Plex Media Server

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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)
6 Likes
465

Plex Media Server 1.24.4.5081 is now available to everyone.

1 Like
466

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)
6 Likes
467

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)
3 Likes
468

Plex Media Server 1.24.5.5173 is now available to everyone.

4 Likes
469

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)
15 Likes
470

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)
7 Likes
471

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)
3 Likes
472

Plex Media Server 1.25.0.5282 is now available to everyone.

1 Like
473

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)
6 Likes
474

Plex Media Server 1.25.1.5286 is now available to everyone.

5 Likes
475

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)
4 Likes
476

Plex Media Server 1.25.2.5319 is now available to everyone

1 Like
477

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)
7 Likes
478

Plex Media Server 1.25.3.5385 is now available to everyone.

2 Likes
479

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)
2 Likes
480

Plex Media Server 1.25.3.5409 is now available to everyone.

3 Likes
481

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
9 Likes
482

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
1 Like
483

Plex Media Server 1.25.4.5468 is now available to everyone.

4 Likes