Next release notes ================== .. note:: Those release notes refer to the current development branch and are reset after each release. Audio transcoding is back! -------------------------- After removal of our first, buggy transcoding implementation, we're proud to announce that this feature is back. It is enabled by default, and can be configured/disabled in your instance settings! This feature works in the browser, with federated/non-federated tracks and using Subsonic clients. Transcoded tracks are generated on the fly, and cached for a configurable amount of time, to reduce the load on the server. Automatically load .env file ---------------------------- On non-docker deployments, earlier versions required you to source the config/.env file before launching any Funkwhale command, with ``export $(cat config/.env | grep -v ^# | xargs)`` This led to more complex and error prode deployment / setup. This is not the case anymore, and Funkwhale will automatically load this file if it's available. Licensing and copyright information ----------------------------------- Funkwhale is now able to parse copyright and license data from file and store this information. Apart from displaying it on each track detail page, no additional behaviour is currently implemented to use this new data, but this will change in future releases. License and copyright data is also broadcasted over federation. License matching is done on the content of the ``License`` tag in the files, with a fallback on the ``Copyright`` tag. Funkwhale will successfully extract licensing data for the following licenses: - Creative Commons 0 (Public Domain) - Creative Commons 1.0 (All declinations) - Creative Commons 2.0 (All declinations) - Creative Commons 2.5 (All declinations and countries) - Creative Commons 3.0 (All declinations and countries) - Creative Commons 4.0 (All declinations) Support for other licenses such as Art Libre or WTFPL will be added in future releases. Delete pre 0.17 federated tracks [manual action suggested] ---------------------------------------------------------- If you were using Funkwhale before the 0.17 release and federated with other instances, it's possible that you still have some unplayable federated files in the database. To purge the database of those entries, you can run the following command: On docker setups:: docker-compose run --rm api python manage.py script delete_pre_017_federated_uploads --no-input On non-docker setups:: python manage.py script delete_pre_017_federated_uploads --no-input Enable gzip compression [manual action suggested] ------------------------------------------------- Gzip compression will be enabled on new instances by default and will reduce the amount of bandwidth consumed by your instance. If you with to benefit from gzip compression on your instance, edit your reverse proxy virtualhost file (located at ``/etc/nginx/sites-available/funkwhale.conf``) and add the following snippet in the server block, then reload your nginx server:: server { # ... exiting configuration # compression settings gzip on; gzip_comp_level 5; gzip_min_length 256; gzip_proxied any; gzip_vary on; gzip_types application/atom+xml application/javascript application/json application/ld+json application/activity+json application/manifest+json application/rss+xml application/vnd.geo+json application/vnd.ms-fontobject application/x-font-ttf application/x-web-app-manifest+json application/xhtml+xml application/xml font/opentype image/bmp image/svg+xml image/x-icon text/cache-manifest text/css text/plain text/vcard text/vnd.rim.location.xloc text/vtt text/x-component text/x-cross-domain-policy; # end of compression settings } Instance-level moderation tools ------------------------------- This release includes a first set of moderation tools that will give more control to admins about the way their instance federate with other instance and accounts on the network. Using these tools, it's now possible to: - Browse known accounts and domains, and associated data (storage size, software version, etc.) - Purge data belonging to given accounts and domains - Block or partially restrict interactions with any account or domain All those features are usable using a brand new "moderation" permission, meaning you can appoints one or nultiple moderators to help with this task. I'd like to thank all Mastodon contributors, because some of the these tools are heavily inspired from what's being done in Mastodon. Thank you so much! Iframe widget to embed public tracks and albums [manual action required] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Funkwhale now support embedding a lightweight audio player on external websites for album and tracks that are available in public libraries. Important pages, such as artist, album and track pages also include OpenGraph tags that will enable previews on compatible apps (like sharing a Funkwhale track link on Mastodon or Twitter). To achieve that, we had to tweak the way Funkwhale front-end is served. You'll have to modify your nginx configuration when upgrading to keep your instance working. **On docker setups**, edit your ``/srv/funkwhale/nginx/funkwhale.template`` and replace the ``location /api/`` and `location /` blocks by the following snippets:: location / { include /etc/nginx/funkwhale_proxy.conf; # this is needed if you have file import via upload enabled client_max_body_size ${NGINX_MAX_BODY_SIZE}; proxy_pass http://funkwhale-api/; } location /front/ { alias /frontend/; } The change of configuration will be picked when restarting your nginx container. **On non-docker setups**, edit your ``/etc/nginx/sites-available/funkwhale.conf`` file, and replace the ``location /api/`` and `location /` blocks by the following snippets:: location / { include /etc/nginx/funkwhale_proxy.conf; # this is needed if you have file import via upload enabled client_max_body_size ${NGINX_MAX_BODY_SIZE}; proxy_pass http://funkwhale-api/; } location /front/ { alias ${FUNKWHALE_FRONTEND_PATH}/; } Replace ``${FUNKWHALE_FRONTEND_PATH}`` by the corresponding variable from your .env file, which should be ``/srv/funkwhale/front/dist`` by default, then reload your nginx process with ``sudo systemctl reload nginx``.