Release 8.34 15/09/2025
We’re pleased to release the 8.34 version of the Blue Billywig Online Video Platform.
- Added performance stats to the Shorts dashboard.
- Added the option to toggle the new accessibility assets (audio description, transcript & sign language) through the timeline/Studio.
- We now allow users to enable keyboard shortcuts if playout is configured to have these disabled.
- Introduce shortkey (\) for disabling keyboard shortcuts.
- Improve how we handle the focus for interactive videos in combination with keyboard controls.
- Added thumbnail width and height to the oEmbed JSON output.
- A third timeline layer was created for playouts to better support interactive templates in combination with other layers of interactivity.
- Fixed an issue with changing XSL fields.
- Fixed an issue with the empty state of a new Channel.
- Fixed an issue with the preview of the grid element in Channels.
- Fixed an issue with scaling the viewport on the VAST service settings page.
- Fixed an issue with the autoadvance option.
- Fixed an issue with the video thumbnail sometimes not resizing on the startscreen.
- Fixed an issue with logging stats for the combination of ad units & line items.
- Fixed an issue with domain related Content Protection in combination with iFrames.
SDK
- Our Media3 implementation was upgraded to 1.7.1 with a version range to support all older versions as well.
- Updated the modal player background color to always display in black on Android.
- Improved the Chromecast controller to not display HTML tags on Android.
- Added the option to append macro strings to VAST URLs on both Android and iOS.
- Added the shelfStartSpacing and shelfEndSpacing options to define the spacing for Shorts on both Android and iOS.
- Thumbnail overscan is now applied to all instances where the thumbnail is displayed in Shorts when configured in the settings on both Android and iOS.
- Switched to show the casting icon by default when configured.