# Plex Media Server
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447
**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:** 19
### Author:  [@StSimm1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/StSimm1)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/363 "2020-08-27T15:07:22Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.20.1.3252 is now available to everyone**
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### Author:  [@Ridley](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Ridley)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2020, 3:28am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/364 "2020-09-24T03:28:53Z")
Plex Media Server 1.20.2.3343 is now available in the beta update channel.
NEW:
- (DVR) Guide refresh checkbox moved to DVR settings dialog (#11660).
- (DVR) Guide refresh time exposed under DVR settings dialog, with XMLTV being able to set custom start time (#11660).
- (Loudness) Greatly improved the quality of soundprint data (#11500)
FIXES:
- (Butler) Temporary cache files could sometimes not be removed (#11951)
- (DVR) Managed user was unable to cancel their own recordings from conflict modal (#11316)
- (DVR) Server would not display user selected commercial skip setting for scheduled recording (#11921).
- (DVR) UI for XMLTV guide refresh interval setting would display 4 hours, instead of the default of 24 hours (#11660)
- (Hubs) Reduce the time taken to load ‘home’
- (Hubs) The Rediscover hub for TV shows could take a long time to load.
- (Library) “Trashed” items could be removed if an analysis was run on them.
- (Library) Certain file paths could result in incorrect matches for items in new Plex Movies libraries (#11925)
- (Library) Items from related hubs on episode pre-plays could fail to play back
- (Library) Shuffling content could result in deterministic results
- (Loudness) Soundprint analysis could give incorrect results on files with very high sample rates (#11500)
- (Metadata) Some series with punctuation or special characters in their titles wouldn’t match against TheTVDB.
- (Music) If a request to match an album failed it would cause a crash (#11977)
- (QNAP) Only create PlexData symlink to AppData if user has created a ‘PlexData’ share.
- (Scanner) Local assets would not be available in Plex Movie libraries if the library was a UNC path (#11931)
- (Subtitles) Subtitle files with names containing a percent sign could be scanned in with invalid paths (#11386)
- (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding could have substantially reduced quality on Windows systems with Intel GPUs (#11036)
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### Author:  [@StSimm1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/StSimm1)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2020, 8:33am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/365 "2020-09-28T08:33:31Z")
Plex Media Server 1.20.2.3370 is now available in the beta update channel.
NEW:
- (DVR) Guide refresh checkbox moved to DVR settings dialog (#11660).
- (DVR) Guide refresh time exposed under DVR settings dialog, with XMLTV being able to set custom start time (#11660).
- (Loudness) Greatly improved the quality of soundprint data (#11500)
FIXES:
- (Butler) Temporary cache files could sometimes not be removed (#11951)
- (DVR) Managed user was unable to cancel their own recordings from conflict modal (#11316)
- (DVR) Server would not display user selected commercial skip setting for scheduled recording (#11921).
- (DVR) UI for XMLTV guide refresh interval setting would display 4 hours, instead of the default of 24 hours (#11660)
- (Hubs) Reduce the time taken to load ‘home’
- (Hubs) The Rediscover hub for TV shows could take a long time to load.
- (Library) “Trashed” items could be removed if an analysis was run on them.
- (Library) Certain file paths could result in incorrect matches for items in new Plex Movies libraries (#11925)
- (Library) Items from related hubs on episode pre-plays could fail to play back
- (Library) Shuffling content could result in deterministic results
- (Loudness) Soundprint analysis could give incorrect results on files with very high sample rates (#11500)
- (Metadata) Some series with punctuation or special characters in their titles wouldn’t match against TheTVDB.
- (Music) If a request to match an album failed it would cause a crash (#11977)
- (QNAP) Only create PlexData symlink to AppData if user has created a ‘PlexData’ share.
- (Scanner) Local assets would not be available in Plex Movie libraries if the library was a UNC path (#11931)
- (Subtitles) Subtitle files with names containing a percent sign could be scanned in with invalid paths (#11386)
- (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding could have substantially reduced quality on Windows systems with Intel GPUs (#11036)
- (Hubs) Some hubs could go missing when upgrading to 1.20.2
- (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding failures on Windows
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### Author:  [@ahiyahiya](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ahiyahiya)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2020, 10:03pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/366 "2020-10-02T22:03:25Z")
Plex Media Server 1.20.2.3402 is now available in the beta update channel.
NEW:
- (DVR) Guide refresh checkbox moved to DVR settings dialog (#11660).
- (DVR) Guide refresh time exposed under DVR settings dialog, with XMLTV being able to set custom start time (#11660).
- (Loudness) Greatly improved the quality of soundprint data (#11500)
FIXES:
- (Butler) Temporary cache files could sometimes not be removed (#11951)
- (DVR) Guide refresh would sometimes not initiate (#12004).
- (DVR) Managed user was unable to cancel their own recordings from conflict modal (#11316)
- (DVR) Server would not display user selected commercial skip setting for scheduled recording (#11921).
- (DVR) XMLTV Guide refresh would occur every 4 hours (#11660).
- (Hubs) Reduce the time taken to load ‘home’
- (Hubs) Some hubs could go missing when upgrading to 1.20.2
- (Hubs) The Rediscover hub for TV shows could take a long time to load.
- (Library) “Trashed” items could be removed if an analysis was run on them.
- (Library) Certain file paths could result in incorrect matches for items in new Plex Movies libraries (#11925)
- (Library) Items from related hubs on episode pre-plays could fail to play back
- (Library) Shuffling content could result in deterministic results
- (Loudness) Soundprint analysis could give incorrect results on files with very high sample rates (#11500)
- (Metadata) Some series with punctuation or special characters in their titles wouldn’t match against TheTVDB.
- (Music) If a request to match an album failed it would cause a crash (#11977)
- (QNAP) Only create PlexData symlink to AppData if user has created a ‘PlexData’ share.
- (Scanner) Local assets would not be available in Plex Movie libraries if the library was a UNC path (#11931)
- (Subtitles) Subtitle files with names containing a percent sign could be scanned in with invalid paths (#11386)
- (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding could have substantially reduced quality on Windows systems with Intel GPUs (#11036)
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### Author:  [@Ridley](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Ridley)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2020, 3:05am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/367 "2020-10-06T03:05:43Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.20.2.3402 is now available to everyone.**
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### Author:  [@drzoidberg33](https://forums.plex.tv/u/drzoidberg33)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2020, 8:33am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/368 "2020-10-07T08:33:26Z")
Plex Media Server 1.20.3.3401 is now available in the beta update channel.
NEW:
- (Collections) Show alternate poster and background options when editing collections created by the Plex Movie agent (#11968)
- (Subtitles) Plex Movie libraries now support an additional “sdh” or “cc” flag for SDH designation of sidecar subtitles (#11966)
FIXES:
- (DVR) Allow recording when partials are disabled if airing started less than 30 seconds ago. (#11916)
- (DVR) Guide refresh would sometimes not initiate (#12004).
- (DVR) dvb-c Hauppauge soloHD/dualHD tuners fail to scan channels (#11826)
- (EPG) DST time change would cause high CPU usage. (#10770)
- (Library) Plexignore rules in the directory root would not respect wildcard folder paths (#11955)
- (Scanner) Chapter and preview thumbnail jobs for movies would run for all items instead of only new ones if that preference was enabled (#11982)
- (Subtitles) Sidecar subtitles using language codes with a region subtag would return the language as Unknown (#11956)
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### Author:  [@gbooker02](https://forums.plex.tv/u/gbooker02)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2020, 4:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/369 "2020-10-09T16:27:32Z")
Plex Media Server 1.20.3.3421 is now available in the beta update channel.
FIXES:
- (Player) Remote control of another player did not work.
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### Author:  [@drzoidberg33](https://forums.plex.tv/u/drzoidberg33)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/370 "2020-10-13T16:25:25Z")
Plex Media Server 1.20.3.3430 is now available in the beta update channel.
FIXES:
- (HTTPS) Certain network errors or service outages could result in the server entering a broken state from which it would not automatically recover (#12037)
- (Library) Custom search parameters in Fix Match for Plex Movie and Music libraries were not being respected.
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### Author:  [@drzoidberg33](https://forums.plex.tv/u/drzoidberg33)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/371 "2020-10-14T14:53:17Z")
Plex Media Server 1.20.3.3437 is now available in the beta update channel.
FIXES:
- (LiveTV) LiveTV hubs could go missing from the home screen
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### Author:  [@drzoidberg33](https://forums.plex.tv/u/drzoidberg33)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/372 "2020-10-15T13:17:01Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.20.3.3437 is now available to everyone.**
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### Author:  [@gbooker02](https://forums.plex.tv/u/gbooker02)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/373 "2020-10-22T18:42:29Z")
Plex Media Server 1.20.3.3483 is now available to everyone
FIXES:
- (Transcoder) Freetype has been updated to 2.10.4, fixes CVE-2020-15999
- (Transcoder) Playback could fail on certain files with very large subtitle events
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### Author:  [@gbooker02](https://forums.plex.tv/u/gbooker02)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/374 "2020-10-27T20:12:25Z")
Plex Media Server 1.20.4.3508-6abbd541f is now available in the beta update channel
NEW:
- (DVR) New Library option added to include all files during commercial detection (#12024).
- (Web) Updated to 4.43.4
- Update translations.
FIXES:
- (Analysis) Media analysis wouldn’t trigger correctly in Plex Movie libraries when modifications were detected (#12041)
- (DVR) Server would sometimes crash when scheduling shows to record (#12062).
- (Dashboard) Metadata for Live TV sessions would not update when airing changed. (#11306)
- (HTTP) Fixed an issue where clients could fail to connect to a server for some time after TLS certificate renewal (#11848)
- (Library) Certain assets using UNC paths would not always work (#11931)
- (Library) Disabling automatic extras for Plex Movie libraries had no effect (#12033)
- (Library) Rating something 0 wasn’t distinguished from no rating.
- (Library) Some TV shows could fail to match or get metadata.
- (Library) Track and disk indexes could be incorrectly set for some multidisc albums (#11745)
- (Library) When sorting albums oldest first, only years were used, not full release dates.
- (Library) When tags only have release year, don’t use current m/d, use 1/1.
- (Live TV) Paused playback could not always be resumed reliably. (#11476)
- (QNAP) Remove unnecessary duplicate SSL port entry from config.
- (Transcoder) Freetype has been updated to 2.10.4, fixes CVE-2020-15999
- (Transcoder) Playback could fail on certain files with very large subtitle events
- (Windows Installer) Changed Plex Update Service start type to delayed start. (#11560)
- Similar artists limited to 10 in some places.
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### Author:  [@gbooker02](https://forums.plex.tv/u/gbooker02)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/375 "2020-10-28T22:45:15Z")
Plex Media Server 1.20.4.3517-ab5e1197c is now available in the beta update channel
FIXES:
- (ImageTranscoder) Memory would leak when rescaling or cropping images (#10040)
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### Author:  [@gbooker02](https://forums.plex.tv/u/gbooker02)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/376 "2020-11-03T19:49:18Z")
Plex Media Server 1.20.4.3517-ab5e1197c is now available to everyone.
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### Author:  [@emilybersin](https://forums.plex.tv/u/emilybersin)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2020, 10:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/377 "2020-11-09T22:41:39Z")
Plex Media Server 1.20.5.3551-95465c7cd is now available in the beta update channel
FIXES:
- (DVR) The correct frequencies could not be scanned in Colombia, Panama, and Trinidad and Tobago.
- (Library) Movie files stored in the drive root on Windows could fail to match (#12107)
- (Library) Use a deterministic order when consuming local poster and art assets for Plex Movie libraries (#12070)
- (Metadata) Certain unsupported local assets could be used for Plex Movie item backgrounds (#12070)
- (Metadata) Embedded posters for movies would be used regardless if ‘Prefer local metadata’ preference was set or not (#12070)
- (Metadata) Loading movies from some clients wouldn’t reflect changes to local sidecar subtitles.
- (Transcoder) Older versions of Nvidia drivers (supporting API version 9.0 but not version 10.0) are now supported again (#12091)
- (Webhooks) Added `librarySectionTitle` to payload. (#11906)
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### Author:  [@emilybersin](https://forums.plex.tv/u/emilybersin)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2020, 4:51am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/378 "2020-11-13T04:51:37Z")
Plex Media Server 1.20.5.3583-309e93364 is now available in the beta update channel
FIXES:
- (DVR) Require XMLTV guide for countries not supported by Gracenote.
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### Author:  [@emilybersin](https://forums.plex.tv/u/emilybersin)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2020, 10:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/379 "2020-11-16T22:48:17Z")
Plex Media Server 1.20.5.3600-47c0d9038 is now available to everyone
FIXES:
- (DVR) Require XMLTV guide for countries not supported by Gracenote.
- (DVR) The correct frequencies could not be scanned in Colombia, Panama, and Trinidad and Tobago.
- (Library) Movie files stored in the drive root on Windows could fail to match (#12107)
- (Library) Use a deterministic order when consuming local poster and art assets for Plex Movie libraries (#12070)
- (Metadata) Certain unsupported local assets could be used for Plex Movie item backgrounds (#12070)
- (Metadata) Embedded posters for movies would be used regardless if ‘Prefer local metadata’ preference was set or not (#12070)
- (Metadata) Loading movies from some clients wouldn’t reflect changes to local sidecar subtitles.
- (Transcoder) Older versions of Nvidia drivers (supporting API version 9.0 but not version 10.0) are now supported again (#12091)
- (Webhooks) Added `librarySectionTitle` to payload. (#11906)
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### Author:  [@Ridley](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Ridley)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2020, 12:54am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/380 "2020-11-19T00:54:25Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.21.0.3608-f7262c352 is now available in the beta update channel.**
FIXES:
- (Filters) HDR filter could miss some items (#12060)
- (Library) Date-based shows weren’t getting metadata.
- (Transcoder) Older versions of Nvidia drivers (supporting API version 9.0 but not version 10.0) are now supported again (#12091)
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### Author:  [@StSimm1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/StSimm1)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2020, 10:25am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/381 "2020-11-23T10:25:18Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.21.0.3616 is now available to everyone.**
NEW:
- (Transcoder) HDR to SDR tonemapping PP preview (see [https://support.plex.tv/articles/hdr-to-sdr-tone-mapping](https://support.plex.tv/articles/hdr-to-sdr-tone-mapping) for more info)
FIXES:
- (Filters) HDR filter could miss some items (#12060)
- (Library) Date-based shows weren’t getting metadata.
- (Transcoder) Older versions of Nvidia drivers (supporting API version 9.0 but not version 10.0) are now supported again (#12091)
---
### Author:  [@emilybersin](https://forums.plex.tv/u/emilybersin)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2020, 1:17am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/382 "2020-12-02T01:17:50Z")
**Plex Media Server 1.21.0.3711 is now available to everyone.**
FIXES:
- (EPG) Reintroduce support for the following countries once the Gracenote provider is enabled - Australia, Hungary, India, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, Uruguay. (#12135)
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