V 5.5.9

• Typing: added resize to type definitions
• Feature: added image sequence support
• FIX: clipping compositions in canvas renderer
• FIX: added precision to auto orient

V 5.5.8

• FIX: Setting assets data before loading extra compositions
• FIX: Removed appending json at end of url
• FIX: Camera separate position properties
• Typing: Added animation event name to Lottie definitions
• Feature: Add focusable renderer setting for SVGs
• Feature: Added error handling for config and frame rendering

V 5.5.7

• EXPRESSIONS: added support for propertyIndex on shapes
• PERFORMANCE: big performance improvement on trim paths (and other modifiers) for paths that don't change over time
• NEW: improved support for astral plane characters (like emojis)

V 5.5.6

• FIX: surrogate pairs character support in animated text
• FIX: new expressions supported

V 5.5.5

• changed failed image bg to transparent
• FIX: fix for old json expressions in key function

V 5.5.4

• FIX: Updates to TypeScript definitions
• FEATURE: support for new expressions

V 5.5.3

• FEATURE: Add SVG support for Gaussian Blur effects (thanks fmalita)
• FEATURE: Add TypeScript type definitions (thanks D34THWINGS)
• FIX: removed warning of text when created by text formatted
• FIX: fixed merged characters in fonts
• FEATURE: added mutiple settings functionality to extension
• FEATURE: added support for mask opacity in expressions
• FIX: fixes #1552 html renderer wrong font measurement
• FIX: Fix masksProperties key name in JSON docs (thanks john-preston)

V 5.5.2

• FIX: Fix loader issue on pre-kitkat Android webview
• FIX: eroded masks in svg renderer
• FIX: text alignment in text boxes

V 5.5.1

• FIX: key expression for new json format
• IMPROVEMENT: forcing a rerender when resize is called in canvas
• ACCESSIBILITY: added title, description and aria label for text layers for svg renderer

V 5.5.0

• IMPROVEMENT: JSON filesize reduction. Around 25 to 33% filesize reduction with this new version.
• FEATURE: Bodymovin panel with new advanced settings to reduce filesize.
• FIX: honor forceFlag when calling playSegments (thanks @mrmos)
• FIX: added source-over as default blending mode for canvas renderer resetting
• FIX: fixed bezier easing property validation
• FIX: fixed property caching by index instead of bezier data
• FIX: added thisProperty expression value

V 5.4.4

• FIX: viewport meta tag on android with mask fix
• FIX: fixed enterFrame direction property
• FIX: explicitly iterating math methods
• FIX: added missing expression properties
• FIX: setting class attribute via setAttribute
• FIX: added value property in key method expression
• FIX: text animator expression fix
• FIX: added smooth expression support
• FIX: hcamera expression fix
• FIX: fix animated dash property canvas
• NEW: sourceRectAtTime for images fix
• NEW: Advanced option in Bodymovin extension to skip expression properties
• NEW: removed some unused json properties

V 5.4.3

• NEW: added blend mode support for shapes in svg renderer
• NEW: removed random ids in favour of incremental ids
• NEW: added new players
• NEW: updated build process. Removed vulnerable dependencies.
• FIX: canvas repeater fix
• FIX: Replaced typekit with Adobe Fonts support
• FIX: subtracting offsetTime for valueAtTime calculation on shapes
• FIX: expressions targeting keys fix
• FIX: multidimensional easing using first dimension value when set to 0

V 5.4.2

• FIX: added enabled property on effect interfaces for expression
• FIX: font measuring fix for white spaces
• FIX: supporting Effects property on layers in expressions
• FIX: canvas sibling shapes with same style fix
• FIX: caching valueAtTime correctly
• FIX: AVD exporter fix on clip paths
• FIX: AVD exporter fix on initial and end values
• FIX: formatResponse if responseText - thanks @ansmonjol
• NEW: renders class name for nested group elements - thanks @russellgoldenberg

V 5.4.1

• FIX: missing variable declaration

V 5.4.0

• EXPRESSIONS: easing functions refactored
• FIX: stroke effect fix with multiple children elements
• FIX: adding max and min values to trim path start and end
• EXPRESSIONS: added velocity property
• FIX(text): Fix charCode assignment and optimize FontManager (thanks @kwilliams-curago)
• FIX: fix for small trim paths
• EXPRESSIONS: added valueAtTime property to expression thisProperty variable
• FIX: added locationHref to gradient data
• EXPRESSIONS: big performance improvement for all expressions that use Expression Values heavily

V 5.3.4

• FIX: font load fix
• TEXT: End of Text character support

V 5.3.3

• FIX: light version fix

V 5.3.2

• FIX: .playSegments when forcing a new segment correctly removes the previous list
• FIX: loading external assets before rendering the first frame of the animation on canvas renderer
• FIX: clearing caching spatial bezier data when previous frame is reached
• FIX: promoting text property to dynamic properties when using text update methods
• FIX: extra comps width and height properties supported
• FIX: multiple trims fixed

V 5.3.1

• FIX: expressions with non computed memberExpressions
• FIX: animated gradient in svgs

V 5.3.0

• REFACTOR: canvas shape renderer had an important refactor. Should support new render cases and have a performance improvement.
• EXPRESSIONS: preprocessing expressions allows to prevent getting values if not needed on expressions
• EXPRESSIONS: support for position, scale and anchorPoint variables
• EXPRESSIONS: added numLayer property support to comp interfaces
• REPEATERS: support for start and end opacity
• FIX: Rendering effects before masks fixes some small render cases
• FIX: added orientation support for 3d cameras
• FIX: dashed lines were not resetted in some scenarios

V 5.2.1

• FIX: text animators based on words and percentages
• EXPRESSIONS: Latest Duik version support

V 5.2.0

• FEATURE: gradient support in canvas renderer (some cases are not supported)
• EXPRESSIONS: layer name support for expressions
• FIX: reverse play on non loops
• SUPPORT: Orient along path with separate dimensions
• FIX: trim cache issue fixed

V 5.1.20

• FIX: instaceof Array on expressions fixed
• FIX: text value on expressions fix
• FEATURE: new expressions supported

V 5.1.19

• FIX: Trim Paths with empty paths fix
• FIX: linear method fix for inverted values
• FEATURE: Ignoring merge path's last path if square
• FIX: Camera zoom
• FIX: Validating if text data is complete on first render
• FIX: Loop counting when playing backwards
• FEATURE: Added inPoint and outPoint to layer's expressions

V 5.1.18

• FIX: Moved defs to top to avoid Safari issues
• FEATURE: Added crossOrigin attribute to images to avoid tainted canvases
• FEATURE: Added imagePreserveAspectRatio to rendererSettings for image layers
• FIX: splitting animations in multiple files

V 5.1.17

• FIX: asset error handling
• FEATURE: Rove across time support
• FIX: bevel line support

V 5.1.16

• FIX: exporting images for older version of AE.
• FEATURE: if needed can skip images export once exported a first time.

V 5.1.15

• FEATURE: Added freeze/unfreeze methods to stop prevent any animation from playing
• FEATURE: Added getRegisterdAnimations method to get all current animations handled by lottie
• FEATURE: Exporting PNGs with render queue in order to fix black pixels around images
• FEATURE: Support for compressed jpgs when image is not transparent
• FEATURE: Support for exporting base 64 encoded images inlined in the json file
• FIX: Some small expression fixes

V 5.1.14

• FIX: Dash property animated
• FIX: Canvas renderer skips hidden layers
• FIX: When clearCanvas is set to true on the canvas renderer, every frame is rendered
• FIX: calculation error on masks

V 5.1.13

• EXPRESSIONS: fix for global variables used in functions
• EXPRESSIONS: operations supported for arrays

V 5.1.12

• EXPRESSIONS: improved memory management for declared functions
• EXPRESSIONS: speedAtTime support
• FIX: trimmed paths fix
• FIX: destroy method fix
• SSR: checking for navigator to create library

V 5.1.11

• PERFORMANCE: significant improvement on the svg and canvas renderers
• FIX: floating points fix

V 5.1.10

• TEXT LAYERS: font measuring and some text fixes
• FIX: 2d and 3d layers stack fix
• FEATURE: added support for assetsPath when using animationData (@kwilliams-curago)
• FEATURE: added getDuration method. In frames and in seconds.
• FIX: fixed breaking change from AE 15.1 with text layers

V 5.1.9

• EXPRESSIONS: adding name property to shape property group
• FIX: adding timeout before checking loaded fonts
• IMPROVEMENT: html elements now hide their base container when off render time bounds
• FIX: undeclared variable in reverse method
• FIX: text font issues

V 5.1.8

• FIX: centered tracking
• FIX: augmenting linearity threshold
• FIX: using quaternions to calculate 3d orientation
• FIX: undeclared variables
• FIX: CW CCW ellipse fix
• EXPRESSIONS: added xRotation and yRotation support
• FEATURE: added skew to transform calculations
• FIX: Time remap on html renderer
• FEATURE: calculating shape bounds for html shape elements without depending on getBBox
• FEATURE: Supporting custom tags on html renderer
• FIX: dash array fix

V 5.1.7

• FIX: looping and non looping animations end frame fix

V 5.1.6

• FIX: HTMLRenderer image fix
• FIX: HTMLRenderer masked comp fix
• FIX: Text fWeight precedence over fStyle (thanks @nick-vincent)

V 5.1.5

• FIX: text selector fix
• FIX: text expression fix
• FEATURE: more expressions supported

V 5.1.4

• FIX: hidden parented layer with mask
• FIX: gradient property animated
• FIX: hindi combined characters support with text as font

V 5.1.3

• FIX: Color interpolation fix
• FIX: id and classes fix for images and solids
• FIX: canvas nested groups transform fix
• FIX: lottie_light.js fix

V 5.1.2

• FIX: Expressions switch statements adding variable declaration when missing

V 5.1.1

• Text Layer keyframed fix

V 5.1.0

• FEATURE: support for all text document property updates usign TextLayer.updateDocumentData (check Wiki for more information)
• FEATURE: text layers with text boxes have two new methods: TextLayer.canResizeFont and TextLayer.setMinimumFontSize (check Wiki for more information)
• PERFORMANCE: Significant performance improvement on all renderers
• PERFORMANCE: repeaters significant performance improvement
• PERFORMANCE: gradients with opacity significant performance improvement
• REFACTOR: reduced and organized main element classes
• TEXT: text align fix for font based text layers

V 5.0.6

• FIX: totalFrames and resetFrames
• FIX: canvas destroy method
• FIX: expressions rect size support
• FIX: multiple requestAnimationFrame fix
• FIX: variable not being declared
• FEATURE: support for custom viewBox

V 5.0.5

• FIX: totalFrames now ends at previous frame to respect AE's last frame
• FIX: duplicate requestAnimationFrame call
• CHANGE: removed M0,0 added to every path. Should fix chrome issues.
• REFACTOR: small changes on AnimationItem

V 5.0.4

• FIX: if initial value for multidimensional properties was 0 and not in start point, it wasn't getting rendered
• EXPRESSIONS: support for “anchor_point”
• PERFORMANCE: separated opacity from transform properties
• FIX: effects properties offset
• FIX: 3d orientation for negative values

V 5.0.3

• FIX: IE Arrays support
• FIX: destroy method wasn't releasing all memory if a single animation was loaded.
• FIX: IE masks fix when used as Alpha Masks with gradients.

V 5.0.2

• IE 10 fix
• loopIn and loopOut fix

V 5.0.1

• expression fixes
• text box fix
• performance improvements

V 5.0.0

• bodymovin renamed to lottie!
• gradients performance improved
• cleaned up code

V 4.13.0

• text expression support
• text update support with updateDocumentData (check wiki)
• tangentOnPath, normalOnPath and more expressions
• loaded_images event
• fixed global calls
• fixed ie9 error

V 4.12.3

• valueAtTime fix

V 4.12.2

• caching fix

V 4.12.1

• velocityAtTime fix

V 4.12.0

• pointOnLine support
• createPath support
• points, inTangents, outTangents support
• expressions fixes
• className for container via loading config
• 3d orientation fix