PeerTube

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

• Add client plugin hooks:
  • filter:api.video-watch.video-playlist-elements.get.params and filter:api.video-watch.video-playlist-elements.get.result #4387
• Introduce plugin id selectors: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute-plugins?id=plugin-selector-on-html-elements
  • Add #plugin-selector-login-form to login form

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

• Add create-move-video-storage-jobs script to move local video files in object storage #4481
• Removed peertube-repl and peertube-watch scripts
• Apply import interval only when reasonable #4552

Features

• :tada: 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