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Super Video player · Version history

Super Video player changelog and version history

Latest version
1.8.17
Nov 1, 2026 (8 days ago)
Releases
34
since 2019
In the last year
12
about one every 30 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20193 releases
  • 20201 release
  • 202410 releases
  • 20259 releases
  • 202611 releases

202611 releases

  1. Super Video player 1.8.17Latest

    • Update: You can always switch off a Pro control (captions toggle, share, picture-in-picture, download or control shadow) on your players, in the block and on the player settings screen. Only switching one on needs Pro.
    • Update: Super Video Player’s notices, such as the opt-in reminder, now appear only on the plugin’s own screens and the Plugins screen, not across the whole dashboard.
    • Fix: The “Control shadow” setting on the player settings screen now takes effect. It was ignored before.

  2. Super Video player 1.8.16

    • Fix: Opening an older player in its settings and clicking Update no longer changes it. Players made with versions before 1.3 used to lose their video, and other old players could gain buttons or lose their autoplay, width or subtitle settings. The settings screen now shows each player’s settings as…
    • Update: The captions toggle, share, picture-in-picture and download buttons and the control shadow are Pro features. Players you create from this version on show them only with a Pro licence. Players you already have are not affected: they keep every control they show today.
    • Update: HLS (.m3u8) streams now use hls.js 1.7.3, replacing a version from 2018. Modern streams (fMP4/CMAF) reach full quality straight away instead of staying blurry, and some streams that stopped with an error now play. iPhones keep using their built-in HLS player, as before.
    • Developers: If a stream played before this update and no longer does, add_filter( 'svp_use_legacy_hls', '__return_true' ); loads the previous hls.js for now, and please tell us about the stream.

  3. Super Video player 1.8.15

    • Security: Fixed a PHP Object Injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-62044) that users with Editor access or higher could exploit through a player’s stored settings. Please update. Thanks to johska for reporting it responsibly.
    • Security: Player settings can now only be changed from the player’s own settings screen, not through WordPress’s generic custom fields.
    • Security: Stricter permission checks on the Pro licence screen.

  4. Super Video player 1.8.14

    • Fix: Videos hosted on another domain or a CDN now play even when that server sends no CORS headers. Before, such videos stayed blank. Caption files on another domain still need CORS headers, as browsers require.
    • Fix: HLS (.m3u8) and DASH (.mpd) links with a query string, such as signed or tokenised CDN links, now play in Chrome, Firefox and Edge.
    • Fix: HLS and DASH playlists no longer download every video segment twice.
    • Fix: DASH videos now follow the “Auto Play” setting. They used to start on their own whatever the setting said.
    • Fix: Changing the settings of an HLS or DASH player in the block editor no longer leaves extra copies of the stream downloading in the background.
    • Fix: The Vertical playlist layout now shows video durations for videos on other domains.

  5. Super Video player 1.8.13

    • Fix: Caption colours and typography now apply to their own player only. Before, the last player on a page set the caption style for every player on it, including players from other plugins.
    • Fix: Caption font sizes and letter spacing chosen in the block settings now take effect.
    • Fix: A volume, speed or caption choice made in another plugin’s video player no longer overrides this plugin’s “Initial volume” and other settings.
    • Fix: Players no longer have public pages of their own. Those pages were empty, and SEO plugins could list them in sitemaps; players still show wherever you use their shortcode or block.
    • Update: Code cleanup in the playlist player. There is no visible change: playlists start at their first video, as before.

  6. Super Video player 1.8.12

    • Fix: The Pro Settings page now takes effect. The primary and secondary colours, custom CSS and player text translations apply to every player; before, changing them had no effect.
    • Fix: Playlists can be used from the keyboard. Every playlist item can be reached with Tab and chosen with Enter or Space, a focus outline shows where you are, and screen readers announce which video is playing.
    • Fix: With several playlists on one page, choosing a video in one playlist no longer starts a video in another.
    • Fix: The “Auto hide control” setting now works. It was ignored and controls always hid during playback; players with it turned off now keep their controls visible. Players that never changed it are unaffected.
    • Fix: All of the plugin’s admin text can now be translated. Settings fields, menus and labels were previously outside the plugin’s translation domain.
    • Fix: A newly added Super Video Player block shows a working sample video again. The previous sample link had stopped working, so new blocks showed an empty player.
    • Update: Videos can now appear in search results. Every player adds VideoObject structured data using your video’s title, poster and description, falling back to the page title and featured image. Turn it off with the svp_video_schema filter if your SEO plugin already adds video schema.
    • Update: Clearer admin labels: “Add new Player”, “All Players”, “Edit Player” and more, instead of generic wording.
    • Update: The plugin description, FAQ and the Pro lists in the dashboard and block editor now show exactly what is free and what is Pro. Playlists, quality switching, captions and most controls are free; they were wrongly listed as Pro.
    • Update: A “Help & Demos” link on the Plugins screen, and a new Pro overview image on the Help & Demos page.

  7. Super Video player 1.8.11

    • Fix: Players created in earlier versions play again. Players that had never saved their control settings showed no controls and could not be started; they now show the controls they had before, exactly as saved players always have.
    • Fix: Players created with versions 1.0–1.2 load their video, poster, subtitles and settings again.
    • Fix: A player can always be started. If a player has no controls, no click-to-play and no autoplay the browser allows, clicking the video now plays it.
    • Fix: Autoplay works again for players that are not muted, where the browser allows it.
    • Fix: Visitors never see a Pro notice in place of a video. A Pro-only playlist layout without an active licence now shows the default layout instead.
    • Fix: One misconfigured player no longer stops the other players on the same page from loading.
    • Fix: Starting a trial or activating a licence on the free version no longer causes a fatal error.

  8. Super Video player 1.8.10

    • Security: Fixed a DOM-based XSS in the share modal. A crafted share URL or page title could inject executing markup into any page containing a player.
    • Fix: Restored PHP 7.4 compatibility. A PHP 8-only function call caused a fatal error on every admin page for sites on the declared minimum PHP version.
    • Fix: Playlists no longer leak a player, and its HLS or DASH engine, on every item switch.
    • Fix: Escaped all widget and block output.
    • Performance: Plyr is no longer loaded twice on every page, and no longer loads at all on pages without a player.
    • Performance: Removed 506 KB of unused Video.js that was loaded in the header of every page.
    • Performance: The plugin no longer requires jQuery on the front end.
    • Update: Corrected the supported-format list, the install count, and the player-controls description in the readme.

  9. Super Video player 1.8.9

    • Update: Added the latest Bplugins admin dashboard with an improved settings experience.
    • Update: Improved video playback reliability and media format detection.
    • Update: Optimized HLS/DASH asset loading for better performance.
    • Update: Enhanced security, stability, and WordPress coding standards compliance.
    • Update: Cleaned up unused code and improved overall performance.
    • Fix: Fix Auto Full screen on iOS Safari player.

  10. Super Video player 1.8.8

    • Update: Latest Modern Dashboard, Pro Alert modal Added.
    • Update: CodeStar create new structure of General, Controls, Settings.
    • Update: Some pro features convert to unlock for the free version.
    • Fixed: Playlist add video URL, submit issue fixed on the block editor.

  11. Super Video player 1.8.7

    • Caption custom styles features added

20259 releases

  1. Super Video player 1.8.6

    • Share button features added

  2. Super Video player 1.8.5

    • Customization Horizontal Layout
    • Added new features: Continuous Playback on Playlist option

  3. Super Video player 1.8.4

    • Added a modern dashboard
    • Fix the mpd, hls file on the video

  4. Super Video player 1.8.3

    • Fix the text_domain issue in admin

  5. Super Video player 1.8.2

    • Add demo on dashboard
    • Change the plugin display name

  6. Super Video player 1.8.1

    • Fixed the some issue for phlox theme
    • Add default video url

  7. Super Video player 1.8.0

    • Added new version

  8. Super Video player 1.7.5

    • Update: Codestar Framework
    • Update: Freemius WordPress SDK

  9. Super Video player 1.7.4

202410 releases

  1. Super Video player 1.7.3

    • Fixed: Removed unexpected exe file

  2. Super Video player 1.7.2

    • Improved: code refactored

  3. Super Video player 1.7.0

    • Improved: code refactored

  4. Super Video player 1.6.14

  5. Super Video player 1.6.12

    • Fixed: add inline style to block

  6. Super Video player 1.6.10

  7. Super Video player 1.4.1

    • Enabled live streaming for Free users.
    • Fixed a minor bug on mixed content.

  8. Super Video player 1.4.0

    • Fixed a css issue.
    • Improvement on live streaming

  9. Super Video player 1.3.2

  10. Super Video player 1.3.1

20201 release

  1. Super Video player 1.2.1

20193 releases

  1. Super Video player 1.2

  2. Super Video player 1.1

  3. Super Video player 1.0

Questions about Super Video player’s releases

What is the latest version of Super Video player?

1.8.17, released on Nov 1, 2026 (1 week ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Super Video player updated?

12 releases in the last year, about one every 30 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from May 2019.

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