Plex Media Server

Plex Media Server 1.24.4.5081 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

FIXES:

  • (EPG) DVR set up using XMLTV guide data could show overlapping airings in the grid.
  • (Library) Some albums could fail to load their metadata properly (#13100)
  • (Linux) Initial server setup and certain filesystem operations could fail on certain Linux systems (#13027)

Plex Media Server 1.24.4.5081 is now available to everyone.

Plex Media Server 1.24.5.5160 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

Database changes may cause longer than normal start-up times after initial installation of this update, especially on larger libraries. Please be patient and do not interrupt this process.

NEW:

  • (Synology) Improve install wizard messaging and ‘Plex’ share detection
  • (Synology) Remove log file redirection option from installer

FIXES:

  • (Collections) Merged RA shows the relevant items after reordering pinned libraries (#12962)
  • (Library) Sonic distances were incorrectly displayed in some cases.
  • (Metadata) Episodes could lose locked thumbnails in certain circumstances (#13102)
  • (Metadata) Episodes with embedded metadata for actors could remove actor thumbnails for the show (#13088)
  • (Metadata) Episodes would retain the titleSort when getting unmatched (#13102)
  • (Metadata) Items that have been split would only use local metadata from the first copy (#13097)
  • (Metadata) Switching agents for TV libraries would result in locked season posters getting unset (#13102)
  • (Search) Improved search results of compound words (#13028)

Plex Media Server 1.24.5.5173 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

Database changes may cause longer than normal start-up times after initial installation of this update, especially on larger libraries. Please be patient and do not interrupt this process.

NEW:

  • (Synology) Improve install wizard messaging and ‘Plex’ share detection
  • (Synology) Remove log file redirection option from installer

FIXES:

  • (Collections) Merged RA shows the relevant items after reordering pinned libraries (#12962)
  • (Library) Sonic distances were incorrectly displayed in some cases.
  • (Metadata) Episodes could lose locked thumbnails in certain circumstances (#13102)
  • (Metadata) Episodes with embedded metadata for actors could remove actor thumbnails for the show (#13088)
  • (Metadata) Episodes would retain the titleSort when getting unmatched (#13102)
  • (Metadata) Items that have been split would only use local metadata from the first copy (#13097)
  • (Metadata) Switching agents for TV libraries would result in locked season posters getting unset (#13102)
  • (Playback) Some requests were failing causing Live TV streams on Android to get interrupted.
  • (Search) Improved search results of compound words (#13028)

Plex Media Server 1.24.5.5173 is now available to everyone.

Plex Media Server 1.25.0.5220 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Metadata) Add Croatian as language option for modern Movie and TV agents (#13119)
  • (Subtitles) New font package and default styles for server-side subtitle rendering
  • (Transcoder) Architectural changes to provide future support for hardware transcoding on additional NAS devices
  • (Transcoder) Architectural changes to provide improved support for remuxing some HDR formats
  • (Transcoder) Support for hardware transcoding of H.264 Constrained Baseline media
  • (Transcoder) Support for hardware transcoding on Intel Xe/Gen12 (TGL, RKL) GPUs
  • (Transcoder) Update to newer upstream ffmpeg
  • (Web) Updated to 4.66.1

FIXES:

  • (Library) Prevent certain extras getting scanned as additional media items when partial scanning is enabled (#13129)
  • (Library) The music analysis task could linger in the dashboard.
  • (Metadata) Prevent actors with the same names overwriting each others thumbnails (#13084)
  • (Music) Avoid duplicate albums showing up in On This Day in Plexamp.
  • (Music) Rebuilding sonic indexes could result in crashes.
  • (Music) Scheduled tasks would attempt sonic analyis on TIDAL tracks in library.
  • (Music) Server could crash after scanning music library.
  • (Optimized Versions) Some analysis jobs wouldn’t trigger correctly on newly optimized versions (#13138)
  • (Scanner) The TV scanner could crash if passed a specific path (#13118)

Plex Media Server 1.25.0.5246 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Metadata) Add Croatian as language option for modern Movie and TV agents (#13119)
  • (Subtitles) New font package and default styles for server-side subtitle rendering
  • (Transcoder) Architectural changes to provide future support for hardware transcoding on additional NAS devices
  • (Transcoder) Architectural changes to provide improved support for remuxing some HDR formats
  • (Transcoder) Support for hardware transcoding of H.264 Constrained Baseline media
  • (Transcoder) Support for hardware transcoding on Intel Xe/Gen12 (TGL, RKL) GPUs
  • (Transcoder) Update to newer upstream ffmpeg
  • (Web) Updated to 4.66.1

FIXES:

  • (Library) Prevent certain extras getting scanned as additional media items when partial scanning is enabled (#13129)
  • (Library) Refreshing metadata for items could result in duplicate tags for certain items (#13196)
  • (Library) The music analysis task could linger in the dashboard.
  • (Metadata) Prevent actors with the same names overwriting each others thumbnails (#13084)
  • (Music) Avoid duplicate albums showing up in On This Day in Plexamp.
  • (Music) Rebuilding sonic indexes could result in crashes.
  • (Music) Scheduled tasks would attempt sonic analyis on TIDAL tracks in library.
  • (Music) Server could crash after scanning music library.
  • (Optimized Versions) Some analysis jobs wouldn’t trigger correctly on newly optimized versions (#13138)
  • (Scanner) The TV scanner could crash if passed a specific path (#13118)

Plex Media Server 1.25.0.5282 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Metadata) Add Croatian as language option for modern Movie and TV agents (#13119)
  • (Subtitles) New font package and default styles for server-side subtitle rendering
  • (Transcoder) Architectural changes to provide future support for hardware transcoding on additional NAS devices
  • (Transcoder) Architectural changes to provide improved support for remuxing some HDR formats
  • (Transcoder) Support for hardware transcoding of H.264 Constrained Baseline media
  • (Transcoder) Support for hardware transcoding on Intel Xe/Gen12 (TGL, RKL) GPUs
  • (Transcoder) Update to newer upstream ffmpeg
  • (Web) Updated to 4.66.1

FIXES:

  • (Library) Prevent certain extras getting scanned as additional media items when partial scanning is enabled (#13129)
  • (Library) Refreshing metadata for items could result in duplicate tags for certain items (#13196)
  • (Library) The music analysis task could linger in the dashboard.
  • (Metadata) Prevent actors with the same names overwriting each others thumbnails (#13084)
  • (Music) Avoid duplicate albums showing up in On This Day in Plexamp.
  • (Music) Rebuilding sonic indexes could result in crashes.
  • (Music) Scheduled tasks would attempt sonic analysis on TIDAL tracks in library.
  • (Music) Server could crash after scanning music library.
  • (Optimized Versions) Some analysis jobs wouldn’t trigger correctly on newly optimized versions (#13138)
  • (Scanner) The TV scanner could crash if passed a specific path (#13118)
  • (Security) Resolved a vulnerability that could allow a local Windows user to obtain administrator privileges. (#13126)

Plex Media Server 1.25.0.5282 is now available to everyone.

Plex Media Server 1.25.1.5286 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

SHIELD: Please note that this version is not currently available on Google Play store, while we work with Google to verify compliance with Google Play Developer Program policies.

FIXES:

  • (HTTP) The server could quit unexpectedly when certain types of requests were canceled prematurely (#13135)
  • (Library) Refreshing metadata for an unmatched show wouldn’t perform a match (#12945)
  • (NAS) ASUSTOR firmware version could be reported incorrectly on ADM 4.0 devices
  • (NAS) Ensure Library and TMP directories exists on QNAP devices when starting PMS
  • (Scanner) In rare instances some episode files could be ignored by the scanner (#13150)

Plex Media Server 1.25.1.5286 is now available to everyone.

Plex Media Server 1.25.2.5319 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

FIXES:

  • (Library) Server could exit if trying to delete non-existent items (#13190)
  • (Metadata) Embedded metadata would be ignored on video files with non-lowercase extensions (#13195)
  • (Optimized Versions) Conversions would fail on Windows if the item title contained trailing spaces (#13128)
  • (PlayQueue) Playing DVR library item could result in playback of wrong item. (#12932)
  • (QNAP) Ignore ‘@Recently-Snapshot’ folders during scanning (#13162)
  • (Scanner) Improved distinction between episode numbers and numbers within a series title (#13210)
  • (Scanner) Improved distinction between series titles and auxiliary metadata in file and directory names (#13210)

Plex Media Server 1.25.2.5319 is now available to everyone

Plex Media Server 1.25.3.5385 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

FIXES:

  • (Hubs) Fix potential serialization issue of CW hubs (#13237)
  • (Metadata) Some episodes could fail to get metadata when using the legacy TVDB agent
  • (Scanner) Hidden files inside media paths could cause unexpected issues with certain local assets (#13240)
  • (Scanner) Improve detection of filename changes which should result in rematching items (#13220)
  • (Scanner) Some file paths could prevent movies from scanning in correctly (#12980)
  • (Series Scanner) Improved matching of season directory names including codec or resolution details (#13235)

Plex Media Server 1.25.3.5385 is now available to everyone.

Plex Media Server 1.25.3.5409 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

FIXES:

  • (Hubs) Fix potential serialization issue of CW hubs (#13237)
  • (Metadata) Some episodes could fail to get metadata when using the legacy TVDB agent
  • (Scanner) Hidden files inside media paths could cause unexpected issues with certain local assets (#13240)
  • (Scanner) Improve detection of filename changes which should result in rematching items (#13220)
  • (Scanner) Movie items with mis-matched agents could re-match unnecessarily during scanning (#13292)
  • (Scanner) Some file paths could prevent movies from scanning in correctly (#12980)
  • (Series Scanner) Improved matching of season directory names including codec or resolution details (#13235)

Plex Media Server 1.25.3.5409 is now available to everyone.

Plex Media Server 1.25.4.5426 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

(NOTE) Database changes may cause longer than normal start-up times after initial installation of this update, especially on larger libraries. Please be patient and do not interrupt this process.

  • (Library) Refresh movie metadata periodically during scheduled tasks (#13250)
  • (Metadata) Add Bulgarian language option for modern movie and TV agents (#13263)
  • (TLS) Server-side HTTPS connection support is now always enabled for signed-in users; plaintext connections will continue to be supported as well by default (#13257)

FIXES:

  • (HttpClient) The server may quit unexpectedly if internal HTTP requests are made with certain timings (#13231)
  • (Library) Requesting the list of items starting with special characters could give unexpected results (#13251)
  • (Metadata) Some users could end up with massive amounts of duplicate extras (#13241)
  • (Optimized Versions) New versions shouldn’t be encoded from existing optimized versions (#13254)
  • (Subtitles) On-demand subtitles would not work on optimized versions (#13218)
  • (Transcode) The transcoder process could fail to complete when encoding E-AC-3

Plex Media Server 1.25.4.5468 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

(NOTE) Database changes may cause longer than normal start-up times after initial installation of this update, especially on larger libraries. Please be patient and do not interrupt this process.

  • (Library) Refresh movie metadata periodically during scheduled tasks (#13250)
  • (Metadata) Add Bulgarian language option for modern movie and TV agents (#13263)
  • (TLS) Server-side HTTPS connection support is now always enabled for signed-in users; plaintext connections will continue to be supported as well by default (#13257)

FIXES:

  • (HttpClient) The server may quit unexpectedly if internal HTTP requests are made with certain timings (#13231)
  • (Library) Requesting the list of items starting with special characters could give unexpected results (#13251)
  • (Metadata) Some users could end up with massive amounts of duplicate extras (#13241)
  • (Optimized Versions) New versions shouldn’t be encoded from existing optimized versions (#13254)
  • (Scanner) Some file paths were causing errors when scanning movie libraries (#13323)
  • (Subtitles) On-demand subtitles would not work on optimized versions (#13218)
  • (Transcode) The transcoder process could fail to complete when encoding E-AC-3

Plex Media Server 1.25.4.5468 is now available to everyone.