Plex Media Server

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Plex Media Server 1.9.7.4441 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel

NEW:

  • (Transcoder) Support pruning old segments to reduce disk usage in DASH and HTTP transcodes (#7484)
  • (Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.26.2

FIXES:

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