Much faster (hopefully), smaller (mostly) and better PMS builds preview (1.15.0.573-123756e9a)

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Hello forum users,

For some time now, a small internal team has been working on revamping how we handle the numerous dependencies of Plex Media Server as well as the toolchains and the build system itself. This is not only great for our developers, but also allows us to fix issues and adopt new technology faster than before. We also took this opportunity to upgrade some of those dependencies and to improve pretty much every aspect of producing a release. All this required quite a few under-the-hood changes, touching on a wide range of functionality. Back in January, we had an initial forum preview release building on these changes.

Based on all the feedback we got from you, we worked hard to create this new preview release. We also added some new builds that were missing from the previous preview. This is still not the complete package, but hopefully covers the majority of our users.

Like in January, we kindly ask for your feedback to make sure we are not breaking anything during this process. Basically, we’re looking for users to run this new build and pay attention to see if anything suddenly stopped working that was working fine with the previous build.

Once we are finished with testing and addressing your feedback we will be moving to this new setup internally, so all new releases will be built like this.

Since these are highly experimental builds, if you decide to test them, make sure that all your backups are up-to-date or that you are testing in a safe environment.

Find the download links below. You will notice that not every supported platform and architecture has a build here. We are still working on integrating those with this new setup.

Known issues

  • Windows:
    • To install the preview version, any existing installation must be uninstalled first

Downloads

:tada: Update (6th Nov): updated builds to 1.14.0.391-7623e9224
:tada: Update (2nd Jan): updated builds to 1.15.0.545-c0e6af42a
:tada: Update (7th Jan): updated builds to 1.15.0.550-20055f39b
:tada: Update (15th Jan): updated builds to 1.15.0.573-123756e9a
:tada: Update (8th Feb): updated builds to 1.15.0.659-9311f93fd

This is for serious testers only. These builds may still contain bugs which may make these versions unsuitable for general usage.

Desktop Platforms

NAS Devices

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