New Features
- Added a new experimental native video player option with quality selection, audio-only playback, Picture-in-Picture support, and improved latency recovery.
- Added merged chat mode for multi-tab chat, so messages from active tabs can be viewed together.
- Added new chat settings for keeping the screen on and showing timestamps on historical messages.
- Added support for linking your Twitch web session so the native player can use authenticated playback on eligible channels.
Improvements
- Improved chat send reliability, especially when chat delay is enabled.
- Improved chat delay sync so control messages, acknowledgements, and reconnect notices are not delayed with chat messages.
- Improved video stability around refreshes, stalls, high latency, Picture-in-Picture, fullscreen, and ad breaks.
- Redesigned chat tabs with unread indicators, connection state styling, and disconnect options.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed recent messages failing on valueless or escaped IRC tags.
- Fixed shared chat badges and emotes lingering after leaving shared chat.
- Fixed recent searches not saving from type-to-search.
- Fixed auto-synced chat delay not applying when toggled on mid-session.
- Fixed long chat inputs overlapping the message list.
- Fixed a video refresh race that could leave a black screen with only the play button visible.
- Fixed fullscreen button and system UI state getting out of sync.
- Fixed landscape safe area and iPad gesture padding issues.
- Fixed Twitch/API auth requests that could hang instead of failing cleanly.
Full Changelog: v5.0.5...v5.1.0