Release 8.0.26 · foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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