v5.0.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

• Important Private and internal video files are now protected. See #5370 for more information, but see below for most important information:
  • For private/internal videos on filesystem:
    • These videos are now under a private/ subdirectory in videos/ and streaming-playlists/ directories
    • Nginx doesn't serve these private files anymore, the requests are forwarded to PeerTube that will check authentication
  • For private/internal videos in object storage:
    • These videos have now a private ACL
    • PeerTube proxifies requests to private object storage (using pre-signed URLs is not possible as explained in #5370)
  • Torrent files and magnet URIs of private/internal videos don't contain a webseed URL anymore since they require authentication
• Important You need to manually execute a migration script after your upgrade to migrate private/internal video files:
  • 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-5.0.js
  • Docker installation: cd /var/www/peertube-docker && docker-compose exec -u peertube peertube node dist/scripts/migrations/peertube-5.0.js
• Configuration changes (config/production.yaml):
  • There is a new secrets.peertube configuration:
    • Classic install: fill it before running PeerTube v5: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/v5.0.0/config/production.yaml.example#L14
    • Docker install: fill it using an env variable before running the containers: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/docker/production/.env#L27
  • object_storage.upload_acl is now a parent key that you must update: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/v5.0.0/config/production.yaml.example#L153
• You must update your nginx configuration:
  • We introduced a new location for plugin websocket routes: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/v5.0.0/support/nginx/peertube#L135
  • We introduced a new location for private videos files: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/v5.0.0/support/nginx/peertube#L217

Documentation

• Add Monitoring/Observability documentation using PeerTube OpenTelemetry feature

Maintenance

• REST API breaking change:
  • role is now role.id and roleLabel is role.label in user response
  • We now store the complete remote video description:
    • Deprecate description in favour of truncatedDescription when listing videos
    • Complete description is sent by the server in description when getting a specific video
    • Deprecate /api/v1/videos/:id/description endpoint
• search.disable_local_search disables local search in client search bar only and doesn't disable it on server side anymore #5411

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

• Add server plugin hooks (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api-plugins):
  • filter:activity-pub.remote-video-comment.create.accept.result
• Add server plugin helpers
  • socket.sendNotification and socket.sendVideoLiveNewState #5239
• Add ability for plugins to register a websocket route using registerWebSocketRoute
• Add client plugin hooks (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api-plugins):
  • filter:internal.player.p2p-media-loader.options.result #5318

CLI tools

• Add ability to install alpha/beta/rc plugin versions

Features

• 🎉 Support object storage for live streams 🎉
• 🎉 Support Two Factor authentication (OTP) 🎉
• UX:
  • Add explanation on disk space used for user quota admin config #5305
  • Display channel in my videos list
  • Show which playlists videos are added to in my videos list
  • Add Channels link in left menu
  • Add ... after the truncated video name in miniature
  • Add object storage info badge in videos admin overview
  • Add links to video files in videos admin overview
  • Better indicate the live ended in embed by displaying a message and the live preview
  • Force live autoplay by muting the video if necessary when the user was waiting for the live
• Handle network issues in video player #5138
• Cache chunks to upload in server to resume upload later #5224
• Add ability to serve custom static files under /.well-known URL path #5214
• Use account/channel avatar in account/channel RSS feeds #5325
• Add filter to sort videos by name #5351
• Add ability to configure OpenTelemetry Prometheus exporter listening hostname

Bug fixes

• Hide all user email block if we can't change it (remote auth for example)
• Display an error if trying to reset password of user configured to use a remote authentication
• Fix peers info width in live
• Fix video job error when video has been deleted
• Fix user channels list with increased max counter
• More robust channel/playlist import/sync
• Hide useless Wait Transcoding input for lives
• Fix responsive in account channels list
• Fix slow page response when listing many videos
• Reload data when deleting a blocked video
• Prevent error with metrics in HTTP player if no P2P info is available
• Fix playlist overflow in account channels page
• Fix invalid date display for jobs
• Fix conflict with player hotkeys and alt + number web browser hotkey
• Fix horizontal overflow on rtl languages
• Fix actor follow constraint error on remote videos when Allow users to do remote URI/handle search is disabled
• Fix running again transcoding on a video that doesn't contain audio or on a video that doesn't contain video
• Fix re-transcoding of video with odd resolution
• Fix embed API with playlists
• Fix not working P2P with permanent live
• Fix following/fetching remote Pleroma actor
• Prevent high Redis memory usage when having many jobs
• Fix overall viewers stats with start/end dates
• Remove limit of countries displayed in video/live stats