v6.3.0-rc.1

IMPORTANT NOTES

• Important You need to manually execute a migration script after your upgrade while PeerTube is running.
  The purpose of this migration is to update video files metadata in the database.
  This migration can take a long time if you have many federated/local videos, but is designed to be safe to run multiple times:
  • 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-6.3.js
  • Docker installation: cd /var/www/peertube-docker && docker-compose exec -u peertube peertube node dist/scripts/migrations/peertube-6.3.js

Maintenance

• Reduce error and warning logs generated by clients and the federation
• Introduce peertube_playback_buffer_stalled_count_total OpenTelemetry playback metric
• Removed access_log: off for static video requests in the nginx configuration template, now the player doesn't use WebTorrent anymore (which was doing a large amount of small HTTP requests)
• PeerTube introduces a new download API endpoint that remuxes the videos on the fly to merge video and audio streams. A custom rate limit can be configured in the YAML configuration

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

• Reduce @peertube/peertube-types package size

Features

• 🎉 Separate HLS audio and video streams 🎉
  • Can be enabled for VODs in the admin configuration for new videos
  • Automatically enabled for lives
  • If enabled, an "Audio only" resolution is available in the HLS player
  • The live can ingest and output an "Audio only" stream
  • Reduce video disk space used since we only store one version of the audio stream
  • The download modal has a new panel so users can easily select the resolution they want to download
• 🎉 Introduce a transcription widget 🎉
  • Users can open the transcription widget that appears next to the player
  • The transcription is in sync with the video
  • Users can search the transcript and click on a specific segment to automatically jump the video to the appropriate timecode
• UI/UX:
  • More visible chapter markers in player control bar
  • Add a button to copy server logs in admin
  • Smoother live autoplay: only the player is reloaded
  • Improve channel and account page tab title
• Support max FPS configuration: the admin can allow videos with more than 60FPS, which is the current default limit
• Max resolution file preserves input FPS even if < 720p, allowing users to upload and broadcast a 480p resolution at 60FPS
• Add ability for admins to set multiple proxies for youtube-dl that PeerTube will randomly select
• Support youtube-dl executable (for example Linux standalone x64 binary that includes additional features like impersonation)
• Add a cover to the file if the user only downloads the audio version of the video
• Better resolution label for custom video aspect. For example with a 1920x816 video, we now display 1080p instead of 816p
• Forward watch page start query param to the OEmbed service so that the embed starts at the correct time
• Notify local users on when an Internal video is published
• Add ability for admins to disable federation (disabling ActivityPub endpoints)

Bug fixes

• Fix broken object storage playlist on file removal
• Set live tags to replays
• Fix hidden delete button for original file in videos admin overview
• Don't crash the embed on player error
• Prevent embed poster flickering
• Fix left menu block title ellipsis
• Fix channel name overflow in *My Videos" page
• Fix player infinite buffering issues on fast live re-stream
• Don't display orange resume bar on live miniatures
• Fix video file object storage detection in admin videos overview
• Support ActivityPub remote actors with array url field
• Fix resetting duration filter in search page
• Use first step Public privacy when publishing lives without having validated the second step
• Fix studio page responsive
• Add CORS to oEmbed API