Release v5

[avelad]

At the last monthly Shaka meeting, the maintainer team decided to release version 5 with as few breaking changes as possible. Therefore, the decision was made to release version 4.17 as version 5, with the only breaking change being the removal of all currently deprecated features. This will mean that version 4.16 will become LTS (1 year of support).

Request for comments

Shaka users, we invite you to review the following v5 proposals and share your feedback.

• MSS and (we suspect) unused text plugins: Remove MSS and unused text plugin #9321
• Sequence mode: Intent to remove sequenceMode #9323
• Streamline text track API: Simplify text track handling by merging visibility and selection logic #9301

All related questions will be resolved in this issue.

Thank you very much!

[avelad]

Related PR: #9162

[jimapl]

Question, will this new version include new player Ui design language? Like the new player on YouTube?

:)

[joeyparrish]

I don't think we have any concrete plans to revamp the UI. If there's a style you can't achieve with CSS and plugins, please let us know! (See also this Shaka UI style gallery created by a member of the community: https://lucksy.github.io/shaka-player-themes/)

[joeyparrish]

I was just corrected by @avelad. The UI was updated recently in v4.15. I don't see any further plans to revamp it for v5.0, nor can we reasonably track updates made by YouTube, but PRs and proposals are always welcome. Feel free to open a new issue if you want to pursue that!

[opticSquid]

Will this release finally port the project to typescript?

[matvp91]

Will this release finally port the project to typescript?

Unfortunately not, v5 is about cleaning up deprecated code (we were able to strip over 1K LOC). We'll break backwards compatibility thus we bump a major version. TS isn't part of v5.

[opticSquid]

I was so hoping typescript would be a part of this. Anyway cleaning up tech debt is a real good thing too..

Will this release finally port the project to typescript?

Unfortunately not, v5 is about cleaning up deprecated code (we were able to strip over 1K LOC). We'll break backwards compatibility thus we bump a major version. TS isn't part of v5.

[matvp91]

I've updated the ticket to include RFC's. We're bouncing around ideas and we are definitely open to feedback!

[avelad]

At the last monthly meeting we agreed to release v5 before Christmas