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Plex Media Server - Transcoder Preview: 0.9.17.0

This is a special forums-only (Plex Pass) preview release; see the thread for download links.

NEW:

  • (Transcoder) Prune HLS and DASH segments when disk space is low, instead of failing transcodes with insufficient space. (#3918)
  • (Preferences) Preference to control chapter thumbnail generation. (#4232)
  • (Metadata) Add director and writer images for supported clients. (#3863)
  • (Search) Quick Search now searches across all libraries of the same type. (#4153)
  • Services bundle auto-updates independently of media server installations again. (#4272)
  • Use CineMaterial instead of MoviePosterDB.
  • Updated Media Flags.
  • Updated client profiles for a number of platforms.
  • (OS X) Mac OS versions 10.6 and 10.7 are no longer supported.
  • (Windows) Windows Vista is no longer supported.
  • (Windows) Install Media Feature Packs during setup on Windows N and KN SKUs.
  • (Linux) ARMv5, PowerPC and ROS4 NAS devices are no longer supported (see complete list here: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/218212517)
  • (Linux) QNAP ARMv5 devices are no longer supported (eg. TS-x19).
  • (Linux) Synology ARMv5 and PPC devices are no longer supported (eg. DS-x12 and older devices).
  • (Linux) Thecus PPC devices are no longer supported.
  • (Linux) Western Digital MyCloud Ex4 is no longer supported (Its ARMv5).
  • (Linux) Netgear ReadyNAS OS4 platforms are no longer supported.

FIXES:

  • (Sync) Reprocess items if necessary when original media is removed. (#3800)
  • (Sync) Sync v1 items were including redundant subtitle streams. (#1704)
  • (Sync) Show a clear error message when a user’s sync item is no longer authorized. (#4453)
  • (Security) Reload server’s TLS certificate if cached copy doesn’t work. (#4235)
  • (Security) Reuse certificate when secure connections are disabled, then re-enabled. (#4007)
  • (Thumbnails) Don’t re-attempt failed thumbnail generation using the same version of the transcoder. (#3973)
  • (Media Optimizer) Optimization jobs might fail on some NAS devices when the optimization folder was kept open. (#4446)
  • (Chapters) Ignore lone video chapters near start position (#4399)
  • (Now Playing) Missing show and artist data and artwork (#4042)
  • (Hubs) ‘Start Watching’ hub no longer includes shows with partially watched episodes. (#4015)
  • (Hubs) ‘Continue Watching’ hub for TV libraries was missing progress bars. (#3524)
  • (Hubs) Music hubs for restricted users could be slow in certain cases. (#3958)
  • (Hubs) Improve performance of play queues created from ‘Recently Added’ hubs (#4238)
  • (Postplay) Postplay screen for managed users displayed results for admin account. (#4344)
  • (Agents) Use HTTPS where possible when talking to external services. (#4148)
  • (Transcoder) Errors transcoding photos when localhost is not 127.0.0.1 (#4008)
  • (Transcoder) Setting the throttle buffer to zero wasn’t disabling throttling. (#4556)
  • (Remote Access) Incorrect internal IP address displayed on server mapping page. (#3908)
  • (OS X) Improve idle sleep prevention. (#3930)
  • (Windows) Better tray icon. (#4314)
  • (Windows) Don’t open iTunes app when iTunes channel is disabled. (#4328)
  • (Composites) Make composite image generation more random. (#2153)
  • (Composites) Failures generating composite images for certain playlists. (#4021)
  • (Scanner) Import genre, year and image from WMA music files. (#4364)
  • (Scanner) Don’t merge music albums which were wrongly identified as the same album. (#3629)
  • (Scanner) Tolerate errors reading corrupt FLAC file tags. (#4076)
  • (Scanner) Don’t stop scanning when a single file is corrupt or has other issues. (#4432)
  • (Scanner) Improve matching by recognizing reversed filenames. (#4358)
  • (Preferences) Hide plugin time-out preference, ensure it’s always at least fifteen seconds. (#4406)
  • (Network) Process Accept-Language headers correctly. (#4367)
  • (Network) Process HTTP headers as case-insensitive (#3735)
  • (Network) Rare cases where HTTP requests might be received, but never processed (#4248)
  • (Network) Rare HTTP 401 responses when server is starting up (#4376)
  • Remove hard-coded limit on number of Recently Added items. (#3966)
  • Music videos For Recent Artists was incorrectly being randomized. (#4041)
  • Incorrect filters were being displayed with unwatched only filter. (#4252)
  • Hide music video extras for albums which have user restrictions. (#3121)
  • Device names with non-latin characters weren’t being handled correctly. (#4028)
  • Slow performance accessing item details. (#1761)
  • Detect process launch failures more accurately on Unix systems (#3738)
  • Improve stability with premium music libraries. (#4159)
  • Improve stability of TMDb agent.
  • Improve media analysis for non-H.264 video.
  • View state from the wrong user could be displayed in certain cases. (#4074)
  • Auto-update downloads could stall without timing out.
  • Crashes with invalid HTTP requests. (#4403)
  • Crashes logging certain string patterns (#4438)