5.0.8 (2026-03-23)
Bug Fixes
- HLS: Add support for DTS and DTS-HD audio codec variants (#9863) (1d9c55b)
- HLS: Prevent infinite manifest update delay (#9867) (fbfedd6)
- Increase tolerance for duplicate segment detection (#9865) (0156466)
- MSF: handle SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE (0x11) control message (#9871) (cd384e5)
- UI: Fix delay updating the styles while seeking (#9847) (31b257f)
- util: Add support for MPEG-2 video codec (#9860) (ff19f71)
Performance Improvements
- DASH: drop array operations on unique IDs when parsing periods (#9870) (25d5550)
- DASH: loop over adaptation sets using the partition method (#9862) (39b5a4b)
- HLS: parse tag string directly instead of creating an array (#9856) (aa6381b)
- HLS: reduce GC pressure when parsing HLS manifest tags (#9857) (161178d)
- net: avoid array allocations in XHR header parsing to reduce GC pressure (#9874) (ddde3f6)
- player: stop recreating functions on video time update (#9854) (971c498)
- Transmuxer: replace identical object literals with named constants (#9852) (f3aad19)
- VTT: reduce GC pressure in VTT text parser (#9869) (7f2ef51)