Hey! Just a note about Swiftfin (iOS/tvOS). You may be wondering - the beta is full, how do I get in?

The beta has hit its maximum of 10,000 external users, and we can't keep up with manual removal of inactive users to open up slots. As a result, we're preparing it to be published to the App Store (even in an "Early Access/Beta" state), so that everyone gets a chance to use it.

We appreciate your patience with this and I'll post again to let everyone know when it's available.

From Joshua:
Another month another hotfix! Just in time for our 4-year anniversary. 🎉

This fixes 3 small lingering bugs from the 10.8.z series and is likely (as I keep saying each time 😅) the last release in the 10.8.z series before we focus on 10.9.0.

Changelog: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/tag/v10.8.8

Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/z83brp/jellyfin_1088_released/

Our Roku channel has been updated! Check out the post from our very own tgpo on Reddit:

https://reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/zly29m/jellyfin_for_roku_162_released/

Just following up on this for a few more people - make sure your server is up to date! The new Roku channel update, like some of our other clients, now requires a minimum server version of 10.8.1. The latest version is 10.8.8, so update if you can!

Our Android TV app has been updated! Version 0.15.0 is out. Google already has the update on the Play Store, but Amazon typically takes longer to approve the app. Read the news from our Android TV lead Niels on our blog: https://jellyfin.org/posts/2022/12/24/android-tv-15/

Reddit Discussion Post: https://reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/zu9q3w/android_tv_015_released/

After a long time in development, Swiftfin, our native iOS/tvOS app is now available for your iPhone/iPad/Apple TV! It's a video only app, but now you can watch Live TV on your big screen.

Get the details here: https://jellyfin.org/posts/2022/12/29/swiftfin/

Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/zyf8m8/swiftfin_ios_tvos_ipados_now_publicly_available/

Jellyfin 10.8.9 is out!
Reddit post: https://reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/10iscw3/jellyfin_1089_released/

Release notes: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/tag/v10.8.9

All installers are already available. Enjoy!

Hey all! If this is your first time around here, thanks for joining us! We're happy to meet you and hope we can be a useful alternative.

If you've been using Jellyfin for a while, thank you as well! We use it too, and that's why we keep working on it.

On that note, with all our increased traffic (what little stats we have say there has been more than double the amount of users year over year), we've made a change to our donation system: https://reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/10pe5pd/a_quick_note_change_to_our_donation_policy/

Jellyfin has decided to retire our Telegram group chat. This announcement channel will remain open for sharing important news, just like we normally do on Matrix, Discord, Mastodon, Reddit, and Twitter.

If you need to get in touch with us or ask for help/share with the community, we invite you to reach out on any of those platforms. Links and more are available on our website: https://jellyfin.org/contact

Jellyfin for Roku 1.6.4 has been released!

Big thanks to our Roku team for pushing forward with it. Note that the minimum required server version is 10.8.1, but using the latest is always recommended.

Blog Post: https://jellyfin.org/posts/roku-164

Reddit Discussion: https://reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/12crra5/jellyfin_for_roku_164_released/

Jellyfin 10.8.10 released! 🎉 Important security fixes in this version, so ensure you upgrade.

Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/12wfzco/jellyfin_10810_released_read_important_security/

r/jellyfin has gone private until at least June 14th. We are available on Lemmy for the time being, and all our chat options remain open. See https://jellyfin.org/contact for a listing.

Why we're private: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/5/23749188/reddit-subreddit-private-protest-api-changes-apollo-charges

Jellyfin on Lemmy (via Beehaw): https://beehaw.org/c/jellyfin@lemmy.ml

From project lead Joshua…

We are pleased to announce that we have created a new forum for the Jellyfin community:

https://forum.jellyfin.org

More detail can be found in our blog post: https://jellyfin.org/posts/new-forum

You can see the welcome message here: https://forum.jellyfin.org/welcome and the forum rules here: https://forum.jellyfin.org/rules, or you can jump right to registering here: https://forum.jellyfin.org/register, using either native forum registration or using an account from Discord, GitHub, Google, Reddit, StackExchange, or Twitter.

As part of this, we have also decided to close our Reddit community presence permanently. Please see the message there: https://old.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/14c2bfg/rjellyfin_is_now_closed_please_visit_us_at_our/ for details.

We also have a new status page for seeing the live monitoring status of our infrastructure and announce maintenance, to confirm if things are down just for you or for everyone: https://status.jellyfin.org

We hope to see you there!

Jellyfin 10.8.11 is here!
Forum announcement: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-new-server-web-hotfix-release-10-8-11

GitHub release notes: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/tag/v10.8.11

Windows and macOS installers already available on our main site. Go and get it!

New post from project lead Joshua:
https://jellyfin.org/posts/a-call-for-developers

Jellyfin 10.8.12 is here! Playlists are now fixed (sorry). There are fixes for VAAPI UMD/KMD, and more.

Forum announcement: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-new-server-web-hotfix-release-10-8-12

GitHub release notes: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/tag/v10.8.12

Windows and macOS installers already available on our main site. Enjoy!

New point release! Jellyfin 10.8.13 is available.

This release fixes two security bugs, one very serious, so please update your server as soon as you can.

See the forum post for more details:

https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-new-server-web-hotfix-release-10-8-13

FYI
Due to a regression in our Jellyfin FFmpeg (https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/10654), we've pushed a new combined Docker image at version 10.8.13-1. All the server and web code is identical, it just has the updated jellyfin-ffmpeg package included. latest has been updated to match.

For anyone using the macOS .DMG (installer), we missed bundling ffprobe in the package.

A new build has been uploaded to our download page. Look for jellyfin_10.8.13-1.dmg.

From Android Lead Niels:
It has been a busy year with a lot of work on the Android TV app. After an extended beta period today is finally the day to leave it and publish a stable release.
Check out the blog post and discuss this release on our forum!

Blog: https://jellyfin.org/posts/androidtv-v0.16.0/
Forum: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-android-tv-version-0-16