6.0.0 (2017-04-03)

Features

• videojs.getTech works with TitleCase or camelCase names (#4010) (a8f2e43), closes #3986
• add a controlText function to MenuButton (#4125) (4388bea)
• Advanced Class-based Plugins for 6.0 (#3690) (8d1653a)
• allow seeking in full height of progress control (#4004) (29c6141)
• allow tokens in localize, localize progress bar time (#4060) (db01120), closes #4024
• Combine captions and subtitles tracks control (#4028) (74eb5d4)
• don't throw when re-registering a plugin unless it's a player method (#4140) (326398d)
• Expose Tech#resize event as Player#resize (#3979) (e176b56)
• lang: Update tr.json (#3989) (37a6811)
• fix accessibility of the captions setting dialog (#4050) (0d0dea4), closes #2746 #2746
• localize all strings in captions settings (#3974) (8e7d8cc)
• Log Levels (#3853) (844e4f0)
• make registerTech add that tech to the default techOrder (#3985) (c2545dd)
• Make pause on open optional for ModalDialog via options (#4186) (90030d5)
• lang: update Vietnamese lang file (#3964) (1463e50)
• Make text tracks settings more responsive (#4236) (9274457)
• middleware (#3788) (34aab3f)
• modal dialog accessibility updates (#4025) (eddc1d7)
• remove flash tech (#3956) (b387437)
• Replay at ended (#3868) (ce6acc8)
• Restore all outlines for greater accessibility (#3829) (29ffbfb)
• Return the native Promise from play() (#3907) (091bdf9)
• Stateful Components (#3960) (d7d7cfe)
• Time Tooltips (#3836) (1ba1f5a)
• time tooltips will not be added to a player on mobile devices (#4185) (d79b8a7)
• toggle playback with space when focused on seekbar (#4005) (516c9f9)
• unmute goes back to previously selected volume (#3942) (cb42fcf), closes #3909
• Update MW to require a factory, add *-mw (#3969) (0352916)
• update videojs-vtt.js and wrap native cues in TextTrack (#4115) (96a387f), closes #4093
• wrap menu item text in a span (#4026) (5748c36), closes #4017
• lang: add European Portuguese translation (#3955) (8888e2b)
• lang: DE and FR translations of replay (#3963) (a0ba8e2)
• lang: French translation update (#4118) (8c1302e)
• lang: update es.json (#3984) (70d2eb1)
• player: add played(), defaultMuted(), defaultPlaybackRate() (#3845) (2037e18), closes #523
• volume panel: accessibly volume control (#3957) (524f868)

Bug Fixes

• accessibility bugs with the VolumeBar (#4023) (da2a1e0), closes #4021 #4022
• add buildWrapperCSSClass methods to all menu buttons (#4147) (61d427c)
• Add lang attribute to player el, so that css :lang() is correct (#4046) (17143fd)
• addChild instance names should be toTitleCased (#4116) (576ac19)
• allow changing volume in full height of volume control (#3987) (f87ada1)
• copy basic plugin properties onto the wrapper (#4100) (127cd78)
• cues at startTime 0 do not fire (#4152) (a2b1a33)
• Disable all time tooltips in IE8, as they are broken (#4029) (60bcc99)
• disable title attribute on menu items (#4019) (04f23c1), closes #3699
• Do not create element for MediaLoader (#4097) (1cb0a97)
• early play should wait for player ready, even if source is available (#4134) (3bbf019), closes #4057
• EventTarget is also evented (#3990) (e34335b)
• fix the structure of elements in menus to comply with ARIA requirements (#4034) (1b1ba04)
• focus play toggle from Big Play Btn on play (#4018) (4f79e1e), closes #2729
• hide font-icons from assitive technology (#4006) (24d2e7b), closes #3982
• improve French translation (#4062) (dc4c1eb)
• keep minimum volume after unmuting above 0.1 (#4227) (16c1e0a), closes #4054
• localize aria-labels (#4027) (0ac1269), closes #2728
• Make Player#techCall_() synchronous again (#3988) (3585af0)
• make load progress buffered regions height 100% (#4190) (424fa51)
• make mergeOptions behave the same across browsers (#4088) (0da9324)
• make sure audio track hides with one item (#4202) (0fd7aad)
• Muting with MuteToggle sets ARIA value of VolumeBar to 0 (#4099) (181a19f), closes #4064
• not showing default text tracks over video (#4216) (dbfba28)
• Patch a memory leak caused by un-removed track listener(s). (#3976) (4979ea7)
• Progress holder gaps cause tooltips misalignment and time tooltip outlines (#4031) (be27f2a), closes #3645
• remaining time display width on IE8 and IE9 (#3983) (866a3f3)
• MenuButton: Unify behavior of showing/hiding (#4157) (c611f9f)
• remove focus ring from player itself (#4237) (e98c65d)
• audio-tracks-button: add wrapper CSS builder to audio tracks menu button (#4163) (d9ec7bc)
• cues: only copy cue props that don't exist (#4145) (0f57341)
• dom: getBoundingClientRect check that el is defined (#4139) (fb88ae2)
• icon-placeholder: align icons on ie8 properly (#4174) (1770f00)
• ie8: various minor ie8 fixes (#4175) (cb890a9)
• package: update xhr to version 2.4.0 (#4101) (5265624)
• playback rate menu: playback rate menu items should be selectable (#4149) (a9f8fcb)
• sass: import path has cwd once again (#4061) (caff93f)
• sass: import path no longer has cwd (#4001) (19b429b), closes #3998
• subs-caps-button: add hide threshold to subs-caps button (#4171) (88ee6af)
• remove redundant Html5#play() (405b29b)
• removeCue should work with native passed in cue (#4208) (f2b5a05)
• Set MuteButton controlText correctly (#4056) (3c1108c)
• silence play promise error (#4247) (0908d91)
• Solve a typo in translation files (#4063) (5540868)
• support empty src in Player#src (#4030) (6541467)
• synchronously shim vtt.js when possible (#4083) (e1b4804)
• trap tab focus in modal when hitting s-tab (#4075) (1f7a842), closes #4049
• updating time tooltips when player not in DOM (#3991) (22aade1)
• subs-caps-button: add wrapper CSS builder to subs caps button (#4156) (e5af0a5)
• subs-caps-button: captions items should hide icon from SR (#4158) (2ee133f)
• text track settings: focus subs-caps button if exists over CC button (#4155) (db901c5)
• tracks: allow forcing native text tracks on or off (#4172) (67634cf)
• vttjs: wait till tech el in DOM before loading vttjs (#4177) (ddde644)

Chores

• 6.x build updates (#4228) (6d876ee)
• Add flash as a dev dependency for testing (#4016) (4949619)
• change accessibility test in grunt.js to remove unnecessary warning message. (#4143) (dacf0ca)
• package: update remark-validate-links to version 6.0.0 (#4128) (1395677)
• ignore qunit and sinon from greenkeeper (#4242) (29d733d)
• increase browserstack/karma timeouts, dispose player in tests (#4135) (6874fa2)
• only report errors during linting in the build process, not warnings (#4041) (6208e4b)
• remove bower.json (#4238) (0d19a05), closes #4012
• package: update webpack to version 2.3.0 (#4219) (0223057)
• Remove component.json and remove references to it (#3866) (0bba319)
• docs: Use Elephants Dream video files from CDN for docs/examples/elephantsdream/ (#4181) (af1c6e3)
• package: pin karma to 1.3.0 (#4002) (5b8b41e)
• package: update remark-cli to version 3.0.0 (#4126) (dc9ed1c)
• package: update remark-lint to version 6.0.0 (#4129) (9ef2d07)
• package: update remark-toc to version 4.0.0 (#4127) (d5a619d)
• package: update uglify-js to version 2.8.8 (#4170) (bf787bd), closes #4138
• package: update videojs-vtt.js to version 0.12.3 (#4221) (7d12c9e)
• package: update xhr to version 2.3.3 (#3914) (924fb27)
• switch from ghooks to husky (#4074) (c3b1d68)
• sandbox: Fix poster image to match the video in the 'combined-tracks.html' example in sandbox (#4164) (5ffe1cd)
• sandbox: Use Elephants Dream video files from CDN for the sandbox/descriptions.html.example. (#4137) (715f584)
• test: silence plugin warning from test (#4173) (05e6494)
• tests: make tests not print out errors (#4141) (f95815b)

Code Refactoring

• Buttons will always use a button element (#3828) (c340dbc)
• do not allow adding children with options passed in as a boolean (#3872) (b07143d)
• Evented Components (#3959) (4c3b60c)
• expose tech but warn without safety var (#3916) (8622b26)
• Make registerComponent only work with Components (#3802) (57af15c)
• move most volume panel functionality into css state (#3981) (2e2ac6f)
• MuteToggle#update (#4058) (a04f387)
• Remove custom UMD (#3826) (2014120)
• Remove deprecated features of extend/Component#extend (#3825) (f8aed4d)
• Remove method Chaining from videojs (#3860) (8f07f5d)
• remove special loadstart handling (#3906) (73b6316)
• Remove TimeRanges without an index deprecation warning (#3827) (e12bedb)
• Remove unused defaultVolume option default (#3915) (5377ffc)
• unify all Track and TrackList APIs (#3783) (49bed07)

Documentation

• Add MediaLoader to components list (#4070) (65dc81a)
• Expand testing info in CONTRIBUTING.md (#4020) (2da4e76)
• fix broken links to guides in the faq (#3973) (58f2349)
• fix links in generated docs (#4200) (61e2078)
• fixup global jsdoc members (#4015) (6ad1e5c)
• minor fix to currentTime() comment: "setting" not "getting" (#3944) (6578ed9)
• coc: introduce CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md (#4160) (312b10c)
• ran npm run docs:fix to update TOC on guides (#3971) (de3945d)
• guide: Add a ModalDialog guide (#3961) (7b0d738)
• guides: Add a basic ReactJS guide and update the FAQ (#3972) (05b39fe)
• replace 'autoPlay' by 'autoplay' (#4080) (7ab52d1), closes #3995
• tech order will only have html5 by default (#4188) (41be5dc)
• guides: fix typos in faq guide (#4067) (2433915)
• guides: fix typos in functions guide (#4035) (0fc2c1c)
• jsdoc: introduce a jsdoc template and build on publish (#3910) (e642295)

Tests

• ie8: only run mute toggle tests in html5 env (#4003) (5bde16a)
• add tests for obj.assign util (#4014) (fcb5aa8)
• fix IE9 rounding issue with lastvolume test (#4230) (46dd0aa)
• fix tests (#3953) (7bafcc2)

BREAKING CHANGES

• setting the source is now asynchronous. sourceOrder option removed and made the default.
• remove deprecated features.
• volume panel: remove VolumeMenuButton, introduce a new default volume control: VolumePanel.
• removal of keepTooltipsInside option.
• some externally accessibly functions for tracks are now private.
• player methods no longer return a player instance when called. Fixes #3704.
• removal of component.json
• remove flash tech from core.
• restoring the outlines changes the skin slightly and potentially break users. Fixes #3200.
• registerComponent now throws if no name or not a component is passed in.
• remove the double loadstart handlers that dispose the tech/source handlers if a secondary loadstart event is heard.
• remove ability to add children with options as a boolean.
• removing ability to use TimeRange methods without an index.
• button component will always use a button element.
• play() no longer returns the player object but instead the native Promise or nothing.