Release 8.18 03/02/2025

We’re pleased to release the 8.18 version of the Blue Billywig Online Video Platform.

  • While trimming, the video preview now pauses at the end of the trim timing.
  • Our React player is now available as an NPM package here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-player-blue-billywig
  • Merged the “created” and “updated” columns in the media library to improve table display.
  • Improved the design of the new preview & embed page to contain more information on the item being previewed.
  • Improved the smoothness of switching to sign language assets.
  • Fixed an issue where required fields were not marked when not filling them when creating a new user.
  • Fixed an issue with the way we display multiple ads.
  • Fixed an issue with linking to a related project from the new embed page.
  • Fixed an issue with the Channel editor.
  • Fixed an issue with the ad container not being fully cleaned up in Shorts.
  • Fixed an issue with the new embed page not accepting url parameters.
  • Fixed an issue with the new embed page in combination with Channels.