Streaming Video & Ads for Mobile release notesRSS

New features

• Added support for Swift Package Manager.
• NRMediaTailorTracker: Added a new AWS MediaTailor server-side ad-insertion (SSAI) tracker for AVPlayer (iOS 12+ and tvOS 12+), offering feature parity with NRIMATracker.

Bug Fixes

• ios-publish: Modified retry logic to survive partial pipeline failures.

Features

• sample-app: show a LIVE badge instead of a countdown for live streams
• sample-app: support direct manifest URL playback and mock-server testing

Bug Fixes

• exoplayer: report contentIsLive and omit contentDuration for live streams
• mediatailor: append newly-reported ads when a tracking-built avail grows (fd2b5fd), closes #2 #3
• mediatailor: centralise trailing-segment sessionId extraction
• mediatailor: classify how the tracking endpoint was resolved
• mediatailor: correct DASH cue offset and give HLS breaks a stable id
• mediatailor: derive tracking URL from implicit-session DASH playlist path
• mediatailor: derive tracking URL from implicit-session HLS playlist path
• mediatailor: describe pending implicit-session tracking URL as deferral
• mediatailor: emit AD_ERROR when tracking fetch fails silently
• mediatailor: expose creativeId-first primary key for per-ad metrics
• mediatailor: harden schedule merge against zombie breaks and pod drift
• mediatailor: keep manifest pod boundaries when tracking ad count disagrees
• mediatailor: let EXT-X-DATERANGE override an earlier trackingUrl guess
• mediatailor: make playhead poll interval configurable at construction
• mediatailor: match growing-avail ads by start time when adId is absent
• mediatailor: match manifest breaks by id, gate MISSING_AVAIL_START once
• mediatailor: paginate NextToken within one poll instead of across polls
• mediatailor: parse tracking-event beacons with ad-start-relative timing
• mediatailor: pod endTimeMs must not exceed its enclosing break
• mediatailor: prune viewed avails from the live schedule
• mediatailor: read HLS tracking URL from EXT-X-DATERANGE when advertised
• mediatailor: rename segmentPrefix to canonical adSegmentPrefix
• mediatailor: require unanimous representation agreement for DASH ad periods
• mediatailor: revert tracking requests from POST back to GET
• mediatailor: round-trip NextToken across tracking polls
• mediatailor: stabilise avail identity across live window rotations
• mediatailor: surface avails missing startTimeInSeconds as an error
• mediatailor: surface pods appended after the playhead left their window
• mediatailor: treat empty avails as no-fill instead of firing AD_START

New features

• Added JP region support. (e97c6ca)

Bug fixes

• Aligned totalPauseTime with the iOS clock model and stopped emitting totalTimeSwitchedDown. (924c7b9)
• Classified startup and playback errors by content-started state, for iOS parity. (a6b3288)
• Corrected CONTENT_DROPPED_FRAMES event fields and fixed the underlying ANR root cause. (a5afc73)
• Deduplicated consecutive identical download-rate samples. (e9b6d1f)
• Emitted a fresh totalPlaytime value in QOE_AGGREGATE. (af065d6)
• Excluded only ad time from startupTime, for iOS parity. (9321ac8)
• Recorded the final QoE event into the crash-safe buffer at CONTENT_END. (e1d3ae1)
• Removed an unused classpath. (f729768)
• Removed an unused dependency. (0bdd95b)
• Removed an unused plugin. (fa11838)
• Replaced the global harvestCycleNumber gate with a per-tracker gate. (9e19faf)
• Updated a variable name. (72de035)
• Updated the allowlist for QOE_AGGREGATE context attributes, for iOS parity. (dd1d3ef)
• Updated the bitrate timer to use the isPlaying transition. (011ade3)

Published to CocoaPods

• NewRelicVideoAgent 4.3.0
• NRAVPlayerTracker 4.3.0
• NRIMATracker 4.3.0

New features

• Added JP region support. (2acc442)
• Added new QOE attributes. (7b06033)

Bug fixes

• Fixed ad-break time inflating totalPauseTime. (7c41112)
• Corrected rendition KPIs across views in multi-video sessions. (bd7d6c9)
• Fixed multiple device UUIDs per viewId. (790c7e6)

4.3.1 (2026-07-13)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where CSAI preroll operations inadvertently dropped CONTENT_START events. (948f229)

Published to CocoaPods

• NewRelicVideoAgent 4.1.4
• NRAVPlayerTracker 4.1.4
• NRIMATracker 4.1.4

Bug fixes

• Exposed sendSeekStart/sendSeekEnd on NRVAVideo; auto-detected seek in AVPlayerTracker (34493b4)
• Fixed NRTrackerPair leaking NSNull sentinel to callers (82ef94f)
• Implemented partial container sanitization, nil guard, and dead code removal (6aac79f)
• Read totalPreRollAdTime from CONTENT_START attributes (d565378)
• Sanitized attribute values at setAttribute storage boundary (7d07298)

New features

• Added the AWS MediaTailor server-side ad insertion (SSAI) tracker for DASH and HLS streams. (caf8f7c)

Bug fixes

• Removed trust-all SSL bypass in MediaTailor sample (92ad555)

Published to CocoaPods

• NewRelicVideoAgent 4.1.3
• NRAVPlayerTracker 4.1.3
• NRIMATracker 4.1.3

Published to CocoaPods

• NewRelicVideoAgent 4.1.2
• NRAVPlayerTracker 4.1.2
• NRIMATracker 4.1.2