It looks like this was supposed to be fixed in the version you mentioned, but maybe it only targeted the debian release (https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server-new/1.40.0.7997-b09370ecd/debian/plexmediaserver_1.40.0.7997-b09370ecd_amd64.deb), not the Netgear variant:
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