cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/36389875
Why jump from 10.11.11 directly to 12.0? -> Blog Post
You can find more details about and discuss this release on the official forums.
As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup of your metadata/configs before upgrading!
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.jsonAfter migrating please perform the following steps.
Perform a full library scan to restore alternative versions Run the "Optimize database" scheduled task___
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Let me guess, another price increase.
I can confidently say that the Jellyfin team intend to raise the price 10x the previous price.
Those bastards! I knew it!
Plexing their muscles, as usual.
Thank you for the reminder to donate to them <3
Please donate to your favorite client maintainer (if 3rd party) or another project.
The core team stated that they already have enough funds.
(Look at the funds that are still unusued): https://opencollective.com/jellyfinOh shit. Ok. Thank you for bringing that up. I only really use their official apps, but I’ll find another one to donate to.
No worries :)
You can still send them a token of appreciation. But maybe not all of it.
Jellyfin is free. What price? :D
$0 x 4 😡😡😡
I’m so happy that I got the 253 years subscription.
Ha! Shows what you know. I got a 256 year subscription at only 10x the price!
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters DNS Domain Name Service/System NAS Network-Attached Storage Plex Brand of media server package SSO Single Sign-On VPN Virtual Private Network ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity
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,and.scrub frame-by-frame during playback
That is exactly how MPV does it. But from what I remember, VLC devs claim it’s impossible, so VLC only allows you to scrub forward frame-by-frame, not backward. You can skip backwards in three-second increments or whatever, just not frame-by-frame at all. It’s the main thing that keeps me using MPV as my default video player, because I frequently skip around videos trying to get a screenshot of the perfect frame to use to make a meme or something. Being able to scrub frame-by-frame in both directions is a big deal.
Now THAT is a changelog.
Really excited about the query performance improvements, and the improvements to subtitle handling.
Any changes to the massive memory footprint of JF? I’m basically stuck on Plex because JF eats multiple gigabytes of my very limited RAM.
Does it actually? My VM has a lot of RAM, and Proxmox reports usage always around 90%, but that’s no matter how much RAM it ACTUALLY has, because almost all of that is cache and not strictly necessary.
free -mshows Jellyfin using maybe 2 Gigs.2 gigs is ludicrous for a glorified file server with built in ffmpeg, Plex has never used more than 200mb for me. Maybe I’m outdated but I find that pretty unacceptable. I wouldn’t care if I had 32 gigs, but I have 8 and most of that is occupied by other stuff like ZFS or buncha Docker crap
You could just upgrade, I assume RAM is cheap, haven’t looked in a while, just let me look up memory prices real quick…
@german @selfhosted @Mountaineer
All my homelab uses around 2gb of ram with 20 services, jf one of them.
One thing, I use hw accel with vaapiSee, that’s a problem for me, because Plex uses anywhere between 20 and 200MB depending on what it’s doing. Mostly it idles at 50MB which keeps me very happy. When I tried Jellyfin fairly recently, it ate 1.4GB just to initialize and then promptly crashed my system. I don’t like to dunk on languages like that, but Python man… I don’t have that kind of luxury. It’s not just “cache” either, I wasn’t able to configure JF in any way where it wouldn’t crash, it’s certainly not “reclaimable” memory usage, it’s just a chunky program.
I never even got to transcoding, it’s impressive, honestly, how fast it destroyed my homelab lol.
I’ve been running the RC’s, smooth sailing in all regards.
Using Wholfin as my main client on all compatible devices, works great.
My wait for OIDC support for sensible client logins continues
I know it’s not the same but quick connect works well. Why not log in that way using a six digit code?
Couple reasons.
- Jellyfin is not security software, and given the inconsistency and general lack of polish of every other aspect of Jellyfin, its raw login page is not something I’d comfortably expose to the internet to begin with.
- Quick connect is a poor, unintuitive imitation of Device Flow. A non-technical user would have to also have a Jellyfin app or bookmark in their phone already, and know where to navigate in it to reach the quick connect function. This on its own is insurmountable.
- It’s not SSO. Jellyfin is yet another username and password they must remember when every single other thing I self host supports OIDC out of the box and they get one user account for everything.
Fair points. Thanks for the lesson. TIL a lot.
Man, I really appreciate so many good folks giving info and not flaming each other. This is a great community.
Are there different hardware requirements? I’m running on a raspberry pi 4, and as soon as it tries to load my movies the entire server crashes. This happened with the first release candidate, but seems to still be happening.
Did you report the issue?
Was able to fix it. The initial library scan caused the server to crash (ran out of resources) so every database load would make the server crash since the initial scan never ran. The solution was to turn off the other containers I had running, then run the scan, then turn everything on.
How do you get this to work remotely easily for old people on smart tvs?
Domain + reverse proxy. The security issues some people here claim are significantly overblown.
Or, unpopular opinion, use Cloudflare tunnels. Almost too easy to setup and free of charge. Much easier than reserve proxy imho. Of course it has drawbacks, e.g. many are critical toward the company
Updated on Ubuntu, installed package is 12.0 for Server+Web, but clients still show server version 10.11.11
What kind of client? In browsers usually CTRL + F5 solves those kinds of problems for me. In other cases (apps?) force quitting and restarting the client might help.
The reason is the feedback we got after 10.11.0, which we first raised in January and confirmed in May. A release like 10.11.0 was, by any reasonable measure, a major release - it rewrote the library database - but the version number presented it as a minor update, and people upgraded with expectations to match. The leading 10. never changed and never told anyone anything, so all it did was push the number that actually mattered into the middle position and make “major” releases look minor. Dropping it means the first number moves when the release is big.
lol. All the Jellykins in here lost their minds when this was pointed out.
My guess is that people would call the 10.11.x update something like .11.x instead of the full version because “they don’t change the first number anyway” and it would cause confusion to call the next update version 11.x.x so they just jumped to 12
