Emby Server Update & Changelog-Thread

  • 4.7.6.0

    • Fix regressions related to image extraction
    • Support right to left display
    • Improve the use of internet metadata with recordings
    • Improve photo loading performance
    • Include activity [definition='1','0']log[/definition] database file when vacuuming databases
    • Mark all video versions as played when toggling played
    • Support shift to multi-select
    • Change wording of transcoding reasons to be more user friendly
    • Improve filter menu indicator
    • Add Select None to multi-select lists
    • Fix sort by sort title being case sensitive in some views
    • Fixes for file names with years at beginning
    • Improve dsd/dsf playback over Dlna
  • 4.7.7.0

    • Various database performance improvements
    • Stop scanning at the top of a library when it's unreachable
    • DVR: Don't use episode title for comparison when it matches the series title
    • DVR: Support keyword-based recordings
    • Improved RTL supported in the web interface
    • Add lock screen function to video player for mobile devices
    • Support three way navigation menu toggle, to switch between full, mini and flyout modes
    • Add more fields for selection in poster views
    • Add image size display option
    • Fix support for simultaneous music and photo playback
    • Add option to control display of rating information at the start of video playback
    • Change wording of transcoding reasons to be more user friendly
    • Improve filter menu indicator
  • 4.7.9.0

    • Support copying settings from an existing user when creating a new one
    • Improve library scan handling of unavailable folders
    • Fix regressions related to user device restriction management
    • Add several new webhooks, including new media added
    • Support sorting playlists
    • Improved right to left (RTL) support
    • Update default subtitle font
  • 4.8.0.80

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    • Add new profile pin feature. Useful for devices shared by multiple users.
    • Add new table view option
    • Add more fields for selection in poster views
    • Add new theme options
    • Various database performance improvements
    • Merge webhooks into notifications
    • Support keyword-based recordings
    • Display all episodes directly under series without using season layer (with user display option to control behavior)
    • Update Intel Media Driver
    • Minor database performance improvements
    • Support extras for seasons and episodes
    • Various fixes for iOS 17
    • Revamp backup plugin to be a more complete backup
    • Support saving images locally for extras
    • Add FR-TP content rating
    • Import hearing impaired attribute for both internal and external subtitles
    • Add hidden config switch to disable ssl renegotiation
    • Add library option to cache images in server data folder to reduce disk access to original media folder
    • Remember audio and subtitles across a tv series
    • Improve support for audio-only live streams
    • Add View Missing Episodes context menu option for series and seasons
    • Add option when creating a user to copy data from an existing user
    • Support random sorting on list screens
    • Improve country and language list sorting
    • Improve program dialog in live tv guide to show complete information
    • Add subtitle position settings
    • Improve user interface of Play On menu
    • Add sample file ignore size to library options
    • Added New Episodes section under Live TV suggestions
    • Add new indicator on Live TV program posters
    • Add options to hide played media from More Like This and Suggestions
    • Add user locked out notification to Notifications and Webhooks
    • Support more conventions with provider id values in folder names (moviedb, imdb, etc)
    • Fix songs not being grouped into album when the album title contains an emoji
    • Improve series name detection by getting the series name from episode file names, in some cases
    • Fix empty genre filters on playlists
    • Support multiple languages with user audio and subtitle preferences
    • Improve performance of server activity viewer
    • Improve support for folders being used in multiple libraries of same content types
    • Clear external ids for episodes when using Identify feature on Series
    • Improve search for single title movies
    • Add camera upload user permission
    • Add new configurable home screen sections - Playlists, Collections, and Recently Released Movies
    • Add more fields for display in User and Device management
    • Add HDR filters to video list screens
    • Add sorting controls to user and device management screens
    • Add additional subtitle color options
    • Support swipe down to close all dialogs that slide up
    • Add Remove Identification feature to reset metadata
    • Improve searching titles containing quotes and periods (e.g. Agents of S.h.i.e.l.d or Shield)
    • Anonymize manifest.json
    • Add warning for duplicates when adding items to playlists
    • Support both nb and no Norwegian language options
    • Fix anamorphic image extraction
    • Add automatic metadata refresh option for episodes with placeholder titles such as TBA
    • Rework Trakt plugin to be an option that each user can configure, rather than server settings
    • Rework Notifications to be an option that each user can configure, rather than server settings
    • Add guide display options to control visibility of channel names, images and numbers
    • Improve automatic reconnection for live streams
    • Display preview of matched items when setting up a keyword recording
    • Reduce database queries in audio fingerprint process
    • Add HK ratings
    • Add user option to hide media info from detail screens
    • Fix transcode temp path in startup logging
    • Improve support for "subs" and "subtitles" folders
    • Fix 172.X addresses always being considered private
    • Don't allow local network addresses to be specified in x-forwarded-for and x-real-ip
    • Add media deleted notification and webhook event
    • Support multi-select drag and drop add to playlist
    • Support multi-select operations on downloads and conversions lists
    • Fix swagger docs with reverse proxies
    • Update default subtitle font
    • Add option to limit the number of genres displayed at the top of detail screens
    • Rework playlists to be saved as m3u and deprecate the previous xml format
    • Support extras in Collections
    • Various image processing fixes
    • Fix restricting by tag hiding the tag itself
    • Improve episode number parsing when episode file name is gibberish and parent folder name is readable
    • Fix multi-episode file titles not using series display order
    • Fix hide from Continue Listening only hiding a single track and not the entire album
    • Support sorting for playlists and collections
    • Fix live tv recordings being stopped in rare cases when the limit to keep is set to 1
    • Revamp webhooks plugin, supporting new events and configuration options
    • Include activity [definition='1','0']log[/definition] database file when vacuuming databases
    • Rework scanning of extras, allowing more flexible usage of video extras
    • Resolve issue of multi-part and multi-version not being able to be used together
    • Improve the use of internet metadata with recordings
    • Support shift to multi-select
    • Use tone mapping for image extraction
    • Fix green bottom line with QSV+OpenCL tone mapping
    • Fix single image extraction with MPEGTS
    • Allow separate images for audio book tracks
    • Stop scanning at the top of a library when it's unreachable
    • Add image size display option
    • Add lock screen function to video player on mobile devices
    • Fix support for simultaneous music and photo playback
    • Add three way toggle nav menu to web app
    • Add option to control display of rating information at the start of video playback
    • Change wording of transcoding reasons to be more user friendly
    • Improve filter menu indicator
    • Add Select None to multi-select lists
    • Fix sort by sort title being case sensitive in some views
    • Fixes for multi-part and multi-version videos being used together
    • Fixes for movies having file names starting with years
    • Initial RTL support in web interface
    • Fix Intro Detection scheduled task not being visible
    • Make tagline field lockable
    • Make overview field lockable
    • Fix a/v sync regressions with live tv and recordings
    • Rework Live TV recording options to be based on selected folders, rather than raw paths
    • Support .actors folder for people images
    • Resolve long-standing metadata quirks when removing data from nfo files and having it not get cleared in Emby
    • Fix changes to url-only nfo files not being recognized
    • Nfo plugin: Stop saving nfo files for additional parts
    • Improve photo loading performance
    • Fixes for downloads automatically redownloading
    • Remember subtitle selections even when user option is set to None
    • Improve support for musicbrainz illegal character replacement
    • Fix graphic subtitle position when burning in subtitles with transcoding
    • Improve drag and drop scrolling
    • Fix unnecessary ffmpeg dependency on Windows Media Foundation
    • Sanitize new playlist and collection names
    • Add intro detection library options
    • Fix sporadic cases of errors when reordering live tv channels
    • Improve automatic channel mapping with xml tv
    • Support sort by composer
  • 4.8.1.0

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    • Fix startup crashes on 32-bit Windows
    • Start running hardware detection earlier on startup to try and avoid playback errors
    • Portuguese tv naming fixes
    • Support ja-jp language code
    • Fix CA-A parental rating value
    • Fix more like this not hiding played media when the option is set
    • Fix sporadic cases of live streams ending early
    • Fix multiple live tv views showing
    • Fix manage collaboration showing for playlists when permission to share personal content is denied
    • Various content restriction fixes
  • 4.8.3.0

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    • Nfo Metadata - Support multiple episodedetails nodes
    • M3U Tuner - Support restricting imported channels based on group
    • M3U Tuner - Support embedded xml guide data
    • Fix 3D flag being lost in some cases on initial import
    • Fix series scanning regression related to year in folder name
    • Improve photo scanning error handling
    • Add workaround for older Dlna devices to fix playback failures
    • Fix temp files from database backup process not being cleaned up
    • Fix playlist library folder not generating an image
    • Start running hardware detection earlier on startup to try and avoid playback errors
    • Fix playback errors when transcoding on older LG TV's
    • Redesign music genre screen
  • 4.8.4.0

    • Fixes related to scanning multi-part videos
    • Improve missing episode error handling
    • Add collections library
    • Fix duplicate live tv views
    • Don't generate images for playlist libraries
    • Fix some subtitles being downloaded repeatedly
    • Fix video rotation value not being scanned
    • Fix library option for adult metadata not being used with Identify feature
    • Fix genres not showing in music videos library
    • Fix extras getting included when playing multiple items via remote control
    • Add option to group notifications
    • Fix person nfo not being saved when enabled
    • Improve camera upload error handling
    • Improve ass/ssa support with conversion feature
    • Freshen up web app fonts and icons
    • Group collection items by media type
    • Support drag and drop with transcoding codec settings
    • Add series recording option to check all libraries for existing episodes
  • 4.8.6.0

    • Improve log anonymization
    • Extract video images at full resolution
    • Fix incorrect items being played with play all or shuffle on a genre
    • Fix incorrect http response code on failed login (should be 401 rather than 403)
    • Support drag and drop reordering in home screen settings library order
    • Support drag and drop reordering in the metadata editor for genres, tags, people and studios
  • 4.8.7.0

    • Add server shutdown warning when there are active playback sessions or active recordings
    • PGS subtitle position fixes when transcoding
    • Convert subtitle offset dialog to a slider
    • Fix unable to lock People
    • Add Up Next to video OSD
    • Search all subtitle providers on manual subtitle downloads
    • Fix collections getting lost after subtitle downloading when no nfo file is present
    • Various content visibility fixes for newly created libraries
    • Improve log anonymization
    • Support drag and drop reordering in all library settings
    • Add playback speed directly to video player OSD
  • 4.8.8.0

    • Support setting shuffle state in the audio player
    • Add Group By option on collection screens to choose between grouping collection items by media type or displaying all items in a single list
    • Fix import collection options not showing in Emby library setup
    • Fix error after adding a new person using the metadata editor
    • Add prompt for playback when a channel is recording
    • Support incremental seek speed using arrow keys
    • Show more rows in video OSD guide
    • Support launching videos from photo slideshow
    • Auto-scroll the guide to the last played channel
    • Improve log anonymization
    • Transcoding fixes for audio only strm files
    • Increase image extraction timeout
    • Factor in disc number to audio image uniqueness when extracting images from audio files
  • 4.8.9.0

    • Improve camera upload error handling
    • Fix libvips image conversion with smb paths
    • Fix automatic reconnect of live tv m3u
    • Fixes related to matching recordings with episode files already in the library
    • Improve multi-version default selection
    • Improve remote image content-type detection
    • Fix database error when removing libraries with overlapping paths with other libraries

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