New

Show video thumbnail on the lock screen when playing in the background #2690
Improved
Add local playlist to queue when long pressing on background / popup button #2636
Make main page tabs scrollable and hide when there is only a single tab #2871
Limit amount of notification thumbnail updates in background player #2771
Add dummy thumbnail for empty local playlists #2837
Use *.opus file extension instead of *.webm and show “opus” in format label instead of “WebM Opus” in the download dropdown #2906
Add button to delete downloaded files or download history in “Downloads” #2717
[YouTube] Add support to /c/shortened_url channel links TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#238
Fixed
Fix multiple issues when sharing a video to NewPipe and downloading its streams directly #2875
Fix freezing other applications while downloading in the background
Fix last opened video name used as file name when downloading after video share
Fix for player access out of its creation thread #2912
Fixed search result paging TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#215
[YouTube] Fixed switching on null causing NPE TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#226
[YouTube] Fixed viewing comments when opening an invidio.us url TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#237
[SoundCloud] Updated client_id TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#231

This release does not have a Play Store Description, so we grabbed one from version 0.8.10:

NewPipe: A free lightweight Youtube frontend for Android.

Description

NewPipe does not use any Google framework libraries, or the YouTube API. It only parses the website in order to gain the information it needs. Therefore this app can be used on devices without Google Services installed. Also, you don’t need a YouTube account to use NewPipe, and it’s FLOSS.

Features

Search videos
Display general information about a video
Watch YouTube videos
Listen to YouTube videos (experimental)
Select the streaming player to watch the video with
Download videos
Download audio only * Open a video in Kodi
Show Next/Related videos
Search YouTube in a specific language
Watch age restricted material
Display general information about channels
Search channels
Coming Features

Orbot/Tor support
Bookmarks
View history
Search history
Subscribe to channels
Watch videos from a channel
Search/Watch Playlists
Queeing videos
… and many more
Multiservice support

Although NewPipe only supports YouTube at the moment, it’s designed to support many more streaming services. The plan is, that NewPipe will get such support by the version 2.0.