Plex Media Server

Announcements
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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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Plex Media Server 1.14.0.5470 is now available to everyone.