Pms-docker images other than :latest need to be updated

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Wasn’t sure where else to post this. While the :latest version of the pms-docker container image is continually updated, the other images (such as :plexpass, :public and :beta) haven’t been updated for 10 months.

I know there are updates that have been made to :latest that would benefit the other images also.
I typically use :plexpass but have needed to use :latest to have working Quicksync HW transcoding.

Anyone know whom I can speak to?

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Are you referring to the docker overview…
https://hub.docker.com/r/plexinc/pms-docker/tags/

… or did you actually use those tags?
beta and public are supposed to fetch the latest version (public or beta respectively) when you run them

From GitHub - plexinc/pms-docker: Plex Media Server Docker repo, for all your PMS docker needs.

Tags

In addition to the standard version and latest tags, two other tags exist: beta and public . These two images behave differently than your typical containers. These two images do not have any Plex Media Server binary installed. Instead, when these containers are run, they will perform an update check and fetch the latest version, install it, and then continue execution. They also run the update check whenever the container is restarted. To update the version in the container, simply stop the container and start container again when you have a network connection. The startup script will automatically fetch the appropriate version and install it before starting the Plex Media Server.

The public restricts this check to public versions only where as beta will fetch beta versions. If the server is not logged in or you do not have Plex Pass on your account, the beta tagged images will be restricted to publicly available versions only.

To view the Docker images head over to Docker

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Hi there!

I don’t mean the PMS software that downloads when the container runs - that’s fine. I am talking about the image and the container itself. Just recently I contributed a change to the container setup to fix an issue I was having with HW transcode and the change has made it to the :latest container images but not the others.

M.

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Okay… So no one knows who I can talk to about this?

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Paging @gbooker02 - Graham, any way we can have the :plexpass image rebuilt with the newer changes?

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Nevermind… Thread can be closed, I guess. Not sure when the other images will be updated.

For anyone else wanting similar, I use the :latest image - however I bind mount a textfile containing the word “latest” to /version.txt inside the container at launch. This forces the update script to run at launch and download the latest PMS version automatically (which in this instance, is the latest beta version).

M.

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