Chocobozzz/PeerTube v4.3.0

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Maintenance

• Use yt-dlp by default instead of youtube-dl for new installations (because of much more dev activity)
• Support NodeJS 18
• Improved PeerTube logs:
  • Reduce amount of PeerTube error logs
  • Introduce log.log_tracker_unknown_infohash setting to disable "Unknown infoHash" warnings
  • Web browsers send their error logs to the server that writes them in its own logs. Can be disabled by log.accept_client_log setting
• Introduce experimental support of OpenTelemetry
  • Enable metrics export using a Prometheus exporter
  • Enable tracing export using a Jaeger exporter
• Automatically rebuild native plugin modules on NodeJS ABI change

Docker

• Add ability to easily use the docker compose stack on localhost

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

• Theme:
  • Removed unused --secondaryColor CSS variable
• Add client plugin hooks (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api-plugins):
  • filter:api.my-library.video-playlist-elements.list.params & filter:api.my-library.video-playlist-elements.list.result #5098
  • action:video-channel-create.init
  • action:video-channel-update.init & action:video-channel-update.video-channel.loaded
  • action:video-channel-videos.init & action:video-channel-videos.video-channel.loaded & action:video-channel-videos.videos.loaded
  • action:video-channel-playlists.init & action:video-channel-playlists.video-channel.loaded & action:video-channel-playlists.playlists.loaded
  • filter:share.video-embed-code.build.params & filter:share.video-embed-code.build.result & filter:share.video-playlist-embed-code.build.params & filter:share.video-playlist-embed-code.build.result
  • filter:share.video-embed-url.build.params & filter:share.video-embed-url.build.result & filter:share.video-playlist-embed-url.build.params & filter:share.video-playlist-embed-url.build.result
  • filter:share.video-url.build.params & filter:share.video-url.build.result & filter:share.video-playlist-url.build.params & filter:share.video-playlist-url.build.result
  • action:modal.share.shown
• Add server plugin hooks (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api-plugins):
  • filter:job-queue.process.params & filter:job-queue.process.result
  • filter:transcoding.manual.resolutions-to-transcode.result & filter:transcoding.auto.resolutions-to-transcode.result
  • action:api.video-channel.created & action:api.video-channel.updated & action:api.video-channel.deleted
  • action:notifier.notification.created
• Add HTML placeholder (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute-plugins?id=html-placeholder-elements):
  • share-modal-playlist-settings & share-modal-video-settings

Features

• 🎉 Add ability for users to synchronize a remote channel #5135 🎉
  • Automatically import all videos of a remote channel in your PeerTube channel
  • PeerTube will watch for new publications and automatically import these new videos
• UI:
  • Redesigned Create an account steps
  • Improved Login page
  • Use a lighter font color
  • Use a bigger font size
  • Don't display form errors in red while typing but only when we unfocus the input
  • Display an error message when the user is unauthorized to view a page #5097
  • Display latest upload date for captions
  • Add an information if the live will be saved as a replay when displaying live sessions
  • Move search bar at the center of the header
• Add Toki Pona and Croatian locales in client
• Embed:
  • Display a message and automatically start live streams in embed
  • Use the instance name instead of "PeerTube" in embed control bar
  • Reuse current watch page query parameters for embed when using OEmbed #5023
• Instance follows:
  • Introduce a Rejected state for follow requests to not reprocess already rejected follow requests
  • Add bulk actions on instance following/followers ()
• Admins:
  • Add ability to disable original resolution transcoding of the uploaded video/live stream
  • Add ability to delete a specific video file in videos overview
  • Display Last Login column by default in users overview
  • Remember last selected columns in users overview
  • Add ability to set a custom video import timeout
  • Add ability to set the default feed (Atom, RSS...) items count
  • Admins and moderators now bypass API rate limits
  • Add ability to list comments on local videos in comments overview
• Limit video import resolution depending on enabled VOD transcoding resolutions
• Store and display the uploaded video original filename #4885
• Add Total views in the my channels list #5007
• Add Original Publication Date video sort option #4959
• Performance:
  • Optimized view/watching endpoint
  • Optimized video feed SQL query
  • Process images (resize, convert...) in a dedicated worker thread
  • Optimized emoji markup list rendering in client
  • Use a worker thread to send ActivityPub Broadcast requests
• Suffix external auth username/channel name on conflict instead of throwing an exception

Bug fixes

• Fix users overview Last login sort in admin
• More robust move to object storage job failure
• Fix comment add avatar with a unauthenticated user
• Fix fetching unlisted video in client
• Fix comments/download enabled attributes when importing a video
• Fix total instance views stats
• Fix HLS player infinite buffering on seek
• Reset table pagination on search
• Host search filter can also search into channels and playlists in global search
• Fix My videos invalid counter
• Prevent error on highlighted thread
• Fix Jobs, Account blocklist and Server blocklist hidden columns on Safari
• Fix live stream max bitrate
• Fix incompatibility with OpenSSL 3
• Don't crash on redis connection error
• Transcoding:
  • Fix failed transcoding with a mp3 file that contains a cover image
  • Prevent duplicated HLS playlist when running transcoding
  • Regenerate video file names when running transcoding manually
  • Prevent job failures resulting in broken videos on concurrent transcoding
  • Fix transcoding of videos with quad audio channels
• ActivityPub
  • Fix random invalid HTTP signature generation
  • Use unique AP id for Accept/Reject activities
  • Correctly handle remote actors that don't have follow counters
  • Correctly handle unknown remote actor image size
• Add years in graph legend when grouping video views stats by month
• Prevent creating multiple lives when clicking multiple times on the "Go Live" button
• Fix *undefined" resolution in player Stats for nerds
• Fix not displayed error message in administrator web config
• More robust S3 upload #5231
• Fix broken saved live stream with only one resolution
• Fix removeEventListener player embed api
• Progressively cleanup actor images without width from the database
• Fix broken dates on localized pages
• Prevent job queue to be started before plugins
• Fix old database enum names
• Don't display remove file icon in admin videos overviews if we can't delete the file