Release Announcements - Android TV beta

Plex Players Player Betas
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Plex for Android 8.11.0.21947-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Preplay: show played status on media detail screens.
  • Bump the minimum supported Plex Media Server version to 1.18.3.
  • Content rows on your home screen are now ordered by the pinned items in your sidebar.

FIXES:

  • Player: app could crash on playback error if server connection is not available.
  • Performance: minor improvement to memory usage of Home.
  • Performance: app could attempt to make WebSocket connections to unsupported servers.
  • Search: app could crash when presenting results.
  • Long usernames would overlap the Plex logo.
  • Player: the ad countdown was missing top padding.
  • Increase the size of the border accent on focused cards.

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382

Plex for Android 8.11.0.21963-beta

Available on Google Play.

  • No visible changes with respect to the previous beta.

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383

Plex for Android 8.11.0.22024-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] New blur background for preplay, audio player, and post play screens.

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384

Plex for Android 8.11.0.22093-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] Preplay: marking a Show as played would not work or crash the app.

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385

Plex for Android 8.11.0.22162-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Improve the way we process the subscription purchase in some edge cases.
  • Home hubs could be duplicated on a cold start.
  • App could display the “Personalize Your Home Screen” message after a refresh.

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386

Plex for Android 8.11.0.22166-beta

Available on Google Play.

  • Fix one potential cause of ‘application not responding’ issue.

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387

Plex for Android 8.12.0.22456-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Player: upgrade ExoPlayer to r2.12.1
  • Preplay: Show HD suffix for DTS-HD audio.
  • Player: Include stream title when available in stream selections.

FIXES:

  • Home: media provider sources were not always in the correct initial order.
  • Player: prevent crash when closing the player shortly after opening the player.
  • Player: ensure screen isn’t kept awake when last item ends.
  • Player: don’t show HDR upsell for non-video items.
  • Live TV: app could crash if tuning from a Recent Channel hub with more than 6 items.
  • Player: fix potential black screen during playback when software decoding is required.
  • “Go to show” action would not be displayed in season overflow menu.
  • [Chromebook] Disable use of multichannel AAC.
  • [TV] Player: don’t switch to resolutions lower than 720p.
  • [TV] Home: sometimes going back would result in duplicate home content.
  • [TV] Player: prevent error when screensaver is dismissed whilst using display mode switching.
  • [TV] Changing user restriction profile would sometimes not work.

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388

Plex for Android 8.12.0.22522-beta

Available on Google Play.

  • No visible changes with respect to the previous beta.

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389

Plex for Android 8.12.0.22562-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Player: crash when playback fails.
  • Player: fix playback of 7.1 DTS-HD content when using local decoding.

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390

Plex for Android 8.12.0.22620-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Player: incorrect tracks would sometimes be selected.
  • Core: app could crash when loading card items.
  • [TV] Preplay: collection preplay would scroll down on second to last row.

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391

Plex for Android 8.12.0.22657-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] Photos timeline view could lose focus.
  • Live TV: on some devices the app could crash when a tune failed.

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392

Plex for Android 8.12.0.22681-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] Live TV: app could crash exiting the player while displaying player notification.

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393

Plex for Android 8.12.0.22722-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Player: filter out unsupported streams to prevent crash at startup.
  • Core: custom home could show duplicate hubs.
  • [TV] Core: Go to X actions would not load preplays correctly.

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[TV] Core: Go to X actions would not load preplays correctly.

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394

Plex for Android 8.12.2.22740-beta

Available on Google Play.

  • No visible changes with respect to the previous beta.

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395

Plex for Android 8.12.2.22745-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Player: Certain videos failed to start.

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396

Plex for Android 8.12.3.22784-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Player: improve reliability of initial track selection.

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397

Plex for Android 8.13.0.22830-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Live TV: new card style for Featured Channels on Home screen.

FIXES:

  • Live TV: playback could require pressing back multiple times in order to close.
  • DVR: selecting a different library to record to didn’t work.
  • Player: ensure the correct item is used for Live TV airings.
  • [TV] Clicking on a Plex recommended item from TV home screen could get stuck.
  • [TV] Preplay: loading spinner could get stuck on screen when navigating from search.
  • [TV] Search: app would crash when navigating to a movie from an actor.

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399

Plex for Android 8.13.0.22880-beta

Available on Google Play.

No TV specific changes in this release.

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400

Plex for Android 8.13.0.22921-beta

Available on Google Play.

No TV specific changes in this release.

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401

Plex for Android 8.13.0.22954-beta

Available on Google Play.

No TV specific changes in this release.

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