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New

• Added player seekbar thumbnail preview #6434
• Added comments disabled functionality #6483
• Added ability to mark a feed item as watched #6773 #6956
• Show hearts in comments #6741

Improved

• Improved metadata layout, better tags accessibility #6463
• Various improvements to the player (e.g. faster closing) #6566
• Apply service theme to UI components #6456 #6771 #6847

Fixed

• Made the thumbnail in the minimized player visible again #6616
• Fixed 'Unrecoverable player error occurred' when rotating device while playing a video #6503
• Fixed duplicate items in queue causing endless buffering #6712
• Delete pending missions with invalid storage fixing a crash when starting a download #6721
• Prevent ReCAPTCHA webview from keeping YouTube loaded in background #6733
• Fixed NullPointerException when checking if storage exists #6778
• Disabled feed click events while refresh overlay is shown #6550
• Fixed channel item span count for SubscriptionFragment #6814

Development

• Upgraded to Gradle 7.1.1 #6538
• Updated some libraries #6540 #6702
• Specify emulator-build version in CI job fixing emulator build #6560
• Remove option to immediately commit pref changes on import #6531
• Fix API level 29 from Android CI tests #6678 #6715
• Use GestureDetectorCompat #6637
• Added instrumented tests for LocalPlaylistManager.createPlaylist #5531 #6706
• Bumped compileSdkVersion to 30 #6654
• Fixed some build warnings #6688
• Added a Kotlin section in CONTRIBUTING.md #6659
• Use Kotlin methods in LicenseFragment #6675
• Use WindowInsetsCompat's getInsets() method #6689
• Consolidate edittext alert dialogs into one common layout #6720
• Fixed deprecated fill_parent attributes #6782
• Check formatting of kotlin files in CI #6808
• Updated some AndroidX libraries #6719
• Use NotificationChannelCompat #6633

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New

• [PeerTube] Support livestreams TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#661

Fixed

• [YouTube] Fix buffering and throttling by decoding n parameter in stream URLs TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#683 TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#696
• [YouTube] Fix comments extraction and more improvements TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#604
• [YouTube] Fix crashes with disabled comments TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#652
• [YouTube] Fix music search TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#699

Fixed

• Fixed downloading via the Share Sheet #6701
• Fixed grid span count calculation #6705

Development

• More onActivityResult deprecation fixes #6536

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New

• Long press on player share button to copy url to clipboard #6436
• Added "Open website" button to WebView in license fragment #6314
• Recognize timestamps and hashtags in description #5523
• Added manual tablet mode setting #6059
• Added ability to hide played items in a feed #3371

Improved

• Support Storage Access Framework properly #5415
• Better error handling of terminated channels #5876
• Use constraint layout for play queue item #6443
• The Android share sheet for Android 10+ users now shows the content title and other improvements #5523
• Update Invidious instances and support Piped links #6557

Fixed

• Dismiss choice dialog in onStop() to avoid a leaked window Exception: #6504
• Don't enable SAF on Fire TV #6516
• Fix crash when connecting to a Bluetooth device #6570
• Fix crash when using Repeat Button in tablet layout #6622

Translation

• Fixed Simplified Chinese Plural #6545
• Updated translations

Development

• Convert the abstract class DAOs to interfaces #5462
• Resolve Tabs style checks #6346
• Update Room to 2.3.0 #6313
• Replace the System.exit calls with getActivity.finishAffinity() #6495
• Update AndroidX Fragment to 1.3.4 #6394 #6558
• Annotate some overridden methods and parameters as NonNull #6528
• Refactoring by Android Studio #6556
• Comment out test-android CI job #6562
• Ask for screenshots/video of UI changes in PR template #6539

Fixed

• Increase buffer for playback after rebuffer #6444
• Fixed crash on tablets and TVs when clicking on the play-queue icon in the player #6480

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New

• Show content metadata below the description #5946
• Added "Show channel details" option in remote (non-local) playlists #6309
• Added "Open in browser" option to long-press menu #6280

Improved

• Updated translations

Fixed

• Removed the option to download channels or playlists from the share menu #6385
• Fixed empty fragment text not centered when text longer than one line #6387
• Fixed unwanted rich text formatting when pasting into the search field #6353
• Fixed error handling in subscribe() in DownloadDialog #6118
• Fixed channel descriptions being out of the visible area in item lists #6410
• Fixed rotation crash on video detail page #6242
• Fixed and improve setting import and export paths #6402
• Fixed playback speed not being updated in PlayQueueActivity #6421
• Fixed Play with Kodi button in Player always prompts to install Kore #6429
• [Bandcamp] Fixed intent filters for some URLs #6373
• [YouTube] Fixed broken likes in comments #6337
• Hide queue duration when displaying segment panel #6442

Development

• Use AdoptOpenJDK instead of Zulu in GitHub actions #6360
• Test and clean up PlayQueue #6345
• Updated Junit (f1bc4f5) and library for desugaring (6956d16)
• Upgrade PrettyTime to 5.0.1 #6414
• Small code improvements #6430

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New

• Allow installation on external storage #6037
• Added debug option to disable media tunneling #6288

Improved

• Remove extra newlines in strings #6274
• [PeerTube] Added workaround for HLS streams #6307
• Persistent backup/import location #6319

Fixed

• Only show 'download has started' toast when download is started #6139
• Do not set reCaptcha cookie when there is no cookie stored #5997
• Dismiss previous snackbars when deleting downloads #5671
• [Player] Improve cache performance by fixing fragmentSize is below the minimum warning #6238
• [Player] Fixed player not automatically playing #6266
• [Player] Fixed stuttering on Lineage OS by downgrading ExoPlayer to 2.12 #6294
• Fixed trying to delete object not in list #6127
• Fix ErrorActivity actionbar back button not working #6312

Development

• Replaced if/else with switch in ErrorActivity #6109
• Use Animator.addListener() extension. #6152
• Fix some warnings #6189
• Update actions/setup-java to v2 #6079
• Minor code improvements #6308

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New

• Added channel details option to long-press menu #5851
• Add functionality to rename Playlist Name from playlist interface #5982
• Add queue time #6023

Improved

• Allow the user to pause while a video is buffering #5929
• Improve colors in light theme, migrate to Android DayNight Theme #5927, #5995
• Stream item improvements #6004
• [Bandcamp] Add Radio stream segments #6051

Fixed

• Fixed overlapping fonts #5813
• Fixed crash on tapping anywhere on video after long-pressing 'Popup' button #5813
• Update URLs to HTTPS in READMEs #5942
• Fixed some random NullPointerExceptions #5944
• Fixed crash in history fragment when interacting with header controls and there are no videos in history #5971
• Fixed hidden icon to the left of notification actions in settings #5935
• Disabled media tunneling on Hi3798MV200 and cvt_mt5886_eu_1g fixing video playback on Formuler and Zephir Android TV devices #5969, #6024
• NullPointerException on screen rotation during exit fix #5976
• Fix NullPointerException: Attempt to get length of null array in MainActivity #5999
• Fix display of channel details when it has no videos #5963
• Fix ic_volume_up and ic_volume_off being black #6060
• Fix invisible buffering / loading indicator in player #6161

Development

• Replace FrameLayout with FragmentContainerView where applicable #5882
• Clean up unnecessary onCreate in settings fragments #5879
• Update gradle wrapper #5866
• About package internal revamp #5881
• Update to ExoPlayer 2.13.2 #5856
• Rearrange libraries #5867
• Rename related streams to related items #5974
• Migrate rest of AlertDialogs to AppCompat #6001

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Fixed YouTube not working properly in the EU. This was caused by a new cookie and privacy consent system which requires NewPipeExtractor to set a CONSENT cookie. TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#600

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New

• Added new service: Bandcamp #3741 Many thanks to @fynngodau!

Improved

• Added setting to match device's theme (dark & black) #3632
• Show improved error panel instead of annoying snackbar or crashing #5148
• More information on why content is unavailable #5385
• "pause/play" toggle when pressing hardware keyboard space button #5562
• Added toast to inform the user that download started #5519
• Updated User-Agent to resist fingerprinting #5649

Fixed

• Fixed very small thumbnails in video detail fragment when playing stream in background #5818
• Fixed empty stream title in minimized player #5820
• Fixed last resize mode not being restored correctly #5792

Development

• Updated prettytime #5230
• Updated ExoPlayer to 2.12.3 #5457
• Sonar workflow #5844
• Disable sonar job #5906