Release v2.20260804.0

Wrap-up

This release focuses on fixing comment rendering, adding new configuration options for instance owners, and streamlining developer tooling. Comments in videos and community posts now render correctly again, a message appears when comments are disabled, and several new locales were made available to users.

Instance owners gain SOCKS5 proxy support and the ability to set the videojs max buffer length via config.yml. Developer experience improves with Nix development files, a pinned Crystal version for linting, and an updated AI policy that properly bans AI slop.

New features & important changes

For Users

• A message is now shown when comments are turned off (#4051)
• New locales translated at more than 20% are now made available to users, this includes Belarusian, Galician, Swiss German, Armenian, Latvian and Uzbek (#5891, #5882)

For instance owners

• SOCKS5 proxy support was added (#5865)
• The videojs max buffer length can now be set via config.yml (#5876)

For developers

• Nix development files were added (#5856, #5861)
• The Makefile no longer uses the deprecated -Dpreview_mt flag (#5872)
• Crystal was pinned to 1.20.3 for the linting task so Ameba can build (#5859)
• The release script now uses deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 (#5886)
• The AI policy was updated to properly ban AI slop (#5849)
• The awesome humane tech badge was removed (#5853)
• Development dependencies were excluded from the CI build job (#5860)
• CI dependencies were bumped: actions/stale to 11 and actions/setup-python to 7 (#5890, #5829)

Bugs fixed

User-side

• Rendered links and timestamps in video descriptions were fixed (#5878)
• Comments HTML rendering was fixed (#5862)
• Comments in community posts were fixed (#5874)
• Non-comment commentFilterContextViewModel keys are now skipped in comments (#5870)

Full list of pull requests merged since the last release (newest first)

• CI: Exclude development dependencies from build job (#5860, by @Fijxu)
• Enable the Uzbek since it's been translated at more than 20% (#5891, by @TheFrenchGhosty)
• Translations update from Hosted Weblate (#5881, by @weblate)
• Switch to deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 for the release script (#5886, by @TheFrenchGhosty)
• chore(deps): bump actions/stale from 10 to 11 (#5890, by @dependabot[bot])
• feat: add support for SOCKS5 proxy (#5865, by @unixfox)
• feat: allow setting videojs max buffer length via config.yml (#5876, by @Fijxu)
• fix: fix rendered links and timestamps in video descriptions (#5878, by @Fijxu)
• Show message when comments are turned off (#4051, by @syeopite)
• Enable the new locales translated at more than 20% (#5882, by @TheFrenchGhosty)
• fix: also fix comments in community posts (#5874, by @Fijxu)
• chore: remove -Dpreview_mt from Makefile as it has been deprecated by the Crystal compiler. (#5872, by @Fijxu)
• Translations update from Hosted Weblate (#5474, by @weblate)
• fix: skip non comment commentFilterContextViewModel key in comments (#5870, by @Fijxu)
• fix: fix comments html rendering (#5862, by @Fijxu)
• chore: Move nix files out of root directory (#5861, by @Fijxu)
• CI: Pin Crystal to 1.20.3 for linting task so ameba can build (#5859, by @Fijxu)
• chore: Add Nix development files (#5856, by @Fijxu)
• Remove the awesome humane tech badge (#5853, by @TheFrenchGhosty)
• Update the AI policy to properly ban AI slop (#5849, by @TheFrenchGhosty)
• chore(deps): bump actions/setup-python from 5 to 7 (#5829, by @dependabot[bot])