# 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:** [November 9, 2017, 1:45am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/185 "2017-11-09T01:45:30Z")

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**Plex Media Server 1.9.7.4441 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel**

NEW:

- (Transcoder) Support pruning old segments to reduce disk usage in DASH and HTTP transcodes (#7484)
- (Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.26.2

FIXES:

- (Android) Add missing library to the installer (#7716)
- (Android) Fix green artifacts when transcoding to DASH (#7578)
- (Diagnostics) Downloaded logs/databases now have correct timestamps (#5177)
- (Diagnostics) The log file zip will now resepct the LogNumFiles preference (#7239)
- (DVR) Deadlock when tuning live (#7684)
- (DVR) Exclude duplicate/past airings on other channels in EPG data so they show in the timeline correctly. (#7699)
- (DVR) Fix an issue that led to missing video streams in some cases (#7637)
- (DVR) Keep Certain channel data from causing EPG to fail entirely for all channels (#7728)
- (DVR) When changing folders in a library, recordings could fail (#6203)
- (Extras) Use the right bitrate for extras. (#7678)
- (Filters) Add ability to filter on audio/subtitle languages (#6401)
- (Filters) Add writer/producer filters for movie libraries (#6401)
- (Filters) Director, writer, and producer custom filters for TV libraries now work correctly (#6401)
- (Hubs) A rare case where episodes from other libraries could be suggested on postplay screen. (#7703)
- (Hubs) Don’t show hubs with just one thing in them on show screens (#6353)
- (Hubs) When changing the “include in dashboard” setting, dashboard wouldn’t update (#7726)
- (Hubs) When creating a playlist, ensure it shows up in RECENT PLAYLISTS even before playing.
- (Hubs) When deleting a playlist, it could remain in the RECENT PLAYLISTS hub. (#7701)
- (iOS) Crash restarting the server. (#7231)
- (Library) Crash when attempting to download extras (#7713)
- (Library) Crash when getting children of an unparented season (#7677)
- (Library) When changing airing order, shows refresh automatically and thumb are correctly reset (#6465)
- (Photos) Items in photo timelines will reflect the correct date now if the original date is altered and re-analyzed (#7557)
- (Scanner) Corrected thumbnail generation on a section (#7764)
- (Scheduled tasks) Sometimes nightly EPG refreshing task and others wouldn’t run (#7719)
- (Security) Library section information could be leaked to shared users (#6954)
- (Stream Ready) Don’t crash when falling back from a hardware encoding failure (#7568)
- (Streaming Brain) Preserve soft subtitles in DASH Auto-Quality (#7597)
- (Transcoder) A crash on certain FreeBSD configurations
- (Transcoder) A crash when trying to use hardware transcoding in macOS 10.10 (#7692)
- (Transcoder) A crash with certain subtitles in files with embedded fonts (#7436)
- (Transcoder) Do not disable hardware decoding if hardware encoding fails on unsupported resolutions (#7646)
- (Transcoder) Make dangerous transcoder prefs ‘hidden’ (#7536)
- (Transcoder) Rare deadlock during playback (#7710)
- (Transcoder) Video quality improvements when hardware encoding on Broadwell and Braswell devices (#6914)

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