Jellyfin ships 12.0, a major release that drops the ‘10’ prefix and rewrites playlist and collection storage to speed up large libraries. Back up first, then upgrade from 10.11.x and run a full library scan.
On September 8, Jellyfin released version 12.0, which drops the “10.” prefix and concentrates most of its work on the performance inherited from the 10.11 rewrite. The migration changes the database with no way back: backup, plugin removal, and a full library scan are mandatory before you reap the gains.
Plex ships Plex Media Server 1.43.3 and Plex Desktop 1.115.0 to close several flaws whose CVEs have not yet been published, while Censys counts more than 360,000 web interfaces exposed to the internet. Update server and clients, and check your NAS update channel, which can lag behind.
FFmpeg 9.0 landed on August 3, 2026 with expanded Vulkan acceleration, an Animated WebP decoder, and an ONNX Runtime backend. Here's what this major release actually changes for your self-hosted media stack.
On April 29, 2025, Plex doubled its lifetime price to $249.99 and killed free remote streaming. One year later, Jellyfin has crossed 50,000 GitHub stars, 360 million Docker pulls, and 51% market share among self-hosters. If you own a server and a media collection, paying to stream it no longer makes sense.
