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        7.5.0

        • Lazy load story tile thumbnails
        • Improve caching for static assets
        • Fixing issue where the navigation buttons could disappear
        • Stop player going back 2 stories when back button pressed

        7.4.5

        • Fixing bug with scroll indicator fade theming
        • Fixing bug when applying corner radius theme property

        7.4.3

        • Fixing quiz score placement when sharing disabled
        • Fixing bug where instructions screen took multiple clicks to dismiss

        7.4.2

        • Don't reorder stories when player is closed
        • Use simple HTTP Requests
        • Fix NPM type definitions

        7.4.1

        • Adding openStory and openPage methods

        7.4.0

        • Support CommonJS and ESM
        • Fixing live chip theme issues

        7.3.5

        • Don't show share results button if share API not available
        • Fixing bug when returning from swipe up
        • Make sure externalApp swipe ups are recorded correctly

        7.3.4

        • Improving support for older browsers

        7.3.3

        • Polls theme fixes

        7.3.1

        • Make sure player stories reorder when player closed
        • Fixing corrupt svg console errors

        7.3.0

        • Removing showStoryTitle theme property
        • Adding showStoryIcon theme property

        7.2.4

        • Improving open story transitions
        • Hide quiz share button when share buttons hidden
        • Fixing issue with new indicator always showing on rectangular tiles

        7.2.2

        • Fixing issues with NPM type definitions

        7.2.1

        • Stop scroll to top when player closed

        7.2.0

        • Fixing issues with NPM package

        7.1.2

        • Updating package.json

        7.1.1

        • Added NPM support

        7.1.0

        • Added support for Live Stories

        7.0.0

        • Added support for Trivia Quizzes
        • Made implementing custom themes even easier

        2.2.0

        • Hide share button on browsers that don't support navigator.share
        • Make externalId optional
        • Allow Ad frequency to be configured

        2.1.0

        • Adjust tile height to fill parent container
        • Send pollAnswerId in analytics events
        • Send all properties to analytics endpoint

        2.0.1

        • Fixing story page issues

        2.0.0

        • Adding Grid Layout
        • Theme updates
        • Adding support for unread indicator gradient

        1.17.1

        • Improving swipe behaviour
        • Show navigation arrows on touchscreen laptops
        • Stopping JSONParseErrors being thrown for empty responses
        • Fixing missing api key 401s

        1.17.0

        • Added full support for categories
        • Added support for ads

        1.16.0

        • Added the ability to swipe down to dismiss a story
        • Fixed an issue which could cause polls not to display in certain scenarios
        • Added the ability for share links to open a specific page (instead of the first page in the story)
        • Added a playAllStories option to the theme which will not exit the story player when the user reaches the end of their unread stories - but rather keep them in the stories experience until they see every story in the row

        1.15.0

        • Hiding 'i' button when video fails to play
        • Stop video failed to play message appearing when a video successfully plays
        • Recording share success events

        1.14.0

        • Fixing bug where poll answer percentages display incorrectly

        1.13.0

        • Preventing background media from being cropped

        1.12.0

        • Using the correct value for storyReadStatus in analytic events
        • Adding information about VotedPoll event to the docs
        • Fixing issue where story titles are shared/duplicate sharing URLs are shared when tapping share button
        • Updating to open story immediately when tapping/clicking story tile instead of showing loading spinners

        1.11.0

        • Fixing sharing instructions issues

        1.10.0

        • Removes the border around buttons in the story player

        1.9.0

        • Fixing bug where users can vote for a poll more than once

        1.8.0

        • Adding theme option to hide story titles
        • Persisting mute state throughout stories
        • Fixing CORS issues

        1.7.0

        • Stopping the wrong story from being shown briefly when opening a share link
        • Disabling the 'previous page' button on the first page of the first story
        • Fixing issue where story row would not load on iOS 12

        1.6.0

        • Always displaying the mute/unmute icon in player
        • Adding text property to onShareButtonClicked() delegated method
        • Fixing instructions screen layout and icons on desktop
        • Allow 3 lines for the story title when using circular tiles
        • Fixing issue with missing navigation arrows and black background when refreshing/arriving from shared link

        1.5.0

        • Stop player closing when navigating backwards
        • Sort all story rows when player is closed
        • Stop player from continuing in background after being closed
        • Adding share delegate method
        • Hide share button if navigator.share doesn't exist
        • Adding docs for share callback
        • Don't hide share button if onShareButtonClick callback is defined

        1.4.0

        • Fixing poll styling
        • Fixing ad overlay appearing over story view

        1.3.0

        • Fixing desktop player not pausing on share
        • Fixing left scroll arrow
        • Only show read stories and fix player opening unexpectedly
        • Don't open player until correct story has loaded
        • Adding tileLoading state to tiles
        • Fixing bug when opening same story after dismissing it
        • Setting opacity on tile loading
        • Fixing style import
        • Hide mute/unmute text

        1.2.0

        • Adding properties to row theme
        • Updating row theme docs
        • Fixing instruction icons
        • Switch to using query string params instead of headers in API requests

        1.1.0

        • Fixing poll styling
        • Fixing ad overlay appearing over story view
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