v6.0.0

Stable 6.0.0 (2024-05-14)

Main Changes

🚀 Features

General

• Add typescript (#3266 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Add notification controls (#3723 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Add support of subtitles style configuration
• Implement startPosition (#3355 by @YangJonghun)
• Add full screen support (#2763 by @wood1986)
• RN 0.73 support (#3163 by @mrousavy)
• Add playback functions to ref (#3245 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Update isCodecSupported to return enum (##3254 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Add onVolumeChange event (#3322 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Add AdEvent enum to have an exhaustive list of all possible AdEvent values (#3374 by @avencat)
• Move require (local files) to source.uri (#3535 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Implement opacity to control visibility of subtitles (#3583 by @coofzilla)

Android

• Replace deprecated ExoPlayer2 with AndroidX media3 (#3337 by @YangJonghun)
• Add new apis to query device capabilities (#2740 by @freeboub)
• Add new events for audioTrack, textTracks and videoTracks
• Add prop to control debug log level (#3277 by @freeboub)
• Add subtitle event (#3566 by @coofzilla)
• Allow to disable selected functionalities (#3681 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Cache (#3514 by @lovegaoshi)
• Implement asset folder playback (#3733 by @freeboub)
• Make buffering strategy dynamic (#3756 by @freeboub)
• Add support of square video format (#2806 by @freeboub)
• Add support for AGP 8 (#3255 by @KrzysztofMoch)

iOS

• Implement onPlaybackStateChanged callback (#3307 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Add onBandwidthUpdate event (#3331 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Add visionOS support (#3425 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Implement onAudioTracks and onTextTracks (#3503 by @freeboub)
• Add support for accessing WebVTT Subtitle Content (#3541 by @coofzilla)
• Add support for ios camera roll
• Swift Conversion (#2572 by @nickfujita)

tvOS

• Add custom image metadata option for tvos and add missing types for custom metadata properties (#3280 by @Duell10111)

🐛 Bug Fixes

General

• Improve initial test for checking url validity (#2857 by @freeboub)
• Add accessibility & testID in typing (#3434 by @delphinebugner)
• Fix crash with interop layer (#3509 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Add missing shutterColor type (#3561 by @tarunrajput)
• Fix getLicense function's type definition (#3606 by @YangJonghun)
• Remove setNativeProps usage (#3605 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Fix codegen types (#3636 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Ensure poster works as expected and add it to the sample (#3643 by @freeboub)
• Ensure tracks are available in sample (#3660 by @freeboub)
• Prevents crash from occurring when using the selected video track with resolution type (#3664 by @YangJonghun)
• Avoid crash when setting index to 0 to tracks selection (#3721 by @freeboub)

Android

• Ensure playback progress is reported even if paused (#2664 by @freeboub)
• Fix the play button no shown after pausing video at the very first time (#2768 by @wood1986)
• Fix the hardware back button (#2763 by @wood1986)
• Ensure player is stopped when invalid uri is configured (#2857 by @freeboub)
• Add stub for IMA and option to enable it on demand (#3027 by @freeboub)
• Remove kotlin-android-extensions (#3299 by @wjaykim)
• Ensure audio volume is changed in UI thread (#3292 by @freeboub)
• Fix leak caused by removing lifecycle listener too early (#3380 by @BasixKOR)
• Ensure save doesn't crash on android (#3415 by @freeboub)
• Support opacity properly (#3464 by @hannojg)
• Fix Re-layout controls after fullscreen dismiss (#3490 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Check disableFocus when state is ready (#3494 by @YangJonghun)
• EnableDecoderFallback to decrease DECODER_ERROR issue (#3416 by @freeboub)
• Ensure rate is never set to 0 (#3593 by @freeboub)
• Track selection parameter has change in last release. (#3594 by @freeboub)
• Keep screen on on fullscreen (#3563 by @gkueny)
• Set title for external subtitles (#3676 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Fixed bug where video would not be visible after remount and change of drm source (#3668 by @YangJonghun)
• Seek callback with controls (#3694 by @freeboub)
• Prevent changing video track when video load (#3683 by @YangJonghun)

iOS

• Fix Unable to disable sideloaded texttracks in the AVPlayer (#2679 by @nbennink)
• Fix memory leaks for iOS (#2907 by @wood1986)
• Fix the kvo compliance crash when rapidly switching source (#2917 by @wood1986)
• Ensure controls are not displayed when disabled by user (##3017 by @freeboub)
• Ensure audio and subtitle tracks are well reported (#3027 by @freeboub)
• Fix Memory leak due to [weak self] and delegate not being weak (#3167 by @cguino)
• Fix Fairplay different key per asset (#3261 by @facugu1998)
• Fix Resuming video ad after closing the in-app browser on iOS (#3275 by @lrusso)
• Remove false calls at onPlaybackRateChange (#3306 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Fix Player is frozen after re-focusing on the app (#3326 by @nethergrim)
• Fix external text tracks crashes with m3u8 files (#3330 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Fix pip when player doesn't fill screen (#3363 by @YangJonghun)
• Check for ios url query encoding (#3384 by @JuozasP)
• Do not crash when accessLog return nil (#3549 by @gkueny)
• Fix missing bridge in bridgeless mode (#3570 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Don't crop video when in repeat mode (#3575 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Split licenseUrl and loadedLicenseUrl (#3578 by @freeboub)
• Ensure playback stopped in background (#3587 by @freeboub)
• Fix iOS DRM header parser (#3609 by @YangJonghun)
• Fix PiP callback (#3601 by @gkueny)
• Call PictureInPicture callbacks with native controls (#3603 by @gkueny)
• Apply PictureInPicture state on start (#3655 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Do not save pause state before seeking (#3650 by @freeboub)
• Workaround for rate change (#3657 by @freeboub)
• Add workaround for TouchableWithoutFeedback (#3688 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Fix sideloading external subtitles (#3690 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• Ensure duration available when playing live (#3710 by @freeboub)
• Ensure orientation is correct on iOS (#3719 by @freeboub)
• Destroy adsManager when player detach from super view (#3716 by @unknown) (#3722 by @Khuongnb)
• Restore caching feature (#3341 by @freeboub)
• Fix real time issue when fast zapping (#3582 by @freeboub)

tvOS

• Fix Compile issues with tvOS linked to earpiece & pip (#3276 by @Duell10111)

🚜 Refactor

• (ios) Remove type assertion within setupPipController (#3493 by @YangJonghun)
• Refactor resize prop handler (#3286 by @KrzysztofMoch)

⚡ Performance

• Ensure we do not provide callback to native if no callback provided from app (#3735 by @freeboub)
• (ios) Add early returns (#3741 by @KrzysztofMoch)
• (android) Refactor side loaded text tracks (#3754 by @freeboub)

Full History

This changelog only includes the changes that are relevant to the end user. 5.2.1 is +900 commits behind new stable version.
For a full list of changes, please refer to the commit history.
Full Changelog: v5.2.1...v6.0.0