Features
- Updated to Electron v12
- This enables Video Acceleration for Linux users. Your GPU will now assist in watching videos, lowering CPU usage (Windows / Mac users already have this)
- You can now hide the playlists tab with the Distraction Free Settings
- You can now customize the time interval when FreeTube will wait before playing the next video. Setting this to 0 seconds will play the next video immediately
- When adding channels to a profile, you can now select which profile you are referencing to grab from instead of always showing the "All Channels" profile
- Video URLs now check for the
tparameter and will navigate to that time in the video
Fixes
- The Channel module in the local API has been updated to fix several issues
- Featured Channels are shown again
- Pagination is working again
- Search is working again
- The Comments module in the local API has been updated to fix the issue where sorting by newest wasn't consistently working
- The module for live chat in the local API has a temporary patch to get it working again
- Persistent media notifications now show more information instead of just the title of the video
- Links in the description that are hashes will no longer crash the application
- The time a video was published is now shown in the video recommendations section (Local API only)
- The app will no longer play the next video automatically if you decide to replay the current video
- The CLI will no longer redirect to search if it found an invalid URL. This fixes certain issues where FreeTube would navigate to the search page on startup
Changes
- New Icon for Windows / Mac / Linux systems. This Windows / Linux icon was created and used by the Papirus Icon Theme and is created by varlesh. The Mac icon is created by creepertron95. Thank you very much for the icons!
- The build scripts now support building for ARMv7l. Expect to see these in the nightly builds and possibly the main website here soon
- Sorting channel playlists by oldest is now removed as YouTube has removed this functionality on their site. It is no longer possible to obtain this information
Comments
A lot of these new changes and features are from recent pull requests, so thank you very much to the contributors who helped towards this release!