Chocobozzz/PeerTube v2.1.0-rc.1

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IMPORTANT NOTES

• /!\ VERY IMPORTANT /!\ You need to execute manually a script (must be executed after the upgrade and a PeerTube restart, while your 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:

• S3 remote storage: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/#/admin-remote-storage
• Instances redundancy: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/#/admin-following-instances
• Moderate your instance: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/#/admin-moderation
• Customize your instance (install plugins & themes): https://docs.joinpeertube.org/#/admin-customize-instance
• PeerTube logs (standard log/audit log): https://docs.joinpeertube.org/#/admin-logs
• Mute accounts/instances: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/#/use-mute
• Controlled player embed API: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/#/api-em

Docker

• Sticking to one env-var management system (@Leopere) (See #2247)
• Simplify Dockerfile and slim Docker image (@Nutomic)
• Add HLS support in Docker container by using the latest Debian stable (Buster) image

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

• PeerTube moved translations from Zanata to Weblate. Here is the new translations website URL: https://weblate.framasoft.org/projects/peertube/
• We now provide a JavaScript library to control a PeerTube embed: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@peertube/embed-api
• Add ability to generate HLS videos using create-transcoding-job script (see the documentation)
• Update nginx template: (you need to update manually)
  • Add streaming playlists endpoint
  • Add client_body_temp_path hint
  • Relax TLS/SSL ciphers hardening to allow Android 4.4.2 to use the PeerTube instance API
• Add maxFileSize, maxFiles and anonymizeIP log options in configuration file

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)