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Patches for Plex Media Server x86
Windows
28 patches available
Plex Media Server is a digital media player and organizational tool that allows you to access the music, pictures, and videos stored on one computer with any other computer or compatible mobile device.
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.41.8.9834
Release Date
5/27/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
No
Patch Notes

FIXES:$$$$$$(Bandwidth) Transcode request bandwidth was not being reported (PM-3430)$$$(Database) Some database clean up operations could fail during server start up (PM-3542)$$$(GPU) Selected GPU may not have persisted across system reboots on windows (PM-3258)$$$(Performance) Improved some database queries that could cause long load times for movie detail pages (PM-2390)$$$(Transcoder) AV1 decode would fail on NVIDIA devices (PM-3266)
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.41.7.9823
Release Date
5/24/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

NEW:$$$(TerraMaster) Add ARMv8 platform support (PM-2349)$$$(Web) Updated to 4.146.0$$$FIXES:$$$$$$(Agents) Requests to legacy agents routes would fail (PM-3385)$$$(Continue Watching) Always return ancestor guids for in-progress items (PM-3303)$$$(Filters) The DOVI filter would result in an error when applied to a show library (PM-3272)$$$(Optimization) Conversion queue would stall after a single item (PM-3372)$$$(Requests) Requests with non-ascii characters could throw an exception on parsing (PM-3565)$$$(Transcode) Transcoding High Bitrate EAC-3 could result in choppy audio. (PM-691)$$$(Transcodes) Some transcodes could result in larger than required bitrates (PM-2772)$$$(Transcoding) Encoding to Dolby audio codecs could cause the Transcoder to crash. (PM-3561)$$$(Web) Unauthorized requests to / were not redirected to web (PM-3391)$$$(Western Digital) New installs of Plex Media Server would fail on OS 5 platforms. (PM-3358)
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.41.7.9799
Release Date
5/19/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

NEW:$$$$$$(TerraMaster) Add ARMv8 platform support (PM-2349)$$$(Web) Updated to 4.146.0$$$FIXES:$$$$$$(Agents) Requests to legacy agents routes would fail (PM-3385)$$$(Continue Watching) Always return ancestor guids for in-progress items (PM-3303)$$$(Filters) The DOVI filter would result in an error when applied to a show library (PM-3272)$$$(Optimization) Conversion queue would stall after a single item (PM-3372)$$$(Transcode) Transcoding High Bitrate EAC-3 could result in choppy audio. (PM-691)$$$(Transcodes) Some transcodes could result in larger than required bitrates (PM-2772)$$$(Web) Unauthorized requests to / were not redirected to web (PM-3391)$$$(Western Digital) New installs of Plex Media Server would fail on OS 5 platforms. (PM-3358)$$$(Statistics) The fix for Bandwidth reporting was reverted as it was causing massive database growth
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.41.6.9685
Release Date
4/10/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

NEW:$$$$$$Added DOVI filter to video libraries (PM-2122)$$$FIXES:$$$$$$(Activities) The metadataID was not present in media.download activities (PM-2097)$$$(Continue Watching) Marking an item as played would not cause next episode to show in Continue Watching (PM-2643)$$$(Music) Local lyrics and extras for tracks would not get picked up (PM-3185)$$$(Performance) Loading media details screens can be slow when item is part of many collections (PM-2390)$$$(Transcoding) HW transcodes were still failing on some older intel igpus (PM-2756)$$$Improved the clarity of the Title and Description of the of “Include adult content” advanced library preference (PM-2601)
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.41.5.9522
Release Date
2/21/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

Plex Media Server 1.41.5.9522 is now available to everyone.$$$$$$NEW:$$$$$$(GPU) Improved discovery of NVIDIA GPUs on Linux. (PM-2750)$$$(HEVC) Added setting to conditionally transcode to HEVC (PM-2777)$$$(Web) Updated to 4.145.1$$$FIXES:$$$$$$(Analysis) Chapter Thumbnail generation wouldn’t trigger by running a manual analyze action (PM-1098)$$$(Collections) Smart collection limits would not be always be respected when the collection was used as a library/home recommendation (PM-2352)$$$(Continue Watching) TV episodes would show different posters in the Plex Experience Preview app depending on if they were partially watched or not (PM-2617)$$$(DB) Correctly query tags and similar which contain emoji (PM-2445)$$$(Dashboard) Show additional codec information in Now Playing (PM-2100)$$$(Desktop) Subtitle popup would not display stream type (PM-2353)$$$(Jump List) Sort titles that started with a diacritic would create an entry in the jump list in the wrong position (PM-2139)$$$(Library) Using ‘Split Apart’ on a TV Show with identically named top level folder paths would fail (PM-1380)$$$(Logging) Debug logs could get spammed with UltraBlurProcessor log lines (PM-2597)$$$(Scanner) Renaming existing media files could re-trigger anaylsis jobs unnecessarily (PM-2313)$$$(Scanner) TV episodes with only date information could sometimes match to the incorrect metadata (PM-1076)
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.41.3.9314
Release Date
12/9/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

Plex Media Server 1.41.3.9314 is now available to everyone.$$$NEW:$$$$$$(GPU) Updated the list of NVIDIA; Intel; and AMD HW devices (PM-2138)$$$(Library) Added Folder Location filter for Movie; Episode; Track and Photo library views (PM-1739)$$$(Web) Updated to 4.141.0$$$FIXES:$$$$$$(Android) Fix regression for fix which addressed Nvidia Shield devices to crash periodically (PM-2054)$$$- (DB) Fetching media from database would crash if a part contained no streams (PM-2542)$$$(Library) Edition titles were not being saved to the database correctly (PM-2474)$$$(Library) In some cases library items were not properly sorted (PM-2106)$$$(Library) Items would be removed from library if mount point became unavailable (PM-2460)$$$(Livetv) Transcoding mpeg2 livetv streams would fail on windows (PM-2241)$$$(Music) Sonic Analysis would not trigger correctly for new albums after a scan (PM-2486)$$$(Subtitles) Chinese subtitles were not correctly burnt in on MacOS 15 (PM-2168)$$$(Transcoder) Expat has been updated to 2.6.4; fixes CVE-2022-22822 (PM-2454)$$$(ViewStateSync) An exception could cause VSS to stop working
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.41.3.9292
Release Date
12/9/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

**No release notes for this version**
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.41.2.9200
Release Date
11/14/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

**No release notes for this version**
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.41.1.9057
Release Date
9/25/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

NEW:$$$$$$(DVR) DVR recordings now utilize hardware for encoding when available and DVR Transcoding is enabled. (PM-1906)$$$(Web) Updated to 4.138.0$$$FIXES:$$$$$$(Agents) Posters for items in libraries using the Plex Personal Media agent can sometimes not load correctly during the intitial scan (PM-2133)$$$(Metadata) Additional poster and art images fail to load when editing item metadata (PM-2033)$$$(Metadata) Reduced length of a stream’s displayTitle which was often a duplicate of extendedDisplayTitle (PM-2027)$$$(Music) Libraries using Plex Personal Media for the agent do not group tracks properly when no album folders are present (PM-2133)$$$(Photo Transcoder) The PhotoTranscoder cache can store cached versions of images unnecessarily (PM-1167)$$$(Preview Thumbnails) Preview thumb generation can sometimes fail when using keyframes only (PM-1601)$$$(Preview Thumbnails) Preview thumb generation never stops retrying after failing (PM-1601)$$$(Transcoder) Transcodes using the h264_mf encoder would fail (PM-2116)
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.41.0.8994
Release Date
9/23/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

Plex Media Server 1.41.0.8994 is now available to everyone.$$$$$$NEW:$$$$$$(AdDetection) Allow ad detection in libraries without DVR (PM-1841)$$$(Nvidia Shield) This release removes support for legacy plug-ins on Nvidia Shield devices (PM-1855)$$$(Scanner) Look inside ‘subs’ and ‘subtitles’ sub-directories for external subtitle files (PM-1002)$$$(Subtitles) Improved subtitle burn-in performance when Hardware Transcoding (PM-1764)$$$(Tone Mapping) Added a preference to select tone mapping algorithm to use. Only available on some platforms/devices. (PM-1431)$$$(Tonemapping) Added support for HW Tonemapping on Windows for some Intel devices (PM-532)$$$(Web) Updated to 4.136.1
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.41.0.8992
Release Date
9/11/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

Plex Media Server 1.41.0.8988 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.$$$$$$NEW:$$$$$$(AdDetection) Allow ad detection in libraries without DVR (PM-1841)$$$(Nvidia Shield) This release removes support for legacy plug-ins on Nvidia Shield devices (PM-1855)$$$(Scanner) Look inside ‘subs’ and ‘subtitles’ sub-directories for external subtitle files (PM-1002)$$$(Subtitles) Improved subtitle burn-in performance when Hardware Transcoding (PM-1764)$$$(Tone Mapping) Added a preference to select tone mapping algorithm to use. Only available on some platforms/devices. (PM-1431)$$$(Tonemapping) Added support for HW Tonemapping on Windows for some Intel devices (PM-532)$$$(Web) Updated to 4.136.1$$$FIXES:$$$$$$(Library) In some cases library items were not properly sorted (PM-1729)$$$(QNAP) Restores Plex Media Server icon in App Center (PM-2081)$$$(Scanner) Improve performance when scanning in new movie items. Local metadata will now populate during initial refresh (PM-1777)$$$(Single Item Sharing) Filtering shared media by type didn’t work (PM-1359)$$$(Sorting) Default sort didn’t use natural sorting (10 should be after 3) (PM-1797)$$$(Synology) DSM 7 packages failed to install on some ARMv7 devices (PM-2045)$$$(Synology) DSM 7 packages failed to install on some x86 devices (PM-2092)$$$(Tone Mapping) Tone Mapping could fail on Windows for some Intel devices (PM-2026)$$$Optimized Versions would show no items (PM-2030)$$$
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.40.5.8921
Release Date
8/24/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

Plex Media Server 1.40.5.8921 is now available to everyone.$$$$$$NEW:$$$$$$(Log) Reduced the number of log messages generated when starting playback on an NVIDIA device. (PM-1417)$$$(Windows) noautorestart command line parameter added which prevents PMS from restarting after an auto update (PM-1305)$$$FIXES:$$$$$$(Analysis) Preview thumbnail generation would not run on newly added media regardless if the preference was set (PM-1782)$$$(FFmpeg) Patched for CVE-2024-7272 (PM-2020)$$$(Lyrics) Sidecar lyrics would fail to load (PM-1865)$$$(QNAP) PMS might not start in all cases after QTS/QuTS restart.$$$(View State Sync) Item plays could be duplicated when state synced from service.$$$(ViewStateSync) Fewer requests to plex.tv endpoints (PM-1958)$$$(Windows 64bit) Not all files were removed on uninstall (PM-1632)$$$Plex Media Server could crash when falling back to SW encoding. (#15026)$$$(ToneMapping) Tonemapping on linux with Gemini Lake devices would crash after a period of time. (PM-1934)$$$(ToneMapping) Tonemapping on linux with some Intel devices caused the transcoder to crash (PM-1934)
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.40.5.8897
Release Date
8/20/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

NEW:$$$$$$(Log) Reduced the number of log messages generated when starting playback on an NVIDIA device. (PM-1417)$$$(Windows) noautorestart command line parameter added which prevents PMS from restarting after an auto update (PM-1305)$$$FIXES:$$$$$$(Analysis) Preview thumbnail generation would not run on newly added media regardless if the preference was set (PM-1782)$$$(Lyrics) Sidecar lyrics would fail to load (PM-1865)$$$(QNAP) PMS might not start in all cases after QTS/QuTS restart.$$$(View State Sync) Item plays could be duplicated when state synced from service.$$$(ViewStateSync) Fewer requests to plex.tv endpoints (PM-1958)$$$(Windows 64bit) Not all files were removed on uninstall (PM-1632)$$$Plex Media Server could crash when falling back to SW encoding. (#15026)$$$(ToneMapping) Tonemapping on linux with Gemini Lake devices would crash after a period of time. (PM-1934)$$$(ToneMapping) Tonemapping on linux with some Intel devices caused the transcoder to crash (PM-1934)
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.40.5.8854
Release Date
8/13/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

NEW:$$$$$$(Log) Reduced the number of log messages generated when starting playback on an NVIDIA device. (PM-1417)$$$(Windows) noautorestart command line parameter added which prevents PMS from restarting after an auto update (PM-1305)$$$FIXES:$$$$$$(Analysis) Preview thumbnail generation would not run on newly added media regardless if the preference was set (PM-1782)$$$(Lyrics) Sidecar lyrics would fail to load (PM-1865)$$$(QNAP) PMS might not start in all cases after QTS/QuTS restart.$$$(View State Sync) Item plays could be duplicated when state synced from service.$$$(Windows 64bit) Not all files were removed on uninstall (PM-1632)$$$Plex Media Server could crash when falling back to SW encoding. (#15026)$$$(ToneMapping) Tonemapping on linux with some Intel devices caused the transcoder to crash (PM-1934)$$$
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.40.4.8679
Release Date
7/9/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

NEW:$$$(Metadata) Add support for additional TVDB episode orderings on TV Show preferences. Requires metadata refresh. (PM-1533)$$$(Web) Updated to 4.132.2$$$$$$FIXES:$$$(Library) Multi-episode files will only retain one of the episodes (PM-1603)$$$(Live-TV) Tuning slots were not properly released if the tune was canceled during startup; such as what happens when rapidly changing channels. (PM-688)$$$(Scanner) Removed deprecated support for modern metadata agent scan/refresh via Scanner cli (PM-1555)$$$(Scanner) Scanner would not ignore #snapshot/s directories (PM-1450)$$$(Scanner) Scanner would not ignore @eaDir copy directories (PM-1396)$$$(Serialization) The viewUpdatedAt field would not be included when requested (PM-1562)$$$(Tonemapping) Hardware Tonemapping failed on intel devices when run on Synology (PM-1667)$$$(Transcoder) Corrected quality parameter for devices without rate control. (#14885)$$$(Transcoder) Hardware Transcoding failed when using an AMD or Intel device on windows (PM-1723)$$$(Transcoder) Windows would fail to HW transcode after an RDP session is started or ended. (#14926)
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.40.3.8555
Release Date
6/13/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

(Auto Update) 32 bit installations of Plex Media Server running on 64 bit windows will be upgraded to 64 bit installations via auto update. (PM-1102)$$$(Web) Updated to 4.129.1$$$FIXES:$$$$$$(Analysis) Analysis of items would be performed for chapter thumbs even if chapter thumb generation was disabled (PM-1212)$$$(Analysis) Slow DB queries caused analysis to be slow to start (PM-1211)$$$(GPU) Server would crash on startup if a user was running windows with Nvidia drivers installed but no Nvidia GPU. (PR-14862)$$$(History) Grandparent title and guid could get reversed$$$(MediaAnalysis) Part created_at and updated_at were row created/update times instead of file (PM-1534)$$$(Smart Collections) DB Optimize would make smart collections uneditable (PM-900)$$$(Transcode) Tone mapping would fail for some devices on linux Kernel 5.17 or newer. (PR-1412)
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.40.2.8395
Release Date
4/18/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

NEW:$$$$$$(PLEASE NOTE) Please also be patient when updating to this version if you have a very large database and allow the upgrade process to finish.$$$Rename ‘un/played’ to ‘un/watched’ terminology for video types (PM-1042)$$$We have identified an issue where automatic updates were not respecting custom paths for existing Windows 64-bit installs. Unfortunately; any automatic fix would introduce security vulnerabilities so we encourage users who installed in a custom path to uninstall and then manually reinstall Plex Media Server.$$$FIXES:$$$$$$(Auto Update) Custom install paths are not respected when auto-updating on 64 bit Windows. (PM-1143)$$$(CreditsDetection) Retry detection only a limited amount of times on failures (PM-1093)$$$(DB Optimize) Server could become unresponsive during a DB optimize in certain circumstances (PM-1129)$$$(History) Query parsing would return Bad Request when encountering includeFields arguments.$$$(History) View history would yield fewer entries than requested (PM-1306)$$$(Loudness Analysis) Some files could cause errors when preforming Loudness Analysis. (PM-627)$$$(Mac) Linker optimization would incorrectly generate code that would cause the server to unexpectedly exit while syncing view state. (PM-1308)$$$(Nvidia Shield) Running on Nvidia Shield would result in ‘core component problem’ error. (PM-1364)$$$(Push Notifications) Used expensive DB query during playback progress notifications (PM-1166)$$$(Thumbnails) Thumbnails were not properly updated when underlying file changed (PM-1162)$$$(Trailers) Premium trailers and extras could fail to load (PM-1347)$$$(Transcoder) On Windows; headless (no display attached) Nvidia cards were not recognized (PM-962)$$$(Transcoder) On Windows; the first Intel device was used for transcoding regardless of which Intel device was selected (PM-962)
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.40.1.8227
Release Date
3/14/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

NEW:$$$$$$(Extras) New preference for Cinema Trailers to always include English language trailers when account audio language is not set to English (PM-620).$$$(Web) Updated to 4.125.1$$$FIXES:$$$$$$(DVR) Replace Lower Quality was not taking effect (#14646)$$$(Metadata) Marking a show or season as watched created view history entries (PM-935)$$$(Stream Selection) A show’s subtitle mode would not override the account’s if account’s was set to “Manually selected” (PM-660)$$$(View History) Keep view history of items when marked as unplayed (#14663)$$$(View History) View history was not created when a partially played item was marked as played (PM-1021)$$$(Web) Home Screen content would not load when unauthenticated. (DISCO-1547)$$$(Web) Refreshing the browser during playback would cause an error in the playback session. (DISCO-1612)$$$(MacOS) Scanner would crash on startup on some versions of MacOS (#14785)
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.32.8.7639
Release Date
12/5/2023
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

NEW:$$$$$$(Web) Updated to 4.116.1$$$FIXES:$$$$$$(Library) “Episode sorting” and “Album sorting” preferences had meaningless “Library default” global library setting (#14522)$$$(Library) The default season sort order in TV libraries may not work as intended (#14570)$$$(LiveTV) Transcoded video would fail to play in some circumstances (#14539)$$$(Metadata) Items could lose metadata if a refresh request failed due to a network failure (#14551)$$$(Player) Controlling a player didn’t work in some cases (#14567)$$$(Sharing) Sharing a single episode was not playable by sharee (#14559)$$$(Transcoder) HW transcoding failed on GeminiLake CPUs when running on linux (#14465)$$$(Transcoder) Videos HW encoded on the shield would display a black screen on some devices (#14384)$$$(Updater) Windows Updater would hang when run with PMSService (#14322)
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.32.7.7621
Release Date
10/24/2023
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

NEW:$$$$$$(TerraMaster) Improve multi-volume support when adding folders to libraries.$$$(Transcoder) Enable hardware transcoding by default where available (#14282)$$$FIXES:$$$$$$(Hubs) User could order a hub before Continue Watching hub (#14236)$$$(Library) In some cases; media item presence and accessibility could fail to be reported (#14307)$$$(Metadata) Items could lose metadata if a refresh request failed due to a network failure (#14551)$$$(Photos) Autotag data was not visible even if photos had pre-existing autotags (#14493)$$$(Photos) Places filter was not visible even if photos had pre-existing place data (#14519)$$$(Preferences) Adjust library section preference text for intro and credits detection (#14152)$$$(Scanner) Episodes with absolute numbering of 264 and 265 could get ignored (#14084)$$$(Security) Certain requests could trigger unwanted notifications (#14524)$$$(Transcoding) Hardware transcoding failed on linux machines (#14553)$$$(Security) Curl version contained a vulnerability that could be exploited if user set a SOCKS proxy in env.$$$(IntroDetection) Intro detection could crash the server under certain circumstances (#14606)$$$
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.32.0.6918
Release Date
4/6/2023
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

FIXED:$$$$$$(Transcoder) Subtitle fonts for some languages were missing on Linux and FreeBSD$$$(Windows) Installing a TLS certificate could fail at random
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.31.3.6868
Release Date
3/28/2023
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

NEW:$$$$$$(MacOS) This is the last release to support MacOS 10.11-10.12$$$(Windows) This is the last release to support Windows 7-8.1$$$FIXES:$$$$$$(CreditsDetection) Improve temporary directory clean-up (#14169)$$$(NativeSeriesScanner) Addressed an issue where certain filenames could falsely register as an episode range. (#14154)$$$(Scanner) Certain episode filenames could lead to excessive memory usage (#14215)$$$(Transcoder) Converting certain files could be unreliable when using Nvidia GPUs with certain driver versions (#14069)$$$(Windows) 64-bit installer would not install on Windows ARM64.
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.31.2.6810
Release Date
3/14/2023
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

NEW:$$$$$$(TV) Add series- and season-level preferences controlling audio and subtitle stream selection (#8036)$$$FIXES:$$$$$$Request to system/agents could fail.$$$(CreditsDetection) Scanner might quit unexpectedly in some cases (#14169)$$$(First Run) Library creation could fail during set up (#14161)*$$$(Playlist) > Smart playlists could fail when set to show/season/artist/album types when requested by someone other than server admin (#13427)$$$(Push) The server could exit unexpectedly if a database error occurred within certain notification-handling code (#14112)$$$(Scanner) TV episodes with certain naming formats involving underscores could fail to be scanned in (#14111)
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.31.1.6782
Release Date
3/9/2023
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

Plex Media Server 1.31.1.6782 is now available to everyone.$$$$$$This is a hotfix release.$$$$$$NEW:$$$$$$(Scanner) Adds support for the Extend multi-episode format i.e. S01E01-02 (#14064)$$$(Subtitles) Attempt to automatically detect improperly-tagged forced streams based on their titles (#14096)$$$(TV) Provide clients with the number of non-Specials seasons for display when browsing (#14036)$$$(Web) Updated to 4.100.1$$$Add Ukrainian translations.$$$Updated translations.$$$FIXES:$$$$$$(Clustering) Photos timeline - duplicated items or incorrect dates (#14081)$$$(Credits Detection) Detection could fail with certain video codecs (#14150)$$$(Credits Detection) Limit thread concurrency for first stage of detection (#14150)$$$(Credits Detection) The detection could timeout and fail on low powered devices.$$$(CreditsDetection) Fix assignment of final marker attribute (#14109)$$$(First Run) Library creation could fail during set up (#14161)$$$(Intros) Detection wouldn’t proceed if background transcodes were paused (#14056)$$$(Music) When shuffling smart playlists with limits; the track selection could be incorrect.$$$(Transcoder) Hardware decoding using Nvidia GPUs could fail with certain driver versions (#14069) (#14070)
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.30.0.6486
Release Date
12/8/2022
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

NEW:$$$$$$(PlexMatch) Add support for pattern matching (#13899)$$$(Scheduled Tasks) Perform periodic metadata refreshes on TV shows too (#13920)$$$(Transcoder) Support zero-copy hardware transcoding on macOS (#13904)$$$FIXES:$$$$$$(Artwork) Restrict client artwork screensaver to items user is allowed to access (#13916)$$$(DVR) Commercial detection could fail on 32-bit Windows builds (#14002)$$$(DVR) Plex Tuner Service might become unresponsive in certain complex scenarios (#12988)$$$(Music) Some tracks may show lyrics being available when they are not (#13926)$$$(QNAP) Renewed code signing certificate$$$(Scanner) Episodes of series with names beginning with a single digit could be mis-matched (#13921)$$$(Windows) Added new code signing certificate for app binaries$$$(macOS) The server could fail platform security checks on older macOS versions (#13959)
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.29.2.6364
Release Date
11/8/2022
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

NEW:$$$$$$(Security) Support new; streamlined first-run claiming experience on macOS (#13864)$$$FIXES:$$$$$$(EPG) Server might become unresposible when parsing special episodes in XMLTV guide data (#13117)$$$(IntroDetection) Decreased memory consumption for intro detection (#13361)$$$(Library) Running a Clean Bundles operation could crash the server (#13855)$$$(Maintenance) Plex Media Server could quit unexpectedly when asked to clean bundles under certain conditions (#13855)$$$(Music) Existing tracks could lose loudness data and be unable to rerun the loudness analysis (#13897)$$$(Security) Fixes to the new macOS first-run claiming process.
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.29.1.6316
Release Date
10/19/2022
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

NEW:$$$$$$(HTTP) Added additional startup state notifications$$$(Linux) External user-mode graphics drivers no longer need to be installed to use hardware tone mapping on Intel systems$$$(macOS) Plex Media Server now requires macOS 10.11 or newer to run$$$FIXES:$$$$$$(Auto Update) Old update files are now cleaned up upon server start.$$$(DVR) EPG data might be lost for new recordings$$$(DVR) Plex Tuner Service might become unresponsive in certain complex scenarios$$$(DVR) Sport events recording by team might not be shown in DVR schedule$$$(Downloads) Corrected a case where played downloaded media was not marked as played on server$$$(Maintenance) Plex Media Server could quit unexpectedly when asked to clean bundles under certain conditions$$$(Photos) Photos could get reprocessed for geolocation unnecessarily$$$(Playback) Corrected playback decisions where metadata contained multiple medias and only some could be direct played or downloaded$$$(Scanner) Improvements to episode matching logic$$$(Database) Removed potential SQL syntax error
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.29.0.6244
Release Date
9/23/2022
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

NEW:$$$$$$(HTTP) Added additional startup state notifications$$$(macOS) Plex Media Server now requires macOS 10.11 or newer to run.$$$FIXES:$$$$$$(Auto Update) Old update files are now cleaned up upon server start.$$$(DVR) EPG data might be lost for new recordings$$$(DVR) Plex Tuner Service might become unresponsive in certain complex scenarios$$$(DVR) Sport events recording by team might not be shown in DVR schedule$$$(Downloads) Corrected a case where played downloaded media was not marked as played on server$$$(Photos) Photos could get reprocessed for geolocation unnecessarily$$$(Playback) Corrected playback decisions where metadata contained multiple medias and only some could be direct played or downloaded$$$(Scanner) Improvements to episode matching logic
Plex Media Server x86 Version 1.28.2.6151
Release Date
8/30/2022
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
No
Patch Notes

FIXES:$$$$$$(HTTP) Certain client apps could quit unexpectedly when connecting to a server during startup maintenance (#13802
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