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An Open Source YouTube app for privacy

v0.20.0-beta

1 month ago

Ending Support for Windows 7/8/8.1 and macOS 10.13 / 10.14

In order to stay in line with recent updates to Electron, this update drops support for all Windows operating systems below Windows 10 as well as macOS 10.13 / 10.14. These operating systems have been considered end of life for quite a while now and should also be considered a security risk. It is highly recommended that you switch to an alternative operating system if you are still using any of the ones mentioned above.

User Playlists

A long awaited feature is finally here! You can now create and manage your own playlists within FreeTube. Anything currently within your "Saved Videos" will be converted into a Favorites playlist. New videos can be added to this playlist as before however you'll also have the ability to add the video to multiple playlists at a time. Extra features like rearranging videos within a playlist as well as playlist cloning are also included.

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New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/compare/v0.19.2-beta...v0.20.0-beta

v0.19.2-beta

2 months ago

This is a small release for now. Mostly fixes the issues that has recent occurred with the Local API. We have a very large release for everyone soon so I hope that everyone looks forward to it.

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v0.19.1-beta

7 months ago

Electron

  • Electron has been updated to v22.3.25 which fixes the recent libwedp vulnerability

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New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/compare/v0.19.0-beta...v0.19.1-beta

v0.19.0-beta

8 months ago

General Update

I know it's been a long time since a formal update. I'll try to explain my thoughts regarding this in a later blog post. Despite the silence, there's a wealth of changes in this release and I hope this will make up for the wait.

Local API

Our local API has undergone a massive overhaul. We have switched all local API hooks to use YouTube.js instead of our separate modules for each function. This should hopefully allow us to fix any issues with the local API faster than what we could beforehand. Any relevant module that we have created has been merged into YouTube.js for a more uniformed experience. A massive thank you to @LuanRT for their help and support on YouTube.js.

This is a very large change to how we handle things. If you happen to see anything that seems broken compared to the last release, please consider creating a ticket over on our GitHub so that we can look at it.

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Dropping Support for Older Windows Builds

A while back, Electron, which FreeTube is based on, dropped support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1. Because of this, we are forced to do so as well. This release is the last release that will be supporting those operating systems and future versions of FreeTube will not work on those systems either. If you are still using any of these operating systems still, it is highly encouraged that you switch to a different operating system if at all possible.

Looking for Translators!

We are actively looking for new translators! If you happen to know multiple languages and would like to see them added into FreeTube, we would love to have your contributions. If you know a language that FreeTube already supports, you can also contribute by making corrections or by adding missing translations. Regardless of where you stand, feel free to check out our Weblate page to see what can be included. If enough translations have been added, let us know and we'll enable it to be used within FreeTube. Thank you very much to everyone who has translated for us in the past and we look forward to anyone's future contributions.

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/compare/v0.18.0-beta...v0.19.0-beta

v0.18.0-beta

1 year ago

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New Builds

We are now building for Linux armv7l and Windows arm64. We also now have 7zip variants for all portable releases. Check out the new builds over on the website.

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/compare/v0.17.1-beta...v0.18.0-beta

v0.17.1-beta

1 year ago

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Full Changelog: https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/compare/v0.17.0-beta...v0.17.1-beta

v0.17.0-beta

1 year ago

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v0.16.0-beta

2 years ago

Features

  • Complete database overhaul. Data should now much better sync up between windows (theme changes are still not synced)
  • Comments now show pinned, owner, and reply from owner indicators
  • Adding support for default custom arguments for external players
  • FreeTube should now recognize more channel links when pasting through the search bar / sent from browser extensions
  • You can now search through your history and playlists for videos
  • You can now import / export your playlists. Please export your playlists at some point before the next release as the next major release will likely be full playlists. Best to have a backup before that just in case
  • Downloading videos / audio is now done within FreeTube. You will be notified when the download starts and when the download is finished
  • Implemented "Stats for nerds" to show certain details about the video being watched. Right click on the video player to view it
  • Middle clicking on a video will now open that video in a new window (Also prevents non-YouTube links from opening up in a separate window)

Fixes

  • Updated the ytdl-core module, which fixes the very recent buffering issue with videos from the local API
  • Fixed an issue where dates were not translated properly
  • Fixed various places where text would overflow from its container (ex.: autoplay, comments)
  • Fixed an issue where a user's playlist page would scroll to the top when loading more videos
  • The current playback speed will always be displayed when hovering over the list of playback rates

Changes

  • Electron has been updated to v16.0.8, fixing an issue with video playback on older versions of Windows
  • The dislike count and the like / dislike ratio bar has been hidden due to the recent changes with YouTube. We'll look into possible alternates when a privacy respecting option exists
  • Certain settings will automatically get disabled when incompatible settings are enabled
  • Hovering over watched videos now show a smooth transition

v0.15.1-beta

2 years ago

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

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

v0.15.0-beta

2 years ago

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

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