v1.0.0-beta.10.pre.2

⚠️ See the v1.0.0-beta.10.pre.1 changelog, in particular how to upgrade

Bug fixes

• Fix captions/subtitles freeze in player
• Fix attribute label width in video watch page
• Fix player playback in Chrome
• Revert SQL optimization when listing videos: it breaks the connection pool of some instances

v1.0.0-beta.10.pre.1

⚠️ This version is a pre release because it contains many important changes, and requires manual steps before upgrading. This means the usual upgrade scripts won't work.

Important: Before upgrading run the following commands (no need to stop PeerTube) on your PeerTube database (in this example it's peertube_prod):

$ sudo -u postgres psql peertube_prod -c 'CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS unaccent;'
$ sudo -u postgres psql peertube_prod -c 'CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS pg_trgm;'

You will need PostgreSQL Contrib.

BREAKING CHANGES

• Require unaccent and pg_trgm PostgreSQL extension for the PeerTube database
• category filter param is replaced by categoryOneOf
• Switch job queue to Bull. PeerTube will not migrate your old pending jobs in this new queue manager
• Update nginx template (you need to update manually)
• Update default cache size configurations
• Update search API route: /videos/search becomes /search/videos
• Needs Redis >= 2.8.18

Features

• Add ability to change the language of the interface (currently available: english, french, basque, catalan, czech and esperanto)
• Subtitles/captions support (.srt and .vtt)
• Add advanced search
• Add ability to click on category/language/licence/tags in watch page
• Improve explanations of P2P & Privacy section in about page
• Avoid design latency when the admin set custom CSS
• Add ability to update video channel avatar
• Limit video resolution depending on the video element size (Nitesh Sawant)
• Show "Other videos" on a <1300px viewport (@Simounet)
• Add QR code to share videos URL (@DeeJayBro)
• Add "agree to the terms" checkbox in registration form
• Add tracker rate limiter
• Add author URL in OEmbed response
• Display username instead of email in menu
• Clarifying what extensions are accepted for upload (@rigelk)
• Thumbnail support for RSS feeds (@rigelk)
• Open CORS on API and static resources (@rezonant
• B-adapt 1 and B-frames 16 on ffmpeg transcoding: (@Anton-Latukha). See #774 for more information
• Support Redis socket (@rigelk)
• Improve video start param to support string times (for example: 2m42s))
• Display table next/prev/first/last icons in admin tables
• NodeInfo support (@rigelk)
• Improve HTTP headers security (@rigelk)
• Improve client accessibility (for screen reader users etc)
• Optimize SQL requests (in particular the one to list videos)
• Optimize images (@jorropo)
• Add esperanto, lojban, klingon and kotava (audio/subtitle) languages
• Allow uploads of videos <8GB (experimental)
• Handle FPS > 30 (experimental)

Bug fixes

• Fix avatars/thumbnails update (cache issue)
• Fix pagination on admin job table when changing the job state
• Fix SQL transaction retryer log
• Correctly handle error when remote instance is down
• Fix account videos URL when scrolling
• Avoid commenting twice by disabling comment submit button when sending the comment
• Reset confirm component input when closing it
• Fix video speed when video resolutions changes (@grizio)
• Disable hotkeys modifiers for numbers (@rigelk)
• Reset published date on video publish (scheduled or after a transcoding)
• Avoid 404 title on the first page load
• Fix forgot password message regarding email
• Remove scroll to top when closing the menu (@ebrehault)
• Use UUID for channel link in watch page

Docker

• Add PEERTUBE_SMTP_DISABLE_STARTTLS config env

v1.0.0-beta.9

Features

• Theater/Cinema mode in player
• Add ability to wait for the transcoding to finish before publishing a video
• Add ability for uploaders to schedule a video update
• Add time display to see where we seek the video in player
• Add title in player displaying peers info to (total downloaded/uploaded data)
• Provide magnet URI in player and download modal (@rigelk)
• Add warning if the domain name is different from the from the first start of PeerTube
• Add resolution to create-transcoding-job script (@fflorent)

Bug fixes

• Fix dislikes number in video watch page
• Fix import when the imported file has the same extension than an already existing file
• Fix bad RSS descriptions when filtering videos by account or channel
• Fix RSS results limit
• Fix glitch when updating player volume
• Use local object URLs for feeds
• Automatically jump to the highlighted thread
• Fix account link width on video view (@sesn)
• Prevent commenting twice
• Blue links color in comments
• Fix quota precision in users list
• Handle markdown in account/video channel pages
• Fix avatar image in channel page
• Fix slow HTTP fallback on Firefox
• Do not create a user with the same username than another actor name
• Reset search on page change
• Fix images size limit
• Log torrent errors/warnings in the console, instead of disturbing users

v1.0.0-beta.8

Features

• Docker:
  • Add disable_starttls and transcoding configuration variables
  • .env file to define env variables (instead of defining them in docker-compose.yml)
  • Some improvements that should make the upgrades less painful
• Add ability to manually run transcoding jobs (admin with CLI)
• Add ability to import a video file (admin with CLI)
• Add context menu to the player
• Add number of videos published by an account/video channel
• Improve player progress bar
• Improve Twitter configuration help tooltips
• Pick average video file instead of max quality in "Auto" resolution mode
• Increase access token lifetime to 1 day
• Add video comments RSS

Bug fixes

• Clicking on "Download" correctly opens a popup to download the video
  (instead of opening the video in a new tab)
• Fix frequent logout
• Fix publishedAt video attribute when following a new instance
• Correctly resumes the video on "PeerTube" link click in embed
• Fix markdown links truncation
• Fix account/channel pages not updated if we only change the account/channel
• Fix player resolution change that plays even if the video was paused
• Fix posting view in embed that contains search params
• Fix video watch tooltips regarding subscriptions by using the account name
  instead of the display name
• Rename "my settings" to "my account" in menu

v1.0.0-beta.7

BREAKING CHANGES

• Account client URLs are now /accounts/{username}/ (and not /accounts/{id}/)

Documentation

• Better documentation on how to deploy with Docker: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/doc/docker.md

Features

• Add short description in about page
• Add owner account name in video channel page
• Improve performance in ActivityPub controllers
• Video support field inherits video channel support field when uploading/updating a video
• Resume video when clicking on "PeerTube" link in embed

Bug fixes

• Fix player on Android
• Fix player when Firefox has cookies disabled
• Reload "my videos" after a delete
• Fix missing key configuration when upgrading with Docker
• Fix CC audience in Activity Pub objects/activities

v1.0.0-beta.6

Features

• Handle concurrent requests in cache middleware
• Add ability to enable registration by IP

Bug fixes

• Fix insane SQL request when loading all video attributes

v1.0.0-beta.5

BREAKING CHANGES

• Update Docker Compose (fd5e57b)
• Rename client routes:
  • /admin/users/add to /admin/users/create
  • /videos/edit/:uuid to /videos/update/:uuid
  • /admin/users/:id/update to /admin/users/update/:id

Features

• Adding basic helpers to guide users for comments/subscribe to accounts
• Add ability to move a video in another channel
• Improve web browser RAM consumption when watching (long) videos
• Support robots.txt in configuration
• Add ability to select the Redis database in configuration

Bug fixes

• Fix error message on token expiration
• Increase menu icon size
• Add timeout and TTL to request jobs to fix stuck job
• Fix responsive account about page
• Fix updating description account
• Account/video channel descriptions are not required anymore
• Fix video channel description and support max length (500 characters now)
• Fix "..." for buttons (delete/edit) in admin tables
• Fix overflow in markdown textarea preview
• Add ability to embed videos in a Twitter card
• Use publishedAt attribute when sorting videos
• Fix concurrent requests in videos list
• Fix player on iOS

v1.0.0-beta.4

BREAKING CHANGES

• Hide by default NSFW videos. Update the instance.default_nsfw_policy configuration to blur to keep the old behaviour
• Move video channels routes:
  • /videos/channels routes to /video-channels
  • /videos/accounts/{accountId}/channels route to /accounts/{accountId}/video-channels
• PeerTube now listen on 127.0.0.1 by default
• Use ISO 639 for language (en, es, fr...)
  • Tools (import-videos...) need the language ISO639 code instead of a number
  • API (upload, update, list...) need/return the language ISO639 code instead of a number

Features

• Add publishedAt attribute to videos
• Improve player:
  • Smooth progress bar
  • Settings menu
  • Automatic resolution (depending on the user bandwidth)
  • Some animations/effects
  • More reactive when clicking on play
  • Handle autoplay blocking by some web browsers
  • Better responsive
  • Add ability to link a specific timestamp. Example: https://peertube2.cpy.re/videos/watch/f78a97f8-a142-4ce1-a5bd-154bf9386504?start=58
• Add an id to the body to override current CSS (for custom CSS)
• Add privacy argument to upload.ts script
• RSS/Atom/JSON-feed for videos recently-added/trending/account
• Support hostname binding in the configuration
• Add ability to click on an account in the video watch page (link to a search)
• Better responsive on many comment replies
• Move follows in the job queue
• Add ability to choose the NSFW videos policy: hide, blur or display. Could be overrode by the user
• Add video privacy information in my videos page
• Use the video name for the torrent file name instead of the UUID
• Handle errors in embed (video not found, server error...)
• Account view (videos uploaded by this account + video channel owned by this account + about pages)
• Video channel view (videos uploaded in this channel + about pages)
• Video channel management (avatar update is still missing)

Bug fixes

• Fix "show more" description on video change
• Accept unlisted comments
• Don't start application until all components were initialized
• Fix word-break in video description and video comments
• Don't add a . after the URL in the "forgot password" email

v1.0.0-beta.3

Features

• Add hover background color in menu
• Add info about the initial user quota in the registration form
• Add link to register in the login form
• Prevent brute force login attack

Bug fixes

• Fix bad federation with videos with special utf characters in description (again)
• Fix views system behind a reverse proxy

v1.0.0-beta.2

Features

• More logging in SMTP module
• Add option to disable starttls in SMTP module
• Update STUN servers (using framasoft.org and stunprotocol.org now)
• Min comment length is 1 now (useful for emoji...)
• Better embed video player in small screens
• Reduce display time of title/description/control bar in embed on inactivity
• Add sign languages for videos attribute
• Add autoplay parameter for embed
• Videos search on account username and host too
• Redirect to homepage on empty search

Bug fixes

• Fix mentions in comment replies
• Logo/Title redirects to the default route
• Fix bad federation with videos with special utf characters in description
• Fix pagination on mobile
• Use instance name for page titles
• Fix bad id for Create activities (ActivityPub)
• Handle inner actors instead of just handling actor ids (ActivityPub)
• Fallback to torrent file if infohash is incorrect
• Fix admin config errors display/validation
• Add public to Announces (ActivityPub)
• Fix inability to run client when cookies are disabled
• Fix words breaking in videos description
• Graceful exit when import videos script fails
• Fix import videos with long names
• Fix login with a password containing special characters
• Fix player error flickering with an unsupported video format
• Fix comment delete federation
• Fix communication of a PeerTube instance and Mastodon
• Fix custom configuration with number values