Software Update: Jellyfin 10.8.0

Version 10.8.0 of Jellyfin has been released. This media server is a fork of Emby and was created after Emby was closed source and so-called premium features had to be paid, as is also the case with Plex. However, Jellyfin has remained completely open source and all functionality is present. It 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. The complete changelog for this release can be here are being found; Here are the main changes made in this release:

The major highlighted changes are:

• Numerous improvements to Hardware Acceleration (HWA), including:
  • Dolby Vision Profile 5 and 7 tone mapping
  • CUDA-based tone mapping for NVIDIA
  • Extended OpenCL tone mapping for Intel
  • Hardware based subtitle burn in
  • Intel tone mapping support for Windows
  • Full OpenCL filtering for AMF on Windows
  • Deprecation of OMX for raspberry pi, use V4L2 instead
• Proper network interface binding and handling of proxy requests
• Various fixes for DLNA, Sync-Play and m3u HTTP streams
• DLNA disabled by default
• Extended NFO metadata import
• External audio and subtitle support including container (mks, mka)
• Extended plain folder parsing
• Enhanced detection and handling of DVD/BD ISOs and folders
• Extend TMDb metadata provider (series state, season names, tags, logos, etc)