New
- New application workflow #2907, #4061, #4080, #4130, #4134, #4154, #4155 #4223, #4246, #4272, #4288, #4347, #4353, #4360, #4362 (thanks to @avently and all others involved)
- Unified all three players into one for seamless switching between them - for example, now if you tap on background play while the video is playing in the main or popup player, the stream will start exactly where you left off, not from the beginning. This is true when you go from any of the 3 players to each other.
- Play video directly in video details screen
- Option to auto-play video upon opening video details screen (on by default)
- Swipe down on video to minimize it and continue browsing uninterrupted (in landscape mode, you can swipe down on the title to do the same)
- Full screen button smartly detects if video is portrait or landscape and behaves accordingly
- Swipe up on full screen button in landscape mode to scroll down the video details
- Now you get a neat looking progress bar below the thumbnail in the video details screen if you play it in the background or popup player.
- Minimize players to background by default when switching app
- The main player/minimized player retains your browsing history until you close it
- Use MediaStyle notifications for all players #3178, #4340
- Customizable notification actions
- Reduce excessive notification updating
- Fixed metadata (song title, artist and album art) sometimes not being set correctly
- Fixed notification priority and Bluetooth related bugs
- Allow basic resizing when using NewPipe in windowed mode / as desktop application #3948
- New localizations: Bengali, Berber, Neapolitan, Portuguese and Sardinian
Improved
- Show dialog with open options in case of an unsupported URL toast #3826
- Improve share dialog #4259
- Improve playlist header layout: align with info items and use always two lines for playlist title when needed #3944
- Improve search suggestion experience when remote ones can't be fetched #4029
- Increased default video quality to 720p60 (in-app player) and 480p (pop-up player) #4275
- Reduce redundancy in "Remember popup size and position" setting #4050
- Remove timestamp from URL when sharing a live stream #4115
- Use SubtitlesStream#getUrl instead of getURL #4120
- Remember last selected media type for downloads. #4038
- Disabled commenter image view on LoadThumbnail set to false #4350
- Change "Autoplay" to "Autoqueue" to reduce ambiguity #4252
Fixed
- Fixed color of correct / suggested search term #3984
- Fixed ACRA bug reports not containing stack trace #3982
- Fixed crash when opening video in local playlist tab #3892
- Fixed auto-queue with no next videos #4349
- Fixed display name of Kayble language (Taqbaylit) #4066
- Fixed license pop-up hiding when orientation changes #4127
- Fixed crash when a file is deleted then redownloaded #3794
- Fixed incorrect use of plurals in Russian #4365