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FV Player 8 · Version history

FV Player 8 changelog and version history

Latest version
8.1.9
Oct 7, 2026 (1 month ago)
Releases
10
since 2025
In the last year
4
about one every 102 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 5.6 or later

Releases each year

  • 20257 releases
  • 20263 releases

20263 releases

  1. FV Player 8 8.1.9Latest

  2. FV Player 8 8.1.7

    • WordPress 7.1 support
    • Security: Email subscription: Avoid calculations for MS Excel in CSV export
    • Vertical videos: Do not lower subtitle size based on player width
    • Vertical videos: Limit height for desktop
    • Bugfix: CSS: Fix position of tags when used for playlist thumbnails

  3. FV Player 8 8.1.3

    • Bugfix: LearnDash player saving for Topics
    • Bugfix: LearnDash video completion saving

20257 releases

  1. FV Player 8 8.1

    • Autoplay: Preload the next video
    • LMS | Teaching – support for non-logged in users
    • Performance: Fixes for JavaScript loading speed and rendering
    • Remember audio track: Store in localStorage and in database for logged in users
    • Bugfix: CSS: tagDiv theme fix for player loading, play and pause buttons

  2. FV Player 8 8.0.27

    • Bugfix: Analytics: Looping a video should not count as invidual plays
    • Bugfix: Loop: Do not show the play/pause button animation
    • Bugfix: Stats: Looping a video should not count as invidual plays
    • Bugfix: Stats: Fix stats being disabled after changes in 8.0.26
    • Bugfix: Stats: Fix “Track Guest Users” being always on

  3. FV Player 8 8.0.25

    • Bugfix: Fix video saving due to missing caption field. The issue would occur if user did not upgrade from FV Player 7. Reverting PHP warnings fix from 8.0.24.

  4. FV Player 8 8.0.21

    • HLS.js upgrade from 1.4.12 to 1.6.5
    • Bugfix: Elementor fix for player loading and inserting
    • Bugfix: Gutenberg: Fix for Site Editor
    • Bugfix: Gutenberg: Fix FV Player 7 blocks not rendering in patterns
    • Bugfix: SiteGround Security: Exclude coconut-ajax.php and stream-loader.php

  5. FV Player 8 8.0.20

    • Accessibility improvements
    • Editor: Performance fixes for playlists, fixing issues with playlists of 100 or more videos
    • Editor: Speed-up “Pick existing player”
    • Editor: Limit video duration checks during import, otherwise the import might take too long
    • Bunny Stream: Browser: Load up to 1000 videos
    • Bunny Stream: Browser: Load up to 200 collections
    • FV Player screen: Better table sizing, fixing layout shifts
    • Bugfix: Analytics: Fix heartbeat for GA4
    • Bugfix: Analytics: Stop using window unload event, using visibilitychange and pagehide instead
    • Bugfix: Editor: End of Video Action: Fix disabling
    • Bugfix: Editor: Fixed player duplication bug if you open a player for editing and then close it within half second
    • Bugfix: Editor: Fixed player duplication bug if pick media from Media Library using “FV Player Editor” button in FV Player Gutenberg block
    • Bugfix: Ensure player controlbar menus show on top of overlay ads
    • Bugfix: Fix issues with touch events not being passive
    • Bugfix: Playlist style Big arrows: Show only on hover
    • Bugfix: Disable local storage setting should not affect default subtitles selected for videos

  6. FV Player 8 8.0.19

    • Audio Player: You can use type=”audio” in shortcode to force audio player for a HLS stream if the detection fails
    • Security: Stats: Block direct access to temporary files with .htaccess
    • Video stats: Send video playback duration every 5 minutes and not just when loading the page
    • Bugfix: Airplay: Fix for multiple instances
    • Bugfix: Gutenberg block: Fix conversion of video block to FV Player
    • Bugfix: Incorrect MP3 duration calculation
    • Bugfix: Lightbox: Avoid showing JavaScript as visible text when using FV Player Pro video ads in front of a video
    • Bugfix: Lightbox: Fix bad image aspect ratio if using 100% player width and height in global settings
    • Bugfix: Lightbox: Fix text link to video lightbox
    • Bugfix: Sticky video: Avoid issues if theme uses z-index
    • Bugfix: Sticky video: Fix disabling for individual players
    • Bugfix: Video Stats: Fix admin screen performance
    • Bugfix: Video Stats: Fix graph numbers for single players
    • Bugfix: Video Stats: Fix performance issues if video is less than 4 seconds
    • Bugfix: Video subtitles/chapters/transcript removed during background video duration checks if the initial duration check has failed
    • Bugfix: YouTube: Fix live stream count-down not appearing for iOS
    • Bugfix: YouTube: Fix repeated opening and closing when using Lightbox on mobile

  7. FV Player 8 8.0.18

    • HLS: Do not use HLS.js for Safari
    • Schema.org: Use video file for contentURL if it’s MP4, HLS, WebM or OGV and does not require URL signature
    • Video Stats: Exclude Administrators and Editors
    • Bugfix: Amazon S3 signatures missing for subtitles
    • Bugfix: CSS: Make sure theme does not add border for playing images
    • Bugfix: YouTube: Fix video to have sound enabled right from the start without any lag
    • Bugfix: YouTube: Lower the lag when unmuting the sound after autoplaying the video

Questions about FV Player 8’s releases

What is the latest version of FV Player 8?

8.1.9, released on Oct 7, 2026 (1 month ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 5.6 or later.

How often is FV Player 8 updated?

4 releases in the last year, about one every 102 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from March 2025.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in FV Player 8’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.