Plex Media Server

Plex Media Server 1.11.3.4793 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel

NEW:

  • (Photos) Show recently favorited items in discovery hub (#8101)

FIXES:

  • (DVR) Cancelling a recording when comskip is enabled shouldn’t result in an error (#7926)
  • (DVR) Episodes of the same show that air on the same day now record correctly (#6668)
  • (Filters) Dates before Jan 1st 1970 would not work properly in some filter fields (#8077)
  • (Photos) Autotagging for some items could become stuck in a throttled state (#8068)
  • (Photos) Changes to EXIF date fields edited in certain applications would not get picked up correctly (#8125)
  • (Photos) Photo albums in folder view will now show thumbs for Posters and Backgrounds when editing and will correctly retain changes between scans (#7947)
  • (Photos) Show video items in Recently Added hub for photo sections (#8101)
  • (Photos) Timeline entries before Jan 1 1970 would not be displayed consistently (#8152)
  • (Streaming Brain) Could deadlock in certain circumstances when ABR was in use (#8124)
  • (Transcoder) Playback could fail or behave erratically near the end of videos when Direct Streaming to certain clients (#8042)
  • (Transcoder) Soft subtitles could sometimes fail to play on iOS/tvOS (#8022)

Plex Media Server 1.11.3.4803 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel

FIXES:

  • (DVR) Back-to-back recordings would sometimes lose the second recording (#8168)
  • (DVR) Parsing of dates in EyeQ data could potentially fail if format changed (#8209)
  • (LiveTV) Crash when stopping LiveTV (#8169)

Plex Media Server 1.11.3.4803 is now available to everyone

Plex Media Server 1.12.0.4829 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel

NEW:

  • (Analysis) Detect ATSC closed captions in video files (#7110)
  • (Analysis) Distinguish HEVC codec tags to work around iOS platform limitation (#7882)
  • (Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.37.2

FIXES:

  • (Companion) Resolve a rare crash
  • (Hubs) “On Deck” and “Continue Watching” could appear empty when the “Weeks to Consider for On Deck” preference was set (#7305)
  • (Photos) Re-scanning a photo section which had a significant amount of files renamed could lead to database lockups (#7653)
  • (Photos) The folder structure in the photos view could sometimes become flattened (#8206)
  • (Transcoder) The server could become unresponsive when playing via DASH (#8166)
  • Avoid generating invalid XML when media contains invalid metadata (#8192).
  • Certain ID3 tags in audio files resulted in titles with trailing “///” characters (#6577)
  • Collections could appear in grid even when disabled in library (#8103)
  • Fix an issue where loudness analysis was performed simultaneously on the same library (#8021)
  • Fix loudness analysis on libraries taking up large amounts of memory (#8071)

Plex Media Server 1.12.0.4829 is now available to everyone

Plex Media Server 1.12.1.4871 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel

NEW:

  • (Movies) Improve matching with filenames containing recent things like “UHD”.
  • (Photos) New “Folder” sort type for photo libraries - will sort by name but keep folders and photo items separate.
  • (Playback) Don’t select teletext streams as subtitles automatically (#7739)
  • (Web) Updated to 3.39.5
  • Season premieres show up in On Deck even when they’re outside the window (#8229)

FIXES:

  • (Library) Library scans subsequent to first would not attempt to match unmatched items (#8282)
  • (Photos) Filters with greater-than or less-than filters would not work properly on some libraries (#8258)
  • (Photos) The “Name” sort for photo libraries was returning the incorrect parameters (#8165)
  • (Type First) Fix TV Shows library hub ordering (#8260)
  • (Windows) Files could fail to be deleted due to child processes inheriting duplicate handles (#7830)
  • The server could become unresponsive in certain complex scenarios (#8220)

Plex Media Server 1.12.1.4885 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel

  • There are no user-facing changes since the previous 1.12.1.4871 build.

Plex Media Server 1.12.1.4885 is now available to everyone.

Plex Media Server 1.12.2.4929 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel

FIXES:

  • (DVR) Certain DVB-T providers should not show up in non-European and non-ISDBT countries (#7615)
  • (DVR) Display placeholder items in Watch Now if there’s no guide data for a channel (#7587)
  • (DVR) Don’t display disabled channels in the Program Guide when loading initial EPG data (#7587)
  • (DVR) When more frequent EPG refreshing is enabled, spread the refresh times around some to avoid all refreshes occurring on an hour mark (#8281)
  • (DVR) Icons from OnConnect EPG guides shouldn’t disappear (#8366)
  • (DVR) More fixes around recording multiple airings of a show on the same day (#6668)
  • (OnDeck) Restore ability to disable OnDeck when setting ‘Weeks to consider for OnDeck’ to 0 (#8279)
  • (Photos) Various improvements to filters for photo libraries (#8305)
  • (Transcoder) Hardware video decoding sometimes wasn’t reported, even when it was being used (#7670)
  • (Transcoder) The server could erroneously attempt to mux DVB teletext into Matroska (#8213)

Plex Media Server 1.12.2.4929 is now available to everyone.

Plex Media Server 1.12.3.4947 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel

##NEW:

  • (Web) Updated to 3.41.2

##FIXES:

  • (DVR) HTTP request cache should properly check for file expiration when requesting celeb/series data. (#8405)
  • (DVR) Recordings that fail due to permissions issues shouldn’t disappear from the schedule after a server restart (#8020)
  • (DVR) Shows shouldn’t disappear from the Program Guide for shared users if they’re not shared certain library types (#8100)
  • Plugged memory leak with starting and stopping jobs on Windows (#7618)

Plex Media Server 1.12.3.4973 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel

##FIXES:

  • (DVR) Keep airings in US primetime from disappearing from the schedule on each refresh (#8448)

Plex Media Server 1.12.3.4973 is now available to everyone.

Plex Media Server 1.13.0.5003 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel

##NEW:

  • (Transcoder) Update to latest upstream ffmpeg (#7634)
  • (Analysis) Identify certain Live and DVR-recorded streams that failed to play back on iOS and tvOS devices (#5308)
  • (Live) Add support for switching subtitle and audio streams, in supported clients (#8353)
  • (Web) Updated to 3.44.1

##FIXES:

  • (Analysis) A scanner crash when performing loudness analysis on certain file formats (#8018)
  • (Analysis) Some files weren’t detected as anamorphic when they should’ve been (#8446)
  • (DLNA) A crash on older Macs (#6602)
  • (DVR) Update tuner make/model information in the database if it changes from the device (#8214)
  • (DVR) Write EPG data that fails to parse into temporary files to aid in diagnostics. (#8149)
  • (Filters) Content rating filters would sometimes fail to load (#8350)
  • (Filters) The advanced “is not empty” filter for ratings wouldn’t return the expected results (#8361)
  • (Live TV) Transcodes could fail on channels with multiple audio streams with different codecs (#8195)
  • (Metadata) Don’t rematch things which have been unsuccessfully matched (#8394)
  • (Streaming Brain) Some legacy clients were given incorrect workarounds (#8348)
  • (Streaming Brain) Transcode start could deadlock in some rare cases (#8385)
  • (Transcoder) Soft subtitles were desynchronized when streaming HEVC to iOS (#8388)
  • (Transcoder) Sparse subtitles failed to display in some cases on iOS and tvOS (#8415)
  • (Transcoder) Transcodes to AC3 in MP4 played with incorrect channel mapping on Apple devices (#8306)
  • (Transcoder) Transcodes to EAC3 in MP4 for Apple devices did not play audio (#8312)

Plex Media Server 1.13.0.5023 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel

##FIXES:

  • (Transcoder) Media with EAC3 audio could fail to transcode in some cases on Windows. (#8547)

Plex Media Server 1.13.0.5023 is now available to everyone.

Plex Media Server 1.13.1.5063 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel

New:

  • (Library) Per-collection collapse settings. (#7988)
  • (Library) Sort items using a natural sort

Fixes:

  • (Autoupdate) Skipping a single version could prevent updates automatically installing (#8027) (#8009)
  • (DVR) Don’t subtract start offset when checking for valid airing time (#7928)
  • (DVR) Rename Program Guide/EPG to Guide in various places (#8522)
  • (DVR) Stop timer for a recording should never be negative (#8136)
  • (DVR) US postal codes in the 5-4 format should return the correct lineups (#8283)
  • (DVR) Various rare crashes (#7575)
  • (Hubs) Pilots (S1 E1) could show up in On Deck.
  • (NAS) udev rules would not survive Synology DSM updates. (#8402)
  • Reduced logging related to time normalization with dates earlier than 1970. (#8373)

Plex Media Server 1.13.2.5102 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel

NEW:

  • (Web) Updated to 3.49.1

FIXES:

  • (DVR) Avoid a crash when creating subscriptions with conflicts. (#8622)
  • (Hubs) Hubs would occasionally not refresh as expected. (#8538)
  • (Hubs) Make Continue Watching follow On Deck window. (#8546)
  • (Linux) systemd service could start before network was online. (#8542)

Plex Media Server 1.13.2.5142 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel

##NEW

  • (Web) Updated to 3.53.6

##FIXES:

  • (Analysis) Channel layouts could be reported incorrectly for some DTS streams (#8549)
  • (Transcoder) Conversion of remote content could fail on some x86_64 Linux systems (#8662)
  • (Metadata) Missing artwork for some TV shows (#8473)
  • Database backups could fail if the database contained certain sets of strings (#8655)
  • Punctuation and non-ASCII strings sorted incorrectly in some cases (#8668)

N.B. This will be released on Nvidia shield in the coming days.

Plex Media Server 1.13.2.5142 is now available to everyone.

(SHIELD coming soon)