Announcing Shaka Player v2.5.19 and v3.0.7

[Joey Parrish]

Hi everyone,

We are pleased to announce the release of Shaka Player v2.5.19 and v3.0.7.  There are many important fixes in these releases, most of which apply to both releases.  A few are specific to bugs in v3.0 that did not exist in v2.5.

Fixes that apply to both branches:

  - Remove legacy Edge workarounds on new Edge
  - Fix viewport anchor calculations in TTML
  - Fix slow memory leak related to MediaSource object URLs
  - Improve cue comparison performance
  - Fix race condition in text stream scheduling
  - Fix exception when removing content from buffer
  - Work around misreported AC-3 support on Tizen
  - Fix trick-mode tracks associated with multiple regular tracks
  - Fix TS DRM failures
  - Ignore incompatible TrickMode streams
  - Fix build issues with Python 3
  - Fix running build scripts on Windows
  - Fix build error about stylelint paths
  - Fix build failure in context of node module

Fixes that apply to v3.0.x only:
  - Fix text failures triggered by rapid stream switches

  - Fix clicking in interactive client-side ads

  - Fix multiple stream-merging issues with DASH multi-period content
  - Fix memory leak in DASH with SegmentTimeline
  - Fix rare exception thrown when switching streams

  - Fix rendering of line breaks in text cues

  - Fix ad disappearance when reconfiguring UI during an ad

  - Fix stopping ad manager after adblock

Full details are available in the changelog.

Other relevant links:

Changelog: https://github.com/google/shaka-player/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Upgrade guides for v3.0: https://v3-0-7-dot-shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/docs/api/tutorial-upgrade.html

v2.5.19 demo: https://v2-5-19-dot-shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/
v2.5.19 docs: https://v2-5-19-dot-shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/docs/api/index.html
v2.5.19 on github: https://github.com/google/shaka-player/tree/v2.5.19

v3.0.7 demo: https://v3-0-7-dot-shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/
v3.0.7 docs: https://v3-0-7-dot-shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/docs/api/index.html
v3.0.7 on github: https://github.com/google/shaka-player/tree/v3.0.7

Full index of Shaka Player releases: https://index-dot-shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/
Latest release on npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/shaka-player
Compiled builds on Google Hosted Libraries: https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/#shaka-player

Enjoy!