Mesh Delivery and CDN Load Balancer release notes

Upcoming release
 

• Improvements on SLA of the backend core services
  
  
• Support of Universal Windows Platform (UWP), PlayStation and Comcast RDK
  
  
• Web Increase support of reduced-latency content
  
  
• Web Improvements in QoS
  
  
• Web Android iOS Improvements in power consumption
  
  
• Android iOS Improvements in offload

Q3 2022

• Web Improved peer-to-peer connectivity for multicast DNS (mDNS) hosts
  
  
• Web Added support to cross-platform peering with v2 native SDKs
  
  
• Web Improved video track switch management
  
  
• Web Improved seeder election heuristics
  
  
• Web Improved management of ABR for streamed requests
  
  
• Web Changed ABR feedback heuristic to adapt faster to peer churn
  
  
• Web Improved memory management and footprint
  
  
• Web Added "leecher only" mode to reduce the footprint on machines with ad-blockers
  
  
• Web Improved security of video segment anti-tampering mechanism
  
  
• Web Improved security of code dependencies
  
  
• Web Improved client telemetry
  
  
• Web Android iOS Improved mobile network detection
  
  
• Web Android iOS Added support to peers on IPv6 and IP dual-stack
  
  
• Android Fixed buffer target manipulation
  
  
• Other platforms Added experimental support to Roku and to VLC player on Linux
  
  
• Web Android iOS Other platforms Several minor bug fixes and improvements
  
   

Q2 2022  

• Improved resiliency of data pipeline: data loss risk is now reduced for high traffic spiky events
  
  
• Improved reactivity of the Dashboard charts: delay in data points of Activity Summary and Real Time is reduced from ~90s to ~30s
  
  
• Improved reliability of P2P upload/download rules for cellular network WiFi hotspots
  
  
• Web Added support of fetch / response streaming API for CDN HTTP requests
  
  
• Web Added forwarding of CDN errors to SDK API
  
  
• Web Added support of Common-Media-Client-Data (CMCD) headers in HLS.js, Dash.js, Shaka Player wrappers
  
  
• Web Added support of streamed CDN responses for reduced-latency contents
  
  
• Web Added support of Shaka Player API v3.0
  
  
• Web Improved offload of live contents for RxPlayer
  
  
• Web Improved stability on Samsung Tizen smart TVs
  
  
• Web Improved handling of CDN HTTP abort errors in Shaka Player
  
  
• Web Improved monitoring and analysis capabilities
  
  
• Web Reduced P2P connections overhead
  
  
• Android iOS Added support of Common-Media-Client-Data (CMCD) headers
  
  
• Android iOS Added support of Peers Connections in IPv6
  
  
• Android iOS Improved offload by new heuristic for candidate peer selection
  
  
• Android iOS Improved performance of DVR manifest parsing: reduction in CPU usage and P2P startup time
  
  
• Android iOS Improved security of backend calls for session initialization
  
  
• Android iOS Improved security of P2P message exchange
  
  
• Android iOS Improved WebRTC API observability capabilities
  
  
• Android iOS Reduced impact on ABR feedback by streaming HTTP responses
  
  
• Android iOS General stability improvements and bug fixes

Q1 2022
 

• Web Reduction in RAM and CPU usage (cross browser)
  
  
• Web Improvements of CDN offload on live content (Expect up to 5 points)
  
  
• Web Better trade-off between QoS and CDN offload
  
  
• Web Better support of custom VideoJS implementations: Namespace different than the default 'window.videojs' can now be manually registered
  
  
• Web Better monitoring of CDN requests: Full XHR response is now forwarded as data for non-successful queries to allow additional custom process
  
  
• Android iOS major release of native SDKs
  
  
  • Reduced footprint
    
            We have designed Mesh Delivery to be unintrusive and lightweight on user devices. Compared to devices not using Mesh:
    
    
    • Additional battery usage over 5 minutes: ~0.9%**
      
      
    • RAM usage: ~17 MB
      
      
    • Storage usage: total bundle 14-17 MB***, comparable to other native SDKs with similar source code size 
      
      Compared to previous versions of Mesh Delivery, this translates to 2x less average CPU use, 4x less average RAM usage, as well as low-end device hardware compatibility (e.g. 4 cores CPU, 1 GB RAM).
       
  • QoS and integration advantages
    
    This release also comes with other benefits, including:
    
    
    • Potential increase in CDN offload: +5-20%
      
      
    • Improved reaction to network speed changes
      
      
    • Smoother integration with ABR decisions
      
      
    • Easier SDK integration thanks to 10x fewer lines of source code (new integration requires just one class and ~30 SLOC)
      
      
    • Additional client-side debugging tools with real-time information like Mesh & CDN volume, offload, connected peers, peer-to-peer cache size, video latency, bandwidth, current video track, etc.

Q4 2021
 

• Increased reliability of backend services
  
  

Q3 2021
 

• Added matching capabilities (ISP, per region ISP, ASN, Geo, public IP)
  
  
• Increased flexibility of backend services deployments (on public cloud, private cloud, on-premises)
  
  
• Data reporter: send periodic summary reports on important metrics. Includes splits on audience, bandwidth, and traffic
  
  
• Sessions based billing (incl. monthly/weekly/daily aggregation)
  
  
• Per country/ISP activation rules (blacklist & whitelist) via API
  
  
• Billing API for sessions
  
  
• Added sorting capability on API Data routes
   

• Web  Improvements of QoS
   
• Web  Expose CDN request errors from the SDK
  
  
• Web  Support of hls.js v1
  
  
• Web  Explicit identification of Samsung Tizen Smart TVs
  
  
• Web  Added asynchronous loading capability “loadAfterPlaybackStarted” to reduce startup time
  
  
• Web Android iOS Reduction of CPU/RAM footprint for better compatibility with low-end devices
  
  
• Web Android iOS Multiple bug fixes and performance improvements
  
  
• Android iOS Ability to deactivate Mesh on app startup, reducing CPU/RAM footprint
  
  
• Android iOS Reduction in startup time
  
  
• Android P2P offload optimization
  
  
• Android Added support of Android 11
  
  
• IOS Added support of XCode 13
  
  
• IOS Increased support of non-standardized/canonical segment URLs in the HLS manifest
  
  

**Given 4500mAh battery, 3.8V: continuous power consumption 0.8 – 2W, depending on the device  

*** Exact size depends on the operating system