Releases
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nTube 1.5.9
nullifed 3 months ago 0 commits to master since this release
uh this is a hotfix, that's about it.
Changes:
- Fix breakages caused by YouTube doing things (can't wait for them to break channel extraction again)
- Major stability improvements.
- Automatic data saving now works correctly
- Improved support for legacy browsers and macOS users
- Added instance mode customization for hosts, this allows you to run an embed-only instance or Invidious API only instance.
and more...
Known issues:
- A work in progress version of threadIt! is being used, the web server will rarely have a panic attack and drop a connection randomly.
- A work in progress video rate limiter was added, this in incomplete and non-functioning.
- The frontpage experiment was broken by YouTube in a way that makes it infeasible to support any longer, it will be removed in the next release.
This build still includes Rhino (https://github.com/mozilla/rhino) to provide v9 decipherer support, probably till the end of time.
nTube 1.5.9r1 (revision 1) backports a fix that would otherwise prevent extraction of age-restricted content.
nTube 1.5.9r2 (revision 2) backports a fix that once again allows comments to work on videos with clarifications on them.
nTube 1.5.9r3 (revision 3) backports a fix for an upcoming breakage to the v9/DFS cipher payload.
Downloads
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nTube 1.5.8
The first release of 2024.
I've been considering moving to a rolling release/YYYY.MM.R release model for a while, I might switch over to that eventually.
Changes:
- Support for YouTube's heatmaps.
- Improved support for legacy devices and iOS/iPadOS.
- Probably fixed Java 17 (and newer) being broken.
- Privacy improvements.
- Minor performance work.
and more...
Known issues:
- Instances may be throttled since YouTube is moving to QUIC + a annoying POST payload for video requests, this is being addressed.
- HttpServer was compiled with ZSTD support enabled by default, currently only Chrome (https://caniuse.com/zstd) supports this, I hope Safari and Firefox don't somehow break it.
This build includes Rhino (https://github.com/mozilla/rhino) to provide v9 decipherer support, probably till the end of time.
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nTube 1.5.7
Boo!
Another nTube release full of fixes and improvements is here.
Changelog:
- Bug fixes
- Performance tweaks.
- Improved mobile UI.
- Improvements for hosting public instances.
Known issues:
- This release will NOT work with Java 17. (thanks Java)
- Livestream chat is broken as YouTube has removed their internal fallback logic.
- SSLv3 clients will no longer be able to connect to nTube. This is intended.
This build will include Rhino (https://github.com/mozilla/rhino) to provide v9 decipherer support, and you will like it.
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nTube 1.5.6
5 years ago, the first build of nTube was "tagged" (i didn't do any version control then) since then I have suffered along YouTube's wild ride, and probably will continue for as long as I feasibly can.
Changes:
- Minor performance tweaks.
- Privacy and security tweaks.
- UI and mobile UI improvements.
- Experimental Invidious compatibility layer support.
1.5.6 introduces a new fallback TLS certificate, if you used the previous one you will have to re-add this one into your trust chain.
This build still includes Rhino (https://github.com/mozilla/rhino) to provide v9 decipherer support.
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nTube 1.5.5
This is the second attempt of releasing 1.5.5. Fun. (context: nothing beats Base32 generating invalid data, breaking strings, yippie)
This build should've been out a month ago but polishing things and working on the 5 years changes was not fun. (still need to do some things)
Changes:
- Age-gate/restriction fixes
- Tweaks for mobile and widescreen users
- Updated channel page to support the uploads split
- Improvements to the general proxy.
This build still includes Rhino (https://github.com/mozilla/rhino) to provide v9 decipherer support.
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nTube 1.5.4
Here's the 24 days late """new years""" build.
nTube is 5 years old this year and I was working on something, well many things, I have till June to finish this up so working hard on that.
Removed features:
- Bitchute is no longer supported.
Changes:
- More fixes and performance improvements
- New search UI
- Slightly faster UI
- Comment section now supports loading replies
- The community tab in the channels page is now stable.
This build still includes Rhino (https://github.com/mozilla/rhino) to provide v9 decipherer support.
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nTube 1.5.3
Oh look, it's a late 4th birthday release, yup, 4 years since nTube was started. Apparently I have to do something next year.
Changes:
- Stability improvements (actual ones this time)
- Minor performance tweaks
- Heatmap support
- Unofficial JRE 17+ support
- Update YTE to latest 2.2 build.
- Added an option to select what port to use. And much more...
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nTube 1.5.2
New season, new re-wait this is a hotfix.
Something that is relevant very soon broke and would've rendered nTube unusable for 24 hours, I might have fixed it.
Changes:
- Performance improvements
- Update YTE to 2.2
- Age-gate fixes
- Minor tweaks
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nTube 1.5.1
New season, new release.
The time has come for more questionable code, at least this isn't the upcoming 1.4.x LTS.
Changes:
- Use BQDE as the default executor (it's stable now...)
- Fix issues which have arisen over time.
- Performance improvements.
- Add watch later.
- Update to POSS 3.0 license
- Re-added audio only mode.
- Added localized video text (can be disabled)
NOTICE 1: SSL/HTTPS is now enabled again.
NOTICE 2: This build will still NOT work with JRE's newer than 16, hopefully 1.5.2 will.
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nTube 1.5, release candidate 5
This release candidate is a final set of polish before nTube reaches stable.
WARNING: BQDE (the default executor) may be buggy as it has been given a rewrite, this may result in deadlocks.
WARNING 2: This is the final release of nTube that supports JRE's newer than 16. Future builds will prevent you from running nTube. (JRE 16 users MUST use the --illegal-access=warn JVM argument in order to use nTube)
BONUS: nTube internally is now on rolling release and on version control, should be fun.
Changes:
- Fix age restricted content.
- Fix download speed throttling.
- Bug fixes.
- Performance improvements.