March 10th, 2026

• Support for dynamic POD macro on ad tag requests

March 2nd, 2026

• Improve and optimize HEVC encoding

February 10th, 2026

• Fixed potential issue in DASH encoder when parsing SCTE data

February 9th, 2026

• Improved custom DASH period naming
• Improved handling of distributor SCTE35 events
• Fix for AES128 decryption in certain encoding scenarios
• Encoder optimizations

February 2nd, 2026

• Optimizations for ad insertion logic for HLS and DASH
• Optimizations for HTTP calls to VAST tags
• Support for - character in dynamic macro replacement

January 29th, 2026

• DASH updates for supporting all ad formats in SCTE UPID payloads
• Precision improvements for ad break insertions in Transmit Console
• Optimizations to ad encoder performance for InStream formats
• Forward all response headers from the content origin for HLS and DASH
• Follow redirects in all cases for HLS manifests
• DASH timing updates to improve playback performance and A/V sync issues
• Fix for DRM encoding override streams that use header authentication
• Improved ad encoder support for dynamic manifest rendition parameters

December 16th, 2025

• Updates for custom auth configurations to auto-detect certain params from incoming manifest requests

December 3rd, 2025

• Coordinate and optimize the ad request logic for VOD using HLS across various renditions.
• Enhance support for custom mutual TLS (mTLS) in ad request calls.
• Automatically eliminate duplicate creatives across various advertising decision tiers; however, do not automatically remove duplicate responses within the same tier.

December 2nd, 2025

• Optimize HTTP connection pool and timeouts for variable length response times

November 10th, 2025

• Pick first IP address when replacing __IP_ADDRESS_ESC__ macro on ad server calls