PeerTube

IMPORTANT NOTES

• Important: You must update your nginx configuration to add the upload-resumable endpoint: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/nginx/peertube#L81
• Important: Due to a bug in ffmpeg, PeerTube is not compatible with ffmpeg 4.4. See https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/3990
• Important: Drop NodeJS 10 support
• PeerTube is not compatible with NodeJS 16 yet
• By default, HLS transcoding is now enabled and webtorrent is disabled. We suggest you to reflect this change. See the documentation for more information
• PeerTube client now displays bigger video thumbnails. To fix old thumbnails quality, run regenerate-thumbnails script after your PeerTube upgrade: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/maintain-tools?id=regenerate-thumbnailsjs

Docker

• Support SSL database env parameter #4114

Maintenance

• Support X-Frame-Options header, enabled by default in the configuration
• Directly use node in systemd template
• Check ffmpeg version at PeerTube startup
• Add upload-resumable nginx endpoint: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/nginx/peertube#L81

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

• :tada: Most robust uploads using a resumable upload endpoint #3933
• Accessibility/UI:
  • :tada: Redesign channel and account page
  • :tada: Increase video miniature size
  • :tada: 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