# NewPipe v0.28.0

- Product: NewPipe (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/newpipe)
- Vendor: Team NewPipe
- Date: 2025-07-31
- Version: v0.28.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases/tag/v0.28.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/newpipe/releases/v0.28.0
- Labels: Platforms: Android

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- **added** — Add support for Android Auto
- **added** — Add feed groups as main screen tabs
- **added** — Support new YouTube kiosks and add migration to change trending kiosk tab
- **added** — Share YouTube videos as YouTube temporary playlist
- **added** — Add support for likes in SoundCloud channel and feed
- **added** — Add support for AAC 160k unprotected stream in SoundCloud
- **changed** — Support per-app language preferences on Android 13+ with automatic migration from in-app setting
- **changed** — Show service name in search bar hint
- **changed** — Show download date in Downloads
- **changed** — Support RTL usernames in comment header
- **changed** — Disambiguate audio track labels
- **fixed** — Fix broken text colors in dark mode
- **fixed** — Fix YouTube playlists not loading more than 100 items
- **fixed** — Fix missing recommended videos on YouTube
- **fixed** — Fix crashes in History list view caused by buggy header
- **fixed** — Fix stream notification grouping when channel URLs differ
- **fixed** — Fix duplicate menu options in ChannelFragment
- **fixed** — Fix timestamps not working in comment replies
- **fixed** — Add migration to remove the now-defunct SoundCloud Top 50 kiosk
- **fixed** — Fix UI crash instead of proper error report if search next page cannot be extracted

[:arrow_right: :arrow_right: :arrow_right: Read the blog post :arrow_left: :arrow_left: :arrow_left:](https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/announcement/newpipe-0.28.0-released/)

###### New
- Add support for Android Auto (special thanks to @haggaie!) #9592 #12044  #12416 #12410 #12412
- Add feed groups as main screen tabs #12325 
- [YouTube] Support new kiosks and add migration to change trending kiosk tab #12450 
- [YouTube] Share as YouTube temporary playlist #12065
- [SoundCloud] Add support for likes in channel and feed #12367 
- [SoundCloud] Add support for AAC 160k unprotected stream https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/pull/1317

###### Improved
- [Android 13+] Support per-app language preferences #12093 #12444 #12470
:information_source: This replaces the in-app setting of the app localization for Android 13+ devices. Your existing in-app preference will be migrated automatically to use Android's per-app language setting.
- Show service name in search bar hint #12258 
- Show download date in Downloads #12117
- Support RTL usernames in comment header #12188
- Disambiguate audio track labels #12089

###### Fixed
- Fix broken text colors in dark mode #12035
- [YouTube] Fix playlists not loading more than 100 items https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/pull/1301
- [YouTube] Fix missing recommended videos https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/pull/1320 
- [YouTube] Other miscellaneous fixes, see https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/releases/tag/v0.24.8
- Fix crashes in History list view (caused by buggy header) #12214
- Fix stream notification grouping when channel URLs differ #12067
- Fix duplicate menu options in `ChannelFragment` #12083
- Fix timestamps not working in comment replies #12202
- Add migration to remove the now-defunct SoundCloud Top 50 kiosk #12438 
- Fix UI crash instead of proper error report if search next page can't be extracted #12408 #12455 

###### Translation / Localization
- Update translations and add 15 new locales to the in-app language chooser #12103 #12476
- Do not capitalize "page" for main page content options #12437 
- Add dev and refactor nightly build badges to README #12298 
- Add matrix chat link and dev/refactor nightly badges to all translated READMEs #12302 
- Fix "Get it on F-Droid" appearing giant in README #12409 
- Fix new badge links on README being rendered incorrectly #12434 

###### Development
- Disable logs about view animations by default #12043
- Add new Proguard rules for Mozilla Rhino #12104
- Improve extractor Jitpack workaround comment and fix its hash in `build.gradle` file #12256
- [YouTube] Fix accessing poToken challenge data at wrong index in some cases #12150
- Update user agent to Firefox 140 ESR #12472