Chocobozzz/PeerTube v5.1.0-rc.1

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IMPORTANT NOTES

• Update web browsers support list:
  • Drop support of Safari 11 on iOS
  • Drop support of Safari 11 on desktop
  • Drop support of Firefox 68 on desktop
• Minimum recommended Redis version is 6.2. Version 6.0 should still work: see this comment for more information

Maintenance

• PeerTube OpenTelemetry
  • Add BitTorrent tracker metrics
  • Add ability to disable HTTP request duration metrics (can have a high tag cardinality)
• Add x-powered-by HTTP header in PeerTube response. Can be disabled in PeerTube configuration

Documentation

• PeerTube documentation website now uses VitePress: https://docs.joinpeertube.org

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

• Add ability to set playbackRate in URL (watch page and embed) #5486
• Auth plugins:
  • Can set default adminFlags, videoQuota and videoQuotaDaily user attributes
  • Introduce userUpdater hook function so external auth plugins can update the user on user login: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute/plugins#add-external-auth-methods
  • Automatically redirect to the default external auth on PeerTube refresh token expiration
• Add server plugin hooks (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/plugins):
  • filter:api.user.me.subscription-videos.list.params & filter:api.user.me.subscription-videos.list.result #5648
• Add server plugin helpers:
  • getServerListeningConfig to get PeerTube listening configuration
• Convert some colors to PeerTube CSS variables to improve theme compatibility

Features

• 🎉 Implement user registration approval (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/managing-users#registration-approval) #5544
  • If enabled, the user has to fill a Registration reason input
  • Moderators have to to accept/reject the registration with a Moderation response that will be sent by email to the user
  • If the registration is accepted, the user and its channel are automatically created
• Add "back to live" button in player
  • The Live button is red when the player is synced with the live
  • It becomes grey when behind the live edge
  • Clicking on the grey button re-sync the player with the live edge
• Add Icelandic & Ukrainian locales
• Add Global views default trending algorithm option in admin configuration #5471
• Performance:
  • Blocked IPs by the tracker are now stored in NodeJS memory instead of Redis, reducing PeerTube load
  • Optimize video comments SQL requests
  • Optimize custom markup live rendering in admin
• UI/UX:
  • Use 99+ instead of 99 when having more than 99 notifications
  • Use channel display name instead of channel handle in My videos input filter #5575
  • Display channel name in playlist element instead of account name
  • Display channel as author in RSS feeds
• Custom markup:
  • Support mailto links
  • Support short UUID to fetch a video
• Admins can customize access and refresh tokens lifetime

Bug fixes

• Fix object storage incompatibility with some S3 providers that don't support ACL
• Fix signup limit
• Prevent 500 on invalid short UUID parameter
• Player:
  • More robust player "stats for nerds" popup if there is not stream available
  • Don't display playback rate setting for lives
  • Don't handle playback rate hotkeys for lives
  • Fix clicking on PeerTube instance button
  • Fix always resuming the end of the video
• Process videos list requests in correct order
• Correctly fill the Support field when updating a video
• Fix Auto play video setting for anonymous users
• UI:
  • Fix table columns max width
  • Use Unknown instead of Misc when the video category is not set
  • Prevent layout shift when listing videos
  • Fix instance stats anchor link
  • Fix menu content overlay on tablets
  • Fix button overflows
  • Handle 502 HTTP errors in client notifier
  • Fix resetting chart zoom in video stats page
  • Fix search page not loading all available results
• Display the update button when the stable release of beta/alpha plugin is available
• Always list NSFW videos in playlists (the frontend is in charge to blur the video element if the NSFW setting is Hide or Blur)
• Always list NSFW videos in admin
• Improve client log report:
  • Don't send client error on 404
  • Prevent sending invalid error/warn logs coming from HLS player #5484
• Fix out of sync audio when cutting a video in Studio
• Fix "unique viewers" inconsistency with countries
• Fix mention detection in comments