Updates 

Core Player

• Added support for updating aspectratio, width, height, and stretching configuration options via the setConfig() API.

Advertising

• Added support for Ad Placement Type (placement). The options are: article, banner, feed, floating, interstitial, slider, or instream. By default, the player will set instream players to instream and outstream players to article. These defaults can be overridden to reflect the appropriate placement type.
• Added the ability to autopause ads based on player viewability by setting ”pauseAds”:true in the autoPause block.
• Added support for displaying VAST icons contained in ad tags.
• Added support for calling jwplayer().skipAd() with VPAID ads.

Fixes 

Core Player

• Fixed open vulnerabilities to XSS attacks.
• Fixed a bug preventing thumbnails from displaying in the playlist overlay on IE11.

Advertising

• Fixed an issue causing the wrapped ad tag to not be included in all ad events.