Software Update: Plex Media Server 1.9.4

Plex has released version 1.9.4 of Plex Media Server. This version was previously available to holders of the paid PlexPass, but can now be downloaded by anyone. Plex Media Server is a media server for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and various NAS devices. The software can serve content to clients on the same machine within the local network or over the Internet. Client software is available for the aforementioned operating systems, but content can also be viewed on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Google TV and Chromecast, for example.

The program includes its own software store where plug-ins can be exchanged. Via these plug-ins, content from various streaming services can be viewed, among other things. In addition, there is PlexPass, a paid service that gives early access to new versions in addition to discounts on ‘Premium features’. Version 1.9.1, among other things, continues the controversial policy for collecting telemetry. Since version 1.9.1, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Plex Media Server 1.9.2

New:

• (Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.20.8

Plex Media Server 1.9.3

New:

• (Hubs) Massive speedup to discovery hubs via caching system
• (iOS) Allow syncing ALAC music without conversion.

Fixes:

• (Transcoder) Portrait videos would be stretched out when being transcoded (#7287)
• (Music) Artist album sorting was sometimes overridden incorrectly (#7349)
• (Network) Fallback to IPv4 only if IPv6 networking fails to setup (#7382)
• (Transcoder) Extracting chapter thumbnails could use significant memory (#7397)
• (Scanner) Some plexignore rules were not being applied for photo libraries (#5866)
• (DVR) Setups with multiple HDHomeRun tuners now properly tune on both (#7417)
• (Relay) Don’t attempt to load ~/.ssh/config on macOS/Linux (#7528)

Plex Media Server 1.9.4

Fixes:

• (Hubs) Opening a photo discovery hub may cause the server to crash (#7624)
• (DVR) A rare crash when using DVR or Live TV (#7632)
• (DVR) Radio channels should no longer crash PMS (#7229)
• (DVR) Video streams that were getting lost during recording have been found again (#7637)