Hey all -

We’ve all had this evening: you nudge the volume up to catch a whispered line, and three seconds later an explosion wakes the entire house.

Today we’re bringing two new audio playback options to Plex Pass subscribers — Boost Dialog and Normalize Loudness —available now with Plex Media Server 1.43.4.

Boost Dialog

Isolates the frequencies where dialog lives and brings them forward, so quiet conversations are easier to follow without turning everything else up with them.

Normalize Loudness

Keeps audio at a comfortable, consistent level and takes the edge off very loud scenes — no more reaching for the remote every time the score swells.

How do I turn them on?

There’s nothing to set up on the server — both are ready to go. During playback, bring up the on-screen controls and select Playback Settings (the gear icon), then Playback Options, and switch on whichever you’d like to use.

Note: enabling either option will cause the audio to be transcoded.

Don’t see Normalize Loudness yet?

Boost Dialog works on anything. Normalize Loudness needs the audio analyzed first, and if that hasn’t happened for an item yet, the option won’t appear for it.

Your server handles this on its own. Two settings control it, both already enabled by default:

• Settings > Library > Analyze audio tracks for loudness, set to As a Scheduled Task
• Enable Loudness Analysis in the advanced settings of each movie and TV library

Analysis runs during your server’s scheduled maintenance window, so Normalize Loudness will show up across more of your library over the coming days. If you’d rather not wait, you can analyze items on demand — the contextual menu in Plex Web, or Manage Settings in the mobile apps.

A large library means a lot of analyzing, and you may notice higher CPU usage while your server works through it. If you’d rather it didn’t, set Analyze audio tracks for loudness to Never. And if you want new additions analyzed the moment they land, switch it to As a Scheduled Task and when media is added.

Curious whether a specific track is ready? An analyzed audio stream shows true in Media info and canNormalizeLoudness="1" in the stream info in the XML.

Requirements

Plex Media Server 1.43.4 or newer, and one of:

• Plex for Mobile (Android & iOS) from 2025.28.0
• Plex for Android TV from 2025.28.0
• Plex for Apple TV from 2025.28.0
• Plex for Amazon Fire TV from 2025.8.0
• Plex for Roku from 9.0.31
• Plex Web (Coming Soon)
• Plex for Smart TVs (Coming Soon-ish)

About Plex Pass

Loudness analysis runs on servers whose admin has an active Plex Pass. Using Boost Dialog and Normalize Loudness during playback needs a Plex Pass on your own account — or membership in a Plex Home whose admin has one.

For the full walkthrough with screenshots, see the Audio Track enhancements for video support article.

If you run into any bugs or have feedback, create a topic in the Plex Media Server category and tag it with audio

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/audio-enhancements-boost-dialog-normalize-loudness

Our newly reimagined and redesigned Plex experience is starting to roll out on tvOS!

Going forward, beta release notes can be found in the new topic.

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/121357/175

https://forums.plex.tv/t/important-notice-of-security-incident/930523

We have recently experienced a security incident that may potentially involve your Plex account information. We believe the actual impact of this incident is limited; however, action is required from you to ensure your account remains secure.

What happened

An unauthorized third party accessed a limited subset of customer data from one of our databases. While we quickly contained the incident, information that was accessed included emails, usernames, securely hashed passwords and authentication data.

Any account passwords that may have been accessed were securely hashed, in accordance with best practices, meaning they cannot be read by a third party. Out of an abundance of caution, we recommend you take some additional steps to secure your account (see details below). Rest assured that we do not store credit card data on our servers, so this information was not compromised in this incident.

What we’re doing

We’ve already addressed the method that this third party used to gain access to the system, and we’re undergoing additional reviews to ensure that the security of all of our systems is further strengthened to prevent future attacks.

What you must do

If you use a password to sign into Plex: We kindly request that you reset your Plex account password immediately by visiting https://plex.tv/reset. When doing so, there’s a checkbox to “Sign out connected devices after password change,” which we recommend you enable. This will sign you out of all your devices (including any Plex Media Server you own) for your security, and you will then need to sign back in with your new password.

If you use SSO to sign into Plex: We kindly request that you log out of all active sessions by visiting https://plex.tv/security and clicking the button that says ”Sign out of all devices”. This will sign you out of all your devices (including any Plex Media Server you own) for your security, and you will then need to sign back in as normal.

Additional Security Measures You Can Take

We remind you that no one at Plex will ever reach out to you over email to ask for a password or credit card number for payments. For further account protection, we also recommend enabling two-factor authentication on your Plex account if you haven’t already done so.

Lastly, we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this situation may cause you. We take pride in our security systems, which helped us quickly detect this incident, and we want to assure you that we are working swiftly to prevent potential future incidents from occurring.

For step-by-step instructions on how to reset your password, visit: https://support.plex.tv/articles/account-requires-password-reset

Email I received.

Update Your Plex Media Server Dear Plex user, We recently received a report via our bug bounty program that there was a potential security issue affecting Plex Media Server versions 1.41.7.x to 1.42.0.x. Thanks to that user, we were able to address the issue, release an updated version of the server, and continue to improve our security and defenses. You’re receiving this notice because our information indicates that a Plex Media Server owned by your Plex account is running an older version of the server. We strongly recommend that everyone update their Plex Media Server to the most recent version as soon as possible, if you have not already done so. The new version (1.42.1.10060 or later) is now available to update through your regular server management page or you can download the package from our downloads page (https://www.plex.tv/media-server-downloads/). Thank you, The Plex Team

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Full post here: https://forums.plex.tv/t/navigation-updates-coming-to-preview-users/941751

Navigation

Since we launched the new Plex experience to preview users last year, we have received consistent feedback from the start regarding the navigation. Our fall update was the first step in making improvements to address those concerns, but they weren’t enough. We greatly appreciate that many of you, all across our community, have weighed in and kept providing feedback. We’ve been listening and today the release has some changes that are both new and familiar.

What’s New

Today’s release, going out to preview users on Apple TV and Roku, and beta for Android TV, will be returning the primary navigation to the lefthand side of the screen.

In additional to the collapsible side navigation panel, we’ve made a few other improvements:

• Favorite libraries are now a top level source
• Live TV & DVR sources can be favorited and re-ordered like Libraries
• Easily switch between pages within a source instead of navigating through the entire menu again
• Continued fixes for general performance, focus issues, and bugs

Accessing the Preview Builds

• Android TV: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.plexapp.android
• Apple TV: As part of this update we’ll also be opening up additional seats in TestFlight for our Apple TV preview experience. You can join here while seats are available: How to access the Plex Experience Preview (Android mobile, iOS, tvOS).
• Roku: Anyone who wants to check out the preview experience on Roku can do so here: Roku Plex Preview

Source: Plex Forum
Category: Announcements
Posted by: PlexInfo — July 9, 2026

Today we're opening up Editions for TV Shows to Plex Pass subscribers.

If you've ever had both a dubbed and original-language version of an anime show in your library, or The Wire in 4:3 and the remastered 16:9, you know the awkwardness: they're the same show, but they're not, and Plex had no clean way to treat them as two distinct things.

You may already be familiar with Editions from movies. Same idea: when you have two genuinely different releases of a TV show (not just different quality encodes of the same content) you can label them as separate editions. Each gets its own listing in your library, tracked independently for watch status, ratings, and metadata.

Some examples of where this comes in handy:

• Dubbed vs. original-language releases (anime fans, you know who you are)
• Color and black-and-white editions of the same series (Spider Noir)
• Shows re-released in a different aspect ratio (The Wire 4:3 vs 16:9)
• Remastered versions worth keeping separate (Babylon 5: Blu-ray Remaster)
• Multiple episode orders for the same show

Setting it up

Two options — use whichever fits your workflow:

1. Append {edition-Name} to your show's top-level folder: /TV Shows/Babylon 5 (1994) {edition-Bluray Remaster}

   Note: If you're renaming an existing folder, Plex will treat it as a new library item and prior watch history won't carry over. Use the Edit method below to avoid that.

2. Edit the library item: Open a show in Plex Web → Edit → fill in the Edition field. This preserves your existing watch history and metadata.

Pro tip: Editions show up as separate entries in your library grid, so it's worth giving each one a distinct poster to make them easy to tell apart.

A few things to keep in mind:

• Requires a Plex Pass subscription to add or edit edition info
• Watch status and ratings are tracked per edition — there's no cross-edition syncing
• Editions are defined at the show level, not per-season or per-episode

Client Support

• Recommended to have at least Plex Media Server v1.43.3
• Edition display is live now in Plex Web (4.160)
• Rolling out in iOS and Android apps (version 2026.13.0)
• Roku support is coming in the next release

In clients that do not yet support the feature, edition information will not appear but shows will still be separate listings. It is recommended to select different show posters to tell them apart.

Known Issues

Edition titles may not display correctly in grid view when filtering by Seasons or Episodes. A fix is on the way.

Plex will update this thread as Roku and other platforms roll out.

Hi all!

We've been working on a major overhaul of our offline "Sync" capability in our mobile apps, and we'd like to invite you to try it out! The feature formerly known as "Sync" is now simply called Downloads, and for the most part, it works the same way: take your favourite media with you to enjoy anywhere, no connection required. Some of the main advantages to the new Downloads include:

• Simplicity. Most things can be downloaded with a single tap. No fiddling with settings or item limits. (You can still "subscribe" to TV shows to keep the next few eps on hand.)
• Speed. Start downloading right away at full speed in most cases.
• Reliability. Downloads are more consistently accessible and playback reliability has been improved whether you're online or not.
• Better format compatibility, less transcoding! Direct download anything your device can play. (You can still choose to limit the quality/size in settings if you like.)
• Progressive conversion and simultaneous downloading. Downloads begin even while the source media is being transcoded; no more waiting for the entire transcode to finish before the download can begin.
• Simplified management. Everything is visible and managed in the Downloads list on the device where the media was downloaded.

Sound interesting? Give it a shot and let us know how it's working for you!

For the time being, you'll be able to switch back and forth between old-style Sync and Downloads, but content that you have Synced will not be available under Downloads and vice versa. You should (re)Download any content you'd like to keep on your device in the long run. (Sync, along with any synced content, will be removed in a future version of the app -- we'll be sure to warn you before that happens though!)

Note: You will need to be signed into your Plex account with an active Plex Pass subscription or be part of a Plex Home of a user with a Plex Pass to use Downloads.

To start testing:

• Install the latest version of our Plex for Android app (iOS coming soon!)
• Open the Plex app and make sure you’re signed in to your Plex account.
• Go to Settings > Sync
• Check the new “Enable new downloads” opt-in setting (make sure you pay attention to the information in the warning text that gets displayed!)

Further reading:

FAQ - https://support.plex.tv/articles/downloads-sync-faq/

Downloads Overview - https://support.plex.tv/articles/downloads-overview/

Downloads for Android - https://support.plex.tv/articles/download-android/

From the Plex Blog:

"Introducing Plex Photos Beta: We are thrilled to announce the release of the Plex Photos Beta, available today for iOS and Android mobile. This new app is designed to provide you with a focused experience to engage with your photo libraries stored on Plex Media Servers. Whether you’re reminiscing over family photos or sharing backups of your professional photography images, Plex Photos offers a streamlined experience that is easy to navigate and enjoyable to use. We encourage you to download the beta, explore its capabilities, and share your feedback with us in the forums. Your input is invaluable as we work to improve the app before its public release."

The 8.6.4 update has been published to the official channel.

The official channel has now been updated to the new experience.

We have continued to fine-tune the details, getting it ready to move out of the preview and be released publicly. Now, the new app experience is available for everyone utilizing Plex on Roku!

What’s New?

Everyone, whether you were using the preview or this is your first time using the new Plex experience, will be shown a short series of tips introducing you to the changes the first time you launch the updated app. We’ve listed some below, but recommend that you try it out yourself as soon as you can!

• Improved top navigation bar to find everything you need
• Quick access to your Watchlist from everywhere
• Centralized account information (profile, friends, watch history, preferred streaming services, and more under User Menu) How to give feedback?

If you’re running into an issue, start a new forum topic in the Streaming Devices category, tagged Roku, with specific details. In the forum topic, be sure to include:

• The version number of the app (found at the top right under Settings in the app)
• What you were doing when the issue happened Whether it’s reproducible
• Bonus: Save the logs from your Roku app right after you reproduce/encounter the issue and attach them to the forum topic
• Bonus Bonus: Pics or videos
• Extra bonus: If something is fixed, let us know in your topic—it helps us close the loop
• What about other TV platforms?

While we do not have release dates to share right now, those are not being forgotten. The new Plex experience (and restoring support for music and photos libraries!) is still being worked on for other TV platforms. As soon as we have more information to share, we’ll be providing it to y’all.

Thank you and happy streaming!

Plex

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/9463/466

NEW:

• (Transcoder) HDR to SDR tone mapping PP preview (see https://support.plex.tv/articles/hdr-to-sdr-tone-mapping for more info)

FIXES:

• (Filters) HDR filter could miss some items (#12060)
• (Library) Date-based shows weren’t getting metadata.
• (Transcoder) Older versions of Nvidia drivers (supporting API version 9.0 but not version 10.0) are now supported again (#12091)

Hope you all enjoy this exciting new feature!

Our newly reimagined and redesigned Plex experience is starting to roll out on mobile!

Going forward, release notes can be found in the new topic.

Read our initial blog post to learn all about what’s going on, as well as our helpful forum post for changes and what to expect.

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/31524/228