Release Notes

The protection release notes highlight the additions and improvements JWP has made to content protection. If you have any questions after reading a release note and linked documentation, please contact your JWP representative.

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Studio DRM with JW Platform

2023 January

Date	Description
24 Jan 2023	General Improvement An Offline policy has been added to the Default DRM Policies. Offline playback will no longer be checked by default in the Highest and High Default DRM Policies. Learn more about the Offline and other Default DRM Policies.
13 Jan 2023	Update Opened up access to metadata for unsigned requests for DRM media. Now unsigned Delivery API requests to Single DRM media objects and DRM Playlist objects will return metadata (e.g. thumbnails, descriptions) along with unplayable video source URLs. Playable video source URLs are only returned on signed requests. This enables an anonymous user to browse content in a web app but requires the user to be logged in for video playback.

Date

Description

24 Jan 2023

General Improvement

An Offline policy has been added to the Default DRM Policies. Offline playback will no longer be checked by default in the Highest and High Default DRM Policies. Learn more about the Offline and other Default DRM Policies.

13 Jan 2023

Update

Opened up access to metadata for unsigned requests for DRM media. Now unsigned Delivery API requests to Single DRM media objects and DRM Playlist objects will return metadata (e.g. thumbnails, descriptions) along with unplayable video source URLs.

Playable video source URLs are only returned on signed requests. This enables an anonymous user to browse content in a web app but requires the user to be logged in for video playback.

2022 November

Date	Description
23 Nov 2022	General Improvement Broadcast Live streams provisioned with DRM can now be added as an externally hosted media item in DRM-enabled properties. NOTE: It is not recommended to externally host media in a DRM-enabled property except* if it is an encrypted Broadcast Live stream.*