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Marketplace iOS Changelog

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Version 7.8.3

12 April 2021

New:

  • Added support for DV360 SCAR integration for banners
  • Deprecated VPAID video support
  • Minimum supported iOS version is v.10.0

Fixed:

  • Crash in IAXMLContentNetworkBuilder for a specific scenario
  • Critical issue where apps get stuck under Unity for video ads

iOS Adapters:

  • MoPub adapter support for version 5.16.1

Version 7.8.2

11 March 2021

New:

  • Added support for latest AdMob changes (v8.0.0)

Improvements:

  • Video playback
  • Removed usage of deprecated API in AdMob adapter

Fixed:

  • Crash in ads fetching in a specific scenario
  • Crash in RV in a specific scenario
  • Bug with stuck interstitial in certain scenario
  • issue with double called callback of “modal dismissal”
  • Minor rendering issues in certain scenarios

Version 7.8.1

14 February 2021

New:

  • Enhanced video skippability enforcement mechanism

Fixed:

  • Crash in ads rendering in certain scenario
  • Crash in multi-threaded dispose mechanism in certain scenarios

Version 7.8.0

19 January 2021

New:

  • Added additional Contextual parameters and improved the infrastructure
  • Enhanced user experience and positioned video within the safe-area bounds
  • Changed default web-view background color to black
  • Removed “Open in Safari” button from in-app browser
  • Added support for Mopub 5.15

Fixed:

  • Crash in a certain scenario related to content rendering
  • Mem-leak in a certain scenario related to end-cards
  • Bug related to keywindow
  • Issue with mute button in rewarded video
  • Issue with non-skippable ads in a certain scenario
  • Issue with video ads that might get stuck due to multiple clicks on the end card
  • Issue with accessing UI from the background thread
  • Issue with lost first ad request in Mopub mediation

Version 7.7.3

10 November 2020

New:

  • Improved low ad quality detection and prevention mechanisms in all fullscreen ads
  • Improved HTML ad centering in specific ads

Fixed:

  • Crash in rare scenario in VAST ads
  • Missing Close button in certain scenarios of Rewarded Playables
  • Potential import conflict in MoPub mediation

Version 7.7.2

15 October 2020

New:

  • Increased the size of iPad video controls by 20%
  • Removed the automatic dismissal of interstitials

Fixed:

  • Crash in rare scenarios in rewarded videos under AdMob mediation
  • Orientation issue in interstitial display ads
  • Improved spinner logic while opening app store in certain scenarios

Version 7.7.1

04 October 2020

Updates:

  • Added support for iOS 14 and Xcode 12. Please note, Xcode 11.7 and below are not supported
  • Added SKAdNetwork 2.0 support
  • Added new privacy-aware contextual data parameters
  • Added additional VAST functionality that improves click tracking and helps mitigate accidental clicks 
  • Added support for dark mode in in-app browser
  • User interface updates targeting increased user engagement (Video CTA now lists “Install Now” instead of “Visit Us” )

Fixed:

  • Fixed minor bug in banners refresh
  • Increased the close button size and touch area in static end-cards

Version 7.6.4

3 September 2020

Fixed:

  • Crash in a rare scenario under MAX mediation

Version 7.6.3

13 August 2020

Features:

  • Added support for collecting IDFV.
    • Note: IDFV is a critical signal for the preparations for iOS 14. The availability of IDFV for buyers will assist in maximizing spend on IDFA-less traffic.
  • Added a new API for passing Developer User ID

Fixed:

  • Performance and stability improvements

Version 7.6.2

2 August 2020

Fixed:

  • Bug related to missing bundle resources (buttons) in the Unity 2019 integration
  • Performance and stability

Version 7.6.1

22 July 2020

Updates:

  • Added support for MoPub 5.13.1
  • Defined new end-card minimum size requirement to be 100x100 pixels (previously 300x250 pixels)

Fixed:

  • Improved stability and performance
 

Version 7.6.0

12 July 2020

Updates:

  • New ad format! Added support for Rewarded Playables, which are configured under the existing Rewarded Placement Type
    • Added a new rewarded completion callback for interstitial unit controllers. For more information on implementation, click here.
  • Added improved user experience for video by adding swipe to open StoreKit and StoreKit video end cards
  • Improved click handling for interstitial display Ad Units
  • Added new API - SDK Init completion callback. Click here, for more information.
  • Added new API isReady
  • Improved the SDK handling of VAST CompanionAd file extension and mime-types, such as case-insensitive “JPG”
  • Improved the look and feel of the fail-safe close button
  • Added reward callback implementation to the Admob adapter
  • Added support for Fyber's new init API in under Mopub's adapter
  • Added support to retrieve GDPR consent status directly from Mopub’s SDK if the app uses Mopub mediation
  • Updated Mopub adapters to support Mopub 5.12.1

Fixed:

  • Fixed ad-refresh which was stuck in a certain scenario
  • Fixed a crash in a certain rare scenario while opening the StoreKit
  • Fixed a crash in a certain rare scenario when showing the in-app browser
  • Fixed a bug with a disappearing close button in the CompanionAd
  • Fixed a bug with missing close button when rotating the device in a certain rare scenario
  • Fixed a bug involving a playable ad playing in the background
  • Improved handling of universal link stability. In rare cases users would see a stuck spinner
  • Removed false-positive "page is not available" label from the in-app browser
  • Removed MOAT and Avid frameworks from the MoPub adapter dependencies in the Cocoapods integration
  • Stability and performance improvements

Version 7.5.6

1 June 2020

Fixed:

  • Critical bug that caused the SDK to consider secure app-store links as non-secure.
 

Version 7.5.5

20 May 2020

Updates:

  • Improved the SDK initialization process - lower latency

Fixed:

  • Crash occurring in a specific version of Unity during SDK initialization process
  • Incorrect User-Agent in VAST End Cards on new iPads

Version 7.5.4

12 March 2020

Updates:

  • Improved UI/UX in video behavior by removing redundant “play” button
  • Improved UI/UX for the location of the “close” button in iPhone X and above
  • Improved full-screen video countdown timer logic
  • Improved visual display on banners by adding support for content aware backgrounds
  • Improved memory management in VPAID ads
 

Version 7.5.3

18 February 2020

Fixed:

  • Crash in networking module in certain rare scenario
  • Crash in click-handling module which could occur in certain rare scenarios
  • The willDismissFullscreen callback which was not called when the internal browser was closed
  • Bug when using the Smartlink feature, the SDK opens the internal browser instead of the external browser
 

Version 7.5.2

12 February 2020

Updates:

  • muteAudio API - Allows publishers to start a fullscreen video interstitial muted, in cases where the user has muted the app’s music/sound
  • Support added for CompanionClickTracking
  • Support added for the latest AdMob Mediation version (7.53.1)
  • Ad experience UI update: All 'X' (close) buttons on interstitial ads use the same theme
  • When the user closes the landing page / app store of an interstitial display ad the SDK dismisses the ad

Fixed:

  • Issue in MoPub adapter which tries to show an interstitial / rewarded ad while there is another one being presented
  • Bug in VPAID with the ‘X’ button which is shown immediately on the endcard (appears after 3 seconds)
  • Bug in iOS 11 when clicking the ‘Visit us’ button only the 1st click responds
  • A potential UI flow on a background thread in certain cases in video flow
  • Bug - audio continues to play when display (MRAID and Video) ad is closed
  • Background refresh in banner while mediated using MoPub
  • Banner refreshes when returning from background
  • Removed redundants logs in AdMob adapter
  • Improved error log upon a wrong appID and/or missing SDK config
 

Version 7.5.1

14 January 2020

Updates:

  • Added CCPA (us_privacy) string API
  • Added a new API (callback) for ad impression level revenue data (missing page to link to)
  • Added a new API (protocol) IAGlobalAdDelegate which contains the required callback for impression data
  • Added support for MRAID force orientation
  • Updated Mopub adapters to support Mopub 5.10.0 - Decreased the Mopub banners adapter timeout from 15 to 9 seconds. It is defined as Mopub's defined macro for banners timeout (which is 10 seconds) minus 1 second: `BANNER_TIMEOUT_INTERVAL - 1'
  • Updated AdMob adapters to support remote credentials, which could be defined in the AdMob console

Fixed:

  • Fixed a bug in VPAID which blocked VPAID ads from being rendered on iPads
  • Fixed a timeout issue which in case the timeout is not set explicitly, the ad fetch will always fail
  • Fixed a bug where the in-app browser was opened upon the 204 response upon the ad click
  • Fixed a minor MRAID sizing bug
  • Stability and performance improvements

Deprecated:

  • Removed the support of the MRAID Picture and Calendar, which removes a requirement in the info.plist permission. Note: there still can be a webcal:// link in a creative, which is a standard iOS URL scheme, but it does not require a permission.
 

Version 7.5.0

9 December 2019

Updates:

  • Restored the StoreKit usage in iOS 13 and above
  • Added support for dynamic web styling for AB-testing, to test and improve HTML rendering
  • SDK will detect a problematic ATS configuration and adjust the ad request accordingly

Fixed:

  • Fixed inconsistency with User Agents
  • Fixed a crash which could occur in a certain edge case
  • Improved internal browser behavior
  • Improved HTML rendering in certain cases
  • Improved SDK stability and performance
 

Version 7.4.2

20 November 2019

Updates:

  • The minimum supported iOS version is now iOS 9
  • Improved overall stability
  • Improved the creatives rendering

Fixed:

  • Analytics issues in secure connections
  • Crash, caused by a specific type of URI for an external app

Deprecated:

  • Removed the Automatic Location Update Engine, which required the sensitive location permissions to be added to the info.plist of the publisher application.
  • Removed the Native Ads module, including the MoPub Native Ads Mediation Adapter
 

Version 7.4.1

25 September 2019

Updates:

  • iOS 13 Support: Deprecate all usage of UIWebView API from the SDK

Fixed:

  • Minor UI issues
 

Version 7.4.0

September 2019

Updates:

  • iOS 13 Support: Sets the full-screen presentation mode for the full-screen view controllers (due to the changes in iOS 13 default behavior).

Fixed:

  • Bug with overlapped x-button in certain edge cases, which caused interstitial ads to remain on the screen without the ability to dismiss them
 

Version 7.3.3

August 2019

Updates:

  • Support for Smartlink+: A deep linking scheme allowing advertisers to provide a fallback URL in case the destination of the deep link cannot be found on the device. This scheme also allows the attachment of appropriate click trackers to both the primary URL and the fallback URL. Click here for more information.
  • Support for native browser scheme: A new option for the advertisers to notify Fyber SDK that the click URL should be opened in the native browser of the device and not in the SDKs’ built-in browser. Click here for more information. This an additional option to the already existing method of using URL suffix
  • Update the text of the CTA button in the video player to "download" when the link leads directly to the App Store

Fixed:

  • Click tracking bug in the Mopub adapter (V 5.5.0 and above)
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
 

Version 7.3.2

August 2019

Fixed

  • Issue where sometimes the VAST completion was sent when it should not have been sent
 

Version 7.3.1

July 2019

Updates

  • New GDPR consent string API
  • Improved handling of the URL Schemes
  • Fixed skip logic for video of less than 15s

Fixed

  • Improved stability and performance

Adapters

  • Mopub Adapter 5.5/5.6 supports a dynamic init (and re-init) of the Marketplace SDK, based on the remote Mopub's console JSON data (appID)
 

Version 7.3.0

June 2019

Updates
Video (VAST) end-card experience and design

  • Default end card new design and experience
  • "Replay" button removed from Fyber Marketplace default end card

Video (VAST) end card optimizations

  • Showing end card when video is stuck and cannot be completed
  • End card selection optimization
  • Always show end card after ad skip
  • Show Fyber default end-card if there is no ad end card

Playable Ads

  • Playable ads certification on SDK

Fixed

  • Several rendering issues in Display Ads
  • Improved stability and performance
 

Version 7.2.3

April 2019

Updates

  • MoPub adapter update for MoPub SDK v5.5 and above.

Version 7.2.1

January 2019

Updates

  • Support MRAID end-cards for video Interstitial ad
  • Support uniform Skippability: For video interstitials, any video that is 15s or shorter will be non-skippable. Videos 16s or longer will be skippable usually after 5s
  • Extended support for MRAID video in Interstitial Display ad
 

Version 7.1.1

October 2018

Updates

  • End card now filters out erroneous creatives and improves user experience

Fixed

  • Gif animation bug fix in end cards
  • Video is paused when rotate device to landscape
  • Video is paused when closing the browser after visiting the advertiser's page
  • Infrastructure fixes required to maintain a stable service
 

Version 7.1.0

September 2018

Updates

  • Added full support for iOS 12
  • VPAID tag updated to version 3.0.2

Fixed

  • Fixed issues in End card rendering

Note

iOS SDK versions 5.0.1 - 7.0.9 have now been deprecated. To view the Changelog for these SDKs, click here.