# NewPipe v0.28.1

- Product: NewPipe (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/newpipe)
- Vendor: Team NewPipe
- Date: 2026-01-11
- Version: v0.28.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases/tag/v0.28.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/newpipe/releases/v0.28.1
- Labels: Platforms: Android

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- **added** — Support on.soundcloud link opening
- **added** — Add metadata fields for OPUS audio downloads
- **fixed** — Fix clearing queue and keep current player when clicking on timestamps
- **changed** — Try to recover pending download missions when possible
- **added** — Add option to delete a download without also deleting file
- **added** — Add enqueue option to router dialog
- **changed** — Add more specific error messages and deduplicate their handling
- **changed** — Display explanatory dialog for overlay permission on Android > R
- **fixed** — Notifications are no longer requested again after rotating the phone
- **changed** — Allow dragging bookmarked playlist in both directions
- **fixed** — Use original audio language by default
- **fixed** — Remember and restore orientation on fullscreen exit
- **fixed** — Fix ghost notifications and random player crashes from startForegroundService not calling startForeground
- **fixed** — Fix audio language button pushing player controls off-screen in portrait and popup
- **fixed** — Fix scaleX being NaN on minimize to background app switch
- **fixed** — Fix insufficient permissions on opening downloaded streams
- **fixed** — Fix download resume corruption when server returns HTTP 200
- **fixed** — Fix missing subtitle text in manually downloaded *.SRT files
- **fixed** — Fix initial numbering of frames in TTML to SRT converter
- **fixed** — Fix short count formatting for Android versions below 7.0

[:arrow_right: :arrow_right: :arrow_right: Read the blog post :arrow_left: :arrow_left: :arrow_left:](https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/announcement/newpipe-0.28.1-released/)

NewPipe 0.28.1 is shipped with [NewPipe Extractor 0.25.0](https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/releases/tag/v0.25.0). For extraction related changes see the linked release.

###### New
- Support on.soundcloud link opening #12694 
- Add metadata fields for OPUS audio downloads #12974

###### Improved
- Fix clearing queue and keep current player when clicking on timestamps #12252 #12254 #12898
- Try to recover pending download missions when possible #12550 
- Add option to delete a download without also deleting file #12544 
- Add enqueue option to router dialog #12821 
- Add more specific error messages and deduplicate their handling #12578 #12603
- Overlay Permission: display explanatory dialog for Android > R #12253
- Notifications are no longer requested again after rotating the phone #12716 
- Allow dragging boorkmarked playlist in both directions #13008 


###### Fixed
###### Player
-  [Player] Use original audio language by default #12931 
- Remember and restore orientation on fullscreen exit #12840 #12781
- Fix ghost notifications and fix random player crashes ("`startForegroundService()` did not then call `startForeground()`") #12606 
- Fix audio language button pushing player controls off-screen in portrait and popup #12699 #12714 #12729
- Fix scaleX being NaN on minimize to background app switch #12952
###### Downloader
- Fix insufficient permissions on opening downloaded streams #12934 
- Fix download resume corruption when server returns HTTP 200 #13014 
- Fix missing subtitle text in manually downloaded *.SRT files #12575 
- Fix initial numbering of frames in TTML to SRT converter #12671 
###### Other
- Fix short count formatting for Android versions below 7.0 #12460
- Fix and simplify opening URLs in browser #12605  
- Fix long-pressing Play All-button does nothing #12692 
- Enforce using SAF on FireOS TVs with Android 10+ #12642 
- Commit all the playlist changes to db immediately to prevent incorrect UI states #13005 
- Fix incorrect UI states of PlayQueue items #12922 
- Fix crash on screen rotation while entering SoundCloud import URL #12995 

###### Translation / Localization
- Update translations #12801 #12910
- Update PR template to specify target branch for features #12811 

###### Development
- Target SDK 35 #12388 
- Correctly ignore new version check for Picasso #12483 
- Update Android Gradle Plugin to 8.13.0 #12616 
- Remove `isUsingDSP` #12676 
- Switch to version catalogs, migrate Gradle files from Groovy DSL to Kotlin DSL #12706 #12765
- Migrate from KAPT to KSP #12746 #12816 #12820 #12489  #12849 #12864 #12954 #12975
- Dependency updates #12684 #12776
  -  Revert Google Material Components to 1.11.0 #13018 
- Deprecation fixes #12885 #12897
- Use context.getString() shorthand instead of context.getResources().getString() #12949 
- Convert newpipe/util/KioskTranslator.java to kotlin #12947 
- Add AI policy to contribution guidelines and PR template #12909 
- Code quality improvements #12973 #12963 #12981
-  workflows: Update actions versions #12986 
- Kotlin migration #12978