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IMPORTANT NOTES

  • PeerTube REST API and the web admin require admin password confirmation for sensitive admin actions (plugin installation, user role change, etc.). This can be disabled in YAML config: security.password_confirmation.enabled
  • PeerTube now uses pnpm 12. Your pnpm version should automatically download the latest version when pnpm install is run, but if you see an error please upgrade pnpm
  • Many new object storage sections were added to support more object types: object_storage.avatars, object_storage.thumbnails, object_storage.storyboards, object_storage.torrents, object_storage.uploads, object_storage.staging, object_storage.cache and object_storage.redundancy.
    If you use object storage, you must configure them (bucket name, prefix, base URL) before running v9.0.
    Existing local files can then be moved to object storage using npm run create-move-file-storage-job -- --to-object-storage --all

NGINX

Configuration

This section is not exhaustive

  • open_telemetry.tracing.jeager_exporter has been changed to open_telemetry.tracing.otlp_exporter
  • database.read_replicas to configure PostgreSQL read replicas (see Features)
  • New object_storage sections (see IMPORTANT NOTES)
  • video_file.lifecycle to automatically prune video files
  • tracker.urls to configure an external remote tracker to handle large amount of viewers using P2P
  • redundancy.videos.timeout to configure max redundancy timeout #7778
  • log.audit.enabled to disable audit log #7777 and log.audit.max_age to configure audit log retention
  • security.password_confirmation.enabled and rates_limit.password_confirmation to configure admin password confirmation
  • live.ping and live.ping_timeout to configure ping and ping timeout of RTMP streams #7846

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

  • Important With the introduction of horizontal scalability in PeerTube, your plugin can be instantiated on multiple independent processes.
    You must take this into account when you develop your plugin. For example, don't store things in process memory between HTTP requests, since a request can be handled by another process.
  • Important When object storage is enabled, uploaded video files are staged in object storage. If a plugin uses filter:api.video.upload.accept.result or filter:api.video.update-file.accept.result, PeerTube downloads the staged file on the local disk (videoFile.path) during the upload request so the plugin can read it, which may time out for big files.
    This behavior is deprecated: in PeerTube v10, videoFile.path will not be available anymore for staged files. Plugins that need the file content must read it from videoFile.url, a temporary URL of the staged file set when the upload is staged in object storage
  • Add server plugin hooks (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/plugins):
    • filter:api.account.get.result
    • filter:api.config.about.get.result
    • filter:api.recommendations.videos.list.params & filter:api.recommendations.videos.list.result #7633
    • filter:api.video.duplicate.video-attribute.result & action:api.video.duplicated #7813
    • filter:video.ownership-change.release-auto-blacklist.result
    • filter:transcription.transcriber.result to provide a custom transcriber #7808
    • filter:sitemap.pages.list.result #7848
    • action:live.video.segment.created
  • Add request headers to filter:api.user.signup.allowed.result and filter:api.user.request-signup.allowed.result hook params
  • Add server plugin helpers:
    • peertubeHelpers.user.removeUser to delete a user
  • Add new client plugin id selectors:
    • #plugin-selector-profile-form-username-field-group & #plugin-selector-profile-form-description-field-group #7769
  • Add input-radio type to plugin form fields #7849

Custom markup API

Documentation: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/custom-client-markup

  • Add <peertube-hero> element to inject a large banner with a title and a description
  • Add peertube-card element to inject a block with a title and a description
  • Add support for data-playlist-id filter for <peertube-videos-list> element #7822
  • Add data-more-href, data-more-path, data-more-label to <peertube-videos-list> to display a "More" button below the list
  • Add data-path to <peertube-button> to reference a local link

Features

  • 🎉 Introduce horizontal scalability 🎉
    • Secondary nodes can be run on the same server or on a remote server to take most of the HTTP traffic off the main process
    • PostgreSQL replicas can be configured so PeerTube uses them for routes that consume PostgreSQL CPU (video listing, search, etc.)
    • See the dedicated documentation for more information: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/horizontal-scalability
  • 🎉 Object storage support for actor images (avatars/banners), thumbnails, storyboards, torrents and uploads 🎉
  • 🎉 Add video files lifecycle management so PeerTube can automatically prune video files depending on criteria ("no views since 6 months for example") 🎉
  • 🎉 Allow video makers to save the result of the Studio into a new video 🎉 #7813
  • Audit log system re-architecture:
    • Log entries are now written in the database to support horizontal scalability
    • Audit system now logs almost all available actions users can make on a PeerTube platform
    • Admins can easily filter audit logs in the UI, using the dedicated Audit logs page
  • Allow video makers to decide what videos are recommended when viewers watch their video: (any/same instance/same channel) #7633
  • Add AI usage information that video makers can fill to specify if the video was generated using AI
    • Multiple nuances: Generated by AI / Containing AI-generated content / No AI-generated content
    • A badge is displayed in video miniatures and video watch page if the video has been generated by AI
    • Users can automatically filter videos that declare AI usage
  • Add Commercial content metadata to videos that video makers can fill
    • Multiple nuances: Paid partnership / Promotional content / None
    • A text is displayed in the video player for a few seconds if the video declares a paid partnership or a promotional content
  • Require admin password confirmation for sensitive admin actions
  • Add default user filters for categories and video types (VOD/lives) so they are applied in all pages that list videos (like we already do with video languages)
  • Admins can choose to display scheduled lives in Browse videos page #7825
  • Add ability for admins to translate their instance metadata (terms, description, code of conduct, etc.)
  • Add a captions badge on video miniatures if the video contains a subtitle in the user's language
  • Add Captions column when listing My videos (hidden by default)
  • Improve SEO
    • Improve content seen by crawlers by rendering important content in server
    • Split sitemap to reference all available URLs on big instances
    • Do not lazy load the video poster for crawlers
  • Support Internationalized Domain Name for instance hosts #7834
  • Add Podcasting 2.0 chapters support to podcast feeds #7850
  • Support 2FA for authentication plugins that use username/password (LDAP for example) #7773
  • Allow filtering comments feed on local videos and local comments #7827
  • Allow admins to filter videos by privacy in Admin Videos Overview
  • Display minimum duration before counting a view configured by the instance #7821
  • SQL and index optimizations

Bug fixes

  • Fix broken HLS playlist FLAC and unknown audio codecs #7852
  • Keep the 3D packing of videos that declare it in their container #7816
  • Keep the order of imported videos with channel synchronization
  • Fix crash when handling broken RTMP stream
  • Fix RTMP crash with stream id = 0
  • Fix peers metric
  • Fix desync audio for some live replays
  • Fix studio edition with latest ffmpeg versions
  • Fix zombie live streams
  • Skip the too long password check of auth plugins that support username/password #7828
  • Fix keyboard shortcut with non latin keys
  • Don't notify on empty generated subtitle
  • Format dates using the appropriate locale region
  • Fix retrying video import by admin
  • Don't run youtube-dl auto update if HTTP video import is disabled #7838
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