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New

• :warning: Bump minSdk to 21 (Android 5 Lollipop) and drop support for Android 4.4 KitKat #7613
• Add Download entry to long-press menu #8397
• Add option to hide future videos in feed #8545 #8966
• Add Share menu item to local playlists #8542

Improved

• Crop the notification thumbnail in 1:1 mode instead of stretching it #8533
• Make thumbnails' scaleType fitCenter #8573
• Improve image placeholders #8530
• Removed the "(beta)"-tag from services #8637
• Refactor player and extract UI components #8170 #8661 #8678 #8731
• Sort tags case-insensitively #8709

Fixed

• Fix wrong image used as a placeholder for channels avatars #8676
• Fix various issues with player notification #8678 #8899

Localization

• Make some much needed changes to the README #8372
• Fix lang code for Chinese Simplified #8549

Development

• Run CI on all release branches #8565
• Clean up proguard file #8468
• Update ExoPlayer to 2.18.1 #8536 #8687
• Specify used ExoPlayer libraries #8469
• Use minimum required permissions for GitHub workflows #8569
• Checkstyle assign on same line #8601
• Use ViewCompat.setBackgroundTintList() #8633
• Update some misc libraries #8475
• Use stream sorting #8635
• Use Java 9 collection factories: List.of(), Set.of(), Map.of() #8631 #8679
• Use range-limiting method MathUtils.clamp() #8651 #8737
• Use Kotlin IO extensions #8648
• Remove some unnecessary methods #8663 #8740
• Remove deprecated method calls in FocusAwareCoordinator #8670
• Deduplicate SQL queries to get feed streams #8621
• Update OkHttp to 4.10.0 #8624
• Update Lifecycle to 2.5.1 #8683
• Update AndroidX Fragment to 1.4.1 #8691
• Update Google Material to 1.6.1 #8692
• Use Throwable.stackTraceToString() #8701
• Update AppCompat to 1.4.2 #8667
• Use WindowMetrics API #8656
• Update AndroidX Room to 2.4.3 #8716
• Remove uses of setBottomSheetCallback() #8669
• Refactor LicenseFragmentHelper #8682
• Make OnClickGesture an interface #8721
• Reduce View.kt size #8708
• Use toArray() with zero-length arrays #8724
• Use Comparator factory methods #8728
• Use Collectors.joining() #8738
• Update FilePicker to our custom fork and disable Jetifier #8666
• Add FAQ entry to the template checklists #8822
• Use ListAdapter for search predictions #8719 #8972
• Update Gradle to 7.5.1 #8751
• Remove extra whitespace from issue and PR templates #8755
• Clarify that span shouldn't be in translated READMEs #8754
• Keep strong references to Picasso notification icon loading targets #8677
• Create media session UI and fix player notification #8678