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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 and REMOTION_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'

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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​

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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 a scale() 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​

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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 to renderMediaOnLambda().

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'

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 to renderMediaOnLambda, renderStillOnLambda and renderMedia
  • New APIs: presignUrl() and getAwsClient()
  • 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 in renderMedia / 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 to downloadMedia(). The previous API continues to be available, but is marked as deprecated.
  • renderVideoOnLambda() was renamed to renderMediaOnLambda(). 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 least 5. 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 'durationInMilliseconds' 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 and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY are reserved environment variables on Vercel and are already occupied, you can now set REMOTION_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and REMOTION_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 and REMOTION_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 for validatePermissions() 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() and renderMedia() 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 for npx remotion lambda render and npx 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 was public.
  • 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
  1. Update to the newest version of Remotion Lambda.
  2. Read Step 2 of the setup guide and update the role with the newest policy (npx remotion lambda policies role).
  3. 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 returns serveUrl instead of url
  • renderStillOnLambda() returns a new field: renderId
  • Documented downloadVideo() method
  • downloadVideo() return value property renamed from size to sizeInBytes
  • Command npx remotion lambda sites ls now supports -q flag
  • getSites() command now returns a serveUrl 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 calling getRenderProgress()
  • 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(), and renderStillOnLambda() 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: Calling getInputProps() from remotion 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 in getRenderProgress() which can be used to display a progress bar to end users
  • The getSites() method returns a property sizeInBytes which was previously size.
  • The deleteSite() method returns a property totalSizeInBytes which was previously totalSize.
  • Lambda layers are now hosted in a dedicated AWS account
  • Documented getSites() and deleteSite() 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 and lambda: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 pass layerArn to deployFunction 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 and p-retry dependencies to make library more lightweight.

October 1th, 2021​

Version hash: 2.5.0-alpha.b52a746f

  • Renamed deployProject() to deploySite().
  • Exported getSites() and deleteSite() methods (not documented yet)
  • Added siteName to the options of deploySite() - now you can define the name of your site yourself, and redeploy to keep the same site.
  • Replace estimatedLambdaInvokations with estimatedRenderLambdaInvokations.
  • Rename bucketSize to renderSize. 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 to renderVideoOnLambda().
  • Added --frames-per-lambda option to npx remotion lambda render command.
  • Added enableCaching and webpackOverride options to deployProject() 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 to functionName
  • Fix remotion lambda policies validate wrongly indicating that the iam:GetUser permission was not given
  • getDeployedLambdas() was renamed to getFunctions()
  • getFunctionVersion() was removed, use getFunctionInfo()
  • New function estimatePrice is now available.
  • Parameter memorySize was renamed to memorySizeInMb 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 just 0 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 of npx 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() and getRenderProgress now documented.
  • deployLambda() has been renamed to deployFunction()