DTube version 0.8
Version 0.8 took a while, this article will explain why. But it comes packed in with a lot of new things that were highly requested. Almost a year since our inception, we are now hitting the 8th iteration of DTube, and how far we've gone. This update once again introduces more new features to make the experience more complete and similar to the mainstream video platforms. But before talking about new features, I have a big announcement:
DTube is now fully open-sourced
Up until now, everything was open-source, except the main application which was only available in minified format, which was apparently very frustrating for a lot of people.
I'm glad to announce that DTube is now a 100% free open-source software. Our main application is now is available for all to read or modify on github.com/dtube/dtube. This is another move in the hope of improving the transparency of our project and allow contributions from anyone.
Notifications
I've talked about notifications a lot in the past articles, and it is something I thought we would have earlier in our development. Finally, here it is. It required a bunch of changes in DTube so that any content could be viewable in DTube, including non-video content.
Our notifications are totally similar to what busy.org implemented, only the client-side is slightly different and should allow you to better identify which notifications you have clicked on already.
DTV: Livestreaming now available on DTube

A big new feature, that I am sure everyone will enjoy, is livestreaming. We are using MistServer, a centralized livestreaming server, with an open-source version.
On top of Mist, I built an api to safely generate streaming keys that are associated directly to a steem username. When you click the button to get your stream key, it will create a custom dtubeStreamVeriftransaction in the background that will verify your steem identity and authorize your stream token. This means you can start livestreaming, without necessarily having to publish a new root post on the blockchain.
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