NewPipe (Lightweight YouTube) v0.24.0 [Mod][Latest]

New
Bump minSdk to 21 (Android 5 Lollipop) and drop support for Android 4.4 KitKat #7613
Add Download entry to long-press menu #8397
Add option to hide future videos in feed #8545 #8966
Add Share menu item to local playlists #8542

Improved
Crop the notification thumbnail in 1:1 mode instead of stretching it #8533
Make thumbnails' scaleType fitCenter #8573
Improve image placeholders #8530
Removed the "(beta)"-tag from services #8637
Refactor player and extract UI components #8170 #8661 #8678 #8731
Sort tags case-insensitively #8709

Fixed
Fix wrong image used as a placeholder for channels avatars #8676
Fix various issues with player notification #8678 #8899

Localization
Make some much needed changes to the README #8372
Fix lang code for Chinese Simplified #8549

Development
Run CI on all release branches #8565
Clean up proguard file #8468
Update ExoPlayer to 2.18.1 #8536 #8687
Specify used ExoPlayer libraries #8469
Use minimum required permissions for GitHub workflows #8569
Checkstyle assign on same line #8601
Use ViewCompat.setBackgroundTintList() #8633
Update some misc libraries #8475
Use stream sorting #8635
Use Java 9 collection factories: List.of(), Set.of(), Map.of() #8631 #8679
Use range-limiting method MathUtils.clamp() #8651 #8737
Use Kotlin IO extensions #8648
Remove some unnecessary methods #8663 #8740
Remove deprecated method calls in FocusAwareCoordinator #8670
Deduplicate SQL queries to get feed streams #8621
Update OkHttp to 4.10.0 #8624
Update Lifecycle to 2.5.1 #8683
Update AndroidX Fragment to 1.4.1 #8691
Update Google Material to 1.6.1 #8692
Use Throwable.stackTraceToString() #8701
Update AppCompat to 1.4.2 #8667
Use WindowMetrics API #8656
Update AndroidX Room to 2.4.3 #8716
Remove uses of setBottomSheetCallback() #8669
Refactor LicenseFragmentHelper #8682
Make OnClickGesture an interface #8721
Reduce View.kt size #8708
Use toArray() with zero-length arrays #8724
Use Comparator factory methods #8728
Use Collectors.joining() #8738
Update FilePicker to our custom fork and disable Jetifier #8666
Add FAQ entry to the template checklists #8822
Use ListAdapter for search predictions #8719 #8972
Update Gradle to 7.5.1 #8751
Remove extra whitespace from issue and PR templates #8755
Clarify that span shouldn't be in translated READMEs #8754
Keep strong references to Picasso notification icon loading targets #8677
Create media session UI and fix player notification #8678