Release Notes

What's new in Jellyfin 12, and what to check before you upgrade

Jellyfin 12.0 came out on 7 September, and the first bugfix release, 12.1, followed a week later [1] [3]. If you run 10.11 today, the next version is not 10.12 and not 11. It is 12. Here is what is new, what breaks, and what to do before you press upgrade.

From 10.11 to 12

The number first, and a little history, because the obvious question is why a project that began in 2018 was on version 10 at all. Jellyfin started “in early December 2018 primarily as a result of Emby’s decision to take their next release (4.x) closed-source”, as a fork of Emby 3.5.2 [6]. The new project wanted a clean break from Emby’s version numbers, and chose to go up rather than down. The first Jellyfin release, in January 2019, was 10.0.0, and the plan was “10.X.Y, with X being major feature releases and Y being bugfixes” [7].

What's new in Nextcloud 35 (Hub 26 Summer), and what's next in 36

Cover image: Nextcloud GmbH, from the Nextcloud Hub 26 Summer press release (see also the Nextcloud press page).

A short history of Nextcloud

For those of you new to self-hosting and Nextcloud itself, I would like to start this post off with a quick introduction to Nextcloud.

Nextcloud is a way of hosting your own files for yourself and a team similar to what OneDrive and SharePoint do in a Microsoft 365 environment, but without the intranet capability of SharePoint.