# FreeTube v0.25.3-beta — v0.25.3 Beta

- Product: FreeTube (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/freetube)
- Vendor: FreeTube
- Date: 2026-08-28
- Version: v0.25.3-beta
- Original notes: https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/releases/tag/v0.25.3-beta
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/freetube/releases/v0.25.3-beta
- Labels: Pre-release; Platforms: Desktop

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- **fixed** — Fallback to extracting the potoken challenge data and config from the YouTube homepage
- **fixed** — Fix legacy as default format but unavailable won't fallback to other formats
- **fixed** — Fix duplicates when click spam loading elements in comments
- **fixed** — Fix SABR redirect handling not updating SABR URL which is actually used
- **changed** — Update comments to handle threaded replies, allowing comments to load normally again

##### Summary
This hotfix release addresses several issues affecting video playback and comment loading, while also updating comment handling for YouTube’s threaded replies.

> [!NOTE]
> This release should reduce the chances of seeing the `Could not find ytcfg in the HTML page` error. However, as long as YouTube requires us to use information from the HTML page, there will always be a chance that YouTube will return a CAPTCHA page instead.

##### Fixes
* Fallback to extracting the potoken challenge data and config from the YouTube homepage by @absidue in #9637
* Fix legacy as default format but unavailable won't fallback to other formats by @PikachuEXE in #9644
* Fix: Duplicates when click spam loading elements in comments by @Shadorc in #9412
* Fix SABR redirect handling not updating SABR URL which is actually used by @PikachuEXE in #9689

##### Changes
* Updated comments to handle threaded replies, allowing comments to load normally again by @CL-Jeremy in #9555 

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/compare/v0.25.2-beta...v0.25.3-beta