v1.3.0-rc.1

IMPORTANT NOTES

• nginx Remove text/html from gzip_types: 7eeb6a0 @bnjbvr
• Add streaming_playlists directory in configuration file. You should configure it in your production.yaml
• CSP configuration changed: it's now in a dedicated section

Maintenance

• Add GitPod support (@jankeromnes) that could help people to contribute on PeerTube: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#online-development
• Add reminder to restart PeerTube in upgrade script (@ldidry)
• Add argument to dockerfile to pass options to npm run build (@NaPs)
• Add NOCLIENT env support to only install server dependencies. Example: NOCLIENT=true yarn install --pure-lockfile (@rigelk)

Docker

• Important: Add host network mode to the reverse proxy section (without this, it could break videos views and P2P: #1643 (comment))
• Fix SMTP default configuration (@Nutomic)

Features

• Add video playlist support
  • A user has a default Watch-later playlist
  • A user can create private, unlisted or public playlists
  • An element in this playlist can start or stop at specific timestamps (you can create some kind of zapping for example)
  • The difference with a channel is that you cannot subscribe to a playlist, but you can add videos from any other user in your playlist.
    It's useful to organize your videos, or create a playlist of videos you like and share the link on the web etc
• Add quarantine videos (auto blacklist videos on upload) feature 🎉 (@joshmorel)
• Add Japanese & Nederlands & Português (Portugal) support
• Add experimental HLS support
  • Better playback
  • Better bandwidth management (for both client & server)
  • Needs to store another video file per resolution, so enabling this option multiplies the videos storage by 2 (only new uploaded videos, this is not retroactive)
  • Requires ffmpeg >= 4
• Better instance's followers management:
  • Add ability to remove an instance's follower
  • Add ability to forbid all new instance's followers
  • Add ability to manually approve new instance's followers
  • Add notification on new instance's follower
• Improve UI:
  • Increase player default height
  • Reduce big play button border width
  • Increase thumbnail sizes
  • Add hover effect on video miniature
  • Add "my library" section in menu
  • Add missing icons in some buttons/dropdown
  • 2 rows per overview section
  • Increase video thumbnail blur (@Zig-03)
  • Improve video miniatures list on mobile
  • Add animation when opening user notifications
• Add ability for admins to disable the tracker (and so the P2P aspect of PeerTube, in order to improve users privacy for example)
• Add original publication date attribute to videos, and add ability to filter on it (Andrés Maldonado)
• Add video miniature dropdown
• Add ability for admins to declare their instance as dedicated to NSFW content
• Improve SEO (there is still work to be done)
• Login is now case insensitive (if using official web client)
• Add NSFW policy & users signup policy & auto blacklist strategy in features table in about page
• Improve comment deletion warning
• Restore videos list component on history back
• Add ability to consult server logs in admin
• Allow administrators to change/reset a user's password (@rigelk)
• Add a debug page to help admins to fix IP configuration issues
• Add ability for admins to limit users videos history size
• Add ability for admins to delete old remote videos views (reduce database size)
• Optimize video update page load
• Less refresh jobs
• Cleanup invalid AP rates/comments/shares
• Better videos redundancy config error handling
• Check emails are enabled if the admin requires email verification (@joshmorel)
• Add Add /accounts/:username/ratings endpoint (@yohanboniface)
• Allow to control API rates limit from configuration (@yohanboniface)

Bug fixes

• Don't notify prior to scheduled update (@joshmorel)
• Fix account description database error
• Fix Pleroma follow
• Fix greek label
• Fix email notification for some users
• Fix translation of "Copy magnet URI"
• Fix negative seconds by displaying 0 instead @zacharystenger
• Fix URL in video import notification
• Don't close help popover when clicking on it
• Fix tmp directory cleanup
• Fix custom CSS help
• Fix JSONLD context
• Fix privacy label display in upload form
• Fix my account settings responsiveness
• Fix keyboard icon transparency (@gbip)
• Fix contact admin button overflow
• Wait config to be loaded before loading login/signup
• Privacy is optional in upload API endpoint
• Fix hotkeys help popup overflow