Releases: FreeTubeApp/FreeTube
Releases · FreeTubeApp/FreeTube
Release v0.9.2 Beta
Features
- Some videos have had higher qualities enabled. Any video that uses MP4 codecs for higher qualities should show those higher qualities. Videos that use WebM codecs will still only max at 1080p
- You can now copy the channel URL from any video item either for YouTube or Invidious
- You can select the region of the trending page, to see what trends around the world
- You can now change the volume of a video by scrolling over the volume bar
- The title of a video now shows up in the header of the application
Fixes
- Loading comments with large amounts of replies should no longer freeze the application
- The "Load More" button was brought back to the search page
- Fixed a problem where watching a video wasn't falling back to the Invidious API if the local API is your preference
Changes
- Bump dependency versions, which includes a fix for some videos throwing out errors when you attempt to watch them
- The logic for determining a live video has been slightly tweaked to better account for history
- Various language updates / changes
Other
Another update will be sent out in a couple of days to include the final fixes for search. Keep an eye out for that notification
Release v0.9.1 Beta
Features
- Comments hearted by the channel owner now have an icon next to them
- Tooltips are added to a few settings to give better context on what they do
- Captions are now included in the list of download links
Fixes
- Search is somewhat working again. There are still problems with it but this should give back some basic functionality. I'll post a new release once this has had some more work on it. Keep an eye on #662 for updates.
- Channel icons and banners are now proxied through Invidious when the Invidious API is default
- The hover elements shown when you hover over the time bar in a video now show over top of the static timestamp
- The Firefox extension should now work on Mac devices
- Live videos in the recommended videos section should now be labeled properly
- Comments should no longer start at 1 like count
Changes
- Live chat is now limited to the latest 150 messages to prevent scrolling issues with streams with fast chat rooms
- New languages added: Hungarian
Release v0.9.0 Beta
Features
- Distraction Free Settings. Hide certain elements of the app so that they stop being distracting. Can hide elements such as "Most Popular", "Trending", "Video Recommendations", and "Live Chat"
- UI Scaling. Zoom in or out the UI to better fit your ideal size.
- You can now have the side bar menu be opened automatically upon boot. Enable this in settings
- You can now disable smooth scrolling. Enable this in settings
- There is a new button in settings that will check for and import any subscriptions from legacy versions of FreeTube
- The Firefox Extension once again works with FreeTube, and can be used to automatically have video links be opened up within FreeTube. Only installed / non-portable versions are supported with this feature.
- Adding a YouTube link as a parameter when opening FreeTube via the CLI will automatically open that link upon boot-up. Only installed / non-portable versions are supported with this feature.
- You can now sort comments by "Newest" or by "Top"
- Links in comments and replies are now clickable
- You can now download available video files associated with a video. These will be opened in your default browser so that it can handle the actual download.
Fixes
- Channels with a low amount of videos no longer error out when loading the last batch of videos available
- Comments no longer load the first batch of comments if you've reach the end of available comments
- Channels that display 0 subscribers will now have their subscriber count hidden
- Playlists now show all of the videos again
- Comments containing links are no longer displaying only the first text up to the link
- Subscriptions shouldn't be added multiple times any more when importing via a FreeTube .db file
- Importing subscriptions through a FreeTube .db file should no longer miss profiles when channels are added
- Channels that have Premieres setup should no longer show an error message
Changes
- Grabbing subscriptions through RSS is now forced if your selected profile has more than 125 channels in order to prevent rate limiting
- Videos will now proxy through Invidious when the setting is enabled while also using the local API. Before this setting only worked when the Invidious API was enabled.
- Audio formats labels now have more readable names instead of the bitrate
- New Languages Added: Bulgarian, Greek, Hebrew, Portuguese, Slovenian