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 https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/pull/1114#issuecomment-808774405)
• 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 :^)