# Plex Media Server

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**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:** [December 17, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/308 "2019-12-17T20:43:21Z")

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**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)

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