Plex Media Server

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Plex Media Server 1.4.1 is now available for Plex Pass members.

NEW:

  • (DVR) Plex DVR beta 5.
  • (macOS) macOS version 10.8 is no longer supported. (#6155)
  • (Movies) Add related and post-play hubs for a movie’s collections. (#6005) (#6011)
  • (Music) Improved performance of music hubs with large libraries (#6060)
  • (Music) Removed ‘Music Videos For Recent Artists’ hub. (#6075)
  • (Photos) Added same-day and same-month hubs for photos. (#5666)
  • (Metadata) Added hidden ‘ArticleStrings’ preference, a comma-separated list of words considered to be grammatical articles when sorting titles in a library. (#6110)

FIXES:

  • (Windows) Work around crash on startup on some Windows 10 installations. (#5719)
  • (Web) Transcode multi-channel audio to stereo, when transcoding audio. (#5588)
  • (Music) MP3 files with certain ID3v2 tag patterns were being ignored. (#5093)
  • (Music) Local lyrics weren’t displayed in certain cases. (#6153)
  • (Music) Transcoding lossless audio at ‘original’ quality to a lossy codec could result in low-bitrate output. (#5858)
  • (Music) Issues with Plex Mixes on NVIDIA SHIELD. (#5724)
  • (Metadata) Sort cast entries from TVDB correctly. (#5744)
  • (Metadata) Posters and art were unnecessarily re-downloaded on every refresh. (#6001)
  • (Metadata) Score matches similarly for TMDB and IMDB results. (#6027)
  • (Metadata) Issues downloading metadata from TVDB over TLS. (#5986)
  • (Scanner) Improve performance refreshing album metadata. (#3894)
  • (Scanner) Fixed intermittent crash on startup, particularly for FreeBSD users. (#6026)
  • (Network) Server would transiently deny access to apps that hadn’t run for a while. (#5443)
  • (Network) Server might become unresponsive under load. (#5558)
  • (Network) Incorrect Remote Access status reported in some cases. (#5834) (#6105)
  • (Subtitles) Prefer embedded subtitles, over agent-provided sidecar subtitles in bundles. (#5848)
  • (Database) Improve database backup performance. (#5839)
  • (Transcoder) Improve streaming MKV output, improving seek performance with conformant clients. (#2495)
  • (Hubs) Adding many episodes from a single show could swamp Recently Added hubs. (#5687)
  • (Sync) Sync items in a failure state might not be cleared on next successful sync. (#6078)
  • (Sync) Improved performance when garbage-collecting (#6077)
  • (Sync) Empty sync items might not be marked as completed. (#6194)
  • (NAS) Rare installation failures on Synology devices. (#6045)
  • (Channels) Issues on Windows for some channels, e.g. ExportTools. (#6127)
  • (DVR) Fix for post-processing sometimes not moving files into library (#6087)
  • (DVR) Fix a rare crash while processing recording schedule (#6050)
  • (DVR) When adding or removing a device, make sure we re-run scheduling (#6177)
  • (DVR) Support for logical channels in XMLTV, may require remapping.
  • (DVR) Support for previously-shown element in XMLTV.
  • (DVR) A recording with pre-padding could be cancelled prematurely (#6256)
  • The default sort order for albums was alphabetical (#6255)
  • A rare crash when computing recently added TV shows.