February 17, 2016, 2.5.5
The 2.5.1 release and rollback left a really bad taste in our mouth and a lot of reports of user frustration. The parts of the application responsible for startup, connecting to Plex Media Servers, and managing user setting were thoroughly reviewed and improved. Along the way we added some highly requested features too.
NEW:
- Allow displaying lyrics when they’re available for a track.
- Search the current media server for music and videos.
- Privacy > Usage Analytics setting enables users to opt out of application
usage tracking. - Privacy > Network Logging setting enables users to send diagnostic logging to
their Plex Media Server. - Manual server configuration enables direct IP and port access to Plex Media
Servers which are not currently signed into a Plex Home. Not available on
Vizio, Sony, TiVo, or other devices running the Opera SDK. - Watch Later or Recommended videos, movies, episodes, seasons, and entire shows
can deleted. - Entire shows and individual seasons can be marked as watched or unwatched.
FIXES:
- Resiliency: Ensure application startup initialization functions as intended.
- Resiliency: Server connectivity issues during startup are handled gracefully
and present detailed recovery information based on an analysis of the server,
environment, and device configurations. - Resiliency: Improve Opera Cross Network protection workaround to avoid known
bad situations. - Resiliency: Clear application settings on sign out.
- User experience: Better recognition of casual presses to the Play button. If
there’s something playable nearby we’ll play it. - User experience: Fast forward (>>) and rewind (<<) can be used to paginate
more quickly through lists. - User experience: Skip forward (>|) and skip back (|<) can be used to change
from any preplay or detail screen to its sibling. - User experience: Polish our selection of focusable items, modal presentation,
and loading...feedback. - User experience: Accept all key presses to non-repeating keys.
- User experience: Improved photo player and video playlist interactions.
- Plex Companion: Casting videos from a local PMS correctly uses Local playback
quality setting. - Plex Companion: Many stability improvements for controlling smart TVs.
- Channels: Unsupported or channels with errors present an error message inline.
- Vizio: 4K televisions will allow direct playback of 10-bit HEVC video streams.
- TiVo: requires MP4 be Web Optimized for direct playback
- TiVo: handles to losses in network connectivity
- Sony: Probable fix for scrolling error reported by a user on a device actually
running Opera 11.
