CHANGELOG.md

CHANGELOG

vX.Y.0 (future)

Full list of pull requests merged since the last release (newest first)

• Stale bot updates (#5060, thanks @syeopite)
• Channels: Fix "Youtube API returned error 400" (#5059, by @SamantazFox)
• Channels: Fix for live videos (#5027, thanks @iBicha)
• Locales: Add Bulgarian, Welsh and Lombard to the list (#5046, by @SamantazFox)
• Shards: Update database dependencies (#5034, by @SamantazFox)
• Logger: Add color support for different log levels (#4931, thanks @Fijxu)
• Fix named arg syntax when passing force_resolve (#4754, thanks @syeopite)
• Use make_client instead of calling HTTP::Client (#4709, thanks @syeopite)
• Add "Filipino (auto-generated)" to the list of caption languages (#4995, by @SamantazFox)
• Makefile: Add MT option to enable the 'preview_mt' flag (#4993, by @SamantazFox)
• SigHelper: Reconnect to signature helper (#4991, thanks @Fijxu)
• Fix player menus hiding onHover ready (#4750, thanks @giacomocerquone)
• Use connection pools when requesting images from YouTube (#4326, thanks @syeopite)
• Add support for using Invidious through a HTTP Proxy (#4270, thanks @syeopite)
• Search: Fix 'youtu.be' URLs in sanitizer (#4894, by @SamantazFox)
• Ameba: Disable Style/RedundantNext rule (#4888, thanks @syeopite)
• Playlists: Fix 'invalid byte sequence' error when subscribing (#4887, thanks @DmitrySandalov)
• Parse more metadata badges for SearchVideos (#4863, thanks @ChunkyProgrammer)
• Translations update from Hosted Weblate (#4862, thanks to our many translators)
• Videos: Convert URL before putting result into cache (#4850, by @SamantazFox)
• HTML: Add error message to "search issues on GitHub" link (#4652, thanks @tracedgod)
• Preferences: Add option to control preloading of video data (#4122, thanks @Nerdmind)
• Performance: Improve speed of automatic instance redirection (#4193, thanks @syeopite)
• Remove myself from CODEOWNERS on the config file (#4942, by @TheFrenchGhosty)
• Update latest version WEB_CREATOR + fix comment web embed (#4930, thanks @unixfox)
• use WEB_CREATOR when po_token with WEB_EMBED as a fallback (#4928, thanks @unixfox)
• Revert "use web screen embed for fixing potoken functionality"
• use web screen embed for fixing potoken functionality (#4923, thanks @unixfox)

v2.20240825.2 (2024-08-26)

This releases fixes the container tags pushed on quay.io. Previously, the ARM64 build was released under the latest tag, instead of latest-arm64.

Full list of pull requests merged since the last release (newest first)

CI: Fix docker container tags ([#4883], by @SamantazFox)

v2.20240825.1 (2024-08-25)

Add patch component to be semver compliant and make github actions happy.

Full list of pull requests merged since the last release (newest first)

Allow manual trigger of release-container build (#4877, thanks @syeopite)

v2.20240825.0 (2024-08-25)

New features & important changes

For users

• The search bar now has a button that you can click!
• Youtube URLs can be pasted directly in the search bar. Prepend search query with a backslash (\) to disable that feature (useful if you need to search for a video whose title contains some youtube URL).
• On the channel page the "streams" tab can be sorted by either: "newest", "oldest" or "popular"
• Lots of translations have been updated (thanks to our contributors on Weblate!)
• Videos embedded in local HTML files (e.g: a webpage saved from a blog) can now be played

For instance owners

• Invidious now has the ability to provide a po_token and visitordata to Youtube in order to circumvent current Youtube restrictions.
• Invidious can use an (optional) external signature server like inv_sig_helper. Please note that some videos can't be played without that signature server.
• The Helm charts were moved to a separate repo: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious-helm-chart
• We have changed how containers are released: the latest tag now tracks tagged releases, whereas the master tag tracks the most recent commits of the master branch ("nightly" builds).

For developpers

• The versions of Crystal that we test in CI/CD are now: 1.9.2, 1.10.1, 1.11.2, 1.12.1. Please note that due to a bug in the libxml bindings (See #4256), versions prior to 1.10.0 are not recommended to use.
• Thanks to @syeopite, the code is now ameba compliant.
• Ameba is part of our CI/CD pipeline, and its rules will be enforced in future PRs.
• The transcript code has been rewritten to permit transcripts as a feature rather than being only a workaround for captions. Trancripts feature is coming soon!
• Various fixes regarding the logic interacting with Youtube
• The sort_by parameter can be used on the /api/v1/channels/{id}/streams endpoint. Accepted values are: "newest", "oldest" and "popular"

Bugs fixed

User-side

• Channels: fixed broken "subscribers" and "views" counters
• Watch page: playback position is reset at the end of a video, so that the next time this video is watched, it will start from the beginning rather than 15 seconds before the end
• Watch page: the items in the "add to playlist" drop down are now sorted alphabetically
• Videos: the "genre" URL is now always pointing to a valid webpage
• Playlists: Fixed Could not parse N episodes error on podcast playlists
• All external links should now have the rel attibute set to noreferrer noopener for increased privacy.
• Preferences: Fixed the admin-only "modified source code" input being ignored
• Watch/channel pages: use the full image URL in og:image and twitter:image meta tags

API

• fixed the local parameter not applying to formatStreams on /api/v1/videos/{id}
• fixed an Index out of bounds error hapenning when a playlist had no videos
• fixed duplicated query parameters in proxied video URLs
• Return actual video height/width/fps rather than hard coded values
• Fixed the /api/v1/popular endpoint not returning a proper error code/message when the popular page/endpoint are disabled.

Full list of pull requests merged since the last release (newest first)

• HTML: Sort playlists alphabetically in watch page drop down (#4853, by @SamantazFox)
• Videos: Fix XSS vulnerability in description/comments (#4852, thanks anonymous)
• YtAPI: Bump client versions (#4849, by @SamantazFox)
• SigHelper: Fix inverted time comparison in 'check_update' (#4845, by @SamantazFox)
• Storyboards: Various fixes and code cleaning (#4153, by SamantazFox)
• Fix lint errors introduced in #4146 and #4295 (#4876, thanks @syeopite)
• Search: Add support for Youtube URLs (#4146, by @SamantazFox)
• Channel: Render age restricted channels (#4295, thanks @ChunkyProgrammer)
• Ameba: Miscellaneous fixes (#4807, thanks @syeopite)
• API: Proxy formatStreams URLs too (#4859, thanks @colinleroy)
• UI: Add search button to search bar (#4706, thanks @thansk)
• Add ability to set po_token and visitordata ID (#4789, thanks @unixfox)
• Add support for an external signature server (#4772, by @SamantazFox)
• Ameba: Fix Naming/VariableNames (#4790, thanks @syeopite)
• Translations update from Hosted Weblate (#4659)
• Ameba: Fix Lint/UselessAssign (#4795, thanks @syeopite)
• HTML: Add rel="noreferrer noopener" to external links (#4667, thanks @ulmemxpoc)
• Remove unused methods in Invidious::LogHandler (#4812, thanks @syeopite)
• Ameba: Fix Lint/NotNilAfterNoBang (#4796, thanks @syeopite)
• Ameba: Fix unused argument Lint warnings (#4805, thanks @syeopite)
• Ameba: i18next.cr fixes (#4806, thanks @syeopite)
• Ameba: Disable rules (#4792, thanks @syeopite)
• Channel: parse subscriber count and channel banner (#4785, thanks @ChunkyProgrammer)
• Player: Fix playback position of already watched videos (#4731, thanks @Fijxu)
• Videos: Fix genre url being unusable (#4717, thanks @meatball133)
• API: Fix out of bound error on empty playlists (#4696, thanks @Fijxu)
• Handle playlists cataloged as Podcast (#4695, thanks @Fijxu)
• API: Fix duplicated query parameters in proxied video URLs (#4587, thanks @absidue)
• API: Return actual stream height, width and fps (#4586, thanks @absidue)
• Preferences: Fix handling of modified source code URL (#4437, thanks @nooptek)
• API: Fix URL for vtt subtitles (#4221, thanks @karelrooted)
• Channels: Add sort options to streams (#4224, thanks @src-tinkerer)
• API: Fix error code for disabled popular endpoint (#4296, thanks @iBicha)
• Allow embedding videos in local HTML files (#4450, thanks @tomasz1986)
• CI: Bump Crystal version matrix (#4654, by @SamantazFox)
• YtAPI: Remove API keys like official clients (#4655, by @SamantazFox)
• HTML: Use full URL in the og:image property (#4675, thanks @Fijxu)
• Rewrite transcript logic to be more generic (#4747, thanks @syeopite)
• CI: Run Ameba (#4753, thanks @syeopite)
• CI: Add release based containers (#4763, thanks @syeopite)
• move helm chart to a dedicated github repository (#4711, thanks @unixfox)

v2.20240427 (2024-04-27)

Major bug fixes:

• Videos: Use android test suite client (#4650, thanks @SamantazFox)
• Trending: Un-nest category if this is the only one (#4600, thanks @ChunkyProgrammer)
• Comments: Add support for new format (#4576, thanks @ChunkyProgrammer)

Minor bug fixes:

• API: Add bitrate to formatStreams too (#4590, thanks @absidue)
• API: Add 'authorVerified' field on recommended videos (#4562, thanks @ChunkyProgrammer)
• Videos: Add support for new likes format (#4462, thanks @ChunkyProgrammer)
• Proxy: Handle non-200 HTTP codes on DASH manifests (#4429, thanks @absidue)

Other improvements:

• Remove legacy proxy code (#4570, thanks @syeopite)
• API: convey info "is post live" from Youtube response (#4569, thanks @ChunkyProgrammer)
• API: Parse channel's tags (#4294, thanks @ChunkyProgrammer)
• Translations update from Hosted Weblate (#4164, thanks to our many translators)