Features
- (WIP) Locale changes and history are now properly synchronized between windows
- The Invidious instance is now randomized on startup.
The user can save the currently set Invidious instance as the default value for subsequent startups in the settings.
- When a search filter is applied, the filter icon now has a colored ring around it to indicate that filters are used
- You can change the volume of the video by scrolling over the video player
- Pasting links to videos inside a playlist now opens the video in the playlist
- Captions settings (e.g. font size) are now persisted onto disk
- You can now open videos in an external Video player (Currently supported: MPV)
- Custom definable video forward and rewind intervals
- New Trending pages for music, gaming & movies
- You can navigate to subscriptions on FreeTube logo click
- Support for importing/exporting csv YouTube subscriptions
Fixes
- Comments are now working again
- Importing subscriptions from NewPipe no longer fails if the file contains subscriptions from services other than YouTube
- When a video does not have any comments, FT will not create an error anymore
- Emojis in profile bubbles will no longer display a replacement character (�)
- When the player gets muted, the player volume's session value is now correctly set to 0
- The trending and most popular buttons are now properly hidden in portrait mode if set as such in the settings.
- If the autoplay countdown is in effect and the user navigates out of that page, the app will no longer display the remaining toasts related to the rest of the countdown.
- Fixed a bug where disabling smooth scrolling didn't work unless the user manually closed and reopened the app.
- Fixed a bug where, very occasionally, an error window related to
setNormalBoundswould pop up when closing
- Window titles now respect your locale settings
- Live chat and comments now escape HTML characters
- Playlist description no longer overflows and hides the share playlist button
- YouTube Shorts are now accepted in the search bar
- Channel elements now are dynamic when the window is smaller
- Featured channel icons now display properly
- The description element does not show when the description is empty
- Playlists now play the next video when using Invidious API
- The media player does not show current time as tooltip when previewing over video.
- Fixed buttons across app to toggle instead of them triggering the button again
- Large changelog messages now scroll
Changes
- The https://yewtu.be Invidious instance has enabled their API for FreeTube and can now used. It will also be shown in the instance list within settings
- Enables the following languages: Estonian, Serbian
- Copying or opening links of videos in a playlist now contain the playlist information for YouTube and Invidious
- The large play button in the video player can be disabled in the settings, so screenshots can be taken more easily
- The spellchecker for the top search bar has been disabled
- The search bar's filters' menu appearance has been improved
- The playlist page now allows you to navigate to the author's channel; clicking the the playlist's thumbnail navigates you to the first video of the playlist
- The reload button for feeds is now fixed on scroll
- Theater mode button is now in the media player controls
- Improvement to speeds of reimporting subscriptions