Jellyfin 10.4.0

After a lot of work over several months, we’re pleased to offer Jellyfin 10.4.0.

New Features and Major Improvements

• Speed! WebUI responsiveness has been greatly improved, resulting in a much snappier experience with the WebUI.
• Tons and tons of backend improvements to help stability and increase speed.
• General improvements to various areas of the WebUI, including hover animations, icon improvements, scroller fixes, and other general fixes.
• Configurable base URL functionality [Feature Request #37].
• New web layout option to help future webOS clients, including keyboard navigation support.
• Removal of most bundled libraries from the WebUI to streamline performance.
• Keyboard shortcut support in the video player.
• Unhid the Activity page in the Dashboard for eventual improvement.
• Reorganization of the Dashboard menus, including separating out most of the former “Advanced” menu.
• Manual subtitle synchronization support [Feature Request #178].
• FFmpeg >4.0 support; jellyfin-ffmpeg upgraded to 4.2.1; warnings for unsupported versions in the logs [Feature Request #203].
• Proper installer for Windows users [Feature Request #83].
• Full hardware acceleration support for VAAPI, NVEnv/NVDec, and OMX [Feature Request #75].
• “Purple Haze” theme added as an in-built option.
• New plugin: Bookshelf, for managing eBooks [Feature Request #43].
• New plugin: FanArt, removed from core server.

Important Release Notes

• [All] As always, ensure you back up your Jellyfin data and configuration directories, with Jellyfin stopped, before upgrading. This is very important in case you want to roll back to a previous stable release.
• [All] Some plugins have updated versions to work with 10.4.0; if any installed plugins are missing after upgrading, re-install them from the catalog.
• [All] FanArt support has been moved to a plugin.
• [Kodi Integration] Due to recent updates, if syncing fails, you may need to kick off a manual full sync, after which normal syncs will work again.
• [Windows] For 10.4.0, the default Windows data directory has moved from %AppDataLocal%\Jellyfin to %ProgramData%\Jellyfin\Server. Move/copy your data to this new location before upgrading.
• [Windows] Ensure you remove any previously-installed zip-based installs, or you may get duplicate Windows Service entries.
• [Windows] Startup shortcuts are not present for non-service installs and must be created manually.
• [Windows] Service installs require correct permissions; keep this in mind if you get permission errors accessing media or configurations.
• [Windows] Service installs won’t have access to network shares unless your computer is in an Active Directory domain by default; you must change the service login to a named account manually and provide credentials to any network shares for this to work, or do not install Jellyfin as a service.
• [Windows] The installer also does not take care of any firewall rules for you, make sure to add the appropiate Windows Firewall rules.

FFmpeg

Jellyfin 10.4.0 is complemented by jellyfin-ffmpeg 4.2.1 on the following platfoms:

• Debian (stretch, buster; amd64, arm64, armhf)
• Ubuntu (xenial, bionic, cosmic, dapper; amd64, arm64, armhf)
• Docker

And by a build based on the current master (N-95234-g35a63a9127, https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/a1e5c35a6e43ef8722017b070c124e72d628c0cd) for Windows.

On these platforms, our FFmpeg includes a patch to help aleviate premature skips near the end of videos (#1694). We hope this is a stopgap until our patch is accepted upstream, or a fix found within Jellyfin.

For now, other platforms may still experience this bug as their FFmpeg is not patched.

Please ensure you upgrade jellyfin-ffmpeg as well as jellyfin for 10.4.0 for optimal performance. Older versions will however still work fine.

Changelog

GitHub Project: https://github.com/orgs/jellyfin/projects/8

Jellyfin

• #1846 Switch to custom patched build for ffmpeg for the Windows installer
• #1845 Correct missing mesa-va-drivers package
• #1844 Fix missing image on seasons without posters
• #1841 Update Docs to docs.jellyfin.org URL
• #1829 Fix SchedulesDirect authentication
• #1825 Revert “Fix premature stop when streaming”
• #1822 Update README for new docs location
• #1820 Properly build DLL for porable
• #1819 Ignore exception when attempting to kill ffmpeg that has exited
• #1818 Fix SourceBranch -> SourceBranchName in git clone for Web UI
• #1817 Change PRAGMA mode from WAL to TRUNCATE
• #1815 Fix tests
• #1814 Fix ffmpeg version check for unknown versions
• #1812 Avoid editing preferences without user interaction
• #1811 Configure Kestrel listener to use configured IPs
• #1809 Recursively zip Windows packages
• #1808 Change Win32 AMF flag to d3d11va
• #1805 Fix plugin installation
• #1804 Add tests for EncoderValidator and add support for ffmpeg 4.2
• #1803 Don’t log revision number
• #1802 Fix premature stop when streaming
• #1801 Do explicit dotnet publish in Dockerfiles
• #1798 Fix SetImage to avoid out of range exception
• #1793 Clean up and update builds to use new jellyfin-web
• #1791 Remove submodule and add clone and build to CI for web UI
• #1788 Include libssl-dev dep in Ubuntu build containers
• #1785 Add mediabrowser route back for now
• #1777 Add escapes for path quotes in the NSIS Installer
• #1775 Fix multiple mistakes and warnings
• #1773 Remove WAN DDNS
• #1772 Hide new users from public API by default
• #1770 Remove WAN IP Detection
• #1768 Set log level to debug for HTTP range requests
• #1765 Add submodule update to CI build.
• #1764 Fix publish CI YAML parse error
• #1763 Add two manually triggered pipelines for publishing artifacts.
• #1752 Improve Skia error handling
• #1751 Reset invalid login counter on successfull login
• #1746 Docker - Build jellyfin-web
• #1744 Rewrite ItemDataProvider to be more robust
• #1735 Update deps
• #1731 Fix culture problem on Windows for segment_time_delta argument.
• #1727 Add mesa-va-drivers to main Dockerfile for AMD VAAPI transcoding
• #1723 Possible fix for MrMC
• #1709 Fix crash due to missing userRootFolder data
• #1708 Fix translate link
• #1707 Fix default build arg
• #1704 Fix replace multiple spaces
• #1702 Fix more warnings
• #1700 Restore flac mime type
• #1699 Bump version to 10.4.0
• #1696 Add VSTest support to CI
• #1695 Make Docker ffmpeg version configurable
• #1693 Update Debian build to Buster and LibSSL 1.1
• #1692 NSIS improvements
• #1691 Enable VAAPI decoding without hardware encoding
• #1687 Move IsoMounter to plugin
• #1686 More warning fixes
• #1685 Fix invalid arg for
• #1683 Move the transcode path and other small fixes
• #1680 Fix q6fn dlna seek for direct play
• #1678 Fix ArgumentOutOfRangeException in ParseTimeSeekHeader
• #1677 Remove legacy auth code
• #1676 Fix login
• #1665 Fix warnings, improve performance
• #1659 Fix segment_time_delta value for ffmpeg 4.1
• #1656 Fix firewall-cmd: Error: INVALID_SERVICE: ‘jellyfin’ not among existing services
• #1651 Fix local trailers playback
• #1650 Upgrade SQLitePCL to v2
• #1646 Return DB lock immediately
• #1645 Fix UserNotFoundError
• #1644 Fix possible hidden exceptions
• #1643 Fix some documentation warnings for MediaBrowser.XbmcMetadata
• #1642 Speed up BaseItem deserialization
• #1641 Tmdb cleanup and re-add Writer and Producer
• #1636 Add analysers to Emby.IsoMounting and enable TreatWarningsAsErrors
• #1634 Fix build on .Net Core 2.x
• #1633 Attempt to fix #1391
• #1632 Improve LocalizationManager
• #1631 Fix build for .Net Core 2.x
• #1629 Fix tvdb guest stars with multiple roles
• #1628 Always fetch episode id as EpisodeInfo does not contain it
• #1625 Fix instant crash.
• #1624 Fix possible Nullref
• #1622 Add a task to clean up transcode cache
• #1614 Document all public/internal members of Emby.Drawing
• #1613 Update deps + document startup project
• #1612 Fix warnings
• #1608 Add link to feature request hub to readme
• #1605 Fix Docker build
• #1602 Update the Stale-bot config
• #1597 Set log level to debug for HTTP range requests
• #1593 Docker - make web version more configurable
• #1590 Adds null check on studio/network name
• #1588 Add base url option to server configuration
• #1584 Check checksum for plugin downloads
• #1583 Add Fider to README
• #1582 Include library via NuGet instead of via source
• #1581 Use System.Net abstractions instead of raw socket
• #1580 Ignore Ipv6 link-local addresses
• #1579 Fix #1388 and #1472
• #1578 Replace custom code with Asp.Net Core code
• #1574 Add the —azure-pipelines switch to the compat checker
• #1573 Use a dictionary to look up mimetypes
• #1572 Remove the issue template for feature requests.
• #1568 Add DLNA headers if requested by the client
• #1562 Don’t copy the complete response stream
• #1555 Add Stale app configuration starting point
• #1541 Override the Debian installinit name
• #1540 Fixed SMI Encoding Bug
• #1536 Fix broken symlinks in deployment
• #1534 Use dash or underscore on mv command
• #1524 Remove IpAddressInfo and IpEndPointInfo classes
• #1521 Clean up livestreaming code
• #1519 Fix merge errors
• #1518 Update the GitHub token to a Grant Auth token
• #1517 Update the GitHub connection name to use the GitHub App token
• #1516 Move VACUUM command to fix merge error
• #1513 Fix style issues
• #1511 Add NSIS installer build support
• #1505 Qualified Namespace of pscredential
• #1500 Add optional password field on user creation
• #1499 Log IP address on failed login attempt
• #1484 Update TVDB provider to search based on series display order
• #1463 Update deps
• #1462 Improvements to InstallationManager
• #1457 Stop path substitution in SubtitleEncoder - Fix #1446
• #1454 Simplify file serving code
• #1453 Improve main code flow
• #1452 Improvements to UserManager
• #1451 Create Media Playback issue template
• #1448 Use the username for the user config path
• #1440 Change UsCulture to InvariantCulture
• #1433 Add support for encoding with libx265 and hevc_nvenc
• #1427 Move fanart image provider to plugin
• #1397 Streamline authentication proccess
• #1369 Enable Exynos MFC encoder and fix transcoding bitrate control
• #1368 Only return useful drives
• #1367 Ignore casing photo extensions
• #1366 Fix more warnings
• #1363 Update getting-help link in README
• #1293 Fix query time logging
• #1274 Prevent null reference when request content type is x-www-form-urlencoded
• #1247 Adjust detection of ‘sample’ in filenames to use regex boundaries
• #1245 Remove unused event
• #1229 Cleaning WebSocketSharp continued
• #1225 Fix help message to indicate the right output folder
• #1224 Fix missing Unraid cache mount and name capitalization
• #1218 Disable dotnet_compat part of pipeline
• #1212 Clean WebSocketSharpRequest.PathInfo
• #1211 Update Unraid Docker icon
• #1210 Fix README documentation link
• #1182 Speed up DeepCopy
• #1176 Remove unused dependency for Emby.Naming

Jellyfin Web

• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#503 Fix some minor issues with the dashboard page
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#502 Update Docs to docs.jellyfin.org URL
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#501 Resolves missing policy error on user creation
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#500 Restore prepare script
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#498 Fix issues with scrollbutton visibility
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#497 Update documentation links
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#492 Add webpack-dev-server
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#490 Add jQuery to global scope
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#484 Revert “Allow card text to continue through line breaks”
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#481 Fix missing jQuery in medialibraryeditor
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#479 Improve the user settings interface
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#478 Fix video osd header styles
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#477 Fix mediainfo display on tv mode
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#474 add 700ms timer for ‘mousemove’ and ‘touchmove’ volume listeners
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#472 Remove WAN domain name options
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#470 Azure pipelines
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#468 Fix Duplicate loading animation
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#466 Fix toggle on tv layout mode
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#464 update apphost appVersion to 10.4.0
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#463 Changed to non-blocking subtitles
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#462 Add style for metadata sidebar Icon folder
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#461 Fix: Not all players support xxxSubtitleOffset
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#460 Added toast notification when copy-stream is executed
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#459 Added more details to itemdetails page
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#458 Refactor several files and methods
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#456 Require hls.js from npm
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#455 Allow fldSelectLoginProvider for admins
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#451 Improve button style when focused
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#450 Disable animations in editor sidebar
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#449 Don’t hide play all and shuffle buttons on mobile
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#448 fix AutoRunWebApp checkbox on dashboardgeneral
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#446 Dashboard layout improvements
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#444 Minor update for media info
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#443 Fixed blurred My Media images
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#441 Improve image quality on detail page
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#439 Add media file size to Playback Data
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#436 Always have last sort of movies be by production year
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#435 Change primary highlight for delete confirmation dialog
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#434 Add string for LabelFolder
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#433 Quick fix Now playing bar controls
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#432 Add icon to metadata editor side bar
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#430 Fix layout issues for device cards on dashboard
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#429 Add prepare script for git installs
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#428 Fix preload background color
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#427 Add sorting for music albums in an artist’s details page
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#425 Bump eslint-utils from 1.4.0 to 1.4.2
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#424 Add a “Copy Stream URL” button in the dropdown menu, for easy Direct Play in VLC
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#422 Use same css rules for section tabs
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#418 if collection has no playable items hide play and shuffle btns
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#417 add favorite books section to favorite tab
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#415 Fix redirect on wizardfinishpage
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#414 Resolve deviceId promise properly during apphost init
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#413 Fix card layout on home for books
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#412 Move transcoding page to playback settings and improve strings
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#411 Clean up unused filter audio language
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#410 Disable Group versions for non admin
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#408 Reflect changes made to main repo’s stale bot config.
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#406 Enable blurred footer in chrome
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#405 Upgrade dependencies
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#403 Fix text overlap on now playing bar
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#402 Selectively hide manual login button
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#400 Add base url option to web client
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#399 Delete enhancement-request.md and feature-request.md
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#398 Add stale app config.
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#397 Allow card text to continue through line breaks
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#396 Move download action to major button for books (itemdetailspage)
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#388 Enable display mode setting
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#386 Change media info display
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#382 Fix homesection ‘On now’ display elements
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#381 Fix homesection programs button to go to correct page
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#380 Fix to enable tuner edit again
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#379 Add an ImageHelper class to consolidate frequently used icons
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#378 Add optional password field on user creation
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#377 Fix log issue from jellyfin/jellyfin-web#365
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#376 Fix adminDrawerLogo
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#375 Fix querySelector for Save metadata and images as hidden files
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#372 Add ‘Series’ button to Live TV menu off homesection
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#366 Minor fixes for section headers
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#365 Fix repeated automatic attempts to cast to a device
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#360 Small tweaks to the server settings
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#356 Fix certain elements getting incorrectly centered on firefox
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#353 Add proper styling to DlnaProfile and ScheduledTask pages
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#350 Move fanart provider to plugin
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#348 Fix firefox dropdown
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#343 Bundle npm dependencies using webpack
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#342 Add span class to fix a margin issue with some icons
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#339 Add editorconfig
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#337 Correction and translation of texts or words in spanish
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#336 Update purple haze theme and fix some unstyled elements
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#335 Always show options menu next to mouse
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#330 Merge current translations
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#327 Changes checkboxes focus appearance
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#326 Fix icon
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#325 Add some missing strings and remove gradients from themes
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#324 Change warning icons on dashboard to a bell instead of “pvr”
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#322 Fix secondery title position and show year on tv show ui
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#318 Add a response on icon hover and other style fixes
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#315 Move buttons to top right for custom scroll element
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#314 Initial support for keyboard navigation (for webOS remote etc.)
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#313 Improve the library page and dialog UX
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#312 Always show the start task button except on errors
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#307 Redirect when loading video player fails
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#300 Fix dashboard column & update purple haze
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#299 remove networking information from the dashboard
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#295 Add a round progress bar to purple haze theme
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#294 change cast & crew view to horizontal scroller
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#292 Fix some issues with the user preference page
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#278 New keyboard shortcuts
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#276 Fix text overflow not displaying ellipsis in cards
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#275 Add double click to fullscreen
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#272 Remove option to enable debug logging
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#271 Remove similar themes with accent changes
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#266 fix rounded progress bars
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#265 Update links for most of the old documentation
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#264 Fix Thumb rendering without thumbnails
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#251 Adding new Purple haze themes with rounded layout
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#241 Fix logout session storage
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#238 Remove unusable assets and update a string reference to connect
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#232 Replace more web archive buttons with new documentation
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#230 Remove unnecessary overflowY changes
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#229 Fix “Password Reset by PIN” page
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#224 Conversion to webpack - part5 - module resolution, data-require cleaned
• jellyfin/jellyfin-web#220 Add subtitle synchronization on HTML video player