StSimm1
August 22, 2019, 9:34am
282
Plex Media Server 1.16.5.1554 is available in the Beta update channel
NEW:
FIXES:
(DVR) Re-enable signal strength updates for all tuners except Hauppauge. (#10352 )
(Library) The Track Last Skipped filter could return the incorrect results (#10309 )
(Live) In some circumstances, new recordings could use an additional tuner, rather than sharing one already tuning the same channel. This could manifest as a missing “watch from start” option (#9736 )
Watching a trailer could mark the corresponding movie watched in some cases (#9481 )
(DVR) Live session buffer data could be pruned prematurely, resulting in live TV being unable to seek back as far as expected (#10430 )
(Playback) Certain clients could receive corrupted data in media requests, leading to corruption during playback (#10436 )
Plex Media Server 1.16.5.1554 is now available to everyone
Plex Media Server 1.16.6.1559 is available in the Beta update channel
NEW:
Enhance the loudness leveling to reflect recent research.
FIXES:
(EPG) Make episode detection more robust when using XMLTV guide data (#10390 )
(Library) Sorting a Show by Oldest first didn’t work correctly (#7800 )
(Music) Items added from TIDAL would not show up in collection hubs (#10306 )
Plex Relay could fail to start on Netgear R9000 devices. (#10395 )
Read track titles from embedded tags in audio files.
Repair trailing slashes which could appear in audio metadata.
Plex Media Server 1.16.6.1592 is available in the Beta update channel
FIXES:
Resolved an issue loading Plex Web settings page on various Linux/NAS platforms.
Plex Media Server 1.17.0.1709 is available in the Beta update channel
NEW:
(Transcoder) Update to current upstream ffmpeg
(Transcoder) Support for hardware transcoding on Linux with Intel 9th-gen processors
(Transcoder) Support for VC-1 hardware decoding on supported platforms
(Transcoder) Support for hardware decoding on Linux with Nvidia GPUs
(Transcoder) Support for zero-copy hardware transcoding on Linux with Nvidia GPUs
(Transcoder) Support for zero-copy hardware transcoding of interlaced media
FIXES:
(DVR) Comskip was not available in recording options on FreeBSD.
(DVR) Enhanced Plex Media Server’s performance by skipping reads of previously processed XMLTV guide data. (#9846 )
(Transcoder) The server could become unresponsive after certain precisely-timed client interactions.
Corrects Live TV playback error when tuning to channel that contains space(s) in it.
(Transcoder) The server could use large amounts of CPU time when converting subtitles (#10478 )
Note: Hardware transcoding with Nvidia GPUs now requires driver v418.30 or newer
Plex Media Server 1.17.0.1709 is now available to everyone
StSimm1
October 1, 2019, 9:40am
288
Plex Media Server 1.17.0.1841 is now available to everyone
FIXES:
(EPG) On Windows, XMLTV guide would fail to refresh (#10624 )
Plex Media Server 1.18.0.1846 is available to PlexPass users in the Beta update channel
Starting with this Plex Media Server release, we’re introducing new and improved features for music libraries: better matching, improved metadata, better artwork, and more! There are no longer “basic” vs “premium” music libraries; there is just a single type of music library. Plex Pass subscribers will continue having access to premium music-related features (automatic lyrics, Sweet Fades, loudness leveling, visualizers, etc.) just like before.
Visit our Upgrading Plex Music Libraries forum topic to get started!
NEW:
(Library) Brand new music scanner and metadata system! More details at https://support.plex.tv/articles/upgrade-music-libraries-new-metadata-system/
(BIF) Improved performance when generating media indexes (#10455 )
(DVR) Now supports team and sport tags in XMLTV guide data (#6272 ).
(Library) Add an “Unmatched” filter.
(Library) Allow artist/album title override during fix match.
(Library) Improved music library preferences.
(Library) Magic shuffle heuristics now employed in many more scenarios (e.g. smart playlists).
(Library) Maximum number of On Deck items is now a preference.
(Library) Mood now works for artists and albums, and add new style tag.
(Library) Support for reading OGG tags.
(Transcoder) Support for zero-copy hardware transcoding on Windows with Intel GPUs
(Web) Updated to 4.8.3
FIXES:
(Companion) Some companion apps would not be available to control from the Web player (#10522 )
(Diagnostics) Attempts to download logs from WD MyCloud would fail
(DVR) Rarely would crash while extending a rolling subscription (#10535 )
(EPG) Change to daily full guide refresh instead of incremental refreshes multiple times a day. (#9403 )
(EPG) On Windows, XMLTV guide would fail to refresh (#10624 ).
(Library) An issue on macOS where media with non-ASCII characters could be removed and added during scans.
(Library) Disable popular tracks for Various Artists.
(Library) Ignore a few more prefix characters when generating sort titles.
(Library) In some cases, cast members could be shown in the wrong order.
(Library) More fields are read from music file tags during refresh.
(Library) Newer locations are now scanned before older ones.
(Library) Refreshing Various Artists now refreshes all its albums.
(Library) Slight speedup for database writes.
(Music) Albums added from TIDAL would not match correctly with the new Plex Music libraries.
(Networking) The server could become inaccessible when IPv6 is configured on Android (#10426 )
(Transcoder) Fixed H263 hardware decoding (#10580 )
(Transcoder) Hardware encoding wasn’t used in some situations when hardware decoding was unavailable for HEVC Main 10 (#7897 )
(Transcoder) Hardware transcoding could fail on input with ATSC closed captions on Windows systems with Intel GPUs (#8509 ) (#9840 ) (#10517 )
(Transcoder) Individual subtitle lines could fail to display in some clients when there are no subtitle lines for a long period afterwards
(Transcoder) Individual subtitle lines could randomly fail to appear in certain clients
(Transcoder) Playback could fail after a long period between subtitle lines in certain circumstances (#10582 )
(Transcoder) Reduced the amount of I/O load when streaming subtitles
(Transcoder) Some packets could randomly be skipped in certain clients, resulting in a “skipping” effect (#10401 )
(Transcoder) Subtitles could vanish after a random period after seeking in certain clients (#10573 )
(Transcoder) Transcoding HEVC Main 10 content could fail on hardware without built-in support (#10590 )
A rare crash during scanning.
Fix for empty/missing “Shows you might like” hub. (#10375 )
Long-standing issue which could lead to lack of recommended media in some cases.
The blob database was not cleaned up during periodic maintenance.
When analyzing tracks, menu item would never re-enable (#8477 )
When fixing match for an album, the year could disappear temporarily.
Plex Media Server 1.18.0.1892 is available to PlexPass users in the Beta update channel
2019-10-7 Notice - This Beta build has been removed. Sorry for the inconvenience.
NEW:
FIXES:#10676 ).#10637 ).#10673 ).#10599 ).
StSimm1
October 8, 2019, 8:03am
291
Plex Media Server 1.18.0.1906 is available to PlexPass users in the Beta update channel
FIXES:
(NAS) Permissions issues resulting in failures to start
(Butler) Failures to complete all tasks when a music library exists
Plex Media Server 1.18.0.1913 is available to PlexPass users in the Beta update channel
FIXES:
Plex Media Server 1.18.0.1913 is now available to everyone
StSimm1
October 11, 2019, 2:33pm
294
Plex Media Server 1.18.0.1944 is now available in the Beta update channel
FIXES:
Plex Media Server 1.18.0.1944 is now available to everyone
Ridley
October 16, 2019, 9:58am
296
Plex Media Server 1.18.1.1973 is now available in the Beta update channel
NEW:
(Localization) Updated translations
Add an HDR filter for movies (#9652 )
Improve detection of udevadm on newer debian-based distros.
Set the DLNA server feature to be turned off by default. It can be manually re-enabled if required in Plex Web’s server settings (#10530 )
(Linux) Improved quality and performance of hardware transcoding on Linux systems with 8th-generation or later GPUs
(Linux) Improved automatic detection of Intel GPUs on systems that also have other graphics
FIXES:
(Library) Some portrait videos could return the incorrect resolution value (#10586 )
(Linux) An internal system directory could be displayed unexpectedly in the directory browser on certain NAS platforms (#10630 )
(Transcoder) Hardware transcoding could fail on systems with recent systemd versions (#10723 )
(Transcoder) Fixed hardware decoding of VC1
(Transcoder) Output streams could be corrupted in certain cases (#10709 )
(Metadata) Improved reliability of music lookups
Plex Media Server 1.18.1.1973 is now available to everyone
Plex Media Server 1.18.2.2015 is now available in the Beta update channel
NEW:
(DVR) Ability to browse upcoming airings in a library style view (#10556 )
(DVR) Added explanation for partial recording (#10167 ).
(DVR) Added smarter logic for detecting existing recordings (#9669 ).
(Dashboard) FreeBSD CPU and memory graphs (#10611 )
FIXES:
(Butler) Some butler tasks would not run.
(Camera Upload) Don’t allow shared users to enable Camera Upload if they don’t have access to any photo libraries. (#8787 )
(Library) Add album critic rating as a field.
(Library) Add track mood back as filter/field.
(Library) Allow sorting on user ratings of artists, there are no artist critic ratings.
(Library) Plex Music libraries have critic ratings, allow sorting on them.
(Music) Related TIDAL hubs could sometimes stop showing (#10738 )
(Music) Shared users using artist shuffles could get unavailable items in the play queue (#9827 )
(Startup) The server would hang when the application support directory was not writable. (#7492 )
Improve movie and TV show matching in some cases (#10641 )
StSimm1
November 11, 2019, 5:17pm
299
Plex Media Server 1.18.1.2019 is now available to everyone
FIXES:
Plex Media Server 1.18.2.2029 is now available in the Beta update channel
FIXES:
(DVR) Preserve EPG metadata when assimilating Sports and News recordings. (#10544 )
(Playlists) Recently added playlists were not sorted correctly
Plex Media Server 1.18.2.2029 is now available to everyone
