Plex for Mac, Windows, and Linux

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Version 1.46.1 has been released for Plex for Windows, Plex for Mac, and Plex for Linux.

NEW:

  • Remove support for being controlled as a companion player. Use Plex for HTPC for remote control playback on the desktop.
  • Search: Fixed an issue that could cause results to show the wrong watchlist status in their context menu and details pages
  • Update copy for removing User from Plex Home.
  • Watchlist: Added settings page to generate RSS feed URL (needs a Plex Pass account)
  • Where to Watch: Restrict top level results in “Watch from these locations” section of details page to only show results from selected services

FIXED:

  • Corrected switching back to maximized from fullscreen
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Version 1.47.1 has been released for Plex for Windows, Plex for Mac, and Plex for Linux.

FIXED:

  • Fixed an issue that could cause the app to mistakenly expose a Table view option on Movies & Shows genre sections
  • Corrected some Window and keyboard focus issues
  • Remove all but 3 newest updates in update cache
  • Database improvements
  • (Mac) Corrected blank startup on certain MacPros
  • (Linux) Corrected downloads not completing
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Version 1.48.2 has been released for Plex for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

NEW:

  • Discover: Added ability to opt out of the Discover provider and a few Discover features
  • Search: Fixed an issue that caused the More Ways to Watch toggle to vanish after changing the app language
  • Search: Fixed an issue that could cause unexpected behavior when pressing return while search results are being fetched
  • Search: Improved search results info for Live TV results
  • Watchlist: Fixed an issue that could cause broken play buttons to appear when changing the filter to Shows or Movies
  • Where to Watch: Fixed an issue that could cause Plex availabilities to link to outside of the Web app

FIXED:

  • Corrected fullscreen (and a few other) shortcuts not working
  • (Windows) Corrected ANGLE rendering being red-tinted
  • Fixed the Home button missing from Watchlist RSS Feed settings page
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Version 1.49.1 has been released for Plex for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

NEW:

  • Discover: Improve display of future episodes
  • Search: Added search results page
  • Search: Allow pressing Enter to go to results page while results are loading
  • Search: Improve results page history handling
  • Search: Improved loading states in search results dropdown and page
  • Where to Watch: Added Movies & Shows availabilities in “Watch from these locations” hub for users that have disabled Movies & Shows source

FIXED:

  • Corrected transcodes to AC3 over optical connections
  • Fixed round-off in progress indication in downloads
  • Search: Fixed an issue that could cause the search bar to only focus after being clicked twice
  • Search: Fixed an issue that could cause unnecessary search requests when going to the full search results page
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Version 1.50.1 has been released for Plex for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

NEW:

  • (Windows) MPV built with vulkan support (gpu-context=winvk) and gpu-next video output (vo=gpu-next)
  • Improved subtitle compatibility and performance
  • Discover: Improve PMS items layout in “Watch from these locations” hubs
  • Search: Adjusted media libraries loading text
  • Update TV-13 restriction profile text to TV-14
  • Fix library track rating filters not showing correctly.
  • Wrong selected username after friend found in Library Sharing

FIXED:

  • Corrected blocky VC1 hardware decoding on some hardware
  • Corrected some video freezes when tuning some Plex channels
  • (Mac) Fixed player controls not disappearing when mouse leaves window
  • HW transcode of downloads will fallback to SW transcode in case of failures
  • No longer delete an album download on network failure to PMS
  • Fixed an issue that could cause a “Similar Titles in Free To Watch” hub to appear in details pages for users that disables the “Movies & TV” source
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Version 1.51.1 has been released for Plex for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

NEW:

  • Added profile button in navbar menu

FIXED:

  • Fixed Plex Home invites not working for existing friends
  • Fixed manage libraries if legacy games library exists
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Version 1.52.1 has been released for Plex for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

NEW:

  • Live TV: Don’t hide tabs if have faves but no genre tabs
  • Remove the deprecated banner type from TV show edit modals
  • Search: Don’t limit search results per section in full search results page
  • Search: Going to search page results adds search term to Recent searches
  • Search: Improved look for Live TV channels results
  • Where to Watch: Show buy/rent prices in More Ways to Watch hub and only show remaining availabilities in modal
  • Watchlist: Fixed an issue that could cause the “Add to Watchlist” button to appear while watching trailers as a signed out user
  • Where to Watch: Fixed an issue that could cause managed users to be prompted to select streaming services

FIXED:

  • (Linux) Inhibit power management and proxy on playback
  • Worked around MPNowPlayingInfoCenter causing UI freezes when playing audio tracks
  • Fixed client killing PMS processes when running on same machine
  • Fixed an edge case that could cause the wrong hubs to be shown when quickly switching between sidebar sources
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the Watchlist status of items in Movies & Shows to not update immediately after being marked as played
  • Fixed showing Rotten Tomatoes critic rating when sorting by audience rating and vice versa
  • Fixed wrong highlight color for subtitles in some item on the “More Ways to Watch” hub
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Version 1.53.1 has been released for Plex for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

FIXED:

  • Disable hdr-compute-peak in low quality profiles
  • Watchlist: Fixed an issue that caused applied filters and sorts to not be remembered by the app after navigating away from the page.
  • Fixed View State Sync modal not prompting for VOD content.
  • Fixed View State Sync prompting when user rates music.
  • Fixed VSS upsell always visible on Profile page when consent is rejected.
  • Fixed not sending friend requests while granting library access and no library is selected.
  • Fixed watch history zero state behavior - focus search input when clicked.
  • Fixed wrong episode artwork for profile hubs.
  • Fixed View State Sync prompting on trailer playback end.
  • Fixed grant library access not allowing empty selected servers.
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Version 1.54.1 has been released for Plex for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

NEW:

  • Display edition data in more places
  • Search: Fixed Clips being combined with Movies in search results page
  • Show ‘What’s On’ hubs for Plex Channels
  • Updated text in onboarding and watch history privacy settings screen

FIXED:

  • (Linux) Use DBUS session bus for session-based tasks
  • Fixed grant library access network error when granting home user
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Version 1.54.2 has been released for Plex for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

FIXED:

  • Fixed an issue that could cause cast list items to not be clickable
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Version 1.55.0 has been released for Plex for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

NEW:

  • Discover: Fixed an issue that could cause the Streaming Services selection modal to appear in unexpected places
  • Fix squashed plex logo in server setup
  • Hide duplicative summaries in Other Editions hub
  • Search: Fixed an issue that caused Photo Tags results to not appears in search results page
  • Show useful error message for old PMS on live TV guide

FIXED:

  • (Mac) Fixed crash in MPV on video resize
  • Fixed Add Friend modal input being case sensitive
  • Fixed default tooltip in share with friends modal
  • Fixed social activity button capping user list at 5 elements
  • Fixed wrong partial watched state in activity cards
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Version 1.56.1 has been released for Plex for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

NEW:

  • Added the ability to generate RSS feed URL for Friends’ Watchlist in Settings (requires a Plex Pass account).
  • Search: Added categories to “Free on Demand” results.
  • Search: Show Photos in search results when Top Results is selected.
  • Use show poster for seasons when season poster is not available.

FIXED:

  • (Windows) Added support for native media keys
  • Don’t show “Add to Watchlist” actions for Live TV content.
  • Discover: Fixed an issue that could cause the wrong played status of episodes in a season to appear temporarily when toggling the played status of an episode.
  • Fixed formatting of some language names in settings.
  • Fixed missing poster artwork in activity cards.
  • Fixed library upgrade reminder not dismissible when streaming services modal is visible.
  • Fixed watch together using old management page when a user doesn’t have any friends.
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Version 1.56.2 has been released for Plex for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

FIXED:

  • Minor fixes and improvements
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Version 1.57.1 has been released for Plex for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

NEW:

  • Discover: Updated look of streaming services upsell banner and added dismiss button
  • Match displayed activity dates across different clients
  • People Pages: Don’t show content from libraries with “Include adult content” setting enabled or “Visibility” setting set to “Exclude from home screen and global search”

FIXED:

  • Fixed an issue that could cause the Activity dashboard to break when playing TIDAL tracks from video details pages
  • Fixed broken links to TIDAL content in Dashboard page
  • Fixed inconsistent spacing in Streaming Services settings page elements
  • Search: Fixed People search results not showing up for managed users that don’t have access to “Movies & TV” source
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the “Watch from these locations” hub to not show up for users who opt out of seeing availabilities from other Streaming Services on Detail Pages
  • Dashboard: Fixed broken links in Top Played section
  • Search: Fixed a bug that could cause “No results found” to flash when searching for something
  • Search: Fixed a bug where the “no results found” message was never displayed when searching for a term that returned no results
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Version 1.58.1 has been released for Plex for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

FIXED:

  • (Windows) Corrected focus issues when file dialog is open
  • (Windows) Removed zoom with touchscreen controls
  • Discover: Fixed an issue that caused the page header to display the wrong title in some pages.
  • Fixed allow downloads setting not saved after sending invite.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the rate controls to show up for unsupported items (TIDAL tracks).
  • Fixed an issue that exposed source context menus when navigating to source hub pages.
  • Fixed select all button alignment on album pre play.
  • Fixed typography issues on activity pages.
  • Search: Fixed a small UI issue in actor results on the search results page.
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Version 1.59.1 has been released for Plex for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

NEW:

  • Added support for AV1 encoded videos
  • Discover Credits: Items from libraries with the “Include Adult Content” setting enabled will now show up in hubs
  • Discover together - Added trending items to activity feed.
  • Discover: Updated zero state copy for “Watch from these locations” hub
  • Where to Watch: Respect PMS library “Visibility” setting when showing items in “Watch from these locations” hub

FIXED:

  • Discover Credits: Cast list items fall back to linking to filtered server library if plex.tv is down
  • Fix square music covers for collections
  • Search: Fixed an issue that caused rapidly pressing Enter after searching for something to interrupt the search and cause the search results to not appear
  • Search: Fixed display issues in the source selection modal around long library/edition titles
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Version 1.60.1 has been released for Plex for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

NEW:

  • Album art is now displayed in the OS media controls on macOS and Windows
  • Added more detailed breadcrumbs when browsing content from certain hubs.
  • Discover Credits: Don’t show “Known For” hub to managed users.
  • Add links to targeted advertising opt-out for all US users and link to privacy rights for California users.

FIXED:

  • Fix year displayed twice when sorting library by year.
  • Fixed edge case causing duplicated shows in Popular this Week.
  • Search: Fixed a couple of display edge cases when opening the context menu for a search result and immediately focusing a different result.
  • Where to Watch: Fixed an issue that caused the services modal to appear when returning from a linked external availability.
  • Fixed unexpected error message while granting library access.
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Version 1.61.1 has been released for Plex for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

NEW:

  • Discover Together: Navigate to Watchlist page on zero state use cases.
  • Updated UI for “Watch from these locations” hubs.

FIXED:

  • Discover Together - Fixed low resolution images from being stretched in activity cards.
  • Discover: Fixed an issue that caused watch status flags to appear in hub items after adding or removing an item from the Watchlist.
  • Discover: Fixed an issue that could cause the wrong Watchlist status to be shown in the context menu for hub items.
  • Fix convert modal not showing library folder when optimizing the entire library.
  • Show Plex Pass upsell in Watchlist account settings page
  • Where to Watch: Restored missing prompts (to add Show to Watchlist or to re-enable Movies & TV source)that can appear after clicking a link to an external service
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Version 1.62.2 has been released for Plex for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

FIXED:

  • Discover Together: Fix “New Activity” zIndex.
  • Discover Together: Hide avatar when we share something with other users.
  • Don’t show “Time to fill the blanks” get started card if Profile is filled.
  • Fix live tv session stopped after a period of time.
  • Fixed edge case in Library access modal when setting restriction settings.
  • Search: Avoid reloading data on some pages when “More Ways to Watch” setting is toggled.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause audio/subtitle streams to change during playback.
  • Discover: Fixed an issue that could cause the “Play” button to appear for unplayable items when following links from watch.plex.tv.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the filters and sorts to disappear.
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Version 1.63.2 has been released for Plex for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

NEW:

  • Allow default key bindings from mpv Lua scripts to take effect
  • Get season thumbs/artwork in downloads
  • Discover Credits: Fall back to showing person’s initials if no image is available.
  • Discover: Allow rating and toggling watched status of unreleased content.

FIXED:

  • Fixed some TrueHD decode cases
  • Corrected subtitle selection with Closed Caption subs are present
  • Discover Together - Allow users to mark unreleased content as watched.
  • Discover Together - Improve artwork in Activity feed and Profile page.
  • Discover Together: Change episode label in watch history.
  • Discover Together: Match watch history page timestamps with activity feed.
  • Discover Together: Prevent date label from hiding on hover in watch history page.
  • Fixed a regression that causes hubs and library lists to not automatically update after performing an action on an item.
  • Search: Fixed an issue that could cause some personal media results to be missing from search results.

Edit: Temporarily removed while we investigate an issue with this release.