What's new in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.14.0
Mar 7, 2024
- Security patches and updates
- Removes check if a user selects an removable drive to download to. Instead the app warns that removable drives will cause issues if they are not available whilst the app is running.
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.13.16 (Nov 16, 2023)
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.13.15 (Aug 22, 2023)
- Telemetry update
- Enhance remote messaging capabilities
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.13.13 (Jun 21, 2023)
- Library updates
- Deprecation Windows 7/8
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.13.12 (May 9, 2023)
- Library updates
- Fixed restart app after DRM system upgraded
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.13.11 (Feb 9, 2023)
- Library updates
- Fixed restart app after DRM system upgraded
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.13.10 (Oct 13, 2022)
- Library updates
- Update digital rights management warning message
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.13.9 (Aug 31, 2022)
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.13.8 (May 16, 2022)
- Added new BBC and iPlayer branding to download screen (Mac)
- Library updates
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.13.7 (Mar 3, 2022)
- Added new BBC and iPlayer branding to app icons
- Library updates
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.13.6 (Jan 18, 2022)
- Added new BBC and iPlayer branding to the application header
- Library updates
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.13.5 (Oct 18, 2021)
- Enables upgrade of digital rights management (DRM) component to most recent version
- Library updates
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.13.4 (Sep 1, 2021)
- Enable banner messages to be turned on remotely
- Manage downloads of episodes with unexpected end dates
- Library updates
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.13.3 (Aug 2, 2021)
- Restart app after DRM system upgraded
- Library updates
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.13.2 (May 27, 2021)
- Enables upgrade of digital rights management (DRM) component to required version
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.13.1 (May 17, 2021)
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.12.10 (Sep 25, 2020)
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.12.8 (Sep 25, 2020)
- Updates telemetry for improved error detection
- Library updates
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.12.7 (Sep 25, 2020)
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.12.6 (Sep 25, 2020)
- Corrects failing Help and FAQ link
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.12.5 (Sep 25, 2020)
- Extending digital rights managment error messaging
- Upgrading to latest versions of software libraries
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.12.4 (May 27, 2020)
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.11.2 (Jan 8, 2020)
- Warning if digital rights management is unavailable. This is for unusual cases where hardware is incompatible/unsupported
- Improved verification when selecting an alternative download folder
- Various bug fixes and upgrades
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.10.2 (Jan 8, 2020)
- Use Apple Notarization
- Compatibility with OSX Catalina
- Improve experience if media decryption license keys fail
- Various bug fixes and upgrades
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.9.0 (Oct 7, 2019)
- Added error handling on a problem of a Google upgrade causing licenses to be invalid
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.8.6 (Mar 19, 2019)
- Fixed a problem where removing a playing download would break the user interface
- Fixed an issue that would mean programmes with no media could not be removed
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.8.4 (Mar 19, 2019)
- Extended help if the application experiences problems during installation and upgrade
- Improved upgrade mechanism
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.8.3 (Mar 8, 2019)
- Improvements to the user interface including keyboard accessibility of the On/Off toggle buttons
- Updated digital rights management
- Fixed a problem where one license would fail when the DRM system upgraded
- Fixed smally layout problems at the smallest screen size
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.7.4 (Feb 7, 2019)
- Fixed issue where some users using Windows were not able to download
- Improved keyboard accessibility
- Library upgrades
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.7.3 (Feb 7, 2019)
- Download complete notification plays episode if clicked
- Warns users when supplied with bad download links from the BBC iPlayer website
- Programmes that are already watched start from the beginning when watched again
- Security enhancements and library updates
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.6.8 (Nov 29, 2018)
- Changed the order of the episodes under the Series view.
- Added support for macOS Mojave dark mode.
- Improved expiry label to show more accurate expiry information.
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.6.7 (Nov 29, 2018)
- Minor changes to the application menus, find these release notes under Help > What's New
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.6.6 (Nov 29, 2018)
- Improved error logging for better user support.
- Fixed an issue where some subtitles would not download.
- Fixed an issue where some programmes would not be successfully removed.
- Improved the readability of our release notes.
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.6.3 (Nov 29, 2018)
- Improvements to the "By Series" view and programme ordering.
- Fixed an issue where removing a programme from My Downloads failed.
- Added links to FAQ page covering downloads folder locked or missing errors.
- Extended error monitoring and reporting to improve diagnostics.
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.6.2 (Nov 29, 2018)
- Improved reliability when removing programmes.
- Improvements to Changing Destination Folder on Mac and Windows.
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.6.1 (Nov 29, 2018)
- Stopped some downloads hanging at 99% download complete.
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.6.0 (Nov 29, 2018)
- Introduces the ability to change the storage location of programme downloads in the Setting tab.
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.5.8 (Jul 24, 2018)
- Fixed an issue where some episodes with guidance would not download.
- Fixed the counting of the number of episodes available to download in a series.
- Improved application security and player.
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.5.6 (Jul 24, 2018)
- Fixed an issue where the app would fail to start on Mac OS 10.9
- When manually triggering a new download from the series view we match the quality of your most recent download (so SD or HD, rather than HD only).
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 2.5.5 (Jul 24, 2018)
- Fixed an issue where player controls were not visible when offline
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 1.14.2 (Dec 15, 2015)
- Fixing a problem where some downloads would cause performance issues.
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 1.14.0 (Jul 17, 2015)
- Improves the reliability of Series Record.
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 1.13.1 (Jun 4, 2015)
- Introduces Series Record:
- Turn Series Record on for your favourite programmes and have the app automatically download new episodes as they become available on iPlayer.
- Introduces Resume Play:
- The app now remembers how much of each episode you’ve watched, so you can quickly pick up where you left off.
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 1.11.1 (Feb 4, 2015)
- Fixes an issue whereby the duration of certain episodes would be incorrectly displayed.
- Various other minor improvements and fixes.
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 1.11.0 (Nov 29, 2014)
- Adds support for 30 day availability:
- Soon you'll be able to download most iPlayer programmes for 30 days after they're shown on TV, and you'll have until the end of the same 30-day period to watch the download.
- At the end of the 30-day period, programmes will be deleted. So keep an eye on the expiry date of each programme you download to make sure you don't miss out.
- This is a mandatory update which is required to support this change.
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 1.10.0 (Sep 30, 2014)
- Introduces the ability to sort downloaded programmes alphabetically by title, or by date downloaded.
- Introduces a fresh new visual design, improving consistency across iPlayer.
- Supports high density displays across both Mac and PC.
- Supports the upcoming Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) operating system.
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 1.9.2 (Sep 4, 2014)
- No more buffering:
- Watch downloaded shows without annoying pauses.
- Watch offline:
- Take your favorite BBC programmes anywhere.
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 3.2.15 (Apr 25, 2014)
- Patched to fix problems caused by temporary issue with BBC data services in June 2012.
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 3.2.14 (Apr 25, 2014)
- Improved reporting of usage statistics.
New in BBC iPlayer Downloads 1.2.11066 (Jul 10, 2009)
- The Download button, on the iPlayer website, now shows when it is still loading.
- Fixed a bug where a previous programme's subtitles are still visible during the next programme.
- Fixed a bug where the play button sometimes did not start the programme playing.
- Multiple alert messages have been amalgamated into a single message.
- Fixed an error where a programme expired while the Parental Guidance tab was showing.
- Fixed an issue where the logo for BBC News & BBC Alba was not shown.
- Reduced the amount of messages shown warning the user of bandwidth usage.