Spec log - revisions

Product updates

What we have shipped to the Tubium engine. Your server updates itself - new versions land automatically, with zero downtime.

2026-09-20 v0.16
Improved
  • Hardening pass across the engine and the cabinet: sign-in and admin access, per-address limits, outbound fetches and imported content.
  • Traffic figures count real page views. Errors, crawler files and static assets are no longer counted, and unusually fast clients are recorded as automated traffic.
Fixed
  • An interrupted description fill no longer reports itself as complete.
2026-07-16 v0.15
New
  • Sort and listing engine: operator-defined sort pages (most viewed, top rated, longest and so on) with configurable slugs and labels, timeframe windows backed by daily view snapshots, a context-aware {sort_nav} token, per-page SEO overrides and sitemap coverage.
  • DMCA takedown workflow: a public /dmca page with your designated agent, an admin queue for notices, one-click removal that purges the media and leaves a tombstone, plus a blocklist that keeps removed content from being re-imported.
  • Custom pages: operator-authored static pages at any path, created and edited from the theme editor and rendered raw so the page markup is entirely yours.
  • Scheduled publishing: set a publish date and time per video and let it go live on its own.
  • Site-level geo-blocking by country.
  • Model profiles: bio, photo and stats enrichment for performers.
  • Six more built-in grabber sources.
  • Configurable transcode codec and quality ladder.
  • CTR-based listing rotation with thumbnail A/B testing.
  • BreadcrumbList and ItemList structured data on listing pages.
  • Recut-all-thumbnails button and a media-retry action for imported catalogs.
  • Ad targeting and stats: show a placement or an individual creative only in the countries and on the devices you choose, weight creatives in the rotation, and read per-creative impression counts.
Improved
  • Template editor: complete token autocomplete, live validation as you type with inline error highlighting, and a {videos:N} page-size block macro.
  • Ad spots: edit a creative's name and markup in place, in a syntax-highlighted HTML editor.
  • Admin sidebar scrolls when the nav is taller than the viewport.
2026-07-12 v0.14
New
  • Site migration: bring an existing tube site across - catalog, thumbnails and taxonomy - with automatic 301 redirects from your old URLs so you keep your rankings.
  • Viewer accounts: your visitors can register, sign in, like or dislike, and comment.
  • Custom feed import: pull videos from any delimited feed, in embed or full-download mode.
  • Configurable multi-size thumbnails (WebP) and drop-anywhere grid thumbnails via the {video_thumb_<id>} template token.
  • Scheduled backups with one-click restore from the admin.
  • Support tickets: open and follow up with us right from your cabinet.
Improved
  • Dashboard: domains nested under their server, offline-server detection, and live-refreshing status badges.
  • Jobs page: per-filter counts, search by video, deep-linkable job logs, and full lifecycle events.
  • Safe migration cutover on a staging subdomain before you flip DNS.
2026-07-07 v0.13
New
  • AI title rewrite: rephrase imported titles with your own AI provider and a custom prompt (optional).
  • Full SEO kit: XML video sitemap, VideoObject structured data, per-page meta, canonical and OpenGraph/Twitter tags, plus per-item overrides.
  • Video ads (VAST): preroll, midroll and postroll with rotation, alongside custom-HTML ad spots.
  • Faster content imports with no extra runtime to install or keep patched.
  • Autopilot import: scheduled per-source imports with duration/views/rating filters, quality targets, and publish-or-review plus autodelete policies.
  • Passwordless admin sign-in from the cabinet, plus a fleet launcher to open every site's admin in one click.
  • Operator self-service: soft-delete and restore domains within a grace window, remove dead servers, and a manual uninstall command.
  • Device-conditional template macros ({if_mobile} / {if_desktop}), configurable taxonomy URL prefixes, and a custom 404 page.
  • Global terminology blocklist for compliance.
Improved
  • Zero-downtime self-updates with automatic crash-loop rollback and a lower memory footprint on small servers.
Fixed
  • Hover previews no longer take over the main player on the watch page.
2026-06-20 v0.12
New
  • Ad spots with custom-HTML creatives you can place anywhere in your templates.
2026-06-19 v0.11
New
  • Server-side site analytics: countries, devices, browsers and traffic sources, with bot filtering - no cookies, no IP storage.
Improved
  • Country data works on every node out of the box (embedded GeoIP), with an operator override.
2026-06-19 v0.10
New
  • Taxonomy synonyms and term merging, folded automatically at import.
  • Taxonomy template macros and a searchable tag / model / category picker in the editor.
2026-06-19 v0.9
New
  • TubiusPlayer: a custom HTML5 player with scrub-preview storyboard thumbnails.
  • Read-only Jobs dashboard for at-a-glance processing status.
  • Signed media URLs for hotlink and leech protection (opt-in).
Improved
  • Lower playback bandwidth: immutable media caching, an extra low-res rung, and trimmed previews.
2026-06-18 v0.8
New
  • Per-video processing log with live transcode progress.
  • Duplicate detection on upload and import.
  • Global toast notifications across the admin.
Improved
  • Run a single box as its own storage - no separate node required.
2026-06-18 v0.1 - v0.7 (launch)
New
  • The engine: one self-hosted Go binary that runs your whole tube site - upload, FFmpeg transcode to an HLS quality ladder, thumbnail strips, hover previews, full-text search and an optional 18+ gate.
  • Content grabber: import and re-host videos from any tube site.
  • Vue admin console with fully themeable templates and tokens, categories / models / tags, and image and asset hosting.
  • Cabinet: magic-link accounts and prepaid balance billing with a 14-day free trial.
  • One-command install (curl | sh) with self-enrollment, automatic TLS, and hands-off engine self-updates.
  • Scale out with multi-server roles (control / transcode / storage), storage nodes and storage groups.