Stable 6.0.0 (2024-05-14)

Main Changes

🚀 Features

General

• Add typescript (#3266)
• Add notification controls (#3723)
• Add support of subtitles style configuration
• Implement startPosition (#3355)
• Add full screen support
• RN 0.73 support
• Add playback functions to ref
• Update isCodecSupported to return enum
• Add onVolumeChange event (#3322)
• Add AdEvent enum to have an exhaustive list of all possible AdEvent values (#3374)
• Move require (local files) to source.uri (#3535)
• Implement opacity to control visibility of subtitles (#3583)

Android

• Replace deprecated ExoPlayer2 with AndroidX media3 (#3337)
• Add new apis to query device capabilities
• Add new events for audioTrack, textTracks and videoTracks
• Add prop to control debug log level (#3277)
• Add subtitle event (#3566)
• Allow to disable selected functionalities (#3681)
• Cache (#3514)
• Implement asset folder playback (#3733)
• Make buffering strategy dynamic (#3756)
• Add support of square video format
• Add support for AGP 8

iOS

• Implement onPlaybackStateChanged callback (#3307)
• Add onBandwidthUpdate event (#3331)
• Add visionOS support (#3425)
• Implement onAudioTracks and onTextTracks (#3503)
• Add support for accessing WebVTT Subtitle Content (#3541)
• Add support for ios camera roll
• Swift Conversion

tvOS

• Add custom image metadata option for tvos and add missing types for custom metadata properties (#3280)

🐛 Bug Fixes

General

• Improve initial test for checking url validity
• Add accessibility & testID in typing (#3434)
• Fix crash with interop layer (#3509)
• Add missing shutterColor type (#3561)
• Fix getLicense function's type definition (#3606)
• Remove setNativeProps usage (#3605)
• Fix codegen types (#3636)
• Ensure poster works as expected and add it to the sample (#3643)
• Ensure tracks are available in sample (#3660)
• Prevents crash from occurring when using the selected video track with resolution type (#3664)
• Avoid crash when setting index to 0 to tracks selection (#3721)

Android

• Ensure playback progress is reported even if paused
• Fix the play button no shown after pausing video at the very first time
• Fix the hardware back button
• Ensure player is stopped when invalid uri is configured
• Add stub for IMA and option to enable it on demand
• Remove kotlin-android-extensions (#3299)
• Ensure audio volume is changed in UI thread (#3292)
• Fix leak caused by removing lifecycle listener too early (#3380)
• Ensure save doesn't crash on android (#3415)
• Support opacity properly (#3464)
• Fix Re-layout controls after fullscreen dismiss (#3490)
• Check disableFocus when state is ready (#3494)
• EnableDecoderFallback to decrease DECODER_ERROR issue (#3416)
• Ensure rate is never set to 0 (#3593)
• Track selection parameter has change in last release. (#3594)
• Keep screen on on fullscreen (#3563)
• Set title for external subtitles (#3676)
• Fixed bug where video would not be visible after remount and change of drm source (#3668)
• Seek callback with controls (#3694)
• Prevent changing video track when video load (#3683)

iOS

• Fix Unable to disable sideloaded texttracks in the AVPlayer
• Fix memory leaks for iOS
• Fix the kvo compliance crash when rapidly switching source
• Ensure controls are not displayed when disabled by user
• Ensure audio and subtitle tracks are well reported
• Fix Memory leak due to [weak self] and delegate not being weak
• Fix Fairplay different key per asset (#3261)
• Fix Resuming video ad after closing the in-app browser on iOS (#3275)
• Remove false calls at onPlaybackRateChange (#3306)
• Fix Player is frozen after re-focusing on the app (#3326)
• Fix external text tracks crashes with m3u8 files (#3330)
• Fix pip when player doesn't fill screen (#3363)
• Check for ios url query encoding (#3384)
• Do not crash when accessLog return nil (#3549)
• Fix missing bridge in bridgeless mode (#3570)
• Don't crop video when in repeat mode (#3575)
• Split licenseUrl and loadedLicenseUrl (#3578)
• Ensure playback stopped in background (#3587)
• Fix iOS DRM header parser (#3609)
• Fix PiP callback (#3601)
• Call PictureInPicture callbacks with native controls (#3603)
• Apply PictureInPicture state on start (#3655)
• Do not save pause state before seeking (#3650)
• Workaround for rate change (#3657)
• Add workaround for TouchableWithoutFeedback (#3688)
• Fix sideloading external subtitles (#3690)
• Ensure duration available when playing live (#3710)
• Ensure orientation is correct on iOS (#3719)
• Destroy adsManager when player detach from super view (#3716) (#3722)
• Restore caching feature (#3341)
• Fix real time issue when fast zapping (#3582)

tvOS

• Fix Compile issues with tvOS linked to earpiece & pip (#3276)

🚜 Refactor

• (ios) Remove type assertion within setupPipController (#3493)
• Refactor resize prop handler (#3286)
• Refactor fullScreenPlayerView creation

⚡ Performance

• Ensure we do not provide callback to native if no callback provided from app (#3735)
• (ios) Add early returns (#3741)
• (android) Refactor side loaded text tracks (#3754)

Full History

This changelog only includes the changes that are relevant to the end user. 5.2.1 is +900 commits behind new stable version.
For a full list of changes, please refer to the commit history.
Full Changelog: v5.2.1...v6.0.0