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New

• Notifications for new streams #2335
• Seamless transition between background and video players when putting the app in background #7349 #8139
• Change pitch by semitones #7565
• Implement appending queue to playlist in main player #8008
• Load YouTube mixes in related items TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#788 -- note that this has already been broken by YouTube in the EU

Improved

• Remember adjustment step size for playback controls (speed and pitch) #7728
• Mitigating long buffering on initial video playback #7919 #8302
• Replace R.string.yes with R.string.ok #7976
• Improve player UI and navigability for Android TV #7963
• Add a confirmation button when deleting all files in downloader #5878
• Remove icon duplicates and fix some theming issues #7518 #8081
• ExoPlayer 2.17.1 update and MediaSource management rework #8020 #8150 #8249

Fixed

• Fix player controls not hiding if resumed from media button #7341
• Migrate app update checker to AndroidX Work #7975
• Fix error notification on KitKat #7977
• Fix playback being reset to beginning when player type was changed #8020
• Fix download dialog selector layout #7516
• Fix crash when rotating device with playlist dialog open #8146
• Adapt opacity of popup close button to allow touches in other apps on Android >=12 #8279

Development

• Replace CircleImageView with ShapeableImageView #7925
• Solve Java warning Raw use of parameterized class #7904
• Fix Room warning about unused columns during build #7905
• Fix build on Apple Silicon Macs #7782
• Refactor generating InfoItemDialog's #7570
• Better equals check #7910
• Update Android Gradle Plugin and Gradle #7947
• Remove duplicate large-land player layout #7894
• Update ConstraintLayout and Room libraries #7954
• Update Kotlin to 1.6.10 #7952
• Update some AndroidX libraries #7978
• Deduplicate code for fetching stream info when sparse #7981 #8127
• Extract some view click listeners from player #8011
• Delete some unused code #8067
• Clean up the about package a bit #8065
• Create stub implementation for OnSeekBarChangeListener #8066
• Some lint cleaning #8068
• Update Checkstyle to 10.0 and fix various related issues #8073
• Update license to latest version #8076 #8077
• Update CONTRIBUTING.md with current checkstyle.xml path #8175
• Update GitHub action dependencies in workflows #8198
• Update AGP, Gradle, and Kotlin #8204
• Use simpler DrawerLayout method #8200
• Replace checklist drawable #8199