v7.3.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

• Minimum supported NodeJS version is 20.19

NGINX

• Disable request buffering on upload endpoints to fix HTTP request timeouts: d1a35e8

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

• Breaking change Plugin and themes must use :root CSS selector instead of body to inject CSS variables
• Add server API (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/plugins):
  • Support externalRedirectUri for registerExternalAuth so PeerTube redirects users on another URL set by the plugin
  • If your plugin uses filter:email.template-path.result server hook: emails now use Handlebars template engine instead of Pug template engine

Features

• 🎉 Emails can now be translated 🎉 Check the translation documentation to help us translate emails in your language!
• 🎉 Introduce a web configuration wizard to help administrators to configure their instance automatically 🎉
  • The wizard appears once the administrators have logged in following the installation of the PeerTube instance
  • Admins can also run the wizard via a button in the web admin config
  • The main instance information (e.g. name, short description, logo, primary colour) can be entered using the wizard.
  • It also helps the admin to apply a configuration depending on the instance type (community-based, institutional, private)
• 🎉 Redesign the admin config to use a lateral menu for navigating between subsections 🎉
  • Add a new Customization page to easily change the main colors and shape of the client interface
  • Add a new Logo page where admins can upload logos/favicon and social media images for their instances
  • Add an option to set the default licence, privacy and comments policy when publishing videos
  • The email prefix and body can now be changed in the web admin config. These configurations also support the {{instanceName}} template variable, which is replaced by the instance name
• Improve admin federation control:
  • Add the ability for admins to completely disable remote subscriptions to local channels
  • Admins can also set up automatic rejection of video comments from remote instances
• Add 2FA column information in admin users overview table
• Display remote runner version in admin
• Add ability for users to set the planned date of a live. These lives are displayed when browsing videos #7144
• Improve data tables UX/UI
• Improve account/channel playlists management:
  • Use a data table to manage account and channel playlists
  • Allow to manually set the order of the public playlists displayed in a channel
• Improve sensitive content warning in embed player
• Improve audio transcoding quality, especially with FLAC input
• Support Creole French languages in video language metadata
• Add ability for users to list and revoke token sessions
• Support Free of known copyright restrictions and Copyrighted - All Rights Reserved video licence metadata
• Play/pause the video player using k key

Bug fixes

• Fix ActivityPub audience for unlisted videos
• Use an array of URL in attributedTo ActivityPub field
• Prefer og:image instead of og:image:url
• Better thumbnail blur for sensitive content #7105
• Prefer allow="fullscreen" for video embed iframe #7043
• Respect the sensitive content policy, even for videos owned by the user
• Fix the issue of the scroll position not being restored when pages load slowly #7143
• Fix remote actor follow counter after a local subscription
• Fix reloading videos in Browser videos when the link only changes query parameters
• Add stall job check for remote studio and transcription runner jobs
• Prevent metric warning for redundancy gauge
• Fix disabling Wait transcoding checkbox
• Correctly import new elements of a playlist in channel synchronization
• Fix overflow in discover page
• Fix restoring scroll position when going back in the web browser on the homepage set by the admin
• Fill video support on channel sync
• Respect instance default privacy setting when publishing imports and lives
• Remove useless help for live transcoding
• Fix RTL margins on some components