Prerelease Changelog
Stable versions
From 3.0.0 onwards, the changelog is located in the main Remotion changelog on GitHub. This document contains the changelog for prereleases and will not be updated anymore!
Prerelease versions
April 20th, 2022
Version hash: 3.0.0-rc.15
Lambda version: '2022-04-20'
- Fixes an issue where
getInputProps()
and environment variables were not available outside of a component (regression introduced in '2022-02-14')
April 19th, 2022
Version hash: 3.0.0-rc.7
Lambda version: '2022-04-19'
- Fixes an issue where
REMOTION_AWS_ACCESS_KEY
andREMOTION_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
environment variables would not be recognized inside Vercel serverless functions.
April 18th, 2022
Version hash: 3.0.0-rc.1
Lambda version: '2022-04-18'
- React 18 Support - you can update
react
,react-dom
and@types/react
to opt into React 18! - ESLint 8 support - you can update to use the new version!
- Minimum version is now Node 14.
- In the CLI, render errors are symbolicated, even for Lambda renders!
Thanks for giving it a try and let us know if there are any problems, before we launch soon!
April 5th, 2022
Experimental version, stay with '2022-03-17' for well-tested version!
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.439+8583491c7
Lambda version: '2022-04-05'
- When uploading files to S3, add the appropriate MIME type to every file. For example an .mp3 file has an
audio/mpeg
Content-Type. - Changes from 2.6.13
April 2nd, 2022
Experimental version, stay with '2022-03-17' for well-tested version!
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.424+994a31b6b
Lambda version: '2022-04-02'
Added the option to increase the Lambda disk space and therefore enable rendering of longer videos: [/docs/lambda/disk-size]
- You can set a disk space of up to 10GB
- Adding more storage has a miniscule effect on price. According to our calculation, having 10GB of storage instead of the default 512MB adds only ~0.2% to the cost of Lambda.
- Breaking change: The
estimatePrice()
method now takes CPU architecture, disk size and number of lambdas invoked into account. These parameters have been added to the function and been made mandatory. - Fixes a bug where
--frames-per-lambda
would be set to 20 instead of the dynamic value suggested by the docs, if rendered via CLI.
March 29th, 2022
Broken version, stay with '2022-03-17' for well-tested version or upgrade to '2022-04-02' for fixed version
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.419+1ae289d8c
Lambda version: '2022-03-29'
March 17th, 2022
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.414+163634f42
Lambda version: '2022-03-17'
- Added a new
npx remotion lambda quotas
command which allows you to see your current AWS Lambda concurrency limit - Added a new
npx remotion lambdas quotas increase
command which allows you to bump your AWS Lambda concurrency limit
For these commands to work, you have to re-setup the AWS policies as described in the setup
- Fixed a bug where combining mono and stereo audio would cause the mono audio to speed up
March 3rd, 2022
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.404+70a7d3fec
Lambda version: '2022-03-02'
✅ Tested again and now recommended to upgrade
- Fixed a regression where input props would not be passed into the component while rendering.
March 1st, 2022
Experimental: Prefer '2022-02-14' version for stability. You need to rebundle and redeploy your projects for this version.
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.400+3b736b911
Lambda version: '2022-03-01'
- Fixes an issue where the
<Player />
would display the video smaller if the parent element of the player had ascale()
transform applied to it - Bug fixed: Would not recognize a deployed Remotion function if there are a lot of functions in one AWS account.
February 27th, 2022
Experimental: Prefer '2022-02-14' version for stability. You need to rebundle and redeploy your projects for this version.
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.295+67a488af4
Lambda version: '2022-02-27'
- Allows to store an output in a different bucket - see documentation for
outName
- Rearchitecture to lift the 5MB input props/environment variable limit.
February 14th, 2022
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.388+6e1372eca
Lambda version: '2022-02-14'
This update addresses an issue where Lambda functions would crash with the following error message:
Error: Failed to launch the browser process!\n/opt/bin/chromium: relocation error: /lib64/librt.so.1: symbol \_\_pthread_attr_copy, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libpthread.so.0 with link time reference
Error: Failed to launch the browser process!\n/opt/bin/chromium: relocation error: /lib64/librt.so.1: symbol \_\_pthread_attr_copy, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libpthread.so.0 with link time reference
We recommend all Remotion Lambda users to upgrade, as AWS Lambda is slowly rolling out a new environment for the Node.JS 14 stack and you will see elevated error rates with the old versions. Their new stack upgrades the glibc library in Amazon Linux 2, which requires new symbols in the libpthread shared object. We also shipped this shared object in our Lambda layer and it was taking precedence over the preinstalled one, leading to this error. We recommend the default arm64 deployment.
We have removed this file and also reviewed our layer for other files that could potentially lead to similar issues in the future. So we hope this issue will never come back!
February 12th, 2022
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.381+2a6cb78f1
Lambda version: '2022-02-12'
Update focused on stability:
- Chunk optimization has been removed, since it sometimes breaks renders. We hope to add it back after launch.
- All npm dependencies have been pinned to their exact version.
February 8th, 2022
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.359+59cc0e49b
Lambda version: '2022-02-09'
- Fixes an error not being able to bundle using Webpack if not using Typescript.
February 7th, 2022
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.355+6b0269d52
Lambda version: '2022-02-08'
Fixes the following regressions and adds tests for it:
- Fixes error where Output media has no audio
- Importing
@remotion/lambda/client
no longer triggers a puppeteer error inside a Lambda function. - Fixes an error coming up during deploy saying ESBuild binaries are missing
- Upgrade ESBuild to 0.14.9
February 4th, 2022 (4)
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.337+bde12456c
Lambda version: '2022-02-07'
Fixes regressions:
- Fixes
@remotion/lambda/client
not being available
February 4th, 2022 (3)
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.332+da8c03491
Lambda version: '2022-02-06'
Fixes regressions:
- Fixes not being able to render transparent WebM on Lamba.
February 4th, 2022 (2)
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.329+f23080b59
Lambda version: '2022-02-05'
Fixes regressions:
- Fixes Lambda returning an
EISDIR
error when rendering stills. - Better error message when not passing
serveUrl
torenderMediaOnLambda()
.
February 4th, 2022
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.338+118ffe2e9
Lambda version: '2022-02-04'
Attention: Some Lambda functions are breaking from an AWS change, especially on us-east-1
and us-east-2
. We are worried that AWS is slowly rolling out a broken update to their Lambda functions. If you are affected or want to be on the safe side, read these instructions to avoid the AWS issues.
February 3rd, 2022
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.327+85d431c9c
Lambda version: '2022-02-03'
- fix transparent webm rendering
- all changes from 2.6.5 through 2.6.7: including new scale option also for lambda! https://www.remotion.dev/docs/scaling
- chromium flags can now be set on lambda as well: https://www.remotion.dev/docs/chromium-flags
January 23rd, 2022
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.310+7b7d16823
Lambda version: '2022-01-23'
- Update with improvements from v2.6.5
January 19th, 2022
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.297+0a5487655
Lambda version: '2022-01-19'
- Added
timeoutInMilliseconds
torenderMediaOnLambda
,renderStillOnLambda
andrenderMedia
- New APIs:
presignUrl()
andgetAwsClient()
- Added
outKey
which returns the S3 Key for the output artifact of a render
January 10th, 2022 (2)
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.279+ee1497f24
Lambda version: '2022-01-11'
- Fixes the render erroring if
framesPerLambda
is not specified. To be clear, this parameter stays optional.
January 10th, 2022
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.274+a3183304a
Lambda version: '2022-01-10'
- New option to allow the filename of the output:
outName
inrenderMedia
/renderStill
and--out-name
in CLI flags - Reenable WebGL support
- Update to Chromium 97
- New algorithm for determining default concurrency: https://remotion.dev/docs/lambda/concurrency
- Better error message if concurrency is too high
- Remove
colors
module - Fixes an error where payload limit would be reached because
defaultProps
had a big size - Add @aws-sdk/abort-controller peer dependency explicitly to fix npm7 error
January 6th, 2022
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.244+d055311e8
Lambda version: '2022-01-06'
- Added changes from Remotion 2.6.0 and 2.6.1
- Improved error message when spawning more than 200 functions
Beware of not spawning over 200 functions. functionCount = frameCount / framesPerLambda
(by default framesPerLambda
is 20). We will make it smarter or document it better before the official launch.
January 5th, 2022
Release possibly breaks render, don't upgrade yet!
Version hash:
3.0.0-lambda.237+8e8a607c9
Lambda version: '2022-01-05'
- Added changes from Remotion 2.6
- Improved error message when spawning more than 200 functions
Beware of not spawning over 200 functions. functionCount = frameCount / framesPerLambda
(by default framesPerLambda
is 20). We will make it smarter or document it better before the official launch.
December 22nd, 2021
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.288+6ab6c681d
Lambda version: '2021-12-22'
- Visiting a Serve URL in the browser shows a FAQ
- Vast improvements to documentation, CLI documentation is now complete!
downloadVideo()
was renamed todownloadMedia()
. The previous API continues to be available, but is marked as deprecated.renderVideoOnLambda()
was renamed torenderMediaOnLambda()
. The previous API continues to be available, but is marked as deprecated.- Limited the maximum amount of functions that you can invoke for one render to 200 functions. That means, if your render is 1000 frames, your
framesPerLambda
parameter must be at least5
. Rendering with a higher concurrency will reduce the amount of videos you can render in parallel and diminish the benefits of concurrency. - Added
getRegions()
API - Added
npx remotion lambda regions
command
December 15th, 2021 (2)
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.236+b35e791d5
Lambda version: '2021-12-17'
Fixes an error being thrown in the Lambda function: The AWS access Key ID you provided does not exist in your records
.
December 15th, 2021
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.233+869dd7218
Lambda version: '2021-12-16'
Stability and ease of use improvements that we implemented from our learnings from https://githubwrapped.com!
- Fixed an error
Parameter 'durationInMiliseconds' must be over 0 but is [negative number]
- The function name of a deployed function is not random anymore. Instead it has the format of
remotion-render-2021-12-16-2048mb-120sec
- More CLI commands support the
-q
(quiet) flag. - Calling
npx remotion lambda functions deploy
if a suitable function already exists will not throw an error anymore but log the existing function. - Calling
deployFunction()
if a suitable function already exists will not throw an error anymore but return the existing function. - You can now deploy another function with the same region and version, but with a different memory size or timeout. This allows you to increase memory size or timeout without causing downtime. Read more about it here.
- Improved compatibility with Vercel: Since
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
andAWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
are reserved environment variables on Vercel and are already occupied, you can now setREMOTION_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
andREMOTION_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
instead for calling any Remotion Lambda Node.JS API. - Multi-account load balancing: The environment variables
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
,AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
,REMOTION_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
andREMOTION_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
can now be switched before making a call to Lambda. (Previously there was a bug that would cache the clients.) - If the render is not completed 20 seconds after the timeout of the initial invocation, the render will automatically be marked as failed. No more stuck renders!
- catch errors occuring while assets are being downloaded and trigger a retry (previously would fail the chunk render and make the whole render time out)
December 10th, 2021 (2)
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.206+161f56853
Lambda version: '2021-12-11'
- Fixes the policy generated by
npx remotion lambda policies user
so AWS accepts it. Update the user policy of your AWS user if you'd like the slimmest set of permissions needed. - Fixes an issue where an error occuring during
npx remotion lambda policies validate
would not be caught.
December 10th, 2021
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.203+6e2dfd14e
Lambda version: '2021-12-10'
The Lambda function now prints inputProps that you can read in your CloudWatch logs for easier debugging.
December 7th, 2021
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.196+d4d99a5b8
Lambda version: '2021-12-04'
We mistakenly didn't increase the version number in this release. Sorry about this and we will fix this issue.
Fix Korean/Chinese/Japanese fonts from last release where it did not work as expected. Due to space constraints, only Regular weight is supported.
December 4th, 2021
Version hash: 3.0.0-alpha.192+8e7345b69
Lambda version: '2021-12-04'
- Support rendering a video partially using
frameRange
/--frame-range
option - Improve Setup guide
- Improve CLI documentation
- Deleted
save-browser-logs
function in favour of the new CloudWatch solution. Pass--log=verbose
instead and see CloudWatch for more detailed logs. - Retry if the AWS rate limit is exceeded for
npx remotion lambda permissions validate
command and forvalidatePermissions()
function. - New Fonts:
Noto Sans JP
,Noto Sans Simplified Chinese
,Noto Sans Traditional Chinese
,Noto Sans Korean
both in Regular and Bold.
November 28th, 2021
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.158+f214b5355
Lambda version: '2021-11-29'
- Fixes a bug with
renderVideoOnLambda()
November 27th, 2021
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.151+ba8c212b9
Lambda version: '2021-11-27'
Remotion 3.0 Rendering pipeline refactor merged into this branch!
- Parallel encoding: Now rendering and encoding happens at the same time! You should see a speed improvement. Also, if you embedded videos with audio, these are now downloaded earlier in the rendering process, which will give the rendering times another boost.
- Breaking: Server-side rendering APIs have been refactored. See the separate 3.0 Migration page for it. New
openBrowser()
andrenderMedia()
APIs are now available. - Downloading a video using the CLI now shows a progress bar.
November 24th, 2021
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.143+08ebdfa17
Lambda version: '2021-11-24'
- Breaking: Migrated to ARM architecture! This means 34% better cost/performance ratio. However, only the following 10 regions support ARM architectures:
eu-central-1
,eu-west-1
,eu-west-2
,us-east-1
,us-east-2
,us-west-2
,ap-south-1
,ap-southeast-1
,ap-southeast-2
,ap-northeast-1
.
That means that the previously supported regions us-west-1
, af-south-1
, ap-east-1
, ap-northeast-2
, ap-northeast-3
, ca-central-1
, eu-west-1
, eu-west-2
, eu-south-1
, eu-west-3
, eu-north-1
, me-south-1
, sa-east-1
are not supported anymore.
We will add those regions back again once AWS adds support for Lambda.
- Fixes an issue where multiple versions of Remotion could appear in a project even though they were pinned down in your
package.json
. - Fixes an issue where audio could become out of sync if audio with different sample rates was appearing in the video
November 18th, 2021
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.122+a588a81b9
Lambda version: '2021-11-18'
- The default number of max retries is now 1 (previously 3). A new CLI flag
--max-retries
was introduced which can be used fornpx remotion lambda render
andnpx remotion lambda still
- You can now pass
--privacy=public
or--privacy=private
in the CLi to determine if the output video should be publicly accessible. The default is and waspublic
. - Fixes an issue where a Remotion version mismatch could happen.
November 12th, 2021
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.99+bd5d55651
Lambda version: '2021-11-12'
- Breaking change: Update your AWS user and role policies
- Update to the newest version of Remotion Lambda.
- Read Step 2 of the setup guide and update the role with the newest policy (
npx remotion lambda policies role
). - Read Step 5 of the setup guide and update the user with the newest policy (
npx remotion lambda policies user
).
- Breaking change: If your application throws an error or exception, the render will now fail. This will be the default behavior of Remotion 3.0. See: 3.0 Migration
- Added CloudWatch support, now you can read the logs inside the Lambda function. When you execute
npx remotion lambda render
, add the--log=verbose
flag to print out an URL to CloudWatch. - Switched to new rendering mechanism which renders + encodes the video in parallel, saving a significant amount of render time!
- Improved CLI output of
npx remotion lambda render
- Added changes from 2.5.1 - 2.5.4
- Disabled automatic AWS Lambda retrying in favor of our own retry mechanism
November 1st, 2021
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.57+d1dd7ce77
Lambda version: '2021-11-01'
deploySite()
now returnsserveUrl
instead ofurl
renderStillOnLambda()
returns a new field:renderId
- Documented
downloadVideo()
method downloadVideo()
return value property renamed fromsize
tosizeInBytes
- Command
npx remotion lambda sites ls
now supports-q
flag getSites()
command now returns aserveUrl
for each site- Deleted the
cleanup
command - it's obsolete - Added Production checklist page
- Added Uninstall guide
October 29th, 2021
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.42+838a7a013
Lambda version: '2021-10-29'
- Merged changes from Remotion 2.5.1
October 27th, 2021
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.37+874f731d5
Lambda version: '2021-10-27'
- Added a new
saveBrowserLogs
/--save-browser-logs
option for dumping browser logs to an S3 bucket (you are responsible for cleaning up the logs if you enable this option!) - Fixed a bug where
NoSuchKey
exception could be thrown when callinggetRenderProgress()
- Merged changes from Remotion 2.5
October 21st, 2021
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.25+9573ee628
- You can now import the functions
getRenderProgress()
,renderVideoOnLambda()
, andrenderStillOnLambda()
via@remotion/lambda/client
free of Node.JS dependencies. That means they should be importable in the browser and React Native and should be lightweight to bundle. This is not yet tested well, let us know your experiences! - When rendering a video via the Lambda CLI, FFMPEG is no longer required.
- From
main
branch: CallinggetInputProps()
fromremotion
package on the server will no longer fail, but warn and return an empty object. - Added a way to disable chunk optimization and added some explainer graphics for what chunk optimization is - full doc coming later.
- Pinned exact Remotion versions to avoid a version mismatch with Yarn
October 20th, 2021
Version hash: 3.0.0-lambda.2+a97302554
- Updated with all the changes from main branch.
October 7th, 2021
Version hash: 2.5.0-alpha.da8c43b8
Note: This version in broken. Don't use it.
- A new
privacy
field determines if the video will be public of private once it's rendered. No default - this field is mandatory - New
overallProgress
field ingetRenderProgress()
which can be used to display a progress bar to end users - The
getSites()
method returns a propertysizeInBytes
which was previouslysize
. - The
deleteSite()
method returns a propertytotalSizeInBytes
which was previouslytotalSize
. - Lambda layers are now hosted in a dedicated AWS account
- Documented
getSites()
anddeleteSite()
methods - Improved progress display for
npx remotion lambda
command - Now showing estimated cost for
npx remotion lambda
command - Using the
ANGLE
OpenGL renderer for Chrome instead of SwiftShader
October 3rd, 2021
Version hash: 2.5.0-alpha.5da9a754
Refactor of the Lambda layer architecture to bring the following benefits:
- Free up more than 200 MB in the
/tmp
directory to allow for longer videos to be rendered - Avoid having to unzip Chromium and FFMPEG on every function launch, saving 300-400ms on every function launch
- Removed the need for
lambda:ListLayers
,lambda:DeleteLayerVersion
,lambda:GetLayerVersion
andlambda:PublishLayerVersion
permission. - Removed the need to call
ensureLambdaBinaries()
. The function and docs for it have been deleted, remove it from your implementation as well. You also don't need to passlayerArn
todeployFunction
anymore either.
Also:
- Fixed a bug where a
ENOENT
exception could be thrown during render - Improved time to deploy a function by removing need to bundle the function first.
- Removed
esbuild
,zip-lib
andp-retry
dependencies to make library more lightweight.
October 1th, 2021
Version hash: 2.5.0-alpha.b52a746f
- Renamed
deployProject()
todeploySite()
. - Exported
getSites()
anddeleteSite()
methods (not documented yet) - Added
siteName
to the options ofdeploySite()
- now you can define the name of your site yourself, and redeploy to keep the same site. - Replace
estimatedLambdaInvokations
withestimatedRenderLambdaInvokations
. - Rename
bucketSize
torenderSize
. This property is reporting the size of the render, not the size of the bucket. - Added
downloadVideo()
API (not documented yet) - If you add a filename to the end of the render command
npx remotion lambda render [url] [comp-name] out.mp4
, the video will be downloaded to your computer! npx remotion lambda render
has a progress bar now. To continue to see all details, use the--log=verbose
flag!
September 15th, 2021
Version hash: 2.4.0-alpha.d3efed28
- Added
framesPerLambda
setting torenderVideoOnLambda()
. - Added
--frames-per-lambda
option tonpx remotion lambda render
command. - Added
enableCaching
andwebpackOverride
options todeployProject()
function. - Webpack override and webpack caching is now respected when deploying from the CLI
September 14th, 2021
Version hash: 2.4.0-alpha.91579e8b
- Fixes a bug where
npx remotion lambda policies user
could not be executed without AWS credentials which is a paradox. - Fixes a bug where a render could fail with an error
Frame X was not rendered
September 7th, 2021
Version hash: 2.4.0-alpha.ec355aba
- Pins the version of AWS SDKs, since a new version broke some things.
September 6th, 2021
Version hash: 2.4.0-alpha.41bfd52d
- Added more font families to support Arabic, Devanagari, Hebrew, Tamil, Thai scripts.
- Added input props to the render metadata that gets persisted for each render to help debugging.
August 6th, 2021
Version hash: 2.3.0-alpha.0d814aad
- Node.JS API is now fully documented
- Lambda function
name
was renamed tofunctionName
- Fix
remotion lambda policies validate
wrongly indicating that theiam:GetUser
permission was not given getDeployedLambdas()
was renamed togetFunctions()
getFunctionVersion()
was removed, usegetFunctionInfo()
- New function
estimatePrice
is now available. - Parameter
memorySize
was renamed tomemorySizeInMb
globally. - New function
renderStillOnLambda()
available for rendering a still image. - New command
npx remotion lambda still
for rendering a still image - React component lifecycle change: When the component is mounting, initially
useCurrentFrame()
returns the frame that is initially being rendered, rather than just0
and then updating to the frame that will be initially rendered. - Includes all the changes from Remotion 2.2
July 14th, 2021
- Emojis are now rendered using the Noto Color Emoji font
- Better price calculation
- Cleanup of S3 buckets after rendering
July 6th, 2021
- You can now use
npx remotion lambda
instead ofnpx remotion-lambda
. - CLI supports the
-y
('yes') flag for skipping confirmation of destructive commands. - Stability, memory management and reliability improved
- Lambda runtime and Region selection now documented
renderVideoOnLambda()
andgetRenderProgress
now documented.deployLambda()
has been renamed todeployFunction()