Take control over your live stream video by running it yourself. Streaming + chat out of the box.
systemctl stop owncast.su -c "curl https://owncast.online/install.sh |bash" owncast
systemctl start owncast.Sanitize Fediverse username #3424
Set content-type for customjavascript #3612
Added "rel-me" attribute to server-rendered bot/metadata/search page template #3290
Do not send a join chat event if that user is already in the chat #3487
chat messages and state changed events should be in aria live region #3335
Replace Twitter social link icon with the stupid 𝕏 one #3427
Chat moderators should be exempt from message rate limiting #3533
Improve design for offline video embed #2917
Admin scrolls horizontally in a weird way on narrower screens #3260
panic: concurrent map write #3440
Bug: "Error: too many colons in address" #3419
Not selectable items in quality settings menu #3368
Sharing Owncast fediverse posts to a few thousand accounts causes video buffering #3189
Thumbnail not consistently generated when using S3 #3522
Player timestamp is sometimes shown as undefined #3652
Changing Log-Entries-Per-Page in Admin Console Doesn't Work #3511
When embedding Owncast chat via iframe the page jumps to where the iframe is #3500
Pagination Doesn't Work in 'Followers' Console #3510
Protect emoji delete API from possible path traversal exploit 1b14800c7d7f54be14ed4d130bfe7f480645076e
Unable to create Webhooks on 0.1.2 when "When a user leaves the chat" checked. #3524
mobile-chat-button is displayed for mobile users when chat is disabled. #3535
Video embed does not fill vertical height #3587
Thumbnails do not generate when using S3 path prefix #3518
The contributors for v0.1.3 were: anniepauline, gabek, varungujarathi9, DarkFalc0n, jhimanish, heavygale, yerimsong and armadi1809. We also thank all of the fantastic people helping out in the Owncast chat answering questions, testing and providing feedback.
A huge thanks to those giving us to the resources to run servers, have testing environments, host collaboration tools, pay for 3rd party services to test with and the means to experiment with new ideas we wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
Our fantastic corporate sponsors none and generous donors Simon Michalke, Luka Prinčič, Flaki, Jnktn.tv, Joel Bradshaw, Paul Lindner, Incognito, nebunez, Merlin, Teklynk, Marius Hoel, Incognito, Guest, SillySam, emacsen, Incognito, GunghoGeoduck, Rick, Didier Malenfant, Tom, Theodore Jones, Alex O'Carroll, Alex O'Carroll, Vencabot, Vince, Robert Wolniak, Nullcasting, Martijn, Incognito, Fred Luetkemeier, Kev Mul, Hamish The PolarBear, Jnktn.tv, Denman Rooke, gravitons loves the Fediverse <3, John Brubaker, Catfish Da Man, box464, Tom Ryder and Guest.
A special thank you to the organizations that offer services to help Owncast build, test and support and distribute the software.
Fastly, Cypress, BrowserStack, Chromatic, Docker and Rocket.Chat.
systemctl stop owncast.curl https://owncast.online/install.sh |bash owncast
systemctl start owncast.Log IP address when stream key is rejected #3212
Do not allow the use of externally API registered chat display names #3234
Add confirmation/conditions/agreement modal when enabling directory #3258
Chat user leave event #3201
Don't let people set private IP addresses as public url #3268
Revert back to using server-rendered bot pages #3253
Handle people trying to save invalid URLs in the admin #3297
Fix typo in actions.tsx #3225
Cleanup local files when using object storage #3230
Occasional crashes, SIGSEGV #3223
Add support for custom object storage path prefixes #3254
[bug] macOS 0.1.0 release doesn't run on arm macs #3056
Support custom serving endpoint with local storage #3292
Firefox: URL adds a mysterious "#" #3240
Geo details in viewer list is not populated when using a CDN #3349
Fix embed player heights #3210
invalid memory address error #3331
Mobile action menu button does not scroll #3271
Client side exception in /admin/chat/users/ #3373
fix emojis overflowing the chat message #3228
Fix parsing of Authorization Bearer header #3376
"missing port in address" error after IP address parsing change #3371
fix: add additional validation before making remote requests #3398
Bug: "Error: too many colons in address" #3419
User badges need spacing between them #3247
Incorrect artifact timestamps on builds #3282
live for
The contributors for v0.1.2 were: t1ff4ny, kamegoro, Pranav2612000, janWilejan, alyssais, eltociear, tfunken, pjbollinger, armadi1809, gabek, jprjr and shreyass-ranganatha. We also thank all of the fantastic people helping out in the Owncast chat answering questions, testing and providing feedback.
A huge thanks to those giving us to the resources to run servers, have testing environments, host collaboration tools, pay for 3rd party services to test with and the means to experiment with new ideas we wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
Our fantastic corporate sponsors none and generous donors Simon Michalke, Luka Prinčič, Kyle Bronsdon, Flaki, Jnktn.tv, Joel Bradshaw, Paul Lindner, TargetedVisitors, Incognito, nebunez, Merlin, Teklynk, Marius Hoel, Incognito, Guest, SillySam, emacsen, Incognito, GunghoGeoduck, Rick, Didier Malenfant, Markus Ressel, Kit Aultman, Mohamed Elsheiry, Tom, ETKMusic.dance, Theodore Jones, Alex O'Carroll, Alex O'Carroll, Raymon Mens, Vencabot, James Carpenter, Vince, Robert Wolniak, Nullcasting, Martijn, Incognito, Fred Luetkemeier, Kev Mul, Hamish The PolarBear, Jnktn.tv, Denman Rooke, gravitons loves the Fediverse <3 and John Brubaker.
A special thank you to the organizations that offer services to help Owncast build, test and support and distribute the software.
Fastly, Cypress, BrowserStack, Chromatic, Docker and Rocket.Chat.
I hope everyone is enjoying all the changes and improvements from the web overhaul that came with v0.1.0. With so many changes we knew there'd be a a slew of bug fixes to come along after. And the first round of those are here.
Some changes you might be interested in:
systemctl stop owncast.su -c "curl https://owncast.online/install.sh |bash" owncast
systemctl start owncast.Option to prevent search engine indexing of Owncast pages #2684
Allow using the video serving endpoint outside of the S3 config #2785
Cleanup of old stream segments in S3 bucket #2646
Extend Webfinger response to include additional references #2851
Display a user flag for bot accounts #3046
Preload custom emoji images #3117
Support showing display name in each chat message via css #3077
Add year to chat users dates in admin #3175
Use VA-API hardware decoding and scaling #2976
pop-out chat button #2848
Adjustable chat width #1918
Visually split up chat messages slightly even when user is collapsed. #3062
Admin S3 configuration form - Change secret input to be a password type #3013
Chat name will auto-close after changing name #3083
Increase width of volume slider #3155
Improve overflow behaviour in chat input #3167
Add current stream status in webhooks #2881
Chat - Pass along custom emoji names in raw chat data #1803
Improve iOS Browser notifications UX #2992
Fix federation info modal text colors #3010
Docker releases have a double "v" in the version number #3066
Admin established user mode toggle switch reverts to previous state after changing it #3070
Chat automatic scroll to bottom is buggy #3029
Image opengraph tag has double slashes creating an error #3075
Android + Firefox results in duplicated characters when typing in chat #3094
fix TitleNotifier crash #3100
Inputting text into the chat can cause page scroll #3110
Deleting all stream keys causes client-side errors #3114
Fix for potential external actions crash when there are no actions #3116
Video Embed: /embed/video introduces scrolling #3104
Emoji markup is cut off when hitting character limits, breaking the images #3120
Improve chat scrolling performance #3165
ChatBox Error - SelectAll + Delete does not work if input is text + emoji #3121
External actions no longer receive username url params from 0.1.0 frontend #3130
If chat is disabled an exception is thrown trying to use the displayName #3138
Admin message page have oddly shaped emoji images #3126
UI crashes when no codecs are found. #3141
Appearance Settings resetting after page reload #3170
Don't IP ban localhost #3172
Hidden messages are not hidden unless the page is refreshed #3166
Sharing Owncast fediverse posts to a few thousand accounts causes video buffering #3189
s3Storage: fix slice bounds out of range error #3208
Mobile web action button menu not displaying #3216
Sending an invalid stream keys payload to the admin API causes issues with the admin #3082
Bottom content on mobile does not span full width in some cases #3073
Chat is creating links for invalid TLDs #3107
Improve video player settings menu appearance #2760
Emoji: missing alt tag #3106
Chat: unable to insert line breaks #3108
Scrolling: scrolling down on chat can cause video to scroll #3109
When the action buttons wrap there should be spacing between the rows #3122
Fediverse post URL is broken on calkey / firefish #3195
Notify popup misses the button sometimes #3191
The contributors for v0.1.1 were: janWilejan, abhipanorian, mohibkay, yk-jp, mrsoong, gabek, jerinthomas1404, hagn, dev265545 and jprjr. We also thank all of the fantastic people helping out in the Owncast chat answering questions, testing and providing feedback.
A huge thanks to those giving us to the resources to run servers, have testing environments, host collaboration tools, pay for 3rd party services to test with and the means to experiment with new ideas we wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
Our fantastic corporate sponsors Okta, Noblestreet and generous donors Simon Michalke, rootbeerdan, Luka Prinčič, Kyle Bronsdon, Flaki, Jnktn.tv, Joel Bradshaw, Paul Lindner, Real Targeted Traffic, TargetedVisitors, Incognito, nebunez, Merlin, Teklynk, Marius Hoel, Incognito, Michał Sidor, 2000staFM, Guest, SillySam, ruut, Ozoned, emacsen, Incognito, Jeff Moe, GunghoGeoduck, Patrick, Chris Heino, Didier Malenfant, Markus Ressel, Kit Aultman, Mohamed Elsheiry, Tom, Michael, Theodore Jones, Alex O'Carroll, Alex O'Carroll, Raymon Mens, Vencabot, James Carpenter, Vince, Robert Wolniak, Nullcasting, Martijn, Incognito, Fred Luetkemeier, Kev Mul, Hamish The PolarBear and Denman Rooke.
A special thank you to the organizations that offer services to help Owncast build, test and support and distribute the software.
Fastly, Cypress, BrowserStack, Chromatic, Docker and Rocket.Chat.
Note: Please read these release notes in their entirety. There are many changes and it's important for you to know what has changed and how it will affect you.
The first commit to Owncast was May 23, 2020. It's been a wild ride seeing what everyone has been streaming and all the creative use cases people have come up with. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the project, and to everyone who has been using it. I won't use this place to talk about how awesome you all are, but here's to many more years of your streams!
Owncast v0.1.0 is a large update with many changes to the web interface. It is a complete rewrite of the frontend and like any rewrite it results in many improvements, but also room for bugs and regressions. Please report any issues you find to the issue tracker.
This release is made up of over 380 completed tasks. That's not 380 commits, 380 standalone tasks. That's so much stuff. If you're interested in some behind the scenes there's blog posts about Owncast design and the web project.
It may make sense for some who relied on heavy customization in previous versions to test out this release outside of your production install of Owncast to make sure any visual customization you previously made can be moved over.
This release was a large undertaking and would not have been possible without the help of all the people who pitched in their skills to make it happen. A full list is at the bottom of these release notes.
With all the future features that we want to add to Owncast it was required to take a step back and rebuild the web frontend from scratch so it would be easier to add to and maintain. This release is the result of that work.
The goals of this release were:
One side-effect of these changes is we no longer ship the raw web source code with each release. This was previously the webroot directory. While most people didn't take advantage of this in the past, some did. If you find there are things you can no longer do that you once did there are two options:
We hope the addition of additional customization options in the admin will make up for this change.
While the webroot directory will not be automatically deleted, and any files you had previously manually put there will be safe, it will no longer be used for anything and you are free to delete it yourself when you're ready.
The new appearance section under General settings in the Owncast admin allows for an easier approach to customizing your instance. While you could, and still can, write your own CSS, the new options allow you to customize the appearance of your Owncast instance without writing any CSS by selecting colors other miscellaneous options.
While not every single individual component or element can be customized via point-and-click, we hope this at least gives most people a simpler to customize right out of the box. Via CSS you can still customize anything you want and CSS variables can be set manually.
Note that any CSS you had written for previous releases of Owncast will not be compatible with the new version, as the entire web frontend changed.
Read more about the appearance customization page in the Appearance customization guide.
Under the General settings page you can add custom Javascript to your Owncast instance's web page. Read more about this in the documentation.
Previously the admin password and stream key were the same. Due to requests these have been split up, and you can now create any number of streaming keys. Most people will continue to not need this functionality, but if you have a specific use case where you have multiple streamers, and you don't want any of them to access the admin for some reason, this is now possible.
By default the admin password and single stream key are both the same, however. So you should see no difference when upgrading to this new release.
The default custom emoji set has been replaced with images that we are confident can be shipped with Owncast due to their license. Those who have been using Owncast from previous versions, however, will keep their images and only new users will get the new emoji set.
A new emoji page has been added to the Admin under Chat & Users -> Emojis where you can add and remove your own custom emoji images without having to access your server's filesystem. If you do want to manually manage these files, however, they can be now found in the data/emoji directory.
Read more details about custom emoji in the documentation
As a participant in the chat you can now change your color, not just your name. The selection of colors can be customized via the appearance customization page. Additionally as an admin you can change the set of colors available to your users to match your preferences.
Some people prefer to not display a viewer count, and now that can be accomplished by turning it off in the admin under General settings.
When your stream is not live a new "Offline Banner" is displayed with either a default or custom message. This can be customized in the admin under General settings. This is a good way to leave a message such as when you normally stream, or if you're taking a break.
You've always been able to link to external URLs to display when you press action buttons on the page, but now you can choose to write your own HTML to display instead. Visit Integrations -> External Actions in the admin.
If you need to host your own images, fonts, css files or anything you need to make publicly available you can do so via the new data/public directory. Most people will not need this, but if you previously used to put assets in your webroot directory to make them publicly accessible, this would be the replacement of that.
Some admin pages have been combined and some URLs have changed. Particularly have a look at the "General" and the "Server config" pages to find additional sections like S3 Object Storage and custom CSS.
Primarily due to Twitter removing external API access to their service, but also due to Twitter being Twitter, this feature has been removed and will no longer be internally supported. If you still require this specific functionality you can use Webhooks to build something custom.
systemctl stop owncast./opt/owncast.su -c "curl https://owncast.online/install.sh |bash" owncast. If you are running as a different user, run the upgrade as the same user you're running Owncast as.systemctl start owncast.New setting: Allow hiding viewer count #1939
Add support for optional public web assets directory #2234
New admin page for customization #1915
Allow uploading custom emoji through the admin #2378
Option to mute embed by default #2420
Add support for arbitrary Javascript in page #2604
Auto-generate a complex, stream key when adding #2631
Allow providing HTML instead of a link for external actions #1718
Webhook for stream title change #2795
Feature Request: Sortable social media links #1818
Ability to edit external actions #1884
Implement WCAG 2.1 compliance #1826
Support brotli encoding #2697
Do not allow Federation if running on a non-standard port #2008
Make streaming key and admin password different values #2320
Enforce username requirements at register (API or headers) #2527
Player "Live" indicator circle should use the action CSS variable color #2890
Admin message moderation errors #2020
Admin only allows selecting 24fps or 120fps, nothing in between #2159
I get an error about 40 seconds into launching the server --> "panic: runtime error: index out of range [0] with length 0" #2423
fix minimum bitrate detection for system health report #2455
Admin logo upload UI sending empty payloads #2524
Android: Page doesn't scroll when keyboard is displayed #2595
Fix Owncast Avatar URL for discord webhooks #2748
Give friendlier error in the admin when it cannot connect to Owncast service #2698
Crashes on 32-bit ARM (likely a bug in Metrics dependency) #2746
Nitpicky detail: resolution placeholders aren't 16x9 #2799
Hardware info screen empty after start #2805
Viewer graph should always use 0 as minimal value #2806
Set correct content-type and cache-control for S3 uploads #2771
Loose div in Utilities > Stream health screen #2804
Video variant admin interface should start with the default setting values #1946
The contributors for v0.1.0 were: LBBO, dorj222, heller, Rishav1707, prachurjya15, vwallen, xarantolus, dev265545, mehrdadbn9, juliana-mol, unclebinary1001, gingervitis, t1enne, stnfrd, elonyavist, JacobWrenn, bennett1412, mattdsteele, americobarros, Rehan-stack, andrew-secret, thisprojects, Pranav2612000, pippo, hsingh124, silksow, gabek, dhanusaputra, CutestNekoAqua, azyklus, jackgris, Yasir761 and MFTabriz. We also thank all of the fantastic people helping out in the Owncast chat answering questions, testing and providing feedback.
A huge thanks to those giving us to the resources to run servers, have testing environments, host collaboration tools, pay for 3rd party services to test with and the means to experiment with new ideas we wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
Our fantastic corporate sponsors Noblestreet and Okta and generous donors Simon Michalke, rootbeerdan, Luka Prinčič, Kyle Bronsdon, Flaki, Raffael Rehberger, Jnktn.tv, Joel Bradshaw, Paul Lindner, Real Targeted Traffic, TargetedVisitors, Incognito, nebunez, Merlin, Teklynk, Marius Hoel, Ole, PlayBox Technology, Guest, Incognito, Aqaba and Michał Sidor.
A special thank you to the organizations that offer services to help Owncast build, test and support and distribute the software.
Fastly, Cypress, BrowserStack, Chromatic, Docker and Rocket.Chat.
Owncast v0.0.13 is a very small release targeting mostly bug fixes.
Since v0.1.0 is taking longer than hoped, this allows some updates to get out between now and then. But all the work for the new Owncast interface is coming along well and I look forward to getting it finished and putting in everyone's hands.
systemctl stop owncast.su -c "curl https://owncast.online/install.sh |bash" owncast
systemctl start owncast.Do not log inactionable Federated resolution/verification errors #1992
Improve chat input accessibility #2353
Treat fediverse usernames as case-insensitive #2155
Sanitize user submitted values before logging #2134
Username length is now validated server-side #1919
Do not allow multiple Fediverse auth attempts. #2000
Manually authored social posts are always set to followers-only #2112
Fix superfluous response.WriteHeader call error #2157
Fix possible security exploit for those with Moderator access. #2257
Messages table fixes to improve query performance #2026
Fix possible crash with Federated Undo request #2317
The contributors for v0.0.13 were: brokenintuition, gabek, jprjr, cooliscool and cellularnetwork.
We also thank all of the fantastic people helping out in the Owncast chat answering questions, testing and providing feedback.
A huge thanks to those giving us to the resources to run servers, have testing environments, host collaboration tools, pay for 3rd party services to test with and the means to experiment with new ideas we wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
Our project sponsors Okta and Noblestreet.
And our fantastic donors Simon Michalke, rootbeerdan, Luka Prinčič, Kyle Bronsdon, Flaki, Joel Bradshaw, Paul Lindner, TargetedVisitors, Incognito, nebunez, Merlin, Teklynk, Marius Hoel, Incognito and Michał Sidor.
This release has a handful of features, big and small, to improve the overall Owncast experience, primarily around the core streaming and chat functionality.
This new dropdown menu should help clarify how you change your name, as it was not always clear to all viewers how to do so.
To assist streamers in automating their live stream announcements, some new ways to notify your viewers and your community have been added.
Of course the existing "Follow" Fediverse functionality still is the more robust way for a viewer to be notified when you're streaming, as it allows you to send out messages to your followers and allow them to perform some "social" functionality, but with the goal of meeting viewers where they already are, these channels have been added.
Using the new Stream Health page in the admin you can monitor the overall playback performance of your stream. While it can't be guaranteed to detect all issues with all players, it should be able to give you relative confidence when things are going well, and help you identity specific issues that you can resolve when troubleshooting.
It should be noted that only those who are viewing your stream via the Owncast web interface, and only those not using Webkit-based browsers, will have their detailed metrics available. The page will tell you what percentage of the viewers are represented in the numbers.
Some options for chat user authentication have been added. This allows people to reclaim their identity when people move between browsers, devices, or prefer to use Owncast using private browsing features. This is especially useful if you are a moderator and want to reclaim your moderation role, but in general it's for anybody who wants to have a stable identity in chat. It's not required, and most casual viewers should probably never have to take advantage of it unless they especially want to.
As a secondary benefit, those who choose to authenticate will have their chat display name locked to their identity and others cannot use it. This should hopefully be a good compromise between locking all display names and locking no display names. However this is still just a display attribute and there's nothing stopping people from creating names that may look similar to yours.
Authenticated users will have a checkmark next to their name in chat.
There are two different ways you can authenticate with Owncast chat, allowing you to restore your identity between browsers.
IndieAuth is a decentralized identity protocol that allows an individual's web site to become its own identity provider. Owncast itself, is now an IndieAuth provider you can use to authenticate against Owncast instances, or any other site that supports IndieAuth.
For Owncast instances with Fediverse functionality enabled you can be sent a one-time-password that works similarly to when you log in with your phone number on different services. You can use this code to authenticate with Owncast chat. You must allow direct/private messages on your Fediverse account from the Owncast instance.
Users that have been banned from chat will now have their IP address automatically blocked. You can remove IP address blocks from the admin separately from the user ban.
Enabling this mode will stop newly created chat users from being able to chat. It should be seen as an "anti-troll mode" that you can turn on if some new people drop by your chat just to harass and annoy.
You can now optionally use a Prometheus metrics server to monitor your Owncast instance. You can add /api/admin/prometheus to your Prometheus configuration to consume the metrics.
Some viewers may enable a new, experimental, feature in the player settings for streams that can benefit from lower latency playback. If you find yourself getting excessive buffering or playback issues with your stream after turning it on it's suggested you not use it at this time. It would also be appreciated if you find issues to let us know what stream you're using this with so we can continue to improve the feature.
Only viewers using the Owncast web interface and not using a webkit-powered browser will have this feature available. A stable and fast stream is required for this feature to perform its intended function.
If all goes according to plan this will be the last update before releasing a rewrite of the Owncast web interface. This will allow the project to move faster on the frontend going forward, so big features on the roadmap can be worked on.
Work is already in progress, but it'll be a long road to feature parity. I hope you'll be patient as the frontend is focused on this next time around.
This update will impact most users, so as time goes on I'll make sure to update everyone on what to expect, and optionally how to prepare to take advantage of the new features.
systemctl stop owncast.su -c "curl https://owncast.online/install.sh |bash" owncast
systemctl start owncast.Option to disable join messages in chat #1582
Can set separately set the chat server host #1378
Prometheus compatible metrics endpoint #1303
Opttionally show geo location data from video viewers #1477
Extend the viewers timeline #1478
Add a small indicator visually showing a message is from a bot/external service #1172
IP banning of users #1534
Add videotoolbox codec for macOS #1771
Video playback health and performance metrics #793
Experimental lower latency playback mode #837
Auto-poster for some 3rd party notification channels #1609
Web push notifications #1656
Owncast can function as an Indieauth provider. #1272
Authenticated users' display names are no longer available to others. #1810
Add “services” and “metadata” to NodeInfo/2.0 #1922
manifest - Add fullscreen mode/change name #1934
Troll/Established chat user Mode (like +m on IRC) #1587
Chat auth using the Fediverse #1774
Auto-select old text when changing display name. #1754
Change cachebust param to random string to support CDNs #1781
Change CMD to ENTRYPOINT in Dockerfile #1831
Replace hide chat toggle and username change form with chat user dropdown #1648
changed followers tab to 24 per page #1855
Selecting an emoji immediately when visiting page without focusing text input ignores selection #1419
Fix exception when using emoji input in chrome #1782
Framerate slider is broken. Can only select lowest and highest values. #1791
Fix stat components in hardware admin page #1815
The "no" button in the codec confirmation popup does nothing #1809
Issue: chat unscrollabe on some resize operations #1830
Fix datastore cache warming not firing #1889
fix the server name in nodeinfo/2.0 #1907
"invalid cross-device link" error when running on a different filesystem #1768
[bug] Follow request from GoToSocial causes nil pointer exception #1955
Fix API documentation "integrations/chat/updatemessagevisibility" -> /api/integrations/chat/messagevisibility #1966
Remove doubled paragraphs around stream title for Fediverse messages. #1927
Prevent CSS class injection and directory traversal via custom emojis #1772
HLS segment name collision when using the lowest latency buffer option #1778
Remote Fediverse servers are caching the instance logo even after its changed, add a cachebust. #1776
Remote Fediverse preview images get cached, add a cachebust #1777
Viewer chart Y axis strings are formatted weird #1816
Cursor when composing chat message appears on the right-hand side of the text field in Firefox #1561
Unable to follow an Owncast account from Misskey #1690
The contributors for v0.0.12 were: funkyhippo, tsmethurst, MFTabriz, t1enne, cr0ax, hufman, zerodytrash, lfuelling and gabek. We also thank all of the fantastic people helping out in the Owncast chat answering questions, testing and providing feedback.
A huge thanks to those giving us to the resources to run servers, have testing environments, host collaboration tools, pay for 3rd party services to test with and the means to experiment with new ideas we wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
Our project sponsors Noblestreet, Okta and hexploitation.
And our fantastic donors Simon Michalke, rootbeerdan, Luka Prinčič, Kyle Bronsdon, Flaki, Raffael Rehberger, Joel Bradshaw, Paul Lindner, Real Targeted Traffic, TargetedVisitors, Incognito, nebunez, Merlin, Teklynk, Ole, PlayBox Technology, Guest and Guest.
With Owncast v0.0.11 your server can optionally become a part of the Fediverse, an interconnected, but completely independent network of servers where people can discover your stream and get notified of when you go live. Some popular Fediverse services are Mastodon and Pleroma but many services that make up the Fediverse can start to receive posts from your Owncast server.
With this ability, it gives you something pretty cool: the ability for people to follow your server, share it with their own followers. Your followers now show in a new "Followers" tab in the interface, and as people interact with your server by following, sharing and liking, it will show up in the chat so your biggest supporters get highlighted.
You'll automatically let your followers know each time you go live, and you can send them messages from the admin letting them know about your future streaming plans.
This functionality, of course, is disabled by default, as Owncast always wants you to be completely private out of the box. It's up to you to enable this in the admin under the new "Social" config section. But if you'd prefer, you can turn on social "Private Mode" where you have to manually approve each follower that wants to know about your streams, and in that case they will be unable to share your server with others.
We look forward to continued features being built now that federation with Owncast is enabled.
A huge thank you to NLnet for funding the development of Owncast Federation through the NGI0 Discovery Fund.
Note: The Fediverse is the wild west, and while people have been running with this functionality for some time in testing, we don't know what you'll run into. Please let us know if you discover any issues or any services that are not being compatible with Owncast or causing problems with your server.
Long requested, and now finally here. You can assign moderator privileges to yourself, and any of your chat members and they will have the ability to remove chat messages and ban users directly from the chat, without having to go into the Admin.
Of course this relies on people keeping their identity between visits to your chat, so those that use private browsing to visit your server will be seen as a completely different chat participant each time, and will no longer have their moderator privileges unless you re-grant them.
systemctl stop owncast.su -c "curl https://owncast.online/install.sh |bash" owncast
systemctl start owncast.Promote chat participants to moderators #499
Additional target framerates #1138
Support path-based S3 storage #1495
Inline UI to allow people to perform moderation actions within chat #1291
Add a recommendation in the admin to add a second, lower quality if only one is set #1491
Add support for checking the local filesystem for static resources #1507
Add list of moderators in user admin #1511
New admin section for managing ActivityPub settings. #1210
Set a short cache expiration on some APIs #1530
Add Matrix chat client(s) user agent to our bot list #1581
Return user scopes as a part of the chat history API #1586
Add admin support for manually composing a post to fediverse followers #1610
Set username via optional request headers #1365
Add Rocket.Chat to our bot user-agent list #1639
Add user icon in header next to user name change form #1655
Add alternative configurable list of default usernames #1497
Add steam as a Social Platform #1501
Replace redirect of /embed URLs to random html files and instead return content directly #1281
refactor: move from io/ioutil to io and os packages #1546
Increase the number of HLS segments in a playlist to increase stability #1552
Increase the max size of the chat welcome message #1595
Change styling for chat message links #1551
"Disable chat" setting is confusing #1330
Build outbound webhook execution queue #1510
Limit "external site requested your logo" warning message #1668
Binding to ::1 fails: too many colons in address #1398
Fix possible crash on stream disconnect #1439
Fix hashes for standalone video/chat #1472
Fix Windows support #1377
When a ban occurs not all messages by that user are visibly removed #1350
OMX codec no longer showing friendly name and description in admin #1521
doing a ctrl+c to copy something closes the chat panel #1201
Messages Sent column in admin should either center the value or make column narrower #1580
Fix where banned user cannot be added back #1518
The contributors for v0.0.11 were: jeyemwey, krashanoff, controlfreakstudio, gingervitis, f35f0ef9d0e827dae86552d3899f78fc, UXShawrk, MFTabriz and gabek. We also thank all of the fantastic people helping out in the Owncast chat answering questions, testing and providing feedback.
A huge thanks to those giving us to the resources to run servers, have testing environments, host collaboration tools, pay for 3rd party services to test with and the means to experiment with new ideas we wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
Our project sponsors Noblestreet and Okta.
And our fantastic donors Simon Michalke, rootbeerdan, Luka Prinčič, Kyle Bronsdon, Robin, Flaki, Joel Bradshaw, Paul Lindner, Real Targeted Traffic, TargetedVisitors, Tom Hansen, pwxlwrk, Incognito, Niels Digital, nebunez and Merlin.
This is a hot fix to resolve an issue using external S3 compatible storage in v0.0.9: #1455
There are no other changes and this only impacts those using that feature. See the release notes for v0.0.9 for details around the previous release.
systemctl stop owncast.su -c "curl https://owncast.online/install.sh |bash" owncast
systemctl start owncast.Owncast v0.0.9 is a smaller release with a handful of tweaks and fixes. There's not a lot of user-facing changes this time around, but take a look through the below changes and see if there's anything that might impact you.
One thing that might make your life more convenient going forward is instead of putting in the full video URL /hls/stream.m3u8 when viewing an Owncast stream in an external video player (MPV, Quicktime, VLC) you can just put your root URL to your Owncast server.
systemctl stop owncast.su -c "curl https://owncast.online/install.sh |bash" owncast
systemctl start owncast.Add support for loading the root owncast URL directly in 3rd party video applications. #1356
Add proper landing page for browsers without the JS support #1139
Create external API to enable sending a message directly to a client instead of publicly #1316
Auto expand the "Utilities" menu item in admin if an Owncast update is available #1299
Increase the sensitivity of the chat rate limiter #1349
Make the emoji directory configurable #1174
Stop logging 404s to the admin logs #1341
Mark viewer as active when downloading an HLS playlist #1343
Simplify where HLS segments live on the filesystem so they always live in data #875
In the admin don't show the connected client count if we're not showing a list of the clients #1306
Do not show user joined chat message if user has recently joined #1406
Chat disables when stream ends instead of 5 minutes later #1268
GeoIP support not working with 0.0.8 #1304
Previous display names are not being displayed in the admin user modal #1277
Re-joining chat in the 5min window after disconnect shows the chat as disabled #1311
Set a value for player maxPlaylistRetries in the player #1335
Markdown rendering ends up with excessive spacing with lists #1315
Improve chat auto-scrolling #1324
Fix Windows tests #1376
Fix transcoding error text #1381
Potential local client security problem(s) when pasting DOM elements into chat #1357
Fixed USER_JOINED webhooks to have the correct event type name. #1302
Fix building on FreeBSD #1243
The contributors for v0.0.9 were: MFTabriz, unclearParadigm, gabek, RhnSharma, sytranvn and ooa113y. We also thank all of the fantastic people helping out in the Owncast chat answering questions, testing and providing feedback.
A huge thanks to those giving us to the resources to run servers, have testing environments, host collaboration tools, pay for 3rd party services to test with and the means to experiment with new ideas we wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
Our project sponsors Noblestreet and Okta.
And our fantastic donors Simon Michalke, rootbeerdan, Luka Prinčič, Kyle Bronsdon, Robin, Flaki, Joel Bradshaw and Paul Lindner.
Owncast v0.0.8 features a rewrite of the chat system to improve performance, stability, and user moderation along with changes intended to reduce unauthorized access to chat and its history.
As with all updates it also includes many fixes and improvements to continue improving the self-hosted streaming experience. Please read through the below release notes and let us know what you think about this release. Your feedback drives the roadmap of Owncast, and we want to build the things that are most useful to you.
Here are some notable chat updates you may be interested in:
While Owncast has had existing support for hiding chat messages, this new release is the first time you can ban an entire user from chat. By visiting the new Chat -> Users admin page and seeing the list of currently connected chat users, you can press the "Ban" button to disconnect them from chat, hide all their messages, and ban that user from reconnecting.
Turning off chat in the settings previously would hide the chat UI from your viewers, but the chat functionality still was enabled behind the scenes. Now if you turn it off chat is no longer supported. Because you can turn off chat completely the number of viewers is no longer counted by the number of people connected to chat, instead it is counted separately.
Under the new Chat settings page in the admin you can add a list of names or words you don't want to allow people to use in their chat usernames. This way you can stop people from having fake names like "Admin" to mislead people.
Also, default usernames are no longer "UserXX", but instead a randomly generated string.
Previously we didn't suggest more than 1,000 people to be connected to the Owncast chat, but with this revision it's been tested to many times that, though you may see more or less depending on your server and how it's configured. In general most people should no longer be limited in chat capacity.
You can now input, and autocomplete, custom emoji in chat by typing :emojiname:. Hover over emoji in the chat to see the name of it. By typing part of an emoji, such as :dancing and hitting tab it will attempt to auto-complete it for you just like it does with usernames when you type @user and tab.
There's now a standalone chat interface located at /embed/chat/readwrite that you can embed in an iframe anywhere you like, allowing you to easily have the full chat in a custom interface that you design.
This is also useful for streamers who just want to bring up a full-screen chat to use when streaming.
systemctl stop owncast./opt/owncast.su -c "curl https://owncast.online/install.sh |bash" owncast
systemctl start owncast.As noted previously, two APIs will no longer be available:
/api/integrations/chat/user is no longer supported, removing the ability to send a chat message as arbitrary users. #1092
/api/chat is no longer publicly available. #1085
Allow binding the web server port to a specific address #981
Add Linux ARM64 release #1053
Add send button for the chat in mobile environments #1081
Add support for blocking specific chat usernames #782
Allow the customization of the logging path #1040
Chat refactor + persistent backing chat users #1163
Add support for blocking a chat user #1096
Update API to send chat messages as a specific bot/integration via their access token #1092
add target="_blank" to custom user content before rendering #1220
Support text input of :emoji:, and show the title of emoji in title attribute #480
Provide command line option for setting the RTMP listening port #1001
Offline Web UI: Display when the last time there was a stream #1111
You can specify the directory to save backups to #1099
Add standalone chat with ability to send messages #531
Replace viewer counting with a simple ping instead of websocket connections #790
Remove blank space when no external actions are rendered #1119
Don't show the viewer count in the embed player when offline #1088
Collapse news content in the admin home page #1137
Don't send user joined notification if chat/stream is disabled #1224
Hide viewer count when offline #1091
Do not keep an unlimited backlog of chat history in the database #1152
Lock down /api/chat from external access #1085
Do not try to connect to the websocket if chat is disabled #1135
Keep persistent logs on disk #908
Hopefully be able to run on Windows now #390
Atomically save the thumbnail and preview Gif #1279
Description text with a URL doesn't auto linkify #1010
System messages with URLs aren't auto-linked #1009
Default stream output name is longer than the maximum allowed length #1037
Admin viewers table doesn't wrap properly and exceeds width of the window #1024
Width of the admin viewers page adjusts with the content of the viewers table #842
"other" social handle URL doesn't appear in admin view #998
Error editing "other" type social handle #1008
Instability when using Restream #999
Typing in the emoji search box triggers player keyboard shortcuts #1025
Player video quality setting icon is sometimes not centered #1044
Fix rtmp secret validation to allow / (#1069) #1070
Fix crash in datastore cache #1067
Narrow screens break 3rd party content modals #1020
The sort order of player video qualities is buggy #1132
Change to Configuration → Storage → Optional Settings does not enable Save button #1108
Don't allow people to set their instance name to an empty string (or only whitespace) #967
og:description tag is blank in HTML headers when sharing an Owncast link #1184
Stop the chat from animating away when chat is disabled #1007
Don't remove non-existing files if video config changed while online #1147
Admin hardware values default to "undefined", should just default to zero #874
Better feedback when Storage Endpoint is invalid #1000
Cache-Control header is wrong when using S3 #1047
Streaming URL on main admin page is missing the port #1049
Admin chat message moderation UI selected state is a bad color #1120
Remove config file migrator #1023
Remove YouTube embedding in the chat #1079
Remove the unnecessary websocket connection from the embed player #1164
/api/integrations/chat/user is no longer supported, removing the ability to send a chat message as arbitrary users. #1092
/api/chat is no longer publicly available. #1085
Websocket is no longer publicly available.
The contributors for v0.0.8 were: muesli, jeyemwey, rAcHekLoS, geekgonecrazy, gingervitis, gabek, Patil2099, thilobillerbeck, soham4abc, leuc, tomleb, RhnSharma, MFTabriz, jyggiz and nodomain. We also thank all of the fantastic people helping out in the Owncast chat answering questions, testing and providing feedback.
A huge thanks to those giving us to the resources to run servers, have testing environments, host collaboration tools, pay for 3rd party services to test with and the means to experiment with new ideas we wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
Our project sponsors Noblestreet, Okta, and our fantastic donors Simon Michalke, rootbeerdan, Luka Prinčič, Kyle Bronsdon, Guest, Robin, Flaki, ha2tim Gye-Nyame, Raffael Rehberger, Chaim Krause, Guest and Jnktn.tv.