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New features

• requestUrl and responseUrl properties for Segment objects
• Plyr player demos

Improvements

• Reduced size of the bundle by about 5%
• The bundle is compiled to ES2017 standard (reduces bundle size)

API changes

• Settings interfaces
• Segment object as a POJO

New features

• Custom segments/assets storage support - allows storing video segments for example in indexedDB to watch the video while next page visit without network requests (i.e. offline playback)
• Configurable number of peer requests per announce (max 10)
• DPlayer support in the demo
• videojs-hlsjs-plugin support - allows videojs integration with quality selector

Improvements

• Removed default public trackers that usually don't work
• Improved interface between core and integrations (i.e. hlsjs and shaka)

Fixes

• Fixed issues when httpDownloadInitialTimeout is set
• Fixed version string when using JavaScript sources without bundle (i.e. via NPM)

P2P algorithm new features, fixes and improvements

• Ability to download initial segments over P2P (useful for VOD)
• Consume only mode (useful for mobile/cellular users)
• Choose random peer for segment download
• Support for multiple simultaneous HTTP downloads
• Fixed random segments download from an HTTP source
• Random HTTP downloads are done regularly by an interval
• Ability to not initiate random HTTP downloads if there are no other peers in the swarm
• Ability to specify max priority for segments downloaded over HTTP or P2P

Network usage improvements

• Reduced size of commands sent from peer to peer
• Reduced size of segments map sent from peer to peer
• Reuse WebSocket connections on quality change

Other

• Generate readable peer ID, imitate WebTorrent (some trackers allow only known BitTorrent clients to connect)
• Default tracker from Novage
• Callback segmentUrlBuilder allows multiple HTTP sources for HLS (useful for PeerTube)

Security improvements

• Segment validation allows protection from malicious peers

hls.js engine improvements

• Support for HTTP redirects
• Support for byte ranges in manifests
• Support for swarm ID for streams without master manifest

Algorithms improvements

• Improved P2P and HTTP error handling
• Tuned bandwidth approximation algorithm

New features

• Ability to get peer ID of self
• Ability to get related peer ID for various events
• Support for configuration of XMLHttpRequest that allows integration of content protection

macOS Safari support fixed About 60% smaller minified library size Library compiled to ES6 target Correct URL handling

Support built into Flowplayer hlsjs-lite Fixed version export for webpack build

Support setting custom swarm ID

The project is now open-source under Apache License 2.0