yattee/CHANGELOG.md

Build 208

What's Changed

iPad Enhancements:

• Enable resizable windows on iPad
• Improve iPad UI behavior and settings layout
• Fix horizontal content extending behind sidebar on iPad
• Add proper padding to player controls and video details in non-fullscreen iPad windows
• Hide orientation lock controls on iPad (not applicable for iPad)

iOS Improvements:

• Fix video player overlay to respect window fullscreen state
• Allow video player to extend into safe areas
• Fix iOS Now Playing Info Center integration for AVPlayer backend
• Fix button styling and safe area handling

macOS Improvements:

• Fix picker label visibility in settings
• Improve video layer rendering
• Add macOS 26 compatibility for search UI
• Improve playback settings UI controls

Player & Playback:

• Add retry mechanism for file load errors (both MPV and AVPlayer)
• Fix MPV player vertical positioning in fullscreen mode
• Improve player controls visibility and layout
• Add nil safety checks for stream resolution and playback time handling
• Refactor dirty region handling in MPV video rendering
• Remove verbose logging from MPV rendering

UI/UX:

• Improve layout stability and reduce unwanted animations
• Simplify stream description by removing instance info
• Update default visible sections from trending to popular

Maintenance:

• Update MPVKit dependency
• Update Ruby dependencies
• Fix SwiftLint and SwiftFormat violations
• Fix main actor isolation warnings
• Update GitHub Actions to latest macOS and Xcode versions

Previous builds

Build 204:

• Fix Invidious companion API endpoint path
• Fix issues with audio tracks in Piped (crash)
• Improve MPV backend audio track handling
• Add Liquid Glass effect to player controls bar
• Use fullScreenCover for Settings and Accounts on tvOS
• Improve tvOS settings UI styling and navigation
• Improve fullscreen orientation handling for iOS player
• Fix published date handling in Piped API
• Optimize SwiftUI performance throughout the app
• Improve search field layout and responsiveness
• Add localization support for Finnish, Indonesian, Korean, Dutch, and Swedish
• Update dependencies

Build 201:

• MPV audio track switching and fix default audio language by @n3d1117 in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/874
• Feat: Added caption support for Piped backend by @craftycorvid in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/867
• Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/877
• Add support for invidious companion by @lifo9 in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/863
• Add skip, play/pause, and fullscreen shortcuts to macOS player (by @rickykresslein)
• Added Settings Import/Export
  • Export all settings, instances and accounts
  • Import selected elements from the file
  • Include unencrypted passwords in the export or provide them during the import
  • Import via URL for tvOS
• Added Controls setting "Action button labels" icon or icon and text
• Added Advanced setting for MPV: "deinterlace"
• Add help text to all header buttons (by @rickykresslein)
• History Setting: hide the recent activity in the sidebar or limit the number of items shown (by @rickykresslein)
• Fix issues with empty comments (by @stonerl)
• Improved Invidious comments (by @stonerl)
• Allow import of accounts to manually added (not imported) instances
• Add import export of missing settings
• macOS: Fix settings windows layout
• Fix seek OSD layout on tvOS, revert OSD position
• Allow users to disable fullscreen swipe gesture by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/814
• Proper audio interrupt and route change handling by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/815
• Improved subtitle handling by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/817
• Improvements to MPVGLView by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/818
• Add drag gestures to video details by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/820
• Fix uneven playback when using MPV and not syncing refreshrate by @blennster in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/833
• Norwegian Language by @mmaalo in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/834
• Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/836
• Update MPVKit to v0.39.0 by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/824
• Update SwiftUI-Introspect by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/813
• Orientation/Fullscreen fixes and cleanup by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/806
• More robust resolution handling by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/807
• MPV: improved A/V sync by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/805
• Retry loading video before presenting error by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/810
• Refactor Search by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/809
• iOS: Simplified fullscreen and orientation by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/786
• macOS: only apply player shortcuts when window is active by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/802
• player controls: add background opacity selection by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/799
• add missing Shorts resolutions by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/797
• use -O1 on macOS by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/801
• Gestures: swipe up toggles fullscreen by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/778
• don’t open video when dismissing context menu by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/780
• mpv: remove video layer when entering background by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/793
• hi-res invidious logos by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/791
• enable -O3 by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/794
• Better audio ducking by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/779
• fix picture in picture by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/789
• Invidious: propper HTTP basic auth support by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/762
• Apply correct orientation by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/770
• Circular Invidious logo by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/769
• Video Thumbnails: retry 3 times fetching from URL by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/768
• Make thumbnail fill the view in music mode by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/766
• Changes to defaults by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/767
• Fixed fullscreen handling for backgrounding by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/772
• Update now playing info when using system controls – Partial fix for 503 by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/765
• Stop making videos with unknown length shorts. by @derspyy in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/849
• Add Hungarian to locales list
• Fix crash on HLS live playback by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/775
• Fix mpv crashing on macOS by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/754
• Refreshed icons for iOS and macOS by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/752
• Add new MPVKit repo by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/753
• Add Chinese (Simplified) - zh-Hans to LanguageCodes by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/757
• Color changes to VideoActions by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/759
• Hide VideoActions Bar when no buttons is visible by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/760
• Improved stream resolution handling by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/747
• Fix some potential crashes by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/748
• Fix regression and improve curentChapter handling by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/749
• Refined chapter font scaling by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/750
• Improved thumbnail handling by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/740
• iOS: make timestamps in comments touchable by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/741
• Improvements to opening channels from Videos by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/742
• Allow hiding comments by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/744
• Add option to exit fullscreen on end by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/570
• Only updateWatch status while video is playing by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/745
• Xcode 16 - update recommended settings by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/737
• Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/724
• tvOS: Allow account picker by long pressing channels button in subscriptions view by @patelhiren in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/704
• tvOS: Refined Subscriptions View by @patelhiren in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/697
• More responsive UI when Favorites are used. by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/695
• Improved conditional proxying by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/696
• Don't show related in sidebar when disabled in settings by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/635
• Handle audio session interrupts by other media by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/640
• Only show Queue header in sidebar view by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/642
• SponsorBlock Improvements by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/639
• Chapter title on jump by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/655
• Restart finished video by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/646
• SponsorBlock jump to end instead of pausing by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/648
• Call correct class of SDImageAWebPCoder by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/664
• Fix handling and displaying captions by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/636
• Advanced settings: make number fields .numPad by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/661
• Preserve time on stream change by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/651
• Switch to previous backend when leaving PiP by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/641
• Handle deep links by @timonus in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/645
• Music Mode: don't bindPlayerToLayer when entering foreground by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/644
• Allow user to disable thumbnails and jump to current chapter in horizontal view by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/665
• Rework qualitiy settings by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/650
• HLS: set target bitrate / AVPlayer: higher resolution by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/667
• Fix #619: Remove ports from shared YouTube links by @0x000C in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/627
• XCode enable IDEPreferLogStreaming by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/638
• Conditional proxying by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/662
• HomeView: Changes to Favourites and History Widget by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/672
• Snappy UI - Offloading non UI task to background threads by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/671
• Fix PiP Mode Not Working Using MPV by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/676
• Fix thumbnails failing to load on tvOS by @patelhiren in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/688
• speed up sorting for Stream by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/681
• faster chapter extraction by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/682
• Invidious: add images to chapters by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/685
• Improved Captions handling by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/684
• Add User-Agent to request by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/680
• MPV: speed up playback start by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/689
• Advanced Settings: cache-pause-initial by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/679
• Changed description for Format reordering by @stonerl in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/677
• Add Chinese (Traditional) localization (by @rexcsk)
• Localization fixes
• Updated localizations
• Upgraded dependencies
• Fixed reported crash
• Other minor changes and improvements

Big thanks to the current, past and future project contributors!