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1.5.0

Added: Two more audio starting points: Audiobook and Playlist.

Added: Podcast and Audiobook are now audio bars of their own, not just switched-on controls. Need Pro.

Added: Video and Audio filters in the media library.

Added: The create dialog names the look a new item will use.

Added: “Start from a template” in the preset builder — a whole look in one click.

Added: The site-wide default look is now set separately for video and audio.

Added: A short description on every template tile, on hover or keyboard focus.

Fixed: A site-wide video template pushed its skin and aspect ratio onto audio items.

Fixed: Choosing a template added to the saved look instead of replacing it.

Fixed: A site-wide default preset never showed in the editor preview.

Fixed: Saving Settings did not refresh the audio defaults until the page was reloaded.

Fixed: A default preset overrode the template tiles with nothing on screen to say so.

Fixed: Template tiles showed a PRO badge even with TruePlayer Pro active.

Fixed: Audio items offered “Generate from video” for cover art, which could only fail.

Fixed: The unsaved-changes dialog opened at full width for a single sentence.

Fixed: The Minimal audio bar and the Simple video skin looked alike in the picker.

Security: Videos inside a playlist skipped the free-plan clamp, leaking premium source URLs into the page.

Security: A video title containing markup could break out of the SEO data block and run script.

Security: Hardened the importer, an interactive-engine query, and imported caption parsing.

Changed: Template tiles redesigned: light preview, and a brand-blue tick on the chosen one.

Changed: The audio bar’s shape is now called “Skin”, the same as video.

Changed: Free starting points sit above the Pro ones, which are grouped and labelled.

Changed: The default audio look is Minimal, so a fresh install starts on something it can use.

Changed: The default aspect ratio setting now says it never reaches an audio item.

Sep 14, 2026

1.4.0

Added: Audio as its own media type — Video / Audio tabs when creating media.

Added: Three audio layouts: compact bar, card, and minimal.

Added: Audio presets, separate from video ones, with Podcast, Album and Bare starting points.

Added: Audio control toggles: previous / next track, playback speed, chapters & transcript.

Added: Previous / next track buttons in playlists.

Added: Automatic audio detection from the file extension, so imported and pasted audio needs no re-saving.

Added: Site-wide default presets for video and audio, under Settings → General.

Added: A “When attempts run out” policy — lock and require a re-watch, or never lock. Overridable per video.

Added: Audio wording and icons in Bunny.net Storage and Gumlet uploads.

Fixed: Re-watching after using every quiz attempt gave only one attempt instead of a fresh set.

Fixed: A checkpoint before the completion threshold could lock a re-watching viewer out for good.

Fixed: Audio items previewed as a video player in the editor.

Fixed: The minimal audio layout rendered as an empty white box on light backgrounds.

Fixed: Audio was published to search engines as video.

Fixed: The audio preset’s “Preview with” row did not line up with the preview below it.

Fixed: Fields took their border from WordPress instead of the plugin.

Changed: Player controls are defined in one place, so the editor and player can’t drift apart.

Changed: The editor hides settings that cannot apply to audio.

Changed: The Interactive tab is always shown, with a teaser when the addon is off.

Changed: All dialogs open at the same width.

Sep 10, 2026

1.3.0

Added: Gumlet as a video source — upload a file from the editor, or use one already in your Gumlet workspace. Needs Pro.

Added: Uploads go straight from the browser to Gumlet, with drag & drop, progress and cancel. PHP’s upload size limit no longer applies, and your API key never leaves the server.

Added: Gumlet settings under Settings → Sources & CDN, with your workspaces offered as a list.

Added: Signed, expiring links for Gumlet videos marked private.

Added: A video saved while Gumlet is still encoding starts playing on its own when encoding finishes.

Fixed: Premium sources leaked their real media URL into the page on free installs. The location is now stripped on the server.

Fixed: Bunny.net Storage videos could not be marked private, played on free installs despite being premium, and showed a raw “bunnyStorage” badge.

Fixed: HLS video failed to play in Chrome — the player trusted Chrome’s claim that it supports HLS and skipped hls.js.

Fixed: Playback failures said only “Playback error”. They now name the cause.

Sep 6, 2026

1.2.0

Added: Direct Bunny.net Storage uploads from the editor with drag & drop, picker, progress bar, and cancel support.

Added: Bunny.net Storage file browser to reuse existing uploads.

Added: Bunny.net Storage credentials under Settings → Sources & CDN.

Added: 4 MB chunked uploads for large files.

Added: Post-upload URL verification with playback error details.

Added: Collapsible Bunny.net settings sections with status badges.

Added: Bunny.net Storage as a source in the Create Media dialog.

Added: QuizPress quiz as an alternative question source for checkpoints and the final quiz.

Added: Inline QuizPress quiz-taking UI, question-by-question, using QuizPress’s own answer widgets and grading.

Added: Real pass/fail and score read from QuizPress’s own attempt data.

Added: A no-penalty “awaiting manual review” outcome for QuizPress quizzes with manually-reviewed questions.

Added: QuizPress passing grade, attempt limit, and manual-review warnings shown in the Gating tab.

Added: Live-preview grading for QuizPress-sourced quizzes.

Added: “Try again” after a failed QuizPress-sourced checkpoint

Added: Drag-and-drop reordering and a collapsible accordion for checkpoint and question lists.

Added: The editor’s active tab now stays in the URL, so a reload keeps your place.

Added: A “What’s New” panel in the admin top bar.

Fixed: Bunny.net Storage Private mode not applying token protection.

Fixed: Bunny.net token signing for single files and HLS directories.

Fixed: Single-file tokens potentially unlocking an entire folder.

Fixed: The standalone video page to provide a clean, shareable URL.

Fixed: The frontend volume slider stretching to fill the control bar on some themes.

Fixed: The settings/speed menu not closing on an outside click.

Fixed: Arrow key volume/seek shortcuts also scrolling the page.

Sep 3, 2026

1.1.0

Added: Email capture now works with no CRM connected: a built-in Email notification provider mails each capture to the site administrator.

Added: An Email form layer with two modes, gate (pauses the video) and inline (does not interrupt). The old Email capture section merged into it and is converted on upgrade.

Added: Conditional display rules on layers: logged in, CRM contact, tag or list, URL parameter, or having seen or completed another layer.

Added: A poster field and media file card in the Source step, so a file and its poster are managed together.

Added: Player preset templates in Settings, with presets resolved in the live preview.

Added: A trueplayer:layer-rendered DOM event, so code that initialises at page load can pick up layers added mid-playback.

Fixed: Saving a video, preset, or playlist whose settings contained a double quote or a backslash wiped the whole configuration, source, and layers included. Adding a shortcode layer was the easiest way to hit it.

Fixed: Aspect ratio “Auto (native)” rendered an invisible

Fixed: Caption background colour and background opacity had no effect during playback.

Fixed: Loop stopped the end of a video ever being reached,

Fixed: silently disabling the final quiz, end screen, end email gate, reset-on-end and playlist auto-advance.

Fixed: “Disable the timeline entirely” left the arrow keys and the rewind and fast-forward buttons still able to seek.

Fixed: “Start muted” was ignored on YouTube and Vimeo sources.

Fixed: The editor preview shared its saved playback position with the front end, so it could open part-way through a video.

Fixed: A caption track marked as default reported itself as off while it was being displayed.

Fixed: Playback failures gave no reason. A YouTube video that disallows embedding is now named as such.

Fixed: Discarding a preset or playlist edit left the discarded changes on screen.

Fixed: Video control, audio playback, source type, and interactive email form issues reported during testing.

Improved: Removing a video now also removes the poster that came from it, instead of leaving it in the media library.

Improved: Video titles are reduced to plain single-line text and capped in length.

Improved: The control bar now appears as soon as the media is ready, not only after playback starts.

Improved: Layer timings are entered as hours, minutes, and seconds instead of raw seconds, and layer rows read as timestamps.

Improved: The editor’s eye toggle now genuinely previews a layer, ignoring its time window and taking it down again afterwards.

Improved: Settings the preview cannot demonstrate now say so, and “Reset to start when finished” is disabled while Loop is on.

Improved: Shortcode layers show a placeholder in the editor preview instead of appearing empty, and their inline scripts now run.

Improved: Self-hosted video workflow, audio player styling, H5P media options, and admin submenu presentation.

Sep 1, 2026

1.0.0

First stable release. TruePlayer ships as a native WordPress video & audio player built for enforcement and automation.

**Player**
* Native React player with multiple skins (default, modern, simple, minimal, standard).
* Sources: self-hosted / direct URL, HLS, audio, YouTube, and Vimeo.
* Full customization: control toggles, autoplay/loop/save-position/sticky-float, preload & load strategy (facade/eager/on-visible), accent color, play-button style, roundness, control-bar style, aspect ratio, caption size/color/background, playback speeds, Picture-in-Picture.
* Optional bundled H5P interactive engine (import + render H5P content, xAPI fed into the event pipeline).

**Watch verification**
* Server-authoritative coverage tracking proves a viewer genuinely watched (whole-second progress only), with anti-skip / seek-jump and playback-rate guards.

**Quiz gating**
* Checkpoint and end-gate questions attached to a video; server-side grading (answers never sent to the client). Failing locks the video and resets coverage until the viewer re-watches and re-attempts. (Enforcement activates with TruePlayer Pro.)

**Events & webhooks**
* Event bus: view. started, progress.milestone, view. completed, checkpoint.passed/failed, quiz.passed/failed, video.locked/unlocked, subscriber. added.
* HMAC-SHA256 signed JSON webhooks (X-TruePlayer-Signature header) for automation tools.

**Admin**
* React single-page admin: Dashboard, Media library, Editor, Playlists, Presets, Settings (and Interactive when the H5P engine is present).
* WP-CLI `trueplayer` command; REST API across videos, progress, grading, playlists, presets, subtitles, viewers and webhooks.

Premium sources (Bunny, Bunny Storage, Mux, signed/private streaming), premium skins (floating, ambient), playlists, interactive layers, analytics, LMS progression and white-label are unlocked by TruePlayer Pro.

Aug 27, 2026

1.2.0

Added: Unlocks the Podcast and Audiobook audio bars. Needs TruePlayer 1.5.0.

Security: The attestation CSV export could run a learner’s name as a spreadsheet formula.

Sep 14, 2026

1.1.0

Added: Gumlet source addon — the API client, upload endpoints, signed playback URLs and asset look-up behind the Gumlet source types. Requires TruePlayer 1.3.0.

Added: Direct browser-to-Gumlet uploads: this server signs a one-time link and the file goes straight to Gumlet, so large videos are not capped by PHP’s upload limits and the API key is never exposed.

Added: Bunny.net source addon — the storage transport, upload endpoints and CDN token authentication behind the Bunny and Bunny Storage source types.

Sep 6, 2026

1.0.0-beta1

Added: Unlocks TruePlayer’s full feature set: watch-verification enforcement, quiz-gating with lock-on-fail, analytics, automation, premium sources, premium skins/presets, playlists, interactive layers, protection (private video / expiring links, dynamic watermark), instant standalone video pages and white-label branding.

Added: Completion Attestation addon — turns watch-verification and quiz records into tamper-evident proof-of-completion, with an admin records table, CSV export, a public verify endpoint and printable certificates.

Added: Academy LMS sync addon — access-gates playback to enrolled learners and marks the mapped Academy lesson complete on watch-completion / quiz pass (two-way bridge).

Added: Webhook delivery logs addon — persists every webhook delivery (URL, event, status code, error, payload) with an admin list view.

Added: Reporting/analytics dashboard addon (initial).

Added: Licensing and automatic updates via the bundled StoreEngine WordPress SDK.

Aug 13, 2026