Important: We'll be making changes soon to digitalrebellion.com that will make it so that it's no longer possible to register old versions of CinePlay. Older versions will work if they are already registered, but we recommend new registrations use 1.7.4 or higher.

• Improved registration reliability
• Improved compatibility with newer versions of macOS
• Improved compatibility with newer versions of Kollaborate
• Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Important: The Docker image is configured to convert the current database to your MariaDB version automatically. As such, we would recommend backing up the database before upgrading to any version as you may be unable to downgrade otherwise. You can download the current database as a .sql file from the Tools section of the Admin Area. We recommend doing this BEFORE copying the newer version's files over.

Changes since 2026.1.1:

• This version features a brand new video player and image viewer with an improved user interface and features like switching between proxies, better error handling and error messages, speaking captions out loud for accessibility, better mobile support, and the ability to add overlays like safe areas and aspect ratio mattes
• Side-by-side comparison - load two players at once and compare them with playback synchronization for video/audio, zoom/pan synchronization for images, and page sync for documents. Switch between comments independently of whichever file is the active file. You can load any type of file alongside another for reference, but only files of the same type can be synchronized.
• New file viewers for PDFs and text files, with full screen support for both. The text viewer loads content dynamically, meaning it can display very large files, as well as offering features like line numbers and word wrap
• Annotation overhaul - New shapes including boxes, circles, arrows and text. Shapes can be moved about, resized, and rotated, with full undo and redo. Shape colors are now independent of the comment's color. 
• Annotations can be drawn on top of PDFs
• Comments can be added to particular lines of a text file
• New advanced search fields: frame rate, orientation (portrait / landscape) and uploader
• The H.264 level is now shown in the Metadata tab of the player (for new uploads)
• The old and new backends now communicate and synchronize with each other, which fixes an issue where encoding jobs might not start immediately after you set up the encoder
• The player page is no longer static, which means it loads faster and actions like setting workflows or switching between files can happen without a page refresh
• If the player can't play back and it shows a download overlay, it shows a message to explain why it couldn't play (e.g. if "force download" was set on the file)
• You can now click on the duration field of the video player to toggle time remaining
• Player - Allow dot characters when seeking to timecode. Dots at the start skip that digit and make the timecode relative. Dots at the end substitute for 00. So ..10. seeks 10 seconds from the current position
• Player - Shift + T now opens the Seek to Timecode dialog
• Significant accessibility improvements and much improved keyboard navigation
• Support for audio captchas on the login page
• Updated icon used to denote that a file has comments
• Improved the quality of video poster images
• Email - Fixed issue where some emails might not have the custom logo set
• Fixed an issue that could cause thumbnails to appear black in some instances
• Fixed an issue that could cause folders to be unable to be downloaded
• Fixed an issue where Global Search may not return results if caches are not up-to-date
• Captions - Fixed an issue causing imported caption timestamps to drift
• Workflows - Fixed an issue where the approve / reject workflow may not trigger when pressing the approval buttons in some instances
• Fixed an issue that could cause encoding jobs to not be sent to the encoding server
• Fixed an issue causing thumbnails to sometimes display blank
• Lots of small bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Changes since 2026.2.1 RC1:

• Player - Added a Copy button to the Seek to Timecode dialog
• Several fixes to the reliability of approval workflows

• WebP is now used for hoverscrub thumbnails instead of AVIF
• Improved support for handling redirects when communicating with the web server
• Several fixes for jobs looping unnecessarily
• Overhauled the file downloader for improved speed and reliability
• Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Important: The Docker image is configured to convert the current database to your MariaDB version automatically. As such, we would recommend backing up the database before upgrading to any version as you may be unable to downgrade otherwise. You can download the current database as a .sql file from the Tools section of the Admin Area. We recommend doing this BEFORE copying the newer version's files over.

Note: This version is a release candidate, meaning we consider it stable and well-tested with no known issues, but continue to monitor it on the cloud. If no new issues are found this will become the stable version.

Changes since Beta 3:

• Player - Being able to show a heatmap for a specific user has been added back in this version. It now appears as a draggable, resizable overlay over the video
• Player - Show heatmaps for audio files
• Player - Fixed an issue that could cause the stated duration to be incorrect
• Player - Various improvements to the Seek to Timecode dialog
• Player - Allow dot characters when seeking to timecode. Dots at the start skip that digit and make the timecode relative. Dots at the end substitute for 00. So ..10. seeks 10 seconds from the current position
• Player - Shift + T now opens the Seek to Timecode dialog
• Player - Improved the reliability of seeking and frame-stepping
• Player - Play videos in true full screen on iOS
• Fixed an issue where Global Search may not return results if caches are not up-to-date
• Captions - Fixed an issue causing imported caption timestamps to drift
• Captions - Various reliability improvements
• Files - Fixed an issue where clicking the path in the player for a link would go to the wrong folder
• Files - Fixed an issue where the color picker was empty
• Workflows - Fixed an issue where the approve / reject workflow may not trigger when pressing the approval buttons in some instances
• Comments - Fixed a layout issue when editing comments
• Fixed an issue that could cause encoding jobs to not be sent to the encoding server
• Raised the rate limit when the encoder uploads the finished file
• Fixed an issue causing heatmaps to sometimes fail to display
• Fixed an issue causing thumbnails to sometimes display blank
• Lots of UI spacing / layout tweaks