This release primarily marks Invidious companion's ascend out of beta and its stable integration thereof into Invidious!
For those unaware Invidious companion is the successor to the `inv-sig-helper` tool, designed to securely pass YouTube's attestation checks and allow for the efficient retrieval and playback of video streams reliably.
Companion delivers YouTube fixes faster since it’s built on the community-driven [YouTube.js](https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js) project, used by many open source projects such as [FreeTube](https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube).
For more information see https://github.com/iv-org/invidious-companion and https://docs.invidious.io/installation/
But companion isn't the only new thing in this release!
Invidious will no longer error out completely as soon as a single item failed to parse in search results, channel pages, etc. Instead it now handles it gracefully by substituting those problematic items with an error card and rendering the page normally.
The player has gained some quality of life features such as being able to choose a default playlist for videos to be added to, or persisting caption appearance settings across the session.
Base Invidious video retrieval without Invidious companion has also been made more stable.
And finally a significant amount of bugs were fixed alongside many other minor improvements.
Co-authored-by: Émilien (perso) <4016501+unixfox@users.noreply.github.com>
