v4.2.0-rc.1

IMPORTANT NOTES

• Important You need to execute manually a migration script (can be executed after your upgrade, while your PeerTube instance is running) to generate smaller avatar miniatures:
  • Classic installation: cd /var/www/peertube/peertube-latest && sudo -u peertube NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config NODE_ENV=production node dist/scripts/migrations/peertube-4.2.js
  • Docker installation: cd /var/www/peertube-docker && docker-compose exec -u peertube peertube node dist/scripts/migrations/peertube-4.2.js
• Important SQL migrations (in particular 0685-multiple-actor-images) can take several minutes to complete
• Important You must update your nginx configuration to support video web editor: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/install-any-os?id=nginx
• REST API:
  • PUT /api/v1/videos/{id}/watching is deprecated, use POST /api/v1/videos/videos/{id}/views instead: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api-rest-reference.html#operation/addView

Maintenance

• Add client.videos.resumable_upload.max_chunk_size config option #4857
• Add object_storage.upload_acl config option #4861
• Add ability to set RTMP/RTMPS listening hostname using rtmp.hostname/rtmps.hostname and public RTMP/RTMPS hostname using rtmp.public_hostname/rtmps.public_hostname

Docker

• Use NodeJS 16 in PeerTube docker image: administrators may have to reinstall PeerTube plugins that use native NodeJS dependencies
• Support readonly tmp directory (if you want to use tmp directory as a volume)

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

• Theme:
  • Add --mainBackgroundHoverColor and --greySecondaryBackgroundColor CSS variables
• Add server plugin hooks
  • filter:api.video-playlist.videos.list.params and filter:api.video-playlist.videos.list.result
• Support getSettings(), isLoggedIn() and getAuthHeader() client plugin helpers in embed
• Player URL query parameters:
  • Support controlBar=0 to hide player control bar. See the documentation for more information

Features

• 🎉 Add video edition from the PeerTube web interface 🎉
  • Cut the video (set a new start/new end)
  • Add an intro at the beginning and/or an outro at the end of the video
  • Add an icon/watermark in the top right corner of the video
  • PeerTube will automatically transcode the new video and replace the original one
  • ✨ Funded by "la Direction du numérique du Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale, de la Jeunesse et des Sports" ✨
• 🎉 Add advanced statistics of a specific video 🎉
  • Provide Average watch time, Total watch time and Peak viewers video statistics
  • Display total viewers, aggregated watch time and audience retention in interactive time series graphs
  • Display viewer countries in bar chart if not disabled by admins
  • ✨ Funded by HowlRound Theatre Commons at Emerson College ✨
• 🎉 Add latency setting support for lives (small latency without P2P or high latency to increase P2P ratio) 🎉
• 🎉 Add ability to save a replay of every streaming session of a permanent live 🎉
  • ✨ Funded by HowlRound Theatre Commons at Emerson College ✨
• Add simple subtitle edition from video captions tab in video edition form #4666
• Display live streaming sessions details in permanent live information modal
• Add ability to also mute users when banning them #4660
• UI improvements:
  • Add ability for admins to display author avatar in video miniatures #4639 #4823
  • Display author avatar in embed
  • Move admin comments list in Overviews menu
  • Add a Refresh button to admin comments list
  • Add ability to sort videos by total views
• Add Persian locale support
• Add previous page redirection support on external auth login
• Support proxy for object storage #4973
• Add "Only display embed URL" checkbox in share modal

Bug fixes

• Video uploads fixes:
  • Fix invalid token during long uploads
  • Fix upload on server with a slow disk
  • Fix upload of some videos with unknown duration (.m2v for example)
  • Fix 2 hours limit on uploads
  • Fix upload page title #4904
  • Fix video upload with some characters in filename
  • Fix .ac3 and .mts upload on some OS
• Fix avatar with account username starting with a number
• Fix client html cache on theme update
• Disallow unlisted video indexation
• Allow oembed to fetch unlisted videos
• Stop removing remote Mastodon rates
• Fix email links displayed twice in text version
• Fix user quota inconsistencies in admin when users use lives
• Fix admin instance following list when sorting by Redundancy allowed
• More reliable object storage upload when using multipart #4903
• Correctly handle HTTP signature draft 11 requests (without date header but with (created))
• Fix ctrl + 0-9 player hotkeys conflicting with web browser hotkeys