Plex Media Server

Plex Media Server 1.13.2.5154 is now available to everyone.

##NEW:

  • (Web) Updated to 3.53.7
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Plex Media Server 1.13.3.5208 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel

NEW:

  • (Web) Updated to 3.53.7

FIXES:

  • (DVR) Allow navigation from Recordings to pre-play screen for any item that generated a recording, regardless of final status. (#8381)
  • (DVR) Check for the correct postal code format for Switzerland (#8646)
  • (DVR) Guide refreshes shouldn’t remove the whole guide if Internet connectivity is down (#8531)
  • (DVR) Speed up channel scanning by using all available tuners in parallel. (#8444)
  • (Filters) Using “not” custom filters with multiple values would return the incorrect results (#8017)
  • (Library) Removed the Rating sort from photo libraries (#8473)
  • (Live) Tuners could remain in use indefinitely if clients disconnected without notice (#8019)
  • (NAS) QNAP devices falsely reported an error when stopping or upgrading PMS (#8673)
  • (Photos) Scanning in a photo library with only a single item would sometimes fail (#8653)
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Plex Media Server 1.13.3.5223 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel

FIXES:

  • (DVR) Check for the correct postal code format for Switzerland (#8646)
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Plex Media Server 1.13.4.5251 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

FIXES:

  • (Library) Episodes could show duplicate roles for actors (#6117)
  • (Metadata) An issue with TheMovieDb agent contributing to TheTVDB agent for TV shows (#8645)
  • (Photos) Improve the extraction of Place names from geotagged items in photo libraries (#8683)
  • (Playback) Rare deadlock with stopping sessions (#8659)
  • (Streaming Brain) Rare deadlock involving bandwidth limits (#8498)
  • Attempt to find better channel numbers in XMLTV files (#8744)
  • Shrunk the excessive memory usage when serializing large JSON trees (#8579)
  • Update localization strings
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Plex Media Server 1.13.4.5251 is now available to everyone.

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Plex Media Server 1.13.4.5271 hotfix release is now available to everyone.

FIXES:

  • (Synology) prevent 32-bit version from being installed on 64-bit NAS models running DSM 6.0 or newer (#8851)
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A new build of 1.13.4.5271 was released for the Nvidia SHIELD. It fixes a build issue that was breaking scanning of TV libraries. There are no other changes in this release.

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Plex Media Server 1.13.5.5291 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Streaming Brain) Added preference to treat WAN IP Address as on the LAN for bandwidth Limits (#8037)
  • (Transcoder) Support 4K hardware decoding on macOS (#8806)
  • (Web) Updated to 3.57.1
  • Allow picking a specific network address to bind to (#8492)

FIXES:

  • (DVR) Support network tuner icons (#7552)
  • (DVR) Users that no longer have a Plex Pass should no longer have access to the Recording Schedule and Guide (#8672)
  • Seek thumbnail timestamps could be off by a few seconds (#2569)
  • Split Live TV quick links into two hubs.
  • When remote access is disabled, don’t publish non-private addresses (#8751)
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Plex Media Server 1.13.5.5291 is now available to everyone

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Plex Media Server 1.13.6.5339 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (DVR) Added incremental loading for EPG guide data (#7981)
  • (Web) Updated to 3.63.1

FIXES:

  • (Security) Updated libxml2 to fix CVE-2018-13415
  • (Analysis) Loudness data could be reported incorrectly for some DTS files (#8719)
  • (DVR) Avoid crash when using negative start/end time adjustment that is equal to the duration of the grab. (#8346)
  • (DVR) Avoid rare crash when starting up a recording (#8657)
  • (DVR) Fix for 11pm UTC airings not getting recorded during Daylight Savings Time. (#8803)
  • (DVR) Whitelisting for DVB-T scanners for non-European/ISDB-T countries was not working correctly (#7615)
  • (Streaming Brain) Debug log for media with unknown bandwidth was giving a value of 10.5Gbps (#8335)
  • (Transcoder) Chinese and Korean subtitles could render using Japanese character variants (#8713)
  • (Transcoder) Fixed case where crash could occur while parsing segment list (#8886)
  • Update localization strings
  • Webhooks using some newer TLS roots would fail (#8884)
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Plex Media Server 1.13.5.5332 is now available for everyone

We backported the security fix in 1.13.6.5339 for those who run public builds

FIXES:

  • (Security) Updated libxml2 to fix CVE-2018-13415 (#8805)
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Plex Media Server 1.13.7.5369 is now available Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (DVR) Keep the entire contents of programs currently being recorded or played in the live seek buffer (#8224)
  • (Photos) Update Autotagging API. This server version or greater is now required for Autotagging (#8526) [Previous versions will continue to work until the end of September 2018]

FIXES:

  • (DVR) Avoid crashing in certain situations due to outdated tuner information (#9045)
  • (DVR) Changing destination library from one with mulitple paths to one with a single path for a DVR recording no longer causes a recording failure (#7551)
  • (DVR) Episode subscriptions for existing episodes were not deleted (#8709)
  • (DVR) Give better error message if recording attempts to use a library that doesn’t exist (#7278)
  • (DVR) Users in Czech Republic should be able to create DVRs again (#8939)
  • (Preferences) The pref to hide seasons was missing the value Hide for single-season series (#8982)
  • (Transcoder) Anamorphic video could be converted incorrectly on the Nvidia SHIELD (#8432)
  • (Transcoder) The transcoder’s memory consumption increased over time on Android or when decoding certain audio codecs (#8830) (#8814)
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Plex Media Server 1.13.8.5388 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Live TV) If a tuner stops sending data or disconnects mid-stream, attempt to reconnect (#8989)
  • (Web) Updated to 3.67.1
  • Added tuner icons for HDHomeRun CONNECT Quatro and CONNECT Duo (#9029)

FIXES:

  • (DVR) Avoid rare crash involving updating status from HDHomeRun tuners (#9045)
  • (DVR) Modifying start/end time of in-progress recording will now correctly adjust the duration. (#7247)
  • (Library) Playlists generated from custom filters would sometimes not show the correct items (#8017)
  • (Sync) Smart playlists would not sync if all items were already synced (#7329)
  • Fix for duplicate EventSource event processing that may have affected remote access availability. (#8853)
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Plex Media Server 1.13.8.5395 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

  • Bugfix for an unreleased feature
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Plex Media Server 1.13.8.5395 is now available to everyone.

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Plex Media Server 1.13.9.5439 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (NAS) Support for hardware transcoding on TerraMaster devices. (#8762)
  • (Web) Updated to 3.69.1
  • Improved functionality around selecting a preferred network interface (#9110)

FIXES:

  • (Discovery) Expire movie genre/actor/director discovery hubs once/day.
  • (Live TV) Hubs would intermittently contain incorrect airings. (#8943)
  • (Radio) Only allow shared content for owners.
  • (Scanner) Ignore @Recently-Snapshot folders. (#9177)
  • (Subtitle Search) Flag hearing impaired subtitles in the pre-play
  • (Sync) Garbage collect sync transcodes on start (#9094)
  • (Sync) Playlists consisting of music videos would not sync (#8821)
  • (Transcoder) Hardware transcode job on Shield occasionally never completed (#8690)
  • (Transcoder, Analysis) Some poorly-muxed 4K files could fail to analyze or transcode (#9139)
  • Directory browsing showed no mount-points on FreeBSD (#9032)
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Plex Media Server 1.13.9.5456 is now available to everyone.

Additional changes after above release notes:

FIXES:

  • (DVR) Extend initial timeout value for live TV tunes to avoid giving up on a tune too early (#9211)
  • Fix for recorded TV libraries failing to load on iOS. (#9227)
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Plex Media Server 1.14.0.5465 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

FIXES:

  • (Butler) Reduce the amount of temp memory in processing items in certain butler tasks.
  • (DVR) Avoid timeouts when retrieving the best lineup during DVR setup (#9161)
  • (DVR) Display better error messages when tunes fail because of antenna signal issues (#7049)
  • (DVR) Recordings would sometimes fail at the start with “Error 3 (The recording was aborted)”. (#8871)
  • (Live TV) Make sure conflict dialog is always shown if Live TV session will be cancelled when recordings start. (#7659)
  • (Metadata) Chapters and respective images were out of order (issues#195)
  • Deletion policy for unwatched TV episodes will now use addedAt rather than originallyAvailableAt to calculate the time period of episodes to keep. (ux#440)
  • Incorrect network addresses could be displayed in systems with multiple interfaces (#9109)
  • Updated TV deletion policy text for clarity. (#7249)
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Plex Media Server 1.14.0.5468 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

Additional changes after above release notes:

FIXES:

  • (Transcoder) Resolved a rare deadlock (#9332)
  • Automatic port mapping could fail with some older routers (#9335)
  • Fix for Server Unreachable and Remote Access issues (#9228)
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Remote access broken, yet again!
Plex crashes after a while
Remote access "not available outside your network"
Plex Constantly Loses Remote Access
No Remote Acess beyond Indirect
Newest download verison 1.14.0.5465
Plex version 1.14.0.5465 breaks Remote Access
The server is unreachable
Plex Remote Access fails after working for years
Plex "not available outside your network" when connected remotely
Plex crashes every day (503 error)
Port '0'
PMS Crash due to sync tasks?
Server Crashes and atleast 9 PlexTranscoder.exe running in Task Manager for just one streamer
Remote Access failure
Cannot find Plex Server after upgrade (last working version 1.13.4.5271)
Server version 1.13.9.5456
Server currently unavailable, yet service is still running
Remote Access Not Available
Plex Server constantly freezes after update from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04
Remote Access Problem Just Started
Remote Access - Server Not Available outside your network
SYNOLOGY NAS Running PLEX and ALEXA to Control
Probleme mit dem Fernzugriff
Plex server suddenly not available remotely
Plex update 1.13.9.5439- Server unreachable
Plex Media Server constantly (daily) stops on Synology server DSM 6.2
Not available outside your network - BS, tips on NAS with other solutions?
503 Service Unavailable
Server Crashing (reproduceable)
Random Crashing > Centos 7
PMS crashing when transcoding for specific Xbox One client
Much faster (hopefully), smaller (mostly) and better PMS builds preview (1.15.0.573-123756e9a)
Having a problem with my server when it comes to the ps4, saying the server needs a update!
(FreeBSD) - Plex Media Server process keeps crashing with no log output
PMS connection issues 1.13.9.5456
Cannot get remote access to 'hold' on qnap TS-251
Plex crash during night
Plex constantly stops responding - It's not accessible remotely or locally

Plex Media Server 1.14.0.5470 is now available to everyone.

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