Jellyfin, the open source media server, has released their 2nd RC for version 10.11.0. This is a major version release that transitions to the new EF Core database mapper. Please read on for more info from the Jellyfin team.
We are pleased to announce the second release candidate preview release of Jellyfin 10.11.0!
This is a preview release, intended for those interested in testing 10.11.0 before it’s final public release. We welcome testers to help find as many bugs as we can before the final release.
As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup before upgrading!
Important Notes & Features
Please see the WIP release notes here for now: https://notes.jellyfin.org/v10.11.0_features
PLEASE READ THOSE NOTES THOROUGHLY BEFORE UPGRADING; current RC1 users should have a seamless upgrade. If you have any questions, please ask in our Matrix chat.
See the GitHub link for more details and a full list of changes.
I tried reading the features list but I’m just a layman, can anyone explain the most impactful changes this update will bring when it’s stable?
The EFCore change is pretty big. They’re basically changing how the data is accessed from the database so that would touch most of the software, so potential for new issues is fairly high. Hopefully it will improve performance and concurrency. If you are not comfortable with potential issues, I’d hold off on updating for a while.
Thanks, so the goal is better performance? I’m not keen on testing betas but more performance, when the update is stable, is always nice
Performance is not the goal, but cleaner code and more manageable code. But both will ultimately lead to better performance. As of now it was basically impossible to change something in the database structure since it was hard to estimate the impact of it.
this is a “beta”, the 2nd Release Candidate. they’ll mark a stable version when most of the bugs have been ironed out.
There was a typo in my previous comment, I’ll definitely wait for the stable release.