Let’s not jump to conclusions or prejudge flow.
The announcement he’s referring to is pinned at the top of the related forum and the forum’s “latest posts” section.
The newly released version 1.18.2.2058 is providing a first hotfix to address the issue. However it’s not yet a full fix – from what I read, they’re still depending on a fix from TheTVDB.com, fixing their broken APIs.
From the release announcement for Plex Media Server - #303 by StSimm1 :
FIXES:
- (Agents) Make the Framework use modern HTTP libs, fixes certain TheTVDB requests failing among others.