PeerTube/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

v1.3.0-rc.2

Docker

• Add a network section to docker-compose.yml template and update your .env to fix IP forwarding issue (@Nutomic)

Bug fixes

• Fix playlist block width when the player is in theater mode
• Reset playlist add dropdown in watch page on video change
• Fix follow with Mastodon
• Fix playlist elements reordering
• Fix my videos list pagination
• Fix video thumbnails in admin blacklist page
• Fix video views that are not considered

v1.3.0-rc.1

IMPORTANT NOTES

• nginx Remove text/html from gzip_types: 7eeb6a0ba4 @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: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/1643#issuecomment-464789666)
• 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)

v1.1.0

Since v1.0.1

BREAKING CHANGES

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

Maintenance

• Improve REST API documentation (@rigelk)
• Add basic ActivityPub documentation (@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 (since v1.1.0-alpha.2)

Maintenance

• Improve REST API documentation (@rigelk)
• Add basic ActivityPub documentation (@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 (since v1.1.0-alpha.1)

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

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

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

v1.0.0-rc.2

Bug fixes

• Fix config endpoint

v1.0.0-rc.1

Features

• Allow specification of channel ID in peertube-upload.js (@anoadragon453)
• Show last commit hash alongside server version in footer (@rigelk)
• Add comment feeds in watch page

Bug fixes

• Fix dnt route (yes again, but now we have unit tests for this route :D)
• Check video channel name is unique when creating a new one
• Fix video fps validator (prevent redundancy/refresh of some old videos)
• Allow empty search on client side (@rigelk)
• Correctly forward comment deletion

v1.0.0-beta.16

BREAKING CHANGES

• Add prompt to upgrade.sh to install pre-release version (@Nutomic)

Features

• Add shortcuts icon in menu
• Improve overview section titles
• Check old password before change (@BO41)
• Adding frame-by-frame hotkey support in player (@rigelk)

Bug fixes

• Stop seeding torrents after a failed import
• Fix player crashing the web browser
• Fix player performance with small devices
• Fix some untranslated strings
• Fix video files duplicated when fps is null (@rigelk)
• Fix video import of some youtube videos
• Fix (long) video description when importing by url
• Fix Mastodon federation with a comment reply
• Correctly delete directories on import
• Remove duplicated videos on unfollow/delete redundancy
• Fix 404 on manifest
• Hide useless error when destroying fake renderer
• Display other videos on big screens on the right of the watch page
• Fix no other videos displayed on some videos
• Fix hidden advanced options in upload form
• Fix message space on video upload cancel (@rigelk)
• Fix error when updating many video captions
• Fix "my account" subtitles
• Fix error when clicking on the disabled publish button
• Increase timeout on upload endpoint
• Fix redundancy with videos already duplicated by another instance(s)
• Correctly delete files on failed import

v1.0.0-beta.15

Features

• Improve subscription button (@rigelk)
• Display it for unlogged users
• Add RSS feed
• Allow remote follow
• Allow remote comment (@rigelk)
• Support Simplified Chinese (@SerCom-KC)

Bug fixes

• Fix redundancy with old PeerTube torrents
• Fix crash with /static/dnt-policy/dnt-policy-1.0.txt route
• Fix redundancy totalVideos stats
• Reduce video import TTL to 1 hour
• Only duplicate public videos

v1.0.0-beta.14

Features

• Video redundancy system (experimental)
• Add peertube script (see the doc) (@rigelk)
• Improve download modal (@rigelk)
• Add redirect after login (@BO41)
• Improve message when removing a user
• Improve responsive on small screens
• Improve performance:
  • Overview endpoint
  • SQL requests of watch page endpoints
  • SQL requests of ActivityPub endpoints
  • Cache user token
  • Videos infinite scroll in the web browser
• Add warning if one of the storage directory is in the peertube production directory
• Auto focus first field on login (@rigelk)
• Add chevron hotkeys to change playback rate (@rigelk)

Bug fixes

• Fix 24 hours delay to process views
• Fix tag search on overview page
• Handle actors search beginning with '@'
• Fix "no results" on overview page
• Fix iOS player playback/subtitles menu
• Fix description/comments that break the video watch page
• Don't get recommended videos twice
• Fix admin access to moderators
• Fix nav tab and tag color in dark theme (@rigelk)
• Fix help popover overflow (@rigelk)
• Fix comment deletion with mastodon (only with new comments)

v1.0.0-beta.13

Features

• Improve keyboard navigation (@rigelk)
• Remember theme in local storage (@rigelk)

Bug fixes

• Fix upgrade/installation on node 8.12 (bcrypt issue)
• Fix video channel deletion
• Fix video channel RSS
• Fix video views increment

v1.0.0-beta.12

If you have not updated to v1.0.0-beta.10, see the v1.0.0-beta.10.pre.1 changelog, in particular how to upgrade

BREAKING CHANGES

• Users can now use the name they want for their channel. We will therefore favour the display of video channel handles/names instead of account in the future.

Documentation

• Add SECURITY.md document
• Add TCP/IP tuning template to prevent buffer bloat/latency (@scanlime)
• Add parse-log admin tool documentation
• Improve README schemas (@Edznux)

nginx template

• Add gzip support (@scanlime)

Docker template

• Add quota to the docker configuration values (@kaiyou)

Features

• Add portuguese and swedish languages
• Support user subscriptions
• Add ability to search videos or channels with their URL/handle (can be opt-out by the admin)
• Add "videos overview" page (pick randomly some categories/tags/channels and display their videos)
• Add ability to set a name (left part of the handle) to a channel instead of UUID
• Users can "give" their videos to other local users (WIP, feedback welcome) (@grizio)
• Add keyboard shortcuts (press ? to see them) (@rigelk)
• Add ability to set daily video upload quota to users (@Nutomic)
• Add user email verification (can be opt-in by the admin) (@joshmorel)
• Improve video watch page style (@rigelk)
• Trending page takes into account views from the last x days (defined by the admin in the configuration file)
• Add "start at" checkbox in the video share modal
• Add instance capabilities table in the signup page (@rigelk)
• Improve video abuses display in admin (@Nutomic)
• Add "my videos" shortcut in menu (@LeoMouyna)
• Support 0.75 and 1.25 playback speeds (@Glandos)
• Improve error message on actor name conflict
• Improve videos list/search SQL query (split it into 2 queries)
• Make left menu show the scrollbar only on hover/focus (@rigelk)
• Other videos column in watch page show related tagged videos if possible (@jorropo)
• Password change errors more friendly (@jorropo)
• Improve labels for video privacies (video upload/update)
• Add theming via CSS custom properties (@rigelk)
• Add dark theme (@rigelk)
• Add input color to cope with browser themes (@rigelk)

Bug fixes

• Fix player video playback (videos never ends or infinite load after seeking)
• Fix video URL import with videos having a small title
• Make HSTS opt-in and leave it to the reverse-proxy (@rigelk)
• Fix search results on mobile
• Do not import live streaming
• Fix NSFW filter when the instance decides to hide them and the user decides to list them
• Delete highlighted comment too if needed
• Fix ffmpeg auto thread admin configuration (@jorropo)
• ActivityPub: use height instead of width to represent the video resolution
• Fix thumbnail/preview in upload.js script
• Fix import-videos.js duplicate detection
• Fix occitan language label

v1.0.0-beta.11

If you have not updated to v1.0.0-beta.10, see the v1.0.0-beta.10.pre.1 changelog, in particular how to upgrade

Features

• Add ability to import videos from a URL (YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, raw file etc) or torrent file/magnet. Should be explicitly enabled by the administrator in the configuration file
• Add german, spanish, taiwan (traditional chinese) and occitan languages
• Add ability to delete our account
• Add ability to ban a user
• Add ability to set a moderation comment to an abuse
• Add state (pending, accepted, rejected) attribute to an abuse
• Add ability to set a reason when blacklisting a video
• Add ability to blacklist local videos
• Improve abuse and blacklist tables
• Add user quota used in users list
• Tracker only accept known infohash (avoid people to use your tracker for files unrelated to PeerTube)
• Add database pool configuration (@rigelk)
• Add audit log (@Nautigsam)
• Add ffmpeg nice and auto thread (@jorropo)
• Upgrade to bootstrap 4
• DNT support

Bug fixes

• Fix videos FPS federation
• Cleanup request files on bad request
• Handle truncated markdown links
• Fix dropdown position in menu
• Translate subtitle languages in player
• Translate player according the language of the interface
• Fix reset my password button (@joshmorel)

v1.0.0-beta.10

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

Bug fixes (from beta.10.pre.3)

• Fix caption upload on Mac OS

v1.0.0-beta.10.pre.3

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

Bug fixes (from beta.10.pre.2)

• Try to fix the infinite creation of Delete actor jobs by deleting kue migration
• Cleanup SQL indexes
• Try to optimize SQL search query
• Try to optimize videos list SQL query
• Add more logs and fix logger when having an error
• Move subscription helper in the account line in video watch page
• Fix responsive on videos search
• Refresh orphan actors
• Don't send a follow request if the follow was already accepted

v1.0.0-beta.10.pre.2

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

Bug fixes (from beta.10.pre.1)

• 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.

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 https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/pull/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 transcoding before publishing it
• Add ability for uploaders to schedule video update
• Add time display to see where we seek the video
• Add title in player peers info to show total downloaded/uploaded data
• Provide magnet URI in player and download modal (@rigelk)
• Add warning if the domain name is different from the one of 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 (fd5e57bbe2)
• 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

v1.0.0-beta.1

Nothing new here, but PeerTube is stable enough for being in beta now.

v1.0.0-alpha.9

BREAKING CHANGES

• Update videos list/search/get API response:
  • Removed resolution field
  • Removed resolutionLabel field
  • Removed category field
  • Removed categoryLabel field
  • Removed licence field
  • Removed licenceLabel field
  • Removed language field
  • Removed languageLabel field
  • Removed privacy field
  • Removed privacyLabel field
  • Added resolution.id field
  • Added resolution.label field
  • Added category.id field
  • Added category.label field
  • Added licence.id field
  • Added licence.label field
  • Added language.id field
  • Added language.label field
  • Added privacy.id field
  • Added privacy.label field

Bug fixes

• Fix video_share_url duplicate key on failed transcoding job

v1.0.0-alpha.8

Features

• Add ability to set a short instance description

v1.0.0-alpha.7

BREAKING CHANGES

• Update videos list/search API response:
  • Removed accountName field
  • Removed serverHost field
  • Added account.name field
  • Added account.displayName field
  • Added account.host field
  • Added account.url field
  • Added account.avatar field
• Update video abuses API response:
  • Removed reporterUsername field
  • Removed reporterServerHost field
  • Removed videoId field
  • Removed videoUUID field
  • Removed videoName field
  • Added reporterAccount field
  • Added video.id field
  • Added video.name field
  • Added video.uuid field
  • Added video.url field

Features

• Add "Local" in menu that lists only local videos

v1.0.0-alpha.4

Features

• Add iOS support

v1.0.0-alpha.1

Features

• Add messages about privacy and P2P
• Add stats route
• Add playback setting

v0.0.29-alpha

BREAKING CHANGES

• Use only 1 thread for transcoding by default

Features

• Add help to JS/CSS custom configuration inputs
• Keep ratio in video thumbnail generation
• Handle video in portrait mode

Bug fixes

• Fix complete description on some videos
• Fix job sorting in administration

v0.0.28-alpha

BREAKING CHANGES

• Enable original file transcoding by default in configuration
• Disable transcoding in other definitions in configuration

Features

• Fallback to HTTP if video cannot be loaded
• Limit to 30 FPS in transcoding

v0.0.27-alpha

Features

• Add ability for admin to inject custom JavaScript/CSS
• Add help tooltip on some fields

Bug fixes

• Fix comment reply highlighting

v0.0.26-alpha

BREAKING CHANGES

• Renamed script import-youtube.js to import-videos.js
• Renamed import-video.js argument youtube-url to target-url

Features

• Add "Support" attribute/button on videos
• Add ability to import from all supported sites of youtube-dl

Bug fixes

• Fix custom instance name overflow

v0.0.25-alpha

Features

• Add ability to link a specific comment

Bug fixes

• Fix avatars on video watch page

v0.0.24-alpha

Features

• Publish comments with ctrl + enter

Bug fixes

• Don't stuck on active jobs
• Fix deleting a video with comments
• Fix infinite scroll (videos list)