The release notes for Plex Media Server 1.23.0.4459 and 1.23.0.4438 are identical, save for a single bullet under ‘Fixes.’ This seems to be happening a lot lately. It’s not a huge issue, but it does make it harder to see what has actually changed from one build to the next.

(Server) Server could fail to launch on 32-bit linux platforms

That’s not the point! We should not have to parse the list to figure out what has changed.

One single bullet, is the point. Update: Now in Bold

Here’s how this was explained the last time I saw this come up: [image] Plex Media Server release notes cluttered lately General Discussions The release notes are tied to the version number, if we do minor hotfixes on a specific version then it will include all the releas…

I also reported that. They update the release notes here on the forum but not where the server pulls it from [image] Please update the release notes General Discussions Please update the release notes shown on Plex Server page. Versions 1.22.2.4256, 1.22.2.4262, 1.22.2.4…

That explanation doesn’t really hold up. I randomly went back in the PMS Announcement thread, and found release notes for 1.18.2.2015 and 1.18.2.2029. There was no duplication between the notes for those two minor revisions of the same version. So it certainly isn’t necessary.

We used to only list the change in beta releases but folks got upset that other previous changes (if they skipped a release) were not mentioned. that is why in the forum release notes they are duplicated however the new thing or fix added to more recent beta should afaik been called about by being …

Since the forum release notes is the version I prefer, do you know if Discourse creates RSS feed of posts in a thread?

[image] beckfield: That explanation doesn’t really hold up. I’d agree, except that that assumes we know what Plex considers to be a version change and a hotfix, and which (if any) part of the version string signifies it. In this case it appears to have just been a hotfix to address the probl…

@CostaHT You can RSS a flat category, tag, or topic by just adding RSS to the end of URL. https://forums.plex.tv/c/announcements/5.rss https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447.rss https://forums.plex.tv/tag/release-announcements.rss or you can bookmark topic and have the forum notify y…

Features/fixes repeated in release notes?

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pshanew April 30, 2021, 10:04pm 6

Here’s how this was explained the last time I saw this come up:

But agreed, it does make it less obvious what has changed.

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