This doc shows all past and planned future milestones for Shaka Player, with brief details about the goals and rough dates of each milestone. This is not a comprehensive list of features or fixes for each release. For that, see CHANGELOG.md.
The goals of future milestones are fluid until we begin that development cycle, so the exact milestone for future features is not pre-determined.
Priority features up next:
- HLS improvements https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/projects/6
Candidate features for future release cycles:
- Preload API #880
- Official TypeScript defs, generated from source #1030
- Codec-switching #1528
- Background fetch for offline storage #879
- Smaller, more modular binary
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v4.3 - 2022 Q4
v4.2 - 2022 Q3
v4.1 - 2022 Q2
v4.0 - 2022 Q2
v3.3 - 2022 Q1
v3.2 - 2021 Q3
- MediaCapabilities to make performance-based decisions #1391
- Configurable key-system priority #3002
- Codec order preferences #2179
v3.1 - 2021 Q2
- Low-latency live (LL-HLS, LL-DASH) #1525
- Own CEA parser, use mux.js only for TS #2648
- Thumbnail tracks DASH: #559 HLS: #2429
v3.0 - 2020 Q2
- Code health improvements
- Conversion to ES6
- Isolate DASH periods to the DASH parser
- HLS discontinuity support
- IMA ad SDK integration
- Ad controls in the UI
- Concurrent Storage operations
v2.5 - 2019 Q2
- Video controls UI API
- FairPlay & iOS support
- CEA captions in HLS/CMAF and DASH w/ mux.js
- Single-file playback
- DASH drift tolerance
v2.4 - 2018 Q2
- TTML and VTT regions
- CEA captions in HLS/TS
- Attach/detach API
v2.3 - 2017 Q4
- HLS live
- Transmux TS w/ mux.js
- NetworkInformation API to improve bandwidth estimates
- ES6 transition begins
v2.2 - 2017 Q3
- HLS event-type playlists
- TextDisplayer interface
- DASH xlink support
v2.1 - 2017 Q2
- HLS VOD, clear & Widevine only, no CEA
- DASH trick mode tracks
- Async network filters
v2.0 - 2016 Q3
- Multi-period DASH
- Chromecast API
- TTML, VTT-in-MP4, and TTML-in-MP4
- Safari, Firefox, & Opera support
- Plugin system (manifest parsers, network filters, text parsers)
- DASH emsg box support
- DASH IPR support
v1.6 - 2015 Q4
- IE11, Edge, & PlayReady support
- Chromecast added to demo app
v1.5 - 2015 Q3
- Unified configuration system
- Multiple DASH BaseURL elements for failover
- Side-loaded text streams
v1.4 - 2015 Q3
- Code health release
- DASH Location element support
- Buffering config API
- License preprocessing API
v1.3 - 2015 Q2
- DASH live
- Offline playback
v1.2 - 2015 Q1
- DASH Role element support
v1.1 - 2015 Q1
- EME API updates
v1.0 - 2014 Q4
- DASH VOD (MP4 & WebM)
- VTT subtitles, rendered by the browser
- Widevine support