Changelog

Added

• Added "Require User Interaction" toggle to Lottie and Background Lottie components to defer animation loading until the user interacts with the page, improving performance on animation-heavy pages.

Fixed

• Fixed Lottie player canvas height to use 100% instead of auto for proper container filling and layout.

Added

• Added global and individual override options to use web workers.
• Added animation width/height inputs and data-driven aspect ratio support so animations reserve space before they load, reducing CLS.

Changed

• Improved loading, performance, and resize flows.

Changed

• Breaking: Added new dependency - Airfleet Framework plugin - and removed scoped framework composer package
• Bump npm dependency @lottiefiles/dotlottie-web to ^0.60.0
• Added plugin dependencies in main plugin file (Requires Plugins metadata field)
• Internal: Increased Node.js version requirement to >=24
• Internal: Bump npm dependency @airfleet/wordpress-dev to ^4.1.0
• Internal: Bump composer dependency airfleet/wordpress-dev to ^4.0.0
• Internal: Switched package manager to Bun
• Internal: Updated linters and development tools
• Internal: Updated configuration for development tools
• Internal: Moved configuration sections from package.json to dedicated config files
• Internal: Updated browserslist configuration
• Internal: Updated package.json scripts to use Airfleet CLI
• Internal: Updated README.md to remove Getting Started and Documentation sections
• Internal: Updated Plugin URI metadata field in main plugin file
• Internal: Updated GitHub workflows
• Internal: Added .airfleet-license and .airfleet-visible

Changed

• Added support for forced previews by using helper $_should_show_preview() (requires latest Elements - Core plugin)
• Updated block editor preview text with more contextual information
• Used filter airfleet/elements/exclude_non_editor_scripts to exclude non-editor scripts when force previews are enabled

Removed

• Removed event airfleet-lottie-load-request. Replaced by direct new DotLottie() calls during migration from @dotlottie/player-component to @lottiefiles/dotlottie-web
• Removed event airfleet-lottie-play-request. Replaced by direct dotLottie.play() calls during migration from @dotlottie/player-component to @lottiefiles/dotlottie-web

Changed

• Added missing entries in changelog (documentation only release)
• BREAKING: Changed from <dotlottie-player> to <airfleet-lottie-player> custom element
• Added comprehensive playback controls (play/pause button, progress bar, loop toggle)
• Added drag functionality for progress bar scrubbing
• Added frame-by-frame playback control and speed control
• Improved error handling and lazy loading implementation

Changed

• BREAKING: Switched to @lottiefiles/dotlottie-web core library for improved performance
• BREAKING: Used DotLottieWorker for more efficient animation loading
• BREAKING: Improved rendering by using Canvas instead of SVG
• Consolidated code by moving BaseLottie.js logic into lottie-player.entry.js

Changed

• Updated composer package airfleet/wordpress-framework to 1.13.0 (fixes several issues and improvements).

Changed

• Updated components to add support for airfleet/elements/empty/$slug filter

Changed

• Added Airfleet Tabs to lottie components
• Excluded elements-components-lottie-poster from having responsive options

Fixed

• elements-components-lottie: fixed preview image size, position, and border radius

Removed

-- Removed the ExcludeResponsiveSettings from background-lottie component, now it supports responsiveness.

Changed

• Updated lottie components and partial to show placeholder image in editor when empty
• Updated lottie components and partial with new properties show_preview, preview_size and preview_text to control placeholder image

Added

• Allow .json and .lottie files to be uploaded
• Added component elements-components-background-lottie (render a lottie/dotLottie in the background)
• Added elements-components-background-lottie to flexible component elements-background
• Added component elements-components-lottie (render a lottie/dotLottie)
• Added elements-components-lottie to flexible component elements-media
• Added component elements-components-lottie-poster (display a custom poster until lottie renders)
• Added filter airfleet/elements/background-lottie/poster_load_margin (set margin for lazy-loading background lottie poster)
• Added partial elements-partials-lottie-player (lottie/dotLottie player)
• Added lottie JS events: airfleet-lottie-ended, airfleet-lottie-load-request, airfleet-lottie-loaded, airfleet-lottie-loading, airfleet-lottie-play-request, airfleet-lottie-playing

Added