Plex Media Server 0.9.12.0 is now out for everyone. This is a big release with a lot of music features, but also tons of bug fixes and other smaller features.
NEW
Korean and Hungarian translations.
Massive speedups for HTTP server.
Keep music in the library automatically refreshed via scheduled task.
Added Similar Artists feature.
Match and download metadata as we scan for movies and music.
Added Recently Viewed Episodes hub.
Add upcoming concert dates for artists.
Music videos for tracks and artists. Vevo videos for Plex Pass.
Plex Mix (Plex Pass only).
Capture album year, and artwork (Plex Pass music scanner only) during scan.
Added Continue Watching hub for home videos.
Add sorting for TV shows based on number of unwatched episodes.
Added multi-disc support in music libraries.
Add two music video hubs for music libraries.
Add a “throwback” hub for artists you haven’t listened to in X.
Add track filter for moods (Plex Pass only).
Add Track rating filter.
Support for PS3/4 audio transcoding.
Allow artists to have countries, allow filtering by country.
Allow filtering albums by studio.
Scan new media first.
Improve background on-the-fly media analysis. Analyze albums on-the-fly.
Add sorting by "Played At and “Play Count” for artists and albums.
Strip diacriticals and macrons from sort titles and use for searching.
Use filesystem times for “added at” during first scan.
Import play counts during iTunes import.
(API) Add director search provider to global search results.
(API) Add group=X feature to the filtering language.
(API) Support for batch editing, field autocompletion.
(API) Support for deleting composite types (e.g. albums).
(API) Support for computing common fields between multiple items.
Support for Ubuntu 15.04 (Linux)
Support for CentOS 7 (Linux)
FIXES
Be smarter about when to merge identical albums and when to separate.
Fix recently played hubs to not return things with zero play count.
(OS X) Fix an issue where App Nap could affect server performance.
(Windows) iTunes latest 64-bit release was broken.
Improve searching to start at word boundaries.
Clear playlist composite when clearing playlist.
Order various artists albums by name, other artists by year descending.
Speed up various endpoints, including play queue creation.
Fix a few hubs crashes.
Don’t scan right away on filesystem changes when starting up.
Delete unused tags and taggings during database maintenance.
Plex Media Server 0.9.12.1 is now out for Plex Pass members (and shortly out to the public) everyone:
NEW
Enable iTunes importing code for UNIX; set advanced preference with path to library XML.
Support for decade-based filtering for movies and albums.
Add a hidden preference for sorting albums (AlbumSort, with default value "year:desc", you can set "year", "title", etc.).
Add a new library preference to tell scanner to respect media tags (for new libraries).
CentOS 7 support.
FIXES
A crash shortly after startup.
(Linux) Crash on start.
(Windows) Scanner might not pick up new media, or might stop in the middle.
A few other crashes and minor stability issues.
Fix install/uninstall issues on Ubuntu/Mint.
Fixed possible issue locking out an alternate admin user on Synology
Check channels for updates and make sure you have the latest Scanners update. If you want to try the new "respect tags" option, make a new premium music library with that preference enabled. Let us know how it works :)
Plex Media Server 0.9.12.9 is now available for Plex Pass users. Once we get some sanity checking on the release, we’ll make it available for all users.
Fixes for low-powered NAS devices to assist new iOS app Direct Play compatible files.
Only report media deletability for owners.
Fix Mobile Sync syncing the wrong/first streams instead of using language preferences.
(API) The new excludeFields option was flattening photo libraries.
Plex Media Server 0.9.12.11 is now available for Plex Pass users.
Once we get some sanity checking on the release, we’ll make it available for all users shortly.
Fixes
Fix the local media agent not starting correctly (an issue in the last release).
Fix a crash when updating premium music libraries (usually manifested daily).
Fix an issue that caused remuxing and audio conversion on some ARMv7 and PPC platforms to fail (this helps with the latest iOS 4.0 release).
Note: If you experienced issues with external/sidecar subtitle files being detected while using the 0.9.12.9 release, please manually refresh library items as necessary.
