW Player representative.

New Features

• Added the JWPlayerViewController.setVisibility(_ isVisible: Bool, controls: [JWControlType]) API to allow developers to hide or replace the UI elements in the JWPlayerViewController.
• Added the JWAdSettingsBuilder.allowsBackgroundPlayback API to allows developers to set whether background playback is allowed for JWPlayer Ads (VAST).
• Added the JWAdSettingsBuilder.allowsBackgroundPlayback API to allows developers to set whether background playback is allowed for JWPlayer Ads (VAST).
• The Live UI is now improved for DVR streams.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where a SwiftUI.List with multiple players had low performance when scrolling.
• Fixed an issue where a pre-roll IMA ads failed silently for playlist items with a title.
• Fixed an issue where tapping the Live button was not seeking to the live edge.
• Fixed an issue where the dismiss fullscreen button was misaligned.

New Release

The Custom Reports page has been updated to make it easier for customers to view their video analytics:

• Improved user experience: Faster load times and easier filtering
• Enhanced report navigation: Report previews in the list view for quick viewing
• Easier access to field descriptions: Field descriptions displayed right in-app
• Full screen visualizations: Maximize graph view as needed

See Generate Custom Reports for more information.

New Releases

To increase support for high-resolution 1080p videos to be shared with YouTube and Facebook, the Social Push media size limit has been increased from 1GB to 3GB.

Several improvements were made to the googledfp feed type, such as the following:

• Including all media metadata regardless of geoblocking rules
• Adding field to better support Dynamic Ad Insertion use cases

JW Player has just released v8.25.7 for the web player. The notes for this release appear below. If you have any questions about a release note, please contact your JW Player representative.

New Release

• We now expose more metadata from ID3 tags.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the fullscreen button not working in Chrome on iPad.
• We have fixed an issue where the player makes an additional request to the page when autostart is set to false and the image setup config is missing.
• Fixed an issue in our Freewheel plugin with how we handled undefined values in custom key-value setup.

JW Player has just released v4.6.0 for the Android SDK. The notes for this release appear below. If you have any questions about a release note, please contact your JWP representative.

Bug Fixes 

• Fixed Chromecast on Android API 31
• Fixed Chromecast options not displayed in player menu
• Fixed GoogleIMA onAdRequest position marked as UNKNOWN
• Fixed controls visibility after DAI Ads completion
• Fixed duplicated onAdPause event being fired for DAI ads
• Fixed text alignment of the recommendations header in the Playlist UI
• Fixed the player UI when a developer calls stop()

New Releases

• We have updated and refined our UX for the floating player to comply better with Google's policy.
• Added support for CMAF DRM streams.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where quality switching did not function at smaller breakpoints.
• Fixed an issue with the floating player pausing when an ad would timeout.
• Fixed an issue where the thumbnail would not load when autostart was blocked by the browser.
• Fixed an issue where the player would pause upon casting and player controls would disappear.

New Release

Improved the Data Quality of the "Playlist Type" and "Playlist" Dimensions:

• Beginning on 5/24/22, the Playlist Type and Playlist Dimensions are being more fully populated for Embeds, including in cases where a relevant embed does not result in a play
• The Embed count tallies the number of times a player has been set up on a page and will now let you segment by playlist
• This change will allow you to track how often a playlist is loaded with a player and subsequently how often these convert into plays

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Social Push bug on posting videos to YouTube
• Fixed a bug around duplicate key values for dynamic playlists custom param filtering in Management API v2