- Feature add new APIs to query supported features of device decoder (widevine level & codec capabilities) on android [#2740](https://github.com/react-native-video/react-native-video/pull/2740)
**WARNING**: when switching from older version to V6, you need to remove all refrerences of android-exoplayer. This android-exoplayer folder has been renamed to android. Exoplayer is now the only player implementation supported.
- Fix iOS build caused by type mismatch [#2720](https://github.com/react-native-video/react-native-video/pull/2720)
- ERROR TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating '_reactNative.Image.propTypes.resizeMode') [#2714](https://github.com/react-native-video/react-native-video/pull/2714)
- Support disabling buffering [#2689](https://github.com/react-native-video/react-native-video/pull/2689)
- Fix AudioFocus bug that could cause the player to stop responding to play/pause in some instances. [#2689](https://github.com/react-native-video/react-native-video/pull/2689)
- Fix player crashing when it is being cleared. [#2689](https://github.com/react-native-video/react-native-video/pull/2689)
- Add support for customising back buffer duration and handle network errors gracefully to prevent releasing the player when network is lost. [#2689](https://github.com/react-native-video/react-native-video/pull/2689)
- Allow player to be init before source is provided, and later update once a source is provided. [#2689](https://github.com/react-native-video/react-native-video/pull/2689)
- Adds handling for providing a empty source in order to stop playback and clear out any existing content [#2689](https://github.com/react-native-video/react-native-video/pull/2689)
- Add support for detecting if format is supported and exclude unsupported resolutions from auto quality selection and video track info in RN. [#2689](https://github.com/react-native-video/react-native-video/pull/2689)
- Ensure we always use `hideShutterView` before showing the `shutterView` on Android [#2609](https://github.com/react-native-video/react-native-video/pull/2609)
- Fix type of `_eventDispatcher` on iOS target to match `bridge.eventDispatcher()` [#2720](https://github.com/react-native-video/react-native-video/pull/2720)
- Fix iOS bug which would break size of views when video is displayed with controls on a non full-screen React view. [#1931](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1931)
- Added `preferredForwardBufferDuration` (iOS) - the duration the player should buffer media from the network ahead of the playhead to guard against playback disruption. (#1944)
- Added `currentPlaybackTime` (Android ExoPlayer, iOS) - when playing an HLS live stream with a `EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME` tag configured, then this property will contain the epoch value in msec. (#1944)
- Added `trackId` (Android ExoPlayer) - Configure an identifier for the video stream to link the playback context to the events emitted. (#1944)
- Fixed Exoplayer doesn't work with mute=true (Android). [#1696](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1696)
- Added support for automaticallyWaitsToMinimizeStalling property (iOS) [#1723](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1723)
- Bump Exoplayer to 2.10.4, remove deprecated usages of Exoplayer methods (Android). [#1753](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1753)
- Preserve Exoplayer BandwidthMeter instance across video plays, this should noticeably improve streaming bandwidth detection (Android).
- Change compileOnly to implementation on gradle (for newer gradle versions and react-native 0.59 support) [#1592](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1592)
- Replaced RCTBubblingEventBlock events by RCTDirectEventBlock to avoid event name collisions [#1625](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1625)
- Added `onPlaybackRateChange` to README [#1578](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1578)
- Added `onReadyForDisplay` to README [#1627](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1627)
- Improved handling of poster image. Fixes bug with displaying video and poster simultaneously. [#1627](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1627)
- Fix background audio stopping on iOS when using `controls` [#1614](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1614)
- Fix runtime warning by replacing `UIManager.RCTVideo` with `UIManager.getViewManagerConfig('RCTVideo')` (and ensuring backwards compat) [#1487](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1487)
- Fix loading package resolved videos when using video-caching [#1438](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1438)
- Fix "message sent to deallocated instance" crash on ios [#1482](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1482)
- Display a warning when source is empty [#1478](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1478)
- Don't crash on iOS for an empty source [#1246](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1246)
- Recover from from transient internet failures when loading on ExoPlayer [#1448](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1448)
- Add controls support for ExoPlayer [#1414](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1414)
- Fix check for text tracks when iOS caching enabled [#1387](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1387)
- Add support for Picture in Picture on iOS [#1325](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1325)
- Fix iOS video not displaying after switching source [#1395](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1395)
- Add the filterEnabled flag, fixes iOS video start time regression [#1384](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1384)
- Fix text not appearing in release builds of Android apps [#1373](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1373)
- Update to ExoPlayer 2.9.3 [#1406](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1406)
- Add video track selection & onBandwidthUpdate [#1199](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1199)
- Recovery from transient internet failures and props to configure the custom retry count [#1448](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1448)
- Don't initialize filters on iOS unless a filter is set. This was causing a startup performance regression [#1360](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1360)
- Support setting the maxBitRate [#1310](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1310)
- Fix useTextureView not defaulting to true [#1383](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1383)
- Disable AirPlay if sidecar text tracks are enabled [#1304](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1304)
- Add possibility to remove black screen while video is loading in Exoplayer [#1355](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1355)
- Various iOS sideloaded text track fixes [#1157](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1157)
- Fix #1150 where assets with bundled assets don't work on iOS in release mode [#1162](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1162)
- Support configuring the buffer on Android ExoPlayer [#1160](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1160)
- Prevent sleep from sleeping while videos are playing on Android MediaPlayer [#1117](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1117)
- Update NewtonSoft JSON to match react-native-windows version [#1169](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1169)
- Revert PR to inherit Android SDK versions from root project. Re-add in 3.0 [#1080](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1080)
- Support allowsExternalPlayback on iOS [#1057](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1057)
- Inherit Android buildtools and SDK version from the root project [#999](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/999)
- Fix bug that caused ExoPlayer to start paused if playInBackground was set [#833](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/833)
- Fix crash if clearing an observer on iOS that was already cleared [#1075](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1075)
- Add audioOnly prop for music files [#1039](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1039)
- Support seeking with more exact tolerance on iOS [#1076](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1076)
