mpvium

What's New.

User-facing changelog for preview and release builds. Full release notes with checksums are on the releases page.

## Unreleased

Fixed

  • Launcher icon: smaller play-button foreground to match mpvEx proportions.

## v1.1.6-preview.5

Added

  • Player hold gestures for brightness/volume controls with speed-boost option.
  • 1-step volume swipes and coarser hardware-key volume handling.

Changed

  • Refactored TV Shows label back to Shows.
  • Hold-volume gesture now uses the gesture volume API.

Fixed

  • Player smart-cast crash on delegated `currentPlayer` update.

## v1.1.6-preview.4

Added

  • Home setting to hide the Featured banner.
  • Instant Continue Watching updates with remove option.

Changed

  • Renamed Series to TV Shows throughout the UI.

Fixed

  • Keep series in Continue Watching while episodes remain.
  • Fetch hi-res artwork on tablets to fix blurry backdrops.

## v1.1.6-preview.3

Added

  • Library Insights dashboard.
  • Continue Watching home-screen widget.
  • Explain button, Smart Skip, and Shader Peek in the player.
  • First-run onboarding and replayable welcome tour.
  • Customizable volume step and limits.

Changed

  • Tablet master-detail two-pane for Series and Movies.
  • Pill navigation bar on by default with matching outline.
  • Actionable network-error and history-disabled states.

Fixed

  • Swipe-seek normalization for tablets (gesture-width based).
  • App shortcut / context-menu crash.
  • Player overlay startup crash, subtitle touch zones, and chip anchoring.
  • Smaller thumbnail/artwork caches with bounded disk eviction.
  • Reactive browser state (replaces 60fps polling loop).