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.
Yay Jellyfin! What an awesome app!
Glad to donate money to the team. Love their work
Now I’ll need to figure out how to update my instance 😅
cd ~/jellyfin/
nano docker-compose.yml (change version to latest or pin to 10.9)
sudo docker compose down && sudo docker compose up -dYou don’t actually need to run
down
first. Just adocker compose pull
if you haven’t made any changes, thendocker compose up -d
will restart whatever needs to be restarted.I wish I could upvote twice, you’re gonna save me so much time.
Rubbish
Try it. Just change an environment variable, then run
up -d
and you’ll see.
Awesome! Also great its just one breaking change. I think I don’t use that variable, don’t recall it at all.
I’ve already paid for a lifetime license of Plex. Is it worth considering a switch?
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.