FreeTube Release v0.14.0 Beta

[PrestonN]

Features

• Most settings (including locale changes) and history are now properly synchronized across windows (everything else is a WIP)
• The Invidious instance is now randomized on startup
  • The user can save the currently set Invidious instance as the default value for subsequent startups in the settings
• When a search filter is applied, the filter icon now has a colored ring around it to indicate that filters are used
• You can change the volume of the video by scrolling over the video player
• Pasting links to videos inside a playlist now opens the video in the playlist
• Captions settings (e.g. font size) are now persisted onto disk
• You can now open videos in an external Video player (Currently supported: MPV)
• Custom definable video forward and rewind intervals
• New Trending pages for music, gaming & movies
• You can navigate to subscriptions on FreeTube logo click
• Support for importing/exporting csv YouTube subscriptions

Fixes

• Comments are now working again
• Importing subscriptions from NewPipe no longer fails if the file contains subscriptions from services other than YouTube
• When a video does not have any comments, FT will not create an error anymore
• Emojis in profile bubbles will no longer display a replacement character (�)
• When the player gets muted, the player volume's session value is now correctly set to 0
• The trending and most popular buttons are now properly hidden in portrait mode if set as such in the settings.
• If the autoplay countdown is in effect and the user navigates out of that page, the app will no longer display the remaining toasts related to the rest of the countdown
• Fixed a bug where disabling smooth scrolling didn't work unless the user manually closed and reopened the app
• Fixed a bug where, very occasionally, an error window related to setNormalBounds would pop up when closing
• Window titles now respect your locale settings
• Live chat and comments now escape HTML characters
• Playlist description no longer overflows and hides the share playlist button
• YouTube Shorts are now accepted in the search bar
• Channel elements now are dynamic when the window is smaller
• Featured channel icons now display properly
• The description element does not show when the description is empty
• Playlists now play the next video when using Invidious API
• The media player does not show current time as tooltip when previewing over video
• Fixed buttons across app to toggle instead of them triggering the button again
• Large changelog messages now scroll

Changes

• The https://yewtu.be Invidious instance has enabled their API for FreeTube and can now used. It will also be shown in the instance list within settings
• Enables the following languages: Estonian, Serbian
• Copying or opening links of videos in a playlist now contain the playlist information for YouTube and Invidious
• The large play button in the video player can be disabled in the settings, so screenshots can be taken more easily
• The spellchecker for the top search bar has been disabled
• The search bar's filters' menu appearance has been improved
• The playlist page now allows you to navigate to the author's channel; clicking the the playlist's thumbnail navigates you to the first video of the playlist
• The reload button for feeds is now fixed on scroll
• Theater mode button is now in the media player controls
• Improvement to speeds of reimporting subscriptions

[PrestonN]

Hey All!

As you can see, we have a very large list of patch notes for this release. Unfortunately one of the issues with the previous release is that the pop-up doesn't show all of the notes properly due to a fixed size, so we'll post it here instead so that the pop-up within the app is still accessible.

Do you like this approach? Should we use this more moving forward? Let us know!

[stephan-dev]

Do you like this approach? Should we use this more moving forward? Let us know!

Thanks for fixing comments again, and some sync problems between windows. For notifications : it's nice to have both, a summary in the app, full details here.

[Tiltowait2]

THANK you for fixing comments. That one was really hurting. :( Good to see it back again!

[BaheySaied]

Hi :) .... Always Supporting You 😍

I Have Sent an E-mail to You For Only One thing ... Please Add " Egypt " In Trending Countries :) ... Please Please 😥

[peepo5]

Make an issue on our github issues tab.

[Button4Button]

Hi,
Can't thank you enough for fixing the comments... big thanks too for all you do for this project.