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Podcast Player · Version history

Podcast Player changelog and version history

Latest version
8.3.8
Nov 6, 2026 (3 days ago)
Releases
127
since 2019
In the last year
23
about one every 16 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 5.6 or later

Releases each year

  • 201911 releases
  • 202015 releases
  • 202116 releases
  • 20229 releases
  • 202311 releases
  • 202420 releases
  • 202525 releases
  • 202620 releases

202620 releases

  1. Podcast Player 8.3.8Latest

    • Bug Fix: Episodes loaded through Ajax or search now retain their own featured images instead of incorrectly using the podcast cover image.

  2. Podcast Player 8.3.7

    • Bug Fix: Shortcode copying now uses the modern clipboard API with a fallback, preserves keyboard focus, and reports when the browser cannot copy.

  3. Podcast Player 8.3.6

    • New: Native Elementor widget with the existing player options, including Podcast Player Pro options when Pro is active. Existing WordPress widgets, shortcodes and editor blocks remain supported.

  4. Podcast Player 8.3.5

  5. Podcast Player 8.3.4

    • Security: Use safe HTTP requests when checking remote episode artwork, preventing requests to unsafe URLs.
    • Security: Exclude private, draft, and unpublished items from Podcast Player Pro episode requests that supply post IDs.
    • Security: Escape Podcast Player Pro social sharing titles and URLs in Open Graph and Twitter metadata.
    • Security: Verify SSL certificates when activating or deactivating Podcast Player Pro licenses.

  6. Podcast Player 8.3.3

    • Bug Fix: Restored podcast player assets, SVG icons, and Google Fonts in the WordPress 7.1 block editor.

  7. Podcast Player 8.3.2

    • Modify: Compatibility testing with WordPress 7.1

  8. Podcast Player 8.3.1

    • Security: Podcast episode requests made from the player now identify the podcast by its stored feed key only. Previously a feed URL sent with such a request was fetched by the site, which allowed a visitor to make the server request a web address of their choosing and read back anything that parsed…
    • Security: The same key-only check now applies to episode share links, transcript requests and episode feedback messages.
    • Security: The admin podcast picker used by the widget now requires the permission to edit posts and is no longer reachable by logged out visitors.
    • Note: If your site was running an earlier version, open Podcast Player in your dashboard and delete any podcast you do not recognise. A podcast added by this issue stays listed until it is removed.

  9. Podcast Player 8.3.0

    • New: Use stable episode identity from RSS GUID/Atom ID/fallback fingerprints so episode filters can survive podcast host changes more reliably.
    • New: One-time legacy episode key mapping keeps existing filtered players and imported episodes compatible with older audio URL based episode keys.
    • Modify: Source Feed setup now preserves existing stored podcast data during source changes so episode identity can be reconciled on the next refresh.
    • Modify: Import and episode filter handling can resolve both new episode identity values and older saved episode keys.
    • Bug Fix: Feed refresh can upgrade cached podcast data to the new episode identity format even when the remote feed returns not-modified cache responses.

  10. Podcast Player 8.2.3

    • New: schema.org/PodcastEpisode JSON-LD output on imported episode posts, with a “Schema.org markup” on/off setting (Optimize settings).
    • New: Auto-suppresses our schema when a known provider is active (Yoast, Rank Math, Seriously Simple Podcasting, All in One SEO, The SEO Framework); override via the pp_schema_conflict_detected filter (return true to suppress, false to force-allow). Filters: pp_podcast_episode_schema_enabled (final…
    • New: Typo-tolerant (Damerau–Levenshtein OSA) episode deep search; tunable via pp_search_fuzzy_enabled and pp_search_fuzzy_thresholds.

  11. Podcast Player 8.2.2

    • New: Replaced MediaElement.js video playback with Podcast Player’s custom audio/video player.
    • New: Added HLS/m3u8 playback support for podcast feeds, including Podcasting 2.0 alternate enclosures.
    • New: Added an advanced option to prefer HLS streams when available while keeping primary enclosure playback as the default.
    • Bug Fix: Improved video poster display, player sizing, video controls alignment, sharing popup positioning, and video click-to-play/pause behavior.

  12. Podcast Player 8.2.1

    • Bug Fix: JS loading issue and Ajax timeout issues for captions.

  13. Podcast Player 8.2.0

    • Modify: Code Refactoring and Improvements.
    • Modify: Shortcode add current post ID.

  14. Podcast Player 8.1.0

    • Modify: Pro compatibility improvements
    • Modify: Admin page improvements

  15. Podcast Player 8.0.4

    • Modify: Player website URL change and admin page changes.

  16. Podcast Player 8.0.3

    • Bug Fix: Image download background jobs fix.

  17. Podcast Player 8.0.2

    • Modify: Code cleanup and improvements

  18. Podcast Player 8.0.1

    • Modify: Code Refactoring and improvements

  19. Podcast Player 8.0.0

    • Bug Fix: Security fixes in Ajax requests
    • Modify: Code refactoring and improvements

  20. Podcast Player 7.9.14

    • Modify: Put hard cap on Image download feature to prevent unwanted image downloads in case of any error.
    • Bug Fix: Prevent direct file access to critical files.

202525 releases

  1. Podcast Player 7.9.13

  2. Podcast Player 7.9.12

    • Add: Added a filter to bypass media verification and allow any media.
    • Add: Handle non-standard image URLs by hosting platforms.

  3. Podcast Player 7.9.11

    • Bug Fix: Player episode image handling on play button click.
    • Bug Fix: Podcast Inbuilt category import option reinstated.
    • Bug Fix: Player time rail color improvements.

  4. Podcast Player 7.9.10

    • Bug Fix: Category dropdown filter background color in dark mode in default playerview.
    • Bug Fix: Custom Categories not appearing
    • Bug Fix: Minor color issues
    • Add: Additional confirmation before deleting shortcode.

  5. Podcast Player 7.9.9

    • Bug Fix: Podcast Episode date display error.

  6. Podcast Player 7.9.8

  7. Podcast Player 7.9.7

    • Bug Fix: Pro import toolkit not showing already imported episodes.
    • Bug Fix: Category filter changed from partial match to full match.
    • Bug Fix: Mini player show navigation buttons even for single episode players.

  8. Podcast Player 7.9.6

    • Bug Fix: Seasons and Category dropdown filter.
    • Bug Fix: Issues resolved in filter items by custom data.

  9. Podcast Player 7.9.5

  10. Podcast Player 7.9.4

  11. Podcast Player 7.9.3

  12. Podcast Player 7.9.2

  13. Podcast Player 7.9.1

  14. Podcast Player 7.9.0

  15. Podcast Player 7.8.0

  16. Podcast Player 7.7.5

  17. Podcast Player 7.7.4

  18. Podcast Player 7.7.3

  19. Podcast Player 7.7.2

  20. Podcast Player 7.7.1

  21. Podcast Player 7.7.0

  22. Podcast Player 7.6.1

  23. Podcast Player 7.6.0

  24. Podcast Player 7.5.0

  25. Podcast Player 7.4.9

202420 releases

  1. Podcast Player 7.4.8

  2. Podcast Player 7.4.7

  3. Podcast Player 7.4.6

  4. Podcast Player 7.4.5

  5. Podcast Player 7.4.4

  6. Podcast Player 7.4.3

  7. Podcast Player 7.4.2

  8. Podcast Player 7.4.1

  9. Podcast Player 7.4.0

  10. Podcast Player 7.3.1

  11. Podcast Player 7.3.0

  12. Podcast Player 7.2.0

  13. Podcast Player 7.1.3

  14. Podcast Player 7.1.2

  15. Podcast Player 7.1.1

  16. Podcast Player 7.1.0

  17. Podcast Player 7.0.0

  18. Podcast Player 6.9.0

  19. Podcast Player 6.8.0

  20. Podcast Player 6.7.2

202311 releases

  1. Podcast Player 6.7.1

  2. Podcast Player 6.7.0

  3. Podcast Player 6.6.0

  4. Podcast Player 6.5.1

  5. Podcast Player 6.5.0

  6. Podcast Player 6.4.3

  7. Podcast Player 6.4.2

  8. Podcast Player 6.4.1

  9. Podcast Player 6.4.0

  10. Podcast Player 6.3.0

  11. Podcast Player 6.2.1

20229 releases

  1. Podcast Player 6.2.0

  2. Podcast Player 6.1.0

  3. Podcast Player 6.0.0

  4. Podcast Player 5.9.0

  5. Podcast Player 5.8.0

  6. Podcast Player 5.7.0

  7. Podcast Player 5.6.0

  8. Podcast Player 5.5.1

  9. Podcast Player 5.5.0

202116 releases

  1. Podcast Player 5.4.0

  2. Podcast Player 5.3.0

  3. Podcast Player 5.2.2

  4. Podcast Player 5.2.1

  5. Podcast Player 5.2.0

  6. Podcast Player 5.1.0

  7. Podcast Player 5.0.1

  8. Podcast Player 5.0.0

  9. Podcast Player 4.9.0

  10. Podcast Player 4.8.0

  11. Podcast Player 4.7.0

  12. Podcast Player 4.6.0

  13. Podcast Player 4.5.0

  14. Podcast Player 4.4.0

  15. Podcast Player 4.3.0

  16. Podcast Player 4.2.0

202015 releases

  1. Podcast Player 4.1.0

  2. Podcast Player 4.0.0

  3. Podcast Player 3.9.0

  4. Podcast Player 3.8.0

  5. Podcast Player 3.7.0

  6. Podcast Player 3.6.0

  7. Podcast Player 3.5.0

  8. Podcast Player 3.4.0

  9. Podcast Player 3.3.0

  10. Podcast Player 3.2.0

  11. Podcast Player 3.1.0

  12. Podcast Player 3.0.0

  13. Podcast Player 2.9.0

  14. Podcast Player 2.8.0

  15. Podcast Player 2.5

201911 releases

  1. Podcast Player 2.4

  2. Podcast Player 2.3

  3. Podcast Player 2.2

  4. Podcast Player 1.9

  5. Podcast Player 1.7

  6. Podcast Player 1.6

  7. Podcast Player 1.5

  8. Podcast Player 1.4

  9. Podcast Player 1.3

  10. Podcast Player 1.2

  11. Podcast Player 1.1

Questions about Podcast Player’s releases

What is the latest version of Podcast Player?

8.3.8, released on Nov 6, 2026 (3 days ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 5.6 or later.

How often is Podcast Player updated?

23 releases in the last year, about one every 16 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from March 2019.

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