Please, make open beta available

[di00b]

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Feature description

Hi! I know that recent issue with channel updates already fixed in yet not released 0.24.1, but can you please make Open Beta release so I, and many other people, could download the most recent fixes despite taking a risk of having different bugs?

Why do you want this feature?

When something breaks in my beloved youtube app, it is getting really tiresome to wait for days, this time already more than a week, before it finally get a release, even though it seems to be already fixed some days after release. Thank you for your work!

Additional information

No response

[killerrook]

Can you try using release candidate?
You can download it in below.
#9292

YouTube Shorts and livestreams (including VODs) of most channels are not available in videos listed in channels, due to the separation of them into separate tabs. This issue could be solved only when channel tabs will be implemented.

However, you can use workarounds for now:

For feeds, use the dedicated method to fetch them (a.k.a. RSS feeds);
For channels: you can use the uploads playlist of a channel to get all its public videos: take a channel ID (not a username or a handle), replace UC by UU at the beginning of the ID and use the resulting ID as a playlist ID (append this ID to a playlist URL like https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list= and then open this URL in NewPipe).

[killerrook]

If you got the beta release and issue is resolved close the issue as soon as possible

[di00b]

Yes, everything seems to be fine. Thank you! Though having an option to install most recent beta from the app itself or from the website would be nice. Thank you!

[killerrook]

@di00b you can test out the new features here is a link to the latest experimental releases do not post bugs or issues here though. These builds are provided without testing and may contain bugs or break some things in Newpipe here is the link https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe-nightly

[killerrook]

Fyi the whole Newpipe is in beta as per the description on GitHub

[goyalyashpal]

How 'bout hosting the nightly build as a separate app in the "newpipe upstream repo"??