In this latest release, we're introducing a fresh chapter bar redesign as the default view and fixing various issues.

New Features

• Our chapter bar redesign has been set as the default view.
• Chapter tracks display correctly when using the duration config option.
• In-manifest captions appear as intended when the starttime value exceeds 0.
• The Outstream player has been updated to play audio-only ads.
• The autopause functionality works when floating is set to never.
• Caption positioning has been improved.
• On desktop, the default floating behavior no longer appears at the top right.

Service release. No new features. 

Attention developers! We're excited to announce a set of key fixes to the iOS SDK, ensuring a smoother and more reliable user experience.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved a glitch that caused JWPlayer.stop() to be ignored during ad playback.
• Addressed a rare crash occurring when switching between player items with captions.
• Fixed an issue that triggered a warning message during app uploads to TestFlight.

Deprecations

In light of Apple's announcement that a future Xcode release will eliminate the ability to build with bitcode and that IPAs containing bitcode will have it stripped prior to App Store submission, we have opted to discontinue bitcode support.

We've renamed Playlist Type values and addressed bugs related to report emails and viewer counts.

New Feature

• In Custom Reports, Playlist Type values have more user-friendly names. Curated has been renamed Trending. NULL has been renamed No Playlist.

Bug Fixes

• Custom Report scheduled email attachments open properly in Apple Mail.
• Logos display in Custom Report emails.
• On the Media Details page, the correct total view count is shown.

We've released experience-enhancing functionality and improved performance with the latest Android SDK updates, including player state retention, cleared rendered captions, caption-related bug fixes, and several Recommendations patches.

Bug Fixes

• If paused before opening a menu, the player maintains this state when closing a menu.
• Between calls to setup(), rendered captions are cleared.
• A captions-related race condition has been corrected.
• Several Recommendations patches have been released.

With 8.26.8, various UX and ad improvements and a fix have been released.

New Features

• Floating player will now float up (previously only floats down) in portrait mode on mobile.
• Picture in Picture (PiP) icon can now appear in the control bar on mobile.
• Added a new ad macro for video duration named integer-duration that returns an integer.
• Removed the ability to go fullscreen during an ad with the Freewheel plugin.

Bug Fix

• Fixed an issue causing clickthrough to be blocked on certain VPAID ads.

With 4.10.1, we have released new updates to improve error reporting for side-loaded captions, fix ad issues, and address a rare Chromecast-related crash.

New Feature

• Improved error and warning reporting for side-loaded captions.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where VAST ads generating an error caused a video to pause on the first frame.
• Fixed an issue where calling JWPlayer.play(ad:client:) was not loading the supplied ad.
• Fixed rare crash when loading playlists during casting to a Chromecast device.
• Fixed an issue where replaying a video with preroll ads was firing an additional pause event.

With 4.10.2, fixes for quality, ads, and casting have been released.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where OnLevelChanged did not fire when switching quality to auto.
• Fixed an issue that could cause a crash when calling pauseAd with googima.
• Fixed an issue where the cast menu was not scrollable when in NestScrollsView.

Discover the latest updates in the JWP iOS SDK 4.10.0. This release includes new features such as IMA ad companions and side-loaded captions enhancements, along with UI customizations. Additionally, improvements have been made to performance and error reporting.

New Features

 Google IMA

• Added support for IMA ad companions.
• Added support for additional IMA settings via JWIMASettings config.

Captions

• The default position of captions can be set via JWCaptionStyle.
• Side-loaded WebVTT captions are displayed when casting to Chromecast devices.
• A locale can be specified for side-loaded captions tracks using JWCaptionTrackBuilder.
• Improved error and warning reporting for side-loaded caption issues.

User Interface

• Added setVisibility API to JWPlayerObjcViewController to allow a developer using Obj-C to change the visibility of interface elements.
• Added ability to customer the color of ad cues and chapter cues displayed in the scrub bar, using JWPlayerSkin.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug were no tracks were selected when CC+SDH was enabled in the user’s devices settings.
• Improved performance and handling of potential hangs during playback.
• Fixed issue where errors pings were not being reported.
• Fixed issue with LLDB reporting.

New Feature

Added support for CEA-608 captions via API.

See https://docs.jwplayer.com/platform/reference/patch_v2-sites-site-id-channels-channel-id for implementation.