The Trade Desk is now a Player Bidding ad partner and support for additional Player Bidding bid request information has been added.

New Feature

• The Trade Desk is now a new Player Bidding ad partner that can be added to an on-page player configuration or a dashboard ad schedule. 
• Player Bidding bid requests pass the Google Publisher Identifier (GPID) field.
• Player Bidding bid requests pass a plcmt value that can be defined in the on-page player configuration or in the dashboard ad schedule.

The SDK now supports the tracking of and reporting on analytics data and displays the buffering icon when the player buffers on the initial load.

New Feature

Specifying a playerId allows the SDK to track analytics data and create custom reports.

Bug Fix

When the player is in a buffer state on the initial load, the buffering icon displays.

In this latest release, we've upgraded the Open Measurement SDK and addressed player deallocation and JWCue initialization issues.

New Release

The Open Measurement SDK has been upgraded to version 1.4.4.

Bug Fixes

• The player can be deallocated on a background thread while using the GoogleIMA ad client.
• JWCue initializes correctly in both Objective-C and Swift.

With this release, DNS masking is deprecated for some users.

Deprecation

DNS masking support has been removed from JW Platform. Current customers who are actively using DNS masking will continue to have access to the feature until further notice.

With this release, we have improved the seek bar user experience.

Bug Fix

The seek bar appears at the end of the control bar after a post-roll completes.

With today's release, we've enhanced playlist previews and improved JSON validation in the JWP dashboard.

New Feature

In the JWP dashboard, playlist configuration pages show promoted content in the playlist preview.

Bug Fix

In the JWP dashboard, the player configuration page validates the format of the edited JSON code.

The Analytics Overview page has received a visual update that shares the visual experience as Real Time Analytics and Custom Reports. Without making any functional changes, the new experience more quickly loads and displays your data.

Our 4.13.0 iOS release introduces an important delegate method signature revision and the new Offline Playback Best Practice App. In addition, this release replaces a type alias, adds media track access, and includes delegates for event observation.

Key bug fixes address button alignment, Chromecast crashes, and JavaScript Environment inspection.

New Features

• IMPORTANT: The adEvent delegate method signature has been revised from func jwplayer(_ player: AnyObject, adEvent event: JWAdEvent) to func jwplayer(_ player: JWPlayer, adEvent event: JWAdEvent) for better consistency and easier access to the JWPlayer object. If you use or override this method, please update your code to align with the new signature.
• The new Offline Playback Best Practice App demonstrates how to implement offline download, storage, and playback of unprotected content.
• The JWCaptionStyleBuilder now has a method, allowScaling, which controls whether side-loaded captions enlargen as the player's size increases (like on an iPad or in full screen). By default, this is enabled. If set to false, it adheres strictly to the user's device settings.
• To observe related content events, use the JWRelatedEventDelegate, which can be assigned in the JWPlayer object. The JWPlayerViewController conforms to this protocol by default.
• Related content can now be loaded with play(relatedContent:).
• To observe chapter events for media with defined chapters, use the JWChaptersDelegate, which can be assigned in the JWPlayer object. The JWPlayerViewController conforms to this protocol by default.
• The typealias, JSONObject, has replaced instances of [String : Any].
• A JWPlayerItem can be encoded to or decoded from a JSONObject.
• Additional properties have been added to JWPlayerItem, allowing access to different media tracks within the item: chapterTrack: JWMediaTrack?, thumbnailTrack: JWMediaTrack? and captionTracks: [JWMediaTrack].
• The kind of media track viewed can be queried through the JWMediaTrackKind property.

Bug Fixes

• In the VAST ad interface, the Learn More button has been realigned.
• Crashes no longer occur when replacing a playlist during an active Chromecast session.
• JavaScript Environment inspection has been re-enabled.

The recent update removes clashes between Proguard obfuscation rules and 3rd-party libraries, pauses content during ad playback, fixes a null-pointer exception, and improves the audiotrack user experience.

Bug Fixes

• The Proguard obfuscation rules no longer clash with 3rd-party libraries.
• When casting, the main video content is now paused during IMA ad playback.
• A potential null-pointer exception with IMA has been resolved.
• The audiotrack submenu no longer displays when there is only one element.

Release Notes

We're introducing an enhanced OfflineDrmManager, now called OfflineDownloadManager. Additionally, bugs such as null pointer exceptions have been addressed in the ViewModelManager and DeviceOrientationDelegate. 

New Features

• OfflineDrmManager has been renamed OfflineDownloadManager and includes expanded functionality to support non-DRM use cases.
• Additionally, OfflineDownloadManager allows developers to download video, audio, and in-manifest text renditions.
• Developers can now handle offline downloads with the new abstract class, OfflineDelegate.

Bug Fixes

• The SDK supports multiple downloads for offline DRM.
• The null pointer exceptions caused by ViewModelManager and DeviceOrientationDelegate have been resolved.