v10.0.0-beta.24

Menus headline beta.24. A shared menu core with full DOM keyboard support (#1503) handles open and close, roving focus, arrow-key and typeahead navigation, and nested submenus with view transitions, shipping as matching React components and HTML custom elements. The first consumer is the new playback rate menu (#1527), which replaces the playback rate button in the shipped skins and improves shared popover behavior along the way: only one top-level popup opens at a time, positioning respects a configurable boundary, and menus close when the controls hide.

Live streams get a dedicated live button (#1473) that signals whether playback is at the live edge and seeks to it when activated; data-live and data-edge attributes drive skin styling, and the live presets render it next to the play button. Gestures and hotkeys gain visible feedback (#1388): new status, volume, and seek indicators observe input activity and render transient overlays, with a screen-reader announcer alongside.

The @videojs/html and @videojs/react tarballs now bundle the framework-specific markdown docs (#1560), so AI coding agents reading node_modules find real documentation instead of a stub README; a companion fix improves discovery of llms.txt and the eject workflow (#1564). The site adds a “Why Video.js?” concept page (#1526). SPF gains a stage-by-stage walkthrough of the HLS engine composition, with cleanups that reorganize the package and move the engine export from @videojs/spf/playback-engine to @videojs/spf/hls (#1512, #1537).

A long fix tail rounds out the release: the cast button no longer causes an SSR hydration mismatch (#1518), spinner animations stop running while hidden (#1476), Safari button alignment holds up when zoomed (#1495), the minimal Tailwind skin sizes its root correctly (#1540), background-video hosts get minimum dimensions (#1523), ejected skins use icon exports (#1489) and include 'use client' in Next.js output (#1488), and the isRenderProp type guard drops any for unknown (#1500). Docs pick up small corrections across the installation, features, and presets guides (#1530, #1529, #1513, #1522, #1511).

Thanks to @R-Delfino95 and @spuppo-mux for their first contributions to Video.js.