# Plex Media Server **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Tags:** release-announcements\ **Created:** [March 10, 2013, 3:33am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447 "2013-03-10T03:33:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![StSimm1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/stsimm1/32/152068_2.png) [@StSimm1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/StSimm1)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 3:08pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/302 "2019-11-19T15:08:57Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.18.2.2041 is now available to everyone** NEW: - (DVR) Ability to browse upcoming airings in a library style view (#10556) - (DVR) Added explanation for partial recording (#10167). - (DVR) Added smarter logic for detecting existing recordings (#9669). - (Dashboard) FreeBSD CPU and memory graphs (#10611) FIXES: - (Butler) Some butler tasks would not run. - (Camera Upload) Don’t allow shared users to enable Camera Upload if they don’t have access to any photo libraries. (#8787) - (DVR) Preserve EPG metadata when assimilating Sports and News recordings. (#10544) - (Library) Add album critic rating as a field. - (Library) Add track mood back as filter/field. - (Library) Allow sorting on user ratings of artists, there are no artist critic ratings. - (Library) Plex Music libraries have critic ratings, allow sorting on them. - (Music) Related TIDAL hubs could sometimes stop showing (#10738) - (Music) Shared users using artist shuffles could get unavailable items in the play queue (#9827) - (Playlists) Recently added playlists were not sorted correctly - (Startup) The server would hang when the application support directory was not writable. (#7492) - Improve movie and TV show matching in some cases (#10641) ---
**Author:** ![StSimm1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/stsimm1/32/152068_2.png) [@StSimm1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/StSimm1)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/303 "2019-11-22T17:41:58Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.18.2.2058 is now available to everyone** NEW: - (DVR) Ability to browse upcoming airings in a library style view (#10556) - (DVR) Added explanation for partial recording (#10167). - (DVR) Added smarter logic for detecting existing recordings (#9669). - (Dashboard) FreeBSD CPU and memory graphs (#10611) FIXES: - (Agents) Make the Framework use modern HTTP libs, fixes certain TheTVDB requests failing among others. - (Butler) Some butler tasks would not run. - (Camera Upload) Don’t allow shared users to enable Camera Upload if they don’t have access to any photo libraries. (#8787) - (DVR) Preserve EPG metadata when assimilating Sports and News recordings. (#10544) - (Library) Add album critic rating as a field. - (Library) Add track mood back as filter/field. - (Library) Allow sorting on user ratings of artists, there are no artist critic ratings. - (Library) Plex Music libraries have critic ratings, allow sorting on them. - (Music) Related TIDAL hubs could sometimes stop showing (#10738) - (Music) Shared users using artist shuffles could get unavailable items in the play queue (#9827) - (Playlists) Recently added playlists were not sorted correctly - (Startup) The server would hang when the application support directory was not writable. (#7492) - Improve movie and TV show matching in some cases (#10641) (SHIELD will be updated starting on Monday) ---
**Author:** ![emilybersin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@emilybersin](https://forums.plex.tv/u/emilybersin)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/304 "2019-12-03T15:11:28Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.18.3.2111 is now available in the Beta update channel** NEW: - (Dashboard) Add CPU and memory graphs to some new linux-based platforms (#10080) - (Library) Don’t add duplicate files to the PlayQueue. This could occur when a single file contains multiple episodes. (#1340) - (Library) Track watch status accross multiple episodes when they share the same underlying file. (#1340) - (NAS) QNAP packages are now signed. (required for QTS 4.4.0 and newer) - (Web) Updated to 4.12.3 FIXES: - (Apple) Disable iPhoto and Aperture channels. They can be re-enabled in settings. (#7189) - (DVR) Change India to require an XMLTV guide since our provider is dropping support. (#10659) - (DVR) Re-enable signal strength updates for Hauppauge tuners. (#9746) - (DVR) Recording options “Show Advanced” -\> “Limit To Airing Time” would sometimes display incorrect airing times, that were off by 1 hour. (#10536) - (DVR) Reduce the likelihood of a national lineup being selected by default during setup. (#10211) - (DVR) Return proper error when recording is skipped because airing is in progress. (#9688) - (DVR) Support moving multiple files during assimilation. (#9996) - (Playqueue) Shared users would not see subsequent episodes in playqueues (#10838) - (Scanner) Some pre-defined directories weren’t ignored when scanning (#10671) ---
**Author:** ![emilybersin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@emilybersin](https://forums.plex.tv/u/emilybersin)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/305 "2019-12-06T21:14:20Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.18.3.2129 is now available in the Beta update channel** FIXES: - (DVR) Fix for crash when accessing Live TV & DVR. ---
**Author:** ![emilybersin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@emilybersin](https://forums.plex.tv/u/emilybersin)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/306 "2019-12-16T14:47:30Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.18.3.2156 is now available in the Beta update channel** FIXES: - Fix crash on Windows with Intel graphics adapter and hardware acceleration enabled (#10736) ---
**Author:** ![emilybersin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@emilybersin](https://forums.plex.tv/u/emilybersin)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/307 "2019-12-17T19:00:53Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.18.3.2156 is now available to everyone** ---
**Author:** ![ahiyahiya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@ahiyahiya](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ahiyahiya)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/308 "2019-12-17T20:43:21Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.18.4.2164 is now available in the Beta update channel** NEW: - (DVR) “Upcoming Sports” renamed to “Sports On Later”; filter refined to only have sport events (#10554). - (DVR) Added new “Sports On Now” hub (#10554). - (DVR) Enhanced “TV Shows” Hub, now named “Shows On Now”. (#10815) - (Library) Add an “in progress” filter for movies and episodes. - (Library) Added a release date filter for albums. - (Library) Allow using Musicbrainz IDs when manually matching artists and albums. - (Library) Keep track of when items are rated, add filter. - (Preferences) Added more bitrate options to limiting remote per-stream bandwidth (#10778) - (Preferences) Enable “Use hardware-accelerated video encoding” by default. FIXES: - (DVR) Programs listed under “Recommended” Hub would not sort by airing start datetime (#10554). - (EPG) Allow filtering of EPG data by content rating. - (Library) Fix manual searches for old music album agents. - (Library) Huge speedup to history view in dashboard. - (Library) Read MusicBrainz tags from files to help match the correct release. - (Library) Stop showing recommendations from shared libraries which don’t exist anymore. - (Library) Use track filenames as last-ditch track titles. (#10740) - (Music) Read track artist tags in more cases. - (PMS) Server would sometimes return HTTP 404 when scanner was traversing folders. (#10800) - (Transcoder) The server could crash when attempting hardware transcodes on certain Windows systems (#10736) ---
**Author:** ![ahiyahiya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@ahiyahiya](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ahiyahiya)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/309 "2019-12-20T21:18:39Z")
**Plex Media Server**** 1.18.4 ****.2171 is now available in the Beta update channel.** What’s changed: (PMS) Suppresses sending select “What’s On” rows to Roku app versions 6.4.9 and below, to prevent crash in Roku app (#10934) ---
**Author:** ![ahiyahiya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@ahiyahiya](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ahiyahiya)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/310 "2020-01-06T21:59:58Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.18.4.2171 is now available to everyone.** ---
**Author:** ![Ridley](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ridley/32/297728_2.png) [@Ridley](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Ridley)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/311 "2020-01-20T19:25:18Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.18.5.2260 is now available in the Beta update channel.** NEW: - (Networking) Added prefrence to allow disabling of the relay (#8514) - (Photos) Support WebP image format in photo libraries (#1082) - (Prefs) Exposed an advanced preference to disable video transcoding (#10891) - [(Ubuntu/Debian) Add support for SysVinit.](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server-linux-installation-packaging-update/507468) - [(Ubuntu/Debian) Improve installation in non-standard environments.](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server-linux-installation-packaging-update/507468) FIXES: - (Camera Upload) Very large video files could fail to upload (#6880) - (Collections) Collections were sorted incorrectly in some cases - (Language) Changes to shared user’s audio/subtitle language preferences were not respected. (#10910) - (Library) Crash scanning single track albums. (#10941) - (PlayQueue) Deleting the currently playing item in a queue could result in undefined behaviour (#10450) - (Synology) Improve process of stopping PMS when device is busy. - (TerraMaster) Libraries created during initial setup could be lost in rare cases. ---
**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 9:14pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/312 "2020-01-28T21:14:09Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.18.5.2309 is now available in the Beta update channel.** FIXES: - (Ubuntu/Debian) Improve Docker / Container detection - (Ubuntu/Debian) Use host’s IPA services if available (e.g. LDAP) - (Ubuntu/Debian) Reduce fatal ERROR to non-fatal WARNING if the Plex user does not own the Application Support directory at installation time. _Note: There still exists an issue with non-standard / specialized containers. These will be resolved in the upcoming release(s)._ ---
**Author:** ![Ridley](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ridley/32/297728_2.png) [@Ridley](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Ridley)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 5:14am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/313 "2020-01-29T05:14:55Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.18.5.2309 is now available to everyone.** ---
**Author:** ![drzoidberg33](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/drzoidberg33/32/4184_2.png) [@drzoidberg33](https://forums.plex.tv/u/drzoidberg33)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 1:38pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/314 "2020-02-03T13:38:29Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.18.6.2348 is now available in the Beta update channel.** NEW: - (Web) Updated to 4.20.2 FIXES: - (Butler) Auto deletion of old update directories would fail on Windows. (#7759) - (DVR) Fix for in-progress recordings being deleted by another server that records to the same directory. (#10929) - (DVR) Server would not display future scheduled recordings when Limit To Airing Time advanced setting was selected (#10950). - (EPG) Improve XMLTV episode info parsing. - (EPG) Only allow Enhanced Guide option for XMLTV, and disable by default. (#10969) - (FreeBSD) Fixes for database problems when syncing - (Library) In some cases, playbacks would be registered when quickly skipping over items. - (Library) Scrobble offline plays to Last.FM. - (Library) Switching between types may show the incorrect default sort order (#10806) - (Library) The Studio/Record Label custom filter would not work as expected (#10900) - (Library) The scheduled task to generate video preview thumbnails didn’t always work. - (Metadata) Movies with 8 digit IMDB ids would not be imported (#10937) - (Performance) Speed up connectivity tests and library discovery (#10930) - (Photos) Some items may show under 1 Jan 1900 in the timeline view (#10917) - (Preferences) The dropdown options for the preferred network interface were missing (#10975) - (Radio) Don’t show library radios for empty libraries (#9192) - (Scanning) Linux automatic library change detection setup could crash when filesystem experiences I/O errors (#10890) - Shuffling a smart music playlist with an item limit would ignore the limit. (#10774) ---
**Author:** ![drzoidberg33](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/drzoidberg33/32/4184_2.png) [@drzoidberg33](https://forums.plex.tv/u/drzoidberg33)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/315 "2020-02-04T13:33:19Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.18.6.2368 is now available in the Beta update channel.** FIXES: - (Ubuntu/Debian) The service may not have automatically started after upgrading an existing install. - The server could become unresponsive after navigating many preplay screens. ---
**Author:** ![drzoidberg33](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/drzoidberg33/32/4184_2.png) [@drzoidberg33](https://forums.plex.tv/u/drzoidberg33)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/316 "2020-02-10T17:10:20Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.18.6.2368 is now available to everyone.** ---
**Author:** ![gbooker02](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/gbooker02/32/9726_2.png) [@gbooker02](https://forums.plex.tv/u/gbooker02)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 9:32pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/317 "2020-02-13T21:32:37Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.18.7.2415 is now available in the Beta update channel.** NEW: - (DVR) Added “Kids On Now” hub (#10817). FIXES: - (DVR) Content may be presented out of order for Shows On Now, Kids On Now, and Sports On Now Hub (#11107). - (DVR) Only require 100 MB of disk space per recording for the transcode session directory. (nvidia-shield-issues#236) - (DVR) Server would fail to display all shows under “Shows On Now” section in Web client (#11014). - (DVR) Server would fail to provide “Shows On Now” view for iOS (#11014). - (DVR) Server would not display “On Right Now” and “Upcoming Sports”, when XMLTV was the datasource (#10997). - (DVR) Server would present very long running sports programs at front of “Sports On Now” Hub (#11004). - (Hubs) Starting a playqueue from Recently Added movies could contain items which are not accessible or playable (#10669) - (Library) Improve quality of shuffled music playback order in certain cases. - (Library) Sort order of episodes without air date could be incorrect. - (Transcoder) Hardware decoding could produce corrupt video when burning subtitles on Apollo Lake-based processors. (#10753) - (Transcoder) Hardware encoding on older Intel processors could produce very low-quality output in some cases. (#10863) - (Transcoder) Transcoder request for session segment would hang if we killed the transcoder job and OS fails to complete the process kill (#10886) - (Transcoder) Transcodes could fail in some cases due to thread scheduling conditions (#10831) ---
**Author:** ![gbooker02](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/gbooker02/32/9726_2.png) [@gbooker02](https://forums.plex.tv/u/gbooker02)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/318 "2020-02-17T15:27:39Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.18.7.2434 is now available in the Beta update channel.** FIXES: Certain clients could make a request that would crash the server (#11154) ---
**Author:** ![gbooker02](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/gbooker02/32/9726_2.png) [@gbooker02](https://forums.plex.tv/u/gbooker02)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/319 "2020-02-19T14:28:51Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.18.7.2438 is now available in the Beta update channel.** NEW: - (Web) Updated to 4.22.2 ---
**Author:** ![gbooker02](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/gbooker02/32/9726_2.png) [@gbooker02](https://forums.plex.tv/u/gbooker02)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/320 "2020-02-20T19:56:30Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.18.7.2438 is now available to everyone.** ---
**Author:** ![gbooker02](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/gbooker02/32/9726_2.png) [@gbooker02](https://forums.plex.tv/u/gbooker02)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/321 "2020-02-24T16:18:19Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.18.7.2457 is now available to everyone.** FIXES: - (Stability) PMS could hang when using iTunes plugins (#11187) [Previous page](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447.md?page=15) [Next page](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447.md?page=17)