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Changelog

v6.3.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • Important You need to manually execute a migration script after your upgrade while PeerTube is running. The purpose of this migration is to update video files metadata in the database. This migration can take a long time if you have many federated/local videos, but is designed to be safe to run multiple times:
    • Classic installation: cd /var/www/peertube/peertube-latest && sudo -u peertube NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config NODE_ENV=production node dist/scripts/migrations/peertube-6.3.js
    • Docker installation: cd /var/www/peertube-docker && docker-compose exec -u peertube peertube node dist/scripts/migrations/peertube-6.3.js
  • Important for Docker admins If you enabled the "Keep a version of the input file" configuration, files may have been stored in the container instead of the host volume. To prevent data loss, you must copy the files on the host before upgrading using docker compose cp peertube:/app/storage/original-video-files docker-volume/data

Docker

  • Fix IPV6 configuration. You must update your docker-compose.yml file:
    • Remove version: line
    • Add ipv6_address to peertube.networks.default key
    • Update network top level key content

Maintenance

  • Reduce error and warning logs generated by clients and the federation
  • Introduce peertube_playback_buffer_stalled_count_total OpenTelemetry playback metric
  • Removed access_log: off for static video requests in the nginx configuration template, now the player doesn't use WebTorrent anymore (which was doing a large amount of small HTTP requests)
  • PeerTube introduces a new download API endpoint that remuxes the videos on the fly to merge video and audio streams. A custom rate limit can be configured in the YAML configuration

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

  • Reduce @peertube/peertube-types package size

Features

  • 🎉 Separate HLS audio and video streams 🎉
    • Can be enabled for VODs in the admin configuration for new videos
    • Automatically enabled for lives
    • If enabled, an "Audio only" resolution is available in the HLS player
    • The live can ingest and output an "Audio only" stream
    • Reduce video disk space used since we only store one version of the audio stream
    • The download modal has a new panel so users can easily select the resolution they want to download
  • 🎉 Introduce a transcription widget 🎉
    • Users can open the transcription widget that appears next to the player
    • The transcription is in sync with the video
    • Users can search the transcript and click on a specific segment to automatically jump the video to the appropriate timecode
  • UI/UX:
    • More visible chapter markers in player control bar
    • Add a button to copy server logs in admin
    • Smoother live autoplay: only the player is reloaded
    • Improve channel and account page tab title
    • Better resolution label for custom video aspect. For example with a 1920x816 video, we now display 1080p instead of 816p
  • Support max FPS configuration: the admin can allow videos with more than 60FPS, which is the current default limit
  • Max resolution file preserves input FPS even if < 720p, allowing users to upload and broadcast a 480p resolution at 60FPS
  • Add ability for admins to set multiple proxies for youtube-dl that PeerTube will randomly select
  • Support youtube-dl executable (for example Linux standalone x64 binary that includes additional features like impersonation)
  • Add a cover to the file if the user only downloads the audio version of the video
  • Forward watch page start query param to the OEmbed service so that the embed starts at the correct time
  • Notify local users on when an Internal video is published
  • Add ability for admins to disable federation (disabling ActivityPub endpoints)
  • Improve local video search relevance

Bug fixes

  • Fix broken object storage playlist on file removal
  • Set live tags to replays
  • Fix hidden delete button for original file in videos admin overview
  • Don't crash the embed on player error
  • Prevent embed poster flickering
  • Fix left menu block title ellipsis
  • Fix channel name overflow in *My Videos" page
  • Fix player infinite buffering issues on fast live re-stream
  • Don't display orange resume bar on live miniatures
  • Fix video file object storage detection in admin videos overview
  • Support ActivityPub remote actors with array url field
  • Fix resetting duration filter in search page
  • Use first step Public privacy when publishing lives without having validated the second step
  • Fix studio page responsive
  • Add CORS to oEmbed API
  • Fix storyboard display at the end of the video
  • Correctly cleanup permanent live empty directories
  • Fix duplicated resolutions when capping fps
  • Don't resize remote actor images with unknown size
  • More robust caption update concurrency

v6.2.1

Maintenance

  • Add ability for users to see the error details when the embed player crashed with the message "The player is not compatible with your web browser. Please try latest Firefox version." The web browser also sends a client error log to the server

Bug fixes

  • Fix stuck runner jobs due to DB concurrency issue
  • Respect OS orientation settings in PWA
  • Fix "No results" not displayed on no video results
  • Do not display "Download" option on lives
  • Fix invalid current password error when updating user password
  • Fix slow hotkeys detection
  • Fix hidden runner jobs tab when remote runner is only enabled for transcription
  • Fix broken HLS P2P by correctly updating HLS infohash on privacy update
  • Fix videos filters pastille labels for categories and languages
  • Fix broken youtube-dl import for videos with too long chapter titles
  • Display emojis in description preview in video edition form
  • Avoid node-datachannel native dependency that prevents some OS to install PeerTube dependencies

v6.2.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • Added pip3 as required PeerTube dependency to support automatic transcription. You must install it on your system

Maintenance

  • Check for latest plugin versions every 4 hours (instead of 12 hours). We recommend admins to update their current configuration to apply this change for faster plugin new version notifications
  • Add a configuration to configure video thumbnail/preview sizes #6423
  • Support for removing non-existent objects from object storage in prune-storage script
  • Support for moving original video files to object storage/filesystem in create-move-video-storage-job script
  • Add house-keeping script to recover disk space by removing remote files (thumbnails, avatars...)
  • Add max_request_attempts object storage configuration (required by some S3 providers such as Blackblaze) #6418

Docker

  • Add missing Docker env to configure object storage (user exports and original video files)

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

  • Add ability to register the same setting multiple times to replace the old one #6357 & 1bfb791e0
  • Add getUser() client helper #6358
  • Detect internal link in plugin page to avoid reloading entire application when not needed

Features

  • 🎉 Add automatic transcription of videos to generate subtitles 🎉 #6303
    • Uses Whisper engines and models to create the subtitle and guess the video language
    • Has to be enabled by admins in the configuration web interface: PeerTube will automatically download and install Whisper binaries/models
    • Transcription can also be performed by PeerTube runners, as it can consume a lot of CPU
    • Transcription generation can also be run manually by administrators
  • 🎉 Improve comment moderation 🎉 #6399
    • Introduce a new video comment policy that requires comments to be approved first
    • Video owners have a dedicated page to list, view and take action on comments made on their videos
  • 🎉 Implement auto-tagging on comments and videos for admins and on comments for video owners 🎉 #6399
    • Comments and videos can be automatically tagged using PeerTube rules ("contains a link" for example) or watched word lists
    • These tags can be used to automatically filter videos and comments
    • Video owners can select auto tags that require comments to be approved first
  • Add the ability to select the thumbnail directly from the video #6424
  • Allow admins to force bulk transcoding
  • Faster "Mark as read" user notification REST API endpoint when having many notifications in database
  • Improve Video ActivityPub compatibility by relaxing PeerTube checks and allowing remote object to not have some fields that were required by PeerTube (missing P2P information for example)
  • Highlight current lives on pages that list videos ("Recently Added", "Trending", "Account videos", "Channel videos" etc.)

Bug fixes

  • Fix embed API on iOS
  • Fix RTL layout inconsistencies
  • Fix big user export file size
  • Fix concurrent live streams serialization issue
  • Fix instance slowness when geoip download fails #6402
  • Don't count deleted comments in instance stats
  • Handle videos with FPS < 1
  • Don't display stats button of remote videos
  • Fix recommendation loop for anonymous users
  • Handle 410 HTTP response code for AP objects
  • Fix major plugin version detection when major number has two digits
  • Accessibility:
    • Fix focus visibility box
    • Fix feed popover title state
    • Fix video filter pastille accessibility
    • Fix radio button focus
    • Fix search typeahead information not read by screen readers
    • Fix player "Back" button label
    • Fix player settings menu keyboard navigation
    • Fix "Update your settings" keyboard navigation and improve accessibility
    • Fix checkbox description relationship
    • Fix green color contrast
    • Correctly label the boolean icon in instance features table
    • Remove unneeded information in "Policy for sensitive videos" select
    • Fix left menu list items list hierarchy
  • Fix HLS audio desync on some videos
  • Playlist components in custom markup can use a short UUID
  • Support Service Activity Pub actors that should fix some federation issues with Mastodon
  • Fix downloading protected videos in admin
  • Increase legacy upload request timeout

v6.1.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • You must update nginx configuration: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/nginx/peertube
    • Add location ~ ^/api/v1/users/[^/]+/imports/import-resumable$ { block
  • This release changes the way how PeerTube counts a video view:
    • Views are taken into account after 10 seconds instead of 30 seconds (can be changed in YAML config)
    • Views use a Session ID generated by the web browser instead of using the request IP (former behavior can be restored in YAML config)
    • The goal of this change is to get closer to how other video platforms like Mux, Vimeo, or Instagram work

SECURITY

  • Compact ActivityPub JSON-LD objects before using them to prevent incorrect access control @tesaguri
  • Protect ActivityPub information related to private/internal/blocked videos

Admin config (non-exhaustive)

  • Breaking changes:
    • Rename views.videos.ip_view_expiration to views.videos.view_expiration
  • YAML & web admin configs:
    • Add storyboards.enabled config to disable storyboard generation
    • Remove services.twitter.whitelisted: Twitter/X doesn't seem to need this anymore. This means that PeerTube will try to inject the video player in Twitter/X by default instead of using a classic image/description
  • YAML config only:
    • Add open_telemetry.metrics.playback_stats_interval config to customize how often viewers send playback stats to server
    • Add views.videos.watching_interval.{anonymous,users} configs to change how often the web browser sends "is watching" information to the server
    • Add stats.registration_requests.enabled and stats.abuses.enabled configs to hide instance registration/abuse requests public stats (average response time, total registration/abuse requests etc.)
    • Add stats.total_moderators.enabled and stats.total_admins.enabledconfigs to hide total admins/moderators public stats
    • Add object_storage.streaming_playlists.store_live_streams config to not store live stream chunks into object storage (when enabled for streaming playlists)
    • Set open_telemetry.metrics.http_request_duration.enabled to false by default to avoid performance issues on the Prometheus backend due to high metric cardinality

Maintenance

  • Also generate 600x600 and 1500x1500 avatar sizes
  • Also generate 600x100 banner size

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

Features

  • 🎉 Implement user import/export 🎉 #6215
    • This is not a migration tool: data (like channels or videos) is duplicated and not moved from the previous PeerTube instance
    • Export:
      • A ZIP is generated by PeerTube and an email is sent to the user when the archive is ready
      • The archive file contains ActivityPub data for federation compatibility and custom JSON files used by PeerTube import. It also contains video/playlist thumbnail and channel/account avatar/banner files
      • User can include video files in the archive
      • Archive files can be stored in object storage
      • Export can be disabled by the admin. They can also set an expiration time to automatically delete archive files and limit the export file size depending on the user's video quota
    • Import:
      • Update account metadata (display name, description...)
      • Update user settings (video autoplay policy, notification settings...)
      • Create entries in the mute list
      • Add watched videos in user's videos history Add likes/dislikes
      • Send a follow request to imported subscriptions
      • Create channels, playlists and videos (if the video files are included in the archive)
      • Admins can disable user import
  • 🎉 Add ability to keep the original video file 🎉 #6157
    • Can be stored in object storage
    • Uploader can download the original file
    • The original file is used in the user export archive (instead of the max quality file)
  • Add Turkish language support in client
  • Add ability for admins to set a banner and an avatar to the instance. The banner is used in About instance/Login/Register an account pages. Both the banner and the avatar can be used on the instance homepage using <peertube-instance-banner>/<peertube-instance-avatar> tag or on external websites/applications like the JoinPeerTube website
  • Add ability for uploaders to download and add a video to a playlist on the My videos page using the dropdown button #6008
  • Video views statistics:
    • Count a view after 10 seconds and use a web browser session id to identify a viewer (see IMPORTANT CHANGES section)
    • Add information about the location of the viewer subdivision/region
    • More accurate retention stats where PeerTube doesn't take into account empty views anymore
  • UI/UX:
    • Automatically filter on Local videos in admin
    • Add ability to sort videos by file size
    • Add total video file size column in admin users list
    • Improve admin runner jobs list by using badges with same colors for type/runner and add processed/finished columns
    • Add Recommended tags to recommended PeerTube plugins/themes
    • Improve plugins/themes default trending sort
    • Trim username on login
    • Warn if "Forgot password" email contains uppercase
    • Use more precise buttons label to save changes in My account settings
    • Add icon to owners/moderators only options
    • Always use short UUIDs instead of full UUIDs in client to prevent URL confusion
    • Add average admins/moderators response time in Request an account page
    • Add color to registration/abuse state icon
  • Player:
    • Add an enable/disable subtitle button to the control bar
    • Faster auto-resizing of the player when the video has a custom aspect ratio (only for videos uploaded on PeerTube >= 6.1)
    • Use video aspect ratio for responsive embeds (only for videos uploaded on PeerTube >= 6.1)
  • Performance:
    • Optimize watching (/api/v1/videos/:videoId/views) endpoint
    • Reduce ffprobe calls when not needed resulting in faster live stream transcoding startup and CPU/IO reduction during video upload/import
  • Federation
    • Introduce a new way to federate Views events in the federation. See the commit details for more information
    • Implements FEP-2677 to identify the Application Actor
    • Add Lemmy postingRestrictedToMods information to channels AP objects
  • Improve generated video thumbnail quality
  • Add notification when a subscribed video channel is live streaming
  • Support itunes:owner in podcast feed

Bug fixes

  • Add stripes to square video thumbnails too (like we do for portrait videos)
  • Prevent channels from being displayed multiple times on the My channels page
  • Stricter video timestamp "linkification"
  • Correctly fix downloading video files from object storage with some video names
  • Fix broken RSS feed in some (rare) cases
  • Fix local jobs count/pagination with Waiting jobs
  • Banned users cannot live stream anymore
  • Correctly escape HTML entities in meta tags #6206
  • Fix broken account channels page with high video_channels.max_per_user config
  • Add ability for moderators to approve/reject user registrations
  • Do not display empty notification settings group
  • Correctly fix WebTorrent video import crash
  • Fix video channel synchronization crash on remote channels/playlists that contain hidden videos (unavailable, deleted etc.)
  • Ensure the filename doesn't contain / character when downloading a video
  • Fix Google Search SEO (with Video is not the main content of the page error)
  • Remove password autocomplete in embed which causes issues when the parent page has a password input and the user uses the web browser's password autofill feature
  • Don't submit the login form on forgot my password keyboard click
  • Fix storyboard generation with some videos
  • Fix ffmpeg encoder after custom plugin transcoding profile deletion
  • Fix navigating from one channel related page (playlist, videos...) to another one
  • More robust live stream transcoded by a remote runner
  • Fix first video in playlist that doesn't start at "starts at"
  • Fix embed HTML code for videos/playlists that have passwords
  • Display external account/channel playlists if user is allowed to escape the federation
  • Fix view endpoint crash on geoip update failure
  • Fix setting video subtitle from URL query
  • Fix selecting "Display all languages/categories/licences" in videos search resulting in an empty search
  • Fix followers/following counter of local ActivityPub actors
  • Fix notification button link on mobile
  • Fix player subtitles on iOS

v6.0.4

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • If you upgrade from PeerTube < v6.0.0, please follow v6.0.0 IMPORTANT NOTES
  • If you upgrade from PeerTube v6.0.0, please follow v6.0.1 IMPORTANT NOTES

SECURITY

v6.0.3

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • If you upgrade from PeerTube < v6.0.0, please follow v6.0.0 IMPORTANT NOTES
  • If you upgrade from PeerTube v6.0.0, please follow v6.0.1 IMPORTANT NOTES

SECURITY

  • Prevent nginx from serving private/internal/password protected HLS video static files
    • You must update your nginx configuration like in this commit (line 202 replace location ~ ^(/static/(webseed|web-videos|streaming-playlists)/private/)|^/download { by location ~ ^(/static/(webseed|web-videos|streaming-playlists/hls)/private/)|^/download {)

Bug fixes

  • Fix HTML meta tags with attributes that contain quotes
  • Fix time parsing resulting in broken video start time in some cases
  • Fix WebTorrent video import crash
  • Reload Discover page on logout
  • Fix privacy error when updating a live, even if the privacy has not changed
  • Fix invalid remote live state change notification that causes the player to reload
  • Don't apply big play button skin to settings menu
  • Fix downloading video files from object storage with some video names (that include emojis, quotes etc)
  • Fix thumbnail generation when ffmpeg cannot seek the input
  • Fix theme colors on stats page
  • Fix input mask (used for chapters, playlist timecodes...) with 10h+ videos
  • Fix chapter position width consistency
  • Fix player ratio with audio only videos
  • Also update video playlist URLs when using update-host script
  • Fix upload/import/update of videos that contain multiple chapters with the same timecode

v6.0.2

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • If you upgrade from PeerTube < v6.0.0, please follow v6.0.0 IMPORTANT NOTES
  • If you upgrade from PeerTube v6.0.0, please follow v6.0.1 IMPORTANT NOTES

Bug fixes

  • Fix upgrade.sh when Peertube is installed outside the standard path #6064
  • Fix importing videos with too long chapter name
  • Don't create chapters from description if there is only one
  • Ensure user is owned by the auth plugin before updating its attributes
  • Improve channels and accounts SEO by fixing structured JSON-LD data and canonical URLs
  • Originally published and reupload date format consistency in watch page
  • Fix cpu count when cpu info not available
  • Fix embed when waiting for a live
  • Fix updating already started live if live attributes don't change
  • Fix displaying many countries in video stats

v6.0.1

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • If you upgrade from PeerTube < v6.0.0, please follow v6.0.0 IMPORTANT NOTES
  • We've made some modifications in v6.0.0 IMPORTANT NOTES, so if you upgrade from PeerTube v6.0.0:
    • Ensure location = /api/v1/videos/upload-resumable { has been replaced by location ~ ^/api/v1/videos/(upload-resumable|([^/]+/source/replace-resumable))$ { in your nginx configuration
    • Ensure you updated storage.web_videos configuration value to use web-videos/ directory name
    • Ensure your directory name on filesystem is the same as storage.web_videos configuration value: directory on filesystem must be renamed from videos/ to web-videos/ to represent the value of storage.web_videos

Bug fixes

  • Fix CPU going to 100% on odd cpu count
  • Increase storyboard generation job TTL
  • Add missing generate-video-storyboard job type in admin jobs list
  • Regenerate storyboard after studio job

v6.0.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

We have many important notes in this release. We know it's a pain for sysadmin, but consider each one as a major step forward for PeerTube quality!

Sysadmins important notes

Developers important notes

  • REST API breaking changes:

    • Removed webtorrentEnabled from user response (deprecated since 4.1 in favour of p2pEnabled)
    • Removed avatar and banner fields from account/channel responses (deprecated since 4.2 in favour of avatars and banners)
    • Removed filter query when listing videos (deprecated since 4.0 in favour of isLocal and include)
    • Deprecate /api/v1/videos/:id/webtorrent video file routes in favour of /api/v1/videos/:id/web-videos routes
    • Deprecate hasWebtorrentFiles body video filter in favour of hasWebVideoFiles when listing videos
    • Deprecate webtorrent transcodingType in favour of web-video in /api/v1/videos/{id}/transcoding route
    • currentTime is now required to notify the user is watching the video using /api/v1/videos/{id}/views (introduced in 4.2)

  • Static server paths breaking changes:

    • /static/webseed/... is deprecated in favour of /static/web-videos/...
    • /object-storage-proxy/webseed/... is deprecated in favour of /object-storage-proxy/web-videos/...
    • /static/thumbnails/... is deprecated in favour of /static/lazy-thumbnails/...

  • Plugin API breaking changes:

    • Deprecated webtorrent key in getFiles() helper result. Use webVideo instead

CLI tools

Features

  • 🎉 Add "Password protected" video privacy #5836 🎉
    • A single password can be set using the web interface at video upload/import/update
    • The REST API can store as many passwords as you want, allowing developers to use this feature to easily give or revoke access to a video on the fly
    • Developers that use PeerTube embeds can set the video password using the embed API
  • 🎉 Add video storyboard support 🎉
    • PeerTube automatically generates a storyboard on video upload/import
    • Viewers can see the image around the targeted timecode when hovering the progress bar
    • Storyboard of videos uploaded/imported before v6 can be generated by the admin using npm run create-generate-storyboard-job command: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/maintain/tools#generate-storyboard
  • 🎉 Add ability for users to replace their video file 🎉
    • Has to be enabled by the PeerTube instance administrator
    • The user can replace the video file in the Update Video page
    • The re-upload date is displayed under the video player
  • 🎉 Add video chapters support 🎉
    • Add chapters in the upload/import/update video page or let PeerTube automatically imports them from the video container/youtube-dl
    • Markers are displayed in the player progress bar to symbolize a chapter
    • Chapter title is displayed when hovering/touching the player progress bar
  • Better video player:
    • More efficient as we don't rebuild the player every time the played video changes
    • The player keeps the current player settings (playback speed, fullscreen...) when the played video changes
    • Automatically adjust the player size to match video ratio
  • Improve SEO and video link sharing:
    • Use short video/channel/account URLs in sitemap and for canonical tags
    • Add JSON-LD tag in embed page
    • Embed page does not forbid indexation anymore: we use a canonical tag instead that targets the watch page
    • Forbid indexation of remote videos, accounts and channels (instead of providing an invalid canonical tag)
    • Truncate OpenGraph/Twitter card link description
  • Fix client accessibility and keyboard navigation:
    • Fix links in bootstrap alerts color
    • Better input placeholder contrast
    • Fix video miniature link label
    • Add ability to disable hotkeys
    • Improve table overall accessibility
    • Wrap icons that can lead to an action inside buttons
    • Fix left menu admin/my-library menu accessibility
    • And many more improvements!
  • Improve remote runner management:
    • Add ability to remove runner jobs
    • Add runner job state quick filter
    • Merge registration tokens and runners tables in same page
    • Add copy button to copy registration token
  • Add ability for admins to force transcoding on a specific video even if it's in broken state (stuck in To Transcode for example)
  • Add an option to sign federated fetches (ActivityPub based software such as Mastodon may require it to access content)
  • Download video file directly from S3 using pre signed URLs
  • Lazy download remote video thumbnails to reduce storage
  • Improve recommended videos when the watched video doesn't have tags set
  • Add more rate limits in configuration (plugins, well-known, feeds, activity_pub and client endpoints)
  • Add ability to reset video Originally published at attribute
  • Add ability for admins to set the default user channel name #6000
  • Server now uses ESM modules
  • Add worker threads Prometheus metrics
  • Performance:
    • Process unicast HTTP job in worker threads
    • Sign ActivityPub requests in worker threads
    • Optimize recommended videos HTTP request
    • Optimize videos SQL queries when filtering on lives or tags
    • Optimize /videos/{id}/views endpoint with many viewers
    • Add ability to disable PeerTube HTTP logs
    • Optimize homepage videos HTTP queries

Bug fixes

  • Don't cache upload response if the video has been deleted
  • Fix broken upgrade script when using custom database port
  • Prevent duplicate runner names
  • Avoid runner job update error
  • Notify remote runners there are available jobs when a job is aborted/errored
  • Fix updating P2P settings in left menu
  • Fix 500 HTTP error on invalid short UUID conversion
  • Don't display admin email in security.txt well-known endpoint
  • Optimize update-host script to fix out of memory error
  • Fix error log when using an unconventional distribution of FFmpeg with a non-standard version string #5917
  • Fix live replay REST API breaking change: replaySettings.privacy is not required anymore
  • Fix broken live replay when updating replay privacy
  • More robust About page when getting category from server
  • Fix ERR_HTTP_HEADERS_SENT crash
  • Avoid illegal characters in torrent filename
  • Avoid federation error log with remote Like on Note
  • Fix atom feed with Science & Technology category
  • Support empty value returned by filter:api.video.get.result hook
  • Prevent remote subscribe on accounts (not yet supported by PeerTube)
  • Fix feed audio file mimetype
  • Fix video quality on high video resolution/fps
  • Fix disabling Object Storage ACL using Docker env PEERTUBE_OBJECT_STORAGE_UPLOAD_ACL_PUBLIC and PEERTUBE_OBJECT_STORAGE_UPLOAD_ACL_PRIVATE in .env
  • Correctly end live session on ffprobe error
  • Fix video stats X axis with old videos
  • Fix empty master playlist upload on s3
  • Correctly generate production.yaml.new that should merge your current production.yaml with new keys defined by PeerTube
  • Fix card font color theme
  • Respect "transcode original resolution" setting when using remote runners
  • Prevent player mobile buttons flickering
  • Fix graph zooming end date

v5.2.1

Bug fixes

  • Fix loading spinner displayed forever on Chrome
  • Fix broken replay with long live name
  • Fix fps transcoding on remote runners
  • Fix terms/code of conduct link toggle

v5.2.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

Maintenance

  • Remove npm run create-transcoding-job and npm run print-transcode-command unmaintained scripts
  • Add Redis sentinel support #5593
  • Improve upgrade script (used when you will upgrade from PeerTube 5.2 to its next version) for classic installation:
    • Automatically generate a config/production.yaml.new file after the upgrade, which is the fusion between the new PeerTube configuration keys and your current production.yaml. After a review you can replace your old config/production.yaml with this new file so you don't have to add new keys manually
    • Add ls option compatibility with FreeBSD #5785

Docker

  • Make database name configurable using env variable #5734

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

  • Add filter:html.client.json-ld.result hook

Features

Bug fixes

  • Fix live stream object storage sync resulting in broken playback on iOS after a few minutes
  • Correctly proxify HTTP 206 content-range header from object storage #5703
  • Filter out already watched videos from recommended videos #5739
  • Prevent exception when HTTP headers are already sent
  • Fix remote instance following/followers links in about page
  • Prevent error when updating a running live stream if the privacy hasn't changed
  • Prevent crash on plugin websocket error
  • Don't call register/unregister plugin API when installing/uninstalling plugins using script/plugin scripts (offline mode)
  • Fix error on missing plugin CSS file at PeerTube startup #5746
  • Prevent "invalid end watch section" server log warnings
  • Support remote subscribe with a handle starting with a @ character
  • Actor preferred username (account/channel handle) is now case insensitive
  • Fix RTL layout inconsistencies
  • Prevent user video notification when the subscription is still in Pending state
  • Correctly remove Pending subscription
  • Fix PeerTube subtitles import
  • Fix languages alphabetical order
  • Fix registration notification error
  • Correctly unload plugin paths
  • Fix custom default route in instance logo link
  • Fix video channels quick filter overflow

v5.1.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • If your instance has signup enabled, user registration approval is automatically enabled by the default configuration of this release. You can change this setting in your production.yaml or in the configuration page in the web admin
  • Update web browsers support list:
    • Drop support of Safari 11 on iOS
    • Drop support of Safari 11 on desktop
    • Drop support of Firefox 68 on desktop
  • Minimum recommended Redis version is 6.2. Version 6.0 should still work: see this comment for more information
  • Deprecate NodeJS 14: support will be removed in the next release (PeerTube 5.2)

Maintenance

  • PeerTube OpenTelemetry
    • Add BitTorrent tracker metrics
    • Add ability to disable HTTP request duration metrics (can have a high tag cardinality)
  • Add x-powered-by HTTP header in PeerTube response. Can be disabled in PeerTube configuration

Docker

  • Add env variables to configure object storage

Documentation

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

  • Add ability to set playbackRate in URL (watch page and embed) #5486
  • Auth plugins:
  • Server plugin hooks (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/plugins):
    • Add filter:api.user.me.subscription-videos.list.params & filter:api.user.me.subscription-videos.list.result #5648
    • Add filter:activity-pub.activity.context.build.result to update ActivityPub JSON-LD context
    • Add filter:activity-pub.video.json-ld.build.result to update Video ActivityPub JSON-LD object
    • Add action:activity-pub.remote-video.created & action:activity-pub.remote-video.updated to react on remote video creation/update
  • Client plugin hooks (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/plugins):
    • Add action:video-edit.form.updated fired every time the video upload/import/live/update form values change
    • Add filter:video-watch.video-plugin-metadata.result to add custom video metadata in watch page
    • Existing action:video-edit.init hook now contains a updateForm attribute in options that you can use to update video upload/import/live/update form values
  • Add server plugin helpers:
    • getServerListeningConfig to get PeerTube listening configuration
  • Convert some colors to PeerTube CSS variables to improve theme compatibility

Features

  • 🎉 Implement user registration approval (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/managing-users#registration-approval) #5544
    • If enabled, the user has to fill a Registration reason input
    • Moderators have to accept/reject the registration with a Moderation response that will be sent by email to the user
    • If the registration is accepted, the user and its channel are automatically created
  • Add "back to live" button in player
    • The Live button is red when the player is synced with the live
    • It becomes grey when behind the live edge
    • Clicking on the grey button re-sync the player with the live edge
  • Add Icelandic & Ukrainian locales
  • Add Global views default trending algorithm option in admin configuration #5471
  • Performance:
    • Blocked IPs by the tracker are now stored in NodeJS memory instead of Redis, reducing PeerTube load
    • Optimize video comments SQL requests
    • Optimize custom markup live rendering in admin
  • UI/UX:
    • Add option in video/playlist share modal to create a responsive embed #5690
    • Use 99+ instead of 99 when having more than 99 notifications
    • Use channel display name instead of channel handle in My videos input filter #5575
    • Display channel name in playlist element instead of account name
    • Display channel as author in RSS feeds
    • Improve/fix main pages keyboard navigation
  • Custom markup:
    • Support mailto links
    • Support short UUID to fetch a video
  • Admins can customize access and refresh tokens lifetime

Bug fixes

  • Fix object storage incompatibility with some S3 providers that don't support ACL
  • Fix signup limit
  • Prevent 500 on invalid short UUID parameter
  • Player:
    • Fix live buffering with small latency setting
    • More robust player "stats for nerds" popup if there is not stream available
    • Don't display playback rate setting for lives
    • Don't handle playback rate hotkeys for lives
    • Fix clicking on PeerTube instance button
    • Fix always resuming the end of the video
    • Fix saving last video current time for anonymous users
    • Fix player keyboard shortcuts for non latin keyboards #5684
  • Process videos list requests in correct order
  • Correctly fill the Support field when updating a video
  • Fix Auto play video setting for anonymous users
  • UI:
    • Fix table columns max width
    • Use Unknown instead of Misc when the video category is not set
    • Prevent layout shift when listing videos
    • Fix instance stats anchor link
    • Fix menu content overlay on tablets
    • Fix button overflows
    • Handle 502 HTTP errors in client notifier
    • Fix resetting chart zoom in video stats page
    • Fix search page not loading all available results
    • Fix confirmation modal that contains 2 text inputs
  • Display the update button when the stable release of beta/alpha plugin is available
  • Always list NSFW videos in playlists (the frontend is in charge to blur the video element if the NSFW setting is Hide or Blur)
  • Always list NSFW videos in admin
  • Improve client log report:
    • Don't send client error on 404
    • Prevent sending invalid error/warn logs coming from HLS player #5484
  • Fix out of sync audio when cutting a video in Studio
  • Fix "unique viewers" inconsistency with countries
  • Fix mention detection in comments
  • Fix listing all my channels in My library
  • Fix displaying remote avatars
  • Fix 404 HTTP code in watch page when having ;threadId param in URL
  • Correctly re-inject video file token in .m3u8 resolution playlists to fetch private mp4 video file #5677
  • Don't process live when moving videos to external storage
  • Handle Redis disconnection gracefully #5599

v5.0.1

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • If you upgrade from PeerTube < 5.0.0, please follow 5.0.0 IMPORTANT NOTES

Bug fixes

  • Fix HLS player infinite loading when the live stream/video ends
  • Do not autoplay live without autoplay setting
  • Fix private/internal video playback from Cloudflare object storage
  • Fix local channel stats/OpenTelemetry metric
  • Also display dropdown for videos from the homepage
  • Fix broken P2P with live stream coming from object storage
  • Fix responsive of table pagination

v5.0.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

Documentation

Maintenance

  • REST API breaking change:
    • role is now role.id and roleLabel is role.label in user response
    • We now store the complete remote video description:
      • Deprecate description in favour of truncatedDescription when listing videos
      • Complete description is sent by the server in description when getting a specific video
      • Deprecate /api/v1/videos/:id/description endpoint
  • search.disable_local_search disables local search in client search bar only and doesn't disable it on server side anymore #5411

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

CLI tools

  • Add ability to install alpha/beta/rc plugin versions

Features

  • 🎉 Support object storage for live streams 🎉
  • 🎉 Support Two Factor authentication (OTP) 🎉
  • UX:
    • Add explanation on disk space used for user quota admin config #5305
    • Display channel in my videos list
    • Show which playlists videos are added to in my videos list
    • Add Channels link in left menu
    • Add ... after the truncated video name in miniature
    • Add object storage info badge in videos admin overview
    • Add links to video files in videos admin overview
    • Better indicate the live ended in embed by displaying a message and the live preview
    • Force live autoplay by muting the video if necessary when the user was waiting for the live
  • Handle network issues in video player #5138
  • Cache chunks to upload in server to resume upload later #5224
  • Add ability to serve custom static files under /.well-known URL path #5214
  • Use account/channel avatar in account/channel RSS feeds #5325
  • Add filter to sort videos by name #5351
  • Add ability to configure OpenTelemetry Prometheus exporter listening hostname

Bug fixes

  • Hide all user email block if we can't change it (remote auth for example)
  • Display an error if trying to reset password of user configured to use a remote authentication
  • Fix peers info width in live
  • Fix video job error when video has been deleted
  • Fix user channels list with increased max counter
  • More robust channel/playlist import/sync
  • Hide useless Wait Transcoding input for lives
  • Fix responsive in account channels list
  • Fix slow page response when listing many videos
  • Reload data when deleting a blocked video
  • Prevent error with metrics in HTTP player if no P2P info is available
  • Fix playlist overflow in account channels page
  • Fix invalid date display for jobs
  • Fix conflict with player hotkeys and alt + number web browser hotkey
  • Fix horizontal overflow on rtl languages
  • Fix actor follow constraint error on remote videos when Allow users to do remote URI/handle search is disabled
  • Fix running again transcoding on a video that doesn't contain audio or on a video that doesn't contain video
  • Fix re-transcoding of video with odd resolution
  • Fix embed API with playlists
  • Fix not working P2P with permanent live
  • Fix following/fetching remote Pleroma actor
  • Prevent high Redis memory usage when having many jobs
  • Fix overall viewers stats with start/end dates
  • Remove limit of countries displayed in video/live stats

v4.3.1

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • If you upgrade from PeerTube < 4.3.0, please follow 4.3.0 IMPORTANT NOTES

SECURITY

  • Prevent XSS in sort select on pages that list videos. Thanks to Anthony Roth who reported the vulnerability!

Bug fixes

  • Fix broken embed player on live reload
  • Fix channel follow when manually approve instance followers is enabled
  • Fix input with number overflow on small screen
  • Fix moderation dropdown overflow on mobile
  • Clearer instance subscription page title in admin
  • Prevent "Cannot use same state" video error
  • Correctly handle RTMP streams without audio
  • Correctly process broadcast parallel job in parallel

v4.3.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • Redis < 5.x is not supported anymore
  • FFmpeg < 4.3 is not supported anymore

Maintenance

  • Use yt-dlp by default instead of youtube-dl for new installations (because of much more dev activity)
  • Support NodeJS 18
  • Improved PeerTube logs:
    • Reduce amount of PeerTube error logs
    • Introduce log.log_tracker_unknown_infohash setting to disable "Unknown infoHash" warnings
    • Web browsers send their error logs to the server that writes them in its own logs. Can be disabled by log.accept_client_log setting
  • Introduce experimental support of OpenTelemetry
    • Enable metrics export using a Prometheus exporter
    • Enable tracing export using a Jaeger exporter
  • Automatically rebuild native plugin modules on NodeJS ABI change

Docker

  • Add ability to easily use the docker compose stack on localhost

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

  • Theme:
    • Removed unused --secondaryColor CSS variable
  • Add client plugin hooks (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/plugins):
    • filter:api.my-library.video-playlist-elements.list.params & filter:api.my-library.video-playlist-elements.list.result #5098
    • action:video-channel-create.init
    • action:video-channel-update.init & action:video-channel-update.video-channel.loaded
    • action:video-channel-videos.init & action:video-channel-videos.video-channel.loaded & action:video-channel-videos.videos.loaded
    • action:video-channel-playlists.init & action:video-channel-playlists.video-channel.loaded & action:video-channel-playlists.playlists.loaded
    • filter:share.video-embed-code.build.params & filter:share.video-embed-code.build.result & filter:share.video-playlist-embed-code.build.params & filter:share.video-playlist-embed-code.build.result
    • filter:share.video-embed-url.build.params & filter:share.video-embed-url.build.result & filter:share.video-playlist-embed-url.build.params & filter:share.video-playlist-embed-url.build.result
    • filter:share.video-url.build.params & filter:share.video-url.build.result & filter:share.video-playlist-url.build.params & filter:share.video-playlist-url.build.result
    • action:modal.share.shown
  • Add server plugin hooks (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/plugins):
    • filter:job-queue.process.params & filter:job-queue.process.result
    • filter:transcoding.manual.resolutions-to-transcode.result & filter:transcoding.auto.resolutions-to-transcode.result
    • action:api.video-channel.created & action:api.video-channel.updated & action:api.video-channel.deleted
    • action:notifier.notification.created
  • Add HTML placeholder (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute/plugins#html-placeholder-elements):
    • share-modal-playlist-settings & share-modal-video-settings

Features

  • 🎉 Add ability for users to synchronize a remote channel #5135 🎉
    • Automatically import all videos of a remote channel in your PeerTube channel
    • PeerTube will watch for new publications and automatically import these new videos
  • UI:
    • Redesigned Create an account steps
    • Improved Login page
    • Use a lighter font color
    • Use a bigger font size
    • Don't display form errors in red while typing but only when we unfocus the input
    • Display an error message when the user is unauthorized to view a page #5097
    • Display latest upload date for captions
    • Add an information if the live will be saved as a replay when displaying live sessions
    • Move search bar at the center of the header
  • Add Toki Pona and Croatian locales in client
  • Embed:
    • Display a message and automatically start live streams in embed
    • Use the instance name instead of "PeerTube" in embed control bar
    • Reuse current watch page query parameters for embed when using OEmbed #5023
  • Instance follows:
    • Introduce a Rejected state for follow requests to not reprocess already rejected follow requests
    • Add bulk actions on instance following/followers ()
  • Admins:
    • Add ability to disable original resolution transcoding of the uploaded video/live stream
    • Add ability to delete a specific video file in videos overview
    • Display Last Login column by default in users overview
    • Remember last selected columns in users overview
    • Add ability to set a custom video import timeout
    • Add ability to set the default feed (Atom, RSS...) items count
    • Admins and moderators now bypass API rate limits
    • Add ability to list comments on local videos in comments overview
  • Limit video import resolution depending on enabled VOD transcoding resolutions
  • Store and display the uploaded video original filename #4885
  • Add Total views in the my channels list #5007
  • Add Original Publication Date video sort option #4959
  • Performance:
    • Optimized view/watching endpoint
    • Optimized video feed SQL query
    • Process images (resize, convert...) in a dedicated worker thread
    • Optimized emoji markup list rendering in client
    • Use a worker thread to send ActivityPub Broadcast requests
  • Suffix external auth username/channel name on conflict instead of throwing an exception

Bug fixes

  • Fix users overview Last login sort in admin
  • More robust move to object storage job failure
  • Fix comment add avatar with a unauthenticated user
  • Fix fetching unlisted video in client
  • Fix comments/download enabled attributes when importing a video
  • Fix total instance views stats
  • Fix HLS player infinite buffering on seek
  • Reset table pagination on search
  • Host search filter can also search into channels and playlists in global search
  • Fix My videos invalid counter
  • Prevent error on highlighted thread
  • Fix Jobs, Account blocklist and Server blocklist hidden columns on Safari
  • Fix live stream max bitrate
  • Fix incompatibility with OpenSSL 3
  • Don't crash on redis connection error
  • Transcoding:
    • Fix failed transcoding with a mp3 file that contains a cover image
    • Prevent duplicated HLS playlist when running transcoding
    • Regenerate video file names when running transcoding manually
    • Prevent job failures resulting in broken videos on concurrent transcoding
    • Fix transcoding of videos with quad audio channels
  • ActivityPub
    • Fix random invalid HTTP signature generation
    • Use unique AP id for Accept/Reject activities
    • Correctly handle remote actors that don't have follow counters
    • Correctly handle unknown remote actor image size
  • Add years in graph legend when grouping video views stats by month
  • Prevent creating multiple lives when clicking multiple times on the "Go Live" button
  • Fix *undefined" resolution in player Stats for nerds
  • Fix not displayed error message in administrator web config
  • More robust S3 upload #5231
  • Fix broken saved live stream with only one resolution
  • Fix removeEventListener player embed api
  • Progressively cleanup actor images without width from the database
  • Fix broken dates on localized pages
  • Prevent job queue to be started before plugins
  • Fix old database enum names
  • Don't display remove file icon in admin videos overviews if we can't delete the file

v4.2.2

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • If you upgrade from PeerTube < 4.2.0, please follow 4.2.0 IMPORTANT NOTES

SECURITY

  • Upgrade vulnerable server dependencies

Bug fixes

  • Fix fast restream in permanent live
  • Fix latency mode setting when creating a live
  • Fix unique constraint tag violation when importing videos
  • Fix latest live sessions order
  • Fix server crash feed when accessing feeds that contains a live
  • Fix false boolean attribute (data-is-live etc) in custom markup

v4.2.1

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • If you upgrade from PeerTube < 4.2.0, please follow 4.2.0 IMPORTANT NOTES

Bug fixes

  • Fix live ending job that breaks new live session
  • Fix search filters counter
  • Fix upload banner icon margin
  • Fix button icon margin
  • Fix my import expander icon that should only be displayed on import error
  • Fix select components styling inconsistency
  • Increase max watch section to avoid too much warnings in server
  • Optimize broadcast job creation
  • Optimize View activities delivery using a dedicated broadcast job queue that can be run in parallel
  • Fix video selection buttons placement
  • Fix searching into account blocklist
  • Fix incorrect instance stats
  • Fix broken player on ICE error
  • Relax views federation
  • Fix peertube user in docker
  • Fix playlist element federation with a deleted video

v4.2.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • Important You need to execute manually a migration script (can be executed after your upgrade, while your PeerTube instance is running) to generate smaller avatar miniatures:
    • Classic installation: cd /var/www/peertube/peertube-latest && sudo -u peertube NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config NODE_ENV=production node dist/scripts/migrations/peertube-4.2.js
    • Docker installation: cd /var/www/peertube-docker && docker-compose exec -u peertube peertube node dist/scripts/migrations/peertube-4.2.js
  • Important SQL migrations (in particular 0685-multiple-actor-images) can take several minutes to complete
  • Important You must update your nginx configuration to support video web editor: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/install/any-os#nginx
  • REST API:

Maintenance

  • Add client.videos.resumable_upload.max_chunk_size config option #4857
  • Add object_storage.upload_acl config option #4861
  • Add ability to set RTMP/RTMPS listening hostname using rtmp.hostname/rtmps.hostname and public RTMP/RTMPS hostname using rtmp.public_hostname/rtmps.public_hostname
  • Removed best default trending algorithm. It is automatically used if using hot algorithm with a logged in user

Docker

  • Use NodeJS 16 in PeerTube docker image: administrators may have to reinstall PeerTube plugins that use native NodeJS dependencies
  • Support readonly tmp directory (if you want to use tmp directory as a volume)

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

  • Theme:
    • Add --mainBackgroundHoverColor and --greySecondaryBackgroundColor CSS variables
  • Add server plugin hooks
    • filter:api.video-playlist.videos.list.params and filter:api.video-playlist.videos.list.result
  • Support getSettings(), isLoggedIn() and getAuthHeader() client plugin helpers in embed
  • Player URL query parameters:
    • Support controlBar=0 to hide player control bar. See the documentation for more information

Features

  • 🎉 Add video edition from the PeerTube web interface 🎉
    • Cut the video (set a new start/new end)
    • Add an intro at the beginning and/or an outro at the end of the video
    • Add an icon/watermark in the top right corner of the video
    • PeerTube will automatically transcode the new video and replace the original one
    • ✨ Funded by "la Direction du numérique du Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale, de la Jeunesse et des Sports" ✨
  • 🎉 Add advanced statistics of a specific video 🎉
    • Provide Average watch time, Total watch time and Peak viewers video statistics
    • Display total viewers, aggregated watch time and audience retention in interactive time series graphs
    • Display viewer countries in bar chart if not disabled by admins
    • ✨ Funded by HowlRound Theatre Commons at Emerson College ✨
  • 🎉 Add latency setting support for lives (small latency without P2P or high latency to increase P2P ratio) 🎉
  • 🎉 Add ability to save a replay of every streaming session of a permanent live 🎉
    • ✨ Funded by HowlRound Theatre Commons at Emerson College ✨
  • Add simple subtitle edition from video captions tab in video edition form #4666
  • Display live streaming sessions details in permanent live information modal
  • Add ability to also mute users when banning them #4660
  • UI improvements:
    • Add ability for admins to display author avatar in video miniatures #4639 #4823
    • Display author avatar in embed
    • Move admin comments list in Overviews menu
    • Add a Refresh button to admin comments list
    • Add ability to sort videos by total views
  • Add Persian locale support
  • Add previous page redirection support on external auth login
  • Support proxy for object storage #4973
  • Add "Only display embed URL" checkbox in share modal

Bug fixes

  • Video uploads fixes:
    • Fix invalid token during long uploads
    • Fix upload on server with a slow disk
    • Fix upload of some videos with unknown duration (.m2v for example)
    • Fix 2 hours limit on uploads
    • Fix upload page title #4904
    • Fix video upload with some characters in filename
    • Fix .ac3 and .mts upload on some OS
  • Fix avatar with account username starting with a number
  • Fix client html cache on theme update
  • Disallow unlisted video indexation
  • Allow oembed to fetch unlisted videos
  • Stop removing remote Mastodon rates
  • Fix email links displayed twice in text version
  • Fix user quota inconsistencies in admin when users use lives
  • Fix admin instance following list when sorting by Redundancy allowed
  • More reliable object storage upload when using multipart #4903
  • Correctly handle HTTP signature draft 11 requests (without date header but with (created))
  • Fix ctrl + 0-9 player hotkeys conflicting with web browser hotkeys

v4.1.1

Security

  • Strip EXIF data when processing images

Docker

  • Fix videos import by installing python 3
  • Install git package (may be needed to install some plugins)

Bug fixes

  • Fix error when updating a live
  • Fix performance regression when rendering HTML and feeds
  • Fix player stuck by HTTP request error

v4.1.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • PeerTube does not support NodeJS 12 anymore

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

  • Introduce ability for plugins to create client pages: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute/plugins#create-client-page
  • Plugins that register custom video fields can choose in which tab they want to display them and can report errors: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute/plugins#add-custom-fields-to-video-form
  • Add new client plugin id selectors
    • Add #plugin-selector-about-instance-moderation, #plugin-selector-about-instance-other-information, #plugin-selector-about-instance-features, #plugin-selector-about-instance-statistics, #plugin-selector-about-menu-instance, #plugin-selector-about-menu-peertube, #plugin-selector-about-menu-network in about page #4597
    • Add #plugin-selector-menu-user-dropdown-language-item in menu #4597
  • Add client plugin hooks
    • filter:login.instance-about-plugin-panels.create.result and filter:signup.instance-about-plugin-panels.create.result to add custom instance information in login/signup pages
  • Add server plugin hooks
    • filter:api.server.stats.get.result
    • filter:api.video.upload.video-attribute.result, filter:api.video.import-url.video-attribute.result, filter:api.video.import-torrent.video-attribute.result, filter:api.video.live.video-attribute.result when creating a video object
    • action:api.video-caption.created and action:api.video-caption.deleted #4650
  • Server helpers
    • videos.getFiles(videoId: number) to list video files (webtorrent, hls and thumbnail files)
    • videos.ffprobe(path: string) to get ffprobe JSON result
  • Publish @peertube/peertube-type NPM module that can be used by TypeScript plugins
  • Add ability to disable P2P in embed using p2p query parameter in embed URL

Maintenance

  • REST API
    • Deprecate webTorrentEnabled in favour of p2pEnabled for user model
    • Add ability to pause/resume the job queue
  • Also publish stable releases on https://builds.joinpeertube.org/release
  • Add ability for admins to specify youtube-dl/yt-dlp python binary path #4706
  • PeerTube server startup is faster

Security

  • Check video privacy before listing or accepting captions, comments or rates
  • Check video import target URL does not resolve to internal IP. This technique has some limits so if you have private HTTP services on your server/network publicly accessible, we recommend to use a proxy or a dedicated interface for PeerTube

CLI tools

  • Also remove HLS files when using prune-storage script
  • Support --plugin-version option when installing a plugin #4599

Features

  • 🎉 Player improvements
    • Increase control bar size on desktop & mobile
    • Add overlay on tap to easily play/pause the video on mobile
    • Automatically move to landscape when full screen a video on mobile
    • Add fast forward/rewind on double tap on mobile
    • Cleanup, fix and add player hotkeys
    • Keep control bar displayed when settings panel is opened
    • Faster hiding transition for control bar
    • Stop confusing peer indication in control bar when p2p is disabled
    • Try to fast forward video on HLS decode error
  • 🎉 More admin customizations
    • Specify default Publish video attributes (download enabled, comments enabled, privacy, licence)
    • Choose to automatically redirect users on the external auth platform on login button click
    • Set default P2P policy for the player
  • Search improvements
    • Add Result type filter in search (videos, channels or playlists)
    • Display only video results when searching on video metadata (tags, categories etc)
  • Video imports
    • Users can cancel and delete video imports
    • Add ability to filter video imports by target URL
  • Add ability for users to delete individual elements in videos history
  • Show date and views counter in playlist element miniature #4396
  • Add norsk locale support
  • Check mute status and display mute badges in channel and account pages
  • Add No linguistic content video language option #4631
  • Don't send notifications to admins/moderators if an admin/moderator reported an abuse
  • Add ability for moderators/admins to edit any channel #4608
  • Add a refresh button to admin videos overview page #4753
  • Add Official badge to official plugins in admin plugin pages
  • Automatically clean unavailable remote ActivityPub resources
  • Media RSS feed displays video file as default enclosure instead of torrent
  • Use white background for PeerTube icons (instead of transparency)
  • Show private badge for private videos in playlists #4767

Bug fixes

  • Fix weird require bug on plugin upgrade
  • Fix plugin storage return value when storing a JSON array #4640
  • Decrease delay to cleanup resumable uploads (to 1 hour)
  • Update torrent metadata on video update
  • Fix HLS player with videos that have stream duration inconsistencies
  • Fix player crash if the video contains only audio resolution
  • Fix ffmpeg crash when using a transcoding plugin encoder that doesn't support PeerTube B-frame strategy
  • Fix transcoding failure for audio only uploads
  • Don't run HLS transcoding when running manually WebTorrent transcoding from the admin
  • Don't run audio transcoding with video only file
  • Correctly send new HLS files after re-transcoding to object storage
  • Fix stuck state when move transcoding job failed
  • Correctly display internal videos of internal subscriptions
  • Correctly display all videos history to users
  • Fix video upload with big preview file
  • Fix description/comment timestamp click of external video
  • Add missing mediaType information to AP objects
  • Fix abuse list crash on deleted reporter account
  • Convert markdown to HTML/plain text for RSS feeds
  • Search on tags is now case insensitive
  • Forbid comments/captions listing of private/internal videos
  • Prevent video import on non unicast ips
  • Improve markdown to plain text converter, especially when handling lists
  • Fix scheduled publication on upload
  • Fix youtube-dl max buffer size error
  • Hide remote subscribe if user is logged in
  • Fix video file storage column inconsistency

v4.0.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • Important You need to execute manually a migration script (can be executed after your upgrade, while your PeerTube instance is running) to migrate HLS files name:
    • Classic installation: cd /var/www/peertube/peertube-latest && sudo -u peertube NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config NODE_ENV=production node dist/scripts/migrations/peertube-4.0.js
    • Docker installation: cd /var/www/peertube-docker && docker-compose exec -u peertube peertube node dist/scripts/migrations/peertube-4.0.js
  • Important We fixed configuration inconsistencies and added some keys. You must change/add them in your production.yaml
    • log.rotation.maxFileSize becomes log.rotation.max_file_size
    • log.rotation.maxFiles becomes log.rotation.max_files
    • log.anonymizeIP becomes log.anonymize_ip
    • Removed import.http.proxy configuration: use HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY environment variables instead
    • Added storage.bin in configuration file
  • REST API: Deprecate filter videos list query parameter in favour of isLocal and include
  • PeerTube is compatible with ffmpeg 4.4.1 but is not compatible with ffmpeg 4.4.0
  • Removed deprecated /static/torrents route
  • We changed the live views and viewers system, that could lead to federation inconsistencies with instances < 4.0.0 for these specific counters

Maintenance

  • Add ability for sysadmins to disable web configuration edition #4315
  • YoutubeDL:
    • Support yt-dlp (recommended due to unmaintained youtube-dl)
    • Add ability to set release URL in configuration
  • Add ability to override default-playlist.png, default-avatar-account.png, default-avatar-video-channel.png using storage.client_overrides configuration #4392

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

Documentation: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/plugins

Docker

  • We now use Bullseye for Docker images, so the image name changed:
    • production-buster becomes production-bullseye
    • v4.x.x-buster becomes v4.x.x-bullseye
  • Allow configuration to be static/readonly #4315

CLI tools

Features

  • 🎉 Add videos overview in admin
    • List all available videos on the instance
    • Display video information summary: file type, file size, privacy, state, embed...
    • Many filters available: videos with/without HLS/WebTorrent, remote/local videos, exclude muted accounts...
    • Run WebTorrent/HLS transcoding
    • Remove WebTorrent/HLS video files
    • Bulk actions: remove, block, run transcoding, delete video files...
  • Correctly generate thumbnails/previews for portrait videos
  • Keep input image ratio for banners, avatars, thumbnails...
  • Support 144p transcoding #4492
  • Support RTMPS
  • UI:
    • Live:
      • Specify live type at first step
      • Improve Permanent live label using Recurring live expression
    • Clearer moderation dropdowns using section titles
    • Improve admin tables responsive
    • Add warning when trying to share a private playlist/video #4469
    • Change Sort by views to Sort by recent views #4483
    • Add Next video to be played in watch page if autoplay is enabled #4497
    • Add embed preview in share modal
    • Add user username in modal when deleting a user
    • Add video name in modal when blocking/removing a video
    • Improve notification settings organization
  • Video/live views:
    • Add ability for admins to change local buffer update interval
    • Add ability for admins to change view expiration for a specific IP
    • Introduce viewers attribute for live videos and reduce delay to see viewers update in the interface
    • Take into accounts views created during the live when saving replay
  • Add markdown support for playlist description #4489
  • Improve video playback when having invalid redundancy URLs
  • Load video resolutions before video starts in player settings menu
  • Optimize federation:
    • Correctly set HTTP request timeout
    • Process slow/bad targets in a dedicated queue
    • Optimize ActivityPub outbox fetch
  • Automatically update publishedAt attribute when re-streaming in a permanent live
  • Add ability for users to view their followers
  • Add ability for users to filter their videos per channel
  • Add ability for admins to show author display name instead of username in video miniatures #4422
  • Add ability for admins to filter logs by tags
  • Add ability for admins to configure per user channels limit #4491
  • Add available instance themes and plugins in /about/peertube page
  • Remove contributors list from /about/peertube since some contributors don't want their name to be displayed on unknown PeerTube instances
  • Add Transcoding failed video state #4525
  • Add ability to make a search using a URL containing query parameters
  • Optimize channel with video component in homepage

Bug fixes

  • Alert user when aborting video upload
  • Fix youtube-dl update with proxy
  • Fix My videos search on page refresh
  • Fix homepage request error when having many elements (channels, videos...)
  • Prevent multiple post-process triggering of upload-resumable #4175
  • Fix remote interaction on remote content
  • Fix HLS transcoding job when running create-transcoding-job CLI
  • Fix import error log on failed import
  • Fix transcoding with very low input bitrate
  • Update updatedAt video attribute on thumbnail update
  • Fix local video concurrent update
  • Fix redundancy error when PeerTube tries to extend/remove redundancy
  • Fix account switch in account channels page
  • Hide job progress information for jobs that don't support it
  • Fix player settings menu keyboard navigation
  • Fix player placeholder width
  • Fix playlist miniature size with big description
  • Correctly escape meta tags
  • Fix audio upload client bug if not enabled by instance
  • Add header Vary Accept-Language #4588
  • Fix additional extensions admin config description
  • Fix upload of video with long filename
  • Fix pending transcoding counter with failed job
  • Fix client header search on ios
  • Fix iframe attribute allow-popups for oembed
  • Fix theme update when logged in
  • Fix homepage title

v3.4.1

Bug fixes

  • Fix broken PeerTube when cookies are disabled or if the embed iframe does not have appropriate options
  • Fix search by channel's handle with an handle containing the local host
  • Don't display autoblock message in upload page it is not enabled by the admin
  • Don't index /about/peertube page
  • Correctly handle OEmbed with an URL containing query parameters
  • More robust youtube-dl thumbnail import
  • Don't send a new video notification when using create transcoding CLI script

v3.4.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

Documentation: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/plugins

  • Server helpers
    • Deprecate videoLanguageManager.addLanguage and videoLanguageManager.deleteLanguage: use videoLanguageManager.addConstant and videoLanguageManager.deleteConstant instead
    • Deprecate videoCategoryManager.addCategory and videoCategoryManager.deleteCategory: use videoCategoryManager.addConstant and videoCategoryManager.deleteConstant instead
    • Deprecate videoLicenceManager.addLicence and videoLicenceManager.deleteLicence: use videoLicenceManager.addConstant and videoLicenceManager.deleteConstant instead
    • Deprecate videoPrivacyManager.deletePrivacy: videoPrivacyManager.deleteConstant instead
    • Deprecate playlistPrivacyManager.deletePlaylistPrivacy: playlistPrivacyManager.deleteConstant instead
    • Introduce .getConstantValue(), .getConstants() and .resetConstants() for videoLanguageManager, videoCategoryManager, videoLicenceManager, videoPrivacyManager and playlistPrivacyManager
  • Add server plugin hooks:
    • filter:api.overviews.videos.list.params and filter:api.overviews.videos.list.result

Custom markup API

Documentation: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/custom-client-markup

  • Add ability to only display VOD or live videos in <peertube-videos-list> element
  • <peertube-container> fills all available width. Can be changed using data-justify-content attribute

Maintenance

  • Remove StandardOutput and StandardError settings from systemd service template #4300
  • Use random UUIDs for video, torrent and streaming playlist files
    • Filename is regenerated when the file content changes: allows admins to use aggressive caching

CLI tools

  • Remove unmaintened optimize-old-videos.js script
  • Add short UUID support in video scripts

Features

  • 🎉 Add video filters to common video pages (account videos, channel videos, recently added/local/trending videos...)
    • Change video sort (recently added, hot, views...)
    • Only display live/VOD videos
    • Filter by languages/categories
    • Hide or display sensitive content
    • Choose to display all videos or only local videos
  • 🎉 Beta: Add support for saving video files in object storage #4290
  • 🎉 Add ability for instances to follow any actor (so specific accounts and channels)
  • Updated HLS.js (library to play HLS playlists in PeerTube player) to V1:
    • Remember last bandwidth to prevent resolution change at the beginning of the video
    • Automatically downgrade resolution if bandwidth is too low
    • Add latency metric for live videos in stats for nerd card
    • Immediate quality change when the user clicks on a specific resolution
  • Add ability to search by PeerTube host in search filters
  • Disallow search engine indexation of remote channels/accounts
  • Transcoding:
    • Improve bitrate calculation using "bit per pixel" method
    • Limit live bitrate to input bitrate
  • Accessibility/UI:
    • Alert user for low quota and video auto-block on upload page #4336
    • Display a modal when logged in to explain why and where set up the account profile #4352
    • Display messages to inform why and where set up channels in My library pages #4352
    • Display a warning when using capitalized letter for the email/username in the login form
    • Display a message in embed on unsupported web browser
  • Support out proxy using env variables (HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY) #4346
  • Support Latin language for videos

Bug fixes

  • Fix PeerTube button link in embed
  • Don't remove existing redundancies on host redundancy update
  • Remove thumbnail flash when autoplay is enabled in embed
  • Fetch data in bulk for the homepage, fixing API rate limit errors
  • Fix channel name validator consistency between client and server
  • Fix resumable upload without preview file in the body
  • Fix redundancy of big HLS files
  • Fix stats for nerd card label width
  • Fix stats for nerd card resolution
  • Fix uploading videos with empty tags in CLI tools
  • Fix HLS player on non HTTPS instances
  • Hide schedule privacy if private was removed by a plugin
  • Fix moderation embeds
  • Fix description timestamp click
  • Fix privacy descriptions
  • Safer avatar, banner and video preview
  • Fix broken delete buttons of admin federation lists #4378
  • More robust webtorrent redundancy download
  • Fix hls redundancy in pruning script
  • Fix compat' with old web browsers (Pale Moon, Safari 11, iOS 11, old webkit...))
  • Fix silent 500 after resumable upload
  • Fix HTML config injection with custom HTML/CSS
  • Fix video upload on iOS

v3.3.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

Maintenance

  • Increase max image/caption/torrent upload size to 4MB. You need to update your nginx configuration to handle this change
  • Increase fetcher job concurrency to 3

Docker

  • Support log level env parameter PEERTUBE_LOG_LEVEL #4149

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

Features

  • 🎉 Add ability to create a custom homepage using HTML, markdown and custom HTML tags #4007
  • 🎉 Add ability to search playlists in PeerTube instance and SepiaSearch
  • 🎉 Shorter public URLs (old URLs are still supported):
    • Handle short UUID (8r4jooaQpHp8tw1E1qpSeYq instead of 3caf7bea-5ceb-4959-81a0-b44d184e897c) for playlists and videos
    • Use /w/:id instead of /videos/watch/:id and /w/p/:id instead of /videos/watch/playlist/:id
    • Use /a/:accountName instead of /accounts/:accountName and /c/:channelName instead of /video-channels/:channelName #4009
    • Provide /@:username page that automatically redirect to the account or channel page #4009
  • 🎉 Add RTL layout support
  • Add ability to use HTML, markdown and custom HTML tags in instance description
  • Default to dark theme (if available) if requested by the web browser
  • Add ability for admins to configure minimum age required in signup page #4010
  • Use a dedicated URL for each tab in publish page
  • Add ability to prefill contact form using query parameters in URL #4161
  • Accessibility/UI:
    • Show logo in mobile view #4141
    • Improve download modal to download video subtitles
    • Better error message when trying to import a torrent containing multiple files
  • REST API errors:
    • Use RFC 7807 format to display errors #4143
    • Improve date format error messages
    • Improve video name and tag error messages
  • Performance:
    • Use raw SQL to fetch a video from database (~ latency / 2)
    • Inject server config in HTML
    • Speed up client plugin loading
    • Cache refresh actor promises
    • Optimize activity pub video update
    • Relax some database transactions
    • Use an internal cache for DNS resolution. This should speed up federation and fix weird acquire timeouts in sequelize pool (causing slowness in the client interface)

Bug fixes

  • Fix video upload with a capitalized extension
  • Fix "height not divisible by 2" ffmpeg error
  • Don't count deleted comment for replies
  • Fix UI bug when a plugin deleted the public privacy setting #4163
  • Fix player.getResolutions() embed API when the video is has not been played yet
  • Fix live placeholder image aspect ratio in theatre mode
  • Fix plugin modal/notifier
  • Fix some 404 errors for remote avatar
  • Fix daily quota display
  • Fix ownership change with a live video
  • Correctly handle broken plugin install
  • Fix channel deletion when it has videos
  • Force TLS for webfinger in production
  • Correctly support wav mimetype
  • Fix default video privacy when plugins deleted private video privacy
  • Fix subscribe hotkey
  • Fix HTTP fallback with a video that does not have webtorrent files
  • Fill video information when importing a peertube video

v3.2.1

IMPORTANT NOTES

Bug fixes

  • Fix create account button style
  • Fix auto upgrade script
  • Fix live image aspect ratio in theatre mode

v3.2.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

Docker

  • Support SSL database env parameter #4114

Maintenance

CLI tools

  • Add regenerate-thumbnails script to regenerate thumbnails of local videos

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

  • Theme:
    • --submenuColor becomes --submenuBackgroundColor
  • Support HTML placeholders for plugins. See the documentation for more information
    • player-next next to the PeerTube player
  • Support storing files for plugins in a dedicated directory. See the documentation for more information
  • Transcoding:
    • Add inputOptions option support for transcoding profile #3917
    • Add scaleFilter.name option support for transcoding profile #3917
  • Plugin settings:
    • Add ability to register html and select setting
    • Add ability to hide a plugin setting depending on the form state
  • Plugin form fields (to add inputs to video form...):
    • Add ability to hide a plugin field depending on the form state using .hidden property
  • Add client helpers:
    • getServerConfig()
    • getAuthHeader()
  • Add server helpers:
    • config.getServerConfig()
    • plugin.getBaseStaticRoute()
    • plugin.getBaseRouterRoute()
    • plugin.getDataDirectoryPath()
    • user.getAuthUser()
  • Add client plugin hooks (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/plugins):
    • action:modal.video-download.shown
    • action:video-upload.init
    • action:video-url-import.init
    • action:video-torrent-import.init
    • action:go-live.init
    • action:auth-user.logged-in & action:auth-user.logged-out
    • action:auth-user.information-loaded
    • action:admin-plugin-settings.init
  • Add server plugin hooks (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/plugins):
    • filter:api.download.video.allowed.result & filter:api.download.torrent.allowed.result to forbid download
    • filter:html.embed.video-playlist.allowed.result & filter:html.embed.video.allowed.result to forbid embed
    • filter:api.search.videos.local.list.params & filter:api.search.videos.local.list.result
    • filter:api.search.videos.index.list.params & filter:api.search.videos.index.list.result
    • filter:api.search.video-channels.local.list.params & filter:api.search.video-channels.local.list.result
    • filter:api.search.video-channels.index.list.params & filter:api.search.video-channels.index.list.result

Features

  • 🎉 More robust uploads using a resumable upload endpoint #3933
  • Accessibility/UI:
    • 🎉 Redesign channel and account page
    • 🎉 Increase video miniature size
    • 🎉 Add channel banner support
    • Use a square avatar for channels and a round avatar for accounts
    • Use account initial as default account avatar #4002
    • Prefer channel display in video miniature
    • Add support button in channel page
    • Set direct download as default in video download modal #3880
    • Show less information in video download modal by default #3890
    • Autofocus admin plugin search input
    • Add 1.75 playback rate to player #3888
    • Add title attribute to embed code #3901
    • Don't pause player when opening a modal #3909
    • Add link below the player to open the video on origin instance #3624
  • Notify admins on new available PeerTube version
  • Notify admins on new available plugin version
  • Sort channels by last uploaded videos
  • Video player:
    • Add loop toggle to context menu #3949
    • Add icons to context menu #3955
    • Add a Previous button in playlist watch page #3485
    • Automatically close the settings menu when clicking outside the player
    • Add "stats for nerds" panel in context menu #3958
  • Add channel and playlist stats to stats endpoint #3747
  • Support playlistPosition=last and negative index (playlistPosition=-2) URL query parameters for playlists #3974
  • My videos:
    • Add ability to sort videos (publication date, most viewed...)
    • Add ability to only display live videos
  • Automatically resume videos for non logged-in users #3885
  • Admin plugins:
    • Show a modal when upgrading a plugin to a major version
    • Display a setting button after plugin installation
  • Add ability to search live videos
  • Use bigger thumbnails for feeds
  • Parse video description markdown for Opengraph/Twitter/HTML elements
  • Open the remote interaction modal when replying to a comment if we are logged-out
  • Handle .srt captions with broken durations
  • Performance:
    • Player now lazy loads video captions
    • Faster admin table filters
    • Optimize feed endpoint

Bug fixes

  • More robust comments fetcher of remote video
  • Fix database ssl connection
  • Remove unnecessary black border above and below video in player #3920
  • Reduce tag input excessive padding #3927
  • Fix disappearing hamburger menu for narrow screens #3929
  • Fix Youtube subtitle import with some languages
  • Fix transcoding profile update in admin config
  • Fix outbox fetch with subtitled videos
  • Correctly unload a plugin on update/uninstall #3940
  • Ensure to install plugins that are supported by PeerTube
  • Fix welcome/warning modal displaying twice
  • Fix h265 video import using CLI
  • Fix context menu when watching a playlist
  • Fix transcoding job priority preventing video publication when there are many videos to transcode
  • Fix remote account/channel "joined at"
  • Fix CLI plugins list command options #4055
  • Fix HTTP player defaulting to audio resolution
  • Logger warning level is "warn"
  • Fix default boolean plugin setting #4107
  • Fix duplicate ffmpeg preset option for live
  • Avoid federation error when file has no torrent file
  • Fix local user auth select
  • Fix live ending banner display
  • Fix redundancy max size
  • Fix broken lives handling

v3.1.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • Important: Drop PostgreSQL 9.6 support
  • Important: Deprecate NodeJS 10
  • Support NodeJS 14 and 15
  • Remove ES5 module support (breaks compatibility with web browsers we didn't support)
  • PeerTube releases now contain client source maps helping client debugging (for developers and admins). It's the reason why the release size is bigger (we think it's worth it)
  • Remove deprecated static routes (/static/avatars/, /static/previews/ and /static/video-captions/)
  • PeerTube now uses a unique name for thumbnails, previews and captions allowing to correctly cache these resources. It could break some third party clients that guessed these filenames depending on the video UUID. We'll continue this work in the future for video filenames, so admins can easily cache these files (using multiple reverse proxies etc)

Maintenance

  • Fix nginx max body size configuration

CLI tools

  • Add script printing command to generate a resolution for a given file #3507
  • Add --wait-interval <seconds> option to video-import script to wait between two video imports #3310

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

Features

  • Transcoding:
    • Fair transcoding jobs priority: give an higher priority to optimize jobs and decrease priority of transcoding jobs depending on the amount of videos uploaded by the user during the last 7 days #3637
    • Higher niceness priority for live transcoding compared to vod transcoding #3577
    • Allow admins to choose a transcoding profile. New transcoding profiles can be added by PeerTube plugins that can inject custom ffmpeg encoders/parameters
    • Add transcoding support for 1440p (Quad HD/QHD/WQHD) videos #3518
    • Add transcoding progress in admin transcoding jobs list
    • Use veryfast preset for default transcoding profile (same result size but faster)
    • Transcode audio uploads to lower configured resolutions
    • Transcode HLS playlists in a tmp directory (less bugs/inconsistencies)
    • Allow admins to choose the transcoding jobs concurrency
  • Support Albanian locale
  • Video upload:
    • Async torrent creation on video upload. We hope that it should fix some weird upload errors
    • Add .m4a audio upload support
  • Accessibility/UI:
    • Move orange admin buttons on the left side
    • Hide title to left menu toggle icon
    • Add username information in profile settings
    • Improve about page layout
    • Add refresh button in jobs list
    • Add ability to set a custom user quota
    • Rewrite prose for JavaScript disabled message #3684
  • Video import:
    • Stricter youtube-dl format selectors for import (don't import HDR videos and cap to the max supported resolution) #3516
    • Don't publish imported videos before the user submitted the second step form
    • Allow admins to choose the import jobs concurrency
  • Implement hot and best trending algorithms #3625 & #3681
  • Admin config:
    • Add URL fragment support in admin config page to go on the appropriate tab
    • Improve submit error message
    • Allow admins to disable ping requests logging #3550
    • Add a setting so PeerTube periodically cleans up remote AP interactions
  • Add ability for admins to update plugin auth field of a particular user
  • Support webp avatar upload
  • Implement remote comment/subscription
  • Register a service worker #3464
  • Add ability to remove one's avatar for account and channels #3467
  • Show first decimal for video views above a thousand #3564
  • Allow user to search through their watch history #3576
  • Allow users/visitors to search through an account's videos #3589
  • Use an HTML link to display feed url
  • Allow AP resolution for default account/channel pages (/accounts/:name/video-channels and /video-channels/:name/videos)
  • Redirect to login on 401, display 403 variant #3632
  • Performance:
    • Optimize videos list API endpoint
    • Optimize videos list views sort SQL query
    • Avoid as much as possible to process remote thumbnail
    • Proxify remote torrent requests from local clients (like we do for captions and previews)
    • Optimize rate POST endpoint
  • Tighten hotkeys definitions to not conflict with the web browser hotkeys #3702
  • Add more AP stats to stats endpoint
  • Increase jobs request timeout to 7 seconds
  • Increase broadcast request concurrency to 30

Bug fixes

  • Fix remote subscribe input alignment
  • Fix loading bar for HTTP requests
  • Fix table header overflow
  • Disable wait transcoding checkbox instead of hiding it when uploading an incompatible video for the web
  • Fix sendmail emailer configuration
  • Add missing niceness to ffmpeg thumbnail process
  • Videos with only HLS files:
    • Fix RSS feed
    • Correctly wait transcoding before federating
    • Fix redundancy
    • Correctly remove torrents
  • Localize decimal separator in video miniatures #3643
  • Check banned status on external authentication
  • Remove all video redundancies when purging the cache
  • Fix URI search admin config update
  • Fix broken HLS playback with videos that contain an unknown channel layout
  • Fix HLS generation after file import script
  • Ensure we don't receive things from local actors
  • Try to recover from network errors in HLS player
  • Fix comments sorting dropdown z-index
  • Fix create transcoding job script depending on the transcoding configuration
  • Fix NSFW policy in my videos, account videos and channel videos pages
  • Fix complete description loading of a previous video
  • Fix video comments display with deleted comments
  • Don't override preview image on import
  • Fix Accept AP messages sending to previously accepted followers
  • Fix import script when using the instance uses the search index
  • Fix player freeze on Safari with a video that has many subtitles
  • Fix anonymous user settings
  • Fix preview upload with capitalized ext
  • Fix abuses list crash on deleted video
  • More robust channel change federation
  • Fix emptying video tags
  • Fix broken local actors that do not have a public/private key
  • Fix bad PeerTube URL for playlist embed
  • Live:
    • Don't update live attributes if they did not change (allowing to update live metadata even if the live has started)
    • Fix live RAM usage when ffmpeg is too slow to transcode the RTMP stream
    • Correctly load live information (description and preview) when not started
  • Fix mention notification with deleted comment
  • Fix default boolean plugin setting
  • Fix long text on modals #3840

v3.0.1

SECURITY

  • Important: Fix retrieving data of another user if the username contains _ when fetching my information

Docker

Bug fixes

  • Fix account feed URL
  • Log RTMP server error (address already in use)
  • Fix NPM theme links in admin theme page
  • Don't reject AP actors with empty description
  • Fix twitter admin config description
  • Fix duplicate entry in job list page
  • Fix nl-NL broken admin config page
  • Fix bad tracker client IP when using a reverse proxy

v3.0.0

Since v2.4.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • Update the default configuration to not federate unlisted videos. We recommend to admins to update this setting
  • Update the default configuration to remove remote video views to reduce DB size and improve performances. We recommend to admins to update this setting
  • Remove deprecated video abuse API

Maintenance

  • Refresh nginx configuration #3313

Docker

  • Replace traefik by nginx in our docker-compose template:
    • Better consistency with our default setup (we now use the same stack)
    • Use our default nginx template enabling many optimizations
    • Update the documentation to take into account this change: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/install/docker

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

  • Add ability for auth plugins to redirect user on logout #32 & #33
  • Add input-password setting to plugins #3375
  • Add server plugin hooks (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/plugins):
    • filter:api.accounts.videos.list.params
    • filter:api.accounts.videos.list.result
    • filter:api.video-channels.videos.list.params
    • filter:api.video-channels.videos.list.result
  • Authenticate the user if possible in plugin router #3400

Features

  • 🎉 🎉 🎉 Support live streaming 🎉 🎉 🎉 #3250
    • Create a live video using the PeerTube interface and start streaming using your favorite streaming software (OBS, ffmpeg...)
    • If the admin allows it, add ability for users to save a replay of their live
    • Support live transcoding in multiple resolutions
    • Admins can set a limit of created lives per user/instance and a duration limit
    • This is the first step of live streaming, we'll consolidate the feature next year
  • Support Galician locale
  • Update left menu #3296
    • Add My settings, My library, Administration (if admin) below the username
    • Rename section titles to In my account, and On instance name for better block scopes identification
    • Removed confusing Account settings and Channel settings from user dropdown
    • Add My notifications in user dropdown
  • Split account horizontal menu in two #3296
    • My library containing Channels, Videos, Imports, Ownership changes, Playlists, Subscriptions and History
    • My settings containing Account settings, Notifications and Moderation tools
  • Add page in admin to manage video comments of the instance
    • List latest comments
    • Delete comments of a specific user
    • Delete comments in bulk
  • Delete notifications related to muted accounts/instances
  • Add ability for moderators to display all videos (not yet published, private...) in channels/accounts pages
  • Support GIF avatars upload and federation #3329
  • Automatically enable auto block of new videos if the admin enables signups in the admin interface
  • Allow private syndication feed of videos from subscriptions #3074
  • Improve default account and channel avatars #3326
  • Accessibility/UI:
    • More explicit error messages for file uploads #3347
    • Allow to retry a failed video upload #3347
    • Improve jobs and logs view #3127
    • Use badges for NSFW and Unfederated labels in video block list table
    • Improved video rating popover text if the user is not logged-in #3168
    • Improve markdown-it emoji list column display #3253
    • Add help popup for choosing a licence #3306
    • Change Upload button to Publish
    • More player download/upload title details #3394
    • Create a dedicated transcoding tab in admin config
    • Improve 404 page
    • Improve login form #3357
    • Add a title attribute on views element to see the view counter #3365
    • Clearer titles for periods in recently added and videos from subscriptions pages
    • Select first available channel when accepting ownership change #3382
    • Hide channel registration step if default quota is 0 #3393
  • Add possibility to share origin URL to video if it's not local #3201
  • Render markdown in email notifications for new comments #3255
  • Add an admin setting to force ipv4 in youtube-dl #3311
  • Add ability for admins to put markdown in all fields of About page #3371
  • Support activeMonth and activeHalfyear in nodeinfo

Bug fixes

  • Fix inability to delete a channel due to a bug in the confirm modal
  • Fix views processing for hour 0
  • Fix ownership change modal accept button
  • Fix incorrect ActivityPub IDs
  • Do not transcode videos to an higher bitrate than the source
  • Fix video display of muted accounts on overview page
  • Fix transcoding errors in readonly docker containers #3198
  • Fix running another transcoding job using the CLI on a video that was already transcoded
  • Fix embed on Brave web browser
  • Fix break line display for re-draft comments #3261
  • Fix hidden loading bar
  • Fix jobs pagination
  • Fix missing player localized strings
  • Fix instance file size stats when the admin enabled HLS
  • Fix embed of HLS videos on non HTTPS websites
  • Hide embed dock when title/description are disabled
  • Fix follow notification when the follower has been deleted
  • Fix client override endpoint in nginx configuration #3297
  • Fix overflow of some dropdowns
  • Fix infinite scrollin in channel's playlists page
  • Fix anchors scrolling in About page
  • Fix canonical URLs of videos and playlists #3406
  • Fix CLI import script when importing Youtube channels
  • Fix video tag min length validator
  • Fix user notification preferences column width #3352
  • Fix forgotten/reset password UI #3351
  • Fix 00:00 player timecode in video description and comments
  • Avoid too large federation cert error messages in logs
  • Fix registration form width on mobile #3274
  • Fix "Too many packets buffered for output stream" ffmpeg error with some videos
  • Fix 500 error when fetching unknown video thread
  • Fix infinite scroll in Local videos page when enabling the Display all videos checkbox on big screens
  • Fix menu theme colors #3376
  • Fix playlist list name/displayName sort field #3385
  • Fix 401 error display in embeds
  • Do not crash if SMTP server is down, instead log an error #3457
  • Fix redundancy federation in specific cases
  • Stop CLI auth failure with extra / #3520
  • Add missing audit log if the user deletes its account
  • Don't crash on youtube-dl update write error
  • Fix video auto block notification issue

Since v3.0.0-rc.1

Features

  • Support Galician locale
  • Support activeMonth and activeHalfyear in nodeinfo

Bug fixes

  • Fix views processing for hour 0
  • Fix follows pages (in admin and about)
  • Don't display live max duration if disabled by admin
  • Correctly display live badge in videos list
  • Fix redundancy federation in specific cases
  • Fix live miniatures
  • Don't update player timestamp when clicking on a timecode in comments/descriptions for a live
  • Fix admin table filters
  • Fix some accessibility issues
  • Stop CLI auth failure with extra / #3520
  • Fix login error display
  • Don't display log level in audit logs view
  • Add missing audit log if the user deletes its account
  • Don't crash on youtube-dl update write error
  • Fix video auto block notification issue

v2.4.0

Since v2.3.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • The minimum ffmpeg version required is now 4.1
  • Deprecate static routes that will be removed in 3.0 (you may not have to do anything if you used paths returned by the video REST API):
    • /static/avatars/: use /lazy-static/avatars/ instead
    • /static/previews/: use /lazy-static/previews/ instead
    • /static/video-captions/: use /lazy-static/video-captions/ instead
  • Use playlistPosition URL parameter for playlists instead of videoId to set the current playlist position

Maintenance

  • Better error message on PostgreSQL connection error
  • Add ssl option support for PostgreSQL connection

Official PeerTube plugins

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

Features

  • Moderation:
    • 🎉 Add ability to report comments and accounts
    • 🎉 Add messaging system between local reporter of an abuse and moderators so they can easily communicate
    • 🎉 Users can now see their abuse reports, and have notifications when an abuse state changed (accepted/rejected) or when moderators added a new message
    • Add embed to block list details @rigelk in #2926
  • Video playlists:
    • 🎉 Add ability to embed playlists
    • 🎉 Add ability to put a video multiple times in a playlist (with different startAt/stopAt parameters or not)
  • Video comments:
  • Accessibility/UI:
  • Add alert and hide upload view when no upload is possible @Kimsible in #2966
  • Allow sorting notifications by unread/newest @rigelk
  • Add open-graph and twitter-card metas for accounts, video-channels and playlists urls @Kimsible in #2996
  • Add channel name to create-user admin form @Kimsible in #2984
  • Support Kabile for video languages/captions
  • Translate page titles
  • Add .ac3, .aac, .qt, .mqv, .3gpp, .3gpp2, .m1v, .mpg, .mpe, .vob extensions support on upload if transcoding is enabled @rigelk
  • Performance:
    • Improved front-end performance by reducing localized bundle sizes (~ 2MB instead of 3MB for the homepage)
    • Optimize comments RSS feed SQL query
    • Optimize default sort SQL query when listing videos

Bug fixes

  • Handle webp images from youtube-dl
  • Fix embed p2p warning localization
  • iOS fixes:
    • Fix HLS only videos playback
    • Fix fullscreen
    • Fix iPad desktop mode playback
    • Try to fix autoplay with iOS/Safari
  • Fix anonymous user theme
  • Fix player hotkeys after mouse interaction
  • Fix resolution transcoding for portrait videos
  • Do not display videojs poster when video is starting to avoid blinking effect @Kimsible in #3056
  • Correctly scroll to anchors in my-settings @Kimsible in #3032
  • Forbid reset password links reuse
  • Fix low default resolution on webtorrent videos
  • Fix instance features table responsive in about page @test2a in #3090
  • Fix playlist element deletion/edition in my account
  • Fix video playlist playback resuming
  • Correctly display error message for Internet Explorer
  • Fix videos RSS feed when HLS only is enabled
  • Add site_name to opengraph tags

Since v2.4.0-rc.1

Bug fixes

  • Add site_name to opengraph tags
  • Fix privacy/channel select on upload

v2.3.0

Since v2.2.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • Add client_overrides directory in configuration file. You must configure it in your production.yaml
  • Deprecate /videos/abuse endpoint. A new endpoint to report videos will be created in PeerTube 2.4 and will also allow to report accounts and comments (/videos/abuse will be removed in 3.0)
  • Renamed videos blacklist feature to videos blocks/blocklist

Documentation

  • Add feeds routes to the openapi spec @rigelk
  • Add notifications routes to the openapi spec @rigelk
  • Add redundancy routes to the openapi spec @rigelk
  • Add plugins routes to the openapi spec @rigelk
  • Add examples, descriptions and missing filters for abuses routes in the openapi spec @rigelk
  • Update CentOS insutructions in dependencies.md @cgarwood82 in 2904

Maintenance

  • Switched image processing library from native dependency sharp to pure JS implementation jimp. Admins don't have to compile sharp anymore and jimp is lighter
  • Provide specific engine boundaries for NodeJS and Yarn @rigelk in 0c4bacb
  • Add ability to set database.name config option @gramakri in #2898

Docker

Official PeerTube plugins

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

  • Add ability to override client assets: logo - favicon - PWA icons - PWA manifest name and description @kimsible in #2897

Features

  • 🎉 Add global search support (has to be explicitly enabled by admins)
  • 🎉 Add ability for admins to display a banner on their instance
  • 🎉 Support Vietnamese and Kabyle languages. Also re-establish Occitan language locale despite lack of support in Angular
  • Federation:
    • Make federation of unlisted videos an instance-level server preference @Tak in #2802
    • Sort ActivityPub video object files by resolution in descending order (fix issue with Pleroma)
    • Send complete video description in ActivityPub video objects
  • Moderation:
    • Add ability to bulk delete comments of an account
    • Add ability to mute accounts from video miniature
    • Improve report modal: @rigelk in #2842
      • Add ability to provide predefined reasons
      • Embed of the video in the modal
      • Add ability to set a startAt parameter
  • Accessibility:
  • Replaced softies icons by feather icons @rigelk
  • Support player hotkeys when it is not focused
  • Improve video miniature grids to fill the space as much as possible @rigelk
  • Add video miniature dropdown in Discover page
  • Add channel information in My videos page
  • Add videos count per channel in My channels page
  • Improve channel deletion warning by explaining how many videos will be deleted
  • Simplify navigation within most admin menus @rigelk
  • Tracker:
  • Allow limiting video-comments rss feeds to an account or video channel @rigelk in 00494d6

Bug fixes

  • Fix default anonymous theme that should use instance default
  • Fix configuration form issue when auto follow index URL is empty
  • Fix URL import of some videos
  • Fix quota representation in profile settings @rigelk
  • Exclude 0p from auto webtorrent quality
  • Fix scroll on some pages with hash in URL
  • Fix search filter in video reports
  • Fix anonymous user nsfw policy
  • Don't cache embed HTML page resulting in broken embed after a PeerTube upgrade
  • Accessibility:
  • Fix iOS player with HLS-only videos
  • Fix action buttons selection mode styles @kimsible in #2983

Since v2.3.0-rc.1

Bug fixes

  • Fix broken locales
  • Fix embed URL in share modal
  • Handle webp images from youtube-dl
  • Fix iOS player with HLS-only videos
  • Fix popup issues on video miniature click when searching on the global index
  • Fix username in password-reset email @kimsible in #2960
  • Fix maximized icon padding in markdown textarea @kimsible in #2963
  • Fix action buttons selection mode styles @kimsible in #2983
  • Fix user creation in admin @kimsible in #2985
  • Fix accessibility action buttons and display on imports and followers list @kimsible in #2986

v2.2.0

Since v2.1.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • /!\ VERY IMPORTANT /!\ We added a unique index on actors usernames to fix some federation bugs. Please check now if you have conflicts:
    • Go inside your database using sudo -u postgres psql peertube_prod and run select "preferredUsername" from actor where "serverId" is null group by "preferredUsername" having count(*) > 1;
    • If you have some results, it seems you have duplicate channels/accounts. For every entry, you'll have to change the preferredUsername of the entry you want (so they are unique). The updated actors could have some federations issues
  • Changed auto_follow_index setting configuration: you now have to use the complete URL in index_url. If you used the default one, you now need to use https://instances.joinpeertube.org/api/v1/instances/hosts. This way, you can also use a direct raw URL (Gitlab, Github, pastebin, etc.) using a simple text format and easily maintain small communities or instance recommendation lists.
  • PeerTube requires NodeJS v10 or v12

CLI tools

Docker

Maintenance

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

  • Add embed API (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/embed-player):
    • playbackState can be ended
    • playbackStatusUpdate has a duration field
    • setCaption and getCaptions methods
  • Add client plugin hooks (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/plugins):
    • action:login.init
    • action:video-watch.video-threads.loaded
    • action:video-watch.video-thread-replies.loaded (@ipbc-dev)
  • Add server plugin hooks (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/plugins):
    • filter:api.video.pre-import-url.accept.result
    • filter:api.video.pre-import-torrent.accept.result
    • filter:api.video.post-import-url.accept.result
    • filter:api.video.post-import-torrent.accept.result
  • Add server helpers:
    • database.query to do SQL queries
    • videos.removeVideo
    • config.getWebserverUrl
    • moderation.blockServer, moderation.unblockServer, moderation.blockAccount, moderation.unblockAccount, moderation.blacklistVideo, moderation.unblacklistVideo
  • Add client helpers:
    • notifier to notify users using the toast component (@kimsible)
    • showModal to show a modal (@kimsible)
    • markdownRenderer to render markdown (@kimsible)
  • Add ability for plugins to define custom routes
  • Add ability for plugins to remove video/playlist privacies
  • Add ability for plugins to support additional auth methods
  • Add onSettingsChange support

Official PeerTube plugins

Features

  • 🎉 Add HTML support in PeerTube emails, improve text-only version (@rigelk)
  • 🎉 Add settings panel for anonymous users so they can change NSFW/P2P/autoplay/displayed videos policy (@rigelk)
  • 🎉 Improve redundancy management:
    • Add quick action on video miniature to mirror a specific video using the web interface
    • Add admin dashboard to list remote and local redundancies
    • Add ability for admins to define remote redundancies policy (accept/reject)
  • 🎉 Many responsive & UI improvements:
    • Add maximized mode to markdown textarea (@kimsible)
    • Detect and prevent sub menu overflow on small screens using a dropdown or a modal (@rigelk)
    • Use a typeahead component for the search bar (@rigelk)
    • Use a modal instead of a dropdown menu in small/mobile views (@kimsible)
    • Improve display of accounts and channel pages on small and medium screens (@rigelk)
    • Improve forms layout (@rigelk)
    • Replace helpers icons with descriptions in admin configuration (@rigelk)
    • Improve tables on mobile devices to prevent layout breakage (@kimsible)
    • Fix multiple broken views on small screens (@kimsible)
    • Make video add tabs scrollable on small devices (@kimsible)
    • Better use of space and icons in the plugin administration interface (@rigelk)
    • Restyle toast notifications to tone down colors (@rigelk)
    • Add/move links at the bottom of the left menu (@rigelk)
    • Improve avatar upload UI (@rigelk)
    • Use progress bars for quota used in my account (@rigelk)
    • Add variable pagination size to all tables (@rigelk)
    • Add empty states to all tables (@rigelk)
    • Add generic text filter to all admin tables (@rigelk)
    • Fix z-index for tooltips, modals and their button to prevent overlaps (@rigelk)
    • And many others!
  • 🎉 Improve video abuses admin table (@rigelk):
    • Add in-text specific search filters
    • Reports can be linked to directly
    • Rich reporter field
    • Add video thumbnail with abuse count for the video and position of the abuse in that list
    • Expand row to see more information about the video, the reporter and the reportee
    • Add many actions (on the video, on the reporter)
    • Don't remove a report when a video is deleted
  • Add information on a video abuse within its notification email (@rigelk)
  • Add ability for video owners to delete comments
  • Add filter inputs for blacklisted videos and muted accounts/servers (@rigelk)
  • Video import improvements:
    • Support subtitles when importing a video (@kimsible)
    • Generate thumbnail/preview from URL and inject them in the video edit form (@kimsible)
    • Support licence and language fields
    • Support audio file imports
  • Support WMA and WAV audio files upload
  • Support drag and drop for video upload/torrent import (@rigelk)
  • Add video file metadata to download modal (@rigelk)
  • Add views stats for channels (@rigelk)
  • Add more information about the user in the edit form (@rigelk)
  • Server optimizations:
    • Add cache for some immutable models
    • Don't refresh videos when processing a view
    • Optimize view endpoint
    • Completely rewritten SQL query to list videos
    • Optimize SQL request when broadcasting an activity
  • Support infinite scrolling in the discover page
  • Add ability for admins to create a user without a password. PeerTube will send a reset password link to the user (@JohnXLivingston)
  • Improve embed title background opacity
  • Add origin instance URL in watch page
  • Clearer description of advanced search options
  • Always copy full actor handle in video channels view (@rigelk)
  • Add sendmail support (@immae) to smtp configuration
  • Support rel="me" links in markdown
  • Use originallyPublishedAt from body on import if it exists
  • Sort outbox by DESC createdAt order
  • Increase video comment max length limit

Bug fixes

  • Update default user theme to instance-default (Jorge Silva)
  • Fix user dropdown menu with long texts (@rigelk)
  • Fix load more comments on infinite scroll (@ipbc-dev)
  • Fix CSP issue on WebFinger service (@ZanyMonk)
  • Fix federation with Pleroma
  • Fix Safari and iOS video play
  • Fix broken HLS player on old Edge
  • Fix running HLS transcoding on existing HLS video
  • Fix user role edition
  • Fix video duration display
  • Fix error when adding a video in a playlist that does not have a thumbnail
  • Fix internal video display in playlists
  • Fix add comment in threads with deleted comments
  • Fix video codec in HLS playlist resulting in a broken video
  • Fix torrent import on Windows
  • Respect browser autoplay policy: don't autoplay videos in mute mode
  • Fix playlist videos autoplay/next play (@rigelk)
  • Fix admin table column invalid sort error
  • Fix outbox crawling max page/timeout (when an admin follows an instance with many videos)
  • Add CORS to ActivityPub routes
  • Fix my video imports table display when a video gets deleted (@rigelk)
  • Fix peertube/import scripts comment-enabled, wait-transcoding and download-enabled options
  • Don't leak unlisted videos in comments feed
  • Do not display deleted comments or muted accounts/instances in RSS feed
  • Fix HLS audio only transcoding
  • Fix playlist creation/update with a long description
  • Fix links of same instance in video description
  • Fix REPL script
  • Fix broken client when cookies are disabled
  • Fix upload button color in dark mode
  • Explicit theme colors for inputs and textarea
  • Fix input/textarea themes
  • Fix action button icons theme
  • Fix grey color theme
  • Fix regression scrollbar bgcolor mdtextarea maximized-mode (@kimsible)

since v2.2.0-rc.1

Bug fixes

  • Fix broken migration introduced in 2.2.0-rc.1 in docker
  • Fix sort icons in tables
  • Fix action button overflow in tables
  • Fix broken client when cookies are disabled
  • Fix upload button color in dark mode
  • Explicit theme colors for inputs and textarea
  • Fix input/textarea themes
  • Fix dropdown menu overflow
  • Fix notifications with dark theme
  • Fix action button icons theme
  • Fix grey color theme
  • Fix regression scrollbar bgcolor mdtextarea maximized-mode (@kimsible)
  • Fix broken emails

v2.1.1

Bug fixes

  • Fix youtube-dl in docker image
  • Fix playlist creation/update
  • Fix fetch of instance config in client
  • Manual approves followers only for the instance (and not accounts/channels)
  • Fix avatar update
  • Fix CSP for embeds
  • Fix scroll of the menu on mobile
  • Fix CPU usage of PostgreSQL
  • Fix embed for iOS

v2.1.0

Since v2.0.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • /!\ VERY IMPORTANT /!\ You need to execute manually a script (can be executed after your upgrade, while your PeerTube instance is running) to create HLS video torrents:
    • cd /var/www/peertube/peertube-latest && sudo -u peertube NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config NODE_ENV=production node dist/scripts/migrations/peertube-2.1.js
  • /!\ VERY IMPORTANT /!\ In the next PeerTube release (v2.2.0), we'll add a unique index on actors usernames to fix some federation bugs. Please check now if you have conflicts using:
    • Go inside your database using sudo -u postgres psql peertube_prod and run select "preferredUsername" from actor where "serverId" is null group by "preferredUsername" having count(*) > 1;
    • If you have some results, it seems you have duplicate channels/accounts. For every entry, you'll have to change the preferredUsername of the entry you want (so they are unique). The updated actors could have some federations issues
  • We now use Buster for the docker image, so the image name changed:
    • production-stretch becomes production-buster
    • v2.x.x-stretch becomes v2.x.x-buster
  • Users cannot create more than 20 channels now to avoid UX and actor name squatting issues
  • We added a warning if the videos directory is the same than the redundancy one in your configuration file: it can create some bugs

Documentation

We added some sections in the documentation website:

Docker

Plugins/Themes API

  • Add checkbox and textarea as possible input types for settings (@rigelk)
  • Add isLoggedIn helper to client plugins (@rigelk)
  • Add client plugin hooks:
    • action:video-watch.player.loaded with player instance
    • action:video-watch.video.loaded with a videojs instance
    • action:signup.register.init (@rigelk)
    • filter:api.signup.registration.create.params (@rigelk)
    • filter:internal.video-watch.player.build-options.params
    • filter:internal.video-watch.player.build-options.result
    • filter:internal.common.svg-icons.get-content.params
    • filter:internal.common.svg-icons.get-content.result
  • Add server plugins hooks:
    • action:api.user.blocked
    • action:api.user.unblocked
    • action:api.user.registered
    • action:api.user.created
    • action:api.user.deleted
    • action:api.user.updated
    • action:api.user.oauth2-got-token
  • Accept . _ and 0-9 characters in plugin names

Maintenance

Features

  • 🎉 Add internal video privacy mode. Internal videos are only available to other logged in users of your instance, and are not federated
  • 🎉 Add hyperlink video timestamps in comments & video descriptions (@Lesterpig & @rigelk)
  • 🎉 Comments improvements:
    • Support basic markdown
    • Soft delete video comments instead of destroying them (@alcalyn)
    • Add commentator name alongside fid for video comments (@rigelk)
    • Add a cancel button in comment form (@rigelk)
    • Show number of comments under a video in watch page (@rigelk)
    • Add user moderation dropdown (@rigelk)
    • Add ability to sort comments by total replies or created date (@rigelk)
    • Add total replies from video author indicator (@rigelk)
    • Comment name emphasis for video author (@rigelk)
  • Add "Watch later" button in video miniature overlay (@rigelk)
  • Add ability to transcode videos in an audio only video container (@Yetangitu)
  • Add playlist search input in add to playlist dropdown (@rigelk)
  • Add search bars for a user's videos and playlists (@rigelk)
  • Support playlists in share modal
  • Better UI for a better world:
    • Add play/pause bezels to the video player (@rigelk)
    • Use icons instead of buttons in watch page (like/dislike, support...) (@rigelk)
    • Improve PeerTube section in About page and add links to the documentation
    • Improve comment tree in Watch page
    • Improve dropdown box shadow (@rigelk)
    • Add channel avatar to watch view (@rigelk)
    • Improve likes-dislikes bar usability
    • Alter titles section header style (@rigelk)
    • Enhance jobs list display on smaller screens (@alcalyn)
    • Add a button in the videos from subscriptions page to manage subscriptions (@rigelk)
    • Add duration to video attributes in watch view (@rigelk)
    • Add a message in the login form when signup is disabled for people that are looking for an account (@rigelk)
    • Add "Manage" button in owned account and channels pages (@rigelk)
    • Improve password input accessibility (@rigelk)
    • Add descriptions in moderation dropdown (@rigelk)
  • Performances improvements:
    • Lazy load categories, licences, languages and video/playlist privacies in the client
    • Only update remote actor avatar if the filename changed
    • Optimize transcoding by using the lowest resolution as input file
    • Speedup embed first paint
    • Optimize videos list SQL query
    • Optimize local videos list SQL query
    • Cache peertube instance actor SQL result
    • Cache HLS/WebTorrent InfoHash SQL result
    • Optimize notification endpoint on specific cases
    • Optimize "list my playlists" SQL query
  • Improve search filters: (@rigelk)
    • Add ability to sort results
    • Improve tags filter inputs
    • Add a button to reset filters
  • Improve autoplay: (@rigelk)
    • Autoplay next video switch for both user and visitors
    • Add up next screen on autoplay
    • Autoplay next video support for playlists
    • Add next video button to the player
    • Add loop setting when watching a playlist
  • Add option to download subtitles in download modal (@rigelk)
  • Add a button in account page to follow all account channels (@rigelk)
  • Add ability to search a video directly by its UUID
  • Case insensitive tags search
  • Add ability to disable WebTorrent (and only enable HLS) (experimental and breaks federation with PeerTube instances < 2.1)
  • Don't seed if the client is on a cellular network in the HLS player
  • Load HLS player in embed by default if enabled
  • Admin panels:
    • Add ability to sort by state, score and redundancy allowed columns in following/followers admin table
    • Add ability to filter per job type in admin
    • Add Audit logs section in admin Logs panel
  • Improve Media-RSS support (@rigelk)
  • Explicit the tag limit in video form (@bikepunk)
  • Add a warning when uploading videos using root
  • Clearer video quota label in user settings
  • Pause the video when the user opens a modal
  • Handle basic HTML in account descriptions
  • Support m4v videos
  • Improve 4k resolution bitrate
  • Add missing hotkeys documentation in the watch page
  • Add a button to copy the channel handle (@rigelk)
  • Add server config to the nodeinfo metadata (@rigelk)
  • Improve notification popup interactivity (@rigelk)

Bug fixes

  • Don't notify if the account in on a muted instance
  • Don't leak other notified addresses in notification emails
  • Allow the embed iframe to open links
  • Add missing button roles for the language chooser and keyboard shortcut menu items @MarcoZehe
  • Fix overflow when creating a channel
  • Fix "copy magnet URI" in player
  • Fix text overflow in menu
  • Fix player focus
  • Only display accepted followers/followings instances in about page
  • Fix brackets truncation in video description
  • Fix channel playlist miniatures overflow
  • Fix background color on some screens
  • Fix captions upload issue depending on the caption name
  • Fix file download when the video is private
  • Fix dropdown on video miniature for unlogged users
  • Fix video support field in update form
  • Fix video import having a long thumbnail url (Facebook for example)
  • Add correct HTTP status on not found video
  • Fix bug on login when username has a special character (_ for example)
  • Fix plugin unregistration that did not remove properly its hooks (@JohnXLivingston)
  • Fix wrong audio only resolution label for hls
  • Fix AP icon URL for imported videos
  • Fix octet stream fallback for video ext

since v2.1.0-rc.1

Bug fixes

  • Fix wrong audio only resolution label for hls
  • Fix AP icon URL for imported videos
  • Fix embed on mastodon
  • Fix octet stream fallback for video ext

v2.0.0

Since v1.4.1

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • Removed old JSON LD signature implementation. There will be some federation incompatibilities with forwarded activities sent by PeerTube instances < v2.0.0
  • Replaced configuration key email.object with email.subject: 916937d7da

Plugins/Themes API

  • Add plugin hook on registration filter:api.user.signup.allowed.result

Docker

  • Fix traefik version docker compose (you need to update your docker-compose.yml file: f1b3888392)

Maintenance

  • Add --tmpdir, --first, --last and --verbose [level] parameters to peertube-import-videos script (@Yetangitu)
  • Improve REST API documentation (@frankstrater)
  • Improve plugin management documentation

Features

  • Better instance admin responsibility:
    • Add ability to set more information about your instance. This will be used in the future on https://joinpeertube.org to help people find the appropriate PeerTube instance on which they can register:
      • Main Categories
      • Languages you/your moderators speak
      • Code of Conduct
      • Moderation information (who moderates your instance, NSFW policy etc)
      • Who is behind the instance (a single person? non-profit?)
      • Why did the admin create this instance
      • How long the admin plan to maintain the instance
      • How the administrator will finance the PeerTube server
      • Hardware information
    • Add these information in the about page and in the signup page
    • Add a welcome modal at first admin login with some explanations of PeerTube and some useful links
    • Add warning modal when administrators enable or enabled signup but did not fill some important instance information (for now the instance name, terms, administrator and maintenance lifetime information)
  • Add ability to automatically follow back other instances
  • Add ability to automatically follow the public registry instances
  • Add Most liked videos page (@alcalyn)
  • Add a drag&drop delay on playlist videos to allow user scroll on small screens (@alcalyn)
  • Allow to toggle video publication date to display absolute date (@alcalyn)
  • Add statistics in about page (@alcalyn)
  • Improve the feature table in about page
  • Add contributors in about page
  • Clearer warning of IP address leaking on embedded videos (@robinkooli)
  • Case insensitive search on video tags
  • Add video name in "video publish notification"
  • Add ability to autoplay next recommended video (opt in) (@LoveIsGrief)
  • Add link behind the subscribe via RSS button (@frankstrater)
  • Support text/plain caption files
  • Speedup theme injection
  • Add ability to enable HLS in the admin panel

Bug fixes

  • Fix audio upload
  • Handle video reports from mastodon
  • Fix videos redundancy exceeding the limit
  • Fix search when user defined video languages in their preferences
  • Don't quick transcode with the wrong pixel format
  • Hide videos abuses of muted accounts
  • Fix account avatar widths
  • Fix default commentsEnabled and downloadEnabled values on video upload/import (@frankstrater)
  • Disable auto complete of email field when editing another user information in admin panel (@Knackie)
  • Fix federation issues with some actors (that have long descriptions, or missing optional AP fields)
  • Remove down redundancy endpoints in HLS player
  • Fix user notifications with multiple opened tabs
  • Replace "overview" by "discover" in webpage titles
  • Clearer IP debug message in admin panel
  • Fix checkbox styles when using a theme
  • Don't redirect on verify account page after login
  • Fix player captions menu after choosing a subtitle
  • Fix CLI scripts with URLs ending with a /
  • Fix --since and --until timezone in peertube-import-videos script
  • Avoid circular error in logger
  • Fix start/stop of first element when loading a playlist

Since v2.0.0-rc.1

Features

  • Improve welcome/warning modals
  • Add ability to enable HLS in the admin panel

Bug fixes

  • Fix auto index follow
  • Fix CLI scripts with URLs ending with a /
  • Fix --since and --until timezone in peertube-import-videos script (@fflorent)
  • Avoid circular error in logger
  • Fix start/stop of first element when loading a playlist

v1.4.1

Bug fixes

  • Fix too fast redundancy eviction
  • Fix broken auto blacklist page
  • Rename signup steps
  • Fix menu x overflow

v1.4.0

Since v1.3.1

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • Important: Add plugins directory in configuration file. You should configure it in your production.yaml
  • Important: Deprecate NodeJS 8 (support ends on December 2019). Please upgrade to NodeJS 10.
  • Important: Updated nginx template (you need to update manually)
  • Important: With the new theme system, we removed the dark mode button. Your administrator has to install the dark theme from their admin panel, and then users can choose this theme in their settings
  • Changed the playlist REST API to fix various issues. See https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/pull/1998 for more information
  • Removed magnet URI support in download modal since most of the BitTorrent clients do not understand the xs parameter
  • Renamed Overview page to Discover

Security

  • Moderators can only create and update regular users (thanks GGC-Project)

Maintenance

  • Create a dedicated package.json for CLI tools to reduce server dependencies size
  • Add ability to set root password by environment at first start (@darnuria)
  • Removed unused uuid actor field (we already have a unique identifier that is the preferredUsername)
  • Add ability to disable PeerTube log rotation (@NassimBounouas)
  • Speedup font display (@BO41)
  • Improve static files HTTP cache
  • Add --since and --until parameters to import videos script to easily sync external channels (@fflorent)
  • Optimize /watch/:uuid endpoint
  • Optimize Sequelize (SQL ORM) queries generation (consumes less CPU)
  • Prune script is faster and can prune avatar files

Features

  • 🎉 Support Finnish, Greek and Scottish Gaelic languages
  • 🎉 Add basic plugins and themes support (beta): https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute/plugins
    • Install plugins or themes from the administration panel
    • Choose a default theme for your instance
    • Users can choose the theme they want among the list of themes their administrator installed
  • 🎉 Add ability to upload audio files: PeerTube will merge the audio file and the thumbnail to create a video
  • Multi step registration:
    • Add ability for new users to create their default channel
    • Guess the account username/channel username according to their display name
    • Add explanations about what the purpose of a username/channel name is, and what a channel is
  • Improve account video channels page:
    • Set it as the default page for the account page in order to avoid confusion between the account homepage and the video channel homepage
    • Display channels in rows with some of their videos
  • Support more URL parameters in embeds: muted, loop, peertubeLink
  • Redesign share modal and add customizations:
    • Start/stop at a specific timestamp
    • Automatically play/mute/loop the video
    • Set a specific subtitle by default
  • Group subscriptions and recently added videos in chronological order
  • Add ability for users to change their email address
  • Add ability to update the support field of all channel videos when we update the channel support field
  • Add a language filter in user preferences to display only videos in specific languages
  • Add instance follows list in a dedicated tab in the "About" page
  • Add ability to set to private a public/unlisted video or video playlist
  • Transcode in the tmp directory for s3fs compatibility (@libertysoft3)
  • Add a button to copy account username (@NassimBounouas)
  • Redirect to "Local videos" page when going to the peertube account page
  • Rearrange search filter options (@realityfabric)
  • Close modal after clicking on download (@LeoMouyna)
  • Add ability for admins to customize emails object prefix and body signature (@yohanboniface)
  • Support 4K transcoding
  • Add link of the follower profile in administration (@NassimBounouas)
  • Add subject field in contact form (@NassimBounouas)
  • Add rate limit to registration and API endpoints
  • Add "video quota used" sortable column in user admin list (@darnuria)
  • Automatically update the playlist thumbnail according to the video at the first position (if the user did not set a specific thumbnail)
  • Automatically remove dead followings
  • Federate comment deletion if the comment was deleted by the video owner

Bug fixes

  • Fix transcoding information in features table (LiPek)
  • Fix tools auth with remote instances
  • Fix various issues in upload/import scripts
  • Fix redundancy exceeded quota
  • Fix login with email (@NassimBounouas)
  • Fix quota display in features table
  • Fix transcoding help placement
  • Fix invisible videos in playlists
  • Fix HLS transcoding in lower resolutions
  • Fix various federation issues
  • Fix mute badge labels
  • Fix broken follow notification when the actor is deleted
  • Fix overflow and playlist block width in the watch page
  • Fix search results overflow on mobile
  • Fix infinite scroll on big screens
  • Fix start time on some HLS videos
  • Fix socket notification with multiple user tabs
  • Fix redundancy if the instance has already the file on disk
  • Fix image and plugin CSP
  • Fix video rows overflow
  • Dismiss modals on pop state
  • Go back when cancel NSFW modal

Since v1.4.0-rc.1

Features

  • Add Finnish language support

Bug fixes

  • Fix broken front end on Firefox ESR (60)
  • Fix prune storage script when using a same directory for multiple storage keys
  • Relax plugin package.json validation
  • Replace "overview" by "discover" in client titles
  • Change configuration: email.object becomes email.subject
  • Fix user creation by moderators
  • Fix video playlist element removal
  • Fix plugin card background color with dark theme
  • Fix lazy static route with unknown avatars (404 instead of 500)
  • Fix socket notification with multiple user tabs
  • Fix redundancy if the instance has already the file on disk
  • Fix image and plugin CSP
  • Fix video rows overflow
  • Dismiss modals on pop state
  • Go back when cancel NSFW modal

v1.3.1

Bug fixes

  • Fix Mastodon remote interactions
  • Fix missing video download button
  • Fix error in video upload/update form when scheduling publication
  • Fix black theme on some pages
  • Fix video import if auto blacklist is enabled

v1.3.0

Since v1.2.0

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

Docker

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

Since v1.3.0-rc.2

Bug fixes

  • Fix duplicates in playlist add component
  • Fix crash in files cache
  • Fix playlist view/update 403
  • Fix search with bad webfinger handles

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

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

v1.0.1

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

v1.0.0

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

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

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:
  • 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)