The long-awaited Jellyfin 10.10.0 is finally here! This latest stable release, announced recently, brings a myriad of new features, enhancements, and important changes to enrich your experience using Jellyfin—a popular media server solution. The development team, led by Joshua, has been hard at work to refine this release, promising a faster release cadence as compared to its predecessor, version 10.9.0. This forward momentum aims to ensure a smooth transition for users upgrading to this latest version.

What's New in 10.10.0?

Jellyfin 10.10.0 introduces several significant updates designed to augment the media server's capabilities. One of the most exciting features is the support for managing Media Segments, which allows users to mark specific time-spans in videos, such as intros, and provides functionality for skipping these segments. While plugins are needed for the creation of these Media Segments, Jellyfin has already developed an introductory plugin based on movie chapter names.

The release also boasts substantial improvements in Trickplay, thanks to the introduction of optional keyframe extraction. This update enhances image generation time substantially, making lengthy Trickplay jobs a thing of the past. Please be aware that this feature requires manual activation in the settings.

Meanwhile, the enhancement of playback and transcoding capabilities includes updates such as support for software tonemapping of HDR10, HLG, DoVi, preliminary support for DoVi Profile 10, Dolby AC-4 audio support, and more.

Key Breaking Changes

While Jellyfin 10.10.0 comes packed with exciting features, it also introduces some critical breaking changes. Users should note the deprecation of Raspberry Pi V4L2 hardware transcoding support and the potential removal of 32-bit ARM in future releases. Systems utilizing older ARM hardware are encouraged to consider hardware upgrades. Additionally, temporary file storage now leverages system storage engines to potentially enhance performance.

Network paths in media libraries have finally been removed, following a long deprecation period, and systems with Trickplay may undergo longer upgrades due to related migrations. Furthermore, 'ffmpeg' compatibility checks have become stricter, ensuring efficient media processing.

Enhanced Metadata and Web Features

The latest version also focuses on enhanced metadata handling, permitting users to select plugins for lyric support in music libraries. Another improvement includes consistent audio tag scanning and preservation of rotation metadata for home videos.

On the web front, Jellyfin has improved support for CBT and CB7 books, client-side rendering of PGS subtitles, and introduces a new lyrics functionality complete with auto-scrolling and editing options.

Looking Ahead: Jellyfin 10.11.0

With a successful release cadence, Jellyfin is already setting sights on version 10.11.0, slated for development from November 2024 to March 2025 with a targeted release by the end of April 2025. Detailed information about the development roadmap and potential future capabilities is expected to be unveiled as the feature freeze date approaches.

As always, the Jellyfin team highly values the contributions from its community—enthusiasts, developers, and testers within the Jellyfin ecosystem. Their dedication plays an integral role in sustaining Jellyfin's standing as the leading free and open-source media system solution.

For the complete details of the latest changes and upgrades, refer to the official release notes on Jellyfin's official announcement page sourced from Jellyfin.