Emby 4.9.1.0 Beta in TrueNas Community Edition 25.04

[Neminem 1537]

Tbh I don't use TrueNAS so could care less.

It just feels strange that they can't use what's given to them.

To me it seams lazy

I use Docker with those tags, and they work.

But anyway good luck.

[Jerren 18]

This entire situation feels strange to me man, i just want to see it get fixed. I could probably figure out how to set up my own docker thing and install Emby that way but it wouldn't fix things for anyone else who wants to just use Emby now and in the future.

[Neminem 1537]

Yes its sad to see users being held hostages by this sh#t show.

I did try TrueNAS a couple of years ago, ohh my they where not the most welcoming people.

When seeking help on there forum.

Reddid much worse.

So I guess this is still true when you ask for help at there forum.

 

[Luke 42100]

7 hours ago, Jerren said:

Apparently the "standard way" of showing something is a beta is by doing it like that some (one was one of the Truenas staff) have said over there. After you said you weren't aware of such a naming scheme (with the version number ending in 0) I told them that over there so i don't know if they still adhere to do it like that. I did tell them it would be like that for 4.9.5.0 but also that i had no idea if the naming scheme would stay like that.

I mean this is kinda what happens when people have to play telephone between 2 places and not knowing the thoughts behind answers given. I'll tell em what you said here and see what the response is over there.

 

EDIT: Before me and others noted seeing a release being tagged as beta on the Truenas forum and we asked if that was good enough which yielded this response. Don't know if it's usefull but want to make sure as much information as possible gets across.

 

If you wish to talk to them directly then this is the forumpost over there https://forums.truenas.com/t/emby-stable-train-is-back-in-beta/55522/38

 

I don't want us to be bound to certain numbers just on account of one platform, but right now it is the least disruptive option available. So for that reason it makes sense to just do that.

[Jerren 18]

On 14/02/2026 at 17:56, Neminem said:

Yes its sad to see users being held hostages by this sh#t show.

I did try TrueNAS a couple of years ago, ohh my they where not the most welcoming people.

When seeking help on there forum.

Reddid much worse.

So I guess this is still true when you ask for help at there forum.

 

In my experience you need to be lucky with who sees your post. I've had people be very helpfull as in pointing me to the right guides, even if those guides aren't up to date, i could figure it out still. And i've had the snobbish Linux replies where they basically consider you a total idiot for not knowing everything they know. And some in between, i've used Truenas since it's Freenas days back on FreeBSD. It really depends who sees your post like i said.

 

I'll post that on the forum then @Lukeso they know that this is how it will be for the forseeable future.

[the_enterprise 1]

On 2/13/2026 at 3:01 PM, Luke said:

 

previously they had said they need version numbers ending in .0. We gave them that with 4.9.3.0 and will again soon with 4.9.5.0. I think for an immediate fix they should adopt that.

OK this is progress.

 

@Luke- Here is the regex that Truenas uses to decide versions:

 customVersioning(
      // 1.2.3.0, but not 1.2.3.4 (4th digit != 0 equals beta)
      "^(?<major>\\d+)\\.(?<minor>\\d+)\\.(?<patch>\\d+)\\.0$",
      ["emby/embyserver"],
    ),

If you guys stick with this, I think this whole problem goes away!

 

[psxlover 31]

@Lukewouldn't something like this work better (i.e. whenever there is a stable release in addition to the currently used version tag include also a X.X.X.X-stable tag?), instead of using specific version numbers?

Edited February 21 by psxlover

[Luke 42100]

30 minutes ago, psxlover said:

@Lukewouldn't something like this work better (i.e. whenever there is a stable release in addition to the currently used version tag include also a X.X.X.X-stable tag?), instead of using specific version numbers?

Any change like that would be disruptive to existing installs. So the version number is a compromise approach that avoids that.

[hjason7812 34]

i have this issue as well the update it keeps showing me an update is available but there isn't one on truenas scale.

below is what is showing on emby

 

Version 4.9.4.1 beta

Emby Server 4.10.0.3 is Available for EMBY

[Jerren 18]

This one i can answer. it's because we haven't gotten the stable update yet @hjason7812. Once there's an update that ends in .0 will the bot for the truenas app that Stavros maintains push the update to us and hopefully we are back on stable then. I say hopefully because i don't know how smooth the upgrade from beta to stable will go

[hjason7812 34]

On 2/24/2026 at 7:40 AM, Jerren said:

This one i can answer. it's because we haven't gotten the stable update yet @hjason7812. Once there's an update that ends in .0 will the bot for the truenas app that Stavros maintains push the update to us and hopefully we are back on stable then. I say hopefully because i don't know how smooth the upgrade from beta to stable will go

Thanks for the reply, but this has been going on for over a year where the server would show there is an update but you log into the truenas dashboard and no update there or there is an update but doesn't match the version shown in the emby server dashboard. it's very annoying to say the least that is for sure. i have no idea why they pushed out a beta version to the stable release on truenas anyways and make everyone switch to the beta.. Thant to me seems very very unprofessional at the least

[hjason7812 34]

On 10/15/2025 at 7:23 PM, Luke said:

the release names on github releases end in -beta for betas. Additionally beta releases are also marked with the prerelease flag. So if you're using the github api, either of those two could be checked.

We had never said it would be this way. In fact when someone mentioned that this is how they are determining it, that was the first I heard of it. 

it has been released as a beta version now for over a year, you used to have the version set as stable because i upgraded from truenas core and when i did that it was official stable releases and then for some reason you started releasing only beta versions for the updates on truenas scale now we are all on beta version instead of official stable and this causes issues with emby showing all kinds of new updates ready and you go on truenas to update but there is never a new update there or an update is there but it isn't the one advertised on emby's dashboard it is a way lower version update. whoever is in charge of the truenas scale updates needs to get their things straight because this is pathetic at best