Plex Media Server -> Version History

This is the version history page for Plex Media Server, showing the last 20 software updates. You can return to the main page for this software by clicking here.

Index:

• Version 1.18.6.2368 (Feb 18, 2020)
• Version 1.18.4.2171 (Jan 16, 2020)
• Version 1.18.3.2156 (Dec 29, 2019)
• Version 1.18.2.2058 (Nov 24, 2019)
• Version 1.18.2.2029 (Nov 17, 2019)
• Version 1.18.1.1973 (Nov 4, 2019)
• Version 1.18.0.1944 (Oct 15, 2019)
• Version 1.18.0.1913 (Oct 10, 2019)
• Version 1.17.0.1841 (Oct 2, 2019)
• Version 1.17.0.1709 (Sep 27, 2019)
• Version 1.16.6.1592 (Sep 20, 2019)
• Version 1.16.5.1554 (Aug 27, 2019)
• Version 1.16.5.1488 (Aug 20, 2019)
• Version 1.16.4.1469 (Aug 14, 2019)
• Version 1.16.3.1402 (Jul 26, 2019)
• Version 1.16.2.1321 (Jul 20, 2019)
• Version 1.16.2.1297 (Jul 16, 2019)
• Version 1.16.0.1226 (Jun 18, 2019)
• Version 1.15.8.1198 (Jun 12, 2019)
• Version 1.15.6.1079 (May 27, 2019)

• Release Date: Feb 18, 2020
• FIXES:
  • Certain clients could make a request that would crash the server (#11154)

• Release Date: Jan 16, 2020
• NEW:
  • (DVR) “Upcoming Sports” renamed to “Sports On Later”; filter refined to only have sport events (#10554).
  • (DVR) Added new “Sports On Now” hub (#10554).
  • (DVR) Enhanced “TV Shows” Hub, now named “Shows On Now”. (#10815)
  • (Library) Add an “in progress” filter for movies and episodes.
  • (Library) Added a release date filter for albums.
  • (Library) Allow using Musicbrainz IDs when manually matching artists and albums.
  • (Library) Keep track of when items are rated, add filter.
  • (Preferences) Added more bitrate options to limiting remote per-stream bandwidth (#10778)
  • (Preferences) Enable “Use hardware-accelerated video encoding” by default.
  FIXES:
  • (DVR) Programs listed under “Recommended” Hub would not sort by airing start datetime (#10554).
  • (EPG) Allow filtering of EPG data by content rating.
  • (Library) Fix manual searches for old music album agents.
  • (Library) Huge speedup to history view in dashboard.
  • (Library) Read MusicBrainz tags from files to help match the correct release.
  • (Library) Stop showing recommendations from shared libraries which don’t exist anymore.
  • (Library) Use track filenames as last-ditch track titles. (#10740)
  • (Music) Read track artist tags in more cases.
  • (PMS) Server would sometimes return HTTP 404 when scanner was traversing folders. (#10800)
  • (Transcoder) The server could crash when attempting hardware transcodes on certain Windows systems (#10736)
  
  

• Release Date: Dec 29, 2019
• NEW:
  • (DVR) “Upcoming Sports” renamed to “Sports On Later”; filter refined to only have sport events (#10554).
  • (DVR) Added new “Sports On Now” hub (#10554).
  • (DVR) Enhanced “TV Shows” Hub, now named “Shows On Now”. (#10815)
  • (Library) Add an “in progress” filter for movies and episodes.
  • (Library) Added a release date filter for albums.
  • (Library) Allow using Musicbrainz IDs when manually matching artists and albums.
  • (Library) Keep track of when items are rated, add filter.
  • (Preferences) Added more bitrate options to limiting remote per-stream bandwidth (#10778)
  • (Preferences) Enable “Use hardware-accelerated video encoding” by default.
  FIXES:
  • (DVR) Programs listed under “Recommended” Hub would not sort by airing start datetime (#10554).
  • (EPG) Allow filtering of EPG data by content rating.
  • (Library) Fix manual searches for old music album agents.
  • (Library) Huge speedup to history view in dashboard.
  • (Library) Read MusicBrainz tags from files to help match the correct release.
  • (Library) Stop showing recommendations from shared libraries which don’t exist anymore.
  • (Library) Use track filenames as last-ditch track titles. (#10740)
  • (Music) Read track artist tags in more cases.
  • (PMS) Server would sometimes return HTTP 404 when scanner was traversing folders. (#10800)
  • (Transcoder) The server could crash when attempting hardware transcodes on certain Windows systems (#10736)

• Release Date: Nov 24, 2019
• NEW:
  • (DVR) Ability to browse upcoming airings in a library style view (#10556)
  • (DVR) Added explanation for partial recording (#10167).
  • (DVR) Added smarter logic for detecting existing recordings (#9669).
  • (Dashboard) FreeBSD CPU and memory graphs (#10611)
  FIXES:
  • (Agents) Make the Framework use modern HTTP libs, fixes certain TheTVDB requests failing among others.
  • (Butler) Some butler tasks would not run.
  • (Camera Upload) Don’t allow shared users to enable Camera Upload if they don’t have access to any photo libraries. (#8787)
  • (DVR) Preserve EPG metadata when assimilating Sports and News recordings. (#10544)
  • (Library) Add album critic rating as a field.
  • (Library) Add track mood back as filter/field.
  • (Library) Allow sorting on user ratings of artists, there are no artist critic ratings.
  • (Library) Plex Music libraries have critic ratings, allow sorting on them.
  • (Music) Related TIDAL hubs could sometimes stop showing (#10738)
  • (Music) Shared users using artist shuffles could get unavailable items in the play queue (#9827)
  • (Playlists) Recently added playlists were not sorted correctly
  • (Startup) The server would hang when the application support directory was not writable. (#7492)
  • Improve movie and TV show matching in some cases (#10641)

• Release Date: Nov 17, 2019
• FIXES:
  • (DVR) Preserve EPG metadata when assimilating Sports and News recordings. (#10544)
  • (Playlists) Recently added playlists were not sorted correctly

• Release Date: Nov 4, 2019
• NEW:
  • (Localization) Updated translations
  • Add an HDR filter for movies (#9652)
  • Improve detection of udevadm on newer debian-based distros.
  • Set the DLNA server feature to be turned off by default. It can be manually re-enabled if required in Plex Web’s server settings (#10530)
  • (Linux) Improved quality and performance of hardware transcoding on Linux systems with 8th-generation or later GPUs
  • (Linux) Improved automatic detection of Intel GPUs on systems that also have other graphics
  FIXES:
  • (Library) Some portrait videos could return the incorrect resolution value (#10586)
  • (Linux) An internal system directory could be displayed unexpectedly in the directory browser on certain NAS platforms (#10630)
  • (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding could fail on systems with recent systemd versions (#10723)
  • (Transcoder) Fixed hardware decoding of VC1
  • (Transcoder) Output streams could be corrupted in certain cases (#10709)
  • (Metadata) Improved reliability of music lookups

• Release Date: Oct 15, 2019
• FIXES:
  • (LiveTV) A regression in 1.18.0 could cause pixellation / stuttering in LiveTV/DVR playback

• Release Date: Oct 10, 2019
• FIXES:
  • (Library) Music could fail to scan when added to a new or upgraded music library on Nvidia SHIELD devices.
  • (NAS) Permissions issues resulting in a failures to start

• Release Date: Oct 2, 2019
• FIXES:
  • (EPG) On Windows, XMLTV guide would fail to refresh (#10624)

• Release Date: Sep 27, 2019

• Release Date: Sep 20, 2019

• Release Date: Aug 27, 2019
• NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 3.108.2
  FIXES:
  • (DVR) Re-enable signal strength updates for all tuners except Hauppauge. (#10352)
  • (Library) The Track Last Skipped filter could return the incorrect results (#10309)
  • (Live) In some circumstances, new recordings could use an additional tuner, rather than sharing one already tuning the same channel. This could manifest as a missing “watch from start” option (#9736)
  • Watching a trailer could mark the corresponding movie watched in some cases (#9481)
  • (DVR) Live session buffer data could be pruned prematurely, resulting in live TV being unable to seek back as far as expected (#10430)
  • (Playback) Certain clients could receive corrupted data in media requests, leading to corruption during playback (#10436)

• Release Date: Aug 20, 2019
• NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 3.108.2
  FIXES:
  • (DVR) Re-enable signal strength updates for all tuners except Hauppauge. (#10352)
  • (Library) The Track Last Skipped filter could return the incorrect results (#10309)
  • (Live) In some circumstances, new recordings could use an additional tuner, rather than sharing one already tuning the same channel (#9736)
  • Watching a trailer could mark the corresponding movie watched in some cases (#9481)

• Release Date: Aug 14, 2019
• NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 3.104.2
  FIXES:
  • (DVR) Improve selection of default lineup during setup. (#10211)
  • (Filters) Track source filter would not work. Renamed to Album Source.
  • (Music) Tracks added from TIDAL would not show up in Popular Tracks (#10319)
  • (Notifications) A large number of new item notifications would arrive after enabling the preference
  • (Playlists) Shuffling a playlist containing items from mixed sources could cause unexpected results (#10222)
  • (Playlists) Smart playlist generated from Add to Library content would not play back (#10244)
  • (Scanner) PlexIgnore file exclusion would not work in Photo libraries (#9818)
  • (Subtitles) Issues with automatic selection when default subtitle and audio languages differ (#10241)
  • Fix for deadlock when deleting DVR that could not be upgraded to Cloud EPG. (#10358)
  • (Transcoder) The transcoder process could leak memory on the Nvidia SHIELD (#9291)
  
  

• Release Date: Jul 26, 2019

• Release Date: Jul 20, 2019
• NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 3.99.2
  FIXED:
  • (Add to Library) Hi-fi quality was limited if TIDAL account was not managed through plex.tv (#10155)
  • (Localization) Translated strings were not returned (#10168)
  • (NAS) Ensure transcoder temp directory is present at startup on Synology devices (#10213)
  • (NAS) The server might not automatically start after system reboot on Synology devices (#10236)
  • Greatly speed up partial scan operation (#10171)
  • On macOS, if a network interface had multiple IPv4 addresses, they could fail to publish to plex.tv (#1778)
  • Shows in “Shows you might like” were missing season counts (#10162)
  • The scanner or transcoder could crash when processing files containing big-endian DTS audio streams (#10135)
  • The server could use large amounts of CPU time when running on a network with certain routers with UPnP enabled (#9610)

• Release Date: Jul 16, 2019
• NEW:
  • (Web) Updated to 3.99.2
  FIXES:
  • (Add to Library) Hi-fi quality was limited if TIDAL account was not managed through plex.tv (#10155)
  • (Localization) Translated strings were not returned (#10168)
  • (NAS) Ensure transcoder temp directory is present at startup on Synology devices (#10213)
  • (NAS) The server might not automatically start after system reboot on Synology devices (#10236)
  • Greatly speed up partial scan operation (#10171)
  • On macOS, if a network interface had multiple IPv4 addresses, they could fail to publish to plex.tv (#1778)
  • Shows in “Shows you might like” were missing season counts (#10162)
  • The scanner or transcoder could crash when processing files containing big-endian DTS audio streams (#10135)
  • The server could use large amounts of CPU when running on a network with certain routers with UPnP enabled (#9610)

• Release Date: Jun 18, 2019
• FIXES:
  • Updated translations

• Release Date: Jun 12, 2019
• SHIELD - Please note that the creation of new “Premium Music” libraries on the SHIELD is currently unsupported and all existing Premium Music libraries will gracefully fall back to using standard library matching. Improvements are actively being worked on and are coming soon (within the next few months at the latest)!
  
  
  FIXES:
  This release contains the fixes in version 1.15.8.1163, and additionally:
  
  
  Server settings could become unavailable on the Nvidia SHIELD after certain upgrade sequences (#10125)

• Release Date: May 27, 2019
• SHIELD - This is the first 1.15.x series release on Nvidia SHIELD.
  Please Note: The creation of new “Premium Music” libraries is currently unsupported and all existing Premium Music libraries will gracefully fall back to using standard library matching. Improvements are actively being worked on and are Coming Soon (within the next few months, latest)!
  
  
  NEW:
  
  
  (DVR) Add Resolution, Replace lower resolution items, and Allow partial airings at DVR level with option to override at recording level.
  FIXES:
  
  
  (Analysis) Corrected chapters not being imported again
  (DVR) Prefer HD airings when both HD and SD are available. (#9641)
  Docker host addresses were published unnecessarily (#9576)
  IP addresses from interfacing starting with a “v” weren’t published (#9576)
  Sync or Optimize could fail to fallback to software transcoding if hardware transcoding failed (#9455)