🚀 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!

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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
• Recognize numbered sample and trailer files as extras [PR #18255], by @HaraldNordgren
• Recompute the parental rating score whenever an item is saved [PR #18279], by @Shadowghost
• Compare person names without regard to case in the letter range filters [PR #18265], by @martimarkov
• Fix video quality at low bitrates when reducing bit depth [PR #18261], by @nyanmisaka
• Update episode season name after editing the season name [PR #18253], by @theguymadmax
• Fix segment cleaner deleting segments ahead of playback when remuxing MKV [PR #18186], by @klizas
• Fix user preferences when renaming libraries [PR #18236], by @z0rimo
• Fix item display preferences item [PR #18259], by @martimarkov
• Use XmlReader in encoder preset migration tests [PR #18237], by @maghuro
• Don't advance rewatch Next Up past a barely started episode [PR #18202], by @Shadowghost
• Keep an item's user data rows in agreement [PR #18001], by @Shadowghost
• Stop rebuilding the inherited-tag set per row, and count only the people /Persons can return [PR #18093], by @Shadowghost
• Never treat unresolvable libraries as grounds for deletion [PR #18102], by @Shadowghost
• Don't let a failed shutdown cancel an in-process restart [PR #18063], by @Shadowghost
• Match artist creation lookups using CleanName [PR #18005], by @orut34iop
• Serve graphical subtitles as raw files with range support [PR #18168], by @Shadowghost
• Use MusicBrainz artist name first [PR #18192], by @juxuanu
• Skip statistics on an empty library and refresh them after every scan [PR #18196], by @Shadowghost
• Check media directory write permission before generating trickplays [PR #18161], by @thedreaddpirate
• Reconcile missing episodes by episode, not by number [PR #18090], by @Shadowghost
• Apply stereo downmix filter consistently to progressive audio transcodes [PR #18195], by @Shadowghost
• Fix transcoding settings migration failure caused by null EncoderPreset [PR #18059], by @scr4bble
• Fix more rating systems [PR #18057], by @Shadowghost
• Fix ChangeOwnerIdToGuid migration performance [PR #18073], by @Shadowghost
• Retry MusicBrainz requests when the server is busy [PR #18095], by @Shadowghost
• Fix playlist views [PR #18104], by @Shadowghost
• Scope the music library cover image to that library's artists [PR #18148], by @Shadowghost
• Read the image region when determining TMDb image language in TmdbUtils [PR #18150], by @mateusbandeiraa
• Ignore Sample subfolders when resolving movie folders [PR #17964], by @panko
• Don't apply the allowed tags filter to by-name items [PR #18138], by @Shadowghost
• Only regenerate extra names that were generated by the scan [PR #18139], by @Shadowghost
• Skip optimistic expressions when parsing series names [PR #18061], by @panko
• Decode HTML entities in OMDb responses [PR #18096], by @Shadowghost
• Fix the item type name of BaseItemKind.Channel [PR #18132], by @martimarkov
• Log chapter image extraction once per video [PR #18107], by @Jellyfrog
• update tw.json (rating) [PR #18134], by @allexjuang
• Fix typo when parsing codec_tag_string [PR #18164], by @nyanmisaka
• Fix test concurrency [PR #18058], by @Shadowghost
• Fix formatting issue in PlayCommandQueueTests [PR #18079], by @theguymadmax