PeerTube/CHANGELOG.md

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Changelog

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, see the doc)
  • 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)