# 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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**Author:** ![PlexReleaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@PlexReleaser](https://forums.plex.tv/u/PlexReleaser)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 3:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/716 "2026-08-24T15:17:50Z")

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**Plex Media Server 1.43.4.10903 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.**

NEW:

- (GPU) Added support for HEVC transcode on devices that only support 8 bit HEVC encoding (PM-5595)
- (Library) Add library filter for HDR10+ media (PM-5617)
- (Metadata) Add HDR10+ metadata detection (PM-5355)
- (Transcoding) Added support for HW Tonemapping on MacOS (PM-4883)
- (Transcoding) Added support for HW burn in of image based subtitle formats (such as PGS) on MacOS (PM-4882)
- (Transcoding) Added support for HW decoding AV1 videos on MacOS (M3 and newer) (PM-4884)

FIXES:

- (Crash) Certain malformed webp images can crash the server (PM-5565)
- (Crash) Handling some POST requests could crash the server (PM-5592)
- (Crash) In rare instances, a timeline request can crash the server (PM-5590)
- (Database) Fixed a corrupt search index that made the database fail its integrity check and blocked backups (PM-5868)
- (HTTP) The server could crash after making certain HTTP requests (PM-5964)
- (Metadata) In rare instances, triggering an item rematch could crash the server (PM-5591)
- (Metadata) Reject invalid custom provider prefixes before they get added (PM-5275)
- (Metadata) Year value stored in TYER id3 tags would not be read (PM-5532)
- (Search) Fixed albums, tracks and episodes whose parent item was missing being left out of search results (PM-5868)
- (Shield) Tonemapping was being applied incorrectly (PM-5748)
- (Tuner) The Plex Tuner Service can crash during startup and shutdown (PM-5627)

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