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Fixes:

Multiple subtitles in a single file could be lost after a metadata update
Auto-update could require a manual install in some cases
(Roku) Improve stability resuming video over HLS
(Windows) Simplify auto-update experience
(Windows) Never reboot after a media server auto-update
(Windows) Fix license link in 'about' dialog

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New:

(NAS) Support Synology DS414j, DS416j and DSM 6.0 Beta

Fixes:

(Windows) Occasional HTTP 500 errors when playing media.
(NAS) Warn if the Synology DSM version is too old.
(Transcoder) In rare cases, clients might see partial files when downloading segmented WebVTT subtitles.
(Transcoder) Failures transcoding online content with limited media analysis info.
(Transcoder) Don't select an unavailable media item for playback when another one is available.

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Search! There is now global search in PMP. It's early days and doesn't work well with keyboards yet.
Manual check for new version in Main settings (no need to restart to check for new version).
Embedded version now based on OpenELEC 6.0.3 which supports newer NUC's and the Raspberry PI3

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New:

Update Plex/Web to 2.5.9

Fixes:

New installs weren't offering a simple way to sign into plex.tv
Transcoded music playback was failing on Playstation 3 and 4 apps

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Neu

    Update Plex/Web to 2.6.0

Fixes

    (Media Optimizer) Episodes from shows whose titles have trailing periods might be repeatedly reprocessed (on Windows).
    (Media Optimizer) Transcoded special episodes weren't following the naming convention.
    (Media Optimizer) Optimized versions could be automatically deleted while being watched.
    (Transcoder) Transcoder process crashes weren't being reliably detected on non-Windows platforms.
    (Transcoder) Issues transcoding music files with high sampling rates.
    (Transcoder) The highest quality audio encoder wasn't always selected with Direct Streaming disabled.
    (DLNA) Crashes entering movie sections with Samsung Smart TV DLNA client.
    (Windows) Show tray icon on recent Windows Insider Preview builds.
    (Windows) Overwrite older files more reliably during setup.
    (Metadata) Download higher quality artist posters from last.fm.
    (Metadata) Fix top tracks for music libraries.
    (Metadata) Missing Rotten Tomatoes metadata when movie has no trailers and language is not set to English
    (PS4) Certain images weren't being cached while browsing.
    (Web) Plex Pass privileges weren't being recognized on first sign-in.
    Issues with .plexignore files.
    Issues with playback from some unofficial Plex Channels.

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Various updates to Services and Media Flags.

0.9.16.5

Neu

    Update Plex/Web to 2.6.1.
    Various updates to Services and Media Flags.
    (Windows) Localized tray icon to German, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Chinese.

Fixes

    (Metadata) Improve TVDB matching of newly added shows.
    (Metadata) Prevent movie sort titles getting reverted to default values. (#3817)
    (Metadata) Detect forced flag in external idx/sub subtitles file name. (#4196)
    (Transcoder) Client profile limitations could be applied incorrectly in rare cases. (#4292)
    (HTTP) Respect case-insensitivity of HTTP headers. (#3735)
    (Web) Save "Include in dashboard" library setting correctly with Chrome. (#4295)
    (Windows) Crashes transcoding large numbers of srt files. (#4276)
    Subtitles might not be automatically selected when an audio stream was forced. (#4271)

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NEW

    Update Plex Web to 2.7.0.
    (Chromecast) Use opus instead of mp3 when transcoding music. (#4805)
    (Sync) Changed Sync database format. Downgrading to older Plex Media Server builds may cause Sync problems. (#3959)

FIXES:

    (Sync) Synced content wouldn't show up on iOS in some rare cases. See https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/175998/planned-features-known-issues/ (#3959)
    (Media Analysis) Crashes analyzing certain .wtv files. (#4789)
    (Network) Update plex.tv server information when port mapping fails. (#4758)
    (Metadata) Speed up album refreshes in some cases when using Last.fm agent.
    (Transcoder) Playback failures skipping to near end of video. (#4803)
    (Transcoder) Rare crashes with unreliable internet connections. (#4803)

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New:

(Web) Updated Plex Web to 2.8.1.
(Nvidia Shield) Enable DLNA server. (#5013)
(Security) Allow http requests using the server's machine name to authenticate using the "networks allowed without auth" preference. (#5270)
Improved crash reporting infrastructure. (#4669)

Fixes:

(LG) Connectivity problems when older LG MediaLink TVs connect to signed-in servers with whitelisted IP addresses. (#5271)
(Ubuntu) Installation failures on certain VPS systems lacking /proc/1/comm. (#5300)
(QNAP) Issues restarting PMS after unclean shutdown. (#5309)
(Trailers) Plex Movie agent 'Use red band (restricted audiences) trailers when available' preference was being ignored when downloading trailers. (#5298)
Enabling network logging in clients could cause the server to hang. (#5277)
Spurious "Streaming session doesn't exist" errors when playing synced content on certain clients. (#5264)

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NEW:

New Feature - Streaming Brain.
(Streaming Brain) Preference for limiting bandwidth on WAN uploads. Limits can be per-stream and total.
(Streaming Brain) Playback session termination reasons are sent to the client and displayed to the user. This may require an updated client.
(Streaming Brain) Removed 'Prioritize streaming transcodes' preference. Background transcodes such as Sync, Media Optimizer, and video preview thumbnail generation are always prioritized behind streaming transcodes, and will pause completely if the simultaneous transcode limit is reached.
(Streaming Brain) Removed 'Cloud Sync upload speed limit' preference. Sync traffic automatically scales based on streaming WAN usage, and uses whatever bandwidth is left unused.
(Web) Updated Plex Web to 2.9.3
(Relay) Allow multiple connections from PMS to relay servers. (#4894)
(Windows) Localize installer for Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese locales. (#5189)
(Linux) QNAP x64 packages for the new QTS 4.3 64bit firmware.

FIXES:

(NVIDIA SHIELD) Support premium Plex music libraries. (#4991)
(NVIDIA SHIELD) Relay was crashing on startup. (#5419)
(Transcoder) Failures transcoding video files that lack a video stream. (#4503)
(Transcoder) Stuttering video transcoding HE-AAC on macOS. (#5376)
(Transcoder) Completed transcodes might continue to block static transcodes. (#5423)
(Subtitles) Inconsistent automatic subtitle selection for media containing multiple embedded subtitles. (#5011)
(On Deck) Handle specials and episodes without a known air date better in On Deck. (#4661)
(Camera Upload) Fix a couple of edge case scenarios when resuming uploads. (#5152) (#5218)
(Pub-Sub) Better load distribution selecting servers. (#4915)
(Relay) Relay process might not be killed when the media server shuts down on certain Unix platforms. (#5173)
(Butler) Issues deleting old files in cache directory.
(Media Analysis) Scanner crashes analyzing mp4 files lacking moov atoms. (#5373)
(Media Analysis) Some 1080i media wasn't being recognized as being interlaced. (#5279)
(Media Analysis) Crashes analyzing certain photos with malformed metadata tags. (#5461)
(Metadata) Issues recognizing episodes of shows whose names contain multiple numeric digits. (#5377)
(Search) Duplicate results from different libraries now indicate the library of origin. (#4949)
(Search) Treat searches using a single non-ASCII character the same as a single ASCII character. (#5319)
(Linux) Local Media Agent errors when paths/files contained non-ASCII characters. (#5470)
(Linux) Fixed Readynas RN2xx build to work on ReadyNAS OS Firmware 6.6.0 (#5512)
A number of user-reported server crashes. (#5042) (#5459)

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FIXES:
- (TV) Issues playing transcoded music on the PlayStation 4 and other TV and Web apps. (#5703)


Plex Media Server 1.2.5 is now available for everyone.

FIXES:
- (Music) Issues scanning premium music libraries. (#5684)
- (Metadata) Issues obtaining preview images from fanart.tv. (#5665)


Plex Media Server 1.2.4 is now available for Plex Pass members.

NEW
(Web) Updated Plex Web to 2.10.7.
FIXES:
(PS4) Crash starting music playback from a PS4. (#5620)
(Scanner) Issues handling non-ASCII characters in path names on certain platforms. (#5129) (#5231)
(Linux) Crashes adding or removing libraries on some platforms. (#5615)
(Linux) Don't override the default Python install on Centos/Fedora. (5651)
(NVIDIA SHIELD) Issues with premium music libraries. (#5643)
(OS X) Exclude *.photoslibrary from default photos library. (#4910)
A number of user-reported server crashes. (#5598) (#5644) (#5647)


Plex Media Server 1.2.3 is now available for Plex Pass members.

NEW
(Web) Updated Plex Web to 2.10.5.
(Media Flags) Update bundle.
(Localization) Updated server translations.
FIXES:
(Network) Clients might incorrectly report a server as unclaimed or remote access as unavailable after network timeouts. (#4994)
(Streaming Brain) In some cases the server could unexpectedly reserve any remaining bandwidth. (#5447)
(Streaming Brain) Playback failures on Android. (#5537 #5589)
(Streaming Brain) Issues starting transcode sessions with OpenPHT. (#5546)
(Streaming Brain) Issues transcoding sidecar subtitles while Direct Playing a video. (#5540)
(Scanner) Library section analysis wasn't always working. (#5536)
(Scanner) Issues scanning TV series with numeric names. (#5547)
(Camera Upload) Duplicate photos could be uploaded in some cases on case-sensitive filesystems. (#5509)
(Camera Upload) Uploads were failing if the target library path didn't already exist. (#5553)
(Music) Unplayable music videos might show up after refreshing certain albums. (#5559)
(Metadata) Issues obtaining preview images from fanart.tv. (#5524)
(Linux) Transcoder errors caused by an invalid locale configuration on certain systems. (#4717)
(NAS) Crashes on ReadyNAS 6.6. (#5567)
(NAS) Issues scanning when paths contained non-ASCII characters. (#5618)

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NEW

(NAS) Improve support for Western Digital MyCloud PR2100 and PR4100 devices.

FIXES:

(Localization) Updated server translation text. (#5908)

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◾(Web) Updated Plex Web to 2.12.5.
◾(DLNA) Transcoded videos weren’t showing up on older Sony TVs and Blu-ray players. (#5902)
◾(Photos) Video clips in photo sections might have incorrect dates. (#5924)
◾(Media Optimizer) Version file names would replace non-ASCII characters with underscores. (#5944)
◾(Transcoder) Issues playing some MPEG-TS videos. (#5977)
◾(Transcoder) Issues burning PGS subtitles on Western Digital PR devices. (#6013)
◾(Transcoder) Issues encoding H.264 on the NVIDIA SHIELD. (#5921)
◾(TV) Episodes without season and episode numbers were sorting ahead of all others. (#5777)
◾(TV) Scanning a show with a new episode could leave the episode unlinked to its series until a library refresh. (#5939)
◾(Search) Better disambiguation of matching search results. (#5785)
◾(Search) Searches might return other users’ playlists. (#5972)
◾(Scanner) Changing the case of a filename would completely recreate the item on case-insensitive filesystems. (#5935)
◾(Media Analysis) Pre-play pages weren’t always triggering a media analysis refresh when needed.
◾A number of user-reported crashes. (#5788) (#5981) (#5894) (#5991) (#5993) (#5994) (#5995) (#5997) (#5999)

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NEW:

◾(Web) Updated Plex Web to 2.13.0
◾(Media Flags) Updated bundle to 2016-12-22 (#6033)

FIXES:

◾(DLNA) Crash browsing to certain photo library sections. (#5874)
◾(Streaming Brain) Certain videos might transcode instead even when enough bandwidth was available to direct play. (#6085) (#6216)

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NEW:

◾(Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.0.1.

FIXES:

◾(macOS) Automatic updates from 1.4.2 were failing. (#6435)
◾(Streaming Brain) Occasional crashes when per-user bandwidth limits were enabled. (#6427)
◾(Subtitles) Issues playing soft subtitles with certain clients. (#6386)
◾(Database) Performance issues or deadlocks optimizing the database while scanning photo libraries. (#6358)
◾(Metadata) Preserve customised fields when unmatching. (#4999)
◾(Metadata) Display issues with cast members for certain shows. (#6117)
◾(DLNA) Crash setting preferences when preference string in settings was corrupt. (#6421)

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NEW:

(Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.1.1.
FIXES:

(DVR) Deadlock scheduling recordings. (#6468)
(DVR) Deadlock recording while scanning photo libraries. (#6405)
(DVR) Deadlock downloading EPG data. (#6504)
(DVR) Issues recording content when remuxing to MKV from DVB-T/T2 sources. (#6498)
(Streaming Brain) Rare deadlock estimating client bandwidth. (#6505)
(DLNA) DLNA Server might start even when the setting was disabled. (#6469)
(On Deck) On Deck episodes weren’t showing for managed users with restrictions. (#6387)
(Transcoder) Matroska streams were missing duration metadata (causing playback issues on Chrome and some LG TVs). (#6462)
(Media Analysis) Audio format in MP4/M4V containers was incorrectly detected (causing playback issues on the Roku). (#6439)
(Media Analysis) Excessive logging analyzing certain files. (#6339)
(Media Analysis) Restore detection of header compression in Matroska containers. (#6460)

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