Plex Media Server

Plex Media Server 1.18.2.2041 is now available to everyone

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)
  • (DVR) Preserve EPG metadata when assimilating Sports and News recordings. (#10544)
  • (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)
  • (Playlists) Recently added playlists were not sorted correctly
  • (Startup) The server would hang when the application support directory was not writable. (#7492)
  • Improve movie and TV show matching in some cases (#10641)
5 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.18.2.2058 is now available to everyone

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:

  • (Agents) Make the Framework use modern HTTP libs, fixes certain TheTVDB requests failing among others.
  • (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)
  • (DVR) Preserve EPG metadata when assimilating Sports and News recordings. (#10544)
  • (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)
  • (Playlists) Recently added playlists were not sorted correctly
  • (Startup) The server would hang when the application support directory was not writable. (#7492)
  • Improve movie and TV show matching in some cases (#10641)

(SHIELD will be updated starting on Monday)

7 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.18.3.2111 is now available in the Beta update channel

NEW:

  • (Dashboard) Add CPU and memory graphs to some new linux-based platforms (#10080)
  • (Library) Don’t add duplicate files to the PlayQueue. This could occur when a single file contains multiple episodes. (#1340)
  • (Library) Track watch status accross multiple episodes when they share the same underlying file. (#1340)
  • (NAS) QNAP packages are now signed. (required for QTS 4.4.0 and newer)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.12.3

FIXES:

  • (Apple) Disable iPhoto and Aperture channels. They can be re-enabled in settings. (#7189)
  • (DVR) Change India to require an XMLTV guide since our provider is dropping support. (#10659)
  • (DVR) Re-enable signal strength updates for Hauppauge tuners. (#9746)
  • (DVR) Recording options “Show Advanced” -> “Limit To Airing Time” would sometimes display incorrect airing times, that were off by 1 hour. (#10536)
  • (DVR) Reduce the likelihood of a national lineup being selected by default during setup. (#10211)
  • (DVR) Return proper error when recording is skipped because airing is in progress. (#9688)
  • (DVR) Support moving multiple files during assimilation. (#9996)
  • (Playqueue) Shared users would not see subsequent episodes in playqueues (#10838)
  • (Scanner) Some pre-defined directories weren’t ignored when scanning (#10671)
6 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.18.3.2129 is now available in the Beta update channel

FIXES:

  • (DVR) Fix for crash when accessing Live TV & DVR.
1 Like

Plex Media Server 1.18.3.2156 is now available in the Beta update channel

FIXES:

  • Fix crash on Windows with Intel graphics adapter and hardware acceleration enabled (#10736)
4 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.18.3.2156 is now available to everyone

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Plex Media Server 1.18.4.2164 is now available in the Beta update channel

NEW:

  • (DVR) “Upcoming Sports” renamed to “Sports On Later”; filter refined to only have sport events (#10554).
  • (DVR) Added new “Sports On Now” hub (#10554).
  • (DVR) Enhanced “TV Shows” Hub, now named “Shows On Now”. (#10815)
  • (Library) Add an “in progress” filter for movies and episodes.
  • (Library) Added a release date filter for albums.
  • (Library) Allow using Musicbrainz IDs when manually matching artists and albums.
  • (Library) Keep track of when items are rated, add filter.
  • (Preferences) Added more bitrate options to limiting remote per-stream bandwidth (#10778)
  • (Preferences) Enable “Use hardware-accelerated video encoding” by default.

FIXES:

  • (DVR) Programs listed under “Recommended” Hub would not sort by airing start datetime (#10554).
  • (EPG) Allow filtering of EPG data by content rating.
  • (Library) Fix manual searches for old music album agents.
  • (Library) Huge speedup to history view in dashboard.
  • (Library) Read MusicBrainz tags from files to help match the correct release.
  • (Library) Stop showing recommendations from shared libraries which don’t exist anymore.
  • (Library) Use track filenames as last-ditch track titles. (#10740)
  • (Music) Read track artist tags in more cases.
  • (PMS) Server would sometimes return HTTP 404 when scanner was traversing folders. (#10800)
  • (Transcoder) The server could crash when attempting hardware transcodes on certain Windows systems (#10736)
11 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.18.4 .2171 is now available in the Beta update channel.

What’s changed:
(PMS) Suppresses sending select “What’s On” rows to Roku app versions 6.4.9 and below, to prevent crash in Roku app (#10934)

6 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.18.4.2171 is now available to everyone.

6 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.18.5.2260 is now available in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

FIXES:

  • (Camera Upload) Very large video files could fail to upload (#6880)
  • (Collections) Collections were sorted incorrectly in some cases
  • (Language) Changes to shared user’s audio/subtitle language preferences were not respected. (#10910)
  • (Library) Crash scanning single track albums. (#10941)
  • (PlayQueue) Deleting the currently playing item in a queue could result in undefined behaviour (#10450)
  • (Synology) Improve process of stopping PMS when device is busy.
  • (TerraMaster) Libraries created during initial setup could be lost in rare cases.
12 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.18.5.2309 is now available in the Beta update channel.

FIXES:

  • (Ubuntu/Debian) Improve Docker / Container detection
  • (Ubuntu/Debian) Use host’s IPA services if available (e.g. LDAP)
  • (Ubuntu/Debian) Reduce fatal ERROR to non-fatal WARNING if the Plex user does not own the Application Support directory at installation time.

Note: There still exists an issue with non-standard / specialized containers. These will be resolved in the upcoming release(s).

2 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.18.5.2309 is now available to everyone.

4 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.18.6.2348 is now available in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Web) Updated to 4.20.2

FIXES:

  • (Butler) Auto deletion of old update directories would fail on Windows. (#7759)
  • (DVR) Fix for in-progress recordings being deleted by another server that records to the same directory. (#10929)
  • (DVR) Server would not display future scheduled recordings when Limit To Airing Time advanced setting was selected (#10950).
  • (EPG) Improve XMLTV episode info parsing.
  • (EPG) Only allow Enhanced Guide option for XMLTV, and disable by default. (#10969)
  • (FreeBSD) Fixes for database problems when syncing
  • (Library) In some cases, playbacks would be registered when quickly skipping over items.
  • (Library) Scrobble offline plays to Last.FM.
  • (Library) Switching between types may show the incorrect default sort order (#10806)
  • (Library) The Studio/Record Label custom filter would not work as expected (#10900)
  • (Library) The scheduled task to generate video preview thumbnails didn’t always work.
  • (Metadata) Movies with 8 digit IMDB ids would not be imported (#10937)
  • (Performance) Speed up connectivity tests and library discovery (#10930)
  • (Photos) Some items may show under 1 Jan 1900 in the timeline view (#10917)
  • (Preferences) The dropdown options for the preferred network interface were missing (#10975)
  • (Radio) Don’t show library radios for empty libraries (#9192)
  • (Scanning) Linux automatic library change detection setup could crash when filesystem experiences I/O errors (#10890)
  • Shuffling a smart music playlist with an item limit would ignore the limit. (#10774)
3 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.18.6.2368 is now available in the Beta update channel.

FIXES:

  • (Ubuntu/Debian) The service may not have automatically started after upgrading an existing install.
  • The server could become unresponsive after navigating many preplay screens.
1 Like

Plex Media Server 1.18.6.2368 is now available to everyone.

2 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.18.7.2415 is now available in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (DVR) Added “Kids On Now” hub (#10817).

FIXES:

  • (DVR) Content may be presented out of order for Shows On Now, Kids On Now, and Sports On Now Hub (#11107).
  • (DVR) Only require 100 MB of disk space per recording for the transcode session directory. (nvidia-shield-issues#236)
  • (DVR) Server would fail to display all shows under “Shows On Now” section in Web client (#11014).
  • (DVR) Server would fail to provide “Shows On Now” view for iOS (#11014).
  • (DVR) Server would not display “On Right Now” and “Upcoming Sports”, when XMLTV was the datasource (#10997).
  • (DVR) Server would present very long running sports programs at front of “Sports On Now” Hub (#11004).
  • (Hubs) Starting a playqueue from Recently Added movies could contain items which are not accessible or playable (#10669)
  • (Library) Improve quality of shuffled music playback order in certain cases.
  • (Library) Sort order of episodes without air date could be incorrect.
  • (Transcoder) Hardware decoding could produce corrupt video when burning subtitles on Apollo Lake-based processors. (#10753)
  • (Transcoder) Hardware encoding on older Intel processors could produce very low-quality output in some cases. (#10863)
  • (Transcoder) Transcoder request for session segment would hang if we killed the transcoder job and OS fails to complete the process kill (#10886)
  • (Transcoder) Transcodes could fail in some cases due to thread scheduling conditions (#10831)
9 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.18.7.2434 is now available in the Beta update channel.

FIXES:
Certain clients could make a request that would crash the server (#11154)

3 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.18.7.2438 is now available in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Web) Updated to 4.22.2

Plex Media Server 1.18.7.2438 is now available to everyone.

1 Like

Plex Media Server 1.18.7.2457 is now available to everyone.

FIXES:

  • (Stability) PMS could hang when using iTunes plugins (#11187)
3 Likes