Historical changelog

What changed before maintenance was suspended, and why the WordPress media library was never an option.

August 2026

v1.0.3

Unreleased maintenance fix

FCHub Stream is still discontinued. This release simply makes the archived download behave like a plugin rather than a small escape room.

• Fixed the release ZIP so it loads its own PHP classes without missing Composer development files.
• Updated the admin and portal dependency trees, including the vulnerable packages GitHub quite reasonably complained about.
• Fixed current Vite builds, an admin settings mutation, and a dead support-button branch.
• Restored the PHP suite: it now runs 24 actual tests instead of exiting successfully before discovering any.
• Added package, dependency, version, and CI contracts so the same failures are caught before another release.
• Moved routine upload diagnostics behind WP_DEBUG, where debug logs traditionally live.

Provider settings, stored videos, upload behaviour, and FluentCommunity routes are unchanged. Discontinued still means unsupported; it no longer needs to mean knowingly broken.

March 2026

v1.0.2

Released 6 March 2026 — GitHub Release

Fixed a fatal error when multiple FCHub plugins are active at the same time. The shared GitHubUpdater class used a class_exists guard that PHP's OPcache cheerfully ignored during early class binding — so the second plugin to load would redeclare the class and take the site down. Wrapped the class inside the conditional so OPcache actually respects it.

v1.0.1

Released 3 March 2026 — GitHub Release

Version bump. First release under the monorepo slash-tag convention. Nothing changed in the code. PHP 8.3+ and WordPress 6.7+ requirements unchanged.

v1.0.0

Released 2 March 2026 — GitHub Release

The open source release. Free. GPLv2. No license keys. No telemetry. No paywalls. Just video uploads for FluentCommunity — because the WordPress media library and video have never been friends.

Video uploads

Drag and drop video files in the FluentCommunity post composer. They upload directly to your video provider — the WordPress media library is not involved. That's the whole point.

• Real-time progress bar with speed estimates
• Delete the post and the video deletes from the provider too
• Works in both posts and comments
• Supported formats: MP4, MOV, AVI, WebM — the provider handles transcoding

Two video providers

Switch between providers in admin settings without losing your mind.

Floating video player

Playing videos follow you when you scroll past them. Picture-in-picture for people who scroll.

• Drag it anywhere on screen. Resize from the corners. Always 16:9. Cannot escape viewport.
• Position and size saved to localStorage — come back and it's exactly where you left it.
• Only one video plays at a time. Starting a second pauses the first. Crowd control for your feed.
• Close button stops playback and removes the player. No phantom floating videos.

Upload controls

All configurable in admin settings:

• Maximum file size
• Maximum video duration
• Allowed formats
• Per-post and per-comment upload toggles

Encoding reliability

Cloudflare says a video is "ready" when encoding reaches 40%. That is not ready. The plugin:

• Waits for 100% encoding completion
• Probes the manifest URL (HEAD request, HTTP 200 required) before rendering the player
• Updates the database when confirmed ready — page refreshes show the player immediately, no encoding flash
• Handles expired WordPress nonces during long encoding sessions (15+ minutes) gracefully
• Polling continues through 401/403 errors and gives up only after 5 consecutive failures

Dark mode

Upload modal inherits FluentCommunity's theme. Because uploading videos at 2am in blinding white was never the vibe.

What was removed (compared to proprietary beta)

• License system — gone. Settings work immediately on install.
• All telemetry (Sentry, PostHog) — gone. Zero tracking. Zero phone-home.
• Tamper detection — gone. Open source means you can modify it.
• Plugin update checker — gone. Updates come from GitHub Releases.
• Admin app bundle reduced from 322KB to 197KB. Less code. Same features.