v0.24.0

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New

• ⚠️ Bump minSdk to 21 (Android 5 Lollipop) and drop support for Android 4.4 KitKat #7613
• Add Download entry to long-press menu #8397
• Add option to hide future videos in feed #8545 #8966
• Add Share menu item to local playlists #8542

Improved

• Crop the notification thumbnail in 1:1 mode instead of stretching it #8533
• Make thumbnails' scaleType fitCenter #8573
• Improve image placeholders #8530
• Removed the "(beta)"-tag from services #8637
• Refactor player and extract UI components #8170 #8661 #8678 #8731
• Sort tags case-insensitively #8709

Fixed

• Fix wrong image used as a placeholder for channels avatars #8676
• Fix various issues with player notification #8678 #8899

Localization

• Make some much needed changes to the README #8372
• Fix lang code for Chinese Simplified #8549

Development

• Run CI on all release branches #8565
• Clean up proguard file #8468
• Update ExoPlayer to 2.18.1 #8536 #8687
• Specify used ExoPlayer libraries #8469
• Use minimum required permissions for GitHub workflows #8569
• Checkstyle assign on same line #8601
• Use ViewCompat.setBackgroundTintList() #8633
• Update some misc libraries #8475
• Use stream sorting #8635
• Use Java 9 collection factories: List.of(), Set.of(), Map.of() #8631 #8679
• Use range-limiting method MathUtils.clamp() #8651 #8737
• Use Kotlin IO extensions #8648
• Remove some unnecessary methods #8663 #8740
• Remove deprecated method calls in FocusAwareCoordinator #8670
• Deduplicate SQL queries to get feed streams #8621
• Update OkHttp to 4.10.0 #8624
• Update Lifecycle to 2.5.1 #8683
• Update AndroidX Fragment to 1.4.1 #8691
• Update Google Material to 1.6.1 #8692
• Use Throwable.stackTraceToString() #8701
• Update AppCompat to 1.4.2 #8667
• Use WindowMetrics API #8656
• Update AndroidX Room to 2.4.3 #8716
• Remove uses of setBottomSheetCallback() #8669
• Refactor LicenseFragmentHelper #8682
• Make OnClickGesture an interface #8721
• Reduce View.kt size #8708
• Use toArray() with zero-length arrays #8724
• Use Comparator factory methods #8728
• Use Collectors.joining() #8738
• Update FilePicker to our custom fork and disable Jetifier #8666
• Add FAQ entry to the template checklists #8822
• Use ListAdapter for search predictions #8719 #8972
• Update Gradle to 7.5.1 #8751
• Remove extra whitespace from issue and PR templates #8755
• Clarify that span shouldn't be in translated READMEs #8754
• Keep strong references to Picasso notification icon loading targets #8677
• Create media session UI and fix player notification #8678

v0.23.3

Fixed

• [YouTube] Fix infinite loading when trying to play any video TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#912
• [YouTube] Fix throttling on some videos TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#882

Development

• Upgrade the jsoup library to 1.15.3, which includes a security fix #8880 TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#911

v0.23.2

Fixed

• [YouTube] Fix "Could not get any stream" error when trying to play any video, thanks to @Theta-Dev! TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#891
• [YouTube] Fix replacement of video and audio streams by a video saying The following content is not available on this app TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#890

v0.23.1

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New

• Support delivery methods other than progressive HTTP #8153 (thanks to @AudricV!)

  • [YouTube] Use DASH for playback, improving loading times in playback and seeking
  • [YouTube] Full playback of recently ended livestreams
  • [YouTube] Improve availability of some resolutions and formats
  • [PeerTube] Fix seeking on videos with only HLS streams
  • [PeerTube] Fix crash on videos with an audio-only stream
  • [SoundCloud] Fix playback of HLS-only tracks

• Add button to add a remote playlist to a local one #7355

• Image preview in Android share sheet (Android 10+ only) #8143

Improved

• Improve playback parameters dialog's UI #7989 #8349
• Moved subscription import/export options to (overflow) menu #7458

Fixed

• Fix keyboard doesn't open with disabled animations #8227
• Fix crash when opening NewPipe from the notification bar #8244
• Fix hiding player controls when playing from media button #8315
• Fix history view count #8336 #8564
• Fix RouterActivity theming (the menu that shows up when you share something to NewPipe) #8332
• Fix removing only fully watched videos from playlist #8259
• Fix crash when rotating device on unsupported channels #8192
• Make volume progress bar match system volume when we start sliding #8377
• Fix Add to playlist not working and cleanup RouterActivity choice handling (the menu that shows up when you share something to NewPipe) #8340

Localization

• Add Hindi translation of the README #8355

Development

• Update ACRA library #8206
• Update user agent used by the downloader #8269
• Remove unused strings.xml resources #8329
• Update Groupie and ACRA libraries #8407
• Update Android Gradle Plugin and Kotlin #8406
• Use JvmOverloads instead of manually overloading method #8391
• Remove unnecessary compat method calls #8382
• Use AppCompatResources #8404
• Made some much needed changes to the ReadMe #8372

v0.23.0

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New

• Notifications for new streams #2335
• Seamless transition between background and video players when putting the app in background #7349 #8139
• Change pitch by semitones #7565
• Implement appending queue to playlist in main player #8008
• Load YouTube mixes in related items TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#788 -- note that this has already been broken by YouTube in the EU

Improved

• Remember adjustment step size for playback controls (speed and pitch) #7728
• Mitigating long buffering on initial video playback #7919 #8302
• Replace R.string.yes with R.string.ok #7976
• Improve player UI and navigability for Android TV #7963
• Add a confirmation button when deleting all files in downloader #5878
• Remove icon duplicates and fix some theming issues #7518 #8081
• ExoPlayer 2.17.1 update and MediaSource management rework #8020 #8150 #8249

Fixed

• Fix player controls not hiding if resumed from media button #7341
• Migrate app update checker to AndroidX Work #7975
• Fix error notification on KitKat #7977
• Fix playback being reset to beginning when player type was changed #8020
• Fix download dialog selector layout #7516
• Fix crash when rotating device with playlist dialog open #8146
• Adapt opacity of popup close button to allow touches in other apps on Android >=12 #8279

Development

• Replace CircleImageView with ShapeableImageView #7925
• Solve Java warning Raw use of parameterized class #7904
• Fix Room warning about unused columns during build #7905
• Fix build on Apple Silicon Macs #7782
• Refactor generating InfoItemDialog's #7570
• Better equals check #7910
• Update Android Gradle Plugin and Gradle #7947
• Remove duplicate large-land player layout #7894
• Update ConstraintLayout and Room libraries #7954
• Update Kotlin to 1.6.10 #7952
• Update some AndroidX libraries #7978
• Deduplicate code for fetching stream info when sparse #7981 #8127
• Extract some view click listeners from player #8011
• Delete some unused code #8067
• Clean up the about package a bit #8065
• Create stub implementation for OnSeekBarChangeListener #8066
• Some lint cleaning #8068
• Update Checkstyle to 10.0 and fix various related issues #8073
• Update license to latest version #8076 #8077
• Update CONTRIBUTING.md with current checkstyle.xml path #8175
• Update GitHub action dependencies in workflows #8198
• Update AGP, Gradle, and Kotlin #8204
• Use simpler DrawerLayout method #8200
• Replace checklist drawable #8199

v0.22.2

Fixed

• Fix YouTube not playing any streams #8202
• All fixes and improvements from NewPipe Extractor version 0.22.0.

v0.22.1

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Fixed

• Load enough initial items and fix crash in lists #7659
• Have fast seek overlay arc go under system ui #7898
• Revert "Respect cutouts when playing in MultiWindow" #7924

Development

• Update ACRA library #7679
• Improved image-minimizer #7884
• Change compileSdk from 30 to 31 #7900
• Small refactor in player class #7901

v0.22.0

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New

• New Fast Forward/Rewind behavior #4833
• Searchable Preferences / Settings #7586, #7860
• Highlight pinned comments as such #7577
• Added FSFE-Tube PeerTube instance #7481

Improved

• Unify error reporting and add error notification #7482
• Show an alert dialog when no appropriate file manager was found #7452
• Do not repeatedly say "Video preview thumbnail" when in reader mode #7619
• Increase playlist stuck target duration coefficient and catch BehindLiveWindowExceptions properly #7661

Fixed

• Fixed order of local search results #7491
• Respect cutouts when playing in MultiWindow #7451
• Fixed hashtags that use non-English characters. #7556
• Fixed readme link #6855
• Fixed view of sub-channel icon when not in use #7582
• Fixed search not accepting key input after closing player overlay #7607
• Load full stream info before using a stream, fixing empty fields in play queue #7036
• Fixed crash when sharing a playlist which is loading #7662
• Workaround: Set recovery before switching player #7668, #7852
• Added app icon to fastlane metadata #7672
• Always show playing in background/popup toast #7614, reverting #7224 and #7568
• Fixed first item always played in the play queue when reloading play queue manager #7693
• Load uploader url when showing channel details from play queue #7538
• Fixed crash when long-pressing stream while player is starting #7704

Development

• Bump ktlint, Checkstyle, Java version #7500 ⚠️ The app requires now Java 11 to be built
• Update/Fix "Get it on F-Droid" #7498
• Updated a bunch of libraries #7499
• Readd sonar CI job #7552
• Small improvements to code quality and readability #7562
• Updated NewPipeExtractor #7589
• CI: Upload test-report when an error occurs #7636
• Replaced JUnit asserts with AssertJ in HistoryRecordManagerTest #7654
• Fixed false warning #7648
• Add traditional Chinese README #7618
• Add Polish README #7694
• Some untranslatable string improvements #7317
• Ensure order of search history entries in tests #7670
• Sync weblate #7689
• Fixed some gradle deprecations #7678
• Improved HistoryRecordManager tests #7700
• Moved translated READMEs to subfolder #7784
• Updated FUNDING.yml #7682
• Small changes to license section of README #7710
• Added some stuff to paths-ignore #7803

v0.21.16

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Fixed

• Fix YouTube not playing any streams TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#785

v0.21.15

Fixed

• Removed MediaParser support to fix failing playback resume after buffering on Android 11+ #7555
• Disabled media tunneling on Philips QM16XE to fix playback problems. #7497