v4.1.0-rc.1

IMPORTANT NOTES

• NodeJS 12 support is deprecated and will be removed in PeerTube 4.2

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

• Introduce ability for plugins to create client pages: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute-plugins?id=create-client-page
• Plugins that register custom video fields can choose in which tab they want to display them and can report errors: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute-plugins?id=add-custom-fields-to-video-form
• Add new client plugin id selectors
  • Add #plugin-selector-about-instance-moderation, #plugin-selector-about-instance-other-information, #plugin-selector-about-instance-features, #plugin-selector-about-instance-statistics, #plugin-selector-about-menu-instance, #plugin-selector-about-menu-peertube, #plugin-selector-about-menu-network in about page #4597
  • Add #plugin-selector-menu-user-dropdown-language-item in menu #4597
• Add client plugin hooks
  • filter:login.instance-about-plugin-panels.create.result and filter:signup.instance-about-plugin-panels.create.result to add custom instance information in login/signup pages
• Add server plugin hooks
  • filter:api.server.stats.get.result
  • filter:api.video.upload.video-attribute.result, filter:api.video.import-url.video-attribute.result, filter:api.video.import-torrent.video-attribute.result, filter:api.video.live.video-attribute.result when creating a video object
  • action:api.video-caption.created and action:api.video-caption.deleted #4650
• Server helpers
  • videos.getFiles(videoId: number) to list video files (webtorrent, hls and thumbnail files)
  • videos.ffprobe(path: string) to get ffprobe JSON result
• Publish @peertube/peertube-type NPM module that can be used by TypeScript plugins
• Add ability to disable P2P in embed using p2p query parameter in embed URL

Maintenance

• REST API
  • Deprecate webTorrentEnabled in favour of p2pEnabled for user model
  • Add ability to pause/resume the job queue
• Also publish stable releases on https://builds.joinpeertube.org/release
• Add ability for admins to specify youtube-dl/yt-dlp python binary path #4706
• PeerTube server startup is faster

CLI tools

• Also remove HLS files when using prune-storage script
• Support --plugin-version option when installing a plugin #4599

Features

• 🎉 Player improvements
  • Increase control bar size on desktop & mobile
  • Add overlay on tap to easily play/pause the video on mobile
  • Automatically move to landscape when full screen a video on mobile
  • Add fast forward/rewind on double tap on mobile
  • Cleanup, fix and add player hotkeys
  • Keep control bar displayed when settings panel is opened
  • Faster hiding transition for control bar
  • Stop confusing peer indication in control bar when p2p is disabled
  • Try to fast forward video on HLS decode error
• 🎉 More admin customizations
  • Specify default Publish video attributes (download enabled, comments enabled, privacy, licence)
  • Choose to automatically redirect users on the external auth platform on login button click
  • Set default P2P policy for the player
• Search improvements
  • Add Result type filter in search (videos, channels or playlists)
  • Display only video results when searching on video metadata (tags, categories etc)
• Video imports
  • Users can cancel and delete video imports
  • Add ability to filter video imports by target URL
• Add ability for users to delete individual elements in videos history
• Show date and views counter in playlist element miniature #4396
• Add norsk locale support
• Check mute status and display mute badges in channel and account pages
• Add No linguistic content video language option #4631
• Don't send notifications to admins/moderators if an admin/moderator reported an abuse
• Add ability for moderators/admins to edit any channel #4608
• Add a refresh button to admin videos overview page #4753
• Add Official badge to official plugins in admin plugin pages
• Automatically clean unavailable remote ActivityPub resources
• Media RSS feed displays video file as default enclosure instead of torrent
• Use white background for PeerTube icons (instead of transparency)
• Show private badge for private videos in playlists #4767

Bug fixes

• Fix weird require bug on plugin upgrade
• Fix plugin storage return value when storing a JSON array #4640
• Decrease delay to cleanup resumable uploads (to 1 hour)
• Update torrent metadata on video update
• Fix HLS player with videos that have stream duration inconsistencies
• Fix player crash if the video contains only audio resolution
• Fix ffmpeg crash when using a transcoding plugin encoder that doesn't support PeerTube B-frame strategy
• Fix transcoding failure for audio only uploads
• Don't run HLS transcoding when running manually WebTorrent transcoding from the admin
• Don't run audio transcoding with video only file
• Correctly send new HLS files after re-transcoding to object storage
• Fix stuck state when move transcoding job failed
• Correctly display internal videos of internal subscriptions
• Correctly display all videos history to users
• Fix video upload with big preview file
• Fix description/comment timestamp click of external video
• Add missing mediaType information to AP objects
• Fix abuse list crash on deleted reporter account
• Convert markdown to HTML/plain text for RSS feeds
• Search on tags is now case insensitive
• Forbid comments/captions listing of private/internal videos
• Prevent video import on non unicast ips
• Improve markdown to plain text converter, especially when handling lists
• Fix scheduled publication on upload