revanced.md

ReVanced changelog

2024-04-21

• Updated to 19.11.43
• Alternative thumbnails: Selectively enable for home / subscription / search
• GmsCore: Require ignoring battery optimizations
• GmsCore support: Prompt to disable battery optimizations, if not done already
• Hide ads: rename Hide paid content to Hide paid promotion label
• Hide load more button: Include patch with Hide layout components, and hide button only in search feed
• Hide Shorts components: Correctly hide Shorts if navigation tab is changed using device back button
• Player flyout menu: Add hide Lock screen menu
• Spoof device dimensions: Warn about potential performance issues
• Hide layout components: Add option to hide horizontal shelves
• Hide layout components: Hide playables
• Hide Shorts components: Hide Shop, Location and Save sound to playlist buttons
• Hide Shorts components: Hide tagged products, hide search suggestions
• Swipe controls: Save and restore brightness and add auto-brightness toggle
• Add 'About' preference to settings menu
• Match overlay icons style to YouTube

2024-03-28

• Updated to 19.09.37
• Client spoof: Spoof all user agents
• Hide ads: Prevent app crash if hiding fullscreen ads is not possible
• Fix video playback by switching to ReVanced GmsCore vendor
• Downloads: Use external downloader when selecting Download in home feed flyout menu
• Downloads: Add ability to use in-app download button
• Hide layout components: Filter home/search results by keywords
• Hide Shorts components: Hide like and dislike buttons
• Hide Shorts components: Hide sound metadata label
• Hide Shorts components: Hide title and full video link label
• Hide Shorts components: Selectively hide Shorts for home / subscription / search
• Remove HDR auto brightness patch

2024-03-04

• Spoof app version: Remove broken versions
• Spoof signature: Fix tracking such as history or watch time
• Change start page: Add more start pages
• Spoof app version: Add target versions
• Reorganize settings menu

2024-02-10

• Updated to 19.04.37
• Correctly show channel page on tablet devices

2024-01-30

• Updated to 19.03.35
• Minimized playback: Fix PIP incorrectly shown for some Shorts playback
• Return YouTube Dislike: Prevent the first Short opened from freezing the UI
• Alternative Thumbnails: Add option to use DeArrow
• Add Change start page patch
• Hide ads: Hide fullscreen ads
• Hide layout components: Hide search result recommendations
• Add Remove viewer discretion dialog patch (a07f83f)
• Remove Hide email address patch
• Clarify patch descriptions
• Enable slide to seek: Change patch default to excluded and add description disclaimer
• Change header: Change to ReVanced borderless logo header by default
• Other improvements to existing patches

2023-12-04

• Updated to 18.45.43

2023-11-25

• Updated to 18.45.41
• Hide layout components: Hide video quality menu footer
• Add Disable fullscreen ambient mode patch
• Add Disable suggested video end screen patch
• Add Enable old seekbar thumbnails patch
• SponsorBlock: Rename "Preview/Recap" category to "Preview/Recap/Hook"
• Rename Restore old seekbar thumbnails and Restore old quality menu
• Add Enable slide to seek patch
• Add Remove tracking query parameter patch
• ReturnYouTubeDislike: Improve layout padding
• Add Disable rolling number animations patch
• Hide ads: Hide shopping links in video description
• Hide layout components: Hide "For You" shelf in channel page

2023-10-27

• ReturnYouTubeDislike: Fix dislikes not showing on Shorts
• Hide layout components: Hide new channel watermark component
• Theme: Disable gradient loading screen
• Add Announcements patch
• Add Spoof device dimensions patch

2023-10-10

• Updated to 18.38.44
• Hide info cards: Fix info cards not hiding for some users
• Hide layout components: Always hide redundant 'player audio track' button
• Hide layout components: Hide "Join", "Notify me", search result shelf header and timed reactions
• Hide shorts components: Fix hiding navigation bar
• Restore functionality of Old video quality menu and Custom speeds on tablets
• Add Bypass URL redirects patch
• Add Disable fine scrubbing gesture patch
• Other improvements to existing patches

2023-09-07

• Updated to 18.32.39
• Allow setting no background color
• Apply custom seekbar color to shorts
• Add a switch to enable/disable custom seekbar color
• Add switch to hide chips shelf
• Add Player Flyout Menu patch
• Add switch to hide individual action buttons
• Add Alternative thumbnails patch
• Add Custom player overlay opacity patch
• Add Enable tablet layout patch
• Restored original app name and icon

2023-07-18

• Updated to 18.23.35
• Remove non-functional custom video buffer patch
• Update app icon

2023-07-07

• Option to hide mix playlists
• Don't re-enable signature spoof automatically
• Enable predictive back gesture

2023-06-07

• Updated to 18.19.35
• Fix default video quality/speed being applied when resuming app
• Fix temporarily frozen video after opening a short
• Add tap and hold functionality to copy video URL buttons
• Add option to import/export ReVanced settings
• Add hide-load-more-button, hide-filter-bar and hide-shorts-components patches
• Use dynamic background color for custom splash screen
• Other fixes and improvements

2023-05-10

• Update to 18.16.37
• Disable debugging by default
• Fix hide action buttons not working for some users
• Remove hide-my-mix patch (broken)
• Disable minimized playback for shorts
• Add hide-player-overlay and navigation-button patches
• Fix background play of kids videos
• Other fixes and improvements

2023-04-22

• Update to 18.08.37
• Allow to not remember playback speed
• Automatic signature spoofing to prevent playback issues
• Change 'Hide create, clip and thanks buttons' to default off
• Fix 'Hide share button'
• Hide more types of ads
• Disable preferences and add dialog messages to preferences
• Change default video speed and quality inside the settings menu
• Various fixes and improvements to Sponsorblock and other patches

2023-03-18

Patches v2.163.0

• disable-fullscreen-panels-auto-popup: use proper descriptions
• general-ads: fix switch description wording
• hide-time: use correct integrations class
• hide-watch-in-vr: fix descriptions
• open-links-directly: reference correct integrations method
• general-ads: hide channel bar
• general-ads: hide horizontal video shelf
• open-links-directly: skip every redirect url

Patches v2.164.0

• general-ads: hide quick actions in fullscreen
• general-ads: hide related videos in quick action
• return-youtube-dislike: support for shorts
• Remove patch open-links-directly

Patches v2.165.0

• spoof-signature-verification patch

Patches v2.165.1

• spoof-signature-verification: use correct fingerprint

Patches v2.166.0

• general-ads: remove duplicate preference
• return-youtube-dislike: add missing strings
• custom-video-buffer: replace patch with removal notice
• disable-player-popup-panels: use better patch description
• general-ads: do not hide components in library tab
• general-ads: hide image shelf from search results
• hide-autoplay-button: do not disable autoplay button when hidden
• hide-floating-microphone-button
• Bump compatibility to 18.05.40

2023-02-15

• custom-branding: correct scaling, margin and images
• hide-player-buttons patch
• general-ads: hide pill to view products
• minimized-playback: disable when playing shorts
• general-ads: use better description for switch
• general-ads: hide web search results

2023-01-30

• return-youtube-dislike: do not fetch voting stats when watching shorts
• sponsorblock: replace missing strings
• general-ads: remove hiding video shelf
• open-links-externally patch
• Show toasts along exceptions

2023-01-19

• Disabled predictive back gesture
• Added hide-breaking-news-shelf, copy-video-url, remember-playback-rate and spoof-app-version patches
• Improvements to existing patches

2022-12-24

• Updated base to 17.49.37
• Improvements to existing patches

2022-12-11

• Enabled predictive back gesture on Android 13
• Fixed swipe down to refresh
• Improvements to existing patches
• Re-enabled theme patch

2022-11-30

• Updated base to 17.45.36
• Added open-links-directly and remove-player-button-background patch
• Improvements to existing patches

2022-11-03

• Updated base to 17.43.36
• Added hide-watch-in-vr patch
• Updated Return YouTube Dislike to support new UI
• Hide Shorts comments button when hide comments is enabled

2022-10-28

• Updated base to 17.41.37
• Added the following patches: hide-crowdfunding-box, hide-artist-card, hide-album-cards and comment
• Re-added hide-create-button
• Changed default app name to ReVanced
• Use proper scaled icons
• Fixes and improvements to other patches

2022-10-21

• Added two new patches: hide-my-mix (removes mix playlists from the feed) and hide-captions-button (hides the captions button on video player)
• Temporarily excluded hide-create-button patch (conflicts with hide-shorts-button and makes the app crash)
• Various fixes and improvements to other patches

2022-10-06

• Added disable-startup-shorts-player and hide-video-buttons patches

2022-09-25

• Added disable-auto-player-popup-panels and hide-time-and-seekbar patches
• custom-playback-speed: max, min, granularity option
• Option to disable sponsorblock on shorts

2022-09-19

• Updated base to 17.36.37

2022-09-17

• Completely removed amoled from patches

2022-09-15

• Removed amoled patch since it's been deprecated by theme
• Added disable-auto-captions patch

2022-09-03

• Fixed download button color

2022-08-30

• Updated base to 17.33.42

2022-08-27

• Added client-spoof patch