CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog. It diverges in the following ways:

• Release titles do not link to the commits within the release
• This project only strictly adheres to Semantic Versioning for bug fix releases.

Unreleased

4.7.1 - 2020-07-14

Fixed

• deletion-request ping is sent correctly whenever the user opts out of data collection (#3013)

4.7 - 2020-06-30

Changed

• Removed Pocket from Homepage (#2988)

4.6 - 2019-11-25

Changed

• After successful Firefox Account sign in, the page the user was on before sign in is restored (#2805)
• Improved behavior of soft keyboard submit button on whitelisted sites (#1962)
• FxA account state will be updated when resuming the app (#2806)

Fixed

• Bundled Pocket titles correctly open YouTube (#2912)

4.5 - 2019-09-23

Added

• Firefox Account sign in and Send Tab is available to release users

Changed

• Amazon Device Messaging (ADM) is supported in release builds (#2781)
• If a tab is sent while the app is backgrounded, it will be shown the next time FFTV is opened (#2807)

4.4.1 - 2019-09-17

Added

• Dialog prompting users to manually upgrade the app (#2794)

Fixed

• Toasts not appearing for pinning/unpinning and desktop mode (#2864)

4.4 - 2019-09-09

Added

• (disabled by default) Receive tabs onboarding screen (#2495)
• (disabled by default) FxA reauthentication state icon, text, and telemetry (#2493)

Changed

• Stripped out code for unsupported architectures (#2647)

4.3 - 2019-08-26

Added

• (disabled by default) Support for Amazon Device Messaging (#2528)
• Experiment for turbo mode rebrand (#2689)

Fixed

• Fullscreen videos were offset if the page was scrolled down before fullscreening. This fix will not work under certain conditions and on certain sites (#2540. #2541)
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when Pocket tiles with longer than average text were quickly scrolled to the right (#2727)

4.2 - 2019-08-12

Added

• Tile focus animation and overlay fade animation (#2454)
• (disabled by default) FxA profile screen (#2494)

Changed

• Refactored out FocusRepo in favor of native focus handling; no user-facing changes are expected (#2395)
• (disabled by default) Use final logo for Receive Tabs toolbar button (#2489)

Fixed

• Remote Settings URL goes through the CDN (#2651)

4.1 - 2019-07-29

Fixed

• Prevent some videos from being offset to the right, with a black strip on the left. (#2526)

4.0 - 2019-07-15

Added

• QA: command-line control to set current locale (#2418)

Fixed

• Crash when last tile deleted (#2444)
• Categories remain displayed even if deleting all the videos from each tile section (#2448)
• Stuck after deleting the last pinned tile (#2447)

3.11 - 2019-06-25

Added

• TV Guide Channel Onboarding

Changed

• Removed outdated Pocket onboarding screen (#2179)

3.10 - 2019-06-10

Added

• (Behind experiment flag, set to 0 at release time) Various channels containing bundled links to various video-friendly websites (#2195)
• QA: command-line control to opt-in or out of experiments (#2320)
• Integrate Glean SDK (#1652)

Changed

• Move Pocket into a channel (#2111, #2280)
  • Initially displayed Pocket video recs are bundled with the app
  • Pocket data is updated once overnight (#2223), rather than every 45 minutes

Fixed

• Pocket onboarding was shown to users that don't see Pocket content (#2293)
• Crash when deleting the last pinned tile (#2354)

3.9 - 2019-05-13

Added

• Channel for displaying pinned tiles (replacing the previous container style) (#2110)

Changed

• Improve cursor performance and feel (#1912)
• Moved Pocket content into a Channel (#2111)
• Updated Pinned Tiles logos and styling for Channels (#2280)

3.8 - 2019-04-30

Added

• Move Settings into channel on the homescreen (#689)

Fixed

• Fix Pocket timeout exceptions (#2095)

3.7.1 - 2019-04-17

Released to all Firefox TV devices

Fixed

• YouTube frozen after opening overlay (#2072)

3.7-RO - 2019-04-16

Released to Fire TV 4K, staged roll-out

Added

• Tooltips on toolbar buttons (#1908)
• Hint bar on home and browser screens (#1907)

Fixed

• Fixed Youtube loading screen stuck issue (#2031)
• Fixed bug that could cause websites to show up as blank, grey screens when resuming Firefox (#1940)

3.5-B - 2019-04-16

Version bump only, no change from v3.5-A. Released to all devices except Fire TV 4K

3.6-RO - 2019-03-26

Released to Fire TV 4K, staged roll-out

Fixed

• Bug that prevented the toolbar back button from working on YouTube (#1927)

3.5-A - 2019-03-26

Staged rollout of 3.5, no change from v3.5-RO. Released to all devices except Fire TV 4K

3.5-RO - 2019-03-12

Released to Fire TV 4K, staged roll-out

Changed

• Updated dependencies to AndroidX

Fixed

• Bug where you could not use remote back button to exit YouTube if it was visited from Pocket (#1584)
• Fixed 4K YT bug (#277)
• Bug where cursor would disappear if on overlay during page load finish (#1732)
• Bug that could cause a crash on startup (#1778)
• Fixed links on settings About page that did not load (#1731)
• A memory leak (#1628)
• Fixed bug that could cause YouTube to display vertically offset from where it should be (#1719)
• Bug that could cause YouTube to be unresponsive if the overlay was opened during loading (#1830)
• Fixed Youtube back bug (#1939)
• Workaround for "grey screen" when returning to YouTube from Amazon homescreen (#1865)
• Backing from the navigation overlay when on the first site in your backstack will now properly exit the app (#1916)

3.4-B - 2019-03-12

Version bump only, no change from v3.4-A. Released to all devices except Fire TV 4K

3.4-A - 2019-02-12

Released to all devices Rollback to 3.1.3 (same as 3.2.5) due to 4k bug and other regressions. Version bump only.

3.3.1 - 2019-02-04

Released to Fire TV 4K.

Added

• Button to homescreen to exit Firefox

Fixed

• Fixed Pocket Crash issue for non-EN locales (#1684)
• Crash when using unrecognized remote control (#1685)
• Fixed mismatch between internal and display state after clearing data (#1691)

3.3 - 2019-02-04

Released to all devices except Fire TV 4K.

Version-bump only - no change from v3.2.5

3.2.5 - 2019-01-16

Rollback to v3.1.3

Several crashes were found in the previously released version, so this was rolled back to the most recent stable release (v3.1.3).

3.2.3 and 3.2.4 - never released

These version numbers were skipped due to build errors. They had to be re-built with a bumped version.

3.2.2 - 2019-01-15

Fixed

• Accessibility on Pocket megatile

3.2.1 - 2019-01-14

Fixed

• Fixed a bug where "send usage data" could not be unchecked

3.2 - 2019-01-11

Added

• Clicking remote menu button from Pocket feed now returns to overlay

Fixed

• Pocket requests are no longer made if a valid key is not found
• Pocket requests are no longer made when the locale is not set to English

3.1.3 - 2018-12-20

Added

• Ability to exit Firefox with remote back button

Fixed

• Issue where users were unable to exit YouTube with remote back button (#1542)

3.1.2 - 2018-12-11

Changed

• Removed limited-time event tile from homescreen

3.1.1 - 2018-12-07

Added

• Added limited-time event tile to homescreen

3.1 - 2018-11-16

Added

• Ability to request desktop version of the current site

Changed

• Hide Pocket video tile on non-EN locales
  • Pocket does not yet provide content for other languages
• Sentry crash reports include a UUID to distinguish users so we can determine if it's 1 user crashing 100 times or 100 users crashing 1 time each. This identifier is only used for Sentry and can not be correlated with telemetry interaction data. See fire TV Sentry docs for more details. (#817)
• Pocket videos now display the author of the video instead of the platform

Fixed

• Blank screen when pressing back from a full-screened video
• Infrequent crash caused by initialization logic (#1159)
• On a fresh install, focus would once skip past the Pocket megatile
• A crash that could occur when backing out of the Pocket screen
• DRM content not playing: this is now supported for some DRM videos
• Fixed bug where clearing data would not clear state from the current session
• Some web fonts were blocked which caused icons to be missing

3.0.2 - 2018-10-30

Version-bump only: Released v3.0+ for the first time to Stick Gen 1 & 2 in addition to Fire TV (Gen 1, 2, 3), Cube, Element 4k (pendant), which already had v3.0+.

3.0.1 - RC candidate, did not release

Fixed

• Issue that would cause browsing history to be lost when navigating to device home screen (#1256)

3.0 - 2018-10-16

Released to Fire TV Cube and Fire TV 4K.

Added

• Pocket video recommendations on navigation overlay

Changed

• UI improvements
  • Merge home screen into navigation overlay
• Long-click and hold to remove home tile instead of pressing the menu button

Fixed

• Startup time improvements

2.2 - 2018-08-21

Released to Fire TV Cube and Fire TV 4K.

Added

• Voice commands to control video playback state: "Alexa play/pause/rewind/fast-forward/restart/next/previous"

Changed

• Require Amazon voice control permission: com.amazon.permission.media.session.voicecommandcontrol

Fixed

• Media will autoplay, preventing black screens between videos on YouTube (#586)

Note on releases below

The CHANGELOG entries for the releases listed below this were added retroactively and may be incomplete.

2.1.2 2018-10-30

Version-bump only for Fire TV Stick 4k

2.1 - 2018-?-?

Added

• Crash reporting with Sentry (see project docs for more information; #429)

Changed

• Require android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE for Sentry crash reporting
• Improve Your Rights page

Fixed

• Made cursor behavior smoother (#472)
• Various performance improvements

2.0.1 - 2018-?-?

Fixed

• Top crasher that doesn't seem to require any specific user interaction (#694)

2.0 - 2018-?-?

Added

• Ability to pin sites to the Firefox home screen
• Ability to remove sites from the Firefox home screen

Changed

• Improve navigation controls for web browsing

1.1.2 - 2018-02-?

Fixed

• Crash when leaving the app when video is fullscreened
• Various German translations

1.1.1 - 2018-02-?

Changed

• A URL to ensure users see the best formatted website

1.1 - 2018-01-?

Added

• Turbo mode
• Better support for VoiceView screen reader features

1.0.1 - 2017-12-?

Fixed

• Icon artifacts on older versions of Android
• Various stability issues

1.0 - 2017-12-20

Initial release! A browser including home tile shortcuts.