# 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")\
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**Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/144 "2017-02-13T20:58:06Z")

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**Plex Media Server 1.4.1 is now available for Plex Pass members.**

**NEW:**

- (DVR) Plex DVR beta 5.
- (macOS) macOS version 10.8 is no longer supported. (#6155)
- (Movies) Add related and post-play hubs for a movie’s collections. (#6005) (#6011)
- (Music) Improved performance of music hubs with large libraries (#6060)
- (Music) Removed ‘Music Videos For Recent Artists’ hub. (#6075)
- (Photos) Added same-day and same-month hubs for photos. (#5666)
- (Metadata) Added hidden ‘ArticleStrings’ preference, a comma-separated list of words considered to be grammatical articles when sorting titles in a library. (#6110)

**FIXES:**

- (Windows) Work around crash on startup on some Windows 10 installations. (#5719)
- (Web) Transcode multi-channel audio to stereo, when transcoding audio. (#5588)
- (Music) MP3 files with certain ID3v2 tag patterns were being ignored. (#5093)
- (Music) Local lyrics weren’t displayed in certain cases. (#6153)
- (Music) Transcoding lossless audio at ‘original’ quality to a lossy codec could result in low-bitrate output. (#5858)
- (Music) Issues with Plex Mixes on NVIDIA SHIELD. (#5724)
- (Metadata) Sort cast entries from TVDB correctly. (#5744)
- (Metadata) Posters and art were unnecessarily re-downloaded on every refresh. (#6001)
- (Metadata) Score matches similarly for TMDB and IMDB results. (#6027)
- (Metadata) Issues downloading metadata from TVDB over TLS. (#5986)
- (Scanner) Improve performance refreshing album metadata. (#3894)
- (Scanner) Fixed intermittent crash on startup, particularly for FreeBSD users. (#6026)
- (Network) Server would transiently deny access to apps that hadn’t run for a while. (#5443)
- (Network) Server might become unresponsive under load. (#5558)
- (Network) Incorrect Remote Access status reported in some cases. (#5834) (#6105)
- (Subtitles) Prefer embedded subtitles, over agent-provided sidecar subtitles in bundles. (#5848)
- (Database) Improve database backup performance. (#5839)
- (Transcoder) Improve streaming MKV output, improving seek performance with conformant clients. (#2495)
- (Hubs) Adding many episodes from a single show could swamp Recently Added hubs. (#5687)
- (Sync) Sync items in a failure state might not be cleared on next successful sync. (#6078)
- (Sync) Improved performance when garbage-collecting (#6077)
- (Sync) Empty sync items might not be marked as completed. (#6194)
- (NAS) Rare installation failures on Synology devices. (#6045)
- (Channels) Issues on Windows for some channels, e.g. ExportTools. (#6127)
- (DVR) Fix for post-processing sometimes not moving files into library (#6087)
- (DVR) Fix a rare crash while processing recording schedule (#6050)
- (DVR) When adding or removing a device, make sure we re-run scheduling (#6177)
- (DVR) Support for logical channels in XMLTV, may require remapping.
- (DVR) Support for previously-shown element in XMLTV.
- (DVR) A recording with pre-padding could be cancelled prematurely (#6256)
- The default sort order for albums was alphabetical (#6255)
- A rare crash when computing recently added TV shows.

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