Plex Media Server

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Plex Media Server 0.9.14.0 is now available for Plex Pass members.

We have a giant new release for you today, which represents several months of work, which was occurring in parallel to the stable 0.9.12.x series. We’re not going to enable auto-update for now with it, because we’d prefer that Plex Pass members opt into running it and giving us feedback.

One thing to note: if you downgrade to the 0.9.12 series, your sync lists (including for Cloud Sync) will be reprocessed (due to some enhancements and optimizations around sync processing), meaning things may get converted and/or transferred again. Just something to be aware of.

Last, but not least, this release includes the new transcoder which was made available for early testing a few months ago.

NEW

  • Translations for Estonian, Japanese, Romanian and Russian.
  • Rich support for “soft” subtitles, including WebVTT.
  • Upgraded transcoder.
  • Allow user to install a custom SSL certificate.
  • (Windows) Partial directory scanning support added.
  • Improvements when Direct Streaming high-quality files for Roku devices.
  • Support for OCSP stapling.
  • Add support for flagging “sidecar” subtitles as forced or default.
  • Add support for compressed responses to the HTTP client.
  • (API) Support for recursive play queue generation (useful for photos).
  • (API) Add repeat=1 to play queue endpoint.
  • (API) Add count parameter to search endpoint.
  • Get all genres for album and artist from tracks.
  • Increase maximum available video quality
  • Add support for generating chapter thumbnails.
  • Use language settings from plex.tv for server owner.
  • Support transcoding of theme music.

FIXES

  • A number of transcode and analysis crashes on Windows.
  • A transcoder crash involving large WTV files.
  • Fix a crash during multiple simultaneous calls to /prefs endpoint.
  • Some issues around MPEG-DASH playback.
  • Improved reporting of bandwidth in HLS manifests.
  • When enabling remote access failed, the web UI might not show the error.
  • Album artwork could go missing in searches.
  • Fix incorrect reporting of transcoding in the web activity page.
  • When otherwise equal, prefer sidecar subtitles.
  • When signing out having enabled “only secure connections”, you could become locked out.
  • Support “original” quality for audio.
  • Searches including an apostrophe character would fail.
  • Restricting music by sharing label didn’t allow access to tracks.
  • Refresh “Recently Added” discovery areas more often.
  • Make sure Plex Mix doesn’t duplicate the first (seed) track.
  • Search also looks in original title field.
  • When changing fields and artwork in quick succession, sometimes a change would be lost.
  • After resetting password, plugins could stop working.
  • Return similar artists in related discovery items.
  • (Windows) Don’t prompt during install of autoupdates.
  • Audio languages now include “Uncoded Languages” and “English (Unlocalized)”.
  • If SSL certificate doesn’t match cloud’s fingerprint, request a new one.
  • Home video discovery area didn’t work with restricted accounts.
  • (iOS) Fix an issue where (i) button on a track doesn’t work.
  • Improve auto-selection of multi-channel audio streams.
  • Videos inside discovery areas could incorrectly report being multi-part.
  • Set year when setting air/release date.
  • Prefer albumartistsort tag above artistsort for m4v music files (same as mp3).
  • Only use iTunes-style metadata for movies when not empty (fixes blank writers/directors/actors).
  • iTunes channel might not work with non-default iTunes library location.
  • For albums with tracks from different years, use highest for album year.
  • Fix for artist names in flac music files.
  • Fix for TheMovieDB season and episode images.
  • Make “respect tag” preference work for basic music library.
  • Clearing an originally available date could reset the year to 1900.
  • Detect when index files are manually deleted.
  • 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 the Apple TV.