Plex Media Server

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Plex Media Server 0.9.9.7 is now available for Plex Pass members Everyone!

 

FIXED:
  - (Synology) Fixed installation on DSM 5.0
  - Fixed an issue where non-direct played Roku video took a long time to start.
  - Fixed syncing RAW photos (for real).
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Plex Media Server 0.9.9.8 is now available for Plex Pass members!
 
NEW:
  • Do a better job cleaning up old transcode session files.
  • Add a (hidden) preference to specify x264 options which override all others.
FIXES:
  • A few crashes around play queues.
  • A reported crash around photo uploads.
  • Syncing a few manually selected items (in web app) didn't work.
  • Flinging play queues to Roku or Chromecast could cause issues.
  • Add a description for the "Include in global" library preference.
  • An issue where the server gave incorrect information about ability to sync.
  • When scanning photos in the web app, thumbnails failed to appear without refresh.
  • When ingesting a photo which had a different timestamp, don't overwrite existing file.
  • An issue where /servers only returned 127.0.0.1.
  • (OS X) Kill orphaned transcoder processes when starting up.
  • An issue when creating playqueues with unwatched filter could result in weird behavior.
  • Roku didn't like some of our HTTP replies.
  • Make sure we refresh file size when media is re-analyzed.
  • (Sync) A few minor issues fixed.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.9.9 is now available for Plex Pass members!
 
We've got some good bug-fixes in here, especially for Chromecast streaming from Windows servers.
 
FIXES:
  - Improve throughput of streaming transcodes (DLNA, Chromecast).
  - (Windows) Fix an issue where a second streamed transcode could make the first one hang.
  - Crashes in media analysis (usually around music) which could prevent files being analyzed.
  - (Roku) Fix an issue with HTTP responses.
  - (Synology, unRAID) Missing agents.
  - (Synology) Crash on first run.
  - A media analysis issue when video files have thumbnail streams.
  - (Sync) Make sure we pass back item-level durations.
  - Optimize the JPEGs we create.
  - Fixed an issue where on some ARM platforms, server was unable to sign into plex.tv. 
  - Updated ReadyNAS OS 6 and Synology packages.
  - A few crashes on start with bad path permissions.
  - A few field-reported crashes.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.9.10 is now available for everyone!
 
FIXES:
  • High CPU and failure to load agents on ARM NAS devices.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.9.11 is now available for Plex Pass members!

Loads of good stuff in this release, you can see we haven't been resting :)

NEW

  • Massive speedup for paged queries (50-100x faster per page for larger libraries).
  • (API) Support for upcoming (secret) features.
  • (API) Support for composite thumbs.
  • (API) Return season count for shows.
  • (Transcoder) Handle all orientations for video.

FIXES

  • (Transcoder) Fix for files with low audio sample rates.
  • (Transcoder) An issue where iPhone tall-screen videos weren't rotated correctly.
  • (Chromecast) 720p files with >4 ref frames now Direct Stream.
  • (API) Minor fixes for play queue functionality.
  • Take extra care to compute H.264 level during analysis.
  • (Roku) In some cases, channels could take a long time to buffer.
  • A case where the server would hang consuming CPU, related to Roku and media index files.
  • HTTP server times out when sending/receiving data too slowly, which could result in the server hanging.
  • Only send play notifications to admin user over websocket.
  • An issue where setting multiple artwork types quickly could fail.
  • Default TheMovieDB to being above Freebase.
  • Fixed a case where authentication sometimes didn't work correctly for IPv6 addresses.
  • (Windows) Fix a case where Camera Upload processor would fail to delete temp files.
  • On first run, sometimes server wouldn't end up signed in.
  • Be more careful detecting duplicates for Camera Upload.
  • In some cases, subtitle stream languages aren't displayed correctly.
  • (Sync) Fix an issue with missing channel thumbs.
  • (Sync) Fix an issue where files sometimes never get processed.
  • (DLNA) Fix access to shared servers.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.9.12 is now available for Plex Pass members everyone!

FIXES:

  • Crash handling concurrent HTTP connections.
  • Crash uploading CloudSync files.
  • Other miscellaneous crashes.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.9.13 is now available for everyone!

 

NEW:

  - Playlists! (Available on iOS and our web app, coming soon to other platforms)
  - Extras! (Note: Extras can be added to existing libraries with a Force Refresh)
  - Import from iTunes feature for libraries including smart playlist import.
  - (API) Support for blur, saturation, and alpha blending on image transcode endpoint.
  - (API) Support for rich "composite" images.
  - (API) Support for "starts with" and "ends with" operators in filters.
  - (API) Allow null values for ID fields.
  - (API) Add support for "limit=X" in filters.
  - Support for skip count and skip date.
  - Hey! A brand new sexy application icon.
  - Added a new preference to limit Cloud Sync upload speed.
 
FIXED:
  - Default account to english as opposed to nothing at all.
  - An issue with continuous play on items with same air date.
  - Massive (like 50x) speedup for global Recently Added endpoint.
  - Items inserted into the past in a play queue when adding to 'up next' after playing through.
  - Failure transcoding some channel content.
  - Sometimes we generated invalid JSON.
  - Fix an issue where sometimes sync items would fail to process or upload.
  - Much better audio boost.
  - On occasion, transcodeer would transcode audio when it should remux.
  - An ordering bug getting background art from all libraries.
  - A bug where an item could end up in a refresh loop.
  - Server could end up hanging during nighly DB optimization task.
  - Selected art could be reset on refresh if it was generated art.
  - Tweaks for menubar icon on Yosemite.
  - Speed up deleting transcode temporary directories.
  - Play queues were returning all available alternate media for items.
  - Various crashes.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.9.14 is now available for everyone!

 
FIXED:
  - An issue with high CPU in windowserver on Yosemite and Mavericks.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.9.15 is now available for Plex Pass members!

NEW:

  - Pass up language for better cloud trailer matching.

  - Pass up "redband trailers" agent preference for cloud trailers.
  - Allow specifying a specific video to be used as "pre-roll" during Cinema Trailers.
  - Allow per-library enabling of Cinema Trailers.
  - Read in artist collections in case agent fills them in.
  - Track album/artist/season/show view & skip counts.

FIXED:

 - Much improved "similar" Cinema Trailers selection with content rating taken into account.

  - Make sure we only extra-prefix movies, not episodes.
  - Improve sorting for "Recently Added" TV (use episode add time).
  - Import artist/album plays/skips as part of iTunes import.
  - (Sync) Fix an issue where converted files could be left around on disk.
  - Hugely better default sorts for episode, album, and track listings.
  - (Roku) Fixed an issue with subsetted BIF files.
  - Fixed a regression where filtering by SD resolution didn't work.
  - Music track with thumbnail could lead to crash in media decision engine.
  - Fix an issue where some view counts (for content played with older PHT releases) were too high.
  - Large 3-5x speedup in displaying unwatched shows.
  - Shuffling a play queue created from playlist empties the play queue.
  - Fix "dumb" playlist importing on Windows.
  - Support for displaying playlist durations > 555 hours.
  - (Mac) Fix a rare issue which prevented the server from starting up properly.
  - Fix a crash in the iTunes channel.
  - Fix a hang which could occur during media analysis.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.9.16 is now available for Plex Pass members!

 
FIXES
  • (Linux/FreeBSD) Cloud trailer options now work.
  • (Playlists) Allow creating playlist with multiple selected items.
  • Correctly limit Cinema Trailers, we'd occasionally display more than requested.
  • Fix flaky behavior when adding multiple items to a collection.
  • Make sure we set size when ingesting media (e.g. Camera Upload).
  • Servers trancoding sync files wouldn't sleep when finished.
  • Fix an issue which could incorrectly mark videos as unwatched during migration.
  • Make sure extras are sorted by index (trailer is always first).
  • Improved "by first letter" organization, fixes issue on Windows Phone.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.10.0 is now available for Plex Pass members!

(You didn't think we'd go to 1.0 *that* easily, did you?)

A few things to note in this release: first of all, it includes a much improved transcoder, which you may have been following in the preview thread. Just about everything about this transcoder should be improved over the existing one, but obviously, if you find some media which worked better with the older transcoder, we want to know about it before this release goes out to the public. To report an issue, read the preview thread and post details about the media.

We've also dropped support for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 with this release, which allowed us to clean up and modernize some things. That, along with dropping support for legacy Flash and Silverlight channels makes the server start up faster, use less memory, and perform better (not to mention be a smaller download package). For anyone keeping score, we supported Windows XP five months longer than Microsoft did.

NEW:

  • Improved reliability in media analysis and transcoding.
  • Improved quality in video transcoding.
  • Improved speed in video transcoding, especially when starting new sessions and when seeking.
  • Support for transcoding a number of new formats, including H.265/HEVC.
  • Much-improved support for styled Advanced SubStation subtitles (primarily used in anime).
  • Improved support for SRT subtitles, especially those including bidirectional text and Unicode characters.
  • Support for 64-bit UnRAID systems.
  • Support for PPC Thecus systems.
  • An improved default subtitle font, now used across all platforms.
  • Support for HTTPS channel content.
  • Removed support for legacy Flash and Silverlight channels.
  • Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are no longer supported.
  • The legacy transcoder, which is available as an option in some Plex clients, will be removed soon. Please be sure to report specific cases where you still see better results when using it.
FIXES:
  • Ratings no longer display floating point weirdness (e.g. "7.499999").
  • Handle file I/O failures gracefully when streaming media.
  • Fix and speed up for Recently Viewed Shows.
  • Fix a rare case in which play queues could repeat items.
  • Playlists with TV shows might not have a duration or item count.
  • Shutdown the database cleanly on exit, so we don't have -wal/shm files left around.
  • Run library analysis in the background so request isn't long-running.
  • Issues with menu icon on Yosemite.
  • Fix jaggies with Windows icon.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.10.1 is now out for Plex Pass users. Some quick fixes for 0.9.10.0 here.

FIXES:

  • A crash related to some network operations.
  • A (long-standing) port-mapping related crash on OS X (due to a bug in system libraries).
  • Repeatedly moving playlist items to the top could fail.
  • If the server did an on-the-fly refresh, extras wouldn't show up (would work second time).
  • Recently viewed shows weren't updated if episodes where only partially watched (thanks, ClunkClunk!)
  • Recently Added (in iOS, e.g) was missing things compared to the display in the web app.
  • Videos with colorspaces other than YUV420p might have playback issues.
  • Hopefully fixed compatibility with OS X Snow Leopard.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.10.3 is now available for Plex Pass users.

0.9.10.2 was too good, so we skipped it and jump directly to 0.9.10.3. Lot of changes under the hood here, make sure to provide feedback on things that is working in 0.9.10.1 but does not work in 0.9.10.3.

NEW:
FIXES:
  • An issue shuffling all episodes.
  • Improve Cinema Trailer selection when video has unknown content rating.
  • After a network issue, the server could become unresponsive.
  • The media analysis scheduled task could make the server unresponsive.
  • When shuffling a play queue, ensure current item is at the start.
  • Transcoding subtitles which didn't exist could cause a crash.
  • Some files were not getting thumbnails during media analysis.
  • Fix transcoder to handle some MPEG files properly.
  • An issue affecting video streaming to the Android TV.
  • Some cases in which graphics (posters, art) could end up partially downloaded.
  • Make sure selected graphics are stored (could result in missing locked graphics).
  • An issue where missing metadata could result in low-resolution graphics.
  • An issue where the transcoded video could show "technicolor snow".
  • Inconsistent unwatched episode count in some cases.
  • (Windows) Fix the icon.

(Note QNAP ARM download is currently offering a older version, we are looking into it)

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Plex Media Server 0.9.11.0 is now available for Plex Pass members.

Lots of bug-fixes in this one, highly recommended. Please let us know if you run into any issues with it, otherwise this will head to the public shortly.

NEW

  • New translations for Dutch, French, German, Arabic, Norweigan, Italian, Czech, Belgian and Spanish.
  • Improved connection publishing when network changes.
  • (Synology) DSM 5.0 is now the mimumum version required.
FIXES
  • Theme music was not working.
  • Transcoder throttling was broken.
  • (ReadyNAS) Transcoding could fail on a clean install.
  • (unRAID) The 32-bit package was broken.
  • (XB1) Prefer AC3 to AAC for multichannel audio.
  • Sometimes trailers for already watched movies could be shown.
  • Sometimes trailers for the main feature could be shown.
  • An issue where upgrade from a much older version could result in the server not working.
  • Playing an album and then queueing an album would interleave track.
  • A case where some media wouldn't be detected as anamorphic.
  • Fix a case where we were returning invalid redirects.
  • In some cases where metadata bundles were missing, refresh could go into a loop.
  • Custom library icons were broken.
  • Detect and disallow adding duplicates to a play queue.
  • (Windows) Fix icon in about dialog.
  • Transcoder statistics weren't being sent up (speed, progress).
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Plex Media Server 0.9.11.1 is now out for Plex Pass users.

NEW:

  • Added Hebrew translation.
FIXES:
  • (Linux) A crash on Linux when media directory permissions were wrong.
  • Rapid seeking could lead to video playback stopping.
  • Improved reliabilty around publishing network connections.
  • Use TLS instead of SSLv3 when talking to plex.tv.
  • (DASH) More reliable seeking.
  • (ReadyNAS) Fix logo not appearing.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.11.1 is now available for all users.
 
Notes:

  • Plex Pass users who have been running the 0.9.11.0 preview release version will need to grab this update from our Downloads page manually to update.
  • A build for QNAP ARM users is not currently available; we're continuing to work on that.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.11.4 is now out for Everyone.
 
NEW

  • Plex Home!
  • Translations for Lithuanian, Brazilian, Danish.
  • Multiuser and Now Playing available for everyone.
  • Improved networking support on FreeBSD.
  • New auto-update system for Windows & OS X.

FIXES

  • Workaround an issue with LG TVs rebooting.
  • When viewing "More from" content, don't include original item.
  • Fix a crash on start when upgrading from a much older version.
  • Cleanup unused tags in the database.
  • DLNA server setting takes effect immediately.
  • Improved reliability around publishing server to the cloud.
  • When setting On Deck window to 0 weeks, all the Recently Added hubs disappeared.
  • Some AAC audio was not working with ChromeCast.
  • Unassociated directories with similar names could get scanned.
  • Issues with by-letter browsing when multibyte titles are present.
  • Playlist from albums has tracks ordered by track index, not album.
  • QNAP ARM builds supported again.

NOTE: QNAP ARM package got lost on the way to plex.tv, get it from Dropbox here (Updated link): https://www.dropbox.com/s/sdwkzm3fqs2sf40/PlexMediaServer_0.9.11.4.739-a4e710f_arm-x19.qpkg?dl=0

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Plex Media Server 0.9.11.5 is now out for Plex Pass members.
 
NEW

  • Serbian translation.
FIXED
  • Multiuser wasn’t working correctly without a Plex Pass (e.g. duplicate On Deck).
  • A few issues upgrading from very old media servers.
  • Numeric share labels didn’t in Plex Home.
  • Some packaging fixes for Thecus NAS.
  • Many search requests in parallel could hang the server.
  • Don’t restart plugins as aggressively.
  • Cloud Sync didn’t work when in a Plex Home.
  • Fixed an issue where Cloud Sync files over 2GB may fail to upload.
NOTE: Thecus PPC package is not working. We are aware of this and trying to fix this.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.11.6 is now out for Plex Pass members.

NEW

  • Added a sort option for "release date" for albums.
 
FIXED
  • An issue which prevented upgrading from very old version of the media server.
  • Improved reliability around publishing public IP to the cloud.
  • Allow partial matching on locales.
  • Occasionally extras could come back with width/height of -1.
  • Fixes for unRAID distribution.
  • FLAC files were not playing on iOS.
  • Improved quality of Arabic and Hebrew subtitle rendering.
  • Improve cloud Cinema Trailer selection.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.11.7 is now out for Plex Pass members (shortly out to everyone)

NEW

  • Added translations for Swedish, Croatian, Chinese.
 
FIXES
  • Some translations weren't enabled correctly.
  • In some cases, duplicate "hubs" could be returned.
  • (Windows) Subtitle fonts weren't loaded correctly.