Chocobozzz/PeerTube v8.0.0-rc.1

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IMPORTANT NOTES

• Database migrations of this version can take a long time (up to 30 minutes on an instance with many users/federation actors)
• You need to manually execute a migration script after your upgrade while PeerTube is running and the database migration is complete (Migrations finished. New migration version schema: 965 in PeerTube startup logs):
  • 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-8.0.js
  • Docker installation: cd /var/www/peertube-docker && docker compose exec -u peertube peertube node dist/scripts/migrations/peertube-8.0.js
• yarn NodeJS packages manager has been removed in favor of pnpm. Follow the dependencies guide to install pnpm on your system before the upgrade
• For Docker users, please read the Docker section below
• Supported NodeJS versions are >= 20.19 and < 21 or >= 22.12 and <23

Configuration

• Remove http_server unused section from .yaml configuration files
• Introduce views.videos.local.max_age configuration to cleanup old views from local videos
• Add more STUN Servers to webrtc.stun_servers to improve P2P robustness
• Add ability to increase video transcription timeout in video_transcription.timeout
• Add client.new_features_info configuration to disable popups explaining new features to users
• Add user.password_constraints.min_length config to specify user password minimum length #6945

Docker

• PeerTube Dockerfile is now based on Debian Trixie. chocobozzz/peertube:production can be used instead of chocobozzz/peertube:production-bookworm (Debian suffix version is deprecated)
• PostgreSQL version has been upgraded in Docker Compose. Please follow this guide if you want to upgrade PostgreSQL in your Docker Compose
• Redis version has been upgraded in Docker Compose. No maintenance task is required if you upgrade Redis in your Docker Compose

Plugins/Themes/Embed/REST APIs

• REST API:
  • Remove deprecated filename field from VideoSource object
  • Remove deprecated commentsEnabled field from Video object
  • Remove deprecated redundancies.filesfield from VideoRedundancy object
  • Deprecate captionPath field from VideoCaption object
  • Deprecate storyboardPath from Storyboard object
  • The HTTP response code for password-protected videos can be either 401 or 403, depending on the request headers
• Theme:
  • Rename --input-placeholder CSS variables into --input-placeholder-color
  • Introduce --input-placeholder-font-size CSS variable

Features

• 🎉 Add channel collaboration 🎉
  • Channel owners can invite users of their instance to become editors of their channel
  • Editors can accept or reject the invitation
  • Editors can manage videos, playlists & comments of the channel
  • An Activity page has been added to list actions performed within a channel
• 🎉 Video player redesign 🎉
  • Introduce a new clean and modern theme named Lucide
  • Original theme is still used by default, and has been renamed to Galaxy
  • The player theme can be changed by the admin for the entire instance or by the channel for all its videos. It can also be changed for individual videos.
  • Use vertical audio volume control for Galaxy player theme
• Improve video imports UX
  • Introduce an Import failed state to clearly identify failed imports
  • Display import state in video manage page and watch page
  • Add ability to retry video imports
  • Channel synchronization automatically retry failed imports
• Redesign notifications popup and page
• Replace yarn package manager by pnpm to provide faster PeerTube installation/upgrade and faster plugin installation/upgrade
• Add admin options to customize default Browse videos behaviour #7193
• Add ability to handle storyboard generation job by runners #7191
• Add Resend verification email button to admin users list #7272
• Improve video manage and admin config forms accessibility
• Add ability to insert a new playlist at first position in the channel
• Add ability to copy codecs, if possible, for HLS transcoding
• Also search by account name when searching for channels
• Faster start time seek on HLS videos

Bug fixes

• Fix avatar max size information
• Fix scroll issue when navigating from homepage
• Fix viewers stats date filter label after a reset
• Fix select languages component label
• Correctly load user video language settings in video filters
• Accept non-HTTPS URLs for the search index
• Fix admin abuse URL in emails
• Show videos to owners even if they are muted on the instance
• Correctly sort scheduled videos when listing my videos
• Fix account mention redirection
• Display all countries/regions labels in viewer stats graph
• Keep videos order after user import
• Fix HTML headings hierarchy to improve SEO
• Users logged-in by an external auth plugin can choose to display their email publicly (required by Apple for the podcast feed)
• Fix podcast feed video bitrate attribute that can be refused by some podcast applications
• Fix video quota information estimation
• Translate RSS feeds title
• Fix transcription CORS issue if the caption file is stored externally