Release 8.35 29/09/2025
We’re pleased to release the 8.35 version of the Blue Billywig Online Video Platform.
- Implemented accessibility roles into our HLS for improved accessible content handling.
- Updated and modernised our Player.js implementation.
- Housed multiple accessibility options not yet in the “Accessibility” tab to that tab.
- Added the option to enforce the enabling of subtitles.
- Added additional customisation options to Shorts on web. These consist of: unwatched outlining and timestamp background color and optional play icon.
- You can now make a relation between custom fields and your Shorts CTA to customize the text on a “per video” basis.
- We sunsetted the “leader” functionality from the playout settings.
- Fixed an issue with Channels playing HLS assets with a preroll.
- Fixed an issue with in view playing in combination with ad units when aspect ratios diverge from commonly used formats.
- Fixed a rare issue with grey bars appearing next to a Channels video when going in and out of fullscreen on Mac.
- Fixed an issue with Scorm package downloads.
- Fixed an issue where expanding the ad units table could cause empty tables to be shown for line items.
- Fixed floating players within a channel on iOS not being visible.
- Fixed an issue with thumbnails sometimes not showing in the player.
SDK
- Optimised placeholder loading for Shorts on Android.
- Improved the snappiness of the Shorts shelf experience on Android.
- Fixed an issue with line item stat logging in the SDKs.