Plex Media Server

Plex Media Server 1.18.8.2461 is now available in the Beta update channel

NEW:

  • (DVR) ‘New Episodes Tonight’ hub renamed to ‘New Shows On Tonight’ (#10818).
  • (DVR) ‘Upcoming News’ hub renamed to ‘News On Later’ (#10818).
  • (DVR) Added ‘Movies On Now’ Hub (#10816).
  • (DVR) Added ‘News On Now’ Hub (#10818).
  • (DVR) Added Kids On Later Hub (#11072)
  • (DVR) Added Movies On Later Hub (#11073).
  • (Library) Add custom filter fields for sharing Labels (#8711)

FIXES:

  • (Collections) When a collection was renamed, its tag kept the old name (#10446)
  • (DLNA) Don’t start DLNA server after leaving Plex Home (#11061)
  • (DVR) Ensure there is no loss of existing metadata when the Enhanced Guide option is selected and some metadata is not available and add extra logging. (#10942)
  • (DVR) Pref to delete watched episodes On next refresh would result in not deleting episodes for 100 days (#10985)
  • (DVR) Preserve EPG metadata when assimilating all recordings except XMLTV Movies & Shows. (#10972)
  • (Dashboard) Transcodes to a lossless audio codec would display bitrate of 10Gbps (#10341)
  • (Hubs) Invalidate user’s cached hubs on account update. (#8176)
  • (Live TV) Fix for crash when stopping Live TV session. (#11172)
  • (Scanning) Speed up repeat scans of large music libraries (#11077)
  • (Windows) Increase timeout period for Windows Auto update to guard against premature launch on slower PCs (#10060)
  • Certain clients could make a request that would crash the server (#11154)
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Plex Media Server 1.18.8.2468 is now available in the Beta update channel

  • (DVR) Server would incorrectly add On-Now and On-Later hubs to the home screen (#11204).

Plex Media Server 1.18.8.2527 is now available in the Beta update channel

FIXES:

  • (DVR) Channels mapped to two different numbers in a lineup could fail to tune. (#11225)

Plex Media Server 1.18.8.2527 is now available to everyone!

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Plex Media Server 1.18.9.2571 is now available to everyone.

NEW:

  • (Web) Updated to 4.22.3
  • Make Live TV available to free users for the next 3 months (see more details).
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Plex Media Server 1.18.9.2578 is now available to everyone.

FIXES:

  • (Live TV) Live playback could stutter and stall unexpectedly in certain regions
  • (Live TV) Tuning could fail the first time the feature is used in certain regions (#11307)

Plex Media Server 1.19.1.2589 is now available in the Beta update channel

NEW:

  • (DVR) Added What’s On Now and What’s On Later hubs (#11135).
  • (Sync) Support for syncing FLAC music without transcoding on iOS devices (requires Plex for iOS version 5.7 or greater) (#10933)
  • (Ubuntu/Debian) IPA / LDAP environments now supported for User and Group names
  • (Ubuntu/Debian) Improved detection when installing in a container environment (Docker, LXC, or other container methods)
  • snap packages are now built for armv7hf (armhf) and aarch64 (arm64)
  • (Library) Add a preference for smart shuffles.
  • (Library) When deleting items, try to maintain playlists (e.g. in the case of album upgrades).
  • (Library) When re-adding a show, compute more realistic date added based on play history.
  • (Library) When upgrading an album, maintain the date added.

FIXES:

  • (Debian/Ubuntu) Close potential privilege escalation vulnerability for a local, non-root computer account during install/upgrade (#11222)
  • (Debian/Ubuntu) Sysvinit service auto-restart during package upgrade could fail on older systems.
  • (Library) Locked similar artists field would still get overwritten by refreshes.
  • (Ubuntu/Debian) Avoid triggering udevadm bug when installing in a LXC
  • (Ubuntu/Debian) Be tolerant of non-POSIX environments which allow spaces in User / Group names
  • (Ubuntu/Debian) Do not falsely detect transcoding hardware during installation on systems which cannot support it
  • (Ubuntu/Debian) Installing in an environment where an UNKNOWN user owns the Application Support directory would fail
  • (Ubuntu/Debian) Multiple service override files no longer fail installation.
  • (Ubuntu/Debian) Respect autostart after upgrade for all versions 1.18.5 and above
  • Watch From Start option was sometimes not presented when attempting to watch a recording in progress. (#10482)
  • (Connections) Clients repeatedly early-terminating poll requests could lead to resource exhaustion (#11183)
  • (DVR) Removed outdated hub “Starting Soon”. (#11246)
  • (Library) Don’t include search results on home screen for libraries which don’t have “include in dashboard” enabled.
  • (Library) Don’t try to fetch lyrics for unmatched albums.
  • (Library) Guard against invalid future times sent for playback.
  • (Library) Guard against invalid future times sent for ratings.
  • (Library) Prevent some cases in which duplicate plays could be recorded.
  • (Metadata) Movie background art with words was being preferred incorrectly.
  • (Network) X-Forwarded-For would not be respected when sending ipv6 IPs
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Plex Media Server 1.19.1.2621 is now available in the Beta update channel

What’s changed:
Addressed issue with commercial removal preference not being set when removing and adding DVR.

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Plex Media Server 1.19.1.2630 is now available in the Beta update channel

FIXES:

  • (Debian/Ubuntu) Sysvinit service would fail to start in some cases.
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Plex Media Server 1.19.1.2630 is now available to everyone.

N.B. FreeBSD will come soon. We are fixing a packaging issue!

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Plex Media Server 1.19.1.2645 is now available to everyone.

FIXES:

  • FreeBSD package re-added.
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Plex Media Server 1.19.2.2673 is now available to in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Library) New visibility preference to control library visibility in home screen hubs / search

FIXES:

  • (DVR) EPG data may not completely get refreshed if there is cached data from earlier recent refresh. (#11287)
  • (DVR) Server would not load internet hosted XMLTV guide data that was over 16MB in size. (#11266)
  • (Debian/Ubuntu) Sysvinit service would fail to start in some cases.
  • (Scanner) Partial scans would not work correctly on photo and new music libraries (#10877)
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Plex Media Server 1.19.1.2701 is now available to everyone

Plex Media Server 1.19.2.2702 is now availe in the Beta update channel

  • (Updater) Hardening (security)
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Plex Media Server 1.19.2.2711 is now availe in the Beta update channel

FIXES:

  • The legacy Samsung app failed to connect.
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Plex Media Server 1.19.2.2737 is now available in the Beta update channel

FIXES:

  • (Remote Access) Online status in the web client could erroneously show it as offline (#11449)
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Plex Media Server 1.19.2.2737 is now available to everyone

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Plex Media Server 1.19.3.2740 is now available in the Beta update channel

NEW:

  • (Web) Updated to 4.30.2

FIXES:

  • (DVR) Postprocessing scripts must now be located inside APPDATA/Scripts. Old scripts will continue to work
  • (DVR) Server would sometimes fail to consume EPG data from certain XMLTV data files. (#11368)
  • (First Run) Music libraries added during setup wizard could fail to be created (#11432)
  • (Security) Remove the Windows AppData path preference from the web app (#11355)
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Plex Media Server 1.19.3.2764 is now available in the Beta update channel

FIXES:

  • (Playlists) Adding an item to a playlist from a remote server didn’t work (#11305)
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Plex Media Server 1.19.3.2764 is now available to everyone

NEW:

  • (Web) Updated to 4.30.2

FIXES:

  • (DVR) Postprocessing scripts must now be located inside APPDATA/Scripts. Old scripts will continue to work
  • (DVR) Server would sometimes fail to consume EPG data from certain XMLTV data files. (#11368)
  • (First Run) Music libraries added during setup wizard could fail to be created (#11432)
  • (Playlists) Adding an item to a playlist from a remote server didn’t work (#11305)
  • (Security) Remove the Windows AppData path preference from the web app (#11355)
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Plex Media Server 1.19.3.2793 is now available in the Beta update channel

NEW:

  • (Web) Updated to 4.30.2

FIXES:

  • (DVR) Postprocessing scripts must now be located inside APPDATA/Scripts. Old scripts will continue to work
  • (DVR) Server would sometimes fail to consume EPG data from certain XMLTV data files. (#11368)
  • (First Run) Music libraries added during setup wizard could fail to be created (#11432)
  • (Playlists) Adding an item to a playlist from a remote server didn’t work (#11305)
  • (Security) Remove the Windows AppData path preference from the web app (#11355)
  • (PostPlay) Post play could show the item that was just played (#11374)
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