Release v0.15.0 Beta

[PrestonN]

Features

• Rework of the settings page into collapsible sections Collapsible Settings Sections #1699
• New Dracula theme and Dracula color options Added Dracula Theme #1727
• History forward/back arrows are now grayed out when appropriate Color clues for history navigation arrows #1579
• Caption options are now sorted based on user language preferences feat: Optimize caption sort order #1661
• Setting to disable or ask before opening external links * Implement setting for disabling external link opening #1427
• Visual improvements to Trending and channel pages Style improvements to Channel & Trending pages #1736
• Adds button to the search bar that clears the search box
• The search filter popup now disappears on page change

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where opening a new video with the middle mouse button would result in a blank screen
• Fixed a bug where media control buttons were not working
• Fixed video thumbnails to be the proper width Proportional scaling inside grid #1514
• Comments are now formatted properly Fixes comment formatting #1719
• Fixed visual issues with dropdown & search selections on non-default themes Update colours (search results & select boxes) to match theme #1482
• Fixed a bug where menus on the mediaplayer could not be navigated while "Scroll Volume Over Video Player" was active Fixes video volume scroll from activating in mediaplayer menus #1650
• Replaced links to FreeTube's deprecated GitHub wiki with https://docs.freetubeapp.io/ links
• Added proper notification messages when copying links to a playlist
• Minor label fixes
• Fixed a bug where watched videos would occasionally not be added to the watch history
• Fixed an issue where the Invidious API couldn't properly play DASH videos

Changes

• Theater mode can now be toggled with the T key Add Toggle Theatre Keybind [T] #1703
• Downgraded Electron version from 14.0 to 13.5.1
  • Commmentary: In FreeTube v0.14.0, one of our last-minute changes was upgrading the Electron version. In doing so, we introduced a litany of Electron bugs that degraded the user experience. As a result, we will keep FreeTube's Electron version at v13.5.1 until these issues are thoroughly addressed.
• Switched from NPM to Yarn 1 for dependency management
• Updated the README with links to Weblate & the FreeTube documentation
• Videos displayed in grid form now scale proportionally based on window size Proportional scaling inside grid #1514

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This discussion was created from the release Release v0.15.0 Beta.

[PrestonN]

Hey everyone! As you may notice, this release still doesn't fully fix the throttling issues that's been happening recently. We're well aware of the problem and are currently waiting on a fix.

While we're waiting, there is a workaround. If you enable the Invidious video proxy or enable the Invidious API, then you shouldn't experience any throttling. We'll create another update to fix throttling with the local API as soon as the patch is available. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Thanks everyone!