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Latest Releases

Date

Version

Stable

3/22/2023

8.110.0

Added

  • UI: Config option forceSubtitlesIntoViewContainer to handle overflowing subtitle labels

Fixed

  • Player sometimes getting stuck when seeking close to a discontinuity boundary in MPEG-TS streams
  • Player sometimes not resuming playback after seeking on 2018 Tizen TVs
  • Player sometimes cancelling segment downloads of the lowest quality when onVideoAdaptation callback is used
  • Enabling fragmented subtitle track during livestream playback resulted in no cue events being fired

Stable

3/13/2023

8.109.0

Fixed

  • Random playback failures when trying to play back IMA ads on TVs

Known Issues

  • Slow startup due to runaway download cancellation under certain circumstances when using onVideoAdaptation callback

Stable

3/6/2023

8.108.0

Added

  • UI: Scrubbing during a FaceTime call automatically creates a SharePlay suspension to not synchronize scrubbing to other participants

Changed

  • Update bundled analytics collector to version 2.29.1

Fixed

Known Issues

  • Slow startup due to runaway download cancellation under certain circumstances when using onVideoAdaptation callback

Stable

2/28/2023

8.107.1

Changed

Stable

2/27/2023

8.107.0

Fixed

  • Player emitting StallStarted and StallEnded events while timeshifting
  • PlayerAPI.getSeekableRange and PlayerAPI.getBufferedRanges returning relative instead of absolute values on Safari for HLS live streams with EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME tags
  • Potential decode error due to gap compensation logic sometimes applying a wrong timestamp offset on HLS discontinuities for fMP4 streams on LG webOS
  • Race condition causing segments to be pushed to buffer using the timestamp offset of a following HLS discontinuity on TVs
  • Dynamically scheduled linear ad sometimes getting skipped when overlay ad is playing using IMA ad module

Known Issues

  • PlayerAPI.seek and PlayerAPI.timeShift not working as expected with HLS streams that have an EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME tag on Safari. Fixed in 8.107.1.
  • Slow startup due to runaway download cancellation under certain circumstances when using onVideoAdaptation callback

Stable

2/20/2023

8.106.0

Changed

  • Download cancellation to being disabled for HLS streams with multiple audio qualities to prevent runaway segment download cancellations

Removed

  • Leftover v7 tweak autoqualityswitching from documentation

Fixed

  • Playback failure because of race condition between backward buffer clearing and timestamp rollover handling
  • TypeError: Cannot read property isBufferBlockSwitchOngoing of undefined
  • Downloads being cancelled too late when headers weren't yet received
  • Delayed playback start for HLS streams due to first requested segment sometimes not matching initially loaded playlist and thus requiring an additional playlist request

Known Issues

  • Slow startup due to runaway download cancellation under certain circumstances when using onVideoAdaptation callback

Stable

2/13/2023

8.105.0

Added

Fixed

  • UI: Circular dependency in the export of AudioTrackListBox
  • Improved accuracy when seeking close to buffer end
  • Leftover buffer range after a timestamp rollover buffer clearing causing playback stall

Stable

2/6/2023

8.104.0

Added

  • UI: UIConfig.enterFullscreenOnInitialPlayback flag to enter fullscreen when clicking PlaybackToggleButton or HugePlaybackToggleButton to initiate the initial playback

Removed

Fixed

  • Sudden playback stall caused by unexpected buffer clearing on TVs soon after timestamp rollover
  • Loading a new source while in the middle of a content transition

Stable

1/30/2023

8.103.0

Added

  • PlayStation 4 support through PS4 module that addresses the following issues
    • App crash when trying to playback DRM content
    • Incorrect event ordering when starting playback of a DRM protected asset
    • Disabled setting of playbackRate when playing adaptive bitrate streams as it results in stalling
  • UI: Language localization for Spanish

Fixed

  • Performance issues with HLS stream carrying a lot of DATERANGE tags
    • Frequent stalls during SSAI sections of HLS streams containing large DATERANGE tags on Tizen TVs
    • Memory leak causing performance degradation after long sessions of HLS live streams that feature DATERANGE metadata
  • Missing Bitmovin header in UI release files
  • Broken UI export in the bitmovin-player npm package preventing import of bitmovin-player/bitmovinplayer-ui.css and bitmovin-player/bitmovinplayer-ui.js

Known Issues

  • Seeking after playback finished results in unexpected behaviour on PS4
  • Player seeks to start of the buffer after playback finished on PS4 with certain assets

Stable

1/23/2023

8.102.0

Fixed

  • Infinite stalling when seeking over and then seeking back into a discontinuity with different encryption state

Known Issues

  • Broken UI export in the bitmovin-player npm package preventing import of bitmovin-player/bitmovinplayer-ui.css and bitmovin-player/bitmovinplayer-ui.js

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