change companion wording and small technical details about it

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### Wrap-up
This release primarily marks `invidious-companion`'s ascend out of beta and its stable integration thereof into Invidious!
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.
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 its 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/
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A significant amount of bugs were fixed
Base Invidious video retrieval without invidious-companion has been made more stable
Base Invidious video retrieval without Invidious companion has been made more stable
### New features & important changes
#### For Users
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- Caption styles changed through the VideoJS menu will now persist
#### For instance owners
- invidious-companion support has been added to replace the deprecated inv-sig-helper
- Invidious companion support has been added to replace the deprecated inv-sig-helper
- **DASH is now the default resolution! Please ensure that your instances can withstand the significantly higher bandwidth usage or manually configure your instance to use non-dash streams by default**
- Invidious will now warn when it is unable to connect to the database instead of failing silently
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- Individual community posts can be viewed again
- The playlists tab of channels can be viewed again
- Fix incorrect dates, region, etc of videos
- Various minor fixes were made to how video info is extracted in setups without invidious-companion to improve resiliency and chances of success
- Various minor fixes were made to how video info is extracted in setups without Invidious companion to improve resiliency and chances of success
- Fix issue where the notification count becomes `TRUE` rather than an actual number
#### For instance owners
- Fixed a minor typo in config.example.yml (`effet` -> `effect`)
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### Full list of pull requests merged since the last release (newest first)
* Add invidious companion support (https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4985, by @unixfox)
* Add Invidious companion support (https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4985, by @unixfox)
* Bump shards.yml version to dev version (https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/5206, by @syeopite)
* chore: enforce 16 characters for invidious_companion_key (https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/5220, by @unixfox)
* chore: set dash by default (https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/5216, by @unixfox)