Take a skim through the link for full details (especially the breaking changes), but I have included some parts that I thought were important:
This release has been over two years in the making, so we’re really glad to finally get it out to you. The long cycle does mean quite an extensive changelog however, with well over 1100 pull requests merged into our master branch since 10.8.0 first dropped back in 2022.
General
We now support “trickplay” a.k.a. live video scrubbing. When scrubbing through a video with this enabled, you will be able to see a live preview of the video at that timestamp. Note that this requires explicit client support, which may require some time to become available depending on your client.
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We now support AVIF and WEBP images for Pictures libraries.
Tags are now accounted for during searches, allowing one to search by tag.
We now support multiple simultaneous subtitle tracks (maximum of two, a primary and secondary) in the web player.
We’ve revamped the administrative dashboard UI to help improve usability and ease of finding options.
API & Security
All API endpoints now return proper return codes, ensuring that API endpoint results can be reliably interpreted without additional parsing.
Parental ratings are significantly improved, with better enforcement, inheritable ratings, and more.
LiveTV and Collection permissions are now discrete and configurable per-user.
The EasyPassword (PIN) feature has been removed as this was a big security risk especially for administrator accounts; QuickConnect login is still supported however.
User permission handling has been unified and numerous bugs fixed, ensuring a more secure server from untrusted users.
Core Server & Networking
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- The server now supports in-process restarting, and removes the old hacky restart.sh method. This should make things like installing plugins much more robust and ensure a consistent restart experience regardless of platform or install method.
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- The backend SQLite database now supports connection pooling, which should improve performance for database operations.
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Also sections on Packaging, Transcoding & FFmpeg improvements/support, Scanning, Library & Playlist Management, and Casting
The Next Version
With our continuous integrations improvements outlined previously, we’re quite confident that this will be our last “very long” release cycle. Our plan is for the next major version (10.10.0) to be released at most 6 months from now, some time in October. We hope this increased cadence will help alleviate the problems with large releases such as a very long time-to-stable for new features, translations, etc. and help lower the number of major bugs at each major release, streamlining the upgrade process. But this needs everyone’s help. Back in October 2023, we made a call for developers, and we’ve gotten a lot of interest, but this is not a one-and-done event. We need contributions now more than ever, especially around the web frontend to help implement our planned design changes. If this interests you, please reach out and we can help get you set up.
I’ve already paid for a lifetime license of Plex. Is it worth considering a switch?
I left Plex about two years ago and haven’t looked back since. Install Jellyfin and see if you like it .
The layout of Plex definitely fits my brain waaaaay better with respect to navigation. But I hardly use it because I keep running into playback stuttering which doesn’t happen on Infuse, which I point at Jellyfin in my Synology. Will give this version another try.
I was getting stuttering on my server the other day but i think it was caused by mismatched client/server versions. When i upgraded the server to the latest release it went away
Interesting. I will take a look and see if that fixes it. Thanks for the tip!
Just run Jellyfin along side Plex and see.
No. Jellyfin is lacking
Lacking a centralised server that even self-hosted instances must use to validate admins and will render your instance inaccessible if Plex’s server goes down again?
I’m fine with that.
Subjective
Jellyfin server isn’t lacking, but the weak point is definitely client software, especially on iOS. Unfortunately they just don’t have the same kind of resources Plex do in that regard.
I run Plex and Jellyfin, with watched status between the two synchronised with jellyplex-watched.
Errrm infuse… hands down awesome on iOS macOS and tvOS.
Unless I’m missing something, you can’t have multiple user profiles.
I use Infuse on my Apple TV with Plex Media Server as the backend. I can work with that limitation on Apple TV because my wife and kids use the official Plex app while I use Infuse, but ideally I’d prefer if we all used Infuse.
Ahh yes multi user is unfortunately not an infuse feature. Swiftfin does however have multiple users on iOS and presumably tvOS but isn’t as polished as infuse.
I have the same question, mainly because it seems like the Plex interface is trying too hard to show stuff that’s not on my local server.
You can hide all of that on your sidebar customization settings, but yeah it’s annoying that it’s turned on by default. The Discover is occasionally useful, but I honestly use Overseerr for discoverability more than I use Plex’s built-in search.
My biggest complaint with Plex is the lack of support for .m3u8 playlists. I want to be able to give it a list of livestreams, and then tune into those via Plex. Plex obviously already has live-streaming support built in via their Plex channels, but they have actively worked against custom livestream playlists, (it used to be supported via an extension, but they removed extension support.)