v0.16.0

[0.16.0] - 2023-11-13

Added

• User interface for the Queue: Press and hold Options (*) to show the queue

Fixed

• Crash when video player has no content
• Execution timeout on cirlce posters

v0.15.1

[0.15.1] - 2023-11-10

Added

• An option to disable search history

Fixed

• A rare bug that causes the app to crash when displaying video cells
• A bug where we show error dialogs that happened on screens that are already closed
• A bug where bookmarks show duplicate videos
• A bug where watch history is not always sent to Invidious

v0.15.0

[0.15.0] - 2023-11-05

Added

• Pagination support in web app search (load more button)
• Video links pasted into the web app triggers the dialog to cast the video
• Ability to subscribe/unsubscribe from a channel screen
  • This needs additional scope for the Invidious token. You will be logged out, and need to login again. Sorry for the inconvenience.
• A notification when videos are added to the queue (can be disabled from the settings)

Fixed

• A bug where casting from web included timestamp even if the "Start at" check box is unchecked
• A leak where channel screens would reload data even when closed
• A crash when fetching subscriptions
• Fetching errors by adding a retry mechanism to web requests

v0.14.0

[0.14.0] - 2023-10-25

Added

• Bookmarks: different items can now be bookmarked, and be found in the Bookmarks screen.
  Things that can be bookmarked:
  • A video
  • A channel
  • A playlist
  • Subscriptions
  • Trending
  • Popular
  • Playlists
  • Search results
  • Channel tabs (latest videos, live streams, playlists, shorts, podcasts, related channels)
• Context menu: press and hold OK to show a context menu to:
  • Play/queue a video or a playlist
  • Open the channel of a playlist or of a video
  • Manage bookmarks
• Local DASH manifest generation
  • This adds support for multi languages audio tracks
  • Also adds thumbnails/preview in trick play mode
    • Known issue: thumbnails might appear cropped/misaligned at the end of videos. This will be addressed in a later release.
• Search filters in web app
• Channels and Playlists can be opened on TV from web app
• Channel links can be drag and dropped into the web app

Fixed

• Layout in channel view so that the upload time and view count of videos is visible
• A few things in the logger
• A bug where channels show "0 videos". Channel handle is shown instead.

Changed

• Cache format so it does less parsing work
• Removed "chapter" from SponsorBlock categories

v0.13.1

[0.13.1] - 2023-10-08

Added

• Support to pause/play while picture-in-picture

Fixed

• (potentionally) a bug where many dialogs could cause an execution timeout
• Mutltiple rare crashes when component content is set before component initialization
• Error dialog for loading "Popular" when "Popular" is disabled

v0.13.0

[0.13.0] - 2023-10-02

Added

• Playlists, streams, podcasts and related channels to Channel UI
  • Pagination supported
• Channels show up in web app (but no UI for channel details yet)
• Support for Etag header on the web server to improve performance with caching

Fixed

• Another bug where the app crashes if an error happens loading channel info
• Issue with default instance (by changing default instance)
• Cropped text in a couple of buttons

Removed

• Partial content (Range header) from the web server, since we never serve very big files

v0.12.1

[0.12.1] - 2023-09-19

Added

• New logger: less features, and less rendezvous

Fixed

• A bug where the app crashes if an error happens loading channel info

Removed

• roku-log package
• ropm

v0.12.0

[0.12.0] - 2023-09-17

Added

• A field to indicate when a playlist was last updated
• Voice search in search page
• Basic support for channels (open channel, see latest videos)
• Search filters (Upload date, type, duration, features, and sort by)

Changed

• Renamed Unstable releases to Canary

v0.11.0

[0.11.0] - 2023-09-10

This version went through a major refactor, which resulted in a different arcitecture of the app to support new features, the rewrite of many pieces, as well as new features.

Added

• The concept of a Queue. Videos can now be queued to play one after another.
  • Currently the queue is funcitonal, but no proper UI to support it, such as seeing the queue, clearing it, and so on.
  • UI for the Queue will be introduced in a future version.
  • Videos and playlists can be queued from the web app
• Support for Playlists
  • Home screen now shows both created and saved playlists
  • Playlists have their own view to scroll through their videos
  • Playlist videos play one after the other
  • Playlists show up in search results
• Continious scrolling of feed where supported (pagination)
  • Subscriptions, Search, Playlists and Search based feeds (like Funny and News in the home screen)
  • Not yet supported in the web app
• Home screen placeholder items while items are loading
• Settings screen has been rewritten with a better design
• Access to public instances
  • New UI to list public instances, or to specify a custom instance
  • Testing system to make sure the instance is properly setup and usable
• Playlet now tolerate certain missing configurations in Invidious (such as not configuring the domain)
• Better error handling, error dialogs, with more information on what went wrong
• Multiple Brighterscript plugins to support different functionalities of the app
• Testing framework, and some tests
• Performance imporvements
  • Lazy loading where applicable
  • Screens do not load until opened for the first time
  • Not all feeds are loaded at once, feeds are loaded on demand while scrolling
  • App profiled, some bottlenecks identified and fixed
  • QR Code generation happens on background thread
• More consistent logging, and the ability to retreive a log file of current run and the previous run
• New HttpClient for making web requests, which supports SendAndForget and Cancellation, with a reduced rendezvous
• Open API spec file describing available APIs in the Playlet Web Server

Changed

• Lots of refactors and rewrites in general
• The developer settings are now always visible in the web app
• The web server is now decoupled from Playlet specific logic
• When not logged in, authenticated feed (like user Subscriptions and Playlists) show a "Login to view X" message, with a QR Code that redirects to the login screen
• [Breaking change] web apis changed a bit (for example the /api/command endpoint is removed) refer to the Open API spec
• If the Invidious auth token is missing permissions (A token aquired using a previous version of Playlet) you will be auto logged out.

Removed

• roku-requests package. A new HttpClient has been written to fit the need of Playlet instead. Some of the reasons to do this:
  • It was causing a lot of rendezvous
  • It has no real way to send a request without waiting for it to finish (send and forget)
  • Some of the API was quirky (need to specify parseJson: false to ask it NOT to parse the response)
  • It reads the response data, headers, error codes and etc even if they are not needed
  • Excessive logging without a way to toggle it, or redirect it to a file
• Some unused parts of the code (Like basic auth in the server, WebSockets, RegistryRouter, Kanji QR Code)
  • These were unsued and/or feature flagged features. Things can be restored as needed.
• The video player loading spinner when the video is minimized: this added too much hacky code with minimum value.

Fixed

• Different issues caused by background tasks in the home screen
• An issue caused by manipulating the loading spinner on the video player
• An issue where the web server hangs if the payload contains unicode characters

v0.10.3

[0.10.3] - 2023-07-24

Added

• Support for saved playlists. By adding a playlist from a youtube channel to your Invidious profile, you can see the playlist on Playlet.