CHANGELOG.md

CHANGELOG

vX.Y.0 (future)

v2.20241110.0

Wrap-up

This release is most importantly here to fix to the annoying "Youtube API returned error 400" error that prevented all channel pages from loading.

If you're updating from the previous release, it provides no improvements on the ability to play videos. If updating from a commit in-between release, it removes the "Please sign in" error caused by a previous attempt at restoring video playback on large instances.

In the preferences, a new option allows for control of video preload. When enabled, this option tells the browser to load the video as soon as the page is loaded (this used to be the default). When disabled, the video starts loading only when the "play" button is pressed.

New interface languages available: Bulgarian, Welsh and Lombard

New dependency required: tzdata.

An HTTP proxy can be configured directly in Invidious, if needed.
NOTE: In that case, it is recommended to comment out force_resolve.

New features & important changes

For users

• Channels: Fix "Youtube API returned error 400" error preventing channel pages from loading
• Channels: Shorts can now be sorted by "newest", "oldest" and "popular"
• Preferences: Addition of the new "preload" option
• New interface languages available: Bulgarian, Welsh and Lombard
• Added "Filipino (auto-generated)" to the list of caption languages available
• Lots of new translations from Weblate

For instance owners

• Allow the configuration of an HTTP proxy to talk to Youtube
• Invidious tries to reconnect to inv_sig_helper if the socket is closed
• The instance list is downloaded in the background to improve redirection speed
• New colorize_logs option makes each log level a different color

For developpers

• /api/v1/channels/{id}/shorts now supports the sort-by parameter with the following values: newest, oldest and popular
• Older /api/v1/channels/xyz/{id} (tab name before UCID) were removed
• API/Search: New video metadata available: isNew, is4k, is8k, isVr180, isVr360, is3d and hasCaptions

Bugs fixed

User-side

• Channels: The second page of shorts now loads as expected
• Channels: Fixed intermittent empty "playlists" tab
• Search: Fixed youtu.be URLs not being properly redirected to the watch page
• Fixed DB::MappingException error on the subscriptions feed (due to missing tzdata in docker)
• Switching to another instance is much faster
• Fixed an "invalid byte sequence" error when subscribing to a playlist
• Videos: Playback URLs were sometimes broken when cached and inv_sig_helper was used

For instance owners

• Fix force_resolve being ignored in some cases

API

• API/Videos: Fixed live_now and premiere_timestamp sometimes not having the right values

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

• API: Add "sort_by" parameter to channels/shorts endpoint (#5071, thanks @iBicha)
• Docker: Install tzdata in Dockerfile (#5070, by @SamantazFox)
• Videos: Stop using TVHTML5_SIMPLY_EMBEDDED_PLAYER (#5063, thanks @unixfox)
• Routing: Deprecate old channel API routes (#5045, by @SamantazFox)
• Videos: use WEB client instead of WEB CREATOR (#4984, thanks @unixfox)
• Parsers: Fix parsing live_now and premiere_timestamp (#4934, thanks @absidue)
• 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)