8.0.26

8.0.26 - 2025-09-17

• New Elementor Widget
• Deprecating the "Big Arrows" playlist style. If you are already using this style, it will be kept for now.
• Bugfix: Block editor spacing and alignment issues
• Bugfix: Video Stats: Exclude Administrators and Editors: Also exclude Contributors and Authors if they can edit the post

8.0.25 - 2025-08-30

• Bugfix: Fix video saving due to missing caption field. The issue would occur if user did not upgrade from FV Player 7. Reverting PHP warnings fix from 8.0.24.

8.0.24 - 2025-08-23

• HLS.js upgrade from 1.6.5 to 1.6.9
• Editor: Removing Post Interface Options for "Video Actions" and "Ads" as these always show
• Tracking: Adding subtitles as a new event
• YouTube: Compatibility fixes
• Bugfix: Editor PHP warnings for the caption field

8.0.23 - 2025-07-31

• Bugfix: Tutor LMS: Add missing models/tutor-lms.class.php file

8.0.22 - 2025-07-30

• DigitalOcean Spaces: Use expiration cycle for signature expiration time to get consistent signatures
• Security: Validate uploads for FV Player Coconut before uploading full file
• Tutor LMS: Avoid forced 16:9 apsect ratio
• Bugfix: Gutenberg: Fix for Site Editor
• Bugfix: Gutenberg: Fix "Select Media" button to show all video hostig tabs
• Bugfix: Lightbox not working when using blocks

8.0.21 - 2025-07-11

• HLS.js upgrade from 1.4.12 to 1.6.5
• Bugfix: Elementor fix for player loading and inserting
• Bugfix: Gutenberg: Fix for Site Editor
• Bugfix: Gutenberg: Fix FV Player 7 blocks not rendering in patterns
• Bugfix: SiteGround Security: Exclude coconut-ajax.php and stream-loader.php

8.0.20 - 2025-06-19

• Accessibility improvements
• Editor: Performance fixes for playlists, fixing issues with playlists of 100 or more videos
• Editor: Speed-up "Pick existing player"
• Editor: Limit video duration checks during import, otherwise the import might take too long
• Bunny Stream: Browser: Load up to 1000 videos
• Bunny Stream: Browser: Load up to 200 collections
• FV Player screen: Better table sizing, fixing layout shifts
• Bugfix: Analytics: Fix heartbeat for GA4
• Bugfix: Analytics: Stop using window unload event, using visibilitychange and pagehide instead
• Bugfix: Editor: End of Video Action: Fix disabling
• Bugfix: Editor: Fixed player duplication bug if you open a player for editing and then close it within half second
• Bugfix: Editor: Fixed player duplication bug if pick media from Media Library using "FV Player Editor" button in FV Player Gutenberg block
• Bugfix: Ensure player controlbar menus show on top of overlay ads
• Bugfix: Fix issues with touch events not being passive
• Bugfix: Playlist style Big arrows: Show only on hover
• Bugfix: Disable local storage setting should not affect default subtitles selected for videos

8.0.19 - 2025-04-24

• Audio Player: You can use type="audio" in shortcode to force audio player for a HLS stream if the detection fails
• Security: Stats: Block direct access to temporary files with .htaccess
• Video stats: Send video playback duration every 5 minutes and not just when loading the page
• Bugfix: Airplay: Fix for multiple instances
• Bugfix: Gutenberg block: Fix conversion of video block to FV Player
• Bugfix: Incorrect MP3 duration calculation
• Bugfix: Lightbox: Avoid showing JavaScript as visible text when using FV Player Pro video ads in front of a video
• Bugfix: Lightbox: Fix bad image aspect ratio if using 100% player width and height in global settings
• Bugfix: Lightbox: Fix text link to video lightbox
• Bugfix: Sticky video: Avoid issues if theme uses z-index
• Bugfix: Sticky video: Fix disabling for individual players
• Bugfix: Video Stats: Fix admin screen performance
• Bugfix: Video Stats: Fix graph numbers for single players
• Bugfix: Video Stats: Fix performance issues if video is less than 4 seconds
• Bugfix: Video subtitles/chapters/transcript removed during background video duration checks if the initial duration check has failed
• Bugfix: YouTube: Fix live stream count-down not appearing for iOS
• Bugfix: YouTube: Fix repeated opening and closing when using Lightbox on mobile

8.0.18 - 2025-02-24

• HLS: Do not use HLS.js for Safari
• Schema.org: Use video file for contentURL if it's MP4, HLS, WebM or OGV and does not require URL signature
• Video Stats: Exclude Administrators and Editors
• Bugfix: Amazon S3 signatures missing for subtitles
• Bugfix: CSS: Make sure theme does not add border for playing images
• Bugfix: YouTube: Fix video to have sound enabled right from the start without any lag
• Bugfix: YouTube: Lower the lag when unmuting the sound after autoplaying the video

8.0.17 - 2025-01-24

• YouTube: Support youtube.com/live/{video_id} links
• Bugfix: Editor saving of Pay Per View product ID
• Bugfix: Fix splash image switching for audio tracks when using retina image
• Bugfix: Simpler min.js to avoid issues with WP Rocket JS minification

8.0.16 - 2025-01-09

• Bugfix: Audio player: Fix appearance during page load if using "Optimize JavaScript loading"
• Bugfix: iOS: Fix live HLS stream playback is the "Live" flag is not set
• Bugfix: Lightbox: Avoid opening lightbox when trying to scroll down the page by starting the swipe gesture on the video, if using "Optimize JavaScript loading" setting
• Bugfix: Setting "Use Schema.org markup" overwritten by "Handle WordPress audio/video", "Facebook Video Sharing" and vice versa

8.0.15 - 2024-12-18

• Support for FV Player CMS: New plugin which lets you embed a player without publishing it to the WordPress site.
• Bugfix: Fix control bar not showing for Vertical playlist if using "Always Visible" setting for Controls

8.0.14 - 2024-12-11

• Bugfix: Chromecast not working due to update it the Web Sender SDK, although we still have to fix the subtitles and multiple-audio tracks support
• Bugfix: FV Player Pro 7 detection, asking you to update to FV Player Pro 8
• Bugfix: iPhone HLS playback error detection: Fix for iOS 18
• Bugfix: PHP 7.2 fatal error

8.0.13

8.0.13 – 2024-11-26

• Bugfix: CSS: Video Link and Embed link styling inconsistency
• Bugfix: Gutenberg block: Fix loading of old FV Player 7 block for custom post types
• Bugfix: Iframe embed: Add allow=”autoplay” to fix issues with YouTube videos
• Bugfix: Iframe embed: Do not use fixed controls as these appear below the player and do not show in iframe

8.0.12 – 2024-11-21

• Bugfix: iOS 18: Playback failing if ‘Use native fullscreen on mobile’ setting is enabled and the video has subtitles
• Bugfix: iOS: Subtitles not visible when video is not in fullscreen if ‘Use native fullscreen on mobile’ setting is enabled

8.0.11 – 2024-11-19

• YouTube: Better error messages
• Bugfix: Editor: Fix disabling Autoplay for individual players
• Bugfix: Preload: Fix controls not appearing
• Bugfix: Position saving: Avoid autoplay when using Preload
• Bugfix: Video custom fields being preload in wp-admin where not needed

8.0.10

8.0.10 - 2024-11-14

• Tested up to WordPress 6.7
• Bugfix: Deactivate FV Player 7 during activation: Multisite fix
• Bugfix: Editor: "Playlist Auto Advance" saving disabled when editing existing playlist
• Bugfix: Editor: Screenshot feature fixes
• Bugfix: Media Library: S3 not showing images for private buckets
• Bugfix: YouTube JavaScript warnings

8.0.9 - 2024-11-11

• Bugfix: Gutenberg block: Avoid breaking video links with % encoding
• Bugfix: Gutenberg block: Avoid removing encrypted HLS decryption key

8.0.8

= 8.0.8 - 2024-11-08 =

• Airplay: Add setting to Skin -> Controls
• AWS: Adding missing regions
• CSS: Keeping your custom watermark over the video picture if the video aspect ratio does not match the screen
• CSS: Performance fixes
• CSS: Remove white bars when fullscreen on iPhone
• CSS: Responsive logo sizing
• Settings: Change "Disable" setting to "Enable" to not create checkboxes with reversed logic
• Settings: Move logo and control bar settings to Skin -> Logo and Skin -> Controls
• Settings: Removed "Player position", "Bottom Margin", "Buffer", "Time" and "Canvas" color (always transparent)
• Uninstall: Do not warn user about loosing data when deleting plugin if 'Remove all data' setting is not on
• Video upload: Fix for WordPress Multisite Network Activated plugins
• YouTube: Load basic library locally to avoid conflicts with other plugins using YouTube Player API
• Bugfix: Audio player: Fix item number not appearing when playlist
• Bugfix: Editor: Fix broken display when deleting first playlist item
• Bugfix: Migration Wizard not showing preview of links being replaced
• Bugfix: Multi-playlist shortcode fix
• Bugfix: Overlay HTML code removed on save
• Bugfix: Popup HTML code removed on save

8.0.7

• Deactivate FV Player 7 during activation
• Freedom Player: Fix timeline stuck in non-seekable state in rare cases
• Bugfix: Editor: Fix preview of playlist single item in Gutenberg
• Bugfix: Editor: Stop "Remember video position" in preview
• Bugfix: Popups: Do not show on pause before video finish
• Bugfix: Popups: Settings not saving

7.5.45.727

• Security - Redirection - Contributor level user is able to post a FV Player video with malicious redirection URL at the end of a video. Then the Editor or Administrators reviewing Contributor's post before publication would be taken to that URL. We have added a confirmation prompt for redirection URLs for Editors and Administrators.
• Security - prevent server port scanning by logged in users
• Compatbility - WP Rocket - Fix for Removed Unused CSS to never remove FV Player CSS
• Bugfix - Fix timeline not responding to clicks for Vimeo videos in rare cases
• Bugfix - "Use native fullscreen on mobile" not working when used with "Force fullscreen on mobile" on iPhone with iOS 17
• Bugfix - Show full error message when upload fails

7.5.44.727

• Security - fix XSS in the redirection at the end of video is bad URL is posted by authenticated user
• Security - fix XSS in the video loading code if using DigitalOcean Spaces or Linode Object Storage
• AWS SDK update - PHP 7.4 is now required for the DigitalOcean Spaces/AWS S3 browser and uploader
• HLS - Keep showing splash until the video really plays
• Translations - adding Arabic, thanks to dubaiglobalnews.com
• Bugfix - Handle WordPress audio/video setting - fix for player HTML showing in excerpts
• Bugfix - SEO - Schema.org - better date format
• Bugfix - Uploads - avoid duplicate job submissions for FV Player Coconut

7.5.41.7212

• YouTube - fixing playback glitches on Android and iOS, tested with iOS 12.5.7 to 17.0

7.5.40.7212

• YouTube - fix videos not starging properly on Android
• Bugfix - stale pending video encoding jobs removing video URLs when using Gutenberg block

7.5.39.7212

• Security - prevent XSS when "Enable profile videos" is on
• Allow DB tables to be fixed with WP_ALLOW_REPAIR
• Bugfix - Amazon S3 - fix when using commas in the URLs
• Bugfix - Video Checker - fix checking of dynamic URLs (Amazon S3, or FV Player Pro CDNs like Bunny CDN)