dash.js v4.7.0 officially released

[daniel....@fokus.fraunhofer.de]

Hello all,

we are pleased to announce that version 4.7.0 of dash.js has officially been released.

A big thank you to all the contributors that made this possible.

The release info can be found here:

Features

#4173 Add support for DASH content steering version 0.9.7 including support for pathway cloning and steering <Location> elements

#4127 Add support for inband prft boxes parsing

#4169 Allow preloading content with a specific start time

Improvements

#4155 Fix blinking cues when segmented over multiple segments or chunks (cont'd) 

#4158 Add DescriptorType model class to MediaInfo for elements of type viewpoint, role, accessibility, audioChannelConfiguration

#4174 Allow the playback whenever the t attribute is missing in the SegmentTimeline elements 

#4126 Add timeout for fragment request progress

#4128 Update BBC sample streams in reference client and sample pages

#4138 Upgrade IMSC.js version to 1.1.3

Link Remove Github issues stale bot 

Link Use dash.all.min.js as main entry point for npm installations 

Link Add teststream for SegmentTimeline with $number 

Link Link new sample stream in content steering sample 

Bugfixes

#3913 Fix Typescript settings and add missing objects

#4136 Update getMatroskaUint to handle larger integer values

#4156 Fix styling of embedded WebVTT cues by adding support for sttg box

#4149 Fix: changeType() is Not Fully Implemented on Sony PS5  

#4172 Process EssentialProperty_asArray in addition to EssentialProperty 

#4163 Fix bug which causes multiperiod stream to stall after internal seek in previous period. Preloading was not triggered again.

#4167 Fix: VTT line styling failing, invalid snapToLines value

#4130 Fixes in calculateThroughputByChunkData()

#4140 Fix DRM checking for single representation in adaptation

#4144 Fix/rerequest quality switch

#4147 Initialize box processors when MSS content is actually being played  

#4165 fix: wrong MediaInfo.labels type definition 

Link Add missing event to ProtectionEvents.js

#4177 Fix linting errors for "no-multi-space" rule  

#4178 Fix nullpointer if video element is set to null

#4176 Fix error in playFromTime.js test that causes CircleCI report upload to crash

Official release notes on Github:

https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js/releases/tag/v4.7.0

The CDN hosted version is available here:
http://cdn.dashjs.org/v4.7.0/dash.all.min.js

The docs are available here:
https://cdn.dashjs.org/v4.7.0/jsdoc/index.html

DASH-IF Hosted Player:
https://reference.dashif.org/dash.js/v4.7.0/samples/dash-if-reference-player/index.html

Samples Page
https://reference.dashif.org/dash.js/v4.7.0/samples/

Archived versions of the Reference Player
https://reference.dashif.org/dash.js/

Official NPM Project
https://www.npmjs.com/package/dashjs

Best
Daniel