iv-org/invidious v2.20250314.0

Release v2.20250314.0

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Wrap-up

This release brings the long awaited feature of supporting multiple audio tracks in a video, some bug fixes and UX improvements, and many other things primarily oriented to self-hosting instances, and developers using the API.

The Community channel tab has been replaced by Posts in light of YouTube changes, but the URL remains the same.

Tamil is now available as an interface language

Automatic instance redirects will no longer have the chance to annoyingly redirect to the same instance you're on.

Due to their requirements for video playback, Invidious will now log warning messages when either inv-sig-helper, po_token or visitor_data is not configured

Invidious is now able to listen through a UNIX socket

User notifications are now batched for each channel

The minimum Crystal version supported by Invidious now 1.12.0

New features & important changes

For users

• Invidious now supports videos with multiple audio tracks allowing you to select which one you want to hear with!
• Channel pages now have a proper previous page button
• RSS feeds for channels will no longer contain the channel's profile picture
• Support for channel courses page has been added
• Community tabs has been replaced with Posts to comply with YouTube changes
• Tamil is now an available interface language.

For instance owners

• Invidious is now able to listen on a UNIX socket
• User notifications are now batched by channels, significantly reducing database load.
• 1.12.0 is now the oldest Crystal version that Invidious supports
• The example config will no longer force an http proxy to be configured
• Invidious will now warn when any top-level config option must be set to a custom value, instead of just HMAC_KEY
• Due to their requirements for video playback, Invidious will log warning messages when either inv-sig-helper, po_token or visitor_data is not configured

For developers

• Invidious is now compliant to Crystal 1.15 formatting rules, which are incompatible with earlier versions.
• /api/v1/transcripts/{id} has been added to the API to allow for fetching the transcripts for a video. The arguments are the same as the captions endpoint.
• author_thumbnail field has been added to videos in the various paged api endpoints
• published field has been added to the API response for a video's related videos.
• Docker builds now uses the Crystal compiler cache, reducing build times on repeated builds significantly.
• Invidious ajax action handlers has undergone a clean up and may face compatibility issues with code that depends on these endpoints.
• The versions of Crystal that we test in CI/CD are now: 1.12.1, 1.13.2, 1.14.0, 1.15.0

Bugs fixed

User-side

• Local video listen mode is now preserved when clicking on a video in the sidebar playlist widget
• Automatic instance redirects will no longer redirect to the same instance the user is on
• Fix some thumbnails responses returning 404
• Videos: Fix missing host parameter on playback URLs when local=true
• Fix HLS being used for non-livestream videos
• Fix timeupdate event errors when required elements are missing
• User: Ensure IO is properly closed when importing NewPipe subscriptions

For instance owners

• Fix http proxy configuration being forced by the standard example config

API

• /api/v1/videos/{id} will no longer return an occasional empty JSON response

Full list of pull requests merged since the last release

• Make Invidious compliant to Crystal 1.15 formatting rules (#5014, by @syeopite)
• Remove formatter check on container workflows (#5153, by @syeopite)
• Videos: Fix missing host parameter on playback URLs when local=true (#4992, by @SamantazFox)
• Remove stdlib override for proxy initialization (#5065, by @syeopite)
• Add support for author thumbnails in search api for videos (#5072, thanks @ChunkyProgrammer)
• Skip route if resp got closed by before handlers (#5073, by @syeopite)
• Fix video thumbnails in mixes (#5116, thanks @iBicha)
• CI: Drop support for versions prior to 1.12 and add 1.15.0 (#5148, by @syeopite)
• [Continuing #5094] Set language info for dash audio streams and sort (#5149, thanks @giuliano-macedo)
• Warn when any top-level config is "CHANGE_ME!!" (#5150, by @syeopite)
• Comment out http_proxy in example config (#5151, by @syeopite)
• API: Add a 'published' video parameter for related videos (#4149, thanks @RadoslavL)
• Ensure IO is properly closed when importing NewPipe subscriptions (#4346, thanks @ChunkyProgrammer)
• Carry over audio-only mode in playlist links (#4784, thanks @krystof1119)
• Routes: Clean ajax actions handlers (#5036, by @SamantazFox)
• Frontend: Add a first page and previous page buttons for channel navigation (#4123, thanks @RadoslavL)
• RSS: Channel + Playlist improvements (#4298, thanks @ChunkyProgrammer)
• Batch user notifications together (#4486, thanks @999eagle)
• JS: Update timeupdate event making it more defensive to prevent errors (#4782, thanks @PMK)
• Add API endpoint for fetching transcripts from YouTube by (#4788, by @syeopite)
• Translations update from Hosted Weblate by (#4989, thanks to our many translators)
• Add the ability to listen on UNIX sockets (#5112, thanks @Caian)
• Pick a different instance upon redirect (#5154, thanks @epicsam123)
• Add Courses to channel page and channel API (#5158, thanks @ChunkyProgrammer)
• fix /api/v1/videos/:id returns 200 with no content (#5162, thanks @Drikanis)
• Use Crystal compiler cache in docker builds (#5163, by @syeopite)
• Channels: Fix community tab by (#5183, thanks @Fijxu)
• Fix typo in src/invidious/routes/images.cr (#5184, by @syeopite)
• Fix an issue with the HLS manifest check for livestream videos (#5189, thanks @alexmaras)
• Warn when po_token, visitor_data and/or inv-sig-helper is not configured (#5202, by @syeopite)