HexPlayer: all versions and old releases

HexPlayer v5.7.0

HexPlayer 5.6.0
New: YouTube Mixes support. Play any YouTube Mix as an endless, self-extending queue backed by a dedicated, fully keyboard-navigable tracklist panel. As you listen the Mix keeps refilling, so playback never runs dry, and every upcoming track is announced for screen reader users.

HexPlayer 5.5.0 introducing the new Sleep Timer feature and bundled vulkan-1.dll dependency fix for Windows media playback.

HexPlayer 5.3.1 — hotfix: double-clicking the app now opens the GUI again. The 5.3.0 command-line tool was installed under a name that collided with the main HexPlayer.exe on Windows and replaced it, so launching the app opened a terminal instead of the interface. The CLI is now named hexplayer-cli and no longer overwrites the GUI.

HexPlayer 5.3.0 — significantly smaller Linux packages plus Linux playback fixes.

HexPlayer 5.2.0 upgrades the audio equalizer to a full 15-band graphic EQ for finer, more natural sound shaping.

HexPlayer v5.1.0
What's New in Version 5.1.0
- Multi-Audio Track Selection:
- Direct audio track selection menu in the video player context menu (Applications or Shift+F10).
- Seamlessly switch between multiple audio languages, dubbed tracks, and commentary tracks with instant audio feedback.
- Audio Language Preferences in Settings:
- Preferred Audio Language: Choose a default preferred audio track language (Arabic, English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and 16+ other languages). HexPlayer automatically selects your preferred track when available.
- Force Original Audio Language: New setting to always prioritize and play the original audio language track by default, falling back cleanly if dubs are present.
- Screen Reader & Keyboard Accessibility:
- Full screen reader announcements when changing audio tracks and navigating track selections.
- Keyboard-accessible radio items with instant status announcements.
- Internationalization (i18n):
- Complete English and Arabic localization for all new audio track features, settings dialog controls, and status messages.
- Performance & Stability:
- Asynchronous background track fetching with zero player UI freezes or delays.

HexPlayer v5.0.1 Hotfix
Fixes in Version 5.0.1
- YouTube Search Fix: Resolved 400 Bad Request error when searching YouTube caused by unnormalized language names (English) being passed to the InnerTube API. Language codes are now strictly normalized to 2-letter ISO 639-1 format.
- Welcome Wizard Language Persistence: Fixed swapped language names/codes in the initial setup wizard, ensuring selections correctly persist as ISO codes.
- wxStaticBoxSizer UI Polish: Corrected child control parenting in Step 2 of the Welcome Wizard to eliminate wxStaticBoxSizer parent mismatch warnings.
- Automated Configuration Migration: Added on-the-fly normalization in settings_handler to automatically repair legacy or corrupted lang values in user settings.ini without requiring manual resets.

HexPlayer v5.0.0
What's New in Version 5.0.0
- Experimental Full Linux Support:
- Native packages for Ubuntu/Debian (.deb) and Fedora/RHEL (.rpm), plus portable standalone tarballs (.tar.gz).
- Universal single-command installer (�ash install.sh) with distribution auto-detection and accessibility audit (--check-accessibility).
- Deep screen reader accessibility with Orca, AT-SPI2, GTK3, and Speech Dispatcher.
- Distro-aware in-app updates with automated DNF/APT command guidance and screen reader speech announcements.
- Dual-distro dependency setup via packaging/linux/install-deps.sh.
- Accessible Welcome Wizard:
- A newly redesigned 4-step setup wizard guiding first-time users through configuring speech synthesizer engines, UI themes, and keyboard navigation shortcuts.
- Accessible from the main interface or relaunched anytime from the Settings menu.
- Search History:
- Recent searches are now stored and recalled seamlessly with SQLite-backed history.
- Bug Fixes & System Stability:
- Fixed authenticated YouTube cookie playback cascades in yt-dlp.
- Prevented background console flashes during search and playback on Windows.
- Resolved process termination and AT-SPI2 bus shutdown behavior during Linux packaging smoke tests.
- Updated gettext translation catalogs across English and Arabic with complete RTL accessibility.

hot fix (cookies): resolve playback failure with authenticated cookies via yt-dlp client cascade

Added real-time YouTube search suggestions with debouncing and keyboard navigation. Added related YouTube video suggestions in the media player with Tab navigation. Integrated automated YouTube Proof-of-Origin (POT) provider service and yt-dlp plugin to bypass YouTube bot detection. Reorganized settings dialog into organized notebook tabs (General, Download, Player, SponsorBlock, Cookies, Advanced).

New 44 presets in the equalizer, along with a new settings menu for SponsorBlock setting, and fixed an issue when clicking space in the media player doesn't pause the video.

New download formats: WAV, FLAC, MKV. The app now embeds YouTube metadata in all supported formats. The download system has been fixed to respect your selected format and quality settings, preventing incorrect defaults. A sponsor block skip feature has been added to automatically skip sponsored segments; it is disabled by default and can be enabled in settings.

App size reduced from 92 MB to 76 MB. Added debug mode: launch with -d or --debug to open a debug terminal for investigating issues like video playback failures.

The recent issues with the YouTube client have been resolved. You can now select the client for yt-dlp via the settings.

new shorts watching feature and fixed prism not working in the previes release