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April 2026

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Version

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Related documentation

April 9, 2026

Player SDK

Short Video SDK

Real-Time Communication SDK

ApsaraVideo for MediaBox

v7.11.0

  • Fixed:

    • RTC: Fixed stability issues.

January 2026

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Product

Version

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Related documentation

January 12, 2026

player SDK

short video SDK

real-time communication SDK

scenario SDK

v7.10.0

  • Fixed:

    • RTC: Addressed stability issues.

December 2025

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Product

Version

Updates

References

December 4, 2025

ApsaraVideo Player SDK

Short Video SDK

ARTC SDK

All-in-one SDK

v7.9.1

  • Optimizations:

    • ARTC: Improved ARTC SDK performance by reducing the number of threads.

    • ARTC: Added preloading.

  • Fixes:

    • ARTC: Improved stability.

November 2025

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Product

Version

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November 12, 2025

ApsaraVideo Player SDK

Short Video SDK

ARTC SDK

All-in-one SDK

v7.8.1

  • Optimizations:

    • Enhanced user experience.

  • Fixes:

    • Resolved stability issues.

November 5, 2025

ApsaraVideo Player SDK

Short Video SDK

ARTC SDK

All-in-one SDK

v7.8.0

  • Optimizations:

    • ARTC: Optimized thread performance.

  • Fixes:

    • ARTC: Resolved stability issues.

October 2025

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Version

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Related documents

October 10, 2025

ApsaraVideo Player SDK

Short Video SDK

ARTC SDK

All-in-one SDK

v7.7.0

  • New features:

    • ARTC: Now supports recording local audio and video to MP4, AAC, and WAV files.

    • ARTC: Android Audio Focus now uses the new API from API level 26 by default.

  • Optimizations:

    • ARTC: The audio data callback now supports a 24 kHz sample rate.

  • Fixes:

    • ARTC: Fixed stability issues.

September 2025

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Product

Version

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September 2, 2025

ApsaraVideo Player SDK

Short Video SDK

ARTC SDK

All-in-one SDK

v7.6.0

  • New features:

    • ARTC: Added support for a blacklist and whitelist for audio and video subscriptions.

    • ARTC: Added support for screen sharing on Android 14.

  • Optimizations:

    • ARTC: Enabled configuration to use the right channel for stereo-to-mono conversion during resampling.

    • ARTC: Optimized stream collection and stream ingest to prefer a 16 kHz sample rate in AI scenarios.

  • Fixes:

    • ARTC: Fixed stability issues.

July 2025

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Product

Version

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July 31, 2025

Select and download SDKs

Short Video SDK

SDK download and integration

Download all-in-one SDKs

v7.5.0

  • New features:

    • ARTC: Now supports displaying a black frame when the camera is off.

    • ARTC: Now supports screen sharing.

  • Optimizations:

    • ARTC: Reduced engine creation time.

    • ARTC: Optimized network engine performance.

  • Fixes:

    • ARTC: Fixed an issue that prevented an iOS client from pulling streams ingested from a web client.

July 1, 2025

Select and download SDKs

Short Video SDK

SDK download and integration

Download all-in-one SDKs

v7.4.0

  • The All-in-one SDK supports a 16 KB page size.

  • Fixed stability issues.

May 2025

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Product

Version

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May 30, 2025

sdk options

Short Video SDK

SDK download and integration

Download all-in-one SDKs

v7.3.0

  • Optimized ARTC for low-bandwidth scenarios.

  • Upgraded the basic retouching in the all-in-one SDK.

  • Enhanced stability.

April 2025

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April 28, 2025

SDK options

Short Video SDK

SDK download/integration

All-in-one SDK

v7.2.0

  • ARTC: Added support for resampling before audio playback.

  • Resolved stability issues.

March 2025

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Version

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March 31, 2025

SDK options

Short Video SDK

ARTC SDK

All-in-one SDK

v7.1.0

  • ARTC: Now supports Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC), Automatic Gain Control (AGC), and Automatic Noise Suppression (ANS) for external pulse-code modulation (PCM) input.

  • ARTC: Now supports H.265 software encoding on Android and iOS.

  • ARTC: Now supports high-quality H.264 software encoding on Android and iOS.

  • Improved stability.

February 2025

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Version

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February 28, 2025

ApsaraVideo Player SDK

Short Video SDK

ARTC SDK

All-in-one SDK

v7.0.0

  • The ApsaraVideo Player SDK is now available in standard and professional editions. For a breakdown of features by edition, see ApsaraVideo Player SDK features.

  • The Short Video SDK now comes in a single package. The basic, standard, and professional editions are differentiated by license.

  • Improved overall stability.

May 2024

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May 16, 2024

ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK (Android and iOS)

v6.12.0

  • Enhanced HTTPDNS is now enabled by default for playback using Alibaba Cloud accelerated domain names.

  • (iOS only) Added a background decoding toggle to keep software and hardware decoding active when the player is in the background. For more information, see background decoding.

  • Added HTTP preconnect TCP to reduce network connection latency. For more information, see HTTP preconnect TCP.

  • Improved initial playback by reducing the time to first frame (TTFF).

  • Reduced playback latency for real-time streaming (RTS).

  • Fixed several known issues to improve player stability.

2023-08

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August 3, 2023

ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK (Android and iOS)

v6.4.0

  • Introduced dynamic preloading for short video playlists to reduce CDN resource usage with minimal impact on playback performance.

  • Resolved several known issues.

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July 2023

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Version

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July 4, 2023

ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK (Android and iOS)

v6.3.0

  • Aligned the version number with the ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK.

  • Now supports switching between left and right audio channels.

  • Fixed several known issues and improved stability.

June 2023

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Product

Version

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Related documentation

2023-06-30

ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK (Web)

v2.16.1

  • Added thertsTraceId event, which is triggered when an RTS stream is successfully pulled. You can subscribe to this event to get the RTS TraceId.

  • Fixed some known issues.

API reference for ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK for Web

2023-06-30

ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK (Android and iOS)

v6.2.0

  • Added support for capturing audio input during screen recording on Android.

  • Improved stability.

Features

2023-06-20

ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK (Web)

v2.16.0

Added support for playback quality monitoring and single-point tracing. To use these features, fill out a form to request activation.

  • Playback quality monitoring allows you to view playback data, such as the number of views, in the ApsaraVideo VOD console.

  • Single-point tracing allows you to query user playback behavior in the ApsaraVideo VOD console. Use single-point tracing to pinpoint the cause of playback errors in ApsaraVideo Player.

2023-06-07

ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK (Web)

v2.15.7

  • Added support for playing H.265-encoded HLS video streams.

  • Added thesettingSelected event, triggered when an item is selected from a settings list (such as playback speed, definition, or subtitles).

  • Fixed some known issues.

Play H.265-encoded video streams

2023-06-05

ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK (Android and iOS)

v5.5.6.0

  • Added support for DLNA casting to receivers on the same network, including common playback controls.

  • Set recommended default values for RTS streams.

  • Fixed some known issues.

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May 2023

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Version

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Related documentation

2023-05-31

ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK (Android and iOS)

v6.1.0

  • Added support for end-to-end H.265.

  • Improved stability.

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2023-05-30

ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK (Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS)

v6.1.0

  • Added focus and brightness detection algorithms.

  • Upgraded the license module to support real-time feature activation and online license renewal.

  • Added an API to directly specify an image path for real-scene matting.

  • Improved chroma keying performance by 40%.

  • Fixed platform compatibility issues.

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2023-05-25

ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK

v5.5.5.1

Fixed an edge-case crash during playback startup.

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2023-05-10

ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK

v6.0.0

  • Aligned versioning with the ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK.

  • Fixed some known issues.

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2023-05-09

ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK

v5.5.5.0

  • Optimized HTTPDNS to support polling candidate IP addresses and falling back to local DNS on failure.

  • Optimized the video download feature. You can now download videos by using VidAuth without specifying a region.

  • Fixed an issue that caused ListPlayer to freeze in edge cases.

advanced features

2023-05-08

ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK (Android and iOS)

v6.0.0

  • Aligned versioning with the ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK.

  • Enhanced internationalization support.

  • Enabled graceful degradation for collaborative streaming on poor networks.

  • Improved stability.

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April 2023

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Version

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References

April 6, 2023

ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK

v5.5.4.0

  • Adds support for H.266 video playback. To use this feature, fill out a form to request activation.

  • The RTS low latency mode is now enabled by default to improve real-time performance.

  • Reduced the SDK package size for a smaller application footprint.

  • Improved the URL signing authentication policy for local cache. You can now configure whether to cache authentication information. For more information, see local cache.

  • Fixed decoding errors during HLS video stream playback to improve playback stability.

  • Addressed various other issues to improve overall performance.

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March 2023

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Version

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March 31, 2023

ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK (Android and iOS)

v4.5.1

  • Improved stability.

  • Added callbacks for stream media information and network quality.

  • Added an earpiece/speaker switching API.

  • Added support for audio-only stream mixing.

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March 3, 2023

ApsaraVideo Player SDK

v5.5.3.0

  • Enabled obfuscation to optimize the package size.

  • Added support for low-latency decoding for RTS. Enable this feature with PlayerConfig.mEnableLowLatencyMode.

  • Added support for the HTTP/3 protocol (RFC 9114), which significantly improves video streaming speed in extremely poor network conditions.

  • Added support for parsing non-standard SRT subtitle files.

  • The license now requires strong verification. You must register and configure a license during initial integration to prevent playback failure. For more information, see license.

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March 1, 2023

ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK (Android and iOS)

v4.5.0

  • Added third-party stream ingest for interactive streaming.

  • Added support for audio-only stream ingest for interactive streaming.

  • Improved stability.

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March 1, 2023

ApsaraVideo Player SDK

v3.36.0

  • Added support for binding a license without a signature.

  • Fixed known issues.

license

February 2023

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February 10, 2023

ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK

v2.6.0

  • Fixed an issue that caused a crash when you exit the app after applying retouching effects on iOS 16.

  • Added an output for debug information to simplify troubleshooting during integration.

  • Improved performance.

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February 6, 2023

ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK (Android and iOS)

v4.4.9

  • Enhanced the architecture for collaborative streaming.

  • Introduced a smart noise reduction feature for improved denoising.

  • Added an Android obfuscation configuration to optimize the package size.

  • Improved stability.

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February 2, 2023

ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK

v5.5.2.0

  • ListPlayer now supports pre-rendering and adding multiple instances for smoother video switching.

  • Added support for RTS playback degradation, improving RTS usability.

  • Optimized the structure of third-party libraries, reducing the SDK package size.

  • Fixed some known issues.

January 2023

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Documentation

January 11, 2023

ApsaraVideo MediaBox SDK

v3.35.0

Resolved known issues.

SDK selection and download
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