1.6-beta
Pre-release
Pre-release
1.6-beta - 2023-10-17
Added
- Added Divi Builder Compatibility.
- Added play button when the video block Show controls and Preview On Hover are enabled.
- Pick video block attributes from URL when pasting/inserting.
- Integrated video poster with Preview On Hover effect.
Changed
- Indicate full compatibility with WordPress 6.3
- Updated WordPress version requirement to WordPress 6.2
- Made the Jetpack menu item default to point to My Jetpack.
- Hide core Video and embed VidePress variations, when video block is available.
- Improved the connection prompt when the Jetpack VideoPress module is not active.
- Changed max duration of the Preview On Hover effect to ten seconds.
- Support autoplay playback option when Preview On Hover is enabled.
- Render VideoPress video block 100% dynamically instead of saving html representation.
- Video block: Create VideoPress video block when pasting URLs.
- Video block: Stopped saving HTML markup representation.
- Video block: Added Privacy and Rating panel to native block's settings.
- Video block: Added replace functionality for the native version of the block.
- Video block: Handle uploading video files when dropping in the editor canvas.
Security
- Escape VideoPress attributes poster, and anchor when rendering block.
Fixed
- Added a Notice when trying to edit a video that doesn't belong to the site.
- Added error handling for track files upload process.
- Handle block registration in the REST API request context.
- Defer assets enqueuing for non block themes so they don't load on every page.
- Enqueue token bridge file in the front-end only when required.
- Ensure the appropriate scripts are enqueued to support private VideoPress videos rendered by the VideoPress Divi module.
- Set video player position according to "starting point" and "duration".
- Avoid conflicts with Better Click To Tweet plugin.
- Fixed compatibility with Timber theme.
- Fixed false values not working on shortcodes.
- Fixed issue with disabled Privacy and rating panel.
- Fixed JITM layout on video edit page.
- Fixed playing state of poster mini-player.
- Fixed playback of private videos on private sites.
- Video block: Fixed blocking state when stopping an upload.