NEW:
* (Transcoder) Prune HLS and DASH segments when disk space is low, instead of failing transcodes with insufficient space. (#3918)
* (Preferences) Preference to control chapter thumbnail generation. (#4232)
* (Metadata) Add director and writer images for supported clients. (#3863)
* (Search) Quick Search now searches across all libraries of the same type. (#4153)
* Services bundle auto-updates independently of media server installations again. (#4272)
* Use CineMaterial instead of MoviePosterDB.
* Updated Media Flags.
* Updated client profiles for a number of platforms.
* (OS X) Mac OS versions 10.6 and 10.7 are no longer supported.
* (Windows) Windows Vista is no longer supported.
* (Windows) Install Media Feature Packs during setup on Windows N and KN SKUs.
* (Linux) ARMv5, PowerPC and ROS4 NAS devices are no longer supported (see complete list here: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/218212517)
* (Linux) QNAP ARMv5 devices are no longer supported (eg. TS-x19).
* (Linux) Synology ARMv5 and PPC devices are no longer supported (eg. DS-x12 and older devices).
* (Linux) Thecus PPC devices are no longer supported.
* (Linux) Western Digital MyCloud Ex4 is no longer supported (Its ARMv5).
* (Linux) Netgear ReadyNAS OS4 platforms are no longer supported.
FIXES:
* (Sync) Reprocess items if necessary when original media is removed. (#3800)
* (Sync) Sync v1 items were including redundant subtitle streams. (#1704)
* (Sync) Show a clear error message when a user's sync item is no longer authorized. (#4453)
* (Security) Reload server's TLS certificate if cached copy doesn't work. (#4235)
* (Security) Reuse certificate when secure connections are disabled, then re-enabled. (#4007)
* (Thumbnails) Don't re-attempt failed thumbnail generation using the same version of the transcoder. (#3973)
* (Media Optimizer) Optimization jobs might fail on some NAS devices when the optimization folder was kept open. (#4446)
* (Chapters) Ignore lone video chapters near start position (#4399)
* (Now Playing) Missing show and artist data and artwork (#4042)
* (Hubs) 'Start Watching' hub no longer includes shows with partially watched episodes. (#4015)
* (Hubs) 'Continue Watching' hub for TV libraries was missing progress bars. (#3524)
* (Hubs) Music hubs for restricted users could be slow in certain cases. (#3958)
* (Hubs) Improve performance of play queues created from 'Recently Added' hubs (#4238)
* (Postplay) Postplay screen for managed users displayed results for admin account. (#4344)
* (Agents) Use HTTPS where possible when talking to external services. (#4148)
* (Transcoder) Errors transcoding photos when localhost is not 127.0.0.1 (#4008)
* (Transcoder) Setting the throttle buffer to zero wasn't disabling throttling. (#4556)
* (Remote Access) Incorrect internal IP address displayed on server mapping page. (#3908)
* (OS X) Improve idle sleep prevention. (#3930)
* (Windows) Better tray icon. (#4314)
* (Windows) Don't open iTunes app when iTunes channel is disabled. (#4328)
* (Composites) Make composite image generation more random. (#2153)
* (Composites) Failures generating composite images for certain playlists. (#4021)
* (Scanner) Import genre, year and image from WMA music files. (#4364)
* (Scanner) Don't merge music albums which were wrongly identified as the same album. (#3629)
* (Scanner) Tolerate errors reading corrupt FLAC file tags. (#4076)
* (Scanner) Don't stop scanning when a single file is corrupt or has other issues. (#4432)
* (Scanner) Improve matching by recognizing reversed filenames. (#4358)
* (Preferences) Hide plugin time-out preference, ensure it's always at least fifteen seconds. (#4406)
* (Network) Process Accept-Language headers correctly. (#4367)
* (Network) Process HTTP headers as case-insensitive (#3735)
* (Network) Rare cases where HTTP requests might be received, but never processed (#4248)
* (Network) Rare HTTP 401 responses when server is starting up (#4376)
* Remove hard-coded limit on number of Recently Added items. (#3966)
* Music videos For Recent Artists was incorrectly being randomized. (#4041)
* Incorrect filters were being displayed with unwatched only filter. (#4252)
* Hide music video extras for albums which have user restrictions. (#3121)
* Device names with non-latin characters weren't being handled correctly. (#4028)
* Slow performance accessing item details. (#1761)
* Detect process launch failures more accurately on Unix systems (#3738)
* Improve stability with premium music libraries. (#4159)
* Improve stability of TMDb agent.
* Improve media analysis for non-H.264 video.
* View state from the wrong user could be displayed in certain cases. (#4074)
* Auto-update downloads could stall without timing out.
* Crashes with invalid HTTP requests. (#4403)
* Crashes logging certain string patterns (#4438)
NEW:
* Update Plex/Web to 2.6.1
* Various updates to Services and Media Flags.
* (Windows) Localized tray icon to German, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Chinese.
FIXES:
* (Metadata) Improve TVDB matching of newly added shows.
* (Metadata) Prevent movie sort titles getting reverted to default values. (#3817)
* (Metadata) Detect forced flag in external idx/sub subtitles file name. (#4196)
* (Transcoder) Client profile limitations could be applied incorrectly in rare cases. (#4292)
* (HTTP) Respect case-insensitivity of HTTP headers. (#3735)
* (Web) Save "Include in dashboard" library setting correctly with Chrome. (#4295)
* (Windows) Crashes transcoding large numbers of srt files. (#4276)
* Subtitles might not be automatically selected when an audio stream was forced. (#4271)
NEW:
* Update Plex/Web to 2.6.0
FIXES:
* (Media Optimizer) Episodes from shows whose titles have trailing periods might be repeatedly reprocessed (on Windows).
* (Media Optimizer) Transcoded special episodes weren't following the naming convention.
* (Media Optimizer) Optimized versions could be automatically deleted while being watched.
* (Transcoder) Transcoder process crashes weren't being reliably detected on non-Windows platforms.
* (Transcoder) Issues transcoding music files with high sampling rates.
* (Transcoder) The highest quality audio encoder wasn't always selected with Direct Streaming disabled.
* (DLNA) Crashes entering movie sections with Samsung Smart TV DLNA client.
* (Windows) Show tray icon on recent Windows Insider Preview builds.
* (Windows) Overwrite older files more reliably during setup.
* (Metadata) Download higher quality artist posters from last.fm.
* (Metadata) Fix top tracks for music libraries.
* (Metadata) Missing Rotten Tomatoes metadata when movie has no trailers and language is not set to English
* (PS4) Certain images weren't being cached while browsing.
* (Web) Plex Pass privileges weren't being recognized on first sign-in.
* Issues with .plexignore files.
* Issues with playback from some unofficial Plex Channels.
NEW:
* Update Plex/Web to 2.5.9
FIXES:
* New installs weren't offering a simple way to sign into plex.tv.
* Transcoded music playback was failing on Playstation 3 and 4 apps.
NEW:
* (NAS) Support Synology DS414j, DS416j and DSM 6.0 Beta
FIXES:
* (Windows) Occasional HTTP 500 errors when playing media.
* (NAS) Warn if the Synology DSM version is too old.
* (Transcoder) In rare cases, clients might see partial files when downloading segmented WebVTT subtitles.
* (Transcoder) Failures transcoding online content with limited media analysis info.
* (Transcoder) Don't select an unavailable media item for playback when another one is available.
NEW:
* Update Plex/Web to 2.5.8
FIXES:
* (Sync) Errors deleting transcoded media after client download.
* (Sync) Prioritize sync and media optimizer transcodes above generating video preview thumbnails.
* (Cloud Sync) Reduce maximum h264 level to 4.0.
* (Media Optimizer) Preserve forced subtitle attribute.
* (Transcoder) Some edge cases around MPEG4 video handling.
* (Transcoder) Cleanly stop transcode sessions when writing to disk fails.
* (Transcoder) Segmented WebVTT subtitles might be displayed incorrectly before long periods of silence.
* (Lyrics) Handle deleted sidecar lyrics correctly.
* (Relay) Issues starting relay service when plex.tv account name contains spaces.
* (Relay) Improve logging of error conditions.
* (Relay) Kill relay service process during shutdown.
* (Windows) Delete files when moving to recycle bin fails.
* (Windows) Launch as incorrect user when automatic update was installed using different account.
* (Windows) Automatic update installs are no longer unattended (due to the issue above).
* (Linux) Issues using the PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USE_SYSLOG environment.
* (QNAP) Ignore @Recycle folders.
* When sorting shows by date added, the last-added episode date should be used.
* Change .plexignore behavior to use glob matching for directories, while filtering subdirectories correctly.
* Ensure all log traces are written before process shutdown.
NEW:
* (Metadata) Support local artist posters and fanart.
* (Metadata) Support local album fanart.
* (Metadata) Support 'short', 'featurette' and 'other' sidecar movie extras.
* Log files are now versioned as .X.log instead of .log.X.
* (OS X) Log files are now stored in a dedicated "~/Library/Logs/Plex Media Server" directory
* (PMP) Support remuxing FLAC audio for video transcodes.
* (Prefs) Move advanced Update Channel pref to non-advanced section.
* Improved startup times on multi-core systems.
FIXES:
* (Lyrics) Handle lyrics files with CR linebreaks.
* (Media Optimizer) Improved default sorting of items for Media Optimizer, Playlists, and Sync.
* (Metadata) Show correct release date for MP3 music files.
* (Metadata) Read metadata from MP4 movie files without audio track.
* (Metadata) Don't strip dots from song titles.
* (Metadata) Artists with trailing dots weren't showing album metadata in music libraries using the Last.fm agent.
* Generate thumbnails with correct aspect ratios for anamorphic content.
* Reliably find local assets for multi-disc music albums.
* Improve reliability of .plexignore handling.
* Improve reliability of library cleanup during scanning.
* Incorrect playlist durations when items have multiple versions.
* Prevent scheduled tasks from starting and ending at the same time.
* Don't label media items as "Original" when there's only one.
* Enable uninstalling manually installed plugins.
* (Transcoder) Improve performance transcoding video to MP4 containers.
* (Transcoder) Prefer transcodes of stereo sources to AAC over other multi-channel codecs.
* (Transcoder) Improve compatibility of HLS transcodes with some older Samsung TVs.
* (Transcoder) Failures transcoding audio with low sampling rates for the Roku.
* (Transcoder) Failures copying invalid chapters when transcoding to streaming MKV.
* (Transcoder) Failures burning DVB subtitles.
* (Transcoder) Incorrect name and language attributes when transcoding subtitles to WebVTT.
* (Transcoder) Online content requiring a specific user agent wasn't transcoding correctly.
* (Prefs) Removed obsolete "Offer higher bitrates over 3G connections" preference.
* (Prefs) Removed obsolete "Enable Dolby Digital on Apple TV" preference.
* (Playlists) Sorting playlists by duration wasn't working.
* (Windows) Failures installing when Windows Firewall service is disabled.
* (Windows) Automatically launch the server after auto update.
* (Windows) Incorrect Windows version listed in installer logs.
* (iOS) Failures playing MP4 video with MP3 audio.
* (DLNA) Connect to remote media servers securely.
* (DLNA) Crashes when video has no audio stream.
* (Roku) TV play queues weren't advancing.
* (Bundles) A number of small service fixes.
FIXES:
* Multiple subtitles in a single file could be lost after a metadata update.
* Auto-update could require a manual install in some cases.
* (Roku) Improve stability resuming video over HLS.
* (Windows) Simplify auto-update experience.
* (Windows) Never reboot after a media server auto-update.
* (Windows) Fix license link in 'about' dialog.
NEW:
* (UI) Easily secure insecure media servers on the local network.
* Update Plex/Web to 2.5.6
FIXES:
* (Transcoder) Respect profile limitations around VBR audio.
NEW:
* (iOS) Sync soft subtitles to iOS clients.
* Advanced preference to set the x264 preset used with background transcodes.
* (Windows) Plex Media Server now requires the latest service pack or update, when installed on Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8.1.
FIXES:
* (Windows) Address installation errors on systems missing a required service pack or operating system update.
* (Media Optimizer) Processing wouldn't always restart to handle newly-added library content.
* (Sync) Sync item configuration changes weren't being picked up immediately.
* (Sync) Watched items weren't being immediately removed from unwatched-only sync items.
* (Sync) Unwatched-only sync items might not include specific unwatched items in some rare cases.
* (Sync) Run Cloud Sync every 24 hours, in order to sync view counts to the cloud.
* Popular tracks list for artists wasn't respecting sharing restrictions.
* Netgear RN21x package no longer overwrites Preferences.xml on startup.
* Incorrect auto-update download links in some rare cases.
* Playback could fail to start on LG TVs in some rare cases.
* Subtitles in 'mov_text' format might not transcode correctly.
* Crash during episode post-play.
NEW:
* Lyrics!
* Allow overriding log file location using an environment variable, on non-Windows platforms.
FIXES:
* Apple TV could display subtitle streams as English instead of the actual language.
* (Media Optimizer) Display correct set of optimized videos for unwatched-only optimizations.
* (Media Optimizer) Don't fail if the file system doesn't support creating a dot-prefixed directory.
* Update plex.tv information when secure connections preference changes.
* Browse errors in some clients after restricting music library sharing by album label.
* In rare cases, newly added episodes might not receive correct metadata.
* (Windows) Crash on startup if iTunes registry key is corrupted.
* (Windows) Show DTS-HD media flag correctly.
* Improved last.fm scrobble support.
* Remove an unused file that could trigger false positives from anti-virus scanners.
FIXES:
* (Sync) Sync and Cloud Sync stability improvements.
* (Sync) Update cloud automatically when Cloud Sync items are deleted.
* (Sync) Subtitles would not be burned in unless manually selected.
* Crashes using the legacy trans coder.
* Crashes signing out of server.
* Playback could end early when subtitles were enabled.
* WebVTT subtitles could cause playback to fail.
* (OS X) Incomplete or invalid media analysis results for some streams.
FIXES:
* Improve reliability of free disk space check.
* Fix broken playback on PlayStation and possibly the iOS v3.5 app.
* Resolved subtitle issues in files without audio.
* (Sync) Subtitles were sometimes wouldn't be synced when they should have been.
NEW:
* Media Optimizer - stream the best version of your media to any device (https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/214079318).
FIXES:
* Playback issues on servers with small temp partitions.
* Playback issues with videos with non-standard orientations.
* Fixed an issue with Cloud Sync reliability.
* Embedded metadata in video files wasn't being read correctly.
* Media analysis could crash on PPC NAS devices when media contained embedded artwork.
NEW:
* Allow client profiles to prefer MP3 over AAC audio when transcoding stereo sources.
* Allow client profiles to specify a protocol when declaring Direct Play support.
* Write server and operating system version info to every log file.
* Advise clients when HTTPS is configured to be required.
FIXES:
* (Sync) Sync v1 clients wouldn't download new files until server restart.
* (Sync) Fix composite images for photo albums.
* Fix iTunes channel playback issues.
* Fix filter requests with studio names containing commas.
* Refresh cached transcoded thumbs when underlying photo changes.
* Don't show older unwatched episodes in OnDeck after watching a newer one.
* Media analysis could generate duplicated streams in some rare cases.
* Media analysis could crash on PPC NAS devices when media contained embedded artwork.
* Sort Artist metadata could be overwritten when updating other metadata.
* Fix a socket leak that could cause the server to become unresponsive.
* Fix an issue with transcoded subtitles on Firefox.
* Disallow transcoding online content for non-owners unless channels are shared.
* Don't start streaming transcode sessions when disk space is too low.
FIXES:
* Xbox 360 playback issues
* Apple TV playback issues with MP4 videos containing MP3 audio
* Prefer MP3 to AAC when transcoding for Apple TV
* Occasional failures moving items within a play queue
Donald Webster