Product Updates

New features, improvements, and fixes shipped by the Kite team.

New Feature

Added support for SRT Ingest Protocol

You can now push streams using SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) for improved reliability over unpredictable networks. Supports up to 4K60 with 10ms latency.

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Improvement

Enhanced Analytics Dashboard

Redesigned the analytics dashboard with real-time viewer heatmaps, session replay, and improved geographic distribution visualizations.

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Bug Fix

Fixed HLS manifest generation timing

Resolved an edge case where HLS manifests could be served before all segments were available, causing brief playback stalls.

Improvement

Reduced WebRTC connection time

Optimized our TURN server selection algorithm, reducing average WebRTC connection time by 40% in high-latency regions.

New Feature

Introduced Simulcast Support

Broadcast to YouTube, Twitch, and custom RTMP destinations simultaneously. Perfect for content creators reaching multiple platforms.

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New Feature

AI-Powered Captioning

Automatic closed captions for live streams using our new real-time transcription engine. Supports 12 languages at launch.

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Improvement

Go SDK v0.9.0 Released

Major update to the Go SDK with improved error handling, context support, and full type safety. Breaking changes from v0.8.x documented.

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Bug Fix

Webhook retry improvements

Fixed webhook delivery retries not respecting exponential backoff in certain failure scenarios.

New Feature

Forensic Watermarking

Enterprise customers can now enable invisible forensic watermarks to trace content piracy back to specific viewer sessions.

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Improvement

Dashboard Performance Overhaul

Rebuilt the dashboard frontend for 3x faster load times. Also added dark mode support across all views.

Bug Fix

API rate limit headers

Fixed missing X-RateLimit-Remaining headers on certain 4xx error responses.