v5.2.0-rc.1

IMPORTANT NOTES

• Important Remove NodeJS 14 support
• Important You must update your nginx configuration to support remote runners: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/nginx/peertube#L101
• Add storage.tmp_persistent directory in configuration file. You must configure it in your production.yaml: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/config/production.yaml.example#L128
• PeerTube requires Docker Compose >= v2 for Docker compose installation

Maintenance

• Remove npm run create-transcoding-job and npm run print-transcode-command unmaintained scripts
• Add Redis sentinel support #5593
• Improve upgrade script (used when you will upgrade from PeerTube 5.2 to its next version) for classic installation:
  • Automatically generate a config/production.yaml.new file after the upgrade, which is the fusion between the new PeerTube configuration keys and your current production.yaml. After a review you can replace your old config/production.yaml with this new file so you don't have to add new keys manually
  • Add ls option compatibility with FreeBSD #5785

Docker

• Make database name configurable using env variable #5734

Plugins/Themes/Embed API

• Add filter:html.client.json-ld.result hook

Features

• 🎉 Implement remote transcoding for VOD videos, Live streams and Studio editions 🎉 #5769
  • If enabled, remote PeerTube runners can process these high CPU jobs
  • Admin documentation: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/remote-runners
  • PeerTube runner CLI documentation: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/maintain/tools#peertube-runner
  • Demonstration video: https://peertube2.cpy.re/w/oJwHHYwt4oKjKhLNh2diAY
  • Architecture documentation: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute/architecture#remote-vod-live-transcoding
• Add Podcast RSS feed support: #5487
• Add ability to set custom privacy for live replays #5692
• Render images of markdown fields in About page #5732
• Admin can disable user video history by default #5728
• Improve global accessibility

Bug fixes

• Fix live stream object storage sync resulting in broken playback on iOS after a few minutes
• Correctly proxify HTTP 206 content-range header from object storage #5703
• Filter out already watched videos from recommended videos #5739
• Prevent exception when HTTP headers are already sent
• Fix remote instance following/followers links in about page
• Prevent error when updating a running live stream if the privacy hasn't changed
• Prevent crash on plugin websocket error
• Don't call register/unregister plugin API when installing/uninstalling plugins using script/plugin scripts (offline mode)
• Fix error on missing plugin CSS file at PeerTube startup #5746
• Prevent "invalid end watch section" server log warnings
• Support remote subscribe with a handle starting with a @ character
• Actor preferred username (account/channel handle) is now case insensitive
• Fix RTL layout inconsistencies
• Prevent user video notification when the subscription is still in Pending state
• Correctly remove Pending subscription
• Fix PeerTube subtitles import