Several of you have started contributing repeatedly! (up to 10 commits)

Thank you!

@suryaprakash0010 @prashant-sharma-cmd @Dovahseod @majiayu000 @otutukingsley @root-sarvesh @tWiLighT-xY91 @shimizumasaru @abhisheksingh1204 @hossainsany @BackwardsRebel @ashleyconnor @amankumarconnect @Dheemanth07 @M-V-RAGHUPATHI-SAI @4yman-0 @vladyslavTezyk @Robanni @yellowJennifer @AhmedAlian7 @KAPTOHKA @Abmarne @niveshdandyan @DukeDeSouth @xiaoyi-2045 @YheonYeung @RoFoU-UU @StackOverBuffer @anoxil @AryaXDG

And several more! (To be tagged in the next release; Have a look at the pending Pull requests or test them.

Published a list of ideas & concepts above and beyond. (On the occasion of Google Summer of Code).

@AryaXDG contributed powerful results:

Changelog:

• feat: Add default option for thumbnails per row (fixes #3447) by @majiayu000 in #3452
• feat: Add Hide Pause Overlay option for main player (fixes #3427) by @majiayu000 in #3453
• Minor fix by @dodieboy in #3471
• UTF-8 encoding for Firefox build script by @Dovahseod in #3475
• fix #3469: fullscreen quality not reapplied after fullscreen toggle by @root-sarvesh in #3479
• fix #3477: blank timer when "show remaining duration" is enabled by @root-sarvesh in #3483
• Fix: invalid background.background.scripts in manifest3Firefox.json by @tWiLighT-xY91 in #3485
• Translated the English version into Japanese. by @shimizumasaru in #3470
• bugfix/wheel-shortcut-player-detection by @abhisheksingh1204 in #3489
• Fix mini player z-index (#3494) and JA locale typo by @hossainsany in #3497
• Import languages sequentially by @dnicolson in #3501
• Fix: Don't attach main player handlers to preview players by @BackwardsRebel in #3441
• fix: Cinema mode from blocking video by @ashleyconnor in #3514
• Added Messages.json for Nepali Language by @prashant-sharma-cmd in #3503
• Added myself as a language contributor in readme.md by @prashant-sharma-cmd in #3504
• remove playables by @ktbloomq in #3509
• Translation update for zh-CN by @Dovahseod in #3515
• Fix: cinema mode toggle leads to black screen by @amankumarconnect in #3518
• Fix video player covered by sidebar after leaving fullscreen (#3502) by @otutukingsley in #3512
• Fix channel options not working on subpages (#3476) by @otutukingsley in #3511
• feat: Add option to hide 'Watch Later' videos from Home feed by @Dheemanth07 in #3528
• Fix small ImprovedTube player icons (issue #3530) by @M-V-RAGHUPATHI-SAI in #3531
• Add .gitignore by @4yman-0 in #3546
• Fix: Night Mode Schedule midnight crash causing black screen + restore broken npm install #3537 by @bharathkumar39293 in #3538
• Update ukrainian translations by @vladyslavTezyk in #3549
• fix: correct day of week display offset (#3556) by @majiayu000 in #3557
• feat: add copy transcript button below player by @Robanni in #3560
• Hiding the very annoying "View products" button, and the product list… by @yellowJennifer in #3571
• feat: Return YouTube Dislike functionality. by @AhmedAlian7 in #3566
• Update Russian translation. by @KAPTOHKA in #3574
• Fix : pause overlay🐞 #3550 by @Abmarne in #3551
• Fix browser freeze on channel videos tab by @AryaXDG in #3586
• fix: YouTube autoplay fails after track #400 (#3541) by @suryaprakash0010 in #3584
• Fix: Add debouncing to theme updates to prevent CPU spike by @AryaXDG in #3590
• fix: show seekbar on embedded YouTube players by @niveshdandyan in #3596
• Feat: Implement Smart Speed feature using YouTube heatmap (#1463) by @AryaXDG in #3599
• Fix YouTube embed UI missing on old Reddit (fixes #3601) by @suryaprakash0010 in #3603
• fix: round playback speed readback to fix floating-point display (#3460) by @DukeDeSouth in #3602
• Fix Shorts scrolling freeze and looping issue (#3598) by @suryaprakash0010 in #3605
• Updated Russian translation 3: by @KAPTOHKA in #3608
• Improve settings search autofocus reliability by @xiaoyi-2045 in #3607
• Update zh_TW by @YheonYeung in #3619
• Update Korean by @RoFoU-UU in #3625
• Feat: Comprehensive upgrade of Smart Speed to context-aware engine (#1463) by @AryaXDG in #3628
• Fix german translation for disableAutoDubbing by @StackOverBuffer in #3629
• Bump ajv from 6.12.6 to 6.14.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #3633
• Fix disableAutoDubbing function to use getLanguageInfo for track names by @anoxil in #3637
• Fix: Update thumbnail size CSS to support YouTube's modern grid layout by @AryaXDG in #3646

Full Changelog: v4.1400...4.2026