tag:github.com,2008:https://github.com/jwplayer/jwplatform-docs/releasesRelease notes from jwplatform-docs2018-07-18T17:50:21Ztag:github.com,2008:Repository/52907209/2018-7-242018-07-25T14:12:38ZJW Dashboard: Bug Fixes <h3>Bug Fixes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Now including the platform thumbnail for videos sent from the JW Player Dashboard to Facebook via Social Publishing</li>
<li>Updated the dropdown menu in the Recommendations Player Builder menu to allow users to view more than 50 Recommendation playlists</li>
</ul>allisonstonetag:github.com,2008:Repository/52907209/2018-7-102018-07-11T18:24:45ZJW Dashboard : JW Player SDK 3.0 for iOS & Android<h3>New Features</h3>
<h4>JW Player SDK 3.0 for iOS & Android</h4>
<p>We are excited to announce JW Player SDK 3.0 for iOS & Android. This release updates the SDK to JW8 and leverages its new UI & UX, optimization, and advertising enhancements to engage your audiences intelligently and monetize your content. In the coming months we will deploy more JW8 features into the JW Player SDKs for iOS & Android, so stay tuned!</p>
<p>Please refer to the important 3.x migration guides for iOS & Android, to update your current application from version 2.x to 3.x. These guides include important information about API changes, new features & callbacks, and will help your team with the transition process.</p>
<p>You may use Maven or CocoaPods to update to SDK 3.x, or you can download the SDK 3 packages and new 3.x license keys from the Publish -> Tools section of your JW Player Dashboard. Please note that version 3 of the SDKs are available to our Enterprise edition customers, and require new license keys because 2.x license keys will not work.</p>
<ul>
<li>Support for new advertising rules, including timeBetweenAds, startOnSeek, frequency, and startOn. Please refer to our Ad Rules Reference for details on how to use them.</li>
</ul>hbleetag:github.com,2008:Repository/52907209/2018-7-032018-07-12T03:58:29ZJW Dashboard: Bug Fixes<h3>Bug Fixes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fixed an issue where sort order (e.g. least viewed vs. recently published) was not being respected on save for Dynamic Playlists</li>
<li>Fixed the display value of Cloud-Hosted Player Release Channels, where for players not on Production or Beta channels it was showing the incorrect channel in the dashboard</li>
</ul>allisonstonetag:github.com,2008:Repository/52907209/2018-6-272018-06-29T20:17:03ZJW Dashboard: Social Publishing, Ad Preloading, Billing Improvements<h3>New Features</h3>
<h4>Facebook Publishing (Beta)</h4>
<p>Reach larger audiences with simple Facebook Publishing from the JW Player dashboard.</p>
<ul>
<li>Customers with Business plans and above can now see options for Facebook publishing throughout the dashboard.</li>
<li>Connect a Facebook account to JW Player, then go to the Publish > Social section or to a particular video to share it to Facebook with just a few clicks.</li>
<li>“Share” options now include Facebook, or our password-protected Video Share page released earlier this year.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Preload Ads Setting for Buffer-Free Playback</h4>
<p>Released in the 8.4 JW Player version, we now offer a setting in the dashboard to turn on Ad Preloading, an optional setting which preloads ad breaks before they play.</p>
<ul>
<li>For any cloud-hosted JW8 player, turn on this setting in the Monetize section of the Player Builder.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Credit Card Billing Optimizations</h4>
<p>Customers paying with credit card can now click on an invoice number on the billing page to change their payment method, or immediately pay a past due invoice.</p>
<ul>
<li>With this new feature you can now pay a past due invoice with a payment method other than the one listed on you account, or switch from PayPal to Credit Card for a particular payment.</li>
<li>Keep in mind only Admin users of any account can access the Billing page.</li>
</ul>allisonstonetag:github.com,2008:Repository/52907209/2018-5-152018-05-17T16:17:04ZJW Dashboard : Password-Protected Video Sharing<h3>New Features</h3>
<h4>Password-Protected Video Sharing</h4>
<p>Publishers, marketers, independent content creators, and all JW Player customers can now easily share and preview videos directly from the dashboard with zero coding.</p>
<ul>
<li>Just click the new “Share” button from any video in your JW Player video library, and a link to your video can be publicly shared for everyone to view.</li>
<li>Protect your video with a password for private sharing.</li>
</ul>
<p>Save time, money, and engineering resources with code-free, secure video sharing in your JW Player dashboard.</p>hbleetag:github.com,2008:Repository/52907209/2018-1-312018-03-05T19:15:36ZOut-Player Recommendations, Filter Playlists by Date<h3>New Features</h3>
<h4>Out-Player Recommendations Page Widget</h4>
<p>Publishers and developers can easily create beautiful content discovery experiences outside of the JW Player to help increase viewer interaction and grow audience. Quickly styled, cleanly designed & coded, and built with best practices from the ground up our example widgets are ready to implement:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://developer.jwplayer.com/jw-player/demos/advanced/out-player-widget-article/" rel="nofollow">Out-Player Widget on an Article</a></li>
<li><a href="https://developer.jwplayer.com/jw-player/demos/advanced/out-player-widget-video-site/" rel="nofollow">Out-Player Widget on a Single Page Video Site</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>JW Platform API Delivery Features</h4>
<p>Publishers and developers now have more control over playlist content and delivery:</p>
<ul>
<li>See only recent videos in your playlist: per video publish date rules can be set for any playlist via a url parameter on v2 delivery endpoints.</li>
<li>Manual, Dynamic, or Trending playlists have increased page sizes of up to 500 items.</li>
</ul>
<p>Note that URL rules override any v1 MAPI and publisher dashboard playlist configurations. See <a href="https://developer.jwplayer.com/jw-platform/docs/delivery-api-reference/#!/playlists/get_v2_playlists_playlist_id" rel="nofollow">JW Platform Delivery API</a> for details.</p>franklindtag:github.com,2008:Repository/52907209/2018-1-222018-03-05T19:08:32ZJW Dashboard 4.5: New Video Detail Design, Multi-Factor Authentication & more<h3>New Features</h3>
<h4>Multi-Factor Authentication via email</h4>
<p>Now each user can opt-in to multi-factor authentication to add an additional layer of security to their account. Enabling this option will send a security code to the email address associated with the user logging in. Admin users can also enforce multi-factor authentication to every account user by contacting support or their account rep.</p>
<h4>Video Detail Redesign</h4>
<p>We are rolling out a new design for the Video Detail page. This new version provides better organized metadata and assets sections for each video while also surfacing performance metrics for how individual videos performed over the last 90 days in a new Analytics section. We’re also introducing new immersive modes that allow users to optimize their videos:</p>
<ul>
<li>Thumbnail Mode is a revamped UI to select a thumbnail from suggested frames in the video or upload your own.</li>
<li>Trim Mode allows publishers to select new start and end times for their video (while preserving the original media ID and analytics).</li>
<li>Engagement mode provides a viewer engagement overlay to better understand dropoff and segments of interest during a video.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Playlists and Tag Exclusion</h4>
<p>Tag exclusion rules can be set for Dynamic, Trending, Similar Video, and Search playlists. Users can choose to exclude videos by tag with ANY or ALL of the chosen tags. Conflicting tag rules (the same tag for both inclusion and exclusion) will not be allowed. At the video level tag exclusion rules will take precedence over inclusion rules.</p>
<h3>Updated Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Users can now set an external VMAP ad schedule URL (for JW 8 Players) when creating or updating a player via the Monetize section of the Player Builder.</li>
<li>We are collecting some feedback for localization options our users need in the Player Builder Customization section.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Fixes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Resolved an issue where caption track timestamps were not rounded correctly upon conversion to VTT, resulting in a cue start time occurring after a cue end time.</li>
</ul>rowteemetag:github.com,2008:Repository/52907209/2017-12-042017-12-06T21:04:45ZJW Dashboard: General Bug Fixes & Improvements<h3>Updated Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>We made some improvements to the default CSS when Players are created or saved, making it easier for developers to override styles. We’ve also clarified the “reset to defaults” action on the Player Builder page.</li>
<li>We have included more detailed descriptions of our self-service editions for users who want to upgrade inside of the dashboard.</li>
<li>All new accounts and properties that are created will now automatically have access to the newer ad scheduling functionality powered by v2 of the Ads API.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Fixes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Resolved visual issues with the collapsible navbar experienced by Firefox Quantum users</li>
<li>Resolved an issue of inaccurate usage information for Safari users</li>
</ul>rowteemetag:github.com,2008:Repository/52907209/2017-11-302018-03-02T16:15:13ZTag Exclusion via API, URL Tag Rules<h3>New Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Publishers can exclude videos by tag from dynamic, trending, similar video, and search playlists using the v1 management API. See <a href="https://developer.jwplayer.com/jw-platform/reference/v1/methods/channels/update.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> for details. ALL or ANY rule sets are supported.</li>
<li>Include and exclude tag filtration rules for dynamic, trending, similar video, and search playlists can be passed via url parameter for v2 endpoints.
<ul>
<li>IMPORTANT: URL rules override existing API and portal playlist tag configurations. Tags are case sensitive and should be url encoded.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>See <a href="https://developer.jwplayer.com/jw-platform/docs/delivery-api-reference/" rel="nofollow">JW Platform Delivery API</a> documentation for details using v2 delivery services.</p>franklindtag:github.com,2008:Repository/52907209/2017-11-062017-11-07T20:50:39ZJW Dashboard + Management API: Advertising Updates<h3>New Features</h3>
<p>After several months of customer outreach, data investigations, and A/B testing, we’ve completed a large and incredibly important Advertising project. The changes below allow us to make ad delivery more performant and reliable, reduce dependencies on other services, clean up some legacy workflow issues, and improve our ability to deliver more impactful advertising features more frequently.</p>
<p>While most of the changes are behind the scenes, the below list affects either the Advertising sections of the dashboard (Player builder, Ad Schedule/Ad Tag list pages, Ad Schedule detail page) or the Advertising API.</p>
<ul>
<li>Added the ability to set/update an external VMAP on the Ad Schedules page</li>
<li>Enabled the v2 version of the <a href="https://developer.jwplayer.com/jw-platform/docs/developer-guide/management-api/advertising/" rel="nofollow">Advertising API</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Updated Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Updated the Ad Schedule detail view page user experience to take into account the deprecated Ad Tag list page</li>
</ul>
<h5>Ad Tag List Workflow</h5>
<p>In order to provide all the improvements noted above, the Ad Tag list page has been deprecated.</p>
<h5>Inactive Tag Workflow</h5>
<p>Tags associated with schedules remain active and continue to serve ads, inactive tags (tags not associated with schedules) have been removed and should be managed externally.</p>
<h5>v1 Management API: Advertising</h5>
<p>We’ve also deprecated the v1 version of the Advertising API Endpoint: <a href="https://developer.jwplayer.com/jw-platform/reference/v1/search.html?q=advertising&check_keywords=yes&area=default" rel="nofollow">https://developer.jwplayer.com/jw-platform/reference/v1/search.html?q=advertising&check_keywords=yes&area=default</a></p>cmulgannon