Plex Media Server

Plex Media Server 1.1.0 is now available for Plex Pass members.

NEW:

  • Support videos in photo libraries. (#3928)
  • Support uploading videos to photo libraries. (Android support is available now and other mobile apps are coming soon.) (#3522)
  • (Web) Updated Plex Web to 2.7.8.
  • (Security) When server is signed in, clients must be signed in as well, even if they are on the LAN or on localhost. (#3819)
  • (Preferences) New pref to enable/disable deep media analysis.
  • (Windows) Updating the server from Plex Web no longer requires user intervention. (#4136)

FIXES:

  • (Sync) Items present in multiple synced playlists would only appear in the first synced playlist. (#4967)
  • (Media Optimizer) Unexpected behavior when version jobs overlap to include the same videos. (#4840)
  • (Media Optimizer) Reprocess item when original processing decided a media item was compatible, but the media item was deleted. (#4840)
  • (Transcoder) Playback failures with pcm_dvd audio. (#4980)
  • (Transcoder) Use faster AAC encoder on slower NAS systems. (#5058)
  • (Media Analysis) Scanner hangs with early AAC files from iTunes. (#5041)
  • (Media Analysis) Improve performance of deep media analysis. (#5068)
  • (Media Analysis) Issues generating video preview thumbnails for certain HEVC videos on windows. (#5139)
  • (Butler) Long-running Butler tasks could starve others from executing (#4873)
  • (Chapters) Chapter thumbnail generation could fail repeatedly with invalid media. (#5043)
  • (Metadata) Improve TVDB agent performance by not using TMDb information. (#5110)
  • (Metadata) Changing title could overwrite sort title. (#3971)
  • (Metadata) Fall back to release dates from TMDB when IMDB has no data. (#4978)
  • (Metadata) Fall back to English-language fields when metadata is unavailable in desired language. (#5015)
  • (Metadata) Show durations in minutes could be incorrectly interpreted as milliseconds (#5012)
  • (Metadata) Handle empty movie release dates from TMDb. (#5096)
  • (Photos) Photos might play back in wrong order. (#5035)
  • (Windows) Install Media Feature Pack on Windows Anniversary Update N and KN (#5064)
  • (Windows) Plex Relay process wasn’t starting up in some configurations. (#5118)
  • (OS X) Plex Relay executable wasn’t correctly signed.
  • (OS X) Occasional crashes on some older versions of MacOS. (#5028)
  • (Android) Improve H.264 limitations in profile. (#4930)
  • (iOS) ‘Go to Show’ from episode context menu wasn’t working. (#4811)
  • (Xbox One) Improve reliability when proxying Plex Companion commands. (#4002)
  • Improve localization of certain error messages. (#4587)