Prysm v1.3.0

Prysm v1.3.0 — Release Notes

New Features

Updates & System

• Added in-app update checker with GitHub releases integration

Playback & Controls

• Added draggable seek bar with preview tooltip for both VOD and live streams
• Auto-enter Picture-in-Picture (PiP) on app minimize (mobile)

Improvements

TV Experience

• Improved focus system, replaced border-based focus with background-only highlighting
• Better focus restoration when reopening the sidebar/drawer

Playlist & Streaming

• Improved playlist fetching reliability with better fallback handling
• Enhanced compatibility with providers by handling User-Agent and referrer attributes
• Improved parsing of EXTINF metadata (headers like http-user-agent, http-referrer)

Fixes

Playback & UI

• Fixed controls visibility issue before entering PiP
• Fixed issues with playlist fetching logic and native module fallbacks

Playlist Handling

• Switched to updated expo-file-system API for local playlist reading
• Removed unsupported FairPlay DRM type from channel model
• Fixed potential null issues in playlist fetching

Networking

• Fixed User-Agent handling to avoid server-side blocking

Maintenance

• Updated Expo SDK 54 dependencies to latest patch versions

Stability

• General bug fixes and performance improvements across playback and data handling