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Plex Media Server Changelog

What's new in Plex Media Server 1.40.2.8383 Plex Pass

Apr 17, 2024
  • NEW:
  • (PLEASE NOTE) Please also be patient when updating to this version if you have a very large database and allow the upgrade process to finish.
  • Rename ‘un/played’ to ‘un/watched’ terminology for video types (PM-1042)
  • We have identified an issue where automatic updates were not respecting custom paths for existing Windows 64-bit installs. Unfortunately, any automatic fix would introduce security vulnerabilities so we encourage users who installed in a custom path to uninstall and then manually reinstall Plex Media Server.
  • FIXES:
  • (Auto Update) Custom install paths are not respected when auto-updating on 64 bit Windows. (PM-1143)
  • (CreditsDetection) Retry detection only a limited amount of times on failures (PM-1093)
  • (DB Optimize) Server could become unresponsive during a DB optimize in certain circumstances (PM-1129)
  • (History) Query parsing would return Bad Request when encountering includeFields arguments.
  • (History) View history would yield fewer entries than requested (PM-1306)
  • (Loudness Analysis) Some files could cause errors when preforming Loudness Analysis. (PM-627)
  • (Mac) Linker optimization would incorrectly generate code that would cause the server to unexpectedly exit while syncing view state. (PM-1308)
  • (Push Notifications) Used expensive DB query during playback progress notifications (PM-1166)
  • (Thumbnails) Thumbnails were not properly updated when underlying file changed (PM-1162)
  • (Trailers) Premium trailers and extras could fail to load (PM-1347)
  • (Transcoder) On Windows, headless (no display attached) Nvidia cards were not recognized (PM-962)
  • (Transcoder) On Windows, the first Intel device was used for transcoding regardless of which Intel device was selected (PM-962)

New in Plex Media Server 1.40.2.8351 Plex Pass (Apr 10, 2024)

  • NEW:
  • (PLEASE NOTE) Please also be patient when updating to this version if you have a very large database and allow the upgrade process to finish.
  • Rename ‘un/played’ to ‘un/watched’ terminology for video types (PM-1042)
  • We have identified an issue where automatic updates were not respecting custom paths for existing Windows 64-bit installs. Unfortunately, any automatic fix would introduce security vulnerabilities so we encourage users who installed in a custom path to uninstall and then manually reinstall Plex Media Server.
  • FIXES:
  • (Auto Update) Custom install paths are not respected when auto-updating on 64 bit Windows. (PM-1143)
  • (CreditsDetection) Retry detection only a limited amount of times on failures (PM-1093)
  • (DB Optimize) Server could become unresponsive during a DB optimize in certain circumstances (PM-1129)
  • (History) Query parsing would return Bad Request when encountering includeFields arguments.
  • (History) View history would yield fewer entries than requested (PM-1306)
  • (Loudness Analysis) Some files could cause errors when preforming Loudness Analysis. (PM-627)
  • (Push Notifications) Used expensive DB query during playback progress notifications (PM-1166)
  • (Thumbnails) Thumbnails were not properly updated when underlying file changed (PM-1162)
  • (Transcoder) On Windows, headless (no display attached) Nvidia cards were not recognized (PM-962)
  • (Transcoder) On Windows, the first Intel device was used for transcoding regardless of which Intel device was selected (PM-962)

New in Plex Media Server 1.40.2.8273 Plex Pass (Mar 27, 2024)

  • NEW:
  • Rename ‘un/played’ to ‘un/watched’ terminology for video types (PM-1042)
  • We have identified an issue where automatic updates were not respecting custom paths for existing Windows 64-bit installs. Unfortunately, any automatic fix would introduce security vulnerabilities so we encourage users who installed in a custom path to uninstall and then manually reinstall Plex Media Server.
  • FIXES:
  • (Auto Update) Custom install paths are not respected when auto-updating on 64 bit Windows. (PM-1143)
  • (CreditsDetection) Retry detection only a limited amount of times on failures (PM-1093)
  • (DB Optimize) Server could become unresponsive during a DB optimize in certain circumstances (PM-1129)
  • (Loudness Analysis) Some files could cause errors when preforming Loudness Analysis. (PM-627)
  • (Push Notifications) Used expensive DB query during playback progress notifications (PM-1166)
  • (Thumbnails) Thumbnails were not properly updated when underlying file changed (PM-1162)
  • (Transcoder) On Windows, headless (no display attached) Nvidia cards were not recognized (PM-962)
  • (Transcoder) On Windows, the first Intel device was used for transcoding regardless of which Intel device was selected (PM-962)

New in Plex Media Server 1.40.0.7998 (Feb 14, 2024)

  • NEW:
  • (Collections) Items added to a collection from the item context menu will now lock the collection field on the items (#12793)
  • (Music) Store track genres and add filtering options (#14653)
  • (Music) Support ID3v2.4 null-separated tags for genres and release type (#14653)
  • (View History) No longer create a view history entry for items marked as played (#10888)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.123.2
  • FIXES:
  • (Agents) Changing a ‘Other Videos’ type library to the modern movie agent would fail (#14483)
  • (Agents) It is possible that agents are not initialised during startup on rare occasions (#14654)
  • (Agents) Remove the legacy OpenSubtitles agent which is no longer supported upstream (#14667)
  • (Collection) Server could become unresponsive when collection membership changes (#14612)
  • (DVR) Previously watched recordings could be deleted without being watched again (#13779)
  • (Debian) Installation could fail on some Debian 11 systems in some cases (PM-910)
  • (Debian) Installation would fail on Linux systems running older Debian versions.
  • (Installer) Windows 64 installer did not remove old plugin folders (PM-907)
  • (Installer) Windows 64 installer did not set correct permissions for Plex Update Service (PM-979)
  • (Libraries) When performing fix match on items from certain music libraries the language would default to Arabic (#14501)
  • (Library) The Content Rating not equal to None filter does not work (#14620)
  • (Lyrics) Server could crash during processing of lyrics (PM-902)
  • (Metadata) Music track numbering could have been wrong if ‘prefer local metadata’ was set (PM-1010)
  • (Netgear) Installation would fail on some Netgear systems.
  • (Scanner) Some id3v2 tags found in music caused a memory leak (PM-916)
  • (Search) Album search results could contain all the album’s tracks too (#14486)
  • (Subtitles) In some circumstances, sidecar subtitles can show up for media when they’re no longer available (#14674)
  • (Transcoder) HW encoding would fail on devices with no rate control (#14222)
  • (Transcoder) Software transcoding on Ubuntu could cause unexpected behavior (#14605)

New in Plex Media Server 1.40.0.7996 Plex Pass (Feb 7, 2024)

  • NEW:
  • (Collections) Items added to a collection from the item context menu will now lock the collection field on the items (#12793)
  • (Music) Store track genres and add filtering options (#14653)
  • (Music) Support ID3v2.4 null-separated tags for genres and release type (#14653)
  • (View History) No longer create a view history entry for items marked as played (#10888)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.118.0
  • FIXES:
  • (Agents) Changing a ‘Other Videos’ type library to the modern movie agent would fail (#14483)
  • (Agents) It is possible that agents are not initialised during startup on rare occasions (#14654)
  • (Agents) Remove the legacy OpenSubtitles agent which is no longer supported upstream (#14667)
  • (Collection) Server could become unresponsive when collection membership changes (#14612)
  • (DVR) Previously watched recordings could be deleted without being watched again (#13779)
  • (Debian) Installation could fail on some Debian 11 systems in some cases (PM-910)
  • (Installer) Windows 64 installer did not remove old plugin folders (PM-907)
  • (Installer) Windows 64 installer did not set correct permissions for Plex Update Service (PM-979)
  • (Libraries) When performing fix match on items from certain music libraries the language would default to Arabic (#14501)
  • (Library) The Content Rating not equal to None filter does not work (#14620)
  • (Lyrics) Server could crash during processing of lyrics (PM-902)
  • (Metadata) Music track numbering could have been wrong if ‘prefer local metadata’ was set (PM-1010)
  • (Scanner) Some id3v2 tags found in music caused a memory leak (PM-916)
  • (Search) Album search results could contain all the album’s tracks too (#14486)
  • (Subtitles) In some circumstances, sidecar subtitles can show up for media when they’re no longer available (#14674)
  • (Transcoder) HW encoding would fail on devices with no rate control (#14222)
  • (Transcoder) Software transcoding on Ubuntu could cause unexpected behavior (#14605)

New in Plex Media Server 1.40.0.7775 Plex Pass (Dec 20, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (Collections) Items added to a collection from the item context menu will now lock the collection field on the items (#12793)
  • (Music) Store track genres and add filtering options (#14653)
  • (Music) Support ID3v2.4 null-separated tags for genres and release type (#14653)
  • (View History) No longer create a view history entry for items marked as played (#10888)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.118.0
  • FIXES:
  • (Agents) Changing a ‘Other Videos’ type library to the modern movie agent would fail (#14483)
  • (Agents) It is possible that agents are not initialised during startup on rare occasions (#14654)
  • (Agents) Remove the legacy OpenSubtitles agent which is no longer supported upstream (#14667)
  • (Collection) Server could become unresponsive when collection membership changes (#14612)
  • (DVR) Previously watched recordings could be deleted without being watched again (#13779)
  • (Libraries) When performing fix match on items from certain music libraries the language would default to Arabic (#14501)
  • (Library) The Content Rating not equal to None filter does not work (#14620)
  • (Search) Album search results could contain all the album’s tracks too (#14486)
  • (Subtitles) In some circumstances, sidecar subtitles can show up for media when they’re no longer available (#14674)
  • (Transcoder) HW encoding would fail on devices with no rate control (#14222)
  • (Transcoder) Software transcoding on Ubuntu could cause unexpected behavior (#14605)

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.8.7639 Plex Pass (Nov 2, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 4.116.1
  • FIXES:
  • (Library) “Episode sorting” and “Album sorting” preferences had meaningless “Library default” global library setting (#14522)
  • (Library) The default season sort order in TV libraries may not work as intended (#14570)
  • (LiveTV) Transcoded video would fail to play in some circumstances (#14539)
  • (Metadata) Items could lose metadata if a refresh request failed due to a network failure (#14551)
  • (Player) Controlling a player didn’t work in some cases (#14567)
  • (Sharing) Sharing a single episode was not playable by sharee (#14559)
  • (Transcoder) HW transcoding failed on GeminiLake CPUs when running on linux (#14465)
  • (Transcoder) Videos HW encoded on the shield would display a black screen on some devices (#14384)
  • (Updater) Windows Updater would hang when run with PMSService (#14322)

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.7.7621 Plex Pass (Oct 25, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (TerraMaster) Improve multi-volume support when adding folders to libraries.
  • (Transcoder) Enable hardware transcoding by default where available (#14282)
  • FIXES:
  • (Hubs) User could order a hub before Continue Watching hub (#14236)
  • (Library) In some cases, media item presence and accessibility could fail to be reported (#14307)
  • (Metadata) Items could lose metadata if a refresh request failed due to a network failure (#14551)
  • (Photos) Autotag data was not visible even if photos had pre-existing autotags (#14493)
  • (Photos) Places filter was not visible even if photos had pre-existing place data (#14519)
  • (Preferences) Adjust library section preference text for intro and credits detection (#14152)
  • (Scanner) Episodes with absolute numbering of 264 and 265 could get ignored (#14084)
  • (Security) Certain requests could trigger unwanted notifications (#14524)
  • (Transcoding) Hardware transcoding failed on linux machines (#14553)
  • (Security) Curl version contained a vulnerability that could be exploited if user set a SOCKS proxy in env.
  • (IntroDetection) Intro detection could crash the server under certain circumstances (#14606)

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.7.7616 Plex Pass (Oct 24, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (TerraMaster) Improve multi-volume support when adding folders to libraries.
  • (Transcoder) Enable hardware transcoding by default where available (#14282)
  • FIXES:
  • (Hubs) User could order a hub before Continue Watching hub (#14236)
  • (Library) In some cases, media item presence and accessibility could fail to be reported (#14307)
  • (Metadata) Items could lose metadata if a refresh request failed due to a network failure (#14551)
  • (Photos) Autotag data was not visible even if photos had pre-existing autotags (#14493)
  • (Photos) Places filter was not visible even if photos had pre-existing place data (#14519)
  • (Preferences) Adjust library section preference text for intro and credits detection (#14152)
  • (Scanner) Episodes with absolute numbering of 264 and 265 could get ignored (#14084)
  • (Security) Certain requests could trigger unwanted notifications (#14524)
  • (Transcoding) Hardware transcoding failed on linux machines (#14553)
  • (Security) Curl version contained a vulnerability that could be exploited if user set a SOCKS proxy in env.

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.7.7571 Plex Pass (Sep 28, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (TerraMaster) Improve multi-volume support when adding folders to libraries.
  • (Transcoder) Enable hardware transcoding by default where available (#14282)
  • FIXES:
  • (Hubs) User could order a hub before Continue Watching hub (#14236)
  • (Library) In some cases, media item presence and accessibility could fail to be reported (#14307)
  • (Metadata) Items could lose metadata if a refresh request failed due to a network failure (#14551)
  • (Photos) Autotag data was not visible even if photos had pre-existing autotags (#14493)
  • (Photos) Places filter was not visible even if photos had pre-existing place data (#14519)
  • (Preferences) Adjust library section preference text for intro and credits detection (#14152)
  • (Scanner) Episodes with absolute numbering of 264 and 265 could get ignored (#14084)
  • (Security) Certain requests could trigger unwanted notifications (#14524)
  • (Transcoding) Hardware transcoding failed on linux machines (#14553)

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.6.7557 Plex Pass (Sep 27, 2023)

  • FIXES:
  • (Agents) Some attributes were missing from legacy agent api responses (#14436)
  • (Analysis) MP4 Atom Parsing could fill logs (#14418)
  • (Automatic Scanning) Symbolic links with missing targets could cause changes to later entries in a directory not to be detected (#14398)
  • (DVR) Could not record a show if a show with the same name (such as a remake) and episode number already existed in the target library (#13444)
  • (DVR) Devices could fail to be recognized when IP addresses change (#13529)
  • (DVR) Multi-lineup DVRs could be created as single-lineups (#14395)
  • (DVR) Tuning in channels could fail for channel names containing special characters (#14391)
  • (Debian) Remove GPG lower version limit
  • (Filters) Filtering on dates before/after 1970-01-01 would result in an error (#14511)
  • (Library) Some of the hubs on preplay screens may not load (#14562)
  • (Mac) Transcoder crashes would cause PMS to exit (#14414)
  • (Music) Scanning music could be pathologically slow in some cases (#14389)
  • (Music) Searches for lyrics could be run unnecessarily (#14513)
  • (Playlist) Adding a Clip to a playlist would unexpectedly convert it to a photo playlist (#14381)
  • (Thumbnails) Certain JPEG images caused PMS to exhibit unexpected behavior when generating thumbnails (#14407)
  • (Transcoder) An incorrect fallback font could be used when burning subtitles in some cases (#14357)
  • (Transcoder) Certain newer AMD GPU models couldn’t be used for hardware transcoding on Linux (#14416)
  • (Transcoder) Unexpected behavior when subtitles ended before the end of video (#14426)
  • FreeBSD builds would crash on start-up (#14499)
  • (Transcoding) Some HW encoded video would not play on Android (#14384)
  • (Transcoding) Hardware transcoding failed on linux machines (#14553)

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.7.7484 Plex Pass (Sep 15, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (TerraMaster) Improve multi-volume support when adding folders to libraries.
  • (Transcoder) Enable hardware transcoding by default where available (#14282)
  • FIXES:
  • (Hubs) User could order a hub before Continue Watching hub (#14236)
  • (Library) In some cases, media item presence and accessibility could fail to be reported (#14307)
  • (Photos) Autotag data was not visible even if photos had pre-existing autotags (#14493)
  • (Photos) Places filter was not visible even if photos had pre-existing place data (#14519)
  • (Preferences) Adjust library section preference text for intro and credits detection (#14152)
  • (Scanner) Episodes with absolute numbering of 264 and 265 could get ignored (#14084)
  • (Security) Certain requests could trigger unwanted notifications (#14524)
  • (Transcoding) Some HW encoded video would not play on Android (#14384)

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.6.7468 Beta (Aug 31, 2023)

  • FIXES:
  • (Agents) Some attributes were missing from legacy agent api responses (#14436)
  • (Analysis) MP4 Atom Parsing could fill logs (#14418)
  • (Automatic Scanning) Symbolic links with missing targets could cause changes to later entries in a directory not to be detected (#14398)
  • (DVR) Could not record a show if a show with the same name (such as a remake) and episode number already existed in the target library (#13444)
  • (DVR) Devices could fail to be recognized when IP addresses change (#13529)
  • (DVR) Multi-lineup DVRs could be created as single-lineups (#14395)
  • (DVR) Tuning in channels could fail for channel names containing special characters (#14391)
  • (Debian) Remove GPG lower version limit
  • (Filters) Filtering on dates before/after 1970-01-01 would result in an error (#14511)
  • (Mac) Transcoder crashes would cause PMS to exit (#14414)
  • (Music) Scanning music could be pathologically slow in some cases (#14389)
  • (Music) Searches for lyrics could be run unnecessarily (#14513)
  • (Playlist) Adding a Clip to a playlist would unexpectedly convert it to a photo playlist (#14381)
  • (Thumbnails) Certain JPEG images caused PMS to exhibit unexpected behavior when generating thumbnails (#14407)
  • (Transcoder) An incorrect fallback font could be used when burning subtitles in some cases (#14357)
  • (Transcoder) Certain newer AMD GPU models couldn’t be used for hardware transcoding on Linux (#14416)
  • (Transcoder) Unexpected behavior when subtitles ended before the end of video (#14426)
  • FreeBSD builds would crash on start-up (#14499)

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.6.7371 Beta (Aug 3, 2023)

  • FIXES:
  • (Agents) Some attributes were missing from legacy agent api responses (#14436)
  • (Analysis) MP4 Atom Parsing could fill logs (#14418)
  • (Automatic Scanning) Symbolic links with missing targets could cause changes to later entries in a directory not to be detected (#14398)
  • (DVR) Could not record a show if a show with the same name (such as a remake) and episode number already existed in the target library (#13444)
  • (DVR) Devices could fail to be recognized when IP addresses change (#13529)
  • (DVR) Multi-lineup DVRs could be created as single-lineups (#14395)
  • (DVR) Tuning in channels could fail for channel names containing special characters (#14391)
  • (Debian) Remove GPG lower version limit
  • (Music) Scanning music could be pathologically slow in some cases (#14389)
  • (Playlist) Adding a Clip to a playlist would unexpectedly convert it to a photo playlist (#14381)
  • (Transcoder) An incorrect fallback font could be used when burning subtitles in some cases (#14357)
  • (Transcoder) Certain newer AMD GPU models couldn’t be used for hardware transcoding on Linux (#14416)

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.5.7349 (Jul 25, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (Music) Add “Deep Cuts” station.
  • (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding is now supported for SDR media on AMD GPUs on Linux (#14332)
  • (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding is now supported when running Plex Media Server on headless Windows systems (#14332)
  • (Transcoder) The GPU used for transcoding can now be selected in server preferences (#14332)
  • FIXES:
  • (EPG) Filters were constructed using timestamps in local server time instead of UTC (#14431)
  • (Filters) Date-based filters could be off by a day in some time zones (#14342)
  • - (Library) New TV show theme songs would not get downloaded (#14451)
  • (Library) Poster previews in metadata edit screen could become blank if the selected poster failed to download (#14360)
  • (Music) In some cases, less popular tracks were picked in stations.
  • (Packaging) RPM packages are now signed using SHA-512 instead of SHA-1 (#14369).
  • (Photos) The server could exit unexpectedly when reading TIFF or RAW image files (#10924)
  • (Scanner) Movies and TV shows would fail to match when invoked from the scanner CLI (#14386)
  • (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding could fail on Intel Apollo Lake GPUs (#14359)
  • (Windows) Fixed potential privileged execution in updater by an unprivileged user (#14406)

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.5.7328 Plex Pass (Jul 19, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (Music) Add “Deep Cuts” station.
  • (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding is now supported for SDR media on AMD GPUs on Linux (#14332)
  • (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding is now supported when running Plex Media Server on headless Windows systems (#14332)
  • (Transcoder) The GPU used for transcoding can now be selected in server preferences (#14332)
  • FIXES:
  • (EPG) Filters were constructed using timestamps in local server time instead of UTC (#14431)
  • (Filters) Date-based filters could be off by a day in some time zones (#14342)
  • - (Library) New TV show theme songs would not get downloaded (#14451)
  • (Library) Poster previews in metadata edit screen could become blank if the selected poster failed to download (#14360)
  • (Music) In some cases, less popular tracks were picked in stations.
  • (Packaging) RPM packages are now signed using SHA-512 instead of SHA-1 (#14369).
  • (Photos) The server could exit unexpectedly when reading TIFF or RAW image files (#10924)
  • (Scanner) Movies and TV shows would fail to match when invoked from the scanner CLI (#14386)
  • (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding could fail on Intel Apollo Lake GPUs (#14359)

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.5.7318 Plex Pass (Jul 14, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (Music) Add “Deep Cuts” station.
  • (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding is now supported for SDR media on AMD GPUs on Linux (#14332)
  • (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding is now supported when running Plex Media Server on headless Windows systems (#14332)
  • (Transcoder) The GPU used for transcoding can now be selected in server preferences (#14332)
  • FIXES:
  • (EPG) Filters were constructed using timestamps in local server time instead of UTC (#14431)
  • (Filters) Date-based filters could be off by a day in some time zones (#14342)
  • (Library) Poster previews in metadata edit screen could become blank if the selected poster failed to download (#14360)
  • (Music) In some cases, less popular tracks were picked in stations.
  • (Packaging) RPM packages are now signed using SHA-512 instead of SHA-1 (#14369).- (Photos) The server could exit unexpectedly when reading TIFF or RAW image files (#10924)
  • (Scanner) Movies and TV shows would fail to match when invoked from the scanner CLI (#14386)
  • (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding could fail on Intel Apollo Lake GPUs (#14359)

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.5.7210 Plex Pass (Jun 21, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (Music) Add “Deep Cuts” station.
  • (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding is now supported for SDR media on AMD GPUs on Linux (#14332)
  • (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding is now supported when running Plex Media Server on headless Windows systems (#14332)
  • (Transcoder) The GPU used for transcoding can now be selected in server preferences (#14332)
  • FIXES:
  • (Filters) Date-based filters could be off by a day in some time zones (#14342)
  • (Library) Poster previews in metadata edit screen could become blank if the selected poster failed to download (#14360)
  • (Music) In some cases, less popular tracks were picked in stations.
  • (Photos) The server could exit unexpectedly when reading TIFF or RAW image files (#10924)
  • (Scanner) Movies and TV shows would fail to match when invoked from the scanner CLI (#14386)
  • (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding could fail on Intel Apollo Lake GPUs (#14359)
  • (Packaging) RPM packages are now signed using SHA-512 instead of SHA-1 (#14369).

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.4.7195 (Jun 19, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 4.108.0
  • FIXES:
  • (Analysis) Processing an invalid audio file could result in the scanner stalling while producing very large amounts of log data (#14335)
  • (Bandwidth) Very low WAN bandwidth streams could get starved (#14319)
  • (Collections) Refreshing item counts for smart collections could block other operations during startup (#14327)
  • (Library) Advanced Filter for Editions returning unexpected results (#14106)
  • (Library) Items with EPG data could sometimes lose certain metadata fields (#14303)
  • (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding could fail to be used on older Intel GPUs on Linux (#14338)
  • (Windows) Fixed potential file delete/overwrite in updater by an unprivileged user (#14370)

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.3.7192 (Jun 13, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 4.108.0
  • FIXES:
  • (Analysis) Processing an invalid audio file could result in the scanner stalling while producing very large amounts of log data (#14335)
  • (Bandwidth) Very low WAN bandwidth streams could get starved (#14319)
  • (Collections) Refreshing item counts for smart collections could block other operations during startup (#14327)
  • (Library) Advanced Filter for Editions returning unexpected results (#14106)
  • (Library) Items with EPG data could sometimes lose certain metadata fields (#14303)
  • (Windows) Fixed potential file delete/overwrite in updater by an unprivileged user (#14370)

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.3.7089 Plex Pass (May 25, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (NAS) - Synology - Add support for DS223 family models (rtd1619 & rtd1619b processors)
  • FIXES:
  • (Collections) Wording of collections display preference was confusing (#12176)
  • (DVR) Finding USB device even if it’s plugged into a different USB port (#14288)
  • (Photos) “Recently Added in Photos” may not include any items in a sub folder (#12469)
  • (PlayQueue) Playing an episode in a show that has a later aired unmatched episode could play the wrong episode (#13315)

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.2.7088 Plex Pass (May 18, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (Library) Add additional episode deletion policy for ‘after a month’ (#14059)
  • (Network) IPv6 addresses within the server’s configured network prefix are now considered local for bandwidth allocation purposes (#14234)
  • (Network) IPv6 network blocks are now supported in the LAN Networks preference (#14234)
  • (Transcoder) Added HDR tone mapping support for Intel Arctic Sound-M and Meteor Lake GPUs (#14281)
  • (Transcoder) Improved hardware transcode stability when using Intel GPUs on Linux (#14281)
  • (Transcoder) Removed support for Intel hardware transcoding on FreeBSD (#14281)
  • (Security) Support new, streamlined first-run claiming experience on Windows (#14270)
  • ** see New Claiming Requirement for Windows 22 for details.
  • FIXES:
  • (Collections) Custom order for Collections were not saving (#13582)
  • (Library) In certain specific cases, “Empty Trash” could remove items it shouldn’t (#14141)
  • (Music) Some TIDAL tracks in server play queue would be played in AAC and not FLAC.
  • (Scanner) Certain episode filenames could appear to be episode ranges (#14230)
  • (Scanner) Certain episode filenames could appear to be episode ranges (#14267)
  • (DVR) Recordings fail with permission error (#14265)
  • (Windows) Certain Windows region settings could cause unexpected behaviour in some operations like scanning (#14304)
  • (Windows) Server settings could take a very long time to load
  • (Transcoder) Some sessions could fall back to software when attempting to use an Nvidia GPU

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.2.7002 Plex Pass (May 10, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (Library) Add additional episode deletion policy for ‘after a month’ (#14059)
  • (Network) IPv6 addresses within the server’s configured network prefix are now considered local for bandwidth allocation purposes (#14234)
  • (Network) IPv6 network blocks are now supported in the LAN Networks preference (#14234)
  • (Transcoder) Added HDR tone mapping support for Intel Arctic Sound-M and Meteor Lake GPUs (#14281)
  • (Transcoder) Improved hardware transcode stability when using Intel GPUs on Linux (#14281)
  • (Transcoder) Removed support for Intel hardware transcoding on FreeBSD (#14281)
  • (Security) Support new, streamlined first-run claiming experience on Windows (#14270)
  • ** see New Claiming Requirement for Windows 33 for details.
  • FIXES:
  • (Collections) Custom order for Collections were not saving (#13582)
  • (Library) In certain specific cases, “Empty Trash” could remove items it shouldn’t (#14141)
  • (Music) Some TIDAL tracks in server play queue would be played in AAC and not FLAC.
  • (Scanner) Certain episode filenames could appear to be episode ranges (#14230)
  • (Scanner) Certain episode filenames could appear to be episode ranges (#14267)
  • (DVR) Recordings fail with permission error (#14265)

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.1.6999 Plex Pass (Apr 26, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (Logging) Transient and per-startup local admin tokens are now fully redacted in logs by default (#13986)
  • FIXES:
  • (Credits Detection) Detection could sometimes use the incorrect stream information (#14216)
  • (Downloads) Transcoded downloads counted against per-user streams (#14139)
  • (Plugins) Secure connection requests would fail to load on Windows machines (#14279)
  • (TerraMaster) Improve hardware transcoding compatibility on TOS 5 platform

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.1.6983 Plex Pass (Apr 23, 2023)

  • FIXES:
  • (HTTP) A newly-created TLS certificate could fail to be installed

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.0.6973 (Apr 21, 2023)

  • FIXES:
  • (HTTP) A newly-created TLS certificate could fail to be installed

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.1.6954 Plex Pass (Apr 19, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (Logging) Transient and per-startup local admin tokens are now fully redacted in logs by default (#13986)
  • FIXES:
  • (Credits Detection) Detection could sometimes use the incorrect stream information (#14216)
  • (Downloads) Transcoded downloads counted against per-user streams (#14139)

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.0.6950 (Apr 18, 2023)

  • FIXES:
  • (Windows) Scanning libraries on certain network mounts could fail (#14259)

New in Plex Media Server 1.32.0.6918 Plex Pass (Apr 7, 2023)

  • FIXED:
  • (Transcoder) Subtitle fonts for some languages were missing on Linux and FreeBSD
  • (Windows) Installing a TLS certificate could fail at random

New in Plex Media Server 1.31.3.6868 (Mar 29, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (Windows) This is the last release to support Windows 7-8.1
  • FIXES:
  • (CreditsDetection) Improve temporary directory clean-up (#14169)
  • (NativeSeriesScanner) Addressed an issue where certain filenames could falsely register as an episode range. (#14154)
  • (Scanner) Certain episode filenames could lead to excessive memory usage (#14215)
  • (Transcoder) Converting certain files could be unreliable when using Nvidia GPUs with certain driver versions (#14069)
  • (Windows) 64-bit installer would not install on Windows ARM64.

New in Plex Media Server 1.31.3.6819 Plex Pass (Mar 16, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (Windows) This is the last release to support Windows 7-8.1
  • FIXES:
  • (CreditsDetection) Improve temporary directory clean-up (#14169)
  • (NativeSeriesScanner) Addressed an issue where certain filenames could falsely register as an episode range. (#14154)
  • (Transcoder) Converting certain files could be unreliable when using Nvidia GPUs with certain driver versions (#14069)

New in Plex Media Server 1.31.2.6810 (Mar 15, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (TV) Add series- and season-level preferences controlling audio and subtitle stream selection (#8036)
  • FIXES:
  • Request to system/agents could fail.
  • (CreditsDetection) Scanner might quit unexpectedly in some cases (#14169)
  • (First Run) Library creation could fail during set up (#14161)*
  • (Playlist) > Smart playlists could fail when set to show/season/artist/album types when requested by someone other than server admin (#13427)
  • (Push) The server could exit unexpectedly if a database error occurred within certain notification-handling code (#14112)
  • (Scanner) TV episodes with certain naming formats involving underscores could fail to be scanned in (#14111)

New in Plex Media Server 1.31.2.6783 Plex Pass (Mar 9, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (TV) Add series- and season-level preferences controlling audio and subtitle stream selection (#8036)
  • FIXES:
  • Request to system/agents could fail.
  • (First Run) Library creation could fail during set up (#14161)
  • (Playlist) > Smart playlists could fail when set to show/season/artist/album types when requested by someone other than server admin (#13427)
  • (Push) The server could exit unexpectedly if a database error occurred within certain notification-handling code (#14112)
  • (Scanner) TV episodes with certain naming formats involving underscores could fail to be scanned in (#14111)

New in Plex Media Server 1.31.1.6782 (Mar 9, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (Scanner) Adds support for the Extend multi-episode format i.e. S01E01-02 (#14064)
  • (Subtitles) Attempt to automatically detect improperly-tagged forced streams based on their titles (#14096)
  • (TV) Provide clients with the number of non-Specials seasons for display when browsing (#14036)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.100.1
  • Add Ukrainian translations.
  • Updated translations.
  • FIXES:
  • (Clustering) Photos timeline - duplicated items or incorrect dates (#14081)
  • (Credits Detection) Detection could fail with certain video codecs (#14150)
  • (Credits Detection) Limit thread concurrency for first stage of detection (#14150)
  • (Credits Detection) The detection could timeout and fail on low powered devices.
  • (CreditsDetection) Fix assignment of final marker attribute (#14109)
  • (First Run) Library creation could fail during set up (#14161)
  • (Intros) Detection wouldn’t proceed if background transcodes were paused (#14056)
  • (Music) When shuffling smart playlists with limits, the track selection could be incorrect.
  • (Transcoder) Hardware decoding using Nvidia GPUs could fail with certain driver versions (#14069) (#14070)

New in Plex Media Server 1.31.2.6757 Plex Pass (Mar 7, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (TV) Add series- and season-level preferences controlling audio and subtitle stream selection (#8036)
  • FIXES:
  • Request to system/agents could fail.
  • (Playlist) > Smart playlists could fail when set to show/season/artist/album types when requested by someone other than server admin (#13427)
  • (Push) The server could exit unexpectedly if a database error occurred within certain notification-handling code (#14112)
  • (Scanner) TV episodes with certain naming formats involving underscores could fail to be scanned in (#14111)

New in Plex Media Server 1.31.1.6733 Plex Pass (Feb 22, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (Scanner) Adds support for the Extend multi-episode format i.e. S01E01-02 (#14064)
  • (Subtitles) Attempt to automatically detect improperly-tagged forced streams based on their titles (#14096)
  • (TV) Provide clients with the number of non-Specials seasons for display when browsing (#14036)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.100.1
  • Add Ukrainian translations.
  • Updated translations.
  • FIXES:
  • (Clustering) Photos timeline - duplicated items or incorrect dates (#14081)
  • (Credits Detection) Detection could fail with certain video codecs (#14150)
  • (Credits Detection) Limit thread concurrency for first stage of detection (#14150)
  • (Credits Detection) The detection could timeout and fail on low powered devices.
  • (CreditsDetection) Fix assignment of final marker attribute (#14109)
  • (Intros) Detection wouldn’t proceed if background transcodes were paused (#14056)
  • (Music) When shuffling smart playlists with limits, the track selection could be incorrect.
  • (Transcoder) Hardware decoding using Nvidia GPUs could fail with certain driver versions (#14069) (#14070)

New in Plex Media Server 1.31.0.6654 Plex Pass (Feb 2, 2023)

  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Some audio or subtitle streams could fail to be captured on channels with multiple audio or subtitle services (#13908) (#13877)
  • (IntroDetection) Detection may timeout on very slow systems causing items to retry indefinitely (#14027)
  • (Transcoder) Transcoding from AV1 could take a very long time to start when a GPU that did not support it was present (#14043)

New in Plex Media Server 1.30.2.6563 Plex Pass (Jan 11, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (NAS) Add Support for TerraMaster TOS 5 platforms.
  • (Scanner) .plexmatch files now support a new match type called “SEE”, which allows handling of files where e.g. “302” means episode 2 of season 3 (#13985)
  • (Scanner) .plexmatch pattern matching tokens now support setting a maximum length on matches; see the “Match Hinting for TV Series” 2 support article for details (#13985)
  • (Scanner) Files named using the uncommon “SEE” format are no longer matched by default; please use the .plexmatch feature to handle these files (#13985)
  • (Scanner) Files with names containing a 3- or 4-digit standalone episode number are now matched correctly by default (#13985)
  • FIXES:
  • (DLNA) Corrected DLNA server not starting on NVIDIA Shield (#13340)
  • (DVR) DVR schedule is now corrected when the guide updates. (#13217/#12821)
  • (DVR) Preview thumbs not being created for DVR recordings (#13943)
  • (Library) TV theme music could incorrectly remain on an item after fixing a match (#13933)
  • (Library) Unprocessed Add to Library items can crash the server on startup if the original library section no longer exists (#14022)
  • (MacOS) Incorrect download progress percentage for updates is passed to the web client (#13992)
  • (Metadata) Episodes would not store the year field (#13974)
  • (Music) Improve reliability of maintaining original add date when upgrading albums.
  • (Music) When replacing exisiting files with new versions, loudness analysis would not trigger on demand (#13897)
  • (Network) The server could fail to publish any LAN addresses if a preferred network interface was selected, but was not available (#14001)
  • (Pivots) Categories pivot loading time might be slow for larger libraries (#13912)
  • (Transcoder) Decoding certain TrueHD audio streams could fail (#14023)
  • (Transcoder) Download transcodes consumed slot even after transcode completes (#13987)
  • (Versions) Optimized versions of an edition would overwrite any existing version using the same profile (#13746)

New in Plex Media Server 1.30.1.6550 Plex Pass (Jan 10, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • (Extras) Improved support for matching TV series extras with common community filename formats (#4774)
  • (NAS) Add Support for TerraMaster TOS 5 platforms.
  • (Preferences) Added an advanced preference for DB cache size.
  • (Settings) Add configurable played percentage threshold advanced library preference (#13860)
  • (Transcoder) Added support for AV1 video decoding (#13941)
  • (Transcoder) The minimum supported Nvidia driver version for hardware transcoding has been increased to 455.28 on Linux and 456.71 on Windows (#13941)
  • FIXES:
  • (Bandwidth) Server could become unresponsive under certain timing conditions (#13951)
  • (Database) Server might quit unexpectedly after SQLite3 syntax errors (#13942)
  • (PlexMatch) Pattern matching could behave incorrectly for certain filenames (#14030)
  • (Transcoder) Decoding certain TrueHD audio streams could fail (#14023)
  • (Transcoder) Transcodes could fail when converting bitmap subtitles to the DVD format (#13967)
  • (macOS) Some endpoints could return errors on macOS versions older than 10.15 (#13946)

New in Plex Media Server 1.30.1.6497 Plex Pass (Dec 15, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (Extras) Improved support for matching TV series extras with common community filename formats (#4774)
  • (NAS) Add Support for TerraMaster TOS 5 platforms.
  • (Preferences) Added an advanced preference for DB cache size.
  • (Settings) Add configurable played percentage threshold advanced library preference (#13860)
  • (Transcoder) Added support for AV1 video decoding (#13941)
  • (Transcoder) The minimum supported Nvidia driver version for hardware transcoding has been increased to 455.28 on Linux and 456.71 on Windows (#13941)
  • FIXES:
  • (Bandwidth) Server could become unresponsive under certain timing conditions (#13951)
  • (Database) Server might quit unexpectedly after SQLite3 syntax errors (#13942)
  • (PlexMatch) Pattern matching could behave incorrectly for certain filenames (#14030)
  • (Transcoder) Transcodes could fail when converting bitmap subtitles to the DVD format (#13967)
  • (macOS) Some endpoints could return errors on macOS versions older than 10.15 (#13946)

New in Plex Media Server 1.30.0.6486 (Dec 13, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (PlexMatch) Add support for pattern matching (#13899)
  • (Scheduled Tasks) Perform periodic metadata refreshes on TV shows too (#13920)
  • (Transcoder) Support zero-copy hardware transcoding on macOS (#13904)
  • FIXES:
  • (Artwork) Restrict client artwork screensaver to items user is allowed to access (#13916)
  • (DVR) Commercial detection could fail on 32-bit Windows builds (#14002)
  • (DVR) Plex Tuner Service might become unresponsive in certain complex scenarios (#12988)
  • (Music) Some tracks may show lyrics being available when they are not (#13926)
  • (QNAP) Renewed code signing certificate
  • (Scanner) Episodes of series with names beginning with a single digit could be mis-matched (#13921)
  • (Windows) Added new code signing certificate for app binaries

New in Plex Media Server 1.30.0.6442 Plex Pass (Nov 29, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (PlexMatch) Add support for pattern matching (#13899)
  • (Scheduled Tasks) Perform periodic metadata refreshes on TV shows too (#13920)
  • (Transcoder) Support zero-copy hardware transcoding on macOS (#13904)
  • FIXES:
  • (Artwork) Restrict client artwork screensaver to items user is allowed to access (#13916)
  • (DVR) Plex Tuner Service might become unresponsive in certain complex scenarios (#12988)
  • (Music) Some tracks may show lyrics being available when they are not (#13926)
  • (Scanner) Episodes of series with names beginning with a single digit could be mis-matched (#13921)
  • (macOS) The server could fail platform security checks on older macOS versions (#13959)
  • (Windows) Added new code signing certificate for app binaries
  • (QNAP) Renewed code signing certificate

New in Plex Media Server 1.30.0.6406 Plex Pass (Nov 17, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (PlexMatch) Add support for pattern matching (#13899)
  • (Scheduled Tasks) Perform periodic metadata refreshes on TV shows too (#13920)
  • (Transcoder) Support zero-copy hardware transcoding on macOS (#13904)
  • FIXES:
  • (Artwork) Restrict client artwork screensaver to items user is allowed to access (#13916)
  • (DVR) Plex Tuner Service might become unresponsive in certain complex scenarios (#12988)
  • (Music) Some tracks may show lyrics being available when they are not (#13926)
  • (Scanner) Episodes of series with names beginning with a single digit could be mis-matched (#13921)

New in Plex Media Server 1.29.2.6364 (Nov 8, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (Security) Support new, streamlined first-run claiming experience on macOS (#13864)
  • FIXES:
  • (EPG) Server might become unresposible when parsing special episodes in XMLTV guide data (#13117)
  • (IntroDetection) Decreased memory consumption for intro detection (#13361)
  • (Library) Running a Clean Bundles operation could crash the server (#13855)
  • (Maintenance) Plex Media Server could quit unexpectedly when asked to clean bundles under certain conditions (#13855)
  • (Music) Existing tracks could lose loudness data and be unable to rerun the loudness analysis (#13897)
  • (Security) Fixes to the new macOS first-run claiming process.

New in Plex Media Server 1.29.2.6334 Plex Pass (Oct 28, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (Security) Support new, streamlined first-run claiming experience on macOS (#13864)
  • FIXES:
  • (EPG) Server might become unresposible when parsing special episodes in XMLTV guide data (#13117)
  • (IntroDetection) Decreased memory consumption for intro detection (#13361)
  • (Library) Running a Clean Bundles operation could crash the server (#13855)
  • (Maintenance) Plex Media Server could quit unexpectedly when asked to clean bundles under certain conditions (#13855)
  • (Music) Existing tracks could lose loudness data and be unable to rerun the loudness analysis (#13897)

New in Plex Media Server 1.29.1.6276 Plex Pass (Oct 5, 2022)

  • Fixes an issue where 1.29.1.6260 crashes on startup for users running macOS 10.11 and 10.12

New in Plex Media Server 1.29.1.6260 Plex Pass (Sep 29, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (HTTP) Added additional startup state notifications
  • (macOS) Plex Media Server now requires macOS 10.11 or newer to run.
  • (Linux) External user-mode graphics drivers no longer need to be installed to use hardware tone mapping on Intel systems
  • FIXES:
  • (Auto Update) Old update files are now cleaned up upon server start.
  • (DVR) EPG data might be lost for new recordings
  • (DVR) Plex Tuner Service might become unresponsive in certain complex scenarios
  • (DVR) Sport events recording by team might not be shown in DVR schedule
  • (Downloads) Corrected a case where played downloaded media was not marked as played on server
  • (Photos) Photos could get reprocessed for geolocation unnecessarily
  • (Playback) Corrected playback decisions where metadata contained multiple medias and only some could be direct played or downloaded
  • (Scanner) Improvements to episode matching logic

New in Plex Media Server 1.29.0.6219 Plex Pass (Sep 28, 2022)

  • Fixes:
  • (Windows) Support zero-copy hardware transcoding with Nvidia GPUs on PMS 64-bit For Windows

New in Plex Media Server 1.28.2.6151 (Aug 30, 2022)

  • FIXES:
  • (HTTP) Certain client apps could quit unexpectedly when connecting to a server during startup maintenance (#13802)

New in Plex Media Server 1.28.2.6103 Plex Pass (Aug 18, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (HTTP) Indicate when a database migration is being run (#13651)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.87.2
  • FIXES:
  • (Collections) Playing a collection of shows/seasons resulted in no playback in certain clients (#12977)
  • (Library) Cleaning up legacy music agent bundle files could fail when running a Clean Bundles (#13761)
  • (Music) Read artist and album sort tags from m4a audio files (#13760)
  • (Music) Upgrading an album should retain the added date of the original (#13753)
  • (Photos) Timelines could get reprocessed unnecessarily leading to incorrect placement of photos in the timeline (#13730)
  • (Transcoder) Subtitles could become mis-timed when multiple events shared the same start timestamp
  • Server could hang in certain circumstances (#13758)

New in Plex Media Server 1.28.1.6018 Plex Pass (Aug 4, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (Debian) Reduced external command usage 80% during installation
  • (Debian) repository signing upgraded to use GPG signing key Ubuntu 20+ and Debian 10+
  • (Pivots) Add genre categories to Movies and TV Shows libraries (#12309)
  • (Transcoder) Improved subtitle burning compatibility and performance
  • (Transcoder) Support reporting more detailed HDR metadata information in HLS manifests
  • FIXES:
  • (Debian) Intel N and G series CPUs not always detected
  • (Debian) Some 10th, 11th and 12th gen CPUs not properly detected during inventory scan
  • (EPG) Guide might have shown items duplicated and misaligned following items when airing ends at 00:00 UTC (#13573)
  • (Library) Certain smart playlists could cause server to crash (#13710)
  • (Music) Local tags for track artist would be ignored if it was identical to the album artist (#13712)
  • (Scanner) Mark ‘scan’ and ‘refresh’ CLI actions as deprecated (#13700)
  • (Transcoder) Static transcodes were terminated if paused too long (#13682)

New in Plex Media Server 1.28.0.5973 PlexPass (Jul 19, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • Native support for Apple Silicon.
  • FIXES:
  • (Android) Music artwork on Android based servers could disappear after refreshing metadata (#13677)
  • (Hubs) The “Most Played in Month” music hub could fail to populate (#13660)
  • (Library) Release dates before 1901 could be saved incorrectly on Windows (#13661)
  • (Linux) Improve handling of Intel Compute Runtime (ICR) vs Beignet requirement detection.
  • (Music) Read in album-sort tags (#13653)
  • (Music) Setting artwork from the edit dialog could result in low quality images getting set (#13677)
  • (Music) Track titles could sometimes become blank after scanning the library (#13615)

New in Plex Media Server 1.27.2.5929 PlexPass (Jul 1, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (Logging) Improved context provided in log lines related to asynchronous HTTP request processing (#13530)
  • (Music) Support for Musicbrainz release type embedded tags (#13593)
  • FIXES:
  • (MDE) Remuxes could be rejected unnecessarily on files with certain color spaces (#13634)
  • (Scanner) Album release date tags could be imported incorrectly from tags when using the legacy music scanner (#13560)

New in Plex Media Server 1.27.1.5916 Plex Pass (Jun 22, 2022)

  • FIXES:
  • (Database) Fix an issue where re-migrating a database could fail after downgrading, interrupting the server startup process, then immediately re-upgrading (#13643)
  • (Library) When media was deleted it could leave behind its sidecar files (#13479)
  • (Music) Album year and date fields could differ when preferring local metadata (#13591)
  • (Transcoder) Audio could drop out partway through playback when remuxing videos with very long keyframe intervals to DASH (#13411)

New in Plex Media Server 1.27.0.5897 PlexPass (Jun 14, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (Database) Improved startup performance by up to 70% when several migrations are run in sequence (#13541)
  • (Music) Modernized the metadata matching and refresh logic (#13539)
  • FIXES:
  • (Bandwidth) In some cases downloads didn’t respect bandwidth limits (#13545)
  • (Butler) Artists would get refreshed too frequently during the scheduled task window (#13575)
  • (DVR) Fix stream DVR/Live TV to Chromecast (#13205)
  • (EPG) Original air dates could be imported with incorrect time zone offsets for shows (#13533)
  • (Library) Setting items’ originally-available dates to certain values in the distant past could fail (#13544)
  • (Library) The server could crash while searching for lyrics during metadata updates (#13622)
  • (LibraryGarbageCollector) Watched content scheduled for deletion could be removed prematurely (#13617)
  • (Metadata) Don’t pull in ratings from legacy TVDB agent (these no longer exist)
  • (Metadata) Episodes could get incorrect dates set on them with “Prefer local metadata” enabled (#13580)
  • (Music) Artists would not save sort title from embedded tags (#13604)

New in Plex Media Server 1.27.0.5878 PlexPass (Jun 8, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (Database) Improved startup performance by up to 70% when several migrations are run in sequence (#13541)
  • (Music) Modernized the metadata matching and refresh logic (#13539)
  • FIXES:
  • (Bandwidth) In some cases downloads didn’t respect bandwidth limits (#13545)
  • (Butler) Artists would get refreshed too frequently during the scheduled task window (#13575)
  • (DVR) Fix stream DVR/Live TV to Chromecast (#13205)
  • (EPG) Original air dates could be imported with incorrect time zone offsets for shows (#13533)
  • (Library) Setting items’ originally-available dates to certain values in the distant past could fail (#13544)
  • (Metadata) Don’t pull in ratings from legacy TVDB agent (these no longer exist)
  • (Metadata) Episodes could get incorrect dates set on them with “Prefer local metadata” enabled (#13580)
  • (Music) Artists would not save sort title from embedded tags (#13604)
  • HW Transcoding failing on NVidia Shield (Android 11) #13192

New in Plex Media Server 1.27.0.5849 PlexPass (Jun 1, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (Database) Improved startup performance by up to 70% when several migrations are run in sequence (#13541)
  • (Music) Modernized the metadata matching and refresh logic (#13539)
  • FIXES:
  • (Bandwidth) In some cases downloads didn’t respect bandwidth limits (#13545)
  • (Butler) Artists would get refreshed too frequently during the scheduled task window (#13575)
  • (DVR) Fix stream DVR/Live TV to Chromecast (#13205)
  • (EPG) Original air dates could be imported with incorrect time zone offsets for shows (#13533)
  • (Library) Setting items’ originally-available dates to certain values in the distant past could fail (#13544)
  • (Metadata) Don’t pull in ratings from legacy TVDB agent (these no longer exist)
  • (Metadata) Episodes could get incorrect dates set on them with “Prefer local metadata” enabled (#13580)
  • HW Transcoding failing on NVidia Shield (Android 11) #13192

New in Plex Media Server 1.26.2.5797 (May 25, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (Database) Improve access performance substantially. Migrations are now over 35% faster in some cases. (#13505)
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Prevent losing extra data if media moved/renamed within the library (#13483)
  • (EPG) Original air dates could be imported with incorrect time zone offsets (#13533)

New in Plex Media Server 1.26.1.5798 PlexPass (May 11, 2022)

  • (DVR) Episodes scheduled for deletion could be removed prematurely (#13506)
  • (DVR) Plex Tuner Service does not return non-unicode encoded channels (#13374)
  • (DVR) Plex Tuner Service only returns a small number of channels (#13261)
  • (DVR) “automatically delete after 30 days” is deleting all new episodes (#13506)
  • (DVR): correct date in EPG guide for date based episodes (#13533)
  • (HttpClient) Plex Media Server could exit unexpectedly after HTTP requests completed with certain timing conditions (#13489)
  • (Metadata) Editing the Originally Available date on an item could result in an incorrect year being stored (#13517)
  • (Metadata) Manually setting the Originally Available date on an item would result in an incorrect year being stored (#13508)
  • (Subtitles) Automatic character set conversion could fail with certain language codes (#13492)
  • (TLS) Plex Media Server could exit unexpectedly when loading an incomplete user-provided certificate (#13484)
  • (Transcoder) QSV tone-mapping could fail on Linux distributions using newer versions of libstdc++ (#13453)

New in Plex Media Server 1.26.1.5772 PlexPass (Apr 28, 2022)

  • FIXES:
  • (Metadata) Manually setting the Originally Available date on an item would result in an incorrect year being stored (#13508)

New in Plex Media Server 1.26.1.5762 PlexPass (Apr 26, 2022)

  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Plex Tuner Service does not return non-unicode encoded channels (#13374)
  • (DVR) Plex Tuner Service only returns a small number of channels (#13261)
  • (HttpClient) Plex Media Server could exit unexpectedly after HTTP requests completed with certain timing conditions (#13489)
  • (Metadata) Manually setting the Originally Available date on an item would result in an incorrect value being stored (#13508)
  • (Subtitles) Automatic character set conversion could fail with certain language codes (#13492)
  • (TLS) Plex Media Server could exit unexpectedly when loading an incomplete user-provided certificate (#13484)
  • (Transcoder) QSV tone-mapping could fail on Linux distributions using newer versions of libstdc++ (#13453)

New in Plex Media Server 1.26.0.5715 Plex Pass (Apr 12, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (Metadata) Pull down country info for TV shows during metadata refreshes (#13463)
  • FIXES:
  • (Music) Improve artist searches when the search term is an alias (#13441)
  • (PubSub) A pubsub server with sub-optimal latency could be selected (#13480)
  • (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding could fail on Nvidia SHIELD TV systems (#13452)

New in Plex Media Server 1.25.9.5721 (Apr 5, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (Series Scanner) Allow the server owner to create “.plexmatch” files providing hints for more accurate matching of nonstandard file naming schemes (#13211) see details at Match Hinting for TV Series | Plex Support 22
  • (Web) Updated to 4.76.1
  • FIXES:
  • (AdDetector) Fix potential crash (#13421)
  • (PubSub) A pubsub server with sub-optimal latency could be selected (#13480)
  • (Scanner) Improved parsing of certain episode filename formats (#13419)
  • (TV) Remove the deprecated TVDB ratings source option (#13426)
  • Fix for Window related EventSource crashes (#13437)

New in Plex Media Server 1.25.9.5673 Plex Pass (Mar 30, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (Series Scanner) Allow the server owner to create “.plexmatch” files providing hints for more accurate matching of nonstandard file naming schemes (#13211) see details at Match Hinting for TV Series | Plex Support 59
  • (Web) Updated to 4.76.1
  • FIXES:
  • (AdDetector) Fix potential crash (#13421)
  • (Scanner) Improved parsing of certain episode filename formats (#13419)
  • (TV) Remove the deprecated TVDB ratings source option (#13426)

New in Plex Media Server 1.25.8.5663 (Mar 23, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (DVR) Add Transponders list for dvb-c NetColgone German Cable provider (#12012)
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Fix port rebind issue on PTS restart (#12988)
  • (Metadata) Editing director, writer or producer fields could result in duplicated entries (#13384)
  • (Windows) Sonic Analysis would fail.

New in Plex Media Server 1.25.8.5621 Plex Pass (Mar 17, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (DVR) Add Transponders list for dvb-c NetColgone German Cable provider (#12012)
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Fix port rebind issue on PTS restart (#12988)
  • (Metadata) Editing director, writer or producer fields could result in duplicated entries (#13384)

New in Plex Media Server 1.25.7.5604 (Mar 16, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (Security) Certain critical server-management requests are now logged regardless of the configured log level (#13394)
  • (Security) Downgrading the server’s log level now requires a PMS restart (#13393)
  • (Security) Preroll video files now must have a recognized video file extension (#13397)
  • (Security) When possible, request logs now include the name of the device associated with the auth token (#13392)
  • FIXES:
  • (Collections) Manually ordered items in collections would not always retain their set position (#13350)
  • (EPG) Fix parsing XMLTV time including milliseconds (#13353)
  • (Linux) The server could exit unexpectedly when processing dates in the distant past with certain time zone configurations (#13371)
  • (Music) Improve matching accuracy of multi-disc albums (#13358)
  • (Network) The server could react excessively to minor internal network configuration changes, such as those produced by starting and stopping containers (#13351)

New in Plex Media Server 1.25.6.5577 Plex Pass (Feb 22, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (Collections) Promoted smart collection filtering based on selected user (#12605)
  • (QNAP) Allow PMS to automatically accommodate configuration changes (QTS & QuTS)
  • (QNAP) Improved Start/Stop control in App Center.
  • (Stream Metadata) Provide additional detail in display titles for HDR streams (#12492)
  • FIXES:
  • (Hubs) Custom hubs are not deduplicated anymore (#13338)
  • (Hubs) Fix collection hub visibility reset on preference change (#13337)
  • (Music) Embedded Musicbrainz Release ids were not always picked up (#13357)
  • (QNAP) PMS could not be restarted after unexpected failure in certain cases without restarting NAS.
  • (Scanner) Adding another version of a movie in the same path could cause one to unmatch (#13373)
  • (Scanner) In some scenarios movies could lose play history when replacing the media (#13373)
  • (Synology) PMS could not be restarted after unexpected failure in certain cases without restarting NAS.
  • (Synology) Plex Claim Token method would not actually claim under certain new installation conditions.
  • (Transcode) Improve output quality in files with highly-variable bitrate (#2729)

New in Plex Media Server 1.25.6.5545 Plex Pass (Feb 15, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (Collections) Promoted smart collection filtering based on selected user (#12605)
  • (QNAP) Allow PMS to automatically accommodate configuration changes (QTS & QuTS)
  • (QNAP) Improved Start/Stop control in App Center.
  • (Stream Metadata) Provide additional detail in display titles for HDR streams (#12492)
  • FIXES:
  • (Hubs) Custom hubs are not deduplicated anymore (#13338)
  • (Hubs) Fix collection hub visibility reset on preference change (#13337)
  • (Music) Embedded Musicbrainz Release ids were not always picked up (#13357)
  • (QNAP) PMS could not be restarted after unexpected failure in certain cases without restarting NAS.
  • (Scanner) Adding another version of a movie in the same path could cause one to unmatch (#13373)
  • (Scanner) In some scenarios movies could lose play history when replacing the media (#13373)
  • (Synology) PMS could not be restarted after unexpected failure in certain cases without restarting NAS.
  • (Synology) Plex Claim Token method would not actually claim under certain new installation conditions.
  • (Transcode) Improve output quality in files with highly-variable bitrate (#2729)

New in Plex Media Server 1.25.5.5492 PlexPass (Feb 2, 2022)

  • FIXES:
  • (Auto Update) Old update files were not cleaned up after a manual update. (#12693)
  • (Collections) Items added from TIDAL could not be added to collections (#13289)
  • (EPG) Guide could show wrong VCN if lineup has duplicate channel ids. (#13207)
  • (EPG) Lineup channels returned during DVR setup were not sorted. (#13188)
  • (Media Decision) The server could attempt to transcode files that use unsupported nonstandard colorspaces, even when other supported versions are available (#13183)
  • (Metadata) In rare instances some tv seasons could match to the incorrect episode ordering (#13312)
  • (Metadata) Local metadata for episode release dates would not get set correctly (#13189)
  • (Metadata) The SDH flag for subtitles would be ignored for TV episodes (#13307)
  • (Metadata) The embedded titleSort tag would be ignored when preferring local metadata for video files (#13266)
  • (Scanner) Files with certain name formatting could be matched with incorrect episode numbers (#13280)
  • (Scanner) Pick up 4 digit episode numbers when no season number exists (#13212)
  • (Scanner) Try to use a year hint from a movie filename if the parent path doesn’t contain one (#13310)
  • (Search) Music collections were not being returned in search results (#13000)

New in Plex Media Server 1.25.4.5487 (Feb 1, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (NOTE) Database changes may cause longer than normal start-up times after initial installation of this update, especially on larger libraries. Please be patient and do not interrupt this process.
  • (Library) Refresh movie metadata periodically during scheduled tasks (#13250)
  • (Metadata) Add Bulgarian language option for modern movie and TV agents (#13263)
  • (TLS) Server-side HTTPS connection support is now always enabled for signed-in users; plaintext connections will continue to be supported as well by default (#13257)
  • FIXES:
  • (HttpClient) The server may quit unexpectedly if internal HTTP requests are made with certain timings (#13231)
  • (Library) Requesting the list of items starting with special characters could give unexpected results (#13251)
  • (Metadata) Some users could end up with massive amounts of duplicate extras (#13241)
  • (Optimized Versions) New versions shouldn’t be encoded from existing optimized versions (#13254)
  • (Scanner) Some file paths were causing errors when scanning movie libraries (#13323)
  • (Subtitles) On-demand subtitles would not work on optimized versions (#13218)
  • (Transcode) The transcoder process could fail to complete when encoding E-AC-3
  • (Windows) The relay executable would not launch.

New in Plex Media Server 1.25.4.5468 (Jan 31, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • (NOTE) Database changes may cause longer than normal start-up times after initial installation of this update, especially on larger libraries. Please be patient and do not interrupt this process.
  • (Library) Refresh movie metadata periodically during scheduled tasks (#13250)
  • (Metadata) Add Bulgarian language option for modern movie and TV agents (#13263)
  • (TLS) Server-side HTTPS connection support is now always enabled for signed-in users; plaintext connections will continue to be supported as well by default (#13257)
  • FIXES:
  • (HttpClient) The server may quit unexpectedly if internal HTTP requests are made with certain timings (#13231)
  • (Library) Requesting the list of items starting with special characters could give unexpected results (#13251)
  • (Metadata) Some users could end up with massive amounts of duplicate extras (#13241)
  • (Optimized Versions) New versions shouldn’t be encoded from existing optimized versions (#13254)
  • (Scanner) Some file paths were causing errors when scanning movie libraries (#13323)
  • (Subtitles) On-demand subtitles would not work on optimized versions (#13218)
  • (Transcode) The transcoder process could fail to complete when encoding E-AC-3

New in Plex Media Server 1.25.3.5409 (Jan 14, 2022)

  • FIXES:
  • (Hubs) Fix potential serialization issue of CW hubs (#13237)
  • (Metadata) Some episodes could fail to get metadata when using the legacy TVDB agent
  • (Scanner) Hidden files inside media paths could cause unexpected issues with certain local assets (#13240)
  • (Scanner) Improve detection of filename changes which should result in rematching items (#13220)
  • (Scanner) Movie items with mis-matched agents could re-match unnecessarily during scanning (#13292)
  • (Scanner) Some file paths could prevent movies from scanning in correctly (#12980)
  • (Series Scanner) Improved matching of season directory names including codec or resolution details (#13235)

New in Plex Media Server 1.25.3.5385 (Jan 12, 2022)

  • (Hubs) Fix potential serialization issue of CW hubs (#13237)
  • (Metadata) Some episodes could fail to get metadata when using the legacy TVDB agent
  • (Scanner) Hidden files inside media paths could cause unexpected issues with certain local assets (#13240)
  • (Scanner) Improve detection of filename changes which should result in rematching items (#13220)
  • (Scanner) Some file paths could prevent movies from scanning in correctly (#12980)
  • (Series Scanner) Improved matching of season directory names including codec or resolution details (#13235)

New in Plex Media Server 1.25.3.5385 PlexPass (Jan 5, 2022)

  • FIXES:
  • (Hubs) Fix potential serialization issue of CW hubs (#13237)
  • (Metadata) Some episodes could fail to get metadata when using the legacy TVDB agent
  • (Scanner) Hidden files inside media paths could cause unexpected issues with certain local assets (#13240)
  • (Scanner) Improve detection of filename changes which should result in rematching items (#13220)
  • (Scanner) Some file paths could prevent movies from scanning in correctly (#12980)
  • (Series Scanner) Improved matching of season directory names including codec or resolution details (#13235)

New in Plex Media Server 1.25.1.5286 Plex Pass (Dec 2, 2021)

  • FIXES:
  • (HTTP) The server could quit unexpectedly when certain types of requests were canceled prematurely (#13135)
  • (Library) Refreshing metadata for an unmatched show wouldn’t perform a match (#12945)
  • (NAS) ASUSTOR firmware version could be reported incorrectly on ADM 4.0 devices
  • (NAS) Ensure Library and TMP directories exists on QNAP devices when starting PMS
  • (Scanner) In rare instances some episode files could be ignored by the scanner (#13150)

New in Plex Media Server 1.25.0.5282 (Dec 1, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (Metadata) Add Croatian as language option for modern Movie and TV agents (#13119)
  • (Subtitles) New font package and default styles for server-side subtitle rendering
  • (Transcoder) Architectural changes to provide future support for hardware transcoding on additional NAS devices
  • (Transcoder) Architectural changes to provide improved support for remuxing some HDR formats
  • (Transcoder) Support for hardware transcoding of H.264 Constrained Baseline media
  • (Transcoder) Support for hardware transcoding on Intel Xe/Gen12 (TGL, RKL) GPUs
  • (Transcoder) Update to newer upstream ffmpeg
  • (Web) Updated to 4.66.1
  • FIXES:
  • (Library) Prevent certain extras getting scanned as additional media items when partial scanning is enabled (#13129)
  • (Library) Refreshing metadata for items could result in duplicate tags for certain items (#13196)
  • (Library) The music analysis task could linger in the dashboard.
  • (Metadata) Prevent actors with the same names overwriting each others thumbnails (#13084)
  • (Music) Avoid duplicate albums showing up in On This Day in Plexamp.
  • (Music) Rebuilding sonic indexes could result in crashes.
  • (Music) Scheduled tasks would attempt sonic analyis on TIDAL tracks in library.
  • (Music) Server could crash after scanning music library.
  • (Optimized Versions) Some analysis jobs wouldn’t trigger correctly on newly optimized versions (#13138)
  • (Scanner) The TV scanner could crash if passed a specific path (#13118)

New in Plex Media Server 1.25.0.5246 (Nov 27, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (Metadata) Add Croatian as language option for modern Movie and TV agents (#13119)
  • (Subtitles) New font package and default styles for server-side subtitle rendering
  • (Transcoder) Architectural changes to provide future support for hardware transcoding on additional NAS devices
  • (Transcoder) Architectural changes to provide improved support for remuxing some HDR formats
  • (Transcoder) Support for hardware transcoding of H.264 Constrained Baseline media
  • (Transcoder) Support for hardware transcoding on Intel Xe/Gen12 (TGL, RKL) GPUs
  • (Transcoder) Update to newer upstream ffmpeg
  • (Web) Updated to 4.66.1
  • FIXES:
  • (Library) Prevent certain extras getting scanned as additional media items when partial scanning is enabled (#13129)
  • (Library) Refreshing metadata for items could result in duplicate tags for certain items (#13196)
  • (Library) The music analysis task could linger in the dashboard.
  • (Metadata) Prevent actors with the same names overwriting each others thumbnails (#13084)
  • (Music) Avoid duplicate albums showing up in On This Day in Plexamp.
  • (Music) Rebuilding sonic indexes could result in crashes.
  • (Music) Scheduled tasks would attempt sonic analyis on TIDAL tracks in library.
  • (Music) Server could crash after scanning music library.
  • (Optimized Versions) Some analysis jobs wouldn’t trigger correctly on newly optimized versions (#13138)
  • (Scanner) The TV scanner could crash if passed a specific path (#13118)

New in Plex Media Server 1.24.5.5173 PlexPass (Oct 25, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (Synology) Improve install wizard messaging and ‘Plex’ share detection
  • (Synology) Remove log file redirection option from installer
  • FIXES:
  • (Collections) Merged RA shows the relevant items after reordering pinned libraries (#12962)
  • (Library) Sonic distances were incorrectly displayed in some cases.
  • (Metadata) Episodes could lose locked thumbnails in certain circumstances (#13102)
  • (Metadata) Episodes with embedded metadata for actors could remove actor thumbnails for the show (#13088)
  • (Metadata) Episodes would retain the titleSort when getting unmatched (#13102)
  • (Metadata) Items that have been split would only use local metadata from the first copy (#13097)
  • (Metadata) Switching agents for TV libraries would result in locked season posters getting unset (#13102)
  • (Playback) Some requests were failing causing Live TV streams on Android to get interrupted.
  • (Search) Improved search results of compound words (#13028)

New in Plex Media Server 1.24.5.5160 PlexPass (Oct 19, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (Synology) Improve install wizard messaging and ‘Plex’ share detection
  • (Synology) Remove log file redirection option from installer
  • FIXES:
  • (Collections) Merged RA shows the relevant items after reordering pinned libraries (#12962)
  • (Library) Sonic distances were incorrectly displayed in some cases.
  • (Metadata) Episodes could lose locked thumbnails in certain circumstances (#13102)
  • (Metadata) Episodes with embedded metadata for actors could remove actor thumbnails for the show (#13088)
  • (Metadata) Episodes would retain the titleSort when getting unmatched (#13102)
  • (Metadata) Items that have been split would only use local metadata from the first copy (#13097)
  • (Metadata) Switching agents for TV libraries would result in locked season posters getting unset (#13102)
  • (Search) Improved search results of compound words (#13028)

New in Plex Media Server 1.24.4.5081 Plex Pass (Sep 29, 2021)

  • FIXES:
  • (EPG) DVR set up using XMLTV guide data could show overlapping airings in the grid.
  • (Library) Some albums could fail to load their metadata properly (#13100)
  • (Linux) Initial server setup and certain filesystem operations could fail on certain Linux systems (#13027)

New in Plex Media Server 1.24.3.5033 (Sep 20, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (API) Added ‘includeGuids’ query param option (#12976)
  • (Music) Allow setting threads used for Sonic analysis via hidden preference “LongRunningJobThreads” (#13030)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.63.0
  • Updated translations (#13006)
  • FIXES:
  • (Collection) Collection order changes to “Custom” after the order changed manually (#12826)
  • (Collection) Hide collection order settings for smart collections (#12822)
  • (Collection) Removing hub templates for deleted promoted collections (#12645)
  • (Collections) Merged Recently Added row disappeared when first pinned library excluded from homescreen (#12883)
  • (EPG) Certain XMLTV guides would not show data. (#13044)
  • (Library) De-dupe top viewed items by GUID, not ID (#13038)
  • (Library) In some cases, view history could show less items than expected (#13038)
  • (Library) Trying to upgrade the agent on libraries would fail if language was set to Norwegian (#13053)
  • (Music) Avoid albums merging incorrectly in some cases when preferring tags (#13038)
  • (Music) If Sonic analysis runs into an error, continue with the next album (#13030)
  • (Music) In some cases, tracks from separate discs could get their ratings linked (#13038)
  • (Music) Local album artwork could disappear or be incorrect in some cases (#13038)
  • (Music) Random Album Radio wasn’t working on some platforms (#13041)
  • (Music) When preferring genres from tags, still show style radios (#13041)
  • (Scanner) Libraries with multiple locations could get rescanned even if files in the path had not changed (#13026)
  • (Search) Improve search queries with “and” and “&” (#12910)
  • (Synology) Ensure recently-deleted files don’t remain in the library (#13052)
  • (Music) Share music would not play (#13014)

New in Plex Media Server 1.24.3.5033 PlexPass (Sep 15, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (API) Added ‘includeGuids’ query param option (#12976)
  • (Music) Allow setting threads used for Sonic analysis via hidden preference “LongRunningJobThreads” (#13030)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.63.0
  • Updated translations (#13006)
  • FIXES:
  • (Collection) Collection order changes to “Custom” after the order changed manually (#12826)
  • (Collection) Hide collection order settings for smart collections (#12822)
  • (Collection) Removing hub templates for deleted promoted collections (#12645)
  • (Collections) Merged Recently Added row disappeared when first pinned library excluded from homescreen (#12883)
  • (EPG) Certain XMLTV guides would not show data. (#13044)
  • (Library) De-dupe top viewed items by GUID, not ID (#13038)
  • (Library) In some cases, view history could show less items than expected (#13038)
  • (Library) Trying to upgrade the agent on libraries would fail if language was set to Norwegian (#13053)
  • (Music) Avoid albums merging incorrectly in some cases when preferring tags (#13038)
  • (Music) If Sonic analysis runs into an error, continue with the next album (#13030)
  • (Music) In some cases, tracks from separate discs could get their ratings linked (#13038)
  • (Music) Local album artwork could disappear or be incorrect in some cases (#13038)
  • (Music) Random Album Radio wasn’t working on some platforms (#13041)
  • (Music) When preferring genres from tags, still show style radios (#13041)
  • (Scanner) Libraries with multiple locations could get rescanned even if files in the path had not changed (#13026)
  • (Search) Improve search queries with “and” and “&” (#12910)
  • (Synology) Ensure recently-deleted files don’t remain in the library (#13052)
  • (Music) Share music would not play (#13014)

New in Plex Media Server 1.24.1.4931 (Aug 24, 2021)

  • FIXES:
  • (Analysis) Bitrate analysis was sometimes incorrect with certain audio tracks (#12955)
  • (Metadata) Always use the first embedded image when preferring local metadata (#12946)

New in Plex Media Server 1.24.0.4930 (Aug 12, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (API) Language and country names are now returned in the client’s language (#12815)
  • (Localization) Improved language code support for audio and subtitle streams (#12909)
  • (Scanner) Support for TV season directory names that contain a season title after the number (#12834)
  • FIXES:
  • (Analysis) Bitrate analysis was sometimes incorrect when file contained image attachments (#12882)
  • (Collections) Manually ordered collections would fail to play (#12879)
  • (Collections) Missing hubs when an item is part of a manually ordered collection (#12862
  • (Extras) An exception throw in refreshing extra lists could cause the server to exit (#12890)
  • (HTTP) HTTP/2 requests could fail when passed malformed headers (#12876)
  • (Library) Scanning photo libraries could result in Exception warning log spam on certain platforms (#12941)
  • (Music) Aural fixations were broken for TIDAL subscribers w/o a full Plex Pass (#12812)
  • (Music) If genre preference is “Plex Music” don’t read genre from tags (#12812)
  • (Music) When manually analyzing albums, clear loudness analysis (#12808)
  • (Playback) Pre-rolls wouldn’t play unless cinema trailers were enabled (#12819)
  • (Playback) Roku devices were always getting forced to transcode when enabling subtitles.
  • (Transcode) Transcoding to AC3 could result in a lower bitrate than this codec needs to produce decent quality. (#9814)

New in Plex Media Server 1.23.6.4881 PlexPass (Jul 29, 2021)

  • NOTE: This release changes how DVR identifies channels internally. You should not notice a change after you upgrade to this release; however, if you then downgrade to an older version of PMS, you will need to refresh your EPG before tuning and recording work as expected.
  • NEW:
  • (Downloads) Download access now enforced on the server via shared user settings (#12859)
  • FIXES:
  • (Hubs) Stop showing opted out items in Merged Recently Added hubs (#12820)
  • (Music) Discovery radio only loaded the first few tracks.
  • (Scanner) Improved matching for TV episodes with names including both vertical and horizontal resolutions (#12830)
  • (Scanner) Improved matching for TV episodes with version-number suffixes (#12830)
  • (Scanner) Some episode files would get skipped if it was a low confidence match (#12861)
  • Issues starting up (database locked)

New in Plex Media Server 1.23.6.4863 PlexPass (Jul 26, 2021)

  • FIXES:
  • Issues starting up (database locked)

New in Plex Media Server 1.23.5.4841 PlexPass (Jul 20, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 4.59.2
  • FIXES:
  • (Agent) The Plex movie agent was ignoring IMDb ids inside NFO files during matching.
  • (Analysis) Music file bitrates contained bitrate for more than just the audio track (#10068)
  • (Collections) Respect limit when creating collections from the advanced filters screens (#12622)
  • (Collections) Shared smart tv collections could appear empty (#12642)
  • (Extras) The TV show extras hub would disappear after playing one of the extras (#12799)
  • (Hubs) Disabling the top pinned Recently Added hub would prevent the Merged Recently Added hub appearing (if preference was set) (#12625)
  • (Hubs) Hubs relying on ratings would not work as expected when not using Rotten Tomato ratings (#12588)
  • (Hubs) Merged Recently Added would not appear for both movies and home videos (if both were pinned, and the preference was set) (#12632)
  • (Library) Searches including original titles weren’t working.
  • (Metadata) Genres from embedded movie tags could contain unwanted whitespace.
  • (Music) Aural fixations were broken for TIDAL subscribers w/o a full Plex Pass (#12812)
  • (Music) If genre preference is “Plex Music” don’t read genre from tags (#12812)
  • “(Music) Scanning multi-disc albums couldxC2_result in split discs.”
  • (Network) DNS lookups could fail on some Linux systems that rely solely on systemd-resolved (#12791)
  • (Statistics) Bandwidth usage by device could be logged under a global value instead of individually for each device (#12805)
  • (Utilities) The Plex SQLite utility failed to launch on FreeBSD systems (#12796)

New in Plex Media Server 1.23.4.4805 Plex Pass (Jul 12, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (Transcoder) Improved audio quality when encoding AAC (#12743)
  • (QNAP) Add preliminary support for QTS 5.0 Beta
  • FIXES:
  • (Debian) Nvidia hardware transcoding could fail on some system configurations
  • (Network) DNS lookups could fail on some Linux systems that rely solely on systemd-resolved (#12791)
  • (PlayQueue) Server would sometimes play the wrong episode when show contains specials with no air date (#12758)
  • (Transcoder) Transcode sessions using NVDEC for video decode could use excessive amounts of GPU memory (#12765)
  • (Utilities) The Plex SQLite utility failed to launch on FreeBSD systems (#12796)
  • The server could become unresponsive after certain play queue operations (#12749)

New in Plex Media Server 1.23.4.4755 Plex Pass (Jul 6, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (Transcoder) Improved audio quality when encoding AAC (#12743)
  • FIXES:
  • (Network) DNS lookups could fail on some Linux systems that rely solely on systemd-resolved (#12791)
  • (PlayQueue) Server would sometimes play the wrong episode when show contains specials with no air date (#12758)
  • (Transcoder) Transcode sessions using NVDEC for video decode could use excessive amounts of GPU memory (#12765)
  • (Utilities) The Plex SQLite utility failed to launch on FreeBSD systems (#12796)
  • The server could become unresponsive after certain play queue operations (#12749)

New in Plex Media Server 1.23.3.4707 Plex Pass (Jun 21, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (Library) Add ability to sort things randomly.
  • (Music) Add “artist last played” field.
  • (Music) Add popularity as a new track sort field.
  • (Music) Allow periodic music refresh to perform metadata upgrades.
  • (Music) If a single directory appears to have multiple albums, match them all.
  • (Music) Support for ‘releasetime’ tags in FLAC to give precise release dates.
  • (Search) Ability to search for track artists.
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Scheduling sports team subscription would cause server to crash. (#12768)
  • (Jobs) The server could get into a state where it no longer processed media index files until the next restart (#12698)
  • (Library) Changes to local metadata wouldn’t be detected automatically for movies and episodes using the Plex agents (#12700)
  • (Music) Improvements to Smart Shuffle to improve diversity.
  • (Music) Use style radios over genre unless the library has genres coming from tags.
  • (Photos) Photos with geolocation metadata failed to load.
  • (Preferences) Fix temporary preferences.xml files on Windows (#12718)
  • (Preferences) Use international time format for hours of day preferences (#12664)
  • (Radio) Play queues could end up repeating in some rare cases.
  • (Scanner) Certain music files could cause a crash during scanning.
  • (Search) Improve searching for exact matches.

New in Plex Media Server 1.23.3.4706 Plex Pass (Jun 19, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (Library) Add ability to sort things randomly.
  • (Music) Add “artist last played” field.
  • (Music) Add popularity as a new track sort field.
  • (Music) Allow periodic music refresh to perform metadata upgrades.
  • (Music) If a single directory appears to have multiple albums, match them all.
  • (Music) Support for ‘releasetime’ tags in FLAC to give precise release dates.
  • (Search) Ability to search for track artists.
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Scheduling sports team subscription would cause server to crash. (#12768)
  • (Jobs) The server could get into a state where it no longer processed media index files until the next restart (#12698)
  • (Library) Changes to local metadata wouldn’t be detected automatically for movies and episodes using the Plex agents (#12700)
  • (Music) Improvements to Smart Shuffle to improve diversity.
  • (Music) Use style radios over genre unless the library has genres coming from tags.
  • (Photos) Photos with geolocation metadata failed to load.
  • (Preferences) Fix temporary preferences.xml files on Windows (#12718)
  • (Preferences) Use international time format for hours of day preferences (#12664)
  • (Radio) Play queues could end up repeating in some rare cases.
  • (Search) Improve searching for exact matches.

New in Plex Media Server 1.23.3.4692 Plex Pass (Jun 14, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (Library) Add ability to sort things randomly.
  • (Music) Add “artist last played” field.
  • (Music) Add popularity as a new track sort field.
  • (Music) Allow periodic music refresh to perform metadata upgrades.
  • (Music) If a single directory appears to have multiple albums, match them all.
  • (Music) Support for ‘releasetime’ tags in FLAC to give precise release dates.
  • (Search) Ability to search for track artists.
  • FIXES:
  • (Jobs) The server could get into a state where it no longer processed media index files until the next restart (#12698)
  • (Library) Changes to local metadata wouldn’t be detected automatically for movies and episodes using the Plex agents (#12700)
  • (Music) Improvements to Smart Shuffle to improve diversity.
  • (Music) Use style radios over genre unless the library has genres coming from tags.
  • (Photos) Photos with geolocation metadata failed to load.
  • (Preferences) Fix temporary preferences.xml files on Windows (#12718)
  • (Preferences) Use international time format for hours of day preferences (#12664)
  • (Radio) Play queues could end up repeating in some rare cases.
  • (Search) Improve searching for exact matches.

New in Plex Media Server 1.23.2.4625 (Jun 2, 2021)

  • FIXES:
  • (Music) Fix regression with Add to Library when adding artists and albums from TIDAL (#12741)
  • (PlayQueues) Playing a special could result in starting playback on wrong episode (#12505)

New in Plex Media Server 1.23.1.4571 (May 25, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 4.57.4
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Device title not always correctly set during DVR setup. (#12703)
  • (Library) Improve responsiveness when performing large scan/refresh operations on TV libraries (#12611)
  • (Metadata) Don’t auto download season specific backgrounds in the Plex TV Series agent.

New in Plex Media Server 1.23.1.4528 PlexPass (May 17, 2021)

  • FIXES:
  • (Library) Improve responsiveness when performing large scan/refresh operations on TV libraries (#12611)
  • (Metadata) Don’t auto download season specific backgrounds in the Plex TV Series agent.

New in Plex Media Server 1.23.0.4497 PlexPass (May 6, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 4.55.1
  • Updated translations.
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Guide refresh would not always cancel immediately. (#11286)
  • (Library) Embedded ‘album’ tag for movies was not correctly used for collection creation (#12536)
  • (Library) Improve database handling when refreshing large amounts of metadata (#12590)
  • (Library) Smart Shuffle wasn’t picking the most popular tracks on each album.
  • (Library) Smart Shuffle would play some tracks more often than it should.
  • (LibraryGarbageCollector) Fix keep policy to consider multiple media as one item (#11885)
  • (Metadata) Extended music metadata and lyrics would be removed after a refresh (#12585)
  • (Metadata) Locked fields being not being set when also setting artwork (#12383)
  • (Server) Server could fail to launch on 32-bit linux platforms.
  • (TLS) Newly-renewed certs were incompatible with certain legacy Sonos devices (#12531)
  • (Transcoder) GPU HDR tone mapping could unexpectedly fail on some newer Intel processors (#12534)
  • (Windows) Intro detection and music audio matching failing to run (#12649)

New in Plex Media Server 1.23.0.4482 PlexPass (May 5, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 4.55.1
  • Updated translations.
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Guide refresh would not always cancel immediately. (#11286)
  • (Library) Embedded ‘album’ tag for movies was not correctly used for collection creation (#12536)
  • (Library) Improve database handling when refreshing large amounts of metadata (#12590)
  • (Library) Smart Shuffle wasn’t picking the most popular tracks on each album.
  • (Library) Smart Shuffle would play some tracks more often than it should.
  • (LibraryGarbageCollector) Fix keep policy to consider multiple media as one item (#11885)
  • (Linux) HW transcoding could cause a crash on systems with Nvidia GPUs.
  • (Metadata) Extended music metadata and lyrics would be removed after a refresh (#12585)
  • (Metadata) Locked fields being not being set when also setting artwork (#12383)
  • (Server) Server could fail to launch on 32-bit linux platforms.
  • (TLS) Newly-renewed certs were incompatible with certain legacy Sonos devices (#12531)
  • (Transcoder) GPU HDR tone mapping could unexpectedly fail on some newer Intel processors (#12534)
  • (Windows) Plex Media Fingerprinter failing to run (#12649)

New in Plex Media Server 1.23.0.4438 Plex Pass (Apr 28, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 4.55.1
  • Updated translations.
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Guide refresh would not always cancel immediately. (#11286)
  • (Library) Embedded ‘album’ tag for movies was not correctly used for collection creation (#12536)
  • (Library) Improve database handling when refreshing large amounts of metadata (#12590)
  • (Library) Smart Shuffle wasn’t picking the most popular tracks on each album.
  • (Library) Smart Shuffle would play some tracks more often than it should.
  • (LibraryGarbageCollector) Fix keep policy to consider multiple media as one item (#11885)
  • (Metadata) Extended music metadata and lyrics would be removed after a refresh (#12585)
  • (Metadata) Locked fields being not being set when also setting artwork (#12383)
  • (TLS) Newly-renewed certs were incompatible with certain legacy Sonos devices (#12531)
  • (Transcoder) GPU HDR tone mapping could unexpectedly fail on some newer Intel processors (#12534)

New in Plex Media Server 1.22.3.4392 PlexPass (Apr 21, 2021)

  • FIXES:
  • (Library) Bring back ‘exclude from home’ library preference
  • (Hubs) Respect the onDeck limit when generating the continue watching hub

New in Plex Media Server 1.22.2.4282 Plex Pass (Apr 6, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (Library) Expose both Network and Studio filters for libraries using the Plex TV Series agent beta (#12517)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.54.5
  • Outbound HTTP connections can now use newer HTTP protocol versions
  • FIXES:
  • (Activities) Fixed a deadlock.
  • (Collections) Collection deletion would fail
  • (Hubs) Crash when loading home
  • (Library) Items could incorrectly appear in On Deck when changing agents or when rating an item (#12515)
  • (Library) Locked title and year fields could get overwritten on unmatched items (#12484).
  • (Library) Unmatched episodes in matched seasons wouldn’t respect local metadata preference in the beta TV agent.
  • (Scanner) Certain episode filenames were not being scanned correctly using the Plex TV agent beta (#12478)
  • (Scanner) Certain path names for TV Specials folders wouldn’t get read correctly using the Beta TV agent.
  • (Search) EPG search requests would sometimes fail with 404. (#12333)
  • Don’t notify user about new versions when automatic updates are enabled. (#12085)

New in Plex Media Server 1.22.2.4264 Plex Pass (Mar 31, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (Library) Expose both Network and Studio filters for libraries using the Plex TV Series agent beta (#12517)
  • Outbound HTTP connections can now use newer HTTP protocol versions
  • FIXES:
  • PMS would not start on ARMv7
  • (Collections) Collection deletion would fail
  • (Hubs) Crash when loading home
  • (Library) Items could incorrectly appear in On Deck when changing agents or when rating an item (#12515)
  • (Library) Locked title and year fields could get overwritten on unmatched items (#12484).
  • (Library) Unmatched episodes in matched seasons wouldn’t respect local metadata preference in the beta TV agent.
  • (Scanner) Certain episode filenames were not being scanned correctly using the Plex TV agent beta (#12478)
  • (Scanner) Certain path names for TV Specials folders wouldn’t get read correctly using the Beta TV agent.
  • (Search) EPG search requests would sometimes fail with 404. (#12333)
  • Don’t notify user about new versions when automatic updates are enabled. (#12085)

New in Plex Media Server 1.22.1.4228 Plex Pass (Mar 24, 2021)

  • Please note that due to some particularly large database migrations, your first time starting up the server with this release may take an unusually long time, depending on library size, disk speed, and CPU performance. This is normal.
  • NEW:
  • (Library) Improved search handling of non-Latin scripts (#7896)
  • (Library) Improved search handling of punctuation (#7833)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.53.0
  • Updated Translations.
  • FIXES:
  • (Butler) The scheduled job to refresh local metadata could use a lot or memory.
  • (Gaming) Allow h/w encoding for parallel N64 core.
  • (Gaming) Fix for games not saving state on Windows.
  • (Gaming) Move to using nearest neighbor scaling for sharper rendering.
  • (Gaming) OpenGL v2 and v3 rendering pipelines.
  • (Gaming) Use passed in display dimensions to render at a higher resolution.
  • (Library) Artist genres were not being set for FLAC files.
  • (Library) Don’t expose genre radio if user has “none” selected for genre source.
  • (Library) Ensure shuffle doesn’t bias towards single-track artists.
  • (Library) Old lyrics weren’t being removed, which could result in errors displaying lyrics.
  • (Library) TV intro detection would run unconditionally for users without a Plex Pass using the beta TV agent.
  • (Metadata) On rare occasions, refreshing a movie item may remove reviews and extras (#12428)
  • (Statistics) Don’t store duplicate records in the statistics tables
  • (Transcoder) Short backwards seeks could fail in DASH transcodes under some circumstances (#11824)
  • Added Slovak and Slovenian translations.
  • Crash returning active playback sessions.
  • Episodes with air date and no episode number could play out of order.
  • The server could fail to start up on some ARM systems (#12513)
  • Tightened cross-origin request security restrictions (#7712)

New in Plex Media Server 1.22.0.4136 Plex Pass (Mar 3, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • New Beta Plex TV Series agent (see [BETA] New Plex TV Series Scanner 177)
  • (Library) Allow TMDB id matching in Fix Match using 'tmdb-` prefix (#12389)
  • FIXES:
  • (Library) Manually unmatched items in Plex Movie libraries would get rematched when refreshing (#12281)
  • (Library) Scanning in a TV folder containing optimized versions could match episodes to the wrong show (#12381)
  • (Library) Shows and Artists wouldn’t show play history for their items if the agent had changed (#12354)
  • (Metadata) Embedded studio tags were not being read correctly for Plex Movie items (#12242)
  • (Playqueue) Newly created play queue would not place specials from TV Shows in the correct order (#11994)
  • (Scanner) The Plex Movie scanner may not pick up extras and subtitles for media with unicode characters in the filename.
  • (Transcoder) Sessions could become unresponsive after seek requests with certain timings, most commonly seen on Samsung devices (#11703)

New in Plex Media Server 1.21.4.4079 Plex Pass (Feb 25, 2021)

  • FIXES:
  • (Butler) Scheduled tasks were not always running as expected.

New in Plex Media Server 1.21.4.4054 Plex Pass (Feb 22, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 4.51.3
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Newly recorded show Advanced->Seasons setting would not match the Library’s Seasons setting ( plexinc/plex-issues#226 )
  • (DVR) Plex Tuner Service would sometimes shut down while Plex Media Server was still running (#12223).
  • (Gaming) Correctly bind analog triggers.
  • (Gaming) During library creation, kick off MAME core download.
  • (Gaming) During library creation, move over new skeleton core mapping file.
  • (Gaming) Exit if we fail to submit frames to Parsec.
  • (Gaming) Fix for crash in a few cores (e.g. mesen).
  • (Gaming) Fixed scaling with games which change resolution (e.g. Tekken 2).
  • (Gaming) Pass back better errors when game transcoder exits at start.
  • (Gaming) Redirect joypad to keyboard for MAME to fix e.g. Asteroids.
  • (Gaming) Restore default joystick saturation for MAME.
  • (Gaming) Return different errors codes when exiting so client has visibility.
  • (Gaming) Wait longer for game transcoder to start.
  • (Gaming) [Windows] Add firewall exception for game transcoder.
  • (Gaming) [Windows] Fix games not being copied over to app support.
  • (Gaming) [Windows] Fix hang stopping game.
  • (Library) Allow deletion of play history again.
  • (Scanner) Respect ‘disc’ suffix for stacked media using the Plex Movie agent (#12315)
  • The server could exit unexpectedly if media was deleted while clients made certain API calls (#12307)

New in Plex Media Server 1.21.3.4021 (Feb 10, 2021)

  • FIXES:
  • (TLS) Custom certificates were not used in some cases where they should’ve been
  • (TLS) Improved error handling and logging

New in Plex Media Server 1.21.3.4014 (Feb 8, 2021)

  • FIXES:
  • (Security) Mitigate against potential DDoS amplification by only responding to UDP requests from LAN

New in Plex Media Server 1.21.2.3943 (Jan 28, 2021)

  • FIXES:
  • (Agents) TheTVDB Agent matching could fail in some cases (#12295).
  • (Scanner) Fixed regression causing excessive library scan times in previous release.

New in Plex Media Server 1.21.2.3939 (Jan 27, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (Gaming) Retro Games with Plex Arcade sub (MacOS and Windows)
  • (DVR) Server will scan a media item, or library contents, for commercials when “Analyze” is invoked (#12059)
  • (Library) Enhance smart shuffle to do a better job of feeling random.
  • (Web) Updated to 4.81.1
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) server would sometimes re-record shows that already existed in library, but were slightly smaller due to custom postprocessing (#11689)
  • (EPG) Some hubs were empty or missing items after transition to Gracenote. (#12229).
  • (HTTP) The server could crash when setting up libraries during first run.
  • (MUSIC) Changed played progress point for podcasts/long-form-audio to 99%, other audio content to 50% (12193)

New in Plex Media Server 1.21.2.3918 Beta Plex Pass (Jan 25, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • (DVR) Server will scan a media item, or library contents, for commercials when “Analyze” is invoked (#12059)
  • (Library) Enhance smart shuffle to do a better job of feeling random.
  • (Web) Updated to 4.48.1
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) server would sometimes re-record shows that already existed in library, but were slightly smaller due to custom postprocessing (#11689)
  • (HTTP) The server could crash when setting up libraries during first run.
  • (MUSIC) Changed played progress point for podcasts/audiobooks to 99%, other audio content to 50% (12193)

New in Plex Media Server 1.21.1.3830 (Jan 6, 2021)

  • FIXED:
  • (DVR) Require postal code during setup for Poland, Russia, and Switzerland.

New in Plex Media Server 1.21.1.3795 (Dec 15, 2020)

  • NЕW:
  • (Тrаnѕсоdеr) Аdd ѕuрроrt fоr thе Іntеl Соmрutе Runtіmе ОреnСL drіvеr vеrѕіоnѕ 20.36 аnd lаtеr fоr nеwеr іntеgrаtеd GРU mоdеlѕ оn Lіnuх
  • (Нubѕ) Ѕеаѕоnаl аnd Еvеnt bаѕеd hubѕ (Gеnеrаtеd lосаllу. Саn bе tоgglеd іn Lіbrаrу ѕеttіngѕ)
  • FІХЕЅ:
  • (DVR) Рlех Тunеr Ѕеrvісе wоuld ѕоmеtіmеѕ fаіl tо ѕtаrt uр оn Wіndоwѕ, whеn mасhіnе wаѕ undеr lоаd (#12035)
  • (Lіbrаrу) Ѕtudіо wоuld bе lіѕtеd twісе іn сuѕtоm fіltеrѕ (#12124)
  • (Ріvоtѕ) Оnlу dіѕрlау рlауlіѕt ріvоt іf іt іѕ nоn-еmрtу (#12097)
  • (Ѕсаnnеr) Nеw mоvіеѕ wоuld hаvе іnсоmрlеtе mеtаdаtа іf thе ѕсаn wаѕ іnvоkеd frоm thе соmmаnd lіnе (#12156)
  • (Ѕсаnnеr) Rаrе сrаѕhеѕ whеn ѕсаnnіng іn duрlісаtеѕ
  • (Нubѕ) Ѕеаѕоnаl hubѕ соuld саuѕе tехt оvеrlар іn Рlех Wеb

New in Plex Media Server 1.21.0.3616 (Nov 23, 2020)

  • NEW:
  • (Transcoder) HDR to SDR tonemapping PP preview (see https://support.plex.tv/articles/hdr-to-sdr-tone-mapping 51 for more info)
  • FIXES:
  • (Filters) HDR filter could miss some items (#12060)
  • (Library) Date-based shows weren’t getting metadata.
  • (Transcoder) Older versions of Nvidia drivers (supporting API version 9.0 but not version 10.0) are now supported again (#12091)

New in Plex Media Server 1.20.5.3551 Beta (Nov 10, 2020)

  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) The correct frequencies could not be scanned in Colombia, Panama, and Trinidad and Tobago.
  • (Library) Movie files stored in the drive root on Windows could fail to match (#12107)
  • (Library) Use a deterministic order when consuming local poster and art assets for Plex Movie libraries (#12070)
  • (Metadata) Certain unsupported local assets could be used for Plex Movie item backgrounds (#12070)
  • (Metadata) Embedded posters for movies would be used regardless if ‘Prefer local metadata’ preference was set or not (#12070)
  • (Metadata) Loading movies from some clients wouldn’t reflect changes to local sidecar subtitles.
  • (Transcoder) Older versions of Nvidia drivers (supporting API version 9.0 but not version 10.0) are now supported again (#12091)
  • (Webhooks) Added librarySectionTitle to payload. (#11906)

New in Plex Media Server 1.20.4.3517 Beta (Oct 29, 2020)

  • FIXES:
  • (ImageTranscoder) Memory would leak when rescaling or cropping images (#10040)

New in Plex Media Server 1.20.3.3483 (Oct 22, 2020)

  • FIXES:
  • (Transcoder) Freetype has been updated to 2.10.4, fixes CVE-2020-15999
  • (Transcoder) Playback could fail on certain files with very large subtitle events

New in Plex Media Server 1.20.3.3437 Beta (Oct 14, 2020)

  • FIXES:
  • (LiveTV) LiveTV hubs could go missing from the home screen

New in Plex Media Server 1.20.3.3430 Beta (Oct 13, 2020)

  • NEW:
  • (DVR) Guide refresh checkbox moved to DVR settings dialog (#11660).
  • (DVR) Guide refresh time exposed under DVR settings dialog, with XMLTV being able to set custom start time (#11660).
  • (Loudness) Greatly improved the quality of soundprint data (#11500)
  • FIXES:
  • (Butler) Temporary cache files could sometimes not be removed (#11951)
  • (DVR) Managed user was unable to cancel their own recordings from conflict modal (#11316)
  • (DVR) Server would not display user selected commercial skip setting for scheduled recording (#11921).
  • (DVR) UI for XMLTV guide refresh interval setting would display 4 hours, instead of the default of 24 hours (#11660)
  • (Hubs) Reduce the time taken to load ‘home’
  • (Hubs) The Rediscover hub for TV shows could take a long time to load.
  • (Library) “Trashed” items could be removed if an analysis was run on them.
  • (Library) Certain file paths could result in incorrect matches for items in new Plex Movies libraries (#11925)
  • (Library) Items from related hubs on episode pre-plays could fail to play back
  • (Library) Shuffling content could result in deterministic results
  • (Loudness) Soundprint analysis could give incorrect results on files with very high sample rates (#11500)
  • (Metadata) Some series with punctuation or special characters in their titles wouldn’t match against TheTVDB.
  • (Music) If a request to match an album failed it would cause a crash (#11977)
  • (QNAP) Only create PlexData symlink to AppData if user has created a ‘PlexData’ share.
  • (Scanner) Local assets would not be available in Plex Movie libraries if the library was a UNC path (#11931)
  • (Subtitles) Subtitle files with names containing a percent sign could be scanned in with invalid paths (#11386)
  • (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding could have substantially reduced quality on Windows systems with Intel GPUs (#11036)

New in Plex Media Server 1.20.2.3402 Beta (Oct 3, 2020)

  • NEW:
  • (DVR) Guide refresh checkbox moved to DVR settings dialog (#11660).
  • (DVR) Guide refresh time exposed under DVR settings dialog, with XMLTV being able to set custom start time (#11660).
  • (Loudness) Greatly improved the quality of soundprint data (#11500)
  • FIXES:
  • (Butler) Temporary cache files could sometimes not be removed (#11951)
  • (DVR) Guide refresh would sometimes not initiate (#12004).
  • (DVR) Managed user was unable to cancel their own recordings from conflict modal (#11316)
  • (DVR) Server would not display user selected commercial skip setting for scheduled recording (#11921).
  • (DVR) XMLTV Guide refresh would occur every 4 hours (#11660).
  • (Hubs) Reduce the time taken to load ‘home’
  • (Hubs) Some hubs could go missing when upgrading to 1.20.2
  • (Hubs) The Rediscover hub for TV shows could take a long time to load.
  • (Library) “Trashed” items could be removed if an analysis was run on them.
  • (Library) Certain file paths could result in incorrect matches for items in new Plex Movies libraries (#11925)
  • (Library) Items from related hubs on episode pre-plays could fail to play back
  • (Library) Shuffling content could result in deterministic results
  • (Loudness) Soundprint analysis could give incorrect results on files with very high sample rates (#11500)
  • (Metadata) Some series with punctuation or special characters in their titles wouldn’t match against TheTVDB.
  • (Music) If a request to match an album failed it would cause a crash (#11977)
  • (QNAP) Only create PlexData symlink to AppData if user has created a ‘PlexData’ share.
  • (Scanner) Local assets would not be available in Plex Movie libraries if the library was a UNC path (#11931)
  • (Subtitles) Subtitle files with names containing a percent sign could be scanned in with invalid paths (#11386)
  • (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding could have substantially reduced quality on Windows systems with Intel GPUs (#11036)

New in Plex Media Server 1.20.2.3370 PlexPass (Sep 28, 2020)

  • NEW:
  • (DVR) Guide refresh checkbox moved to DVR settings dialog (#11660).
  • (DVR) Guide refresh time exposed under DVR settings dialog, with XMLTV being able to set custom start time (#11660).
  • (Loudness) Greatly improved the quality of soundprint data (#11500)
  • FIXES:
  • (Butler) Temporary cache files could sometimes not be removed (#11951)
  • (DVR) Managed user was unable to cancel their own recordings from conflict modal (#11316)
  • (DVR) Server would not display user selected commercial skip setting for scheduled recording (#11921).
  • (DVR) UI for XMLTV guide refresh interval setting would display 4 hours, instead of the default of 24 hours (#11660)
  • (Hubs) Reduce the time taken to load ‘home’
  • (Hubs) The Rediscover hub for TV shows could take a long time to load.
  • (Library) “Trashed” items could be removed if an analysis was run on them.
  • (Library) Certain file paths could result in incorrect matches for items in new Plex Movies libraries (#11925)
  • (Library) Items from related hubs on episode pre-plays could fail to play back
  • (Library) Shuffling content could result in deterministic results
  • (Loudness) Soundprint analysis could give incorrect results on files with very high sample rates (#11500)
  • (Metadata) Some series with punctuation or special characters in their titles wouldn’t match against TheTVDB.
  • (Music) If a request to match an album failed it would cause a crash (#11977)
  • (QNAP) Only create PlexData symlink to AppData if user has created a ‘PlexData’ share.
  • (Scanner) Local assets would not be available in Plex Movie libraries if the library was a UNC path (#11931)
  • (Subtitles) Subtitle files with names containing a percent sign could be scanned in with invalid paths (#11386)
  • (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding could have substantially reduced quality on Windows systems with Intel GPUs (#11036)
  • (Hubs) Some hubs could go missing when upgrading to 1.20.2
  • (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding failures on Windows

New in Plex Media Server 1.20.1.3252 (Aug 27, 2020)

  • NEW:
  • (Filters) Add ‘trash’ filter to ‘custom filters’ (#11103)
  • (Library) Store external ids for items in new Plex Movie libraries.
  • FIXES:
  • (Analysis) Chapter and index thumbnails would not get re-generated after replacing a file with another with the same filename (#8922)
  • (DVR) Corrected typo in Detect Commercials settings description (#11804).
  • (DVR) Fixed an issue where Plex Commercial Skipper would unexpectedly exit with an error code (#11259) (#11151)
  • (DVR) Would use excessive amount of memory when loading certain XMLTV guide files (#11501).
  • (DVR) Server would display incorrect times under “Limit Airing Times To” advance recording option (#11362)
  • (EPG) Channel list could fail to load on certain XMLTV guides.
  • (Hubs) Some items could show in Continue Watching that fall outside the set window.
  • (Intro Detection) Ensure temporary files are always deleted
  • (Library) Albums/Artists would default to a reverse alphabetical sort (#11779)
  • (Library) Enabling “Include adult content” option for new Plex Movie libraries could result in incorrect matches.
  • (Library) Pick up changes to local sidecar subtitles when loading a new Plex Movie item.
  • (Library) Renaming files in an upgraded Plex Movie library could result in the user defined poster getting changed.
  • (Library) Some sidecar subtitles on new Plex Movie libraries would not get picked up.
  • (Scanner) Show artist and show names in the activity monitor
  • (Metadata) Local assets and metadata for Plex Movie items only read from one location when the item has more than one media version.
  • (Scanner) Items unable to match in new Plex Movie libraries would not show the year if available (#11866)
  • (Collections) Setting a collection title or summary to a blank value would make it inaccessible.

New in Plex Media Server 1.20.1.3232 (Aug 27, 2020)

  • FIXES:
  • (Metadata) Local assets and metadata for Plex Movie items only read from one location when the item has more than one media version.
  • (Scanner) Items unable to match in new Plex Movie libraries would not show the year if available (#11866)

New in Plex Media Server 1.20.1.3213 (Aug 27, 2020)

  • NEW:
  • (Filters) Add ‘trash’ filter to ‘custom filters’ (#11103)
  • (Library) Store external ids for items in new Plex Movie libraries.
  • FIXES:
  • (Analysis) Chapter and index thumbnails would not get re-generated after replacing a file with another with the same filename (#8922)
  • (DVR) Corrected typo in Detect Commercials settings description (#11804).
  • (DVR) Fixed an issue where Plex Commercial Skipper would unexpectedly exit with an error code (#11259) (#11151)
  • (DVR) Would use excessive amount of memory when loading certain XMLTV guide files (#11501).
  • (DVR) Server would display incorrect times under “Limit Airing Times To” advance recording option (#11362)
  • (EPG) Channel list could fail to load on certain XMLTV guides.
  • (Hubs) Some items could show in Continue Watching that fall outside the set window.
  • (Intro Detection) Ensure temporary files are always deleted
  • (Library) Albums/Artists would default to a reverse alphabetical sort (#11779)
  • (Library) Enabling “Include adult content” option for new Plex Movie libraries could result in incorrect matches.
  • (Library) Pick up changes to local sidecar subtitles when loading a new Plex Movie item.
  • (Library) Renaming files in an upgraded Plex Movie library could result in the user defined poster getting changed.
  • (Library) Some sidecar subtitles on new Plex Movie libraries would not get picked up.
  • (Scanner) Show artist and show names in the activity monitor

New in Plex Media Server 1.20.0.3181 (Aug 27, 2020)

  • NEW:
  • (Library) Add language override as advanced setting for new Plex Movie items (#11752)
  • FIXES:
  • (Collections) It was possible for collections to get into a state where you could no longer edit them.
  • (DVR) Server would attempt to clean up files that were already removed (#11234).
  • (DVR) Server would attempt to move recordings that were already moved (#11070).
  • (Library) Certain rules in .plexignore files would not always work as expected (#11770)
  • (Library) Having multiple movies and subtitles in the same folder would not work correctly with the Plex Movie agent (#11789)
  • (Library) Summaries from existing collections could be removed during a movie library upgrade (#11770)
  • (QNAP) Allow PlexData network share permissions to be edited in QTS.
  • (QNAP) Improve PlexData network share creation when system has multiple volumes.
  • (QNAP) Improve handling of GPU detection on various models.

New in Plex Media Server 1.20.0.3133 (Aug 27, 2020)

  • FIXES:
  • (Library) Certain TV libraries could incorrectly be upgraded to a new Plex Movie library. (#11774)

New in Plex Media Server 1.20.0.3125 (Aug 27, 2020)

  • NEW:
  • New improved movie agent. (More info here 1.1k)
  • (API) Add path parameter in scanning endpoint to allow partial scan via API.
  • (Library) Add sort option for Audience Rating in movie libraries.
  • (Library) Improve music searching by allowing artist in album searches, and artist and album in track searches.
  • (Web) Updated to 4.34.4
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Manually added DVRs or those that do not respond to SSDP searches may disappear in Server DVR Settings. (#11650)
  • (DVR) No content would be returned under ‘Live TV & DVR -> Browse’ when filtered by Episode -> Sport for XMLTV content (#11268).
  • (DVR) Server would sometimes mark a DVR device as dead, even when it is available.
  • (DVR) server would display incorrect times under “Limit Airing Times To” advance recording option. (#11362)
  • (DVR) server would sometimes not seek to the desired playback position. (#11397)
  • (Library) Don’t return track results with an artist search match.
  • (Library) External music hubs could be slow to load.
  • (Library) Refresh media analysis for music items.
  • (Library) Shuffling some playlists could fail.
  • (Library) Some smart playlists didn’t have composite image.
  • (Library) The ‘Albu Artist’ letter jump list could jump to the wrong place (#11493)
  • (Library) When adding new albums, the entire artist isn’t refreshed.

New in Plex Media Server 1.19.4.2902 (Jun 3, 2020)

  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Commercial skip log file was still sometimes improperly copied into user library directories

New in Plex Media Server 1.19.3.2852 (May 25, 2020)

  • Added:
  • (Web) Updated to 4.30.2
  • Fixed:
  • (DVR) Server would not invoke `Plex Commercial Skipper` under certain cases.
  • (DVR) Server would sometimes fail to consume EPG data from certain XMLTV data files. (#11368)
  • (First Run) Music libraries added during setup wizard could fail to be created (#11432)
  • (Intro Detection) Crashes on old windows hardwaren(IntroDetector) Crash on Windows when using older CPUs
  • (Library) Video preview thumbnail generation could fail
  • (Playlists) Adding an item to a playlist from a remote server didn't work (#11305)
  • (PostPlay) Post play could show the item that was just played (#11374)

New in Plex Media Server 1.19.3.2843 (May 21, 2020)

  • NEW:
  • Intro detection
  • (Web) Updated to 4.30.2
  • FIXES:
  • (Intro Detection) A rare crash on old windows hardware
  • (DVR) Server would not invoke Plex Commercial Skipper under certain cases.
  • (DVR) Server would sometimes fail to consume EPG data from certain XMLTV data files. (#11368)
  • (First Run) Music libraries added during setup wizard could fail to be created (#11432)
  • (Playlists) Adding an item to a playlist from a remote server didn’t work (#11305)
  • (PostPlay) Post play could show the item that was just played (#11374)

New in Plex Media Server 1.19.3.2831 (May 19, 2020)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 4.30.2
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Postprocessing scripts must now be located inside APPDATA/Scripts. Old scripts will continue to work
  • (DVR) Server would sometimes fail to consume EPG data from certain XMLTV data files. (#11368)
  • (First Run) Music libraries added during setup wizard could fail to be created (#11432)
  • (Playlists) Adding an item to a playlist from a remote server didn’t work (#11305)
  • (Security) Remove the Windows AppData path preference from the web app (#11355)
  • (PostPlay) Post play could show the item that was just played (#11374)
  • (Activities) Tweak percentages

New in Plex Media Server 1.19.3.2764 (May 7, 2020)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 4.30.2
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Postprocessing scripts must now be located inside APPDATA/Scripts. Old scripts will continue to work
  • (DVR) Server would sometimes fail to consume EPG data from certain XMLTV data files. (#11368)
  • (First Run) Music libraries added during setup wizard could fail to be created (#11432)
  • (Playlists) Adding an item to a playlist from a remote server didn’t work (#11305)
  • (Security) Remove the Windows AppData path preference from the web app (#11355)

New in Plex Media Server 1.19.2.2737 (Apr 29, 2020)

  • Fixes:
  • (Remote Access) Online status in the web client could erroneously show it as offline (#11449)

New in Plex Media Server 1.19.1.2645 (Apr 9, 2020)

  • Fixes:
  • FreeBSD package re-added.

New in Plex Media Server 1.18.9.2578 (Mar 30, 2020)

  • FIXES:
  • (Live TV) Live playback could stutter and stall unexpectedly in certain regions
  • (Live TV) Tuning could fail the first time the feature is used in certain regions (#11307)

New in Plex Media Server 1.18.5.2309 (Jan 29, 2020)

  • FIXES:
  • (Ubuntu/Debian) Improve Docker / Container detection
  • (Ubuntu/Debian) Use host’s IPA services if available (e.g. LDAP)
  • (Ubuntu/Debian) Reduce fatal ERROR to non-fatal WARNING if the Plex user does not own the Application Support directory at installation time.

New in Plex Media Server 1.18.5.2260 Beta (Jan 29, 2020)

  • NEW:
  • (Networking) Added prefrence to allow disabling of the relay (#8514)
  • (Photos) Support WebP image format in photo libraries (#1082)
  • (Prefs) Exposed an advanced preference to disable video transcoding (#10891)
  • (Ubuntu/Debian) Add support for SysVinit. 188
  • (Ubuntu/Debian) Improve installation in non-standard environments. 188
  • FIXES:
  • (Camera Upload) Very large video files could fail to upload (#6880)
  • (Collections) Collections were sorted incorrectly in some cases
  • (Language) Changes to shared user’s audio/subtitle language preferences were not respected. (#10910)
  • (Library) Crash scanning single track albums. (#10941)
  • (PlayQueue) Deleting the currently playing item in a queue could result in undefined behaviour (#10450)
  • (Synology) Improve process of stopping PMS when device is busy.
  • (TerraMaster) Libraries created during initial setup could be lost in rare cases.

New in Plex Media Server 1.18.2.2080 (Nov 26, 2019)

  • NЕW:
  • (DVR) Аbіlіtу tо brоwѕе uрсоmіng аіrіngѕ іn а lіbrаrу ѕtуlе vіеw (#10556)
  • (DVR) Аddеd ехрlаnаtіоn fоr раrtіаl rесоrdіng (#10167).
  • (DVR) Аddеd ѕmаrtеr lоgіс fоr dеtесtіng ехіѕtіng rесоrdіngѕ (#9669).
  • (Dаѕhbоаrd) FrееВЅD СРU аnd mеmоrу grарhѕ (#10611)
  • FІХЕЅ:
  • (Аgеntѕ) Маkе thе Frаmеwоrk uѕе mоdеrn НТТР lіbѕ, fіхеѕ сеrtаіn ТhеТVDВ rеquеѕtѕ fаіlіng аmоng оthеrѕ.
  • (Вutlеr) Ѕоmе butlеr tаѕkѕ wоuld nоt run.
  • (Саmеrа Uрlоаd) Dоn’t аllоw ѕhаrеd uѕеrѕ tо еnаblе Саmеrа Uрlоаd іf thеу dоn’t hаvе ассеѕѕ tо аnу рhоtо lіbrаrіеѕ. (#8787)
  • (DVR) Рrеѕеrvе ЕРG mеtаdаtа whеn аѕѕіmіlаtіng Ѕроrtѕ аnd Nеwѕ rесоrdіngѕ. (#10544)
  • (Lіbrаrу) Аdd аlbum сrіtіс rаtіng аѕ а fіеld.
  • (Lіbrаrу) Аdd trасk mооd bасk аѕ fіltеr/fіеld.
  • (Lіbrаrу) Аllоw ѕоrtіng оn uѕеr rаtіngѕ оf аrtіѕtѕ, thеrе аrе nо аrtіѕt сrіtіс rаtіngѕ.
  • (Lіbrаrу) Рlех Мuѕіс lіbrаrіеѕ hаvе сrіtіс rаtіngѕ, аllоw ѕоrtіng оn thеm.
  • (Мuѕіс) Rеlаtеd ТІDАL hubѕ соuld ѕоmеtіmеѕ ѕtор ѕhоwіng (#10738)
  • (Мuѕіс) Ѕhаrеd uѕеrѕ uѕіng аrtіѕt ѕhufflеѕ соuld gеt unаvаіlаblе іtеmѕ іn thе рlау quеuе (#9827)
  • (Рlауlіѕtѕ) Rесеntlу аddеd рlауlіѕtѕ wеrе nоt ѕоrtеd соrrесtlу
  • (Ѕtаrtuр) Тhе ѕеrvеr wоuld hаng whеn thе аррlісаtіоn ѕuрроrt dіrесtоrу wаѕ nоt wrіtаblе. (#7492)

New in Plex Media Server 1.18.2.2041 (Nov 20, 2019)

  • NEW:
  • DVR) Ability to browse upcoming airings in a library style view (#10556)
  • DVR) Added explanation for partial recording (#10167).
  • DVR) Added smarter logic for detecting existing recordings (#9669).
  • Dashboard) FreeBSD CPU and memory graphs (#10611)
  • FIXES:
  • Butler) Some butler tasks would not run.
  • Camera Upload) Don’t allow shared users to enable Camera Upload if they don’t have access to any photo libraries. (#8787)
  • DVR) Preserve EPG metadata when assimilating Sports and News recordings. (#10544)
  • Library) Add album critic rating as a field.
  • Library) Add track mood back as filter/field.
  • Library) Allow sorting on user ratings of artists, there are no artist critic ratings.
  • Library) Plex Music libraries have critic ratings, allow sorting on them.
  • Music) Related TIDAL hubs could sometimes stop showing (#10738)
  • Music) Shared users using artist shuffles could get unavailable items in the play queue (#9827)
  • Playlists) Recently added playlists were not sorted correctly
  • Startup) The server would hang when the application support directory was not writable. (#7492)
  • Improve movie and TV show matching in some cases (#10641)

New in Plex Media Server 1.18.2.2029 (Nov 14, 2019)

  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Preserve EPG metadata when assimilating Sports and News recordings. (#10544)
  • (Playlists) Recently added playlists were not sorted correctly

New in Plex Media Server 1.18.0.1944 (Oct 14, 2019)

  • FIXES:
  • (LiveTV) A regression in 1.18.0 could cause pixellation / stuttering in LiveTV/DVR playback

New in Plex Media Server 1.18.0.1913 (Oct 10, 2019)

  • FIXES:
  • (Library) Music could fail to scan when added to a new or upgraded music library on Nvidia SHIELD devices.
  • (NAS) Permissions issues resulting in a failures to start

New in Plex Media Server 1.17.0.1841 (Oct 1, 2019)

  • (EPG) On Windows, XMLTV guide would fail to refresh (#10624)

New in Plex Media Server 1.17.0.1709 (Sep 25, 2019)

  • NEW:
  • (Transcoder) Update to current upstream ffmpeg
  • (Transcoder) Support for hardware transcoding on Linux with Intel 9th-gen processors
  • (Transcoder) Support for VC-1 hardware decoding on supported platforms
  • (Transcoder) Support for hardware decoding on Linux with Nvidia GPUs
  • (Transcoder) Support for zero-copy hardware transcoding on Linux with Nvidia GPUs
  • (Transcoder) Support for zero-copy hardware transcoding of interlaced media
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Comskip was not available in recording options on FreeBSD.
  • (DVR) Enhanced Plex Media Server’s performance by skipping reads of previously processed XMLTV guide data. (#9846)
  • (Transcoder) The server could become unresponsive after certain precisely-timed client interactions.
  • Corrects Live TV playback error when tuning to channel that contains space(s) in it.
  • (Transcoder) The server could use large amounts of CPU time when converting subtitles (#10478)

New in Plex Media Server 1.16.5.1554 (Aug 26, 2019)

  • (DVR) Re-enable signal strength updates for all tuners except Hauppauge. (Library) The Track Last Skipped filter could return the incorrect results
  • (Live) In some circumstances, new recordings could use an additional tuner, rather than sharing one already tuning the same channel. This could manifest as a missing "watch from start" option
  • Watching a trailer could mark the corresponding movie watched in some cases (DVR) Live session buffer data could be pruned prematurely, resulting in live TV being unable to seek back as far as expected (#10430)
  • (Playback) Certain clients could receive corrupted data in media requests, leading to corruption during playback (#10436)"

New in Plex Media Server 1.16.5.1488 (Aug 19, 2019)

  • NEW:
  • Web) Updated to 3.108.2
  • FIXES:
  • DVR) Re-enable signal strength updates for all tuners except Hauppauge. (#10352)
  • Library) The Track Last Skipped filter could return the incorrect results (#10309)
  • Live) In some circumstances, new recordings could use an additional tuner, rather than sharing one already tuning the same channel. This could manifest as a missing “watch from start” option (#9736)
  • Watching a trailer could mark the corresponding movie watched in some cases (#9481)

New in Plex Media Server 1.16.3.1402 (Jul 24, 2019)

  • NEW:
  • Web) Updated to 3.104.1
  • Add translations for Afrikaans, Finnish and Polish and update existing ones.
  • FIXES:
  • Library) Filtering shows by audio or subtitle language would fail (#10189)
  • Metadata) Posters could fail to load on Nvidia Shield servers (#10036)
  • Collection hubs would only display a maximum of six items.
  • Fix Hungarian translations.
  • In single-core systems, loudness analysis might not occur on audio files (10049)
  • Published addresses could fail to update after network interface state changed on macOS (#10192)

New in Plex Media Server 1.16.1.1291 (Jul 1, 2019)

  • (DVR) Some shows without season & episode info were displaying the wrong date. (#10233)
  • (DVR) In some cases subscriptions were not scheduled automatically after upgrade to new EPG provider. (#10215)
  • (EPG) End of guide would not populate without a full refresh. (#10220)

New in Plex Media Server 1.16.0.1226 (Jun 17, 2019)

  • Addressed network efficiency issues which could lead to slow Live TV tunes (#10151)
  • Responses to requests on keep-alive connections could be delayed, potentially resulting in slow transcoder startups (#10118)
  • The transcoder could take a very long time to start on streams from certain broadcasters or service providers (#10065)
  • The server could crash when a transcode session finished (#9801)
  • Updated translations

New in Plex Media Server 1.15.8.1198 (Jun 11, 2019)

  • SHIELD - Please note that the creation of new “Premium Music” libraries on the SHIELD is currently unsupported and all existing Premium Music libraries will gracefully fall back to using standard library matching. Improvements are actively being worked on and are coming soon (within the next few months at the latest)!
  • FIXES:
  • This release contains the fixes in version 1.15.8.1163, and additionally:
  • Server settings could become unavailable on the Nvidia SHIELD after certain upgrade sequences (#10125)

New in Plex Media Server 1.15.6.1079 (May 25, 2019)

  • (DVR) Add `Resolution`,
  • Replace lower resolution items and `Allow partial airings` at DVR level with option to override at recording level.
  • items_fixed:
  • (Analysis) Corrected chapters not being imported againrn(DVR)
  • Prefer HD airings when both HD and SD are available.
  • (#9641)rnDocker host addresses were published unnecessarily
  • (#9576)rnIP addresses from interfacing starting with a "v" weren't published (#9576)rnSync or Optimize could fail to fallback to software transcoding if hardware transcoding failed (#9455)"

New in Plex Media Server 1.15.4.994 (May 8, 2019)

  • items_added:
  • (DVR) Ability to give Home Users DVR access.
  • (Playback) Assume unknown audio to be foreign if the preferred audio language is not english
  • (Streaming Brain) Preference to allow automatically terminating playbacks which have been paused for an hour
  • (Subtitles) Auto select forced subtitles when not listening to foreign audio
  • (Web) Updated to 3.95.2rnWhen transcoding for supported clients, automatically select media based on supported resolution and dynamic range
  • items_fixed:
  • (Analysis) Chapters were not being imported for new media
  • (Dashboard) Respect user preferences for local / remote bandwidth
  • (Dashboard) Respect user preferences when showing streams as local / remote
  • (Metadata) Asking to refresh metadata still used cache for movies and TV shows
  • (Metadata) Related collections were not paginated

New in Plex Media Server 1.15.4.993 (Apr 24, 2019)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 3.95.2

New in Plex Media Server 1.15.3.858 (Apr 5, 2019)

  • FIXES:
  • Analysis could fail to set media item attributes

New in Plex Media Server 1.15.2.793 (Mar 21, 2019)

  • FIXES:
  • (Analysis) Chapters for multi-part media was not correctly imported (#9554)
  • (DVR) Don’t schedule in progress airings if sub doesn’t allow partials. (#9688)
  • (DVR) Fix a long-standing but rare crash when starting a live tune (#7790)
  • (Dashboard) User counts in Top Played could be inaccurate (#9730)
  • (Transcoder) A few seconds of audio could be missing after seeking while Direct Streaming both audio and video (#9658)
  • (Transcoder) Seeking could be unreliable with some DASH clients (#9137)

New in Plex Media Server 1.15.1.791 (Mar 14, 2019)

  • (Transcoder) Failures transcoding multi-channel audio on Windows

New in Plex Media Server 1.15.1.710 / 2.2.0.757 Nightly (Mar 9, 2019)

  • Support for hardware transcoding on Windows has been restored
  • The Donator build of comskip is now included.

New in Plex Media Server 1.14.1.5488 (Dec 19, 2018)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 3.77.4
  • (DVR) New DVR scheduler
  • FIXES:
  • (DLNA) DLNA clients would not report timeline states for Now Playing (#9347)
  • (DVR) Don’t return an error message when shutting down a live TV session in a normal way (#9277)
  • (DVR) Fixed bug that prevented scheduling of recordings with HD only setting. (#9226)
  • (DVR) Properly parse episode number from dd_progid field in XMLTV data (#9419)
  • (DVR) Revert timeout changes, should help with timeouts during tune startup (#9473,
  • (HTTP) Enabling IPv6 support could prevent IPv4 connections from being accepted on some FreeBSD systems (#9405)
  • (Radio) Only expose Discovery Radio if there is a linked TIDAL account (#9428)
  • (Relay) The relay service may not function when server support for IPv6 is enabled on some systems (#9399)
  • (SSDP) Better checking for invalid IP addresses in location field of SSDP XML
  • (Streaming Brain) More exact accounting of bandwidth buckets to reduce bandwidth going unused (#9273)
  • (Subtitles) Some subtitles could not be downloaded by shared users (#9323)
  • (Subtitles) Subtitles aquired by the OpenSubtitle agent could cause playback failures on Nvidia SHIELD
  • Improve robustness when routers fail to respond to port-mapping refresh requests in time (#9107)
  • The server could crash when using network interface aliases on macOS (#9344; rdar://46083980)

New in Plex Media Server 1.13.5.5332 (Aug 23, 2018)

  • NEW:
  • (Streaming Brain) Added preference to treat WAN IP Address as on the LAN for bandwidth Limits (#8037)
  • (Transcoder) Support 4K hardware decoding on macOS (#8806)
  • (Web) Updated to 3.57.1
  • Allow picking a specific network address to bind to (#8492)
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Support network tuner icons (#7552)
  • (DVR) Users that no longer have a Plex Pass should no longer have access to the Recording Schedule and Guide (#8672)
  • Seek thumbnail timestamps could be off by a few seconds (#2569)
  • Split Live TV quick links into two hubs.
  • When remote access is disabled, don’t publish non-private addresses (#8751)

New in Plex Media Server 1.13.4.5271 (Jul 20, 2018)

  • (Synology) prevent 32-bit version from being installed on 64-bit NAS models (#8851)

New in Plex Media Server 1.13.3.5223 Beta Plex Pass (Jun 28, 2018)

  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Check for the correct postal code format for Switzerland (#8646)

New in Plex Media Server 1.13.3.5208 Beta Plex Pass (Jun 26, 2018)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 3.53.7
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Allow navigation from Recordings to pre-play screen for any item that generated a recording, regardless of final status. (#8381)
  • (DVR) Check for the correct postal code format for Switzerland (#8646)
  • (DVR) Guide refreshes shouldn’t remove the whole guide if Internet connectivity is down (#8531)
  • (DVR) Speed up channel scanning by using all available tuners in parallel. (#8444)
  • (Filters) Using “not” custom filters with multiple values would return the incorrect results (#8017)
  • (Library) Removed the Rating sort from photo libraries (#8473)
  • (Live) Tuners could remain in use indefinitely if clients disconnected without notice (#8019)
  • (NAS) QNAP devices falsely reported an error when stopping or upgrading PMS (#8673)
  • (Photos) Scanning in a photo library with only a single item would sometimes fail (#8653)

New in Plex Media Server 1.13.2.5154 (Jun 10, 2018)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 3.53.7

New in Plex Media Server 1.13.2.5142 Beta Plex Pass (Jun 6, 2018)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 3.53.6
  • FIXES:
  • (Analysis) Channel layouts could be reported incorrectly for some DTS streams (#8549)
  • (Transcoder) Conversion of remote content could fail on some x86_64 Linux systems (#8662)
  • (Metadata) Missing artwork for some TV shows (#8473)
  • Database backups could fail if the database contained certain sets of strings (#8655)
  • Punctuation and non-ASCII strings sorted incorrectly in some cases (#8668)

New in Plex Media Server 1.13.1.5063 Beta Plex Pass (May 14, 2018)

  • New:
  • (Library) Per-collection collapse settings. (#7998)
  • (Library) Sort items using a natural sort
  • Fixes:
  • (Autoupdate) Skipping a signle version could prevent updates automatically installing (#8027) (#8009)
  • (DVR) Don't subtract start offset when checking for valid airing time (#7928)
  • (DVR) Rename Program Guide/EPG to Guide in various places (#8522,
  • (DVR) Stop timer for a recording should never be negative (#8136)
  • (DVR) US postal codes in the 5-4 format should return the correct lineups (#8283)
  • (DVR) Various rare crashes (#7575)
  • (Hubs) Pilots (S1 E1) could show up in On Deck.
  • (NAS) udev rules would not survive Synology DSM updates. (#8402)
  • Reduced logging related to time normalization with dates earlier than 1970. (#8373)

New in Plex Media Server 1.13.0.5023 Beta Plex Pass (May 7, 2018)

  • FIXES:
  • (Transcoder) Media with EAC3 audio could fail to transcode in some cases on Windows. (#8547)

New in Plex Media Server 1.13.0.5003 Beta Plex Pass (Apr 30, 2018)

  • NEW:
  • (Transcoder) Update to latest upstream ffmpeg (#7634)
  • (Analysis) Identify certain Live and DVR-recorded streams that failed to play back on iOS and tvOS devices (#5308)
  • (Live) Add support for switching subtitle and audio streams, in supported clients (#8353)
  • (Web) Updated to 3.44.1
  • FIXES:
  • (Analysis) A scanner crash when performing loudness analysis on certain file formats (#8018)
  • (Analysis) Some files weren't detected as anamorphic when they should've been (#8446)
  • (DLNA) A crash on older Macs (#6602)
  • (DVR) Update tuner make/model information in the database if it changes from the device (#8214)
  • (DVR) Write EPG data that fails to parse into temporary files to aid in diagnostics. (#8149)
  • (Filters) Content rating filters would sometimes fail to load (#8350)
  • (Filters) The advanced "is not empty" filter for ratings wouldn't return the expected results (#8361)
  • (Live TV) Transcodes could fail on channels with multiple audio streams with different codecs (#8195)
  • (Metadata) Don't rematch things which have been unsuccessfully matched (#8394)
  • (Streaming Brain) Some legacy clients were given incorrect workarounds (#8348)
  • (Streaming Brain) Transcode start could deadlock in some rare cases (#8385)
  • (Transcoder) Soft subtitles were desynchronized when streaming HEVC to iOS (#8388)
  • (Transcoder) Sparse subtitles failed to display in some cases on iOS and tvOS (#8415)
  • (Transcoder) Transcodes to AC3 in MP4 played with incorrect channel mapping on Apple devices (#8306)
  • (Transcoder) Transcodes to EAC3 in MP4 for Apple devices did not play audio (#8312)

New in Plex Media Server 1.12.3.4973 (Beta) Plex Pass (Apr 13, 2018)

  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Keep airings in US primetime from disappearing from the schedule on each refresh (#8448)

New in Plex Media Server 1.12.3.4947 (Beta) Plex Pass (Apr 11, 2018)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 3.41.2
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) HTTP request cache should properly check for file expiration when requesting celeb/series data. (#8405)
  • (DVR) Recordings that fail due to permissions issues shouldn't disappear from the schedule after a server restart (#8020)
  • (DVR) Shows shouldn't disappear from the Program Guide for shared users if they're not shared certain library types (#8100)
  • Plugged memory leak with starting and stopping jobs on Windows (#7618)

New in Plex Media Server 1.12.2.4929 (Beta) Plex Pass (Apr 2, 2018)

  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Certain DVB-T providers should not show up in non-European and non-ISDBT countries (#7615)
  • (DVR) Display placeholder items in Watch Now if there's no guide data for a channel (#7587)
  • (DVR) Don't display disabled channels in the Program Guide when loading initial EPG data (#7587)
  • (DVR) When more frequent EPG refreshing is enabled, spread the refresh times around some to avoid all refreshes occurring on an hour mark (#8281)
  • (DVR) Icons from OnConnect EPG guides shouldn't disappear (#8366)
  • (DVR) More fixes around recording multiple airings of a show on the same day (#6668)
  • (OnDeck) Restore ability to disable OnDeck when setting 'Weeks to consider for OnDeck' to 0 (#8279)
  • (Photos) Various improvements to filters for photo libraries (#8305)
  • (Transcoder) Hardware video decoding sometimes wasn't reported, even when it was being used (#7670)
  • (Transcoder) The server could erroneously attempt to mux DVB teletext into Matroska (#8213)

New in Plex Media Server 1.12.1.4871 (Beta) Plex Pass (Mar 14, 2018)

  • NEW:
  • (Movies) Improve matching with filenames containing recent things like "UHD".
  • (Photos) New "Folder" sort type for photo libraries - will sort by name but keep folders and photo items separate.
  • (Playback) Don't select teletext streams as subtitles automatically (#7739)
  • (Web) Updated to 3.39.5
  • Season premieres show up in On Deck even when they're outside the window (#8229)
  • FIXES:
  • (Library) Library scans subsequent to first would not attempt to match unmatched items (#8282)
  • (Photos) Filters with greater-than or less-than filters would not work properly on some libraries (#8258)
  • (Photos) The "Name" sort for photo libraries was returning the incorrect parameters (#8165)
  • (Type First) Fix TV Shows library hub ordering (#8260)
  • (Windows) Files could fail to be deleted due to child processes inheriting duplicate handles (#7830)
  • The server could become unresponsive in certain complex scenarios (#8220)

New in Plex Media Server 1.12.0.4829 (Beta) Plex Pass (Feb 28, 2018)

  • NEW:
  • Analysis) Detect ATSC closed captions in video files (#7110)
  • Analysis) Distinguish HEVC codec tags to work around iOS platform limitation (#7882)
  • Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.37.2
  • FIXES:
  • Companion) Resolve a rare crash
  • Hubs) "On Deck" and "Continue Watching" could appear empty when the "Weeks to Consider for On Deck" preference was set (#7305)
  • Photos) Re-scanning a photo section which had a significant amount of files renamed could lead to database lockups (#7653)
  • Photos) The folder structure in the photos view could sometimes become flattened (#8206)
  • Transcoder) The server could become unresponsive when playing via DASH (#8166)
  • Avoid generating invalid XML when media contains invalid metadata (#8192).
  • Certain ID3 tags in audio files resulted in titles with trailing "///" characters (#6577)
  • Collections could appear in grid even when disabled in library (#8103)
  • Fix an issue where loudness analysis was performed simultaneously on the same library (#8021)
  • Fix loudness analysis on libraries taking up large amounts of memory (#8071)

New in Plex Media Server 1.11.3.4803 (Beta) Plex Pass (Feb 16, 2018)

  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Back-to-back recordings would sometimes lose the second recording (#8168)
  • (DVR) Parsing of dates in EyeQ data could potentially fail if format changed (#8209)
  • (LiveTV) Crash when stopping LiveTV (#8169)

New in Plex Media Server 1.11.2.4793 (Beta) Plex Pass (Feb 14, 2018)

  • NEW:
  • (Photos) Show recently favorited items in discovery hub (#8101)
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Cancelling a recording when comskip is enabled shouldn't result in an error (#7926)
  • (DVR) Episodes of the same show that air on the same day now record correctly (#6668)
  • (Filters) Dates before Jan 1st 1970 would not work properly in some filter fields (#8077)
  • (Photos) Autotagging for some items could become stuck in a throttled state (#8068)
  • (Photos) Changes to EXIF date fields edited in certain applications would not get picked up correctly (#8125)
  • (Photos) Photo albums in folder view will now show thumbs for Posters and Backgrounds when editing and will correctly retain changes between scans (#7947)
  • (Photos) Show video items in Recently Added hub for photo sections (#8101)
  • (Photos) Timeline entries before Jan 1 1970 would not be displayed consistently (#8152)
  • (Streaming Brain) Could deadlock in certain circumstances when ABR was in use (#8124)
  • (Transcoder) Playback could fail or behave erratically near the end of videos when Direct Streaming to certain clients (#8042)
  • (Transcoder) Soft subtitles could sometimes fail to play on iOS/tvOS (#8022)

New in Plex Media Server 1.11.2.4772 (Beta) Plex Pass (Feb 8, 2018)

  • FIXES:
  • (WebTV) Tizen WebVTT subtitle compatibility changes

New in Plex Media Server 1.11.1.4768 (Beta) Plex Pass (Feb 7, 2018)

  • FIXES:
  • (Hubs) Recently Added TV hub failed to load for managed users with content restrictions. (#8123)

New in Plex Media Server 1.11.1.4760 (Beta) Plex Pass (Feb 5, 2018)

  • FIXES:
  • (LiveTV) 'Timeout' failures when watching live (#8140) (#8116)
  • (DVR) Recordings could fail under some circumstances (#8140) (#8116)

New in Plex Media Server 1.11.1.4753 (Beta) Plex Pass (Feb 1, 2018)

  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Recordings could become "stuck" in some cases (#7606)
  • (DVR) Recordings could terminate prematurely in some cases (#7623)
  • (Transcoder) Playback could cause deadlocks in certain situations (#8079)
  • (Transcoder) Videos could fail to play when started at an offset on iOS with soft subtitles (#8082)

New in Plex Media Server 1.11.1.4730 (Beta) Plex Pass (Jan 26, 2018)

  • NEW:
  • (Photos) Extract title and image description from photo metadata when available (#7770)
  • FIXES:
  • (Analysis) MP2 audio in MP4 could be mis-detected as MP3
  • (DVR) Prefer subscription comskip preferences over global pref (#7968)
  • (DVR) Updated transponder frequencies for DVB-T (#7473)
  • (Hubs) Improved the performance of the Recently Added TV hub (#7656)
  • (Hubs) The (per-show) setting to show/hide TV seasons was being ignored by Recently Added TV (#7656)
  • (Photos) Browsing the timeline view could have a negative impact on performance of other operations (#8078)
  • (Photos) Improve metadata extraction for camera lens info (#7770)
  • (Photos) Opening related items for photos could sometimes cause the server to crash (#8078)
  • (Transcoder) Playing back HEVC on Apple TV or iOS could cause the server to crash (#8032)
  • (Transcoder) Improved resilience of the Matroska demuxer when seeking in corrupted files (#7682)
  • (Transcoder) Soft subtitles could sometimes fail to play on iOS/tvOS (#8022)
  • (Transcoder) Transcodes of mov_text streams for PMP could fail (#7951)
  • A crash could occur on Windows after a library scan (#8029)
  • Collections from related libraries the user didn't have permission could appear (but were not accessible)
  • The scanner could crash during loudness analysis
  • Updated string translations

New in Plex Media Server 1.11.0.4666 (Beta) Plex Pass (Dec 29, 2017)

  • No user-visible changes. Updated support for as-yet-unreleased functionality. Stay tuned!!

New in Plex Media Server 1.11.0.4633 (Beta) Plex Pass (Dec 20, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • (Transcoder) Support HDMI frame rate and dynamic range switching on the Apple TV 4K (#7778)
  • (Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.31.1
  • FIXES:
  • (Analysis) Not all data was reported on Opus streams
  • (DVR) Fix a crash on start. (#7953)
  • (Hubs) Photo albums could show up in recent playlists hubs (#7944)
  • (Transcoder) Sidecar subtitles could disappear when using direct stream (#7931)
  • Crash when requesting play queue (#7997).

New in Plex Media Server 1.10.1.4602 (Dec 13, 2017)

  • (Photos) The timeline view could become inconsistent when dates are altered on items in the section (#7955)

New in Plex Media Server 1.10.1.4561 (Beta) Plex Pass (Dec 7, 2017)

  • FIXES:
  • (Codecs) Previously downloaded codecs were not always automatically downloaded at server upgrade time (#7643)
  • (DVR) Add some extra safety around loading EPG data to avoid a couple of crashes (#7883)
  • (DVR) Recordings could hang if the tuner lost its signal lock (#7606)
  • (Hubs) Starting playback from certain hubs may fail (#7777)
  • (Photos) Videos added via Camera Upload have the wrong date on iOS (#7517).
  • (Streaming Brain) Playback involving transcodes of some channel content failed with bandwidth error (#7911)
  • (Streaming Brain) Subtitles could disappear at the end of the file while transcoding (#7922)
  • (Transcoder) Subtitles could be unnecessarily transcoded when streaming to Plex Media Player (#7598)
  • (MediaInspector) Not all date information was getting saved correctly after re-analysis (#7934)

New in Plex Media Server 1.10.0.4523 (Beta) Plex Pass (Nov 29, 2017)

  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Commercial removal was enabled by default for recording schedules in some cases (#7898)

New in Plex Media Server 1.10.0.4516 (Beta) Plex Pass (Nov 27, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.27.1
  • (DVR) Added functionality to remove commercials from recorded content (#5633)
  • (Live) Added the ability to seek within an active recording, with client support (#7270)
  • (Transcoder) Support for hardware decoding of 10-bit HEVC (#7738)
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) A server's first recording of LATM-packetized AAC could fail (#7875)
  • (DVR) An issue where poor-quality signal could cause recordings to "stick", reporting as 100% complete (#7606)
  • (DVR) New Episodes Tonight hub now correctly starts at 7pm local time (#7614)
  • (DVR) Recordings could hang if the tuner lost its signal lock (#7606)
  • (DVR) Some DVB subtitles weren't recorded (#7700)
  • (Extras) Fixed extras regression in previous release (#7821)
  • (Hubs) Speed up music and TV hubs.
  • (Metadata) Add support for absolute ordering in TV episode filenames (#7159)
  • (On Deck) Fix a fairly large slowdown introduced recently (#7824)
  • (Streaming Brain) Correct bitrate restricted playback of some channel content (#7452)
  • (Streaming Brain) Corrected playback when ABR is requested but server limits streams to 320kbps (#7706)
  • (Transcoder) Fixed soft subs not appearing in some cases (#7597)
  • (Transcoder) Hardware encoding had reduced quality on Windows with Intel GPUs in some cases (#7887)

New in Plex Media Server 1.9.7.4460 (Beta) Plex Pass (Nov 14, 2017)

  • Fixes:
  • (Playback) Playback would end early on some devices

New in Plex Media Server 1.9.7.4441 (Beta) Plex Pass (Nov 9, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.26.2
  • (Transcoder) Support pruning old segments to reduce disk usage in DASH and HTTP transcodes (#7484)
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Fix an issue that led to missing video streams in some cases (#7637)
  • (Android) Fix green artifacts when transcoding to DASH (#7578)
  • (DVR) Deadlock when tuning live (#7684)
  • (Transcoder) Rare deadlock during playback (#7710)
  • (Hubs) When deleting a playlist, it could remain in the RECENT PLAYLISTS hub. (#7701)
  • (Library) Crash when attempting to download extras (#7713)
  • (Library) Crash when getting children of an unparented season (#7677)
  • (Hubs) When creating a playlist, ensure it shows up in RECENT PLAYLISTS even before playing.
  • (Hubs) A rare case where episodes from other libraries could be suggested on postplay screen. (#7703)
  • (Extras) Use the right bitrate for extras. (#7678)
  • (DVR) Keep Certain channel data from causing EPG to fail entirely for all channels (#7728)
  • (Android) Add missing library to the installer (#7716)
  • (Transcoder) Do not disable hardware decoding if hardware encoding fails on unsupported resolutions (#7646)
  • (Stream Ready) Don't crash when falling back from a hardware encoding failure (#7568)
  • (Transcoder) Make dangerous transcoder prefs 'hidden' (#7536)
  • (Security) Library section information could be leaked to shared users (#6954)
  • (Diagnostics) The log file zip will now resepct the LogNumFiles preference (#7239)
  • (Scheduled tasks) Sometimes nightly EPG refreshing task and others wouldn't run (#7719)
  • (Streaming Brain) Preserve soft subtitles in DASH Auto-Quality (#7597)
  • (Hubs) When changing the "include in dashboard" setting, dashboard wouldn't update (#7726)
  • (Diagnostics) Downloaded logs/databases now have correct timestamps (#5177)
  • (DVR) When changing folders in a library, recordings could fail (#6203)
  • (Hubs) Don't show hubs with just one thing in them on show screens (#6353)
  • (Library) When changing airing order, shows refresh automatically and thumb are correctly reset (#6465)
  • (DVR) Exclude duplicate/past airings on other channels in EPG data so they show in the timeline correctly. (#7699)
  • (iOS) Crash restarting the server. (#7231)
  • (Filters) Add ability to filter on audio/subtitle languages (#6401)
  • (Filters) Add writer/producer filters for movie libraries (#6401)
  • (Filters) Director, writer, and producer custom filters for TV libraries now work correctly (#6401)
  • (Photos) Items in photo timelines will reflect the correct date now if the original date is altered and re-analyzed (#7557)
  • (Scanner) Corrected thumbnail generation on a section (#7764)
  • (Transcoder) A crash with certain subtitles in files with embedded fonts (#7436)
  • (Transcoder) A crash when trying to use hardware transcoding in macOS 10.10 (#7692)
  • (Transcoder) A crash on certain FreeBSD configurations
  • (Transcoder) Video quality improvements when hardware encoding on Broadwell and Braswell devices (#6914)

New in Plex Media Server 1.9.6.4429 (Beta) Plex Pass (Nov 8, 2017)

  • FIXES:
  • (Transcoder) Fixed soft subs not appearing in some cases (#7597)
  • (Playback) Crashes when finishing playback

New in Plex Media Server 1.9.6.4401 (Beta) Plex Pass (Nov 1, 2017)

  • N.B. We will start using full build numbers (Major.Minor.Patch.Build) for all releases. Beta updates will keep the existing patch number (i.e. 1.9.6.4401) until we release it into the Public update stream.
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Video streams that were getting lost during recording have been found again (#7637)
  • (Android) Fix green artifacts when transcoding to DASH (#7578)
  • (DVR) Keep Certain channel data from causing EPG to fail entirely for all channels (#7728)
  • (DVR) Exclude duplicate/past airings on other channels in EPG data so they show in the timeline correctly. (#7699)
  • (DVR) Deadlock when tuning live (#7684)
  • (Transcoder) Deadlock during playback (#7710)

New in Plex Media Server 1.9.6 Plex Pass (Oct 25, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.23.1
  • FIXES:
  • (Statistics) Add database fixup to cleanup statistics tables (#7520)
  • (DVR) Resolve crash when recording radio channels or channels without video stream (#7229)
  • (Search) Duplicate albums/tracks could be returned in search.
  • (Photos) Videos added via Camera Upload might have the wrong date (#7517).
  • (Sync) Clients wouldn't account for files bigger than 2GB when calculating the used space. (#7664)
  • (Companion) A crash could occur when using companion (#7689)
  • (Transcoder) Playback could fail near the end of a video, most often when using automatic quality. (#7691)

New in Plex Media Server 1.9.5 Plex Pass (Oct 11, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • (Trailers) Allow specifying preroll with a file path.
  • (Trailers) Allow specifying alternate prerolls with file paths separated by semicolon.
  • (Trailers) Allow specifying sequential prerolls with file paths separated by comma.
  • (Update Channels) New release channels names. "PlexPass" channel is now named "Beta".
  • FIXES:
  • (Streaming Brain) Rare deadlock that could occur when seeking (#7590)
  • (Photos) Photo timestamps read from EXIF tags were recorded incorrectly when Daylight Saving Time is in effect (#7577)
  • (DVR) Properly set all images for EyeQ channels (#7428)
  • (Transcoder) Seeks may not be processed under rare circumstances (#7599)
  • (Streaming Brain) Temporarily burn subtitles in for DASH Auto-Quality, in cases where the subs could be lost on a quality change (#7597)

New in Plex Media Server 1.9.4 Plex Pass (Oct 9, 2017)

  • FIXES:
  • (Hubs) Opening a photo discovery hub may cause the server to crash (#7624)
  • (DVR) A rare crash when using DVR or Live TV (#7632)

New in Plex Media Server 1.9.3 Plex Pass (Sep 29, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • (Hubs) Massive speedup to discovery hubs via caching system
  • (iOS) Allow syncing ALAC music without conversion.
  • FIXES:
  • (Transcoder) Portrait videos would be stretched out when being transcoded (#7287)
  • (Music) Artist album sorting was sometimes overridden incorrectly (#7349)
  • (Network) Fallback to IPv4 only if IPv6 networking fails to setup (#7382)
  • (Transcoder) Extracting chapter thumbnails could use significant memory (#7397)
  • (Scanner) Some plexignore rules were not being applied for photo libraries (#5866)
  • (DVR) Setups with multiple HDHomeRun tuners now properly tune on both (#7417)
  • (Relay) Don't attempt to load ~/.ssh/config on macOS/Linux (#7528)

New in Plex Media Server 1.9.2.4285 (Sep 25, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.20.8

New in Plex Media Server 1.9.1 (Plex Pass) (Sep 19, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • (Crash Reporting) Preference to opt out of crash reporting
  • (Privacy) Updates for new privacy policy
  • FIXES:
  • (Transcoder) Deadlocks when performing concurrent static and streaming transcodes (#7554)

New in Plex Media Server 1.9.0 (Plex Pass) (Sep 11, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • (Streaming Brain) ABR streams will now balance their BW usage among each other (#7414)
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Sort by release date more sensibly in the Program Guide - Movies view (#6981)
  • (DVR) Fixed intermittent crash when tuning live TV (#7383)
  • (DVR) Recorded shows were occasionally mistagged based on show year (#7328)
  • (DVR) In certain cases, tuners could be shared inappropriately, leading to bad behavior (#7170)
  • (Streaming Brain) Reduced wasted segments during quality change (#6623)
  • (Transcoder) Portrait videos would be stretched out when being transcoded (#7287)
  • (Music) Artist album sorting was sometimes overridden incorrectly (#7349)
  • (DVR) Parse timestamps out of XMLTV orignial air date fields (#7379)
  • (Hubs) Crashes when getting hubs (#7419)
  • (Transcoder) Potential deadlock with static and streaming transcodes (#7410)

New in Plex Media Server 1.8.4.4249 (Sep 8, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.20.5
  • FIXES:
  • (NAS) Asustor ARM builds would fail to start

New in Plex Media Server 1.8.2 (Sep 5, 2017)

  • (Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.20.4

New in Plex Media Server 1.8.2 (Plex Pass) (Aug 31, 2017)

  • (LiveTV) Stability improvements

New in Plex Media Server 1.8.1 (Plex Pass) (Aug 15, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.14.1
  • FIXED:
  • (Play Queues) Skipping to the same item in a play queue would not update the id accordingly (#7248)
  • (Preferences) Hide auto-update preference on platforms that don't support it (#7332)
  • (Streaming Brain) Allow clients to buffer more when at max quality (#6624)
  • (Serialization) /status/sessions endpoint for playbacks with multiple Media elements wasn't serialized to JSON correctly (#7344)
  • (DVR) Log tuner make/model and support status when media grabs start (#7167)
  • (DVR) Tuning could fail on some channels (#7313)
  • (DVR) Analysis could incorrectly report 9000fps. Please re-analyse problematic files
  • (Photos) Bad data saved inside Exposure EXIF tags could cause analysis to crash (#6822)
  • (Serialization) Requesting /media/providers as JSON no longer crashes PMS (#7354)
  • (Android) Green tint in software-decoded video (#7385)
  • (Transcoder) Crashes when playing VP8 content (#7281) (#7359)

New in Plex Media Server 1.8.0 (Plex Pass) (Jul 31, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.11.0
  • FIXED:
  • (DVR) Various rare crashes
  • (Photos) Missing date attribute on home videos leads to incorrect timeline view. (#6791)
  • (DVR) Stop blacklisting infomercials in EyeQ program guide data (#7188)
  • (DVR) Avoid crash with when loading program guide data for certain channels in Denmark (#7274)
  • (Playback) Deadlocks could occur during playback (#7201)
  • (Transcoder) Some AVI files would fail to transcode (#7164)
  • (Analysis) Rare crashes during analysis (#7190)
  • (Transcoder) HLS segment durations could be incorrectly calculated (#7266)

New in Plex Media Server 1.7.6 (Plex Pass) (Jul 12, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.10.0
  • (Local Media Agent) Add support for ietf subtitle language extensions
  • (DVR) Use MPEGTS for all DVR recordings
  • FIXED:
  • (Photos) Support dates before 1970 for photos (#5926)
  • (Webhooks) Images were not being sent (#7191)
  • (DVR) Failed to find paths to XMLTV files in Windows (#6776)

New in Plex Media Server 1.7.4 (Plex Pass) (Jun 27, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.9.1
  • (DVR) Support for WinTV-HVR-22XX PCIe tuners
  • (DVR) Support for timeshift in live streams (requires upcoming iOS v4.14 and Android TV v6.2 app releases)
  • (Butler) Allow server updates triggered from client apps to occur during nightly maintenance (#6246)
  • FIXED:
  • (Windows) Failures when transcoding with EAE
  • (Windows) Cygwin1.dll reported as insecure by Secunia PSI, updated to 2.8.0
  • (Windows) Failures transcoding AAC on older versions of Windows when using the Media Foundation AAC Encoder (#7132)
  • (Butler) Clean up previous updaters during maintenance. PMS will keep the previous three updates (#4510)
  • (Photos) Moving files between folders inside the same section may result in the timeline view becoming inconsistent.
  • (Xbox 360) Videos with MP3 audio could go out-of-sync. (#6989)
  • (Discovery) Improve quality of related media on movie/show pages.
  • (DVR) Under certain circumstances, duplicate recordings could occur (#7144)
  • (DVR) Some supported WinTV models were not detected
  • (DVR) TVButler was not detected on Ubuntu/CentOS/Fedora/Synology (#7162)
  • (SHEILD) Transcoded videos were incorrectly cropped

New in Plex Media Server 1.7.3 (Plex Pass) (Jun 14, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • (DVR) Support of extra versions of the WinTV QuadHD
  • FIXED:
  • (Linux) RPM package would overwrite repo files on upgrades. (#7078)
  • (Chromecast) Multi-channel audio would not play back on updated devices (#7089)
  • (Companion) Remote control could be unreliable in some cases (e.g. Xbox One) (#3635)
  • (Sync) Shared users would not see sync updates in the web UI
  • (Hubs) Disabled upcoming movie trailer hub (#7099)

New in Plex Media Server 1.7.2 (Plex Pass) (May 31, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.7.0
  • FIXED:
  • (Metadata) Use 16x9 aspect ratios for 480p and 576p resolution limits. (#6795)
  • (MDE) Corrected codec decision to prefer AAC over MP3 when on windows (#6737)
  • (DVR) Stutter during playback of remuxed DVR recordings (#7070)
  • (Tags) Tags including numbers were sorted incorrectly (#7027)
  • (DVR) Multiple concurrent recordings could not be made with the HDHR Dual (#6934)

New in Plex Media Server 1.4.4.3495 (Mar 17, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.1.1.
  • FIXES:
  • (DVR) Deadlock scheduling recordings. (#6468)
  • (DVR) Deadlock recording while scanning photo libraries. (#6405)
  • (DVR) Deadlock downloading EPG data. (#6504)
  • (DVR) Issues recording content when remuxing to MKV from DVB-T/T2 sources. (#6498)
  • (Streaming Brain) Rare deadlock estimating client bandwidth. (#6505)
  • (DLNA) DLNA Server might start even when the setting was disabled. (#6469)
  • (On Deck) On Deck episodes weren't showing for managed users with restrictions. (#6387)
  • (Transcoder) Matroska streams were missing duration metadata (causing playback issues on Chrome and some LG TVs). (#6462)
  • (Media Analysis) Audio format in MP4/M4V containers was incorrectly detected (causing playback issues on the Roku). (#6439)
  • (Media Analysis) Excessive logging analyzing certain files. (#6339)
  • (Media Analysis) Restore detection of header compression in Matroska containers. (#6460)

New in Plex Media Server 1.4.3.3433 (Mar 3, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.0.1.
  • FIXES:
  • (Streaming Brain) Occasional crashes when per-user bandwidth limits were enabled.
  • (Subtitles) Issues playing soft subtitles with certain clients.
  • (Database) Performance issues or deadlocks optimizing the database while scanning photo libraries.
  • (Metadata) Preserve customized text fields when unmatching.
  • (Metadata) Display issues with cast members for certain shows.
  • (DLNA) Crash setting preferences when preference string in settings was corrupt.

New in Plex Media Server 1.3.4 (Feb 2, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated Plex Web to 2.13.0
  • (Media Flags) Updated bundle to 2016-12-22 (#6033)
  • FIXES:
  • (DLNA) Crash browsing to certain photo library sections. (#5874)
  • (Streaming Brain) Certain videos might transcode instead even when enough bandwidth was available to direct play. (#6085) (#6216)

New in Plex Media Server 1.3.3.3148 (Dec 16, 2016)

  • Fixes:
  • (Web) Updated Plex Web to 2.12.5.
  • (DLNA) Transcoded videos weren't showing up on older Sony TVs and Blu-ray players. (#5902)
  • (Photos) Video clips in photo sections might have incorrect dates. (#5924)
  • (Media Optimizer) Version file names would replace non-ASCII characters with underscores. (#5944)
  • (Transcoder) Issues playing some MPEG-TS videos. (#5977)
  • (Transcoder) Issues burning PGS subtitles on Western Digital PR devices. (#6013)
  • (Transcoder) Issues encoding H.264 on the NVIDIA SHIELD. (#5921)
  • (TV) Episodes without season and episode numbers were sorting ahead of all others. (#5777)
  • (TV) Scanning a show with a new episode could leave the episode unlinked to its series until a library refresh. (#5939)
  • (Search) Better disambiguation of matching search results. (#5785)
  • (Search) Searches might return other users' playlists. (#5972)
  • (Scanner) Changing the case of a filename would completely recreate the item on case-insensitive filesystems. (#5935)
  • (Media Analysis) Pre-play pages weren't always triggering a media analysis refresh when needed.
  • A number of user-reported crashes. (#5788) (#5981) (#5894) (#5991) (#5993) (#5994) (#5995) (#5997) (#5999)

New in Plex Media Server 1.3.2.3112 (Dec 9, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • (NAS) Improve support for Western Digital MyCloud PR2100 and PR4100 devices.
  • FIXES:
  • (Localization) Updated server translation text. (#5908)

New in Plex Media Server 1.2.7.2987 (Nov 9, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • (Web) Updated Plex Web to 2.10.10
  • (Media Flags) Updated bundle
  • FIXES:
  • Playback issues on Roku, iOS and other platforms. (#5715)
  • Occasional server hangs during video playback. (#5505) (#5658)

New in Plex Media Server 1.2.6.2975 (Nov 6, 2016)

  • FIXES:
  • (TV) Issues playing transcoded music on the PlayStation 4 and other TV and Web apps. (#5703)

New in Plex Media Server 1.2.5.2966 (Nov 4, 2016)

  • FIXES
  • (Music) Issues scanning premium music libraries. (#5684)
  • (Metadata) Issues obtaining preview images from fanart.tv. (#5665)

New in Plex Media Server 1.2.0.2838 DVR Beta 3 (Oct 25, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • Show current device state on DVR screen (e.g. if missing).
  • Allow enabling/disabling all channels on mapping screen.
  • Added XMLTV support into the setup wizard.
  • Remember last recording section/location by type (e.g. Shows, Sports, News)
  • DVR settings for pre/post-padding, used as template for new subs.
  • DVR settings for post-processing.
  • Cast images on show/movie screens.
  • FIXED:
  • Airing timeslots sometimes showed numbers (e.g. 3600).
  • Annoying crash loading EPG.
  • Smooth out progress during EPG load.
  • Additional speedups for EPG loading.
  • Always respect recording location (even for existing shows).
  • Occasionally, an episode number in the EPG could be incorrect.
  • Occasionally, recordings could abort prematurely with a timeout.
  • Some 1080i media wasn't being recognized as interlaced.
  • Lots of additional fixes as part of re-sync with upstream.

New in Plex Media Server 1.2.0.2765 DVR Beta 2 (Oct 25, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • Get cast images for both EPG providers (makes initial EPG download a bit slower, but cached after that).
  • Add genre, cast for eyeQ EPG (e.g. Australia).
  • When possible, use Sports/News libraries for eyeQ EPG.
  • When possible add "premiere" flags for eyeQ EPG.
  • (UI) Highlight sidebar links when the Recording Schedule or Program Guide are open.
  • (UI) Show cast list for shows within the Program Guide.
  • Add a timeslot preference for specifying which airings should be recorded.
  • Experimental support for running a post-processing step after recording (details below)
  • FIXES:
  • (UI) Added button to cancel DVR recording in rare case where libraries were deleted.
  • (UI) Fixed the Languages tab in server settings.
  • (UI) Fixed an endless loop when playing the same item in sequence.
  • Allow the Download link in the item menu to be copied.
  • Support for missing HDHomeRun devices (HDHR3-6CC-3X2 & HDTC-2US-M).
  • Sped up OnConnect EPG loading over the network.
  • Always show the "New Episodes Tonight" hub, even during prime time window.
  • Sped up abysmally slow JSON parsing (factor of 20x) used in OnConnect EPG.
  • An issue where streaming video to Apple TV and other clients could reporting issues buffering.
  • An issue where Plex Sync with iOS wouldn't work correctly.
  • Occasionally, the first EPG load would start loading a few hours in the future.
  • Don't allow the "!" character in filenames, it seems to be occasionally illegal.
  • Transcoder errors no longer lead to recording success.
  • All reported issues with XMLTV import. Next beta will have UI around it.
  • HD-only subscriptions weren't working properly.
  • In some cases, eyeQ EPG didn't load more than 25 channels.
  • A bug recording only new airings
  • In some cases, eyeQ EPG could be missing airings (for lacking data).
  • Use official "Season XX" folder naming for file locations.
  • Occasionally on startup, subscriptions could be processed prematurely, leading to empty calendar.
  • In some cases, multiple sports games on a single day could be merged.

New in Plex Media Server 1.2.0.2716 DVR Beta (Sep 2, 2016)

  • Allows you to record high definition, over-the-air television broadcasts using HDHomeRun devices from our DVR launch partner, SiliconDust. Our DVR program guide supports channels in more than 70 countries. Check out the HDHomeRun for current tuner support in your area (they even have a model that supports CableCARD!). According to Nielsen Media Research, 86 of the 100 most-watched shows in the U.S. are available for free, including shows from all major US networks like ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, and CW, as well as local programming, news, and sports.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.16.6.1993 (Apr 27, 2016)

  • New:
  • Various updates to Services and Media Flags.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.16.4.1911 (Apr 8, 2016)

  • New:
  • Update Plex/Web to 2.6.0
  • Fixes:
  • Media Optimizer) Episodes from shows whose titles have trailing periods might be repeatedly reprocessed (on Windows).
  • Media Optimizer) Transcoded special episodes weren't following the naming convention.
  • Media Optimizer) Optimized versions could be automatically deleted while being watched.
  • Transcoder) Transcoder process crashes weren't being reliably detected on non-Windows platforms.
  • Transcoder) Issues transcoding music files with high sampling rates.
  • Transcoder) The highest quality audio encoder wasn't always selected with Direct Streaming disabled.
  • DLNA) Crashes entering movie sections with Samsung Smart TV DLNA client.
  • Windows) Show tray icon on recent Windows Insider Preview builds.
  • Windows) Overwrite older files more reliably during setup.
  • Metadata) Download higher quality artist posters from last.fm.
  • Metadata) Fix top tracks for music libraries.
  • Metadata) Missing Rotten Tomatoes metadata when movie has no trailers and language is not set to English
  • PS4) Certain images weren't being cached while browsing.
  • Web) Plex Pass privileges weren't being recognized on first sign-in.
  • Issues with .plexignore files.
  • Issues with playback from some unofficial Plex Channels.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.16.3.1840 (Mar 22, 2016)

  • New:
  • Update Plex/Web to 2.5.9
  • Fixes:
  • New installs weren't offering a simple way to sign into plex.tv
  • Transcoded music playback was failing on Playstation 3 and 4 apps

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.16.2.1827 (Mar 19, 2016)

  • New:
  • (NAS) Support Synology DS414j, DS416j and DSM 6.0 Beta
  • Fixes:
  • (Windows) Occasional HTTP 500 errors when playing media.
  • (NAS) Warn if the Synology DSM version is too old.
  • (Transcoder) In rare cases, clients might see partial files when downloading segmented WebVTT subtitles.
  • (Transcoder) Failures transcoding online content with limited media analysis info.
  • (Transcoder) Don't select an unavailable media item for playback when another one is available.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.15.6.1714 (Feb 24, 2016)

  • Fixes:
  • Multiple subtitles in a single file could be lost after a metadata update
  • Auto-update could require a manual install in some cases
  • (Roku) Improve stability resuming video over HLS
  • (Windows) Simplify auto-update experience
  • (Windows) Never reboot after a media server auto-update
  • (Windows) Fix license link in 'about' dialog

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.15.3.1674 (Feb 17, 2016)

  • Fixes:
  • (Media Optimizer) Crash after video transcode with certain subtitle configurations.
  • (Sync)(Windows) Issues ensuring transcode directory is writable.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.15.2.1663 (Jan 26, 2016)

  • New:
  • (iOS) Sync soft subtitles to iOS clients.
  • Advanced preference to set the x264 preset used with background transcodes.
  • (Windows) Plex Media Server now requires the latest service pack or update, when installed on Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8.1.
  • Fixes:
  • (Windows) Address installation errors on systems missing a required service pack or operating system update.
  • (Media Optimizer) Processing wouldn't always restart to handle newly-added library content.
  • (Sync) Sync item configuration changes weren't being picked up immediately.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.14.6.1620 (Dec 23, 2015)

  • Fixes:
  • (Sync) Stability improvements
  • (Windows) Improve handling of library sections pointed at the root of a volume
  • Occasional failures detecting Internet connectivity
  • Signing out didn't always work

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.12.19.1537 (Nov 7, 2015)

  • Fixes:
  • Improved subtitle handling on Apple TV
  • Improved Direct Play support on Apple TV

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.12.18.1520 (Oct 30, 2015)

  • Impove remote control reliability in certain cases.
  • Improved audio codec handling for an unreleased app for an unreleased fruit-themed device.
  • Check non-primary languages in OpenSubtitles agent.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.12.17 (Oct 30, 2015)

  • A case where composites for photo albums didn't display correctly.
  • Fix for resuming video on an unreleased app for an unreleased fruit-themed device.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.12.16 (Oct 30, 2015)

  • Premium music libraries could lose track titles on library refresh

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.12.14 (Oct 30, 2015)

  • Improved Sync stability
  • Fix a crash during multiple simultaneous calls to /prefs endpoint.
  • Fix a transcoder crash on transcode session shutdown.
  • Turn on HTTP caching for photo transcoder endpoint.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.12.13.1464 (Oct 7, 2015)

  • Fix a new issue where background artwork wasn't returned correctly in some cases.
  • Sync: Fix an issue where sync item status wasn't updated.
  • In some cases, extras weren't downloaded for movies.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.12.11.1406 (Oct 7, 2015)

  • Fix the local media agent not starting correctly.
  • Fix a possible crash when updating premium music libraries.
  • Fix an issue that caused remuxing and audio conversion on some ARMv7 and PPC platforms to fail.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.12.8.1362 (Oct 7, 2015)

  • Fix for remote access in certain cases involving proxies.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.12.4.1192 (Jun 23, 2015)

  • FIXES:
  • Enable remux on PPC platforms.
  • Tweak for HTTP request timer
  • Improvements to filesystem watching functionality.
  • A rare issue where the transcoded video became extremely low resolution.
  • More improvements to search with non-latin characters.
  • Improved sorting by duration.
  • (Sync) Various bugfixes.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.12.3.1173 (Jun 5, 2015)

  • NEW:
  • Let there be HTTPS!
  • FIXES:
  • An issue editing tags with commas and other special characters.
  • Track mood editing issue.
  • Don't create duplicate playlists when importing from iTunes during first scan.
  • Localization on Linux wasn't working.
  • Improve reliablity of online presence detection.
  • Crash on startup due to corrupted cache file (thanks, sa2000!)
  • An issue where DASH streaming would fail if certain audio streams were selected.
  • (Windows) User installs of Python could interfere.
  • (Western Digital) Package improvements.
  • (Ubuntu) Fix config path issue.
  • (Ubuntu) Do not run systemctl on non systemd installs.
  • (Sync) Logging improvements.
  • (Sync) Analyze media items on-the-fly if needed.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.12.2 (Jun 5, 2015)

  • NEW:
  • Allow agents to provide sort titles.
  • Read sort titles from ID3 tags in local media agent.
  • Allow seasons to have artwork.
  • If you reparent items to a new artist, kick off a match/refresh automatically.
  • Replace "zero star" filter with "not rated".
  • FIXES:
  • Improvements to searching (ignore diacritics, word-start matching).
  • Don't make media bundles for tracks (saves 10 directories per track). Empty bundles to fix.
  • Fix a case in which partial scanning could make media go missing until the next scan.
  • Fix occasional duplicate seasons in Recently Added hubs.
  • Similar artists were ordered incorrectly.
  • (OS X) Code-signing issue on 10.10.4.
  • (Linux) Lots of fixes for scanning libraries based on filesystem changes.
  • (Transcoder) Specify correct H.264 level.
  • Fix randomness on New Music Videos hub.
  • (Sync) Don't sync the wrong (not selected) audio streams.
  • Don't allow bogus formatted dates to make their way into the database.
  • Recently Added seasons often didn't show up in top-level hubs, they were ordered wrong.
  • (DLNA) Fix broken artwork on PS3 and other issues (since 0.9.12.0).
  • Change request time logging to wallclock time (thanks, sa2000!)
  • Fix files on OS X with "\" characters always showing up in Recently Added.
  • A few crashes.
  • (Scanner) Fixes and improvments when "respecting tags".
  • (Scanner) A few more multi-disc fixes.
  • (Scanner) Fixed a few exceptions which could prevent removed tracks from disappearing.
  • (Agents) Improvments getting metadata for bands with few listeners on Last.FM.
  • (Agents) Fixes where artist artwork wasn't being downloaded in some cases (thanks, sandman4sure!)
  • (Agents) A case where popular tracks wasn't working.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.12.1.1079 (May 5, 2015)

  • NEW:
  • Enable iTunes importing code for UNIX; set advanced preference with path to library XML.
  • Support for decade-based filtering for movies and albums.
  • Add a hidden preference for sorting albums (AlbumSort, with default value "year:desc", you can set "year", "title", etc.).
  • Add a new library preference to tell scanner to respect media tags (for new libraries).
  • FIXES:
  • A crash shortly after startup.
  • (Windows) Scanner might not pick up new media, or might stop in the middle.
  • A few other crashes and minor stability issues.
  • Fix install/uninstall issues on Ubuntu/Mint.
  • Fixed possible issue locking out an alternate admin user on Synology

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.12.0.1071 (Apr 30, 2015)

  • New:
  • Korean and Hungarian translations.
  • Massive speedups for HTTP server.
  • Keep music in the library automatically refreshed via scheduled task.
  • Added Similar Artists feature.
  • Match and download metadata as we scan for movies and music.
  • Added Recently Viewed Episodes hub.
  • Add upcoming concert dates for artists.
  • Music videos for tracks and artists. Vevo videos for Plex Pass.
  • Plex Mix (Plex Pass only).
  • Capture album year, and artwork (Plex Pass music scanner only) during scan.
  • Added Continue Watching hub for home videos.
  • Add sorting for TV shows based on number of unwatched episodes.
  • Added multi-disc support in music libraries.
  • Add two music video hubs for music libraries.
  • Add a "throwback" hub for artists you haven’t listened to in X.
  • Add track filter for moods (Plex Pass only).
  • Add Track rating filter.
  • Support for PS3/4 audio transcoding.
  • Allow artists to have countries, allow filtering by country.
  • Allow filtering albums by studio.
  • Scan new media first.
  • Improve background on-the-fly media analysis. Analyze albums on-the-fly.
  • Add sorting by "Played At and "Play Count" for artists and albums.
  • Strip diacriticals and macrons from sort titles and use for searching.
  • Use filesystem times for “added at” during first scan.
  • Import play counts during iTunes import.
  • (API) Add director search provider to global search results.
  • (API) Add group=X feature to the filtering language.
  • (API) Support for batch editing, field autocompletion.
  • (API) Support for deleting composite types (e.g. albums).
  • (API) Support for computing common fields between multiple items.
  • Fixes:
  • Be smarter about when to merge identical albums and when to separate.
  • Fix recently played hubs to not return things with zero play count.
  • (OS X) Fix an issue where App Nap could affect server performance.
  • (Windows) iTunes latest 64-bit release was broken.
  • Improve searching to start at word boundaries.
  • Clear playlist composite when clearing playlist.
  • Order various artists albums by name, other artists by year descending.
  • Speed up various endpoints, including play queue creation.
  • Fix a few hubs crashes.
  • Don’t scan right away on filesystem changes when starting up.
  • Delete unused tags and taggings during database maintenance.
  • Many performance and stability improvements.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.11.1.678 (Oct 16, 2014)

  • NEW:
  • Added Hebrew translation.
  • FIXES:
  • Rapid seeking could lead to video playback stopping.
  • Improved reliabilty around publishing network connections.
  • Use TLS instead of SSLv3 when talking to plex.tv.
  • (DASH) More reliable seeking.
  • (ReadyNAS) Fix logo not appearing.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.11.0 (Oct 16, 2014)

  • NEW:
  • New translations for Dutch, French, German, Arabic, Norweigan, Italian, Czech, Belgian and Spanish.
  • Improved connection publishing when network changes.
  • Synology) DSM 5.0 is now the mimumum version required.
  • FIXES:
  • Theme music was not working.
  • Transcoder throttling was broken.
  • ReadyNAS) Transcoding could fail on a clean install.
  • unRAID) The 32-bit package was broken.
  • Synology) Require DSM 5.0.
  • XB1) Prefer AC3 to AAC for multichannel audio.
  • Sometimes trailers for already watched movies could be shown.
  • Sometimes trailers for the main feature could be shown.
  • An issue where upgrade from a much older version could result in the server not working.
  • Playing an album and then queueing an album would interleave track.
  • A case where some media wouldn't be detected as anamorphic.
  • Fix a case where we were returning invalid redirects.
  • In some cases where metadata bundles were missing, refresh could go into a loop.
  • Custom library icons were broken.
  • Detect and disallow adding duplicates to a play queue.
  • Windows) Fix icon in about dialog.
  • Transcoder statistics weren't being sent up (speed, progress).

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.10.3 (Oct 16, 2014)

  • NEW:
  • Media server is now localized
  • FIXES:
  • An issue shuffling all episodes.
  • Improve Cinema Trailer selection when video has unknown content rating.
  • After a network issue, the server could become unresponsive.
  • The media analysis scheduled task could make the server unresponsive.
  • When shuffling a play queue, ensure current item is at the start.
  • Transcoding subtitles which didn't exist could cause a crash.
  • Some files were not getting thumbnails during media analysis.
  • Fix transcoder to handle some MPEG files properly.
  • An issue affecting video streaming to the Android TV.
  • Some cases in which graphics (posters, art) could end up partially downloaded.
  • Make sure selected graphics are stored (could result in missing locked graphics).
  • An issue where missing metadata could result in low-resolution graphics.
  • An issue where the transcoded video could show "technicolor snow".
  • Inconsistent unwatched episode count in some cases.
  • Windows) Fix the icon.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.10.1 (Oct 16, 2014)

  • FIXES:
  • A crash related to some network operations
  • A (long-standing) port-mapping related crash on OS X (due to a bug in system libraries)
  • Repeatedly moving playlist items to the top could fail
  • If the server did an on-the-fly refresh, extras wouldn't show up (would work second time)
  • Recently viewed shows weren't updated if episodes where only partially watched (thanks, ClunkClunk!)
  • Recently Added (in iOS, e.g) was missing things compared to the display in the web app
  • Videos with colorspaces other than YUV420p might have playback issues

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.10.0 (Oct 16, 2014)

  • NEW:
  • Improved reliability in media analysis and transcoding.
  • Improved quality in video transcoding.
  • Improved speed in video transcoding, especially when starting new sessions and when seeking.
  • Support for transcoding a number of new formats, including H.265/HEVC.
  • Much-improved support for styled Advanced SubStation subtitles (primarily used in anime).
  • Improved support for SRT subtitles, especially those including bidirectional text and Unicode characters.
  • Support for 64-bit UnRAID systems.
  • Support for PPC Thecus systems.
  • An improved default subtitle font, now used across all platforms.
  • Support for HTTPS channel content.
  • Removed support for legacy Flash and Silverlight channels.
  • Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are no longer supported.
  • The legacy transcoder, which is available as an option in some Plex clients, will be removed soon. Please be sure to report specific cases where you still see better results when using it.
  • FIXES:
  • Ratings no longer display floating point weirdness.
  • Handle file I/O failures gracefully when streaming media.
  • Fix and speed up for Recently Viewed Shows.
  • Fix a rare case in which play queues could repeat items.
  • Playlists with TV shows might not have a duration or item count.
  • Shutdown the database cleanly on exit, so we don't have -wal/shm files left around.
  • Run library analysis in the background so request isn't long-running.
  • Issues with menu icon on Yosemite.
  • Fix jaggies with Windows icon.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.9.14.531 (Aug 4, 2014)

  • FIXES:
  • An issue with high CPU in windowserver on Yosemite and Mavericks.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.9.13.525 (Aug 4, 2014)

  • NEW:
  • Playlists!
  • Extras!
  • Import from iTunes feature for libraries including smart playlist import.
  • (API) Support for blur, saturation, and alpha blending on image transcode endpoint.
  • (API) Support for rich "composite" images.
  • (API) Support for "starts with" and "ends with" operators in filters.
  • (API) Allow null values for ID fields.
  • (API) Add support for "limit=X" in filters.
  • Support for skip count and skip date.
  • Hey! A brand new sexy application icon.
  • Added a new preference to limit Cloud Sync upload speed.
  • FIXES:
  • Default account language to english as opposed to nothing at all.
  • An issue with continuous play on items with same air date.
  • Massive (like 50x) speedup for global Recently Added endpoint.
  • Items inserted into the past in a play queue when adding to 'up next' after playing through.
  • Failure transcoding some channel content.
  • Sometimes we generated invalid JSON.
  • Fix an issue where sometimes sync items would fail to process or upload.
  • Array
  • On occasion, transcoder would transcode audio when it should remux.
  • An ordering bug getting background art from all libraries.
  • A bug where an item could end up in a refresh loop.
  • Server could end up hanging during nighly DB optimization task.
  • Selected art could be reset on refresh if it was generated art.
  • Tweaks for menubar icon on Yosemite.
  • Speed up deleting transcode temporary directories.
  • Play queues were returning all available alternate media for items.
  • Various crashes.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.9.12 (Aug 4, 2014)

  • FIXES:
  • Crash handling concurrent HTTP connections
  • Crash uploading CloudSync files
  • Other miscellaneous crashes

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.9.11 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • NEW
  • Massive speedup for paged queries (50-100x faster per page for larger libraries).
  • API) Support for playlists.
  • API) Support for composite thumbs.
  • API) Return season count for shows.
  • Transcoder) Handle all orientations for video.
  • FIXES
  • Transcoder) Fix for files with low audio sample rates.
  • Transcoder) An issue where iPhone tall-screen videos weren't rotated correctly.
  • Chromecast) 720p files with >4 ref frames now Direct Stream.
  • API) Minor fixes for play queue functionality.
  • Take extra care to compute H.264 level during analysis.
  • Roku) In some cases, channels could take a long time to buffer.
  • A case where the server would hang consuming CPU, related to Roku and media index files.
  • HTTP server times out when sending/receiving data too slowly, which could result in the server hanging.
  • Only send play notifications to admin user over websocket.
  • An issue where setting multiple artwork types quickly could fail.
  • Default TheMovieDB to being above Freebase.
  • Fixed a case where authentication sometimes didn't work correctly for IPv6 addresses.
  • Windows) Fix a case where Camera Upload processor would fail to delete temp files.
  • On first run, sometimes server wouldn't end up signed in.
  • Be more careful detecting duplicates for Camera Upload.
  • In some cases, subtitle stream languages aren't displayed correctly.
  • Sync) Fix an issue with missing channel thumbs.
  • Sync) Fix an issue where files sometimes never get processed.
  • DLNA) Fix access to shared severs.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.9.10.458 (Jun 5, 2014)

  • Fixes:
  • High CPU and failure to load agents on ARM NAS devices.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.9.7.429 (Mar 14, 2014)

  • FIXES:
  • (Synology) Fixed installation on DSM 5.0
  • Fixed an issue where non-direct played Roku video took a long time to start.
  • Fixed syncing RAW photos (for real).

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.9.6 (Mar 14, 2014)

  • NEW:
  • (API) Added /library/section/prefs?type=X for library preferences
  • Report back product so that web app can show icon for DLNA plays
  • Support for enhanced streaming when using Chrome
  • Support sharing even when connecting to plex.tv fails because of NAT
  • FIXES:
  • Fix a crash in the scheduled task for media analysis
  • Fix a few cases where web's Now Playing information was out of date
  • Windows) Fix a case where spaces in the filename caused the transcoder to fail
  • Fix a crash when cleaning bundles
  • Fix a potential crash when uploading to Bitcasa
  • Fix an issue when using the new "Disc Image" scanners
  • Fix an issue syncing large RAW images
  • Increase number of database sessions, should improve performance
  • Fix a few miscellaneous field-reported crashes

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.905.411 (Mar 14, 2014)

  • FIXES:
  • Fix a possible source of sleep prevention.
  • Fix for playback of some channels with Chromecast.
  • Transcoder fix for Chromecast.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.8.14 (Dec 23, 2013)

  • NEW:
  • Updated ffmpeg used in media analysis, should help in many ways.
  • Track stream titles and codec ID in media analysis.
  • FIXES:
  • Improve connectivity to myPlex.
  • Massive improvements to Universal Transcoder quality. Fixes issues with artifacts.
  • Increase audio bitrate at higher qualities.
  • Failure to re-publish server after connectivity issue.
  • Don't log passwords. For real.
  • Subtitle encoding detection improved for eastern European languages.
  • DLNA) Improve photo rendering.
  • Sync) An issue with a bogus resource path.
  • Windows) Eliminate a number of crashes.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.8.4.125 (Aug 19, 2013)

  • Multi-user mode:
  • All the users you share media with (inside and outside the house) get their own view of it (e.g. On Deck, view history) , and can select custom audio/subtitles. You can use it with children to restrict their access to certain parts of your library (this is only the first baby step towards parental controls). This feature is PlexPass only
  • Now Playing:
  • A “control room” for your server, where you can see what everyone is watching. If you enable media index files, you can even see a super cool animation of fading thumbnails. This feature is also PlexPass only
  • Media Index Files:
  • This option indexes your media and allows for graphical seeking. The Roku and Android apps make use of it. Also PlexPass only. Might make lesser computers cry while it’s actually indexing the files
  • HTTPS support:
  • The media server listens on port 32443 for HTTPS connections
  • Prettier photo albums: We now auto-select a “cover” photo for your photo albums
  • DLNA fixes:
  • There have been a large number of fixes to DLNA. It’s mo betta
  • Other random goodness: Tons of fixes. Copious performance improvements
  • Drobo 5N support: Got one of these beautiful new devices? Get your Plex on

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.7.19 (Apr 1, 2013)

  • FIX: Explicitly close HTTP connections, fixes some issues with Android and PlexSync (e.g. Kindle Fire HD).
  • FIX: Send back correct video size in HLS playlist, should fix (most) aspect ratio issues in Plex/Web.
  • FIX: (Windows) Fix a possible issue running on older processors.
  • FIX: (Transcoder) More resiliency to corrupt H.264 streams.
  • FIX: (Transcoder) Fix some issues transcoding AVI files with H.264 video.
  • FIX: (Synology) Fixed startup issue.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.7.17 (Mar 14, 2013)

  • NEW: Auto-select forced subtitles. I don’t speak alien either.
  • NEW: (API) More information passed back at root level to aid PlexSync clients.
  • NEW: (API) Final transcode resolution passed back for transcode session endpoint.
  • NEW: (API) Add a “transcoderVideo” flag at root if we support transcoding video.
  • NEW: (API) Allow callers to specify a background color when transcoding to JPEG.
  • NEW: (API) Add viewStateUpdatedAt for global OnDeck to allow sorting.
  • NEW: (API) export library section UUIDs for PlexSync.
  • NEW: (Android) Add FLAC as a direct play profile (syncing at less than “highest” will convert to MP3).
  • NEW: Added device notifications for sync (in progress, item complete). Mostly helps Kepler.
  • NEW: (PlexSync) Support for syncing show banners.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Massive speedups for the new transcoder in many scenarios (sync, streaming, seeking). It should be 2x to 3x faster (around 2x faster than the old transcoder), and will resolve many issues of stuttering and buffering some have seen.
  • FIX: A bug where timed library updates might only happen every other interval.
  • FIX: A major regression with subtitles causing transcoder to exit on certain OS X systems.
  • FIX: A case where we didn’t allow the host system to sleep.
  • FIX: Improvements to audio stream picking heuristics.
  • FIX: A hang when WebKit transcodes failed.
  • FIX: Some EAC3 streams showed up as “EC-3?.
  • FIX: Use media analysis duration instead of likely meaningless metadata duration when possible.
  • FIX: Improved elastic thread pool behavior, less pressure on thread creation/destruction.
  • FIX: Fixed an issue where background color wasn’t correct in the image transcoder (fixes section icons on Roku).
  • FIX: (OS X) Fix auto-update library failing under certain conditions.
  • FIX: (OS X) Show Plex/Web preferences by default, option-click shows old Cocoa prefs.
  • FIX: Improve Kepler transcoder profile, add Plex/Web profile.
  • FIX: (ReadyNAS) Update packaging, fix temp folder path.
  • FIX: (Ubuntu) Upstart fix.
  • FIX: (Fedora) Fixes in scripts.
  • FIX: (Roku) Improve profile, disable anamorphic video.
  • FIX: (Kepler) Limit AAC to two channel, so 5.1 gets mixed down when streaming on mobile devices.
  • FIX: (Kepler) Fix for anamorphic video displaying incorrectly.
  • FIX: (Windows) Don’t let PYTHONPATH interfere with our Python. Fixes some startup issues.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Upgrade to ffmpeg 1.1.2
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Allow specifying max bitrate.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) MPEG4 inside AVI files didn’t work.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Allow for faster seeking for clients that support it.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Don’t send back blank segments when transcoder dies.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Allow other users access to transcode session information.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Use higher bitrate when converting other codecs to AAC.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Improve quality when transcoding interlaced content.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Greatly improved AAC audio quality.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Remove MP3 from iOS HLS transcode target.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Improved support for remuxing with multichannel audio.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Support transcoding between multi-channel formats.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) We failed with some content due to scaling bug (Vimeo, TED).
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Send more logs up to the media server to help diagnosing issues.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Fix an issue when remuxed videos failed or acted weirdly.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Fix issue with last character being missing in SRT subs.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Fix SRT subs showing tags.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Improve accuracy of bitrate in M3U8, helps Roku.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Improve bandwidth estimates for HLS.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Some indirect videos failed to play.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) We were generating MPEGTS streams which occasionally made the Roku crash.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Improve reliability of new transcoder when resuming.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Some VOBSUB subtitles inside MKV files weren’t burned.
  • FIX: (New transcoder) Some high bitrate stereo content failed to transcode.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.7.12 (Feb 6, 2013)

  • NEW: Greatly improved (Sync and Win8) transcoder subtitle burning: support SSA and SMI, fix crashes, fix subtitle sync when resuming video.
  • FIX: Scanning TV shows near the root directory of a volume didn’t work reliably.
  • FIX: Send Accept-Ranges: bytes HTTP header when answering requests for media. Fixes Win8 seeking in media.
  • FIX: DTS audio inside MP4 container could be incorrectly identified as mp4a during media analysis.
  • FIX: Transcoding certain media files could be pathologically slow. Thanks to Rodger for helping us diagnose the issue!
  • FIX: Transcoding video audio from MP3 to AAC would fail in some rare cases.
  • FIX: A/V sync issues transcoding Smooth Streaming to Windows 8 Store app.
  • FIX: Actor thumbnails weren’t being offered correctly to sync clients.
  • FIX: Removed unnecessary logging when running transcoder.
  • FIX: Add more logging when Win8 app loopback exemption can’t be added.
  • FIX: When a media asset is uploaded, it becomes the default.
  • FIX: Sync item status could be prematurely reported as complete.
  • FIX: Added iPad mini sync profile.
  • NEW: (API) Allow converting SMI to SRT (format=srt).
  • FIX: (Windows) Large log files when number of library paths exceeded 64.
  • FIX: (Sync) A few issues with sync status not being reported correctly.
  • FIX: (Transcoder) An A/V sync issue affecting Win8 app.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.7.11 (Jan 16, 2013)

  • FIX: Workaround for LG TVs rebooting.
  • FIX: (Windows) Lots of CPU, giants logs in some cases.
  • FIX: An issue scanning sections where the paths had trailing slashes (e.g. W:\).
  • FIX: MP4 files with DTS streams had them incorrectly identified as MP4a.
  • FIX: (Sync) A few issues with sync status not being reported correctly.
  • FIX: (Transcoder) An A/V sync issue affecting Windows 8 Plex app.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.7.9 (Jan 3, 2013)

  • NEW: Music sections support searching by album.
  • NEW: Massive performance improvements for some DLNA streaming scenarios.
  • NEW: Allow players to specify a protocol and respect their port.
  • NEW: (API) Support for filtering movies by studio.
  • NEW: (API) Support for sorting by last view date.
  • NEW: (API) Added endpoints for uploading custom media assets (e.g. posters). Used by Plex/Web.
  • FIX: Some cache control header updates.
  • FIX: A few crashes.
  • FIX: (Windows) Workaround for Win 8 security model preventing Plex for Windows 8 from connecting on same machine.
  • FIX: (Windows) Crash on start.
  • FIX: (Windows) 100% CPU when Plex for Windows 8 is running.
  • FIX: (Transcoder) External SRT files with BOM marker weren’t getting rendered.
  • FIX: (Transcoder) Faster startup.
  • FIX: (PlexSync) Transcoder now handles anamorphic video properly.
  • FIX: (PlexSync) Sometimes converted files could be bigger than source files.
  • FIX: (PlexSync) Ratings directory was missing.
  • FIX: (API) New /channels/arts endpoint which returns channel background art.
  • FIX: (API) Resolutions filter can be itself filtered.
  • FIX: (API) Don’t return empty studios.
  • FIX: (API) Global on deck has mixed parents.
  • FIX: (API) Make sure recently viewed channels have identifiers.
  • FIX: (API) Fix incorrectly escaping JSON.
  • FIX: (API) Fixes for media asset uploads, and select/lock upload.
  • FIX: (API) Fix alphanumeric paging with non-alphanumeric characters.
  • FIX: (DLNA) Hopeful fix for some heap corruption.
  • FIX: Fixed a few (very) rare deadlocks.
  • FIX: Fixed iTunes channel for iTunes 11.
  • FIX: (Sync) iPad 4s weren’t using the right profile.
  • FIX: (Transcoder) Faster starting for transcoded audio.
  • FIX: (Transcoder) Fixes for RTMP with new transcoder.
  • FIX: (Transcoder) Speed up WebKit transcoder starts.
  • FIX: (Transcoder) Fix for some remuxing cases with Win8.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.7.7 (Dec 4, 2012)

  • (Non OS X) Automatically merge movies when appropriate.
  • Fix a crash if there are any unexpected files in the transcode directory.
  • Fix a crash when scanning photos with certain EXIF data.
  • (OS X) Fixed an evil crash which occurred roughly once every day.
  • Don’t allow clients to cache segments, fixes IE10 video playback issue.
  • A few crashes that could be caused by proxies getting in the middle between server and myPlex.
  • (PlexSync) Added iPad 4 profile, fixed iPad 3 profile.
  • (PlexSync) Sync transcoder now works on 32-bit CPUs on Snow Leopard.
  • (PlexSync) Allow DirectPlay sync with subtitles (e.g. MP4/TTXT).
  • (PlexSync) Scrobble and library media addition/deletion kicks off sync worker. Fixes sync of recently added items.
  • (PlexSync) We skip over any invalid sync items instead of completely failing.
  • (PlexSync) Fix failed downloads of art/posters in some cases.
  • (PlexSync) Synced media subsections weren’t always in the right order.
  • (PlexSync) Video bitrate limit on ‘highest’ quality was removed.
  • (PlexSync) Fixed broken XML in some sync profiles
  • (PlexSync) Fixed an issue where the sync profile name was not constructed correctly.
  • (PlexSync) Work-around that the client sent the wrong model name
  • (PlexSync) Some sync profiles contained invalid transcoder options
  • (Linux) Pass along LANG variable, to assist agents who need to read filesystem.
  • (Linux) Crash signing out of myPlex or un-publishing server.
  • (Linux) Add the photo transcoder in for ARM architectures.
  • (Linux) Fixes for start-up scripts on Fedora and ReadyNAS
  • (Linux) Upgrade Sync Transcoder to support progress information.
  • (API) Fixes to /firstCharacter filters
  • (API) Allow filtering filters by resolution/unwatched, fixes filter issue.
  • (API) Don’t limit tag queries by metadata type if we have condition passed in.
  • (API) Fix when filtering on unwatched in /firstCharacter endpoint.
  • (API) Allow filter endpoints to use type in queries (e.g. album genres).

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.7.3 (Nov 21, 2012)

  • NEW: Read some EXIF data for photos and allow filtering on it.
  • NEW: Add support for filtering videos by resolution.
  • NEW: Improve filtering/sorting options for specific types.
  • NEW: Transcoder now goes idle when it gets ahead, saves CPU, helps multiple sessions coexist.
  • NEW: (DLNA) MPEGTS target supports transcode throttling (lower CPU usage).
  • NEW: (DLNA) MPEGTS target supports audio stream picking and subtitle burning.
  • NEW: Use Plex/Web for the default manager now across platforms (option + click uses old Cocoa manager).
  • NEW: Added Sony 2011 DLNA profile from (thanks to yardco & tcviper).
  • NEW: (API) Add /library/metadata/X/split and /library/metadata/X/merge?ids=a,b,c endpoints.
  • NEW: (API) Add /library/clean/media to delete unused media bundles.
  • NEW: (API) Add /library/clean/bundles to delete unused bundles.
  • NEW: (API) Add ?checkFiles=1 parameter to /library/metadata/X endpoint to check for existence/access for files.
  • NEW: (API) Add /library/metadata/X//[add|remove] endpoints to allow adding/removing tags from items.
  • NEW: (API) Add new unviewedLeafCount/unwatched/unwatchedLeaves filter fields.
  • NEW: (API) Allow >=,

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.6.9 (Sep 17, 2012)

  • FIX: [Win] RTMP channels weren’t working.
  • FIX: A few minor token-related bugs.
  • FIX: An issue with Internet Explorer and the new Web Client.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.6.8 (Aug 30, 2012)

  • NEW: Support for [big surprise] (explained in part 2).
  • NEW: Mega-awesome [big surprise] (shown off in part 3).
  • NEW: Added new (advanced) preferences for enabling/disabling Bonjour/GDM.
  • NEW: (API) Support for JSON in non-channel endpoints.
  • NEW: (API) WebSocket support for sending events to clients.
  • FIX: Plex Media Scanner would occasionally crash on exit.
  • FIX: Large reduction in memory/threads usage.
  • FIX: Fix for missing posters when top agent failed.
  • FIX: MP4 files with chapter tracks were analyzed as having subtitles.
  • FIX: Some files (mostly WMV3) could fail to get framerate analyzed.
  • FIX: Make sure photo agents get hit to refresh when scanning.
  • FIX: Always send myPlex username when doing network logging.
  • FIX: (Windows) Crash when analyzing some TS files.
  • FIX: Be more lenient when parsing URIs which end in & or ?.
  • FIX: (DLNA) Minor fix to Samsung profile.
  • FIX: (Windows) Transcoder can handle RTMP now.
  • FIX: (Linux) ReadyNAS ARM builds working again.
  • FIX: (API) Fixes to preference serialization.
  • FIX: (API) Fix for paging where some items were (partially) missing (and 10% speedup).
  • FIX: (API) Signing into myPlex with ‘+’ signs in email/password was broken.

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.6.6 (Aug 1, 2012)

  • NEW: Added (advanced) preference for specifying location of Aperture/iPhone XML paths. The preference is ApertureLibraryXmlPath for Aperture and iPhotoLibraryXmlPath for iPhoto. Yes, we’re going to have an easy way to get at these advanced preferences soon.
  • NEW: (Linux) Allow syslog logging via environment variable PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USE_SYSLOG. This has been requested for ages.
  • NEW: (API) Massive performance improvement for players that ask for paged data (e.g. for Roku). If you have large library sections, you’ll notice a big change; with 1000 items, the page requests are 6 times faster.
  • NEW: (API) Added /library/sections/X/{sorts|filters} endpoints for advanced filtering.
  • FIX: Sidecar (e.g. SRT) subtitle files work again. Sorry, that was a bad regression.
  • FIX: (Windows) Upload speeds from the server were artificially slow in some cases. We’d gotten sporadic reports over the months that upload speeds seemed limited, and we finally managed to track down the issue. The upload speed will now max out your connection, and will take much less CPU as well.
  • FIX: A crash when scanning for plug-ins when permissions are wrong.
  • FIX: (Mac) Fix some Aperture photos not displaying properly.
  • FIX: Library timeline could generate blank items occasionally.
  • FIX: Web interface didn’t show added and deleted items properly when scanning.
  • FIX: Don’t pass back bogus blank content ratings.
  • FIX: (Linux) DLNA icon and server name were missing on some platforms.
  • FIX: When overwriting plug-ins, files that don’t exist anymore are deleted.
  • FIX: Handle 302 as well as 301 redirects in the image transcoder.
  • FIX: When scanning files that had already been scanned, they didn’t end up with thumbnails.
  • FIX: Certain image formats (TIFF, BMP, PCX) didn’t get thumb nailed.
  • FIX: Fixed sleep prevention, OS X (and possibly Linux) should sleep now.
  • FIX: (Windows) Fixed a crash on start.
  • FIX: (Synology) DLNA to PS3 wasn’t working.
  • FIX: (DLNA) Memory leak in DLNA server process.
  • FIX: (DLNA) Fixed PS3 audio dropouts by transcoding to stereo for now in the profile.
  • FIX: (DLNA) Fixed evaluation of limitations.
  • FIX: (DLNA) Fixed AAC audio not playing to PS3.
  • FIX: (DLNA) Build-in profile now supports Samsung SmartTVs

New in Plex Media Server 0.9.6.3 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • NEW: Allow loading background art for individual seasons (as soon as agents support it).
  • NEW: Also by popular request, we added a “By Resolution” filter for browsing your media in a new way. Great for finding whatever SD media you still have around, or for showing off that 1080p TV with some actual 1080p content
  • NEW: Added the ability to do remote logging for easier support. This is a cool new feature which will make it much easier for us to observe log files in real-time while helping you out.
  • NEW: Initial support for a new transcoding system we call “Quicksilver” which among other things, will soon provide greatly enhanced video quality for the Kindle Fire.
  • NEW: (DLNA) Enable PN overrides in profiles.
  • NEW: (DLNA) Support for AudioContainers, similar to VideoContainers.
  • NEW: (DLNA) Add profile option to remap blank object ID requests.
  • And lots of things are fixed as well:
  • FIX: Some playback and browse issues in the 0.9.6 series related to database slowness.
  • FIX: Database performance should be much faster overall in this release. Like, much faster, retrieving all 800 or so movies from my local server takes about half the time it used to. Give it a few seconds on start to optimize your database.
  • FIX: Some media wouldn’t get a thumbnail image, if it was on the dark side (like full of vampires or something).
  • FIX: Fixed redirects in channels, which was breaking lots of channel playback.
  • FIX: Better handling of sleep prevention.
  • FIX: Scanner log was filling up with ‘ignoring atom of size 0'.
  • FIX: Scanner could get stuck using up 100% of CPU.
  • FIX: WMV MediaInfo profile/level not always read correctly.
  • FIX: (DLNA) Generic transcodes to mpeg/mpeg2video didn’t work.
  • FIX: (DLNA) Transcoding multichannel content to MP3 didn’t work.
  • FIX: (DLNA) Generic transcoder failed to encode mpeg4.
  • FIX: (DLNA) Server gave access to shared sections, but not myPlex owned sections.
  • FIX: (DLNA) Add friendlier error message when port 1900 is in use.
  • FIX: (DLNA) Fix stack corruption with seasons > 100 episodes.
  • FIX: (DLNA) Apply actual mime types from spec.
  • FIX: (DLNA) Identification mechanisms is now case insensitive.
  • FIX: (DLNA) Implement friendly name matching for devices without unique user-agent headers.
  • FIX: (DLNA) Episodes was displaying out of order.
  • FIX: (DLNA) Add profile option to override icon size.