Shaka Player Roadmap

This doc shows all past and planned future milestones for Shaka Player, with brief details about the goals and rough dates of each milestone. This is not a comprehensive list of features or fixes for each release. For that, see CHANGELOG.md.

The goals of future milestones are fluid until we begin that development cycle, so the exact milestone for future features is not pre-determined.

Candidate features for future release cycles:

Background fetch for offline storage https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/879

v6.0

Conversion to Typescript (Smaller, more modular binary)

v5.2 - 2026 Q3

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v5.1 - 2026 Q2

DASH: JSON manifest support (experimental build)
ABR: Improved ABR with dropped frame monitoring https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/745
UI: Chapter images
UI: Volume adjustment via mouse wheel
Expanded platform support (TiVo OS, Titan OS)

v5.0 - 2026 Q1

Add automatic subtitles with translations (Experimental and disabled by default) https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/9110
Change dvvC box to free box for Dolby Vision workarounds https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/9101
Allow request filters to be called multiple times https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/9129
Unify text track selection and visibility by allowing null to disable text https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/9048
Support tracking events on VAST and VMAP without IMA
DASH: SegmentTimeline@Pattern https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/9669
Implement MediaKeySessionClosedReason handling https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/3446
HLS: AES-256-GCM support
Media Over QUIC + CMSF/MSF (experimental build)
Modernization of the UI, more configs and minor style adjustments
Remove MSS support

v4.16 - 2025 Q3

CMCDv2 https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/8660
HDR detection in Tizen and WebOS https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/8441
DASH: Add support for certificate acquisition URL https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/8823
UI: Replace Material Design Icon font with SVG https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/2467

v4.15 - 2025 Q2

Modernization of the UI https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/8406
Ability to pass in a Date object for playback start time https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/8402
New API for video: getVideoTracks and selectVideoTrack
New NativeTextDisplayer to allow selecting subtitles via native API and controls
UI: Support thumbnails while casting
Transfer side-loaded text/thumbnail/chapter tracks when casting
New API: Queue Manager

v4.14 - 2025 Q1

Time ID3, emsg, and metadata events to the presentation timeline https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/7556
New API for audio: getAudioTracks and selectAudioTrack https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/3544
DASH: LCEVC Dual track support

v4.13 - 2025 Q1

WisePlay DRM support
Support for multiple robustness levels in drm
Clearkey download support
Stop setting playbackRate to 0 to control buffering state when streaming.rebufferingGoal = 0 https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/7602
Use MSE clearLiveSeekableRange and setLiveSeekableRange when available https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/3153

v4.12 - 2024 Q4

Performance improvements
HLS - Make dummy streams for tags representing muxed audio https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/5836
Enable AirPlay in MSE https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/5022
DASH compatibility with FairPlay

v4.11 - 2024 Q3

HLS: EXT-X-START support
HLS: EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM-INF support
Basic support of VAST and VMAP without IMA (playback without tracking)
DASH: DVB Fonts
TTML: IMSC1 (CMAF) image subtitle
Render native cues using text displayer https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/2585

v4.10 - 2024 Q3

HLS support for EXT-X-DATERANGE https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/3523
HLS interstitials https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/3364

v4.9 - 2024 Q2

DASH patch manifests https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/2228
DASH: MPD chaining https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/3926
Support CS on devices that don't support multiple media elements https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/2792

v4.8 - 2024 Q2

Preload API https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/880
AES-256 and AES-256-CTR (HLS) https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/6001
Detect maximum HW resolution automatically on some platforms
UI support for VR content

v4.7 - 2023 Q4

Common Media Server Data (CMSD) https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/5890
DASH: Handle mixed-codec variants https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/5961
Allow Media Source Recoveries
UI: Add double tap to forward/rewind in the video https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/3357
Improve npm package size https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/2172

v4.6 - 2023 Q4

Content Steering https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/5704
New DASH protocol for Low Latency.
ManagedMediaSource https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/5271
Add thumbnails support in src=
Remove state engine

v4.5 - 2023 Q4

Built-in transmuxer support for muxed content streams (audio+video)
Built-in transmuxer support for H265 streams
Remove optional mux.js dependency
Codec switching https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/1528
AES-128 in DASH. https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/5622
AWS Elemental MediaTailor

v4.4 - 2023 Q3

Built-in transmuxer for common cases, no mux.js required:
- Raw AAC, AC3, or EC3 to MP4 container
- AAC, AC3, EC3, MP3, or H264 in TS to MP4 container
- MP3-in-TS to raw MP3
Ads API improvements
CEA parser for TS
HLS support for non-sequence mode (as we had in v3)
Partial support for large timestamps
UI support for thumbnails on seek
Microsoft SmoothStreaming support
Segment prefetch
Low latency improvements