Plex Media Server

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Plex Media Server 1.40.3.8502 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Auto Update) 32 bit installations of Plex Media Server running on 64 bit windows will be upgraded to 64 bit installations via auto update. (PM-1102)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.129.1

FIXES:

  • (Analysis) Analysis of items would be performed for chapter thumbs even if chapter thumb generation was disabled (PM-1212)
  • (Analysis) Slow DB queries caused analysis to be slow to start (PM-1211)
  • (GPU) Server would crash on startup if a user was running windows with Nvidia drivers installed but no Nvidia GPU. (PR-14862)
  • (History) Grandparent title and guid could get reversed
  • (Smart Collections) DB Optimize would make smart collections uneditable (PM-900)
7 Likes
626

Plex Media Server 1.40.3.8530 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Auto Update) 32 bit installations of Plex Media Server running on 64 bit windows will be upgraded to 64 bit installations via auto update. (PM-1102)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.129.1

FIXES:

  • (Analysis) Analysis of items would be performed for chapter thumbs even if chapter thumb generation was disabled (PM-1212)
  • (Analysis) Slow DB queries caused analysis to be slow to start (PM-1211)
  • (GPU) Server would crash on startup if a user was running windows with Nvidia drivers installed but no Nvidia GPU. (PR-14862)
  • (History) Grandparent title and guid could get reversed
  • (MediaAnalysis) Part created_at and updated_at were row created/update times instead of file (PM-1534)
  • (Smart Collections) DB Optimize would make smart collections uneditable (PM-900)
6 Likes
627

Plex Media Server 1.40.3.8555 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Auto Update) 32 bit installations of Plex Media Server running on 64 bit windows will be upgraded to 64 bit installations via auto update. (PM-1102)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.129.1

FIXES:

  • (Analysis) Analysis of items would be performed for chapter thumbs even if chapter thumb generation was disabled (PM-1212)
  • (Analysis) Slow DB queries caused analysis to be slow to start (PM-1211)
  • (GPU) Server would crash on startup if a user was running windows with Nvidia drivers installed but no Nvidia GPU. (PR-14862)
  • (History) Grandparent title and guid could get reversed
  • (MediaAnalysis) Part created_at and updated_at were row created/update times instead of file (PM-1534)
  • (Smart Collections) DB Optimize would make smart collections uneditable (PM-900)
  • (Transcode) Tone mapping would fail for some devices on linux Kernel 5.17 or newer. (PR-1412)
5 Likes
628

Plex Media Server 1.40.3.8555 is now available to everyone.

3 Likes
629

Plex Media Server 1.40.4.8598 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Metadata) Add support for additional TVDB episode orderings on TV Show preferences. Requires metadata refresh. (PM-1533)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.132.2

FIXES:

  • (Live-TV) Tuning slots were not properly released if the tune was canceled during startup, such as what happens when rapidly changing channels. (PM-688)
  • (Scanner) Removed deprecated support for modern metadata agent scan/refresh via Scanner cli (PM-1555)
  • (Scanner) Scanner would not ignore #snapshot/s directories (PM-1450)
  • (Scanner) Scanner would not ignore @eaDir copy directories (PM-1396)
  • (Serialization) The viewUpdatedAt field would not be included when requested (PM-1562)
  • (Transcoder) Corrected quality parameter for devices without rate control. (#14885)
  • (Transcoder) Windows would fail to HW transcode after an RDP session is started or ended. (#14926)
7 Likes
630

Plex Media Server 1.40.4.8626 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Metadata) Add support for additional TVDB episode orderings on TV Show preferences. Requires metadata refresh. (PM-1533)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.132.2

FIXES:

  • (Library) Multi-episode files will only retain one of the episodes (PM-1603)
  • (Live-TV) Tuning slots were not properly released if the tune was canceled during startup, such as what happens when rapidly changing channels. (PM-688)
  • (Scanner) Removed deprecated support for modern metadata agent scan/refresh via Scanner cli (PM-1555)
  • (Scanner) Scanner would not ignore #snapshot/s directories (PM-1450)
  • (Scanner) Scanner would not ignore @eaDir copy directories (PM-1396)
  • (Serialization) The viewUpdatedAt field would not be included when requested (PM-1562)
  • (Transcoder) Corrected quality parameter for devices without rate control. (#14885)
  • (Transcoder) Windows would fail to HW transcode after an RDP session is started or ended. (#14926)
  • (WD OS5) Installation would fail on the WD OS5 platform. (PM-1640)
3 Likes
631

Plex Media Server 1.40.4.8679 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Metadata) Add support for additional TVDB episode orderings on TV Show preferences. Requires metadata refresh. (PM-1533)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.132.2

FIXES:

  • (Library) Multi-episode files will only retain one of the episodes (PM-1603)
  • (Live-TV) Tuning slots were not properly released if the tune was canceled during startup, such as what happens when rapidly changing channels. (PM-688)
  • (Scanner) Removed deprecated support for modern metadata agent scan/refresh via Scanner cli (PM-1555)
  • (Scanner) Scanner would not ignore #snapshot/s directories (PM-1450)
  • (Scanner) Scanner would not ignore @eaDir copy directories (PM-1396)
  • (Serialization) The viewUpdatedAt field would not be included when requested (PM-1562)
  • (Tonemapping) Hardware Tonemapping failed on intel devices when run on Synology (PM-1667)
  • (Transcoder) Corrected quality parameter for devices without rate control. (#14885)
  • (Transcoder) Hardware Transcoding failed when using an AMD or Intel device on windows (PM-1723)
  • (Transcoder) Windows would fail to HW transcode after an RDP session is started or ended. (#14926)
2 Likes
632

Plex Media Server 1.40.4.8679 is now available to everyone.

5 Likes
633

Plex Media Server 1.40.5.8761 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Log) Reduced the number of log messages generated when starting playback on an NVIDIA device. (PM-1417)
  • (Windows) noautorestart command line parameter added which prevents PMS from restarting after an auto update (PM-1305)

FIXES:

  • (View State Sync) Item plays could be duplicated when state synced from service.
  • (Windows 64bit) Not all files were removed on uninstall (PM-1632)
6 Likes
634

Plex Media Server 1.40.5.8796 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Log) Reduced the number of log messages generated when starting playback on an NVIDIA device. (PM-1417)
  • (Windows) noautorestart command line parameter added which prevents PMS from restarting after an auto update (PM-1305)

FIXES:

  • (Analysis) Preview thumbnail generation would not run on newly added media regardless if the preference was set (PM-1782)
  • (QNAP) PMS might not start in all cases after QTS/QuTS restart.
  • (View State Sync) Item plays could be duplicated when state synced from service.
  • (Windows 64bit) Not all files were removed on uninstall (PM-1632)
  • Plex Media Server could crash when falling back to SW encoding. (#15026)
6 Likes
635

Plex Media Server 1.40.5. 8829 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Log) Reduced the number of log messages generated when starting playback on an NVIDIA device. (PM-1417)
  • (Windows) noautorestart command line parameter added which prevents PMS from restarting after an auto update (PM-1305)

FIXES:

  • (Analysis) Preview thumbnail generation would not run on newly added media regardless if the preference was set (PM-1782)
  • (Lyrics) Sidecar lyrics would fail to load (PM-1865)
  • (QNAP) PMS might not start in all cases after QTS/QuTS restart.
  • (View State Sync) Item plays could be duplicated when state synced from service.
  • (Windows 64bit) Not all files were removed on uninstall (PM-1632)
  • Plex Media Server could crash when falling back to SW encoding. (#15026)
3 Likes
636

Plex Media Server 1.40.5. 8854 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Log) Reduced the number of log messages generated when starting playback on an NVIDIA device. (PM-1417)
  • (Windows) noautorestart command line parameter added which prevents PMS from restarting after an auto update (PM-1305)

FIXES:

  • (Analysis) Preview thumbnail generation would not run on newly added media regardless if the preference was set (PM-1782)
  • (Lyrics) Sidecar lyrics would fail to load (PM-1865)
  • (QNAP) PMS might not start in all cases after QTS/QuTS restart.
  • (View State Sync) Item plays could be duplicated when state synced from service.
  • (Windows 64bit) Not all files were removed on uninstall (PM-1632)
  • Plex Media Server could crash when falling back to SW encoding. (#15026)
  • (ToneMapping) Tonemapping on linux with some Intel devices caused the transcoder to crash (PM-1934)
3 Likes
637

Plex Media Server 1.40.5. 8854 is now available to everyone.

4 Likes
638

Plex Media Server 1.40.5.8897 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (Log) Reduced the number of log messages generated when starting playback on an NVIDIA device. (PM-1417)
  • (Windows) noautorestart command line parameter added which prevents PMS from restarting after an auto update (PM-1305)

FIXES:

  • (Analysis) Preview thumbnail generation would not run on newly added media regardless if the preference was set (PM-1782)
  • (Lyrics) Sidecar lyrics would fail to load (PM-1865)
  • (QNAP) PMS might not start in all cases after QTS/QuTS restart.
  • (View State Sync) Item plays could be duplicated when state synced from service.
  • (ViewStateSync) Fewer requests to plex.tv endpoints (PM-1958)
  • (Windows 64bit) Not all files were removed on uninstall (PM-1632)
  • Plex Media Server could crash when falling back to SW encoding. (#15026)
  • (ToneMapping) Tonemapping on linux with Gemini Lake devices would crash after a period of time. (PM-1934)
  • (ToneMapping) Tonemapping on linux with some Intel devices caused the transcoder to crash (PM-1934)
2 Likes
639

Plex Media Server 1.40.5.8897 is now available to everyone.

4 Likes
640

Plex Media Server 1.41.0.8911 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (AdDetection) Allow ad detection in libraries without DVR (PM-1841)
  • (Nvidia Shield) This release removes support for legacy plug-ins on Nvidia Shield devices (PM-1855)
  • (Scanner) Look inside ‘subs’ and ‘subtitles’ sub-directories for external subtitle files (PM-1002)
  • (Subtitles) Improved subtitle burn-in performance when Hardware Transcoding (PM-1764)
  • (Tone Mapping) Added a preference to select tone mapping algorithm to use. Only available on some platforms/devices. (PM-1431)
  • (Tonemapping) Added support for HW Tonemapping on Windows for some Intel devices (PM-532)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.136.1

FIXES:

  • (Library) In some cases library items were not properly sorted (PM-1729)
  • (Scanner) Improve performance when scanning in new movie items. Local metadata will now populate during initial refresh (PM-1777)
  • (Single Item Sharing) Filtering shared media by type didn’t work (PM-1359)
  • (Sorting) Default sort didn’t use natural sorting (10 should be after 3) (PM-1797)
10 Likes
641

Plex Media Server 1.41.0.8930 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (AdDetection) Allow ad detection in libraries without DVR (PM-1841)
  • (Nvidia Shield) This release removes support for legacy plug-ins on Nvidia Shield devices (PM-1855)
  • (Scanner) Look inside ‘subs’ and ‘subtitles’ sub-directories for external subtitle files (PM-1002)
  • (Subtitles) Improved subtitle burn-in performance when Hardware Transcoding (PM-1764)
  • (Tone Mapping) Added a preference to select tone mapping algorithm to use. Only available on some platforms/devices. (PM-1431)
  • (Tonemapping) Added support for HW Tonemapping on Windows for some Intel devices (PM-532)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.136.1

FIXES:

  • (Library) In some cases library items were not properly sorted (PM-1729)
  • (Scanner) Improve performance when scanning in new movie items. Local metadata will now populate during initial refresh (PM-1777)
  • (Single Item Sharing) Filtering shared media by type didn’t work (PM-1359)
  • (Sorting) Default sort didn’t use natural sorting (10 should be after 3) (PM-1797)
  • (Tone Mapping) Tone Mapping could fail on Windows for some Intel devices (PM-2026)
  • (ViewStateSync) Fewer requests to plex.tv endpoints (PM-1958)
2 Likes
642

Plex Media Server 1.40.5.8921 is now available to everyone.

NEW:

  • (Log) Reduced the number of log messages generated when starting playback on an NVIDIA device. (PM-1417)
  • (Windows) noautorestart command line parameter added which prevents PMS from restarting after an auto update (PM-1305)

FIXES:

  • (Analysis) Preview thumbnail generation would not run on newly added media regardless if the preference was set (PM-1782)
  • (FFmpeg) Patched for CVE-2024-7272 (PM-2020)
  • (Lyrics) Sidecar lyrics would fail to load (PM-1865)
  • (QNAP) PMS might not start in all cases after QTS/QuTS restart.
  • (View State Sync) Item plays could be duplicated when state synced from service.
  • (ViewStateSync) Fewer requests to plex.tv endpoints (PM-1958)
  • (Windows 64bit) Not all files were removed on uninstall (PM-1632)
  • Plex Media Server could crash when falling back to SW encoding. (#15026)
  • (ToneMapping) Tonemapping on linux with Gemini Lake devices would crash after a period of time. (PM-1934)
  • (ToneMapping) Tonemapping on linux with some Intel devices caused the transcoder to crash (PM-1934)
3 Likes
643

Plex Media Server 1.41.0.8976 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (AdDetection) Allow ad detection in libraries without DVR (PM-1841)
  • (Nvidia Shield) This release removes support for legacy plug-ins on Nvidia Shield devices (PM-1855)
  • (Scanner) Look inside ‘subs’ and ‘subtitles’ sub-directories for external subtitle files (PM-1002)
  • (Subtitles) Improved subtitle burn-in performance when Hardware Transcoding (PM-1764)
  • (Tone Mapping) Added a preference to select tone mapping algorithm to use. Only available on some platforms/devices. (PM-1431)
  • (Tonemapping) Added support for HW Tonemapping on Windows for some Intel devices (PM-532)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.136.1

FIXES:

  • (Library) In some cases library items were not properly sorted (PM-1729)
  • (Scanner) Improve performance when scanning in new movie items. Local metadata will now populate during initial refresh (PM-1777)
  • (Single Item Sharing) Filtering shared media by type didn’t work (PM-1359)
  • (Sorting) Default sort didn’t use natural sorting (10 should be after 3) (PM-1797)
  • (Synology) DSM 7 packages failed to install on some ARMv7 devices (PM-2045)
  • (Tone Mapping) Tone Mapping could fail on Windows for some Intel devices (PM-2026)
  • Optimized Versions would show no items (PM-2030)
3 Likes
644

Plex Media Server 1.41.0.8988 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (AdDetection) Allow ad detection in libraries without DVR (PM-1841)
  • (Nvidia Shield) This release removes support for legacy plug-ins on Nvidia Shield devices (PM-1855)
  • (Scanner) Look inside ‘subs’ and ‘subtitles’ sub-directories for external subtitle files (PM-1002)
  • (Subtitles) Improved subtitle burn-in performance when Hardware Transcoding (PM-1764)
  • (Tone Mapping) Added a preference to select tone mapping algorithm to use. Only available on some platforms/devices. (PM-1431)
  • (Tonemapping) Added support for HW Tonemapping on Windows for some Intel devices (PM-532)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.136.1

FIXES:

  • (Library) In some cases library items were not properly sorted (PM-1729)
  • (QNAP) Restores Plex Media Server icon in App Center (PM-2081)
  • (Scanner) Improve performance when scanning in new movie items. Local metadata will now populate during initial refresh (PM-1777)
  • (Single Item Sharing) Filtering shared media by type didn’t work (PM-1359)
  • (Sorting) Default sort didn’t use natural sorting (10 should be after 3) (PM-1797)
  • (Synology) DSM 7 packages failed to install on some ARMv7 devices (PM-2045)
  • (Synology) DSM 7 packages failed to install on some x86 devices (PM-2092)
  • (Tone Mapping) Tone Mapping could fail on Windows for some Intel devices (PM-2026)
  • Optimized Versions would show no items (PM-2030)
2 Likes