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Release 0.5.21: Drunk enough to know better

October 05th, 2008 | Category: Release | Author: elan

Top two reasons why I shouldn’t have released 0.5.20 quite yet:

  1. I was heading out to a long dinner party, virtually assuring that there’d be a problem I couldn’t address for many hours and beers.
  2. I changed things after the testers did their work. Bad me, no biscuit.

Two changes in this release:

  • FIX: Crash on entering settings menu. Elan kan’t kode.
  • FIX: Restore screen backlight level on exit.

The new release is available in the usual place. Will you forgive me if I post another photo of Barkley? This is him watching as his buddy Poots does tricks at the behest of our friend Heather. French Bulldogs can fly.

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18 Comments so far

  1. hrak October 5th, 2008 1:51 am

    Great pic! :) Thx for all your effort.

  2. fobis October 5th, 2008 6:02 am

    elan, does this release include MediaStream 0.93?

    And by the way, you. are. awesome.

  3. spblat October 5th, 2008 6:56 am

    We forgive you. For Barkley and for the settings crash. Plex rocks!

  4. Mickey October 5th, 2008 8:48 am

    Everything works as advertized for me! No need to apologize, Elan, but the picture is welcome ;) Thanks!!

  5. Scott Frazer October 5th, 2008 11:05 am

    As much as I love every new release of Plex, I think I look forward to the Barkley pics as much as the bug fixes.

  6. Olle October 5th, 2008 2:14 pm

    That woman is hot!
    With that said, I’d like to vote in favor for giving you (elan) a new nickname. You could at least make pimp.plexapp.com a working alias to this blog of yours. ;)

    Thanks for all the amazing updates, elan & crew!

  7. Radcliff October 5th, 2008 3:01 pm

    I liked the new release almost as much as the nice girl in the picture :D

  8. Pacino October 5th, 2008 3:05 pm

    Now CPU is a real problem. It took 30% of my Macbook Pro’s CPU when Plex is idle!!

  9. elan October 5th, 2008 3:58 pm

    @Pacino: It’s a known issue since the first release and certainly nothing has changed in the last few releases to make things any worse.

  10. Jobs October 6th, 2008 10:46 am
  11. elan October 6th, 2008 10:50 am

    @Job: Internally drive letters are mapped to paths, dating back from when the code ran on the XBox, would probably be better to show a better default :)

  12. dean October 6th, 2008 12:16 pm

    Since updating to 5.0.21 (from 5.0.19) the apple remote seems to be missing alot of commands. I didn’t clear out the advanced settings, and I’ve got a custom keymap so I didn’t clear that either.

    Maybe I’ll try a reinstall.

  13. dean October 6th, 2008 12:20 pm

    Clearing out advanced settings seems to have fixed it.

  14. anonymous coward October 7th, 2008 5:40 am

    Please continue a tradition of including chicks in the release photos.
    Dogs are so last year.

  15. name October 7th, 2008 9:45 am

    hot chick + dogs + plex = hot!

  16. JayBird October 9th, 2008 8:18 am

    +1 more Heather pics with each release

  17. barkley October 9th, 2008 10:40 pm

    What am I, chopped liver?

  18. JayBird October 10th, 2008 3:46 am

    Hahaha, poor Barkley. We still love you too :)

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