The data format used by plugin v6.3.0 was not well suited.
Here comes a new data format, with S2S informations.
The plugin can automatically upgrade old format.
It also continues to provide the old format, so than remote instance
that did not update the plugin will still work.
Note: websocket s2s is not working yet, still WIP.
New Features
* Chat Federation:
* You can now connect to a remote chat with your local account.
* This remote connection is done using a custom implementation of [XEP-0468: WebSocket S2S](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0468.html), using some specific discovering method (so that it will work without any DNS configuration).
Minor changes and fixes
* Possibility to debug Prosody in development environments.
* Using process.spawn instead of process.exec to launch Prosody (safer, and more optimal).
* Prosody AppImage: fix path mapping: we only map necessary /etc/ subdir, so that the AppImage can access to /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts, ...
* Prosody AppImage: hidden debug mode to disable lua-unbound, that seems broken in some docker dev environments.
* if both local and remote instance have external XMPP connections enabled, the user joins the remote room with his local account
* some code refactoring (builtin.ts)
Note: documentation and settings descriptions are to do.
Related to #112
* new option to allow external xmpp account s2s connections
* settings to setup the port and network interfaces
* documentation WIP
Related to issue #114
Implementing a new translating system, so we can more easily translate
settings strings. Indeed, these strings are difficult to embed in
JSON format.
We still use JSON files for standard strings, but in addition we have
dedicated YAML files to translate settings strings.
There is a new build-languages.js script that merge all translations in JSON files.
Other modifications:
* Eslint: ignoring documentation and build scripts.
* french settings translations.
Replacing webpack by ESBuild for client code compilation (as in the
official quickstart plugin).
So we can remove deprecated webpack dependencies.
Note: webpack is still used for ConverseJS build.
This may be removed soon.
Related to issue #122.
* using a stable version (4.2.2)
* minimum Peertube version is now 4.2.0
* removing some type customizations
Related to issue #122.
Note: there are still some quirks. See: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/5446
* stop trying to generated an ARM64 AppImage (as it is buggy)
* display a warning in the settings if incompatible CPU detected
* documentation for a workaround
Implements #120.
John Livingston
John Livingston