Plex Media Server

Plex Media Server 1.30.0.6486 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (PlexMatch) Add support for pattern matching (#13899)
  • (Scheduled Tasks) Perform periodic metadata refreshes on TV shows too (#13920)
  • (Transcoder) Support zero-copy hardware transcoding on macOS (#13904)

FIXES:

  • (Artwork) Restrict client artwork screensaver to items user is allowed to access (#13916)
  • (DVR) Commercial detection could fail on 32-bit Windows builds (#14002)
  • (DVR) Plex Tuner Service might become unresponsive in certain complex scenarios (#12988)
  • (Music) Some tracks may show lyrics being available when they are not (#13926)
  • (QNAP) Renewed code signing certificate
  • (Scanner) Episodes of series with names beginning with a single digit could be mis-matched (#13921)
  • (Windows) Added new code signing certificate for app binaries
  • (macOS) The server could fail platform security checks on older macOS versions (#13959)
3 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.30.0.6486 is now available to everyone

6 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.30.1.6483 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Extras) Improved support for matching TV series extras with common community filename formats (#4774)
  • (Preferences) Added an advanced preference for DB cache size.
  • (Settings) Add configurable played percentage threshold advanced library preference (#13860)
  • (Transcoder) Added support for AV1 video decoding (#13941)
  • (Transcoder) The minimum supported Nvidia driver version for hardware transcoding has been increased to 455.28 on Linux and 456.71 on Windows (#13941)

FIXES:

  • (Bandwidth) Server could become unresponsive under certain timing conditions (#13951)
  • (Database) Server might quit unexpectedly after SQLite3 syntax errors (#13942)
  • (Transcoder) Transcodes could fail when converting bitmap subtitles to the DVD format (#13967)
16 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.30.1.6497 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Extras) Improved support for matching TV series extras with common community filename formats (#4774)
  • (NAS) Add Support for TerraMaster TOS 5 platforms.
  • (Preferences) Added an advanced preference for DB cache size.
  • (Settings) Add configurable played percentage threshold advanced library preference (#13860)
  • (Transcoder) Added support for AV1 video decoding (#13941)
  • (Transcoder) The minimum supported Nvidia driver version for hardware transcoding has been increased to 455.28 on Linux and 456.71 on Windows (#13941)

FIXES:

  • (Bandwidth) Server could become unresponsive under certain timing conditions (#13951)
  • (Database) Server might quit unexpectedly after SQLite3 syntax errors (#13942)
  • (PlexMatch) Pattern matching could behave incorrectly for certain filenames (#14030)
  • (Transcoder) Transcodes could fail when converting bitmap subtitles to the DVD format (#13967)
  • (macOS) Some endpoints could return errors on macOS versions older than 10.15 (#13946)
9 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.30.1.6550 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Extras) Improved support for matching TV series extras with common community filename formats (#4774)
  • (NAS) Add Support for TerraMaster TOS 5 platforms.
  • (Preferences) Added an advanced preference for DB cache size.
  • (Settings) Add configurable played percentage threshold advanced library preference (#13860)
  • (Transcoder) Added support for AV1 video decoding (#13941)
  • (Transcoder) The minimum supported Nvidia driver version for hardware transcoding has been increased to 455.28 on Linux and 456.71 on Windows (#13941)

FIXES:

  • (Bandwidth) Server could become unresponsive under certain timing conditions (#13951)
  • (Database) Server might quit unexpectedly after SQLite3 syntax errors (#13942)
  • (PlexMatch) Pattern matching could behave incorrectly for certain filenames (#14030)
  • (Transcoder) Decoding certain TrueHD audio streams could fail (#14023)
  • (Transcoder) Transcodes could fail when converting bitmap subtitles to the DVD format (#13967)
  • (macOS) Some endpoints could return errors on macOS versions older than 10.15 (#13946)
7 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.30.1.6562 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Extras) Improved support for matching TV series extras with common community filename formats (#4774)
  • (NAS) Add Support for TerraMaster TOS 5 platforms.
  • (Preferences) Added an advanced preference for DB cache size.
  • (Settings) Add configurable played percentage threshold advanced library preference (#13860)
  • (Transcoder) Added support for AV1 video decoding (#13941)
  • (Transcoder) The minimum supported Nvidia driver version for hardware transcoding has been increased to 455.28 on Linux and 456.71 on Windows (#13941)

FIXES:

  • (Analysis) Loudness analysis could crash if item was removed
  • (Bandwidth) Server could become unresponsive under certain timing conditions (#13951)
  • (Database) Server might quit unexpectedly after SQLite3 syntax errors (#13942)
  • (PlexMatch) Pattern matching could behave incorrectly for certain filenames (#14030)
  • (Transcoder) Decoding certain TrueHD audio streams could fail (#14023)
  • (Transcoder) Transcodes could fail when converting bitmap subtitles to the DVD format (#13967)
  • (macOS) Some endpoints could return errors on macOS versions older than 10.15 (#13946)
4 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.30.1.6562 is now available to everyone.

6 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.30.2.6563 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (NAS) Add Support for TerraMaster TOS 5 platforms.
  • (Scanner) .plexmatch files now support a new match type called “SEE”, which allows handling of files where e.g. “302” means episode 2 of season 3 (#13985)
  • (Scanner) .plexmatch pattern matching tokens now support setting a maximum length on matches; see the “Match Hinting for TV Series” support article for details (#13985)
  • (Scanner) Files named using the uncommon “SEE” format are no longer matched by default; please use the .plexmatch feature to handle these files (#13985)
  • (Scanner) Files with names containing a 3- or 4-digit standalone episode number are now matched correctly by default (#13985)

FIXES:

  • (DLNA) Corrected DLNA server not starting on NVIDIA Shield (#13340)
  • (DVR) DVR schedule is now corrected when the guide updates. (#13217/#12821)
  • (DVR) Preview thumbs not being created for DVR recordings (#13943)
  • (Library) TV theme music could incorrectly remain on an item after fixing a match (#13933)
  • (Library) Unprocessed Add to Library items can crash the server on startup if the original library section no longer exists (#14022)
  • (MacOS) Incorrect download progress percentage for updates is passed to the web client (#13992)
  • (Metadata) Episodes would not store the year field (#13974)
  • (Music) Improve reliability of maintaining original add date when upgrading albums.
  • (Music) When replacing exisiting files with new versions, loudness analysis would not trigger on demand (#13897)
  • (Network) The server could fail to publish any LAN addresses if a preferred network interface was selected, but was not available (#14001)
  • (Pivots) Categories pivot loading time might be slow for larger libraries (#13912)
  • (Transcoder) Download transcodes consumed slot even after transcode completes (#13987)
  • (Versions) Optimized versions of an edition would overwrite any existing version using the same profile (#13746)
  • (macOS) Some endpoints could return errors on macOS versions older than 10.15 (#13946)
6 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.30.2.6563 is now available to everyone.

5 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.31.0.6654 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Linux) Automatic library updates are now triggered by filesystem permissions and ownership changes (#14045)

FIXES:

  • (DVR) Some audio or subtitle streams could fail to be captured on channels with multiple audio or subtitle services (#13908) (#13877)
  • (IntroDetection) Detection may timeout on very slow systems causing items to retry indefinitely (#14027)
  • (Transcoder) Transcoding from AV1 could take a very long time to start when a GPU that did not support it was present (#14043)
5 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.31.0.6654 is now available to everyone

NEW:

  • Detect end credits markers for movies and episodes (Plex Pass required)
  • Allow using end credits markers to determine fully watched state for movies and episodes (Plex Pass required)
  • (Linux) Automatic library updates are now triggered by filesystem permissions and ownership changes (#14045)

FIXES:

  • (DVR) Some audio or subtitle streams could fail to be captured on channels with multiple audio or subtitle services (#13908) (#13877)
  • (IntroDetection) Detection may timeout on very slow systems causing items to retry indefinitely (#14027)
  • (Transcoder) Transcoding from AV1 could take a very long time to start when a GPU that did not support it was present (#14043)
8 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.31.1.6716 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Scanner) Adds support for the Extend multi-episode format i.e. S01E01-02 (#14064)
  • (Subtitles) Attempt to automatically detect improperly-tagged forced streams based on their titles (#14096)
  • (TV) Provide clients with the number of non-Specials seasons for display when browsing (#14036)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.100.1
  • Add Ukrainian translations.
  • Updated translations.

FIXES:

  • (Clustering) Photos timeline - duplicated items or incorrect dates (#14081)
  • (Credits Detection) The detection could timeout and fail on low powered devices.
  • (CreditsDetection) Fix assignment of final marker attribute (#14109)
  • (Intros) Detection wouldn’t proceed if background transcodes were paused (#14056)
  • (Music) When shuffling smart playlists with limits, the track selection could be incorrect.
  • (Transcoder) Hardware decoding using Nvidia GPUs could fail with certain driver versions (#14069) (#14070)
7 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.31.1.6733 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Scanner) Adds support for the Extend multi-episode format i.e. S01E01-02 (#14064)
  • (Subtitles) Attempt to automatically detect improperly-tagged forced streams based on their titles (#14096)
  • (TV) Provide clients with the number of non-Specials seasons for display when browsing (#14036)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.100.1
  • Add Ukrainian translations.
  • Updated translations.

FIXES:

  • (Clustering) Photos timeline - duplicated items or incorrect dates (#14081)
  • (Credits Detection) Detection could fail with certain video codecs (#14150)
  • (Credits Detection) Limit thread concurrency for first stage of detection (#14150)
  • (Credits Detection) The detection could timeout and fail on low powered devices.
  • (CreditsDetection) Fix assignment of final marker attribute (#14109)
  • (Intros) Detection wouldn’t proceed if background transcodes were paused (#14056)
  • (Music) When shuffling smart playlists with limits, the track selection could be incorrect.
  • (Transcoder) Hardware decoding using Nvidia GPUs could fail with certain driver versions (#14069) (#14070)
5 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.31.1.6733 is now available to everyone.

4 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.31.2.6739 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (TV) Add series- and season-level preferences controlling audio and subtitle stream selection (#8036)

FIXES:

  • (Playlist) > Smart playlists could fail when set to show/season/artist/album types when requested by someone other than server admin (#13427)
  • (Push) The server could exit unexpectedly if a database error occurred within certain notification-handling code (#14112)
  • (Scanner) TV episodes with certain naming formats involving underscores could fail to be scanned in (#14111)
12 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.31.2.6757 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (TV) Add series- and season-level preferences controlling audio and subtitle stream selection (#8036)

FIXES:

  • Request to system/agents could fail.
  • (Playlist) > Smart playlists could fail when set to show/season/artist/album types when requested by someone other than server admin (#13427)
  • (Push) The server could exit unexpectedly if a database error occurred within certain notification-handling code (#14112)
  • (Scanner) TV episodes with certain naming formats involving underscores could fail to be scanned in (#14111)
7 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.31.1.6782 is now available to everyone.

This is a hotfix release.

NEW:

  • (Scanner) Adds support for the Extend multi-episode format i.e. S01E01-02 (#14064)
  • (Subtitles) Attempt to automatically detect improperly-tagged forced streams based on their titles (#14096)
  • (TV) Provide clients with the number of non-Specials seasons for display when browsing (#14036)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.100.1
  • Add Ukrainian translations.
  • Updated translations.

FIXES:

  • (Clustering) Photos timeline - duplicated items or incorrect dates (#14081)
  • (Credits Detection) Detection could fail with certain video codecs (#14150)
  • (Credits Detection) Limit thread concurrency for first stage of detection (#14150)
  • (Credits Detection) The detection could timeout and fail on low powered devices.
  • (CreditsDetection) Fix assignment of final marker attribute (#14109)
  • (First Run) Library creation could fail during set up (#14161)
  • (Intros) Detection wouldn’t proceed if background transcodes were paused (#14056)
  • (Music) When shuffling smart playlists with limits, the track selection could be incorrect.
  • (Transcoder) Hardware decoding using Nvidia GPUs could fail with certain driver versions (#14069) (#14070)
5 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.31.2.6783 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (TV) Add series- and season-level preferences controlling audio and subtitle stream selection (#8036)

FIXES:

  • Request to system/agents could fail.
  • (First Run) Library creation could fail during set up (#14161)
  • (Playlist) > Smart playlists could fail when set to show/season/artist/album types when requested by someone other than server admin (#13427)
  • (Push) The server could exit unexpectedly if a database error occurred within certain notification-handling code (#14112)
  • (Scanner) TV episodes with certain naming formats involving underscores could fail to be scanned in (#14111)
3 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.31.2.6810 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (TV) Add series- and season-level preferences controlling audio and subtitle stream selection (#8036)

FIXES:

  • Request to system/agents could fail.
  • (CreditsDetection) Scanner might quit unexpectedly in some cases (#14169)
  • (First Run) Library creation could fail during set up (#14161)*
  • (Playlist) > Smart playlists could fail when set to show/season/artist/album types when requested by someone other than server admin (#13427)
  • (Push) The server could exit unexpectedly if a database error occurred within certain notification-handling code (#14112)
  • (Scanner) TV episodes with certain naming formats involving underscores could fail to be scanned in (#14111)
2 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.31.2.6810 is now available to everyone.