v3.0.0-rc.1

IMPORTANT NOTES

• Update the default configuration to not federate unlisted videos. We recommend to admins to update this setting
• Update the default configuration to remove remote video views to reduce DB size and improve performances. We recommend to admins to update this setting
• Remove deprecated video abuse API

Maintenance

• Refresh nginx configuration #3313

Docker

• Add nginx behind traefik to benefit nginx optimizations of some PeerTube routes #2531

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

• Add ability for auth plugins to redirect user on logout #32 & #33
• Add input-password setting to plugins #3375
• Add server plugin hooks (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/#/api-plugins):
  • filter:api.accounts.videos.list.params
  • filter:api.accounts.videos.list.result
  • filter:api.video-channels.videos.list.params
  • filter:api.video-channels.videos.list.result
• Authenticate the user if possible in plugin router #3400

Features

• 🎉 🎉 🎉 Support live streaming 🎉 🎉 🎉 #3250
  • Create a live video using the PeerTube interface and start streaming using your favorite streaming software (OBS, ffmpeg...)
  • If the admin allows it, add ability for users to save a replay of their live
  • Support live transcoding in multiple resolutions
  • Admins can set a limit of created lives per user/instance and a duration limit
  • This is the first step of live streaming, we'll consolidate the feature next year
• Update left menu #3296
  • Add My settings, My library, Administration (if admin) below the username
  • Rename section titles to In my account, and On instance name for better block scopes identification
  • Removed confusing Account settings and Channel settings from user dropdown
  • Add My notifications in user dropdown
• Split account horizontal menu in two #3296
  • My library containing Channels, Videos, Imports, Ownership changes, Playlists, Subscriptions and History
  • My settings containing Account settings, Notifications and Moderation tools
• Add page in admin to manage video comments of the instance
  • List latest comments
  • Delete comments of a specific user
  • Delete comments in bulk
• Delete notifications related to muted accounts/instances
• Add ability for moderators to display all videos (not yet published, private...) in channels/accounts pages
• Support GIF avatars upload and federation #3329
• Automatically enable auto block of new videos if the admin enables signups in the admin interface
• Allow private syndication feed of videos from subscriptions #3074
• Improve default account and channel avatars #3326
• Accessibility/UI:
  • More explicit error messages for file uploads #3347
  • Allow to retry a failed video upload #3347
  • Improve jobs and logs view #3127
  • Use badges for NSFW and Unfederated labels in video block list table
  • Improved video rating popover text if the user is not logged-in #3168
  • Improve markdown-it emoji list column display #3253
  • Add help popup for choosing a licence #3306
  • Change Upload button to Publish
  • More player download/upload title details #3394
  • Create a dedicated transcoding tab in admin config
  • Improve 404 page
  • Improve login form #3357
  • Add a title attribute on views element to see the view counter #3365
  • Clearer titles for periods in recently added and videos from subscriptions pages
  • Select first available channel when accepting ownership change #3382
  • Hide channel registration step if default quota is 0 #3393
• Add possibility to share origin URL to video if it's not local #3201
• Render markdown in email notifications for new comments #3255
• Add an admin setting to force ipv4 in youtube-dl #3311
• Add ability for admins to put markdown in all fields of About page #3371

Bug fixes

• Fix inability to delete a channel due to a bug in the confirm modal
• Fix ownership change modal accept button
• Fix incorrect ActivityPub IDs
• Do not transcode videos to an higher bitrate than the source
• Fix video display of muted accounts on overview page
• Fix transcoding errors in readonly docker containers #3198
• Fix running another transcoding job using the CLI on a video that was already transcoded
• Fix embed on Brave web browser
• Fix break line display for re-draft comments #3261
• Fix hidden loading bar
• Fix jobs pagination
• Fix missing player localized strings
• Fix instance file size stats when the admin enabled HLS
• Fix embed of HLS videos on non HTTPS websites
• Hide embed dock when title/description are disabled
• Fix follow notification when the follower has been deleted
• Fix client override endpoint in nginx configuration #3297
• Fix overflow of some dropdowns
• Fix infinite scrollin in channel's playlists page
• Fix anchors scrolling in About page
• Fix canonical URLs of videos and playlists #3406
• Fix CLI import script when importing Youtube channels
• Fix video tag min length validator
• Fix user notification preferences column width #3352
• Fix forgotten/reset password UI #3351
• Fix 00:00 player timecode in video description and comments
• Avoid too large federation cert error messages in logs
• Fix registration form width on mobile #3274
• Fix "Too many packets buffered for output stream" ffmpeg error with some videos
• Fix 500 error when fetching unknown video thread
• Fix infinite scroll in Local videos page when enabling the Display all videos checkbox on big screens
• Fix menu theme colors #3376
• Fix playlist list name/displayName sort field #3385
• Fix 401 error display in embeds
• Do not crash if SMTP server is down, instead log an error #3457