Chocobozzz/PeerTube v3.4.0-rc.1

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IMPORTANT NOTES

• Important: Due to a bug in ffmpeg, PeerTube is not compatible with ffmpeg 4.4. See #3990
• Debian Bullseye admins: Debian Bullseye removed python binary/link in favour of explicit python2/python3 binaries. But youtube-dl used by PeerTube needs it so you'll have to install python-is-python2 or python-is-python3 before upgrading PeerTube
• PeerTube now supports NodeJS 16

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
  • Check the documentation: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin-remote-storage
• 🎉 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
• Support out proxy using env variables (HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY) #4346

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