Release v2.20240825

Author: SamantazFox

CHANGELOG.md

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 # CHANGELOG
 
+## 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).
+
+[inv_sig_helper]: https://github.com/iv-org/inv_sig_helper
+
+#### 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"
+
+[ameba]: https://github.com/crystal-ameba/ameba
+[#4256]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4256
+
+
+### 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
+
+[`rel`]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/rel
+
+#### 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)
+
+[#4146]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4146
+[#4153]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4153
+[#4221]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4221
+[#4224]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4224
+[#4295]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4295
+[#4296]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4296
+[#4437]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4437
+[#4450]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4450
+[#4586]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4586
+[#4587]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4587
+[#4654]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4654
+[#4655]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4655
+[#4659]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4659
+[#4667]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4667
+[#4675]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4675
+[#4695]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4695
+[#4696]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4696
+[#4706]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4706
+[#4711]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4711
+[#4717]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4717
+[#4731]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4731
+[#4747]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4747
+[#4753]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4753
+[#4763]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4763
+[#4772]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4772
+[#4785]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4785
+[#4789]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4789
+[#4790]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4790
+[#4792]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4792
+[#4795]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4795
+[#4796]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4796
+[#4805]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4805
+[#4806]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4806
+[#4807]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4807
+[#4812]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4812
+[#4845]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4845
+[#4849]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4849
+[#4852]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4852
+[#4853]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4853
+[#4859]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4859
+[#4876]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4876
+
+
 ## 2024-04-26
 
 Major bug fixes: