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What's new in Plex for Windows 1.91.0.129

Apr 17, 2024
  • NEW:
  • [Discover Together] Updated icon in individual binge activities
  • [Discover] Updated look of items in “Watch from these locations” hubs
  • [Share] Use short URLs

New in Plex for Windows 1.90.1.118 (Mar 28, 2024)

  • NEW:
  • Updated UI of user profile pages
  • [Discover Together] Added “Activity Feed” breadcrumb to Activity pages
  • FIXED:
  • Allow user to navigate to Home from navbar in privacy settings page
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the filters and sorts menu to disappear when navigating away from a page and then back to it
  • [Discover Together] Show placeholder with title for items that don’t have any artwork
  • [Search] Fixed an issue that could cause unexpected PMS matches to be returned for the current query
  • [Settings] Fixed missing option to generate Friends Watchlist RSS feed
  • Reorder collections not working

New in Plex for Windows 1.89.1.107 (Mar 14, 2024)

  • NEW:
  • [Music] Added support for editing track genres (requires PMS 1.40.0 or newer)
  • [Search] Show Channel title in “Choose Source” modal for Live TV search results
  • [Search] Show a single person result when More Ways to Watch is enabled and PMS supports matching with Discover people results (requires PMS 1.28.1 or newer)
  • FIXED:
  • Fixed the label for RT ratings in movie details pages
  • [Live TV] Fixed an issue that could cause the Toggle Favorite Channel action to show incomplete channel titles
  • [Playback] Fixed first subtitle track appearing invisible when transcoding
  • [Search] Fixed an issue that could cause Live TV search results to display an incorrect number of locations
  • [Search] Fixed an issue that could cause the location picker to display the wrong information for some Live TV search results
  • [Search] Removed Share action from PMS Live TV search results

New in Plex for Windows 1.88.1.96 (Feb 27, 2024)

  • NEW:
  • [Search] Improve how search results for PMS Live TV results with multiple airings are displayed
  • FIXED:
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the wrong Watchlist status to be shown in episode pages when navigating to them from Watchlist or Movies & Shows Continue Watching hubs
  • Fixed broken Director links in the detail pages of items from the Movies & Shows source
  • [Playback] Fixed playback error for videos with only direct audio stream not supported
  • [Playback] Fixed playback session not resuming when paused for a few minutes
  • [Playback] Fixed playback session being broken after refresh
  • [Library] Fixed an issue that could cause wrong spacing between items

New in Plex for Windows 1.87.1.75 (Feb 15, 2024)

  • NEW:
  • Updated advertising consent notice
  • FIXED:
  • [Discover Together] Beta user onboarding not triggering
  • Improve DVR access helper text for users without Plex Pass

New in Plex for Windows 1.86.1.4076 (Feb 8, 2024)

  • NEW:
  • [Dashboard] Added subtitle decision info for playing items
  • [Search] Improved logic for merging Live TV search results
  • FIXED:
  • Fix username validation with now invalid username while granting library access
  • Fixed track count limit on album page
  • [Search] Show all airings for Live TV show results when available

New in Plex for Windows 1.84.1.4069 (Dec 19, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • Account Settings: Added a requirement for new passwords to be different from the current password
  • Add new privacy section in Account Settings and Edit Profile page
  • Discover Credits: Improve roles displayed in “Movies & Shows in Media Libraries” hub
  • Live TV: Added ability to add or remove channels from Favorites from hubs and details pages
  • Search: Added ability to toggle Plex Channels favorite status from search results
  • FIXED:
  • Discover Together: Change “Popular this week” to “Popular With Your Friends” in the activity feed
  • Discover: Fixed an issue that could cause the wrong breadcrumb title to be displayed when navigating around Discover pages
  • Don’t enforce user/library name capitalization in sidebar
  • Fixed alignment of popular tracks when going back from play history
  • Live TV: Fixed an issue that could cause managed users to see the wrong message when all tuners are in use
  • TIDAL: Fixed a couple of issues around available actions when selecting multiple items
  • [DVR] Fixed DVR channel mapping error message not shown
  • [Downloads] Fixed the position of the download status icon in the metadata poster

New in Plex for Windows 1.83.1.4061 (Dec 5, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • [Live TV] Improve look and titles of Recent Channels hub items
  • Added ability to remove multiple items from Continue Watching using multi-select
  • [Account Settings] Focus password fields when clicking “Set Password”
  • FIXED:
  • [Playback] Fixed inability to play media if disconnected from the internet
  • [Cast & Crew] Fixed an issue that could cause a “Not Found” error to flash on screen when switching between Cast & Crew tabs and to and from the page
  • [Console] Added text truncation to prevent logs from overflowing
  • [Discover Credits] Prevent year and location from being truncated for credits with long roles
  • [First Run] Set hidden Libraries as unpinned by default
  • Fixed a rare edge case that could cause the list of episodes to not be displayed in a season details page
  • Fixed an edge case that could cause hubs to not load all posters when jumping between PMS and Plex sources
  • Fixed an issue that caused watched status actions to appear when selecting multiple collections or playlists
  • Fixed page crash when loading DVR hubs or filtering on the Browse page
  • Fixed play history item contrast
  • Fixed wrong poster ratio and missing art in Recent Playlists hub grid view
  • [Movies & Shows] Avoid showing “Loading…” text for Audio/Video/Subtitles when performing actions like toggling Watchlist status or changing audio/subtitle tracks
  • Restored Record Label in Album detail pages
  • [Streaming Services] Fixed an edge case in the selection UI that could cause a group to be expanded when unselecting a group above it
  • [TIDAL] Fixed missing “Add to My TIDAL” action
  • [Collections] Fixed collections page when reordering the play queue
  • [Search] Increased search request timeout to 30 seconds

New in Plex for Windows 1.82.1.4022 (Nov 21, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • Settings: Renamed “Disabled for Managed Users” option in Online Media Sources to "Disabled for Managed Accounts”
  • FIXED:
  • Discover Together: Allow shared with users modal in activity feed
  • Discover Together: Artwork links not working for server activity pages
  • Discover Together: Display error message when item request fails in Sharing modal
  • Discover Together: Fix edge case where playback is started when switching to the media activity page
  • Discover Together: Improve image quality in activity feed
  • Discover Together: Improve redirect in my friends page
  • Add “Manage Library Access” option in context menu for non friend profiles
  • Fix add friend section missing in add friend step
  • Save library changes not working when no library is selected

New in Plex for Windows 1.80.3.4008 (Oct 26, 2023)

  • Fixed an issue that could cause library items to fail to load when skipping to the end of the page

New in Plex for Windows 1.80.2.4006 (Oct 25, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • Allow deletion of user avatar
  • Discover Together: Populate item information in activity detail page
  • Support resetting rating using single-click on existing choice
  • [Live TV] Added a confirmation modal when closing the channel matching modal
  • [Search] Improve how Live TV results are displayed, including better badging and more relevant quick actions
  • FIXED:
  • Removed SD resolutions from resolution switching and added 4096x2160 and 2048x1080
  • Updated app icon
  • Discover Together: Activity Detail page should clip image to fit container dimensions
  • Discover Together: Don’t wrap season/episode index on Ratings hub
  • Discover Together: Improve avatar quality
  • Discover Together: Show modal when trying to mark show or season as watched in the activity card
  • Discover: Fixed an issue that could result in the wrong list of playable locations being shown in Discover details pages for items available in Movies & Shows after the source is toggled
  • Discover: Fixed unexpected play action behavior on details pages for items available on Movies & Shows source when that source is disabled
  • Fix “Allow username to be used when signing in” setting not saved
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the Cast & Crew hub to not update when fixing an item match
  • Fixed page scrolling when using keyboard navigation
  • Discover Together: Improve breadcrumbs links in Profile page
  • Improve form sections disabled state
  • Prevent Manage Library Access sidebar with badge from wrapping to easily
  • Search: Fixed an issue that could cause a disabled Watchlist button to appear in some search results
  • Unselecting all libraries option should clear previous selection
  • Update empty state label in user sharing page
  • Update pending friendship state in Add Friend Modal when canceling request
  • [DVR] Fixed calendar navigation getting stuck when user scrolls through weeks
  • [Discover] Fixed an issue that could cause the Watchlist toggle action to not be available for items in the Trending Trailers hub
  • [Search] Fixed an issue that could cause the search dropdown to remain open after clicking away from search
  • [Search] Fixed an issue that would cause the search input to lose focus if the user deleted the search query

New in Plex for Windows 1.79.1.3984 (Sep 26, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • [Playback] Raise default remote video quality to 1080p @ 12Mbps
  • FIXED:
  • Fix notification badge from disappearing when announcement is unread
  • Fixed Cast & Crew hub not automatically updating when fixing item match
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the context menu for Discover items to display wrong/unavailable options
  • Wrong friend request count badge when deleting sent requests
  • [Search] Fixed an issue that could cause search requests to be re-triggered when performing some server/library actions
  • [Search] Fixed an issue that could cause streaming service results to appear when filtering results by “Movies & Shows”

New in Plex for Windows 1.78.2.3975 (Sep 12, 2023)

  • New:
  • Bump to plex-media-server/1.21.2.3896-9ab183062
  • Bump to web-client/4.51.1-f992ea791-14861
  • Improvements to automatically managed home screens, section screens, and item detail screens
  • Fixes:
  • Downloads: Improve stability and user experience

New in Plex for Windows 1.77.2.3964 (Aug 29, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • Discover Together: Improve image loading performance in Activity feed
  • Don’t show unplayed badges on Movies & Shows or Discover hub items
  • Improve User Selection UX in Library Access Modal and Share Modal
  • Search: Added ability to toggle Watchlist status of multiple items in search results page
  • FIXED:
  • Fixed a regression that could cause cast images to fail to display in detail pages
  • Home: Fixed an issue that could cause duplicate results in Continue Watching
  • Search: Fixed wrong formatting in Collection search results subtitle
  • [Live TV] Fix “Join Session in Progress” modal buttons not working
  • Corrected playback of some VOD content on Linux

New in Plex for Windows 1.74.1.3913 (Jul 18, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • General system stability improvements to enhance the user’s experience

New in Plex for Windows 1.73.1.3905 (Jul 5, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • Discover Credits: Show roles in “Movies & Shows in Media Libraries” hub items
  • Update “played” labels to “watched” for video content
  • FIXED:
  • Improve error handling when library sharing fails

New in Plex for Windows 1.72.2.3901 (Jun 27, 2023)

  • Bump to web-client/4.51.2-b26d1bde9-15035

New in Plex for Windows 1.71.1.3888 (Jun 20, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • Allow half star ratings
  • FIXED:
  • Update custom playlist images in downloads

New in Plex for Windows 1.67.2.3705 (Apr 11, 2023)

  • FIXED:
  • Plex token leak in app logs

New in Plex for Windows 1.67.1.3665 (Mar 31, 2023)

  • FIXED:
  • Subtitles muxed into some containers could fail to play back
  • Fixed subtitles not rendering on some Live TV on Plex channels
  • Display error message when uploading Heic files in avatar editor
  • Fixed an issue that could cause unplayed badges to disappear after marking a single item as played
  • Search: Fixed missing Live TV genre results and broken links on those same results
  • Discover Together: Fix Privacy Settings Modal from closing while setting default values

New in Plex for Windows 1.66.1.3632 (Mar 15, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • Add username availability check in Account Settings form.
  • Discover Together: Improve cache invalidation in activity feed.
  • FIXED:
  • Audio could be desynced from the video when playing Plex Live TV content
  • Playback could fail repeatedly after a failure occurs playing a live stream
  • Fix live tv buffer not built correctly
  • Fix unknown airing appearing after scheduling a recording
  • Rename “Server signed in as” and “Sign Out” button text
  • Rename the web file download from “Download File” to “Save File”

New in Plex for Windows 1.65.1.3596 (Mar 1, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • Additional host functionality is now exposed via the mpv scripting interfaces. See scripts/scripting.md in the app’s configuration directory for more details
  • Discover Together: Fallback to item title when poster isn’t available.
  • Discover Together: Refactor fullscreen Privacy modal into regular sized modal.
  • Discover: Added ability to add or remove streaming services from the preferred services from the context menu in service pages.
  • Improve unauthorized server screen with new claiming system.
  • FIXED:
  • (Windows) Incorrect episode numbers could be shown in the system player controls
  • Disable subtitles upload for shared users.
  • Discover Credits: Fixed an issue that could cause unexpected server activity when browsing Discover Credits pages.
  • Discover Together: Add item type to Share label in activity cards.
  • Discover Together: Improve date formats in Watch History hub and page.
  • Discover Together: Reduce activity feed requests in order to prevent rate limit issues.
  • Discover: Fixed missing Watchlist actions from Trending Trailers item context menu.
  • Fix duplicate airings in EPG guide.
  • Fix live tv fails to play when manifest has no segments.
  • Fix updating all libraries metadata when upgrading a library.
  • Fixed an issue in the context menu of posters where the correct loading state wouldn’t be shown after performing certain server actions.
  • Only show the activity icon in the nav bar when user has owned servers.

New in Plex for Windows 1.64.2.3546 (Feb 15, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • Discover: Added support for groups when selecting streaming services.
  • Discover: Removed Beta badges.
  • FIXED:
  • Changed wording in 2FA setup process to be more clear.
  • Discover Together: Apply new font styles in Profile Watch Statistics card.
  • Discover Together: Handle special episodes on activity card header title.

New in Plex for Windows 1.63.2.3496 (Feb 6, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • Allow default key bindings from mpv Lua scripts to take effect
  • Get season thumbs/artwork in downloads
  • Discover Credits: Fall back to showing person’s initials if no image is available.
  • Discover: Allow rating and toggling watched status of unreleased content.
  • FIXED:
  • Fixed some TrueHD decode cases
  • Corrected subtitle selection with Closed Caption subs are present
  • Discover Together - Allow users to mark unreleased content as watched.
  • Discover Together - Improve artwork in Activity feed and Profile page.
  • Discover Together: Change episode label in watch history.
  • Discover Together: Match watch history page timestamps with activity feed.
  • Discover Together: Prevent date label from hiding on hover in watch history page.
  • Fixed a regression that causes hubs and library lists to not automatically update after performing an action on an item.
  • Search: Fixed an issue that could cause some personal media results to be missing from search results.

New in Plex for Windows 1.62.2.3451 (Jan 19, 2023)

  • FIXED:
  • Discover Together: Fix “New Activity” zIndex.
  • Discover Together: Hide avatar when we share something with other users.
  • Don’t show “Time to fill the blanks” get started card if Profile is filled.
  • Fix live tv session stopped after a period of time.
  • Fixed edge case in Library access modal when setting restriction settings.
  • Search: Avoid reloading data on some pages when “More Ways to Watch” setting is toggled.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause audio/subtitle streams to change during playback.
  • Discover: Fixed an issue that could cause the “Play” button to appear for unplayable items when following links from watch.plex.tv.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the filters and sorts to disappear.

New in Plex for Windows 1.61.1.3432 (Jan 11, 2023)

  • NEW:
  • Discover Together: Navigate to Watchlist page on zero state use cases.
  • Updated UI for “Watch from these locations” hubs.
  • FIXED:
  • Discover Together - Fixed low resolution images from being stretched in activity cards.
  • Discover: Fixed an issue that caused watch status flags to appear in hub items after adding or removing an item from the Watchlist.
  • Discover: Fixed an issue that could cause the wrong Watchlist status to be shown in the context menu for hub items.
  • Fix convert modal not showing library folder when optimizing the entire library.
  • Show Plex Pass upsell in Watchlist account settings page
  • Where to Watch: Restored missing prompts (to add Show to Watchlist or to re-enable Movies & TV source)that can appear after clicking a link to an external service

New in Plex for Windows 1.59.1.3398 (Dec 8, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • Added support for AV1 encoded videos
  • Discover Credits: Items from libraries with the “Include Adult Content” setting enabled will now show up in hubs
  • Discover together - Added trending items to activity feed.
  • Discover: Updated zero state copy for “Watch from these locations” hub
  • Where to Watch: Respect PMS library “Visibility” setting when showing items in “Watch from these locations” hub
  • FIXED:
  • Discover Credits: Cast list items fall back to linking to filtered server library if plex.tv is down
  • Fix square music covers for collections
  • Search: Fixed an issue that caused rapidly pressing Enter after searching for something to interrupt the search and cause the search results to not appear
  • Search: Fixed display issues in the source selection modal around long library/edition titles

New in Plex for Windows 1.58.1.3380 (Nov 23, 2022)

  • FIXED:
  • (Windows) Corrected focus issues when file dialog is open
  • (Windows) Removed zoom with touchscreen controls
  • Discover: Fixed an issue that caused the page header to display the wrong title in some pages.
  • Fixed allow downloads setting not saved after sending invite.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the rate controls to show up for unsupported items (TIDAL tracks).
  • Fixed an issue that exposed source context menus when navigating to source hub pages.
  • Fixed select all button alignment on album pre play.
  • Fixed typography issues on activity pages.
  • Search: Fixed a small UI issue in actor results on the search results page.

New in Plex for Windows 1.57.1.3358 (Nov 9, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • Discover: Updated look of streaming services upsell banner and added dismiss button
  • Match displayed activity dates across different clients
  • People Pages: Don’t show content from libraries with “Include adult content” setting enabled or “Visibility” setting set to “Exclude from home screen and global search”
  • FIXED:
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the Activity dashboard to break when playing TIDAL tracks from video details pages
  • Fixed broken links to TIDAL content in Dashboard page
  • Fixed inconsistent spacing in Streaming Services settings page elements
  • Search: Fixed People search results not showing up for managed users that don’t have access to “Movies & TV” source
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the “Watch from these locations” hub to not show up for users who opt out of seeing availabilities from other Streaming Services on Detail Pages
  • Dashboard: Fixed broken links in Top Played section
  • Search: Fixed a bug that could cause “No results found” to flash when searching for something
  • Search: Fixed a bug where the “no results found” message was never displayed when searching for a term that returned no results

New in Plex for Windows 1.56.2.3345 (Nov 2, 2022)

  • Minor fixes and improvements

New in Plex for Windows 1.56.1.3327 (Oct 28, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • Added the ability to generate RSS feed URL for Friends’ Watchlist in Settings(requires a Plex Pass account).
  • Search: Added categories to “Free on Demand” results.
  • Search: Show Photos in search results when Top Results is selected.
  • Use show poster for seasons when season poster is not available.
  • FIXED:
  • (Windows) Added support for native media keys
  • Don’t show “Add to Watchlist” actions for Live TV content.
  • Discover: Fixed an issue that could cause the wrong played status of episodes in a season to appear temporarily when toggling the played status of an episode.
  • Fixed formatting of some language names in settings.
  • Fixed missing poster artwork in activity cards.
  • Fixed library upgrade reminder not dismissible when streaming services modal is visible.
  • Fixed watch together using old management page when a user doesn’t have any friends.

New in Plex for Windows 1.54.2.3267 (Sep 17, 2022)

  • Fixed an issue that could cause cast list items to not be clickable

New in Plex for Windows 1.54.1.3264 (Sep 15, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • Display edition data in more places
  • Search: Fixed Clips being combined with Movies in search results page
  • Show ‘What’s On’ hubs for Plex Channels
  • Updated text in onboarding and watch history privacy settings screen
  • FIXED:
  • Fixed grant library access network error when granting home user

New in Plex for Windows 1.53.1.3225 (Sep 2, 2022)

  • FIXED:
  • Disable hdr-compute-peak in low quality profiles
  • Watchlist: Fixed an issue that caused applied filters and sorts to not be remembered by the app after navigating away from the page.
  • Fixed View State Sync modal not prompting for VOD content.
  • Fixed View State Sync prompting when user rates music.
  • Fixed VSS upsell always visible on Profile page when consent is rejected.
  • Fixed not sending friend requests while granting library access and no library is selected.
  • Fixed watch history zero state behavior - focus search input when clicked.
  • Fixed wrong episode artwork for profile hubs.
  • Fixed View State Sync prompting on trailer playback end.
  • Fixed grant library access not allowing empty selected servers.

New in Plex for Windows 1.52.1.3195 (Aug 17, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • Live TV: Don’t hide tabs if have faves but no genre tabs
  • Remove the deprecated banner type from TV show edit modals
  • Search: Don’t limit search results per section in full search results page
  • Search: Going to search page results adds search term to Recent searches
  • Search: Improved look for Live TV channels results
  • Where to Watch: Show buy/rent prices in More Ways to Watch hub and only show remaining availabilities in modal
  • Watchlist: Fixed an issue that could cause the “Add to Watchlist” button to appear while watching trailers as a signed out user
  • Where to Watch: Fixed an issue that could cause managed users to be prompted to select streaming services
  • FIXED:
  • (Linux) Inhibit power management and proxy on playback
  • Worked around MPNowPlayingInfoCenter causing UI freezes when playing audio tracks
  • Fixed client killing PMS processes when running on same machine
  • Fixed an edge case that could cause the wrong hubs to be shown when quickly switching between sidebar sources
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the Watchlist status of items in Movies & Shows to not update immediately after being marked as played
  • Fixed showing Rotten Tomatoes critic rating when sorting by audience rating and vice versa
  • Fixed wrong highlight color for subtitles in some item on the “More Ways to Watch” hub

New in Plex for Windows 1.50.1.3176 (Aug 4, 2022)

  • New:
  • Bump to plex-media-server/1.21.2.3896-9ab183062
  • Bump to web-client/4.51.1-f992ea791-14861
  • Improvements to automatically managed home screens, section screens, and item detail screens
  • Fixes:
  • Downloads: Improve stability and user experience

New in Plex for Windows 1.49.1.3146 (Jul 21, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • Discover: Improve display of future episodes
  • Search: Added search results page
  • Search: Allow pressing Enter to go to results page while results are loading
  • Search: Improve results page history handling
  • Search: Improved loading states in search results dropdown and page
  • Where to Watch: Added Movies & Shows availabilities in “Watch from these locations” hub for users that have disabled Movies & Shows source
  • FIXED:
  • Corrected transcodes to AC3 over optical connections
  • Fixed round-off in progress indication in downloads
  • Search: Fixed an issue that could cause the search bar to only focus after being clicked twice
  • Search: Fixed an issue that could cause unnecessary search requests when going to the full search results page

New in Plex for Windows 1.46.1.3056 (Jun 22, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • Remove support for being controlled as a companion player. Use Plex for HTPC for remote control playback on the desktop.
  • Search: Fixed an issue that could cause results to show the wrong watchlist status in their context menu and details pages
  • Update copy for removing User from Plex Home.
  • Watchlist: Added settings page to generate RSS feed URL (needs a Plex Pass account)
  • Where to Watch: Restrict top level results in “Watch from these locations” section of details page to only show results from selected services
  • FIXED:
  • Corrected switching back to maximized from fullscreen

New in Plex for Windows 1.44.0.2981 (Apr 28, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • Improved UI in details so actions are immediately available
  • Search: Home and End keys jump to start and end of search text input
  • FIXED:
  • Search: Fixed some video results being wrongly labelled as “Movie”
  • Fixed playback crash when tuner has conflicts
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the Watchlist action button in the details page to not update correctly when removing VOD items from the Watchlist
  • Discover: Fixed marking items as played not always updating Watchlist hub contents
  • Watchlist: Fixed an issue that could cause ratings to not be displayed for some TV shows in the grid page

New in Plex for Windows 1.43.4.2971 (Apr 25, 2022)

  • Search: Added ability to toggle “More Ways to Watch” results

New in Plex for Windows 1.43.2.2949 (Apr 4, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • Add confirmation modal to disable remote access
  • Search: Added loading state for Media Libraries and Live TV section of search results
  • Community: Hide full name field in managed accounts
  • Community: Add friends button in Library Access page and use new Plex home page in switch user page
  • FIXED:
  • Fixed error when editing friendly name on user profile
  • Fixed an issue that could cause details pages to have an inconsistent spacing between elements
  • Fix Live TV playback stopped when “Use alternate streaming protocol for video playback” enabled
  • Fix error when editing friendly name on user profile

New in Plex for Windows 1.42.1.2926 (Mar 23, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • Fixes manage libraries affecting wrong hubs
  • DVR Setup: Allow mapping channels with the same VCN
  • Fix displaying server management options for a shared server
  • Fix watching live TV channels with special characters in channel ID
  • Add solid background while editing avatar.
  • Improve default user avatar quality.
  • Remove Windows filter from authorized devices view
  • Added gpu-context=d3d11 support to MPV
  • Restructured video rendering in a sub window/view to remove from Qt’s rendering
  • FIXED:
  • Fixed an issue that could cause search results to show duplicate server sources
  • Fixed an edge case that could cause duplicate servers to appear in certain situations
  • Fix library pivot can end up showing root items from PMS and remains stuck
  • Force the locale earlier before calling any Qt code

New in Plex for Windows 1.41.0.2876 (Feb 22, 2022)

  • New:
  • Bump to plex-media-server/1.21.2.3896-9ab183062
  • Bump to web-client/4.51.1-f992ea791-14861
  • Improvements to automatically managed home screens, section screens, and item detail screens
  • Fixes:
  • Downloads: Improve stability and user experience

New in Plex for Windows 1.40.1.2823 (Jan 28, 2022)

  • Fixed:
  • Missing DLL in Windows installer

New in Plex for Windows 1.40.0.2816 (Jan 27, 2022)

  • New:
  • Keyboard Shortcut: ‘f’ to toggle fullscreen
  • Remove “Allow Camera Upload” sharing restriction when creating or editing a shared library
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed stretched DVR setup device artwork

New in Plex for Windows 1.38.0.2734 (Nov 26, 2021)

  • Fixed incorrect toggling when promoting library hubs.

New in Plex for Windows 1.37.0.2706 (Nov 10, 2021)

  • New:
  • Moved update check to its own thread
  • Allow setting of playlist background on Plex Media Servers version >= 1.24.5
  • Added support for named audio streams from cloud media providers
  • Fixed:
  • Fix error that could cause Live TV playback to stop at the end of an airing
  • Fix miniplayer seek handle getting clipped
  • Fix DVR language selection for when country isn’t available
  • Correct download resume in Windows
  • Retry incomplete downloads
  • Better display progress when download is resumed

New in Plex for Windows 1.35.1.2632 (Sep 22, 2021)

  • New:
  • GPU accelerated rendering
  • Restyled top navigation bar, sidebar and page headers
  • Added updated icon set
  • Added the ability to set custom order of manual Collections with drag and drop
  • Added support for Popularity sort in Track Library view
  • Playlist poster customization
  • Show channel numbers when mapping lineup for Live TV
  • Removed Also Airing screen from Live TV players
  • Added warning to users who try to setup Plex DVR running PMS < 1.22.2
  • Updated Translations
  • General: Added new key mappings for page_up/page_down and removed channel_up/channel_down
  • Fixed:
  • (Watch Together) Fixed lobby screen not being hidden when another participant begins playback before all participants are ready
  • Fixed issue where editing Smart Collections would have encoding errors in some cases
  • Fixed manual collection order not saving after drag and drop in some circumstances
  • Fixed manual Collection items ending up in an incorrect order after drag and drop in some cases
  • Fixed Play Queues not advancing past 20 items
  • Fixed Advanced Filter input being removed while typing in some cases
  • Fixed shared users incorrectly able to access editing of smart collections
  • Fixed scrollbar conflict in DVR channels setup
  • Fixed channel mappings not appearing in DVR setup after switching servers
  • Fixed playback of Plex provided TV seasons
  • Fixed Clear Filter icon alignment issues
  • Fixed available actions in server page header to match sidebar
  • Fixed truncation on some details/preplay screen titles
  • Fixed language change appeared not to work when slow connection
  • Fix DVR device settings modal won’t open
  • Fixed scanner upgrade notification icon shown incorrectly
  • Fixed generated link when sharing items with new users.

New in Plex for Windows 1.33.0.2444 (Jun 16, 2021)

  • New:
  • Bump to web-client/4.59.2-5569e89bd-18291
  • Playback: Better default video playback quality and user-selectable advance player quality setting.
  • Updates: Automatic updates will install automatically
  • Fixed:
  • Downloads: General stability fixes
  • General: Ensure keep on top setting and fullscreen interfere with each other less
  • General: Updated UI to reflect that Keep On Top may cause problems.
  • General: Improved handling when toggling between fullscreen and maximized window states
  • Playback: Adjust diagnostic logging to avoid small stutters during playback
  • Playback: Changed some deprecated MPV options to current ones
  • Playback: Updated mpv.conf documentation.

New in Plex for Windows 1.31.0.2254 (Apr 23, 2021)

  • New:
  • Bump to plex-media-server/1.22.2.4284-8c5a3065a
  • Bump to web-client/4.56.3-dd09caa99-16958
  • Fixed:
  • Downloads: Downloaded episodes support Skip Intro
  • Downloads: Faster download startup
  • Downloads: Improve smart playlist support
  • General: plex.ini handling improvements avoid micro stutters during playback
  • General: Fixed automatic update implementation allowing unintended downgrades
  • General: Reduce GPU power consumption during music playback
  • Mac: Auto update only when running from /Applications or ~/Applications
  • Windows: Prevent empty right-click context menu display
  • Windows: Allow install on only Windows 10 and later

New in Plex for Windows 1.30.1.2115 (Apr 1, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • 1.30.1 is our 1.29.1 release plus the select 1.30.0 the changes outlined below. All other 1.30.0 changes are not included in 1.30.1.
  • Bump to web-client/4.54.4-0bfad257e-16464
  • FIXED:
  • General: Fixed broken playback when offline
  • General: Fixed weird Keep On Top edge cases when the application is full screen or minimized
  • General: Fixed window size and position restoration when last screen name was empty
  • Windows: Fixed application crash on first run

New in Plex for Windows 1.30.0.2105 (Mar 30, 2021)

  • New:
  • Bump to web-client/4.54.4-0bfad257e-16464
  • General: GPU accelerated UI rendering
  • Windows: Allow install on Windows 10 and later; see 1.29.0 release notes for additional context
  • Fixed:
  • Downloads: Downloaded episodes support Skip Intro
  • General: Fixed broken playback when offline
  • General: Fixed weird Keep On Top edge cases when the application is full screen or minimized
  • General: Fixed window size and position restoration when last screen name was empty
  • Windows: Fixed application crash on first run
  • Mac: Auto update only when running from /Applications or ~/Applications

New in Plex for Windows 1.29.0.1885 (Mar 11, 2021)

  • Windows 10 and above users on 1.29.x will continue to automatically update as normal.
  • Windows 7 and 8 users running 1.29.x will no longer be prompted to install automatic updates.
  • MacOS update handling is unchanged.
  • Plex for Windows player functioning on Windows 7 and 8 has been a coincidence which we can’t guarantee going forward.
  • Our 1.30.0 release will go further and restrict installation to Windows 10 and above.
  • Windows 7 and 8 users are strongly encouraged to update. If this isn’t practical for your situation, here is the 1.29.0 Windows installer which will still permit installation on Windows 7 and 8 after 1.30.0 is released.

New in Plex for Windows 1.28.0.1681 (Feb 26, 2021)

  • New:
  • Bump to web-client/4.52.1-ef87718e9-15507
  • Fixed:
  • Playback: Fixed subtitle font size mishandling
  • Playback: Fixed quality changes and seeking resulting in black screen with no video
  • Windows: Fixed startup issue experienced by some users

New in Plex for Windows 1.27.1.1571 (Jan 28, 2021)

  • New:
  • Bump to plex-media-server/1.21.2.3896-9ab183062
  • Bump to web-client/4.51.1-f992ea791-14861
  • Improvements to automatically managed home screens, section screens, and item detail screens
  • Fixes:
  • Downloads: Improve stability and user experience