Software update: Jellyfin 10.7.0

Version 10.7 of Jellyfin has been released. This open source media server is similar to Plex and Emby and runs on Windows, macOS, Linux or in a Docker container. Furthermore there are clients for any OS, as well as for media players, TVs and mobile devices. Where Plex and Emby are basically free, you have to pay for so-called premium features. Jellyfin is a fork of Emby, before it became closed source, but has remained completely open source and all functionality is present. The main improvements made in version 10.7 can be found below.

User-facing Features

• SyncPlay for TV shows and Music
• Significantly improved web performance due to ES6 upgrades, Webpack, and assets served with gzip compression
• Migration of further databases to new EFCore database framework
• Redesigned OSD and Up Next dialog
• New PDF reader functionality
• New Comics (cbz/cbr) reader functionality
• New HDR thumbnails extraction functionality
• New HDR Tone mapping functionality with Nvidia NVENC, AMD AMF and Intel VAAPI (additional configuration is required)
• HEVC remuxing or transcoding over fMP4 on supported Apple devices (disabled by default)
• Allow custom fonts to be used for ASS/SSA subtitle rendering
• New default library image style (generated on library scans)
• New QuickConnect functionality for (disabled by default)
• Support for limiting the number of user sessions
• Support for uploading subtitles
• Improved networking backend
• Upgrade to .NET SDK 5.0 for improved performance in the backend
• Fix issues with reboot script on Linux with Systemd
• Various fixes for iOS Safari and Edge Chromium browsers
• Various transcoding improvements
• Various bug fixes and minor improvements
• Various code cleanup
• Updated and improved plugin management interface, prevents bugs when upgrading as well as improve functionality
• Fixes some bugs with DLNA

Release Notes

• [ALL] Non-reversible database changes. Ensure you back up before upgrading.
• [ALL] TVDB support has been removed from the core server. If TVDB metadata was enabled on a library, this will be disabled. TVDB support can now be obtained through a separate plugin available in the official Plugin Catalog.
• [ALL] If you use a reverse proxy with X-Forwarded-For, and have a static proxy IP, consider setting this option in the Networking admin tab for more reliable parsing.

Client/Plugin (API/ABI) Developer Notes

• We have migrated from ServiceStack to ASP.NET. Web API endpoints no longer accept HTTP Form requests; everything must be application/json. NOTE: Plugins that implement endpoints will also have to migrate.
• Plugins must now target net5.0.
• IHttpClient removal: Now inject IHttpClientFactory instead.
• HttpException removal: Now catch HttpResponseException instead.
• Services can be registered to the DI pipeline.