Jellyfin Server Updates & Release Notes

:rocket: Jellyfin Server 12.2

We are pleased to announce the latest stable release of Jellyfin, version 12.2! This minor release brings several bugfixes to improve your Jellyfin experience. As always, please ensure you take a full backup before upgrading!

Discuss this release further on our forums.

Changelog (51)

📈 General Changes

• Replace custom item display preferences in one transaction [PR #18266], by @martimarkov
• Use hvc1 for Dolby Vision profile 8 [PR #18300], by @theopeuchlestrade
• Make the OwnerId and ExtraType/OwnerId indexes partial so extras lookups keep using them [PR #18276], by @Shadowghost
• Enhance internal search provider for multiple scripts [PR #18223], by @excelsior-dev
• Dispose the database context in DeleteTrickplayDataAsync [PR #18269], by @martimarkov
• Fix orphan ItemValues cleanup after deletion [PR #17892], by @nintwentydo
• Fix off-by-one in the optimistic locking retry backoff [PR #18268], by @martimarkov
• Upgrade ATL to 7.18.0 to fix malformed FLAC hangs [PR #18224], by @ScottishTapWater
• Fix EPUB metadata and covers not loading on Windows [PR #18283], by @chino
• Refuse to start a set-up server whose database is missing or empty [PR #18264], by @martimarkov
• Compare local image dates with a one second tolerance [PR #18278], by @Shadowghost
• Only propagate a changed rating to children that follow it [PR #18280], by @Shadowghost …

:rocket: Jellyfin Server 12.1

We are pleased to announce the latest stable release of Jellyfin, version 12.1! This minor release brings several bugfixes to improve your Jellyfin experience. As always, please ensure you take a full backup before upgrading!

Discuss this release further on our forums.

Changelog (47)

📈 General Changes

• Stop resolving items with every field where only stored columns are read [PR #18039], by @Shadowghost
• Fix nested unnumbered season folders collapsing onto the first one [PR #18044], by @Shadowghost
• Release a folder's children once its subtree has been scanned [PR #17884], by @Shadowghost
• Enforce channel mediasource id [PR #18037], by @Shadowghost
• Fix Norwegian ratings [PR #18017], by @theguymadmax
• Stop the library monitor from refreshing against a disposed host [PR #18020], by @Shadowghost
• Don't queue by-name items for playback and reject source requests for them [PR #17999], by @Shadowghost
• Fix forced-only not overriding remembered subtitles [PR #17998], by @Shadowghost
• Fix SyncPlay authentication error handling and limit group member wait time [PR #17938], by @Shadowghost
• Fix /UserViews exhausting memory and reporting random child counts [PR #17881], by @Shadowghost
• Fix device access revocation not logging out existing sessions [PR #18026], by @fmarcac …

:rocket: Release notes for 12.0

Notes on Updating

Before upgrading from an earlier version, a full backup of the data directory is strongly recommended, as this release includes database changes that prevent rolling back without a full restore.

Direct upgrades from 10.10.7 and 10.11.x to 12.0 are supported; intermediate upgrades are not required. Users running releases older than 10.10.7 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to 10.10.7 before migrating to 12.0.

Installed repository plugins (anything not built-in) should also be removed before migrating. Plugins will likely need time to adapt to the new database changes, so re-adding them afterward is the safest approach for testing.

Official plugins compatible with Jellyfin are available through the stable plugin repository. If you have changed to the unstable plugin repository please change it back.

• Go to Dashboard -> Plugins -> Manage Repositories
• Update the Plugin Repository URL to: https://repo.jellyfin.org/files/plugin/manifest.json

After migrating please perform the following steps.

• Perform a full library scan to restore alternative versions

If you run into issues, please prefix bug reports with "[12.0]".

Packaging

• Debian Bullseye and Ubuntu Focal packages are no longer built

Server

• Performance PR implications https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pull/16062 …

:rocket: Jellyfin Server 12.0 RC7

We are pleased to announce the seventh release candidate preview release of Jellyfin 12.0!

This is a preview release, intended for those interested in testing 12.0 before its final public release. We welcome testers to help find as many bugs as we can before the final release.

As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup before upgrading!

A note about versioning

Starting with this release, we are dropping the preceding 10. from our versioning. Thus, 10.11.x -> [10.]12.x = 12.x. The reason is simple: at this point in the project, we don't envision a hard break in the API like we planned way back in the early days, and this version scheme was causing a lot of confusion amongst users about what a "major" release was. For more information, please see the RC1 release notes.

What's new?

The main goal of this release has been performance. 10.11.0 dropped a major backend rewrite, and while it was broadly functional, it had a lot of rough edges. This release seeks to polish out most of those rough edges and bring better performance to all users. …

:rocket: Jellyfin Server 12.0 RC6

We are pleased to announce the sixth release candidate preview release of Jellyfin 12.0!

This is a preview release, intended for those interested in testing 12.0 before its final public release. We welcome testers to help find as many bugs as we can before the final release.

As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup before upgrading!

A note about versioning

Starting with this release, we are dropping the preceding 10. from our versioning. Thus, 10.11.x -> [10.]12.x = 12.x. The reason is simple: at this point in the project, we don't envision a hard break in the API like we planned way back in the early days, and this version scheme was causing a lot of confusion amongst users about what a "major" release was. For more information, please see the RC1 release notes.

What's new?

The main goal of this release has been performance. 10.11.0 dropped a major backend rewrite, and while it was broadly functional, it had a lot of rough edges. This release seeks to polish out most of those rough edges and bring better performance to all users. …

:rocket: Jellyfin Server 12.0 RC5

We are pleased to announce the fifth release candidate preview release of Jellyfin 12.0!

This is a preview release, intended for those interested in testing 12.0 before its final public release. We welcome testers to help find as many bugs as we can before the final release.

As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup before upgrading!

A note about versioning

Starting with this release, we are dropping the preceding 10. from our versioning. Thus, 10.11.x -> [10.]12.x = 12.x. The reason is simple: at this point in the project, we don't envision a hard break in the API like we planned way back in the early days, and this version scheme was causing a lot of confusion amongst users about what a "major" release was. For more information, please see the RC1 release notes.

What's new?

The main goal of this release has been performance. 10.11.0 dropped a major backend rewrite, and while it was broadly functional, it had a lot of rough edges. This release seeks to polish out most of those rough edges and bring better performance to all users. …

:rocket: Jellyfin Server 12.0 RC4

We are pleased to announce the fourth release candidate preview release of Jellyfin 12.0!

This is a preview release, intended for those interested in testing 12.0 before its final public release. We welcome testers to help find as many bugs as we can before the final release.

As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup before upgrading!

A note about versioning

Starting with this release, we are dropping the preceding 10. from our versioning. Thus, 10.11.x -> [10.]12.x = 12.x. The reason is simple: at this point in the project, we don't envision a hard break in the API like we planned way back in the early days, and this version scheme was causing a lot of confusion amongst users about what a "major" release was. For more information, please see the RC1 release notes.

What's new?

The main goal of this release has been performance. 10.11.0 dropped a major backend rewrite, and while it was broadly functional, it had a lot of rough edges. This release seeks to polish out most of those rough edges and bring better performance to all users. …

:rocket: Jellyfin Server 12.0 RC3

We are pleased to announce the third release candidate preview release of Jellyfin 12.0!

This is a preview release, intended for those interested in testing 12.0 before its final public release. We welcome testers to help find as many bugs as we can before the final release.

As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup before upgrading!

A note about versioning

Starting with this release, we are dropping the preceding 10. from our versioning. Thus, 10.11.x -> [10.]12.x = 12.x. The reason is simple: at this point in the project, we don't envision a hard break in the API like we planned way back in the early days, and this version scheme was causing a lot of confusion amongst users about what a "major" release was. For more information, please see the RC1 release notes.

What's new?

The main goal of this release has been performance. 10.11.0 dropped a major backend rewrite, and while it was broadly functional, it had a lot of rough edges. This release seeks to polish out most of those rough edges and bring better performance to all users. …