v6.2.0

IMPORTANT NOTES

• Added pip3 as required PeerTube dependency to support automatic transcription. You must install it on your system

Maintenance

• Check for latest plugin versions every 4 hours (instead of 12 hours). We recommend admins to update their current configuration to apply this change for faster plugin new version notifications
• Add a configuration to configure video thumbnail/preview sizes #6423
• Support for removing non-existent objects from object storage in prune-storage script
• Support for moving original video files to object storage/filesystem in create-move-video-storage-job script
• Add house-keeping script to recover disk space by removing remote files (thumbnails, avatars...)
• Add max_request_attempts object storage configuration (required by some S3 providers such as Blackblaze) #6418

Docker

• Add missing Docker env to configure object storage (user exports and original video files)

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

• Add ability to register the same setting multiple times to replace the old one #6357 & 1bfb791e0
• Add getUser() client helper #6358
• Detect internal link in plugin page to avoid reloading entire application when not needed

Features

• 🎉 Add automatic transcription of videos to generate subtitles 🎉 #6303
  • Uses Whisper engines and models to create the subtitle and guess the video language
  • Has to be enabled by admins in the configuration web interface: PeerTube will automatically download and install Whisper binaries/models
  • Transcription can also be performed by PeerTube runners, as it can consume a lot of CPU
  • Transcription generation can also be run manually by administrators
• 🎉 Improve comment moderation 🎉 #6399
  • Introduce a new video comment policy that requires comments to be approved first
  • Video owners have a dedicated page to list, view and take action on comments made on their videos
• 🎉 Implement auto-tagging on comments and videos for admins and on comments for video owners 🎉 #6399
  • Comments and videos can be automatically tagged using PeerTube rules ("contains a link" for example) or watched word lists
  • These tags can be used to automatically filter videos and comments
  • Video owners can select auto tags that require comments to be approved first
• Add the ability to select the thumbnail directly from the video #6424
• Allow admins to force bulk transcoding
• Faster "Mark as read" user notification REST API endpoint when having many notifications in database
• Improve Video ActivityPub compatibility by relaxing PeerTube checks and allowing remote object to not have some fields that were required by PeerTube (missing P2P information for example)
• Highlight current lives on pages that list videos ("Recently Added", "Trending", "Account videos", "Channel videos" etc.)

Bug fixes

• Fix embed API on iOS
• Fix RTL layout inconsistencies
• Fix big user export file size
• Fix concurrent live streams serialization issue
• Fix instance slowness when geoip download fails #6402
• Don't count deleted comments in instance stats
• Handle videos with FPS < 1
• Don't display stats button of remote videos
• Fix recommendation loop for anonymous users
• Handle 410 HTTP response code for AP objects
• Fix major plugin version detection when major number has two digits
• Accessibility:
  • Fix focus visibility box
  • Fix feed popover title state
  • Fix video filter pastille accessibility
  • Fix radio button focus
  • Fix search typeahead information not read by screen readers
  • Fix player "Back" button label
  • Fix player settings menu keyboard navigation
  • Fix "Update your settings" keyboard navigation and improve accessibility
  • Fix checkbox description relationship
  • Fix green color contrast
  • Correctly label the boolean icon in instance features table
  • Remove unneeded information in "Policy for sensitive videos" select
  • Fix left menu list items list hierarchy
• Fix HLS audio desync on some videos
• Playlist components in custom markup can use a short UUID
• Support Service Activity Pub actors that should fix some federation issues with Mastodon
• Fix downloading protected videos in admin
• Increase legacy upload request timeout