Video.js 6.5.0 Release

November 17th marked the pre-release of Video.js 6.5.0. It comes shortly after the release of 6.4.0, which has now been promoted to latest! This is a pretty exciting release because we finally got our own element! I like to call it the I Can’t Believe It’s Not Custom Elements because it isn’t an actual custom element but it’s not a standard HTML element either. Also, a nice and smooth progress bar thanks to a first time contributor; thanks @vhmth! A pretty major memory leak fix, and many code refactors and bug fixes.

I’d like to thank everyone who contributed and the four first time contributors to Video.js: @vhmth, @FirefoxMetzger, @EhsanCh, and @shahlabs.

This post comes a week late because it was Thanksgiving week in the US after release and I was on break, if you celebrate Turkey day 🦃, hope you had a good one!

Notable Changes

• I Can’t Believe It’s Not Custom Elements with a <video-js> element. It works exactly like the <video> embed but without requiring you to use the <video> element and the benefits and drawbacks that come with it. It also adds the video-js class name automatically for you, so, there’s no need to add it.
• A smooth progress bar!

before the change

after the change

• After much spelunking in the code base and developer tools, we’ve plugged most of the memory leaks with retained DOM elements in Video.js!
• Many code refactorings from our old code style to the new one by @kocoten1992!
• Previously, you could accidentally seek or toggle playback using the middle or right clicks. Now, just go ahead and try it!
• An accessibility fix with regards to title tooltips and menu items.
• Better handling of play() in our new asynchronous world, especially immediately after changing the source.

Committers

• Vinay @vhmth First PR
• Ilya Piatrenka @odisei369
• Brandon Casey @brandonocasey
• @FirefoxMetzger First PR
• Ehsan Chavoshi @EhsanCh First PR
• Chuong @kocoten1992
• Martin Bachwerk @arski
• Pat O’Neill @misteroneill
• Labdhi Shah @shahlabs First PR

Raw Changelog

6.5.0 (2017–11–17)

Features

• add a version method to all advanced plugin instances (#4714) (acf4153)
• allow embeds via element (#4640) (d8aadd5)

Bug Fixes

• Avoid empty but shown title attribute with menu items and clickable components (#4746) (dc588dd)
• Player#play: Wait for loadstart in play() when changing sources instead of just ready. (#4743) (26b0d2c)
• being able to toggle playback with middle click (#4756) (7a776ee), closes #4689
• make the progress bar progress smoothly (#4591) (acc641a)
• only allow left click dragging on progress bar and volume control (#4613) (79b4355)
• only print element not in DOM warning on player creation (#4755) (bbea5cc)
• trigger timeupdate during seek (#4754) (1fcd5ae)

Chores

• lang: update Persian translations (#4741) (95d7832)

Code Refactoring

• player.controls() (#4731) (d447e9f)
• player.listenForUserActivity (#4719) (c16fedf)
• player.userActive() (#4716) (6cbe3ed)
• player.usingNativeControls() (#4749) (eb909f0)

Documentation

• readme: fixed a typo (#4730) (46a7df2)

Performance Improvements

• null out els on dispose to minimize detached els (#4745) (2da7af1)

Tests

• clean up test warnings (#4752) (3aae4b2)
• update tests to use qunit 2 assert format (#4753) (06641e8)
• warning, if the element is not in the DOM (#4723) (c213737)

Originally published at blog.videojs.com.