Core

• [extractor/common] Improve JSON-LD interaction statistic extraction (#23306)
• [downloader/hls] Delegate manifests with media initialization to ffmpeg

• [extractor/common] Document duration meta field for playlists

Extractors

• [mdr] Bypass geo restriction
• [mdr] Improve extraction (#24346, #26873)
• [yandexmusic:album] Improve album title extraction (#27418)
• [eporner] Fix view count extraction and make optional (#23306)

• [eporner] Extend URL regular expression

• [eporner] Fix hash extraction and extend _VALID_URL (#27396)
• [slideslive] Use m3u8 entry protocol for m3u8 formats (#27400)
• [twitcasting] Fix format extraction and improve info extraction (#24868)
• [linuxacademy] Fix authentication and extraction (#21129, #26223, #27402)
• [itv] Clean description from HTML tags (#27399)
• [vlive] Sort live formats (#27404)
• [hotstart] Fix and improve extraction
  • Fix format extraction (#26690)
  • Extract thumbnail URL (#16079, #20412)
  • Add support for country specific playlist URLs (#23496)
  • Select the last id in video URL (#26412)

• [youtube] Add some invidious instances (#27373)