We’ve added a JSON Editor to Strategy Rules, giving you direct access to the underlying settings for Advertising, Media Curation, and Player UX configurations.

New Feature 

The JSON Editor provides visibility into how strategies are defined and gives advanced users greater control when dashboard fields do not cover a specific use case:

• View the full configuration structure
• Modify supported fields not exposed as dashboard controls
• Apply precise adjustments for advanced scenarios 

Learn more about using the JSON Editor in Advertising, Media curation, and Player UX configurations.

We’ve introduced updates to the floating player, giving you greater control over player behavior when viewers scroll past the embedded player.

New Features

The Floating player now has its own section in the dashboard, where you can configure how the player appears and behaves:

• Per-device configuration for phone, tablet, and desktop
• Configurable floating positions to control where the player appears on screen, including pinned-to-top for phones
• Customizable close button behavior to define when and how viewers can dismiss the player

The enhanced experience also includes UI improvements such as smaller player sizes, resized click targets, improved close button and title bar positioning, and a cleaner layout on small devices.

Learn more about using or upgrading to the enhanced floating player.

Service release. No new features.

Service release. No new features.

This release updates the underlying Shaka player to improve playback stability and performance.

New Feature

• Updated the Shaka player to v4.4.3, ensuring enhanced compatibility, reliability, and overall playback performance.

Service release. No new features.

This release improves DRM playback handling and prevents focus issues with the "Keep Watching" button.

New Feature

• The player disables the quality selector for DRM-protected streams using native HLS playback, preventing unusable quality options from appearing. 

Bug Fix

• When the “Keep Watching” button appears, it no longer takes focus from active text fields.

This release delivers smoother playback during ad loading and clearer on-player timestamps.

New Features

• Player defaults have been updated to maintain playback responsiveness during ad loading.
• Timestamps display with improved contrast to meet accessibility standards.

JWP 8.38.4 introduces a new configuration option for video thumbnails, adds support for unencoded Google PPS segment values and the HLS #EXT-X-SESSION-DATA tag, and includes player performance improvements to optimize preview image requests.

New Features

• The player supports unencoded Google PPS (enablePPS) segment values in ad requests for compatibility with ad partners.
• The enableVideoThumbnails config option allows disabling motion thumbnails to display static posters.
• The player supports the HLS #EXT-X-SESSION-DATA tag, enabling access to SSAI session information in VOD playback.

Bug Fix

• The player optimizes preview image requests, preventing redundant file downloads.

This release includes improved ad loading behavior on iOS and automatic preroll setup for Dynamic Ads.

New Features

• iOS respects background ad loading settings providing smoother playback without interruptions.
• Dynamic Ads automatically enables preroll support, ensuring compatibility across embed types.