Release v0.15.1 Beta

Features

• More YouTube channel URLs are now supported. This should include links clicked via the Privacy Redirect extension
• Added pinned, owner, and reply from owner indicators to comments

Fixes

• Update local API to fix recent buffering issues
• Update Electron to v15
  • This fixes issues with PiP controls not working properly
  • Also fixes issue where media player controls were not working properly
• Some incompatible settings can no longer be enabled at the same time
• Comments can no longer overflow outside of their text box
• Loading more videos in the "Playlists" tab will no longer scroll to the top
• Fixed an issue where the app would show a white screen if it could not properly load the list of Invidious instances
• Fixed an issue where viewing the playlists window when watching a video and using the Invidious API would cause it to not work properly

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Release v0.15.0 Beta

Release Overview

• UI/UX improvements to settings, trending, and channel pages
• New Dracula theme and Dracula theme color options
• New button to clear the search box
• Fix Invidious API behavior for video playback
• Fixed opening videos with the middle mouse button
• Fixed media control buttons
• Fixed comment formatting
• Switched from NPM to Yarn 1 for installing dependencies

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Release v0.14.0 Beta

Release Overview

• Comments are now working again
• Invidious API fallback for comments is fixed
• Support for importing/exporting csv YouTube subscriptions
• The Invidious instance is now randomized on startup by default
• Support for opening videos in an external Video player (Currently supported: MPV)
• Most settings (including locale changes) and history are now properly synchronized across windows
• Assorted quality of life improvements and bug fixes

Navigate to our official announcement to view & discuss the full list of changes.

Release v0.13.2 Beta

Hotfix

• Fixes issue where videos were not loading properly with the Local API.
  • With this fix, some information may not be available at times. Please see this issue for updates and more information. We will stay up to date and publish a new release when a fix is available.

Comments

• Sorry for the wait, and thank you for your patience!

Release v0.13.1 Beta

Fixes

• Age-restricted videos should now be available again (although they might be slower to fetch)
• SponsorBlock: The player will no longer notify the user of a sponsor segment skip repeatedly when a segment lasts until the end of the video
• Search: All duration and 'Last Hour' upload date filters should now work correctly
• Comment likes are now visible again
• The trending page is functioning correctly again
• Fixed an issue where FreeTube's RPM package would sometimes conflict with other rpm packages when trying to install

Release v0.13.0 Beta

Features

• Sponsorblock support, disabled by default, can be enabled in the settings page (our reasoning for this is properly explained by this disclaimer and we recommend all of the users who will make use of this feature to read that section)
• The logic for changing quality in DASH formats has been revamped, it now displays 60fps / HDR options and it fixes the issue where your selected quality wasn't being persisted (please let us know if something doesn't work correctly with this implementation)
• Automatic video meta file removal option (reduces memory footprint)
• A dedicated button at the top bar to open a second window of FreeTube

Fixes

• Custom Emotes in live stream chats are now smaller in order to fit better with the rest of the text
• YouTube search suggestions are now transferred fully encrypted (HTTPS) due to a yt-suggest module update
• The publication timestamp for suggested videos is now properly displayed again
• The default profile should now always load on startup (if you notice it doesn't do so, please see #1114 (comment))
• The trending page and the video comments now work in Europe again
• The version flag that can be used from the command line no longer starts the app
• Captions should now be consistently displayed on videos instead of failing to load
• Videos marked as watched can now be imported during history import
• Channels with a large amount of related channels no longer cause errors when accessing them
• Subscriptions should now always properly load on startup
• Inputting a playlist link into the search textbox now makes the app properly change to the respective playlist page
  when the user is already viewing another playlist
• Inputting any kind of channel link into the search textbox now makes the app navigate to the correct channel
• Videos on the trending page which do not have views disabled no longer cause the trending page to fail

Changes

• The icons on the left panel are now all equal in size
• The naming convention of acronyms such as HTTP and DASH have now been consistently enforced in the English language file
• All YouTube links should now open in FreeTube instead of opening in the web browser
• Videos added with 'Mark as watched' now display the publishing date on the history page
• Parent windows can now be closed without closing all children windows
• The full window button is no longer displayed when playing a video in full screen mode
• The "toggle theatre mode" button in the video page now displays a TV icon (was previously an expanding arrows icon)
• The autoplay counter on a toast will now be updated on a new toast every second
• Added new languages: Norwegian Bokmal, Norwegian Nynorsk, Ukrainian, Icelandic
• Added new language for countries list: Icelandic

Comments

We'd like to thank all of the contributors for this release. Without you, this changelog would look a lot more barren :^)

Release v0.12.0 Beta

Features

• Updated to Electron v12
  • This enables Video Acceleration for Linux users. Your GPU will now assist in watching videos, lowering CPU usage (Windows / Mac users already have this)
• You can now hide the playlists tab with the Distraction Free Settings
• You can now customize the time interval when FreeTube will wait before playing the next video. Setting this to 0 seconds will play the next video immediately
• When adding channels to a profile, you can now select which profile you are referencing to grab from instead of always showing the "All Channels" profile
• Video URLs now check for the t parameter and will navigate to that time in the video

Fixes

• The Channel module in the local API has been updated to fix several issues
  • Featured Channels are shown again
  • Pagination is working again
  • Search is working again
• The Comments module in the local API has been updated to fix the issue where sorting by newest wasn't consistently working
• The module for live chat in the local API has a temporary patch to get it working again
• Persistent media notifications now show more information instead of just the title of the video
• Links in the description that are hashes will no longer crash the application
• The time a video was published is now shown in the video recommendations section (Local API only)
• The app will no longer play the next video automatically if you decide to replay the current video
• The CLI will no longer redirect to search if it found an invalid URL. This fixes certain issues where FreeTube would navigate to the search page on startup

Changes

• New Icon for Windows / Mac / Linux systems. This Windows / Linux icon was created and used by the Papirus Icon Theme and is created by varlesh. The Mac icon is created by creepertron95. Thank you very much for the icons!
• The build scripts now support building for ARMv7l. Expect to see these in the nightly builds and possibly the main website here soon
• Sorting channel playlists by oldest is now removed as YouTube has removed this functionality on their site. It is no longer possible to obtain this information

Comments

A lot of these new changes and features are from recent pull requests, so thank you very much to the contributors who helped towards this release!

Release v0.11.3 Beta

Features

• The search bar / input bars now automatically fills with the suggestions that are selected (e.g. when moving with arrow keys)

Fixes

• The Channels / Subscriptions modules have been updated to fix the recent issues with pagination
• The Comments module has been updated to use the new method for obtaining comments

Changes

• Watch / Search / Playlist modules have been updated to their latest revisions

Known Issues

• Live Chat is currently not working. We're waiting for an upstream fix. Once a fix is available I'll upload a new release

Release v0.11.2 Beta

Features

• Added some touch controls for devices with a touch screen. Double tap full screen and hold tap to pause are now supported
• Comments have been given some reworked logic. Grabbing comments should now be faster. It also fixes the issue where Flatpak builds were being redirected to search when attempting to load comments

Fixes

• Fixed a network leak when using the proxy setting with certain modules
• The Trending page works correctly again with the local API
• Fixed an issue where OPML files were not importing properly
• The "Load More" button should now show up in the Playlists tab properly
• Tweaked the logic that determines when to force a 16:9 aspect ratio. It should now be enforced on more box like videos
• Search should no longer allow more searches if no more results are found (Local API only)
• The PiP player should apply it's logic properly when history is disabled

Changes

• Saved videos in the playlist page are now sorted by the latest video saved instead of the other way around
• Updated the endpoint for grabbing the active Invidious instances to the new URL (https://api.invidious.io)
• Added a link to the Invidious instance page in the settings page

Release v0.11.1 Beta

Hotfix

• Revert module update to fix search in local API.

Sorry to make everyone update again!