We encourage admins to enable live transcoding for live streaming. Even though it will take processing power and induce some lag, it is really essential to facilitate the experience both for streamers (who can use basic OBS settings) and for viewers (who can watch in their preferred video resolution).
We have also improved PeerTube performances: loading an instance's interface for the first time is now faster. We also have fixed a few bugs on the player that were reported to us.
We have also improved the video edition form (that you can access when you upload or update a video). The menu to select the channel now displays the channel icon and the language selector displays the language currently set by the instance on top of the list. Finally, the privacy selector provides a clearer description of the available choices.
We have just released <a target="_blank" href="https://sepiasearch.org">SepiaSearch</a>, our search engine to help you discover videos and channels on PeerTube!
We have made many other improvements in this new version. You can read the whole list (in English) on <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md">https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md</a>.
We have modified some elements in the Administration menu (available for instance administrators only). For example in the "users" tab, the "Create user" button is now on the left side to be more visible. Also administrators can now customize the value of video quota (total and daily) of each user.
We have only one developer dedicated to PeerTube (not even full time), helped by others in our team (design, administration, communication, etc.). Maintaining PeerTube means lots of different tasks (learn more about it <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://joinpeertube.org/faq#who-does-what-in-peertube">here in our FAQ</a>), and we don't want him (or anyone else, for that matter) to burn himself out to fulfill everyone's expectations.
We haven't yet identified any PeerTube instance administrator who use these plugins and generate a public list. But if there is, please let us know on our <a target="_blank" href="https://framacolibri.org/t/lists-for-plugin-auto-block-videos-plugin-auto-mute/">forum</a>.
We haven't yet identified any PeerTube instance administrator who use these plugins and generate a public list. So we are requesting the community to create these lists <a target="_blank" href="https://framacolibri.org/t/lists-for-plugin-auto-block-videos-plugin-auto-mute/8484">on our forum</a>.
We made many improvements to the PeerTube interface in this new release. We would like to take this opportunity to thanks two contributors, <a href="https://github.com/kimsible">@Kimsible</a> and <a href="https://github.com/rigelk">@Rigelk</a>, who developed/improved the following components.
We plan to develop PeerTube's v4 all along 2021, with our main focus on customizing the experience so that instance administrators, content creators and users can display and discover the videos to their liking.
We really want to thank the PeerTube community for its work and support. We also want to thank NLnet for their grant that will fund the major part of our work on PeerTube this year, thus relieving us from having to organize a dedicated crowdfunding in 2021.
We truly believe that empowering instance administrators and content creators to customize their instances and channels is a great way forward to help PeerTube users to find and identify the videos they want to watch.
