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.

v0.10.2

[0.10.2] - 2023-07-10

Added

• Links to the app info in web app
• Loading indicator for search page in web app
• Feedback link through email
• Scopes and expire fields to the Invidious auth token. This is to detect when a token is close to expiry, or if we have missing permissions.

Fixed

• Video duration formatting in cast dialog
• (Removed) Workaround for Invidious token expiring due to misconfigured instance
• Crash when loading the home screen #83
• Performance of home screen in web app
• SponsorBlock segments where video duration is not provided (follow up to #23)
• Focus with the settings input field

v0.10.1

[0.10.1] - 2023-06-28

Added

• Support playing a video from a specific time (cast from phone, drag and drop, open in Invidious)

Fixed

• A crash where the saved auth token is not in a valid format
• Video duration formatting for long videos
• A bug where app would lose focus when playing the next video (0.10.0 regression)

v0.10.0

[0.10.0] - 2023-06-25

Added

• New web app, mirroring Playlet app
  • Includes home page, search, settings and info
  • Dark mode
  • Also includes a dev menu
    • Hidden by default, use dev=1 in the browser to show it
  • Improved drag and drop functionality (drag and drop a link from Youtube into the web app)
• New settings page, available on TV and web app
• New preferences system
  • Unified settings between TV and web app
  • Web API allowing to import/export preferences (no UI for that yet)
• Added launch argument clearPlayletLibUrls
  • If the dev menu is used to load a custom Playlet lib url, but the lib does not have a functionality to revert back, curl -d '' "http://$ROKU_DEV_TARGET:8060/launch/dev?clearPlayletLibUrls=true" can be used to remove the custom lib, and revert to using default.

Fixed

• Issue where a dialog remains on screen when a video was cast from web app

Changed

• SponsorBlock segments are not skipped by default, except for sponsor segments
• Web app QR Code is now in its own page
• Roku OS 10.0 minimum is required

Removed

• The ability to set multiple Invidious instances. This was anticipated to use as fallback in case of failure, but it was never implemented. This is now removed to avoid confusion
  • Sometimes it is necesary to check multiple instances for closed captions in case one instance is saturated. For this case, publicly hosted Invidious instances will be used. This feature is still behind a feature flag, and not on by default, because it might delay the start of videos.
  • Of course, if no instance if provided, a public instance will be used by default. This behaviour did not change and it is now implicit.

v0.9.0

[0.9.0] - 2023-04-21

Added

• Add watched videos to Invidious watch history
• App info screen
• A dev menu selector to test newer or older versions of playlet lib
  • Makes it possible to test unstable releases before they officially release

Fixed

• A crash where the metadata of a video is not validated #57
• A crash where the video details in home screen are null #56
• A crash where the video details are not returned in json #63
• Revert to using DASH instead of 720p by default
• A crash where request cache fails #62