Release 8.54 06/07/2026
We’re pleased to release the 8.54 version of the Blue Billywig Online Video Platform.
Contributing to the digital accessibility infrastructure
Making video accessible to everyone is a goal that is shared by many in our industry. This sprint we contributed to that goal by helping improve accessibility support in the open technology that video players everywhere rely on. We’re proud to be doing our part to push accessibility forward for the whole community.
For all the technical details, keep an eye out for the newest Shaka release.
- Improved the daily VAST services stats for users that have different timezones than the publications they work in.
- We updated the resources modal for an even better look and feel.
- Fixed an issue where clearing local storage on a React page caused an infinite loop of session expiry alerts.
- Fixed an issue where Content Protection lock icons would not show on Windows Microsoft Edge.
- Fixed an issue where the request state stayed running after receiving Scribit.Pro assets.
- Fixed an issue with custom fonts not being applied in the inline channel preview.
- Fixed an issue with a transcript button spuriously showing in Safari.
- Fixed an issue where an empty lineitem would abort the whole ad waterfall.
- Fixed an issue where soft embargo clips contain an asset before their due date when it has a companion clip (sign language).
- Fixed an issue using URLs to navigate to configuration tabs.
- Fixed an issue where toast notifications triggered from within a dialog could appear behind the dialog instead of on top of it.
- Fixed an issue with saving media clips with a companion clip.
SDK
- Updated the Flutter SDK to better display Channel headers.
- The React Native SDK is now also available on NPM.
- Android now keeps the playing state while buffering (instead of pausing).
- Tweaked our SDK documentation.