Plex Media Center -> Version History

This is the version history page for Plex Media Center. You can return to the main page for this software by clicking here.

Index:

• Version 0.9.5.2 (Nov 29, 2011)
• Version 0.9.3.4 (Jul 28, 2011)
• Version 0.9.2.7 (Apr 14, 2011)
• Version 0.9.2.6 (Mar 29, 2011)
• Version 0.9.2.5 (Mar 22, 2011)
• Version 0.9.2.3 (Mar 18, 2011)
• Version 0.9.1.13 (Dec 19, 2010)
• Version 0.9.1.9 (Dec 12, 2010)
• Version 0.9.1.2 (Nov 26, 2010)
• Version 0.9.1.1 (Oct 29, 2010)
• Version 0.9.1 (Oct 24, 2010)
• Version 0.9.10.0 (Oct 24, 2010)
• Version 0.9.0.21 ever-hotter-fixer (Sep 28, 2010)
• Version 0.9.0.21 Hotfix (Sep 25, 2010)
• Version 0.9.0.21 (Aug 31, 2010)
• Version 0.8.5 (Nov 20, 2009)
• Version 0.8.3 (Oct 27, 2009)
• Version 0.8.2 (Aug 11, 2009)
• Version 0.8.1 (May 24, 2009)
• Version 0.8.0 (May 12, 2009)
• Version 0.7.15 beta (Apr 24, 2009)
• Version 0.7.14 beta (Apr 8, 2009)
• Version 0.7.13 beta (Mar 11, 2009)
• Version 0.7.12 beta (Mar 4, 2009)
• Version 0.7.11 beta (Mar 3, 2009)
• Version 0.7.10 beta (Feb 27, 2009)
• Version 0.7.9 beta (Feb 25, 2009)
• Version 0.7.8 beta (Feb 22, 2009)
• Version 0.7.7 beta (Feb 8, 2009)
• Version 0.7.6 (Feb 6, 2009)
• Version 0.7.5 (Dec 28, 2008)
• Version 0.5.22 (Oct 31, 2008)

• Release Date: Nov 29, 2011
• Please refer to this blog post, http://elan.plexapp.com/2011/11/28/plex-media-center-v9-5-2-smoked-wild-boar-edition/, for a list of what's new

• Release Date: Jul 28, 2011
• Please refer to this blog post, http://elan.plexapp.com/2011/07/28/plex-v0-9-3-4-mo-fixes-mo-barkley/, for a list of what's new

• Release Date: Apr 14, 2011
• Please refer to this blog post, http://elan.plexapp.com/2011/04/13/plex-v0-9-2-7-tweaks-and-fixes/, for a list of what's new

• Release Date: Mar 29, 2011
• Please refer to this blog post, http://elan.plexapp.com/2011/03/29/plex-v0-9-2-6-a-little-something-for-everyone/, for a list of what's new

• Release Date: Mar 22, 2011
• 0.9.2.5:
  • FIX: Scans wouldn’t bring in new content.
  • FIX: Deleting the trash would crash the media server.
• 0.9.2.4:
  • FIX: The Media Server would crash on start if you had certain plug-ins installed with bogus XML.
  • FIX: In certain cases, a scan would result in multiple movies showing the same name/poster.
  • FIX: A few fixes for soft deletion, including merged movies not showing the /!\ icon.
  • FIX: Changing the view type in Unwatched Shows would change the view type for episodes.
  • FIX: Possible fix for an OS X Lion crash (Plex is still unsupported on Lion).
  • FIX: Plex should now pick DTS/AC3 tracks over stereo when connected to a receiver.
  • FIX: When you play a video via iOS application, screen saver is turned off on Plex.
  • FIX: [Win] Issue with the transcoder, many videos wouldn’t play.
  • FIX: [Win] Posters for seasons/episodes not displaying.
  • FIX: [Win] Customization of application support directory wasn’t working.

• Release Date: Mar 18, 2011
• NEW: Universal Search.
• NEW: Direct Play and Direct Streaming for clients.
• NEW: Subtitle support in agents, and streaming subtitles from server to clients (SRT/SMI/SSA).
• NEW: Support for secure access via Web Media Manager.
• NEW: Turbo Scanning (option-click to do regular “deep” scan).
• NEW: Soft Deletion.
• NEW: Added the By Folder second level menu.
• NEW: Support for our Bonjour replacement, known as G’Day Mate (GDM). Easy discovery!
• NEW: [Win] Support for storing application support files anywhere.
• FIX: The “Add Application” button was broken.
• FIX: Don’t refresh metadata every two weeks.
• FIX: In rare cases a Python process would take 100% CPU.
• FIX: “Unwatched” section second title was incorrect.
• FIX: Browsing for subtitles on Plex for Mac client.
• FIX: Flash 10.1/10.2 works now.
• FIX: With newer Flash installed, PMS is not restarted after 5.1 audio (as Flash but was fixed).
• FIX: Refresh works with local media agent even if media isn’t matched (for subs, posters).
• FIX: [Win] Various crashes (shutdown, during scans)
• FIX: [Win] Issue with dialogs popping up asking you to insert drive.
• FIX: [Win] Updated to latest transcoder, fixing lots of issues.
• FIX: [Win] Make sure we don’t conflict with installed Pythons.
• FIX: [Win] Lack of season/episode posters.
• FIX: Movies with ratings of 10 don’t show up under “5 stars”
• FIX: Any “phantom” media in the database is whacked after a scan.
• FIX: Don’t let the machine sleep while transcoding.
• FIX: Empty machine name crash.
• FIX: Support for audio playback from Android with security enabled.
• FIX: Add countries and producers tags to metadata models.
• FIX: Media is downloaded on metadata refresh, and always kept around.

• Release Date: Dec 19, 2010
• FIX: Media thumbnailing functionality was broken. Totally my fault, we’ve been making builds of Plex Media Server for other platforms (*hint hint wink wink*) and I accidentally left it disabled in the OS X build. Whoops.
• FIX: Minor fixes for Plex ffmpeg (MPEG-TS memory leak, fix for Blu Ray subtitles).
• FIX: There was an issue starting some MP4 streams in plug-ins (e.g. Earth Touch and MSNBC). Thanks to Sander for helping us diagnose the issue and test the fix!
• FIX: Unmatching an item wasn’t resetting posters and other graphics correctly.
• FIX: Second level movie sections weren’t showing custom backgrounds.
• FIX: On occasion, secondary lists of sections would show up without a background (thanks, Scott!)

• Release Date: Dec 12, 2010

• Release Date: Nov 26, 2010
• NEW: Allow sorting based on date added.
• NEW: Keyboard accelerators for clipboard operations.
• NEW: Optional dock icon (set in Preferences).
• NEW: Home movies section works much better: ratings/view status/resume is now remembered, and of course you can edit all the metadata.
• FIX: Resume offset/view status now remembered for media even if it’s not matched.
• FIX: Stuttering issue with VIDEO_TS media, previously released in hot-fix form.
• FIX: Recently Viewed Shows wasn’t working.
• FIX: Lower CPU usage when refreshing TV shows.
• FIX: Seasons/episodes views weren’t getting graphics from the media server.
• FIX: Cases where a scan failed and we deleted lots of media out of the library.
• FIX: Crash in the scanner with a bogus AVI file.
• FIX: Posters/art not appearing when searching for movies.
• FIX: Tweaks in Plex to hopefully not “lose” sections and plug-ins (more fixes forthcoming).

• Release Date: Oct 29, 2010
• FIX: Metadata wasn't loading in some cases ("Strange, no title" error).
• FIX: Aspect ratio with SD content with HW decode was sometimes wrong.
• FIX: Support for resuming and picking one of multiple items.
• FIX: iTunes uses less CPU reading new XML, and is available while read is happening in the background.
• FIX: When a scanner fix corrects a episode's date, the change is now picked up with a refresh.
• FIX: Hang hitting 'i' for a stacked video.
• FIX: Some support for watched status and stacked files.
• FIX: Update the ffmpeg version, should help with stuttering in some cases.
• FIX: Playing VIDEO_TS folders with non-english characters in the path.

• Release Date: Oct 24, 2010
• NEW: Cast information restored to movie information dialog in Plex for Mac. 
• NEW: Ability to choose a specific piece of media to watch (e.g. HD, SD) if you have multiple media items. (You can disable this in Preferences > Video. 
• NEW: Added back “By Albums” in iTunes plug-in. Sometimes all you need is a little more cowbell.
• NEW: Allow splitting apart TV Shows and Movies in the media manager. You can see an example here.
• NEW: Added an “Unwatched” section for Movies and TV Shows. 
• NEW: Added “By Album” in music library sections. 
• NEW: Allow browsing for on-disk graphics (posters/art) in the Media Manager.
• NEW: Support for volume control in new remote control protocol. 
• NEW: Display number of items for each piece of media (e.g. if you have SD and HD versions of a movie). If you sort by items descending it’s a good way to see if you have any duplicated media (Reveal in Finder will show all of them) or if the agents have mistakenly matched two different pieces of media to the same thing. Yes, I’m really this disorganized, or at least I was until now!
• NEW: Searching for matches in the media manager is now asynchronous and can be cancelled. Death to beach balls!
• NEW: In Preferences > Transcoding, we’ve added an option to offer higher bitrates over 3G.
• NEW: In Preferences > Library, you can optimize your database.
• FIX: That dratted issue with posters and art continually re-downloading off the Internet. The Plex Media Server is now the single entity that downloads the graphics, and all the clients request from it. Expirations have been fixed, and other improvements around caching have been made. The bottom line is that, while not perfect, it should be much, much better. N.B. As part of this change, it’s of course going to have to download everything one last time in order to transition over to this new scheme.
• FIX: Leopard crash on start (thanks, Ryan!). Also a crash on start when your computer didn’t have a name. And a few other crashes on start.
• FIX: Stuttering playback (mostly with HD media). In some cases the cache size was being set incorrectly based on bad analysis, and this could lead to stutters during playback.
• FIX: Anamorphic videos fix for iOS. Additionally, anamorphic MP4 files play correctly on Plex for Mac (thanks, Ryan!). 
• FIX: High CPU usage during scan, which could cause stuttering during playback as well.
• FIX: Plug-ins could go missing in Plex when starting at same time as PMS.
• FIX: We now quit the Scanner if the Media Server quits.
• FIX: When detecting a rename, we upload location the in the database, otherwise media gets whacked when removing old location.
• FIX: When a duplicate episode was found, it lost the “addedAt” time (making it disappear from “recently added”).
• FIX: Allow backspace to exit the weather section, preferences, and a few other places where you could get stuck with the iOS app.
• FIX: The “-1″ year issue in list view.
• FIX: Better handling of locked database file. 
• FIX: In certain cases, stacked movies were not played in the right order.
• FIX: Sometimes partial fanart files were displayed, leading to corrupted images being displayed.
• FIX: Better handling for audio/video distinguishing in iTunes for foreign languages.
• FIX: Allow changing metadata agent settings when there are no sections.
• FIX: Video podcasts passed back as Video elements instead of Track.
• FIX: Hebrew subtitles were displaying punctuation incorrectly.
• FIX: The word “dvdmedia” was displayed at the end of the movie title.
• FIX: Occasionally startup issues could result in agents not showing up, improve the recovery from this.
• FIX: Issue on startup, due to space in home folder.
• FIX: Videos stopping randomly in the middle of play.
• FIX: A few tweaks to the Media Server’s menu bar, to make canceling a library refresh possible, and to make it harder to accidentally start one.
• FIX: iTunes/iLife plug-ins mysteriously disappearing.
• FIX: Lots of crashes while scanning and analyzing media, including some MP3s.
• FIX: The Media Server starts (and installs) on a machine without Internet.
• FIX: We fixed a .BUP/.IFO ordering issue which could cause a crash when playing a VIDEO_TS movie. You’ll need to remove and add the section to fix the ordering (but you won’t lose view state/progress doing so).
• FIX: A buffer overflow issue reported by d1dn0t, which also caused crashes when navigating into some plug-ins.
• FIX: Adding library sections from the command line wasn’t working (thanks, Atrus!).
• FIX: The library would occasionally refresh continually.
• FIX: Crash of the iOS app near the end of a video.

• Release Date: Oct 24, 2010
• Please refer to this blog post: http://elan.plexapp.com/2010/10/23/plex-v0-9-1/ on a full list of changes

• Release Date: Sep 28, 2010
• FIX: Occasional crash on start.
• FIX: Issue with TV/Movie search/updates hanging.
• FIX: A rare issue where the server would get stuck exiting, and required a reboot (which seems like an OS X issue).
• FIX: GUI weirdness using the new asynchronous “fix match” dialog.

• Release Date: Sep 25, 2010
• Please refer to this blog post for more information: http://elan.plexapp.com/2010/09/24/plex-media-server-hot-fix-released/

• Release Date: Aug 31, 2010
• Please refer to this blog post for more information: http://elan.plexapp.com/2010/08/30/plexnine-has-been-released/

• Release Date: Nov 20, 2009
• NEW: Plug-in preferences show up on the context menu for the plug-in itself.
• NEW: Auto-sourcing of remote Plex Media Server iLife plug-ins. Let’s say you have a laptop with iTunes music, or your wife’s iMac has iPhoto on it. No longer do you have to manually add the sources, or wonder if they’ll work when you click on them. With the new version, sources add and remove themselves auto-magically thanks to Bonjour. Make sure you install the new Plex Media Server on the remote machines.
• FIX: A bug where Plex and the Plex Media Server could get out of sync and display the wrong contents for a directory.
• FIX: An issue when stopping music playback, where the GUI “clicks” don’t restore and the playing track is still selected.
• FIX: Photo thumbnails were broken for plug-ins (thanks to orr721 for the report!)
• FIX: Hitting the menu button during a blank slideshow causes a crash. (thank to Majkel and other for the report!)
• FIX: When a track fails to play, Plex jumps into (blank) Now Playing screen anyway.
• FIX: Sometimes the photo screensaver started going “crazy fast”.
• FIX: The new remote code logged too much.
• FIX: The duration didn’t show up in plug-ins.
• FIX: You weren’t returned to the main menu correctly from items added to your Favorites, or direct links to plug-ins in the Music section. Existing favorites will need to be removed and re-added. (James)
• FIX: The iTunes plug-in now sorts artists by the “sort artist” field in iTunes. This one is for Scott!
• FIX: Crashes with WebKit plug-ins that appear in the Music section.
• FIX: PlexHelper occasionally stopped responding (or responded incorrectly) to button presses.
• FIX: Sometimes Plex didn’t start after the first run. Believe it or not, this was an OS X bug, now worked around.
• FIX: Plex hung when using the mouse wheel to scroll through text (thanks to hqrs for the report!)
• FIX: Changed the servers in the TVDB scraper to use the load balanced ones. (many thanks to kruisje for the fix!)
• FIX: Fixed a crash loading some RAW files.
• FIX: DTS-to-AC3 was broken in the last release. Thanks to our audio doctor Ryan who fixed it and improved the AC3 trancoding in the process.
• FIX: When you select “previous track” it now does the right thing with streamed content: moving to the start of the track or the previous track depending on how far along the track is (awesome, James!)

• Release Date: Oct 27, 2009
• NEW: James revamped Plex shutdown options, adding a beautiful UI that allows quitting, sleeping, or powering off after a specified time. Check out the screencast below to see it in action.
• NEW: One of the longest-running complaints about Plex has been the low volume when listening to downmixed 5.1 audio. We’ve added three levels of dynamic range compression (in Preferences > System > Audio): Normal, Large, and Huge. These settings apply only to AC3 and DTS downmixed audio, and the Large and Huge settings can introduce (usually subliminal) clipping. This one is for you, Aayush!
• NEW: Captions for iPhoto photos, and EXIF comment tag also used for captions.
• NEW: We’re using Felix’s new Apple Remote code (thanks to Evan for integrating it!). This provides, as Apple would say “improved compatibility”. One note: we recommend using the Candelair driver even on Leopard, because it can help resolve cases in which the Apple Remote loses exclusive access with the Apple driver.
• NEW: Toggle full screen option on dock menu (thanks to Billy Joe).
• NEW: Support for one-click install of plug-ins. You can now easily install plug-ins off the web without having to copy files all over the place. Plug-in Installer.jpg
• NEW: Support for auto-refresh in directories.
• NEW: Context menus in plug-ins.
• NEW: Rating support for plug-ins, with support for community/system ratings as well as user ratings. This feature was used to great effect by David B in the upcoming update of our Netflix plug-in. Here’s an unrated movie and us rating it via the context menu item.
• NEW: Upgrade Plex WebKit libraries to 4.0.3.
• NEW: Allow passing back User Agent (makes Apple Movie Trailers work again).
• FIX: On Snow Leopard, 5.1 audio had issues. We’ve cleaned up the code, fixed the problems, and it now runs great on 10.6. Many thanks to Ryan for all his work on this one.
• FIX: We fixed an issue with the new caching system that could cause some MKVs and other files to stutter when played over the network.
• FIX: Video playlists work again.
• FIX: Multi-part videos display thumbnails again.
• FIX: Crash reading GPS EXIF data from photos.
• FIX: Fix for crash when displaying subtitles (Thanks, Billy J!)
• FIX: A few crashes in the Media Server (custom iTunes genre artwork, and playing Netflix movies).
• FIX: First WebKit play on a fresh install didn’t work.
• FIX: App Store would sometimes not show up on a fresh install.
• FIX: GForce visualizer for iTunes causes Plex to crash.
• FIX: TVDB image issue (thanks to Poldi!)
• FIX: Posters issue in IMDB scraper (thanks, Jay!) and issue with cast lists (thanks to Todd G!)
• FIX: DTS downmixing method reverted to use libdts. People who listen on headphone *may* be happier.
• FIX: Make keyboard backlight feature optional (James). You can access this setting in the advanced Cocoa preferences area under the Videos tab.

• Release Date: Aug 11, 2009
• NEW: Allow Plex Media Server photo sources to be used for the slideshow screensaver. It’s kind of nice to have a subfolder of Web Gallery of Art as your screensaver, your date will be impressed.
• NEW: This has been a popular request for those of you without surround receivers. We’ve added a new setting that links OS X sound volume with Plex sound volume. This means that you can use your Apple Remote for *all* of your volume changes, including all the WebKit plug-ins. (For those of you with surround receivers, you’ll continue to use your receiver’s remote for all of your volume changes.)
• NEW: This is one that’s bothered me for ages. Setting the cache size in Megabytes is really silly, because the amount you want to cache depends on the bandwidth of the content. For example, if you set it high, your Apple Movie Trailers might play without stuttering, but then that low bandwidth FLV would take forever to buffer. With this version, we’re introducing Bandwidth-based Caching®, which dynamically adjusts the size of the cache depending on the needs of the stream. The result: lower bandwidth streams start faster, and higher bandwidth streams play with less stuttering. Also as a consequence, the cache settings now look quite a bit more simple. You simply specify the number of seconds of media that you would like to cache.
• NEW: Greatly improved responsiveness when browsing. Things like entering or leaving a big list of items (e.g. iTunes artists list) that could hang the entire interface for 5-15 seconds are now instant.
• NEW: Thanks to James, the keyboard backlight turns off during videos playing so you can grope your date more easily.
• NEW: Maverick214 on the forums submitted a great patch for displaying the end time for videos. Always nice to know how much longer you’re going to be tortured watching So You Think You Can Dance.
• NEW: We’ve added a “Shuffle” context menu item for the photos area.
• NEW: Do you like having your cake and eating it too? Do you like the Now Playing screen, but wish you could induce epileptic fits in your pets with the visualizer at the same time? Luckily for you, Scott was stuck on a plane, armed with a laptop and he hacked together this perfect marriage. Not for you? Simply select the “Hide Now Playing in Visualizer” in the Skin settings.
• NEW: Improved Snow Leopard support. There are still a few glitches, but Plex now runs quite well on the new kitty.
• NEW: James cleaned up the shutdown options for Plex. In the skin settings, you can select which of Quit, Sleep, or Shut Down appears on the main menu. If you want to access the other choices, you simply hit “right” to pick another option. If you have your Harmony remote mapped to something custom, you can use the actions Plex.Quit, Plex.SleepSystem, and Plex.ShutDownSystem.
• NEW: We display error messages when an item fails to play (as opposed to silently returning to the menu).
• Along with all these additions, we’ve fixed quite a few bugs:
• FIX: Manually added PMS sources can be removed via context menu (James).
• FIX: The default folder for the slide show was set to “F:/” (#303)
• FIX: Fixed an issue when Auto-Subtitles are enabled, we weren’t allowing manual activation of other subtitles if they were automatically disabled.
• FIX: Crash in the Media Server in iTunes plug-in.
• FIX: James made some minor tweaks to menu/keyboard handling, so that the ‘Move focus to the menu bar’ command (mapped to ^F2) works, and also ?W now closes the About window.
• FIX: We now scrobble to Last.fm as “Plex”.
• FIX: Thumbnails obtained from the Plex Media Server are all stored in their own directory, and given a limited time to live, so that you shouldn’t need to go manually whack icons or fanart any more. In addition, thumbnails created by the Plex Media Server with Quick Look are also only cached for a limited amount of time.
• FIX: Removed the System Info window, which really wasn’t doing much good (thanks to James).
• FIX: Disable cross-fading by default (also thanks to James).
• FIX: Fixed an error in the keymap (thanks to Mickey for reporting, and James for fixing).
• FIX: The Plex Media Server quit confirmation dialog didn’t always appear on top (James).
• FIX: Improved A/V sync, those with senses tuned to this sort of stuff should find it better behaved.
• FIX: iTunes visualizers didn’t show elapsed time (thanks to Daniel for reporting it).
• FIX: Resume point for videos is now saved when quitting.
• FIX: Years weren’t showing up in IMDB matches.
• FIX: On updates or restarts, PlexHelper (and thus Apple Remote) could stop working.
• FIX: If you had the Plex Media Server set to “Always running” it would not start on boot.
• FIX: A crash starting a zoomed MKV (with software upscaling enabled).
• FIX: A crash on startup with audio device changes.
• Also, we’ve worked on the interaction between Plex and the Media Server, as well as the Python Framework. James just pushed the official v1.0 to the store, and he’ll be blogging about all the great changes in the final release. Note that all plug-in caches and data will be reset because of changes to the encoding, which means that you will need to re-enter login data into some plug-ins (we apologize for this).
• NEW: We now support redirection from HTTP to RTMP, MMS, and WebKit streams.
• NEW: Site configurations can live inside plug-ins.
• NEW: We check for other Python files changing besides __init__.py inside of Contents/Code.
• NEW: Seek bars are allowed to specify small/large percentages to jump.
• NEW: Video items can specify bandwidth if they wish to override the automatically computed bandwidth (also useful for some FLV files where it’s not possible to extract it).
• NEW: You can pass back cookies from the Media Server to Plex, which is useful for accessing authenticated content.
• FIX: The Preferences item refreshes parent, useful for displaying/hiding sub-menus based on logged in status (James)
• FIX: Javascript seek bars didn’t reset properly.
• FIX: String keys are now allowed for album media items.
• FIX: The Plex Media Server would crash if a site configuration moved to an unknown state.
• FIX: Showing a message dialog at the top level of a plug-in didn’t work right.
• FIX: The Media Server didn’t forward requests to the right plug-in when they shared a common prefix (James)

• Release Date: May 24, 2009
• Remember how when Windows 3.0 came out, it really sucked, and it wasn’t until 3.1 that Microsoft got things right? Well, I’d like to think of this release (download here) as being the “Windows 3.1″ release of Plex. We’ve fixed a lot of issues, and this version should be much more stable than the previous one. Additionally, the people who were staying with v0.7.13 because of issues with BluRay rips in subsequent versions can now download this version without fear.
• FIX: Idle CPU reduced greatly. On an iMac we went from 24% to around 9.8%. On a 1.83GHz Mini we went from 38% to 16%. Al Gore is happy.
• FIX: Hang when playing WebKit content after 5.1 content.
• FIX: A few issues causing App Store/plug-ins to disappear.
• FIX: Hang on exit (when Media Server Scrobbler was enabled).
• FIX: Cannot play/browse AC/DC (and other artists with funky names) from the iTunes library. Heavy metal fans rejoice!
• FIX: Scrobbling plays of AAC files to the Plex Media Server wasn’t working.
• FIX: Crash on start when Plex Media Server was run on a computer without Plex.
• FIX: Intermittant lack of audio when starting 5.1 videos when background music/themes was enabled. (We also disabling the fading, which was not helping.)
• FIX: VC-1 apparent regression in ffmpeg 0.5 which caused much higher CPU usage and related problems. Ryan and I resolved it by reverting to an earlier version of the codec. Thanks to Peter for bringing the issue to our attention, and to Aaron for help in tracking it down.
• FIX: View Slideshow context menu items weren’t enabled for top-level photo plug-ins.
• FIX: Jay and Isaac tweaked the default settings for IMDB to make sure the best quality posters are returned.
• FIX: James made some tweak to Now Playing. The flip time is now configurable in the Advanced Settings Cocoa UI (Make it flip every 5 seconds! Make your child and/or pets motion sick!) Additionally, the background is more in line with look of MediaStream.
• FIX: We’ve defaulted the automatic audio stream selection to false, as we think that default makes more sense (Thanks, Isaac! You can turn it off manually yourself in the video player preferences.) We also fixed an issue with the auto-selection of subtitles if the auto-selection of audio streams was disabled.
• FIX: We pulled the latest libdcr code which decodes RAW images (it fixes some pink-hue issues with newer cameras).
• FIX: As forum user “someone” reported, the German strings were botched in the previous version.
• FIX: Sébastien Vaast kindly send us updates to the French translation.
• FIX: We fixed a possible crash with Javascript seek bars in site profiles.
• FIX: Relative coordinates on “thumb” seek-bars were broken, many thanks to Robert Nio for reporting the issue and testing the fix.
• FIX: We pulled the latest XBMC UPnP code, in hopes this would help with some problems reported on the forums. We also pulled a fix related to the sendkey HTTP-API command, and a few other fixes.

• Release Date: May 12, 2009
• Please refer to this blog post on a full list of changes

• Release Date: Apr 24, 2009
• Please refer to this blog post on a full list of changes

• Release Date: Apr 8, 2009
• Please refer to this blog post on a full list of changes

• Release Date: Mar 11, 2009
• FIX: Hulu playback was broken when the site exploited a bug in our code, which has now been fixed.
• NEW: Support for variably-sized Flash/Silverlight content (and also for sizes changing on the fly). You can now specify negative values in the site configuration for cropping, mouse operations, and in seekbars. A negative X or width value indicates the number of pixels from the right, and a negative Y or height value specifies negative pixels from the bottom. (Specifying 0 for width/height means “the entire width/height”, this should help for sites such as Vimeo.)
• NEW: We’ve moved the Plex Python plug-in framework into a plug-in named Framework.bundle (great idea, James!). Among other things, this fixes the issue with the code signature breaking on the Plex Media Server and the Leopard firewall getting upset about it. This also allows us to have multiple concurrent versions of the framework for backwards compatibility. We take this sort of thing very seriously, as we want you to be able to write plug-ins without fear of them breaking with API changes.

• Release Date: Mar 4, 2009
• FIX: Silly regression which resulted in you being left in an empty directory after installing from the app store (and a few other cases).
• FIX: Improved compatibility with certain Flash sites.

• Release Date: Mar 3, 2009
• FIX: Crashes in Plex Media Server with Safari Adblocker and other similar plug-ins.
• FIX: Pulled a fix from XBMC for variable framerate FLV files (important for a new plug-in).
• FIX: Crashes in Apple Movie Trailers with 5.1 audio (integrated Ryan’s excellent audio fixes).
• FIX: Some of the menu shortcuts were broken (thanks to migueld for pointing this out).
• FIX: Some other crashes in Plex Media Server with badly behaved or misconfigured sites.
• FIX: Much improved Swedish translation, with many thanks to atrus.
• FIX: Updated to the latest Amazon scrapers (thanks to John Lockwood).
• NEW: Support for executing Javascript inside plug-in site configurations (as an action).

• Release Date: Feb 27, 2009
• We just pushed a new release out which improves compatibility with some Flash sites, and to go along with it, Scott prepared a new version of the Hulu plug-in with some nice enhancements, including more fanart, better thumbnails, flattened movie hierarchy, and more results returned for specific shows.
  
  Besides the known issue of the Plex Media Server not working with Safari Adblocker, if a plug-in stops working, it’s likely that the structure of the site changed. This doesn’t happen very frequently with most sites, but it’s a definite possibility. When this occurs, an entity we call the “Campfire Robot” springs into action automatically and tracks us down to let us know, and shortly thereafter we can push an update.
  
  As such, if a site stops working, the best thing to do is to check the App Store for updates. If you have automatic updates turned on, check your install history to see if an update got installed while you were getting coffee.
  
  To answer your question, no, we rarely sleep.

• Release Date: Feb 25, 2009
• FIX: Fixed permissions on the Plex binary to allow non-administrative users to run.
• FIX: Tweaks to the skin for upcoming Plug-ins.
• FIX: Some crashes and leaks in the Media Server.
• FIX: Fixed the scrapers/NFO issue, this time for real (many thanks to Isaac for all the hard work on this one!). We also include the TMDB scraper again.
• FIX: A regression where only the first iPhoto album showed up.
• FIX: Improved compatibility with Flash sites for the Media Server.

• Release Date: Feb 22, 2009
• Please refer to this blog post for a full list of changes

• Release Date: Feb 8, 2009
• FIX: iPhoto events sort by date, not by name.
• FIX: Slow access to media, marking unwatched/watched, etc.
• FIX: The HTTP receive timeout was increased to 15 seconds, to hopefully allow TVDB time to respond. Thanks to Todd L on the forums for suggesting this fix.
• FIX: IFO files weren’t showing up in DVD video directories.
• FIX: The MediaStream “Info List” view mode was tweaked to make the list the same size and positioning vertically as the regular list view.

• Release Date: Feb 6, 2009
• Please refer to this blog post for a full list of changes

• Release Date: Dec 28, 2008
• FIX: The audio dropout issue which was introduced in 0.7.2 should now be fixed.
• FIX: The corrupted German MediaStream strings.
• FIX: File size reporting bug in HTTP API has really been fixed this time.
• FIX: Some tweaks to “album artist” tags in Plex Media Server iTunes module. Thanks to zanex for helping explain what was wrong.
• FIX: Certain videos (FLV, YouTube, 22KHz MP3 tracks) played back at double-speed. Thanks to Ryan for explaining how to fix this one.

• Release Date: Oct 31, 2008
• Please refer to this blog post to see what's new in this release