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

v1.2.1

Bug fixes

• Important Fix invalid From email header in contact form that could lead to the blacklisting of your SMTP server
• Fix too long display name overflow in menu
• Fix mention notification when a remote account mention a local account that has the same username than yours
• Fix access to muted servers table for moderators
• Don't crash notification popup on bug
• Fix reset password script that leaks password on invalid value

v1.2.0

BREAKING CHANGES

• Docker: PEERTUBE_TRUST_PROXY env variable is now an array (LecygneNoir)
• Docker: Check you have all the storage fields in your /config/production.yaml file: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/docker/production/config/production.yaml#L34
• nginx: Add redundancy endpoint in static file. You should add it in your nginx configuration: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/doc/production.md#nginx
• nginx: Add socket io endpoint. You should add it in your nginx configuration: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/doc/production.md#nginx
• Moderators can manage users now (add/delete/update/block)
• Add tmp and redundancy directories in configuration file. You should configure them in your production.yaml

Maintenance

• Check free storage before upgrading in upgrade script (@Nutomic)
• Explain that PeerTube must be stopped in prune storage script
• Add some security directives in the systemd unit configuration file (@rigelk & @mkoppmann)
• Update FreeBSD startup script (@gegeweb)

Docker

• Patch docker entrypoint to speed up the chown at startup (LecygneNoir)

Features

• Add Russian, Polish and Italian languages
• Add user notifications:
  • Notification types:
    • Comment on my video
    • New video from my subscriptions
    • New video abuses (for moderators)
    • Blacklist/Unblacklist on my video
    • Video import finished (error or success)
    • Pending video published (after transcoding or a scheduled update)
    • My account or one of my channel has a new follower
    • Someone (except muted accounts) mentioned me in comments
    • A user registered on the instance (for moderators)
  • Notification actions:
    • Add a web notification
    • Send an english email
• Add contact form in about page (enabled by default)
• Add ability to unfederate a local video in blacklist modal (checkbox checked by default)
• Support additional video extensions if transcoding is enabled (enabled by default)
• Redirect to the last url on login
• Add ability to automatically set the video caption in URL. Example: https://peertube2.cpy.re/videos/watch/9c9de5e8-0a1e-484a-b099-e80766180a6d?subtitle=ru
• Automatically enable the last selected caption when watching a video
• Add ability to disable, clear and list user videos history
• Add a button to help to translate peertube
• Add text in the report modal to explain to whom the report will be sent
• Open my account menu entries on hover
• Explain what features are enabled on the instance in the about page
• Add an error message in the forgot password modal if the instance email system is not configured
• Add sitemap
• Add well known url to change password (@rigelk)
• Remove 8GB video upload limit on client side. There may still be such limit depending on the reverse proxy configuration (@scanlime)
• Add CSP (@rigelk & @Nutomic)
• Update title and description HTML tags when rendering video HTML page
• Add webfinger support for remote follows (@acid-chicken)
• Add tooltip to explain how the trending algorithm works (@auberanger)
• Warn users when they want to delete a channel because they will not be able to create another channel with the same name
• Warn users when they leave the video upload/update (on page refresh/tab close)
• Set max user name, user display name, channel name and channel display name lengths to 50 characters (@McFlat)
• Increase video abuse length to 3000 characters
• Add totalLocalVideoFilesSize in the stats endpoint

Bug fixes

• Fix the addition of captions to a video
• Fix federation of some videos
• Fix NSFW blur on search
• Add error message when trying to upload .ass subtitles
• Fix default homepage in the progressive web application
• Don't crash on queue error
• Fix EXDEV errors if you have multiple mount points
• Fix broken audio in transcoding with some videos
• Fix crash on getVideoFileStream issue
• Fix followers search
• Remove trailing / in CLI import script (@HesioZ)
• Use origin video url in canonical tag
• Fix captions in HTTP fallback
• Automatically refresh remote actors to fix deleted remote actors that are still displayed on some instances
• Add missing translations in video embed page
• Fix some styling issues in dark mode
• Fix transcoding issues with some videos
• Fix Mac OS mkv/avi upload
• Fix menu overflow on mobile
• Fix ownership button icons (@joshmorel)

v1.2.0-rc.1

BREAKING CHANGES

• Docker: PEERTUBE_TRUST_PROXY env variable is now an array (LecygneNoir)
• nginx: Add redundancy endpoint in static file. You should add it in your nginx configuration: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/doc/production.md#nginx
• Moderators can manage users now (add/delete/update/block)
• Add tmp and redundancy directories in configuration file. You should configure them in your production.yaml

Maintenance

• Check free storage before upgrading in upgrade script (@Nutomic)
• Explain that PeerTube must be stopped in prune storage script
• Add some security directives in the systemd unit configuration file (@rigelk & @mkoppmann)
• Update FreeBSD startup script (@gegeweb)

Docker

• Patch docker entrypoint to speed up the chown at startup (LecygneNoir)

Features

• Add Russian, Polish and Italian languages
• Add user notifications:
  • Notification types:
    • Comment on my video
    • New video from my subscriptions
    • New video abuses (for moderators)
    • Blacklist/Unblacklist on my video
    • Video import finished (error or success)
    • Pending video published (after transcoding or a scheduled update)
    • My account or one of my channel has a new follower
    • Someone (except muted accounts) mentioned me in comments
    • A user registered on the instance (for moderators)
  • Notification actions:
    • Add a web notification
    • Send an english email
• Add contact form in about page (enabled by default)
• Add ability to unfederate a local video in blacklist modal (checkbox checked by default)
• Support additional video extensions if transcoding is enabled (enabled by default)
• Redirect to the last url on login
• Add ability to automatically set the video caption in URL. Example: https://peertube2.cpy.re/videos/watch/9c9de5e8-0a1e-484a-b099-e80766180a6d?subtitle=ru
• Automatically enable the last selected caption when watching a video
• Add ability to disable, clear and list user videos history
• Add a button to help to translate peertube
• Add text in the report modal to explain to whom the report will be sent
• Open my account menu entries on hover
• Explain what features are enabled on the instance in the about page
• Add an error message in the forgot password modal if the instance email system is not configured
• Add sitemap
• Add well known url to change password (@rigelk)
• Remove 8GB video upload limit on client side. There may still be such limit depending on the reverse proxy configuration (@scanlime)
• Add CSP (@rigelk & @Nutomic)
• Update title and description HTML tags when rendering video HTML page
• Add webfinger support for remote follows (@acid-chicken)
• Add tooltip to explain how the trending algorithm works (@auberanger)
• Warn users when they want to delete a channel because they will not be able to create another channel with the same name
• Warn users when they leave the video upload/update (on page refresh/tab close)
• Set max user name, user display name, channel name and channel display name lengths to 50 characters (@McFlat)
• Increase video abuse length to 3000 characters
• Add totalLocalVideoFilesSize in the stats endpoint

Bug fixes

• Fix the addition of captions to a video
• Fix federation of some videos
• Fix NSFW blur on search
• Add error message when trying to upload .ass subtitles
• Fix default homepage in the progressive web application
• Don't crash on queue error
• Fix EXDEV errors if you have multiple mount points
• Fix broken audio in transcoding with some videos
• Fix crash on getVideoFileStream issue
• Fix followers search
• Remove trailing / in CLI import script (@HesioZ)
• Use origin video url in canonical tag
• Fix captions in HTTP fallback
• Automatically refresh remote actors to fix deleted remote actors that are still displayed on some instances
• Add missing translations in video embed page
• Fix some styling issues in dark mode
• Fix transcoding issues with some videos

v1.1.0

Since v1.0.1

BREAKING CHANGES

• Docker: PEERTUBE_TRUST_PROXY env variable is now an array (LecygneNoir)

Maintenance

• Improve REST API documentation: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api.html (@rigelk)
• Add basic ActivityPub documentation: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/lang/en/devdocs/federation.html (@rigelk)
• Add CLI option to run PeerTube without client (@rigelk)
• Add manpage to peertube CLI (@rigelk)
• Make backups of files in optimize-old-videos script (@Nutomic)
• Allow peertube-import-videos.ts CLI script to run concurrently (@McFlat)

Scripts

• Use DB information from config/production.yaml in upgrade script (@ldidry)
• Add REPL script (@McFlat)

Docker

• Add search and import settings env settings env variables (@kaiyou)
• Add docker dev image (@am97)
• Improve docker compose template (@Nutomic)
  • Add postfix image
  • Redirect HTTP -> HTTPS
  • Disable Træfik web UI

Features

• Automatically resume videos if the user is logged in
• Hide automatically the menu when the window is resized (@BO41)
• Remove confirm modal for JavaScript/CSS injection (@scanlime)
• Set bitrate limits for transcoding (@Nutomic)
• Add moderation tools in the account page
• Add bulk actions in users table (Delete/Ban for now)
• Add search filter in admin users table
• Add search filter in admin following
• Add search filter in admin followers
• Add ability to list all local videos
• Add ability for users to mute an account or an instance
• Add ability for administrators to mute an account or an instance
• Rename "News" category to "News & Politics" (@daker)
• Add explicit error message when changing video ownership (@lucas-dclrcq)
• Improve description of the HTTP video import feature (@rigelk)
• Set shorter keyframe interval for transcoding (2 seconds) (@Nutomic)
• Add ability to disable webtorrent (as a user) (@rigelk)
• Make abuse-delete clearer (@barbeque)
• Adding minimum signup age conforming to ceiling GPDR age (@rigelk)
• Feature/description support fields length 1000 (@McFlat)
• Add background effect to activated menu entry
• Improve video upload error handling
• Improve message visibility on signup
• Auto login user on signup if email verification is disabled
• Speed up PeerTube startup (in particular the first one)
• Delete invalid or deleted remote videos
• Add ability to admin to set email as verified (@joshmorel)
• Add separators in user moderation dropdown

Bug fixes

• AP mimeType -> mediaType
• PeerTube is not in beta anymore
• PeerTube is not in alpha anymore :p
• Fix optimize old videos script
• Check follow constraints when getting a video
• Fix application-config initialization in CLI tools (Yetangitu)
• Fix video pixel format compatibility (using yuv420p) (@rigelk)
• Fix video state AP context (tcitworld)
• Fix Linked Signature compatibility
• Fix AP collections pagination
• Fix too big thumbnails (when using URL import)
• Do not host remote AP objects: use redirection instead
• Fix video miniature with a long name
• Fix video views inconsistencies inside the federation
• Fix video embed in Wordpress Gutenberg
• Fix video channel videos url when scrolling
• Fix player progress bar/seeking when changing resolution
• Fix search tab title with no search
• Fix YouTube video import with some videos

Since v1.1.0-rc.1

Bug fixes

• Fix AP infinite redirection
• Fix trending page

v1.1.0-rc.1

Maintenance

• Improve REST API documentation: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api.html (@rigelk)
• Add basic ActivityPub documentation: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/lang/en/devdocs/federation.html (@rigelk)
• Add CLI option to run PeerTube without client (@rigelk)
• Add manpage to peertube CLI (@rigelk)
• Make backups of files in optimize-old-videos script (@Nutomic)
• Allow peertube-import-videos.ts CLI script to run concurrently (@McFlat)

Docker

• Improve docker compose template (@Nutomic)
  • Add postfix image
  • Redirect HTTP -> HTTPS
  • Disable Træfik web UI
• Add ability to set an array in PEERTUBE_TRUST_PROXY (LecygneNoir)

Features

• Add background effect to activated menu entry
• Improve video upload error handling
• Improve message visibility on signup
• Auto login user on signup if email verification is disabled
• Speed up PeerTube startup (in particular the first one)
• Delete invalid or deleted remote videos
• Add ability to admin to set email as verified (@joshmorel)
• Add separators in user moderation dropdown

Bug fixes

• Check follow constraints when getting a video
• Fix application-config initialization in CLI tools (Yetangitu)
• Fix video pixel format compatibility (using yuv420p) (@rigelk)
• Fix video state AP context (tcitworld)
• Fix Linked Signature compatibility
• Fix AP collections pagination
• Fix too big thumbnails (when using URL import)
• Do not host remote AP objects: use redirection instead
• Fix video miniature with a long name
• Fix video views inconsistencies inside the federation
• Fix video embed in Wordpress Gutenberg
• Fix video channel videos url when scrolling
• Fix player progress bar/seeking when changing resolution
• Fix search tab title with no search
• Fix YouTube video import with some videos

v1.1.0-alpha.2

Security/Maintenance/Federation

• Add HTTP Signature in addition to Linked Signature:
  • It's faster
  • Will allow us to use RSA Signature 2018 in the future without too much incompatibilities in the peertube federation

Features

• Set shorter keyframe interval for transcoding (2 seconds) (@Nutomic)
• Add ability to disable webtorrent (as a user) (@rigelk)
• Make abuse-delete clearer (@barbeque)
• Adding minimum signup age conforming to ceiling GPDR age (@rigelk)
• Feature/description support fields length 1000 (@McFlat)

Bug fixes

• Scale bitrate linearly with FPS (@Nutomic)
• AP mimeType -> mediaType
• PeerTube is not in beta anymore
• PeerTube is not in alpha anymore :p
• Fix optimize old videos script

v1.0.1

Small patch, it seems we did not have many bugs in the v1.0.0 :)

Security/Federation/Maintenance

• Add HTTP Signature in addition to Linked Signature:
  • It's faster
  • Will allow us to use RSA Signature 2018 in the future without too much incompatibilities in the peertube federation

v1.1.0-alpha.1

We released this alpha version because some admins/users need some moderation tools we implemented in recent weeks.
This release could contain bugs. Don't expect a stable v1.1.0 until December :)

Scripts

• Use DB information from config/production.yaml in upgrade script (@ldidry)
• Add REPL script (@McFlat)

Docker

• Add search and import settings env settings env variables (@kaiyou)
• Add docker dev image (@am97)

Features

• Automatically resume videos if the user is logged in
• Hide automatically the menu when the window is resized (@BO41)
• Remove confirm modal for JavaScript/CSS injection (@scanlime)
• Set bitrate limits for transcoding (@Nutomic)
• Add moderation tools in the account page
• Add bulk actions in users table (Delete/Ban for now)
• Add search filter in admin users table
• Add search filter in admin following
• Add search filter in admin followers
• Add ability to list all local videos
• Add ability for users to mute an account or an instance
• Add ability for administrators to mute an account or an instance
• Rename "News" category to "News & Politics" (@daker)
• Add explicit error message when changing video ownership (@lucas-dclrcq)
• Improve description of the HTTP video import feature (@rigelk)

v1.0.0

SECURITY

• Add more headers to HTTP signature to avoid actor impersonation by replaying modified signed HTTP requests (thanks Thibaut Girka)

Bug fixes

• Check video exists before extending expiration
• Correctly delete redundancy files
• Fix account URI in remote comment modal (@rigelk)
• Fix avatar update
• Avoid old issue regarding duplicated hosts in database