Announcing Shaka Player v2.5.17 and v3.0.5

[Joey Parrish]

Hi everyone,

We are pleased to announce the release of Shaka Player v2.5.17 and v3.0.5.  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:
  - Fix hiding controls on mobile after touch
  - Ignore seek touch events on hidden controls
  - Fix interpretation of DEFAULT and AUTOSELECT in HLS
  - Avoid a race when clearing buffered content
  - Allow playback of video-only HLS via configuration
  - Make UITextDisplayer CSS-independent
  - Remove hard-coded tts:extent namespace in TTML parser
  - Don't apply seek range while content is still loading
  - Fix Shaka+Cast apps using IndexedDB
  - Permit applications to monkey-patch Date.now
  - Fix detection of Edge Chromium as Edge
  - Fix loading with global "define" set to null
  - Fix missing cues in UITextDisplayer
  - Fix storing modified init data for offline sessions

  - Change the demo's menu icon to a settings icon

Fixes that apply to v3.0.x only:
  - Fix duplicate text streams in multi-period DASH
  - Fix rapid seeking leading to infinite buffering
  - Fix non-deterministic exception in StreamingEngine
  - Fix bug where cue comparison throws
  - Fix exception on multi-period DASH
  - Fix embedded captions vanishing
  - Fix application of DRM server certificate
  - Fix multi-period DASH with period-specific codecs

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://v3-0-5-dot-shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/docs/api/tutorial-upgrade.html

v2.5.17 demo: https://v2-5-17-dot-shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/
v2.5.17 docs: https://v2-5-17-dot-shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/docs/api/index.html
v2.5.17 on github: https://github.com/google/shaka-player/tree/v2.5.17

v3.0.5 demo: https://v3-0-5-dot-shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/
v3.0.5 docs: https://v3-0-5-dot-shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/docs/api/index.html
v3.0.5 on github: https://github.com/google/shaka-player/tree/v3.0.5

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!