New Emby Server Release: 4.9.5.0

[Luke 42579]

1 hour ago, tedfroop21 said:

When will the flatpak be available? Seems to be taking it's time.

Hi, we are working on it. Thanks.

[mike3821 67]

Just now, Luke said:

Hi, we are working on it. Thanks.

When are we working on the movie art issue?

I ended up downgrading to get things working again.

[Luke 42579]

3 minutes ago, mike3821 said:

When are we working on the movie art issue?

I ended up downgrading to get things working again.

HI, please create a topic describing your issue by following:

How to Report a Problem

Thanks.

[ninefast 1]

Every time I see an update and go to the forum to check if there are any problems, I lose the desire to update. I'll keep my version 4.9.1.90, even though it doesn't scan all the films and TV series I have on my 50TB NAS.

[TMCsw 275]

9 hours ago, ninefast said:

even though it doesn't scan all the films and TV series I have

That is most likely because you are not following the proper naming conventions:

Movies, TV, Music ...

[ProjectBlue 1]

Every Windows device I use is now asking me to buy Premiere even though the server is licensed...
Android app is working fine.

[ebr 16445]

1 hour ago, ProjectBlue said:

Every Windows device I use is now asking me to buy Premiere even though the server is licensed...
Android app is working fine.

Hi.  Make sure those devices have access to our servers over the internet to validate.

[ProjectBlue 1]

3 hours ago, ebr said:

Hi.  Make sure those devices have access to our servers over the internet to validate.

The devices are all accessing the server via LAN, not the internet.

This has only started happening since the Emby app was updated to version 2.310.0 via the Microsoft Store.

[remid12 7]

Hi Team,
 

My update was done yesterday, and since this update, all my movie ( only movie not TV series ) have lost their "added date". When I says lost, I mean system replace by the date when the library scan my folder. 
So mean that on the first page the "latest movie" is totally wrong.

Is there somebody else like that ? It's a bug or maybe a new option to set somewhere ?

Thanks a lot for your help

Best regards

[GrimReaper 5006]

25 minutes ago, remid12 said:

Hi Team,
 

My update was done yesterday, and since this update, all my movie ( only movie not TV series ) have lost their "added date". When I says lost, I mean system replace by the date when the library scan my folder. 
So mean that on the first page the "latest movie" is totally wrong.

Is there somebody else like that ? It's a bug or maybe a new option to set somewhere ?

Thanks a lot for your help

Best regards

Your movie library was rescanned and items reimported as "new"; there are no provisions to revert those dates as they were originally (unless NFOs saved with media, in which case <dateadded> tag would be honored). 

[MBSki 1125]

1 hour ago, GrimReaper said:

Your movie library was rescanned and items reimported as "new"; there are no provisions to revert those dates as they were originally (unless NFOs saved with media, in which case <dateadded> tag would be honored). 

I still haven't updated because issues like these that I keep seeing. Is 4.9.5 intentionally replacing the added date on a rescan? I'm not sure I understand why a version change is causing a reimport of a library. Is that supposed to happen for every user that upgrades to 4.9.5?

[GrimReaper 5006]

4 minutes ago, MBSki said:

Is 4.9.5 intentionally replacing the added date on a rescan?

Not intentionally. 

5 minutes ago, MBSki said:

why a version change is causing a reimport of a library. Is that supposed to happen for every user that upgrades to 4.9.5?

It's not, but has been reported to happen on certain setups since 4.9.3.0 upgrade. 

[MBSki 1125]

2 hours ago, GrimReaper said:

It's not, but has been reported to happen on certain setups since 4.9.3.0 upgrade. 

Oh boy, is there any indication as to what setups it happens on? Any way to prevent it from happening?

[GrimReaper 5006]

25 minutes ago, MBSki said:

is there any indication as to what setups it happens on?

No pattern, as far as I'm aware. 

25 minutes ago, MBSki said:

Any way to prevent it from happening?

As always, general rule of thumb: save NFOs with media. 

[kingom 10]

maybe the time between beta and stable branch should be scaled up?
last releases look really buggy and not tested through.

something like whole library gets readded or even, more worse, the current search problems - things like this  must show up in some way in the beta channel before pushing it to stable.

for me it's enough if there are only two stable releases a year.

Edited June 10 by kingom

[remid12 7]

On 6/10/2026 at 9:31 AM, GrimReaper said:

Your movie library was rescanned and items reimported as "new"; there are no provisions to revert those dates as they were originally (unless NFOs saved with media, in which case <dateadded> tag would be honored). 

Yes I confirm, and I think it's not the first time, I have in my memory an issue long time ago.
I should modify by myself the date added ( by loocking one by one on the creation date of folder )... Was a mess...
NFO files never containt the date where, me, added the film on my mediatheque.

Thanks a lot for this information, I will see if I want to modify again or if I let like that, in some month we will see no difference.
Have a good day

[GrimReaper 5006]

5 minutes ago, remid12 said:

NFO files never containt the date where, me, added the film on my mediatheque.

They should have, as <dateadded> is standard XML tag that both Emby and any metadata manager I know of writes to NFO (and is read and honored on import). 

[Luke 42579]

What created your nfo file?

[remid12 7]

18 hours ago, GrimReaper said:

They should have, as <dateadded> is standard XML tag that both Emby and any metadata manager I know of writes to NFO (and is read and honored on import). 

Not sure to understand, you means that if an NFO is present in the folder of the movie, Emby will write information it need inside ?

In this case why emby didn't create it automatically if didn't exist ? could be interesting no ?

Because on my side, I don't have NFO in my film folder. As all metadata is store in Emby, and as usually he work well, I never check this point.

After to be honnest it's not a big issue, and if needed I can correct manually

[GrimReaper 5006]

3 minutes ago, remid12 said:

Not sure to understand, you means that if an NFO is present in the folder of the movie, Emby will write information it need inside ?

In this case why emby didn't create it automatically if didn't exist ? could be interesting no ?

Because on my side, I don't have NFO in my film folder. As all metadata is store in Emby, and as usually he work well, I never check this point.

After to be honnest it's not a big issue, and if needed I can correct manually

Matadata Readers>NFO and Metadata Savers>NFO are library options and need to be enabled/disabled according one's preferences. 

[ebr 16445]

Hi.  You can also change your date added behavior to the file creation date and then this is not a problem as well.

[remid12 7]

On 6/12/2026 at 9:11 AM, GrimReaper said:

Matadata Readers>NFO and Metadata Savers>NFO are library options and need to be enabled/disabled according one's preferences. 

Ok, good to know

17 hours ago, ebr said:

Hi.  You can also change your date added behavior to the file creation date and then this is not a problem as well.

Oh nice, that means on the next scan of my mediatheque, system was check creation date of the files and put it on added date ?

Thanks a lot

[Luke 42579]

20 hours ago, remid12 said:

Ok, good to know

Oh nice, that means on the next scan of my mediatheque, system was check creation date of the files and put it on added date ?

Thanks a lot

For new files. It won't change existing ones.

[ebr 16445]

On 6/14/2026 at 12:57 AM, Luke said:

For new files. It won't change existing ones.

But, if the same thing were to happen to him - where all media is re-imported - then the dates will take on the file dates instead of the date of that import.  So, the same result in this instance.

[scottpro 17]

After reading some of the issues/problems posted here I took the plunge and updated from 4.9.3.0 to 4.9.5.0 anyway.  I want to report that everything works with no issues.  My libraries did not rescan and no modifications to "date added" occurred.  I also did a "Scheduled Tasks -> Scan media library" with no issues, took about 30 seconds on a very large library.

Using the Docker container deployment.

I also saw the client side update for ET legacy (4.9.5.0) on 6/16/2026 with no issues either.

All good