Announcing Shaka Player v3.1.1, v3.0.12, and v2.5.23

[Joey Parrish]

Hi everyone,

We are pleased to announce the release of Shaka Player v3.1.1, v3.0.12, and v2.5.23.  There are many important fixes in these releases.  A few are specific to bugs in v3.0 and v3.1 that did not exist in v2.5.

Fixes in all branches:

  - Prioritize AVERAGE-BANDWIDTH over BANDWIDTH in HLS

  - Fix exception in UI on devices that do not support fullscreen
  - Fix caption positioning and sizing when the container resizes
  - Filter unsupported H.264 streams in Xbox
  - Choose the configured preferred text role at start
  - Fix ClearKey+WebM+src= playback failure

Fixes in v3.0.12 and v3.1.1:

  - Fix buffering due to re-fetch in multi-period DASH
  - Fix EC-3 box support in DRM workaround on smart TVs
  - Fix exceptions thrown in content with trick-mode tracks
  - Fix double-display of embedded and non-embedded captions

Fixes in v3.1.1 only:

  - Fix out-of-bounds exception in LL-DASH

  - Fix failures and gaps in LL-DASH
  - Allow muxjs to be loaded after Shaka
  - Fix STORAGE_LIMIT_REACHED error masked by DOWNLOAD_SIZE_CALLBACK_ERROR
  - Fix "details" field in shaka-ui-load-failed event
  - Ignore network changes if ABR is disabled

Full details are available in the changelog.

Other relevant links:

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

Upgrade guides for v3.1: https://v3-1-1-dot-shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/docs/api/tutorial-upgrade.html

v2.5.23 demo: https://v2-5-23-dot-shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/
v2.5.23 docs: https://v2-5-23-dot-shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/docs/api/index.html
v2.5.23 on github: https://github.com/google/shaka-player/tree/v2.5.23

v3.0.12 demo: https://v3-0-12-dot-shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/
v3.0.12 docs: https://v3-0-12-dot-shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/docs/api/index.html
v3.0.12 on github: https://github.com/google/shaka-player/tree/v3.0.12

v3.1.1 demo: https://v3-1-1-dot-shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/
v3.1.1 docs: https://v3-1-1-dot-shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/docs/api/index.html
v3.1.1 on github: https://github.com/google/shaka-player/tree/v3.1.1

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!