Fix invalid regex comparison

Fix GHSA-8fw7-f233-ffr8 with improved sanitization

CONTRIBUTORS.md

@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@
  - [TokerX](https://github.com/TokerX)
  - [GeneMarks](https://github.com/GeneMarks)
  - [martenumberto](https://github.com/martenumberto)
+ - [MarcoCoreDuo](https://github.com/MarcoCoreDuo)
 
 # Emby Contributors
 

Emby.Naming/Emby.Naming.csproj

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
   <PropertyGroup>
     <Authors>Jellyfin Contributors</Authors>
     <PackageId>Jellyfin.Naming</PackageId>
-    <VersionPrefix>10.11.4</VersionPrefix>
+    <VersionPrefix>10.11.7</VersionPrefix>
     <RepositoryUrl>https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin</RepositoryUrl>
     <PackageLicenseExpression>GPL-3.0-only</PackageLicenseExpression>
   </PropertyGroup>

Emby.Server.Implementations/Dto/DtoService.cs

@@ -1051,16 +1051,16 @@ namespace Emby.Server.Implementations.Dto
 
                 // Include artists that are not in the database yet, e.g., just added via metadata editor
                 // var foundArtists = artistItems.Items.Select(i => i.Item1.Name).ToList();
-                dto.ArtistItems = _libraryManager.GetArtists([.. hasArtist.Artists.Where(e => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(e))])
+                var artistsLookup = _libraryManager.GetArtists([.. hasArtist.Artists.Where(e => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(e))]);
-                    .Where(e => e.Value.Length > 0)
+
-                    .Select(i =>
+                dto.ArtistItems = hasArtist.Artists
-                    {
+                    .Where(name => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(name))
-                        return new NameGuidPair
+                    .Distinct()
-                        {
+                    .Select(name => artistsLookup.TryGetValue(name, out var artists) && artists.Length > 0
-                            Name = i.Key,
+                        ? new NameGuidPair { Name = name, Id = artists[0].Id }
-                            Id = i.Value.First().Id
+                        : null)
-                        };
+                    .Where(item => item is not null)
-                    }).Where(i => i is not null).ToArray();
+                    .ToArray();
             }
 
             if (item is IHasAlbumArtist hasAlbumArtist)
@@ -1085,31 +1085,16 @@ namespace Emby.Server.Implementations.Dto
                 //    })
                 //    .ToList();
 
+                var albumArtistsLookup = _libraryManager.GetArtists([.. hasAlbumArtist.AlbumArtists.Where(e => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(e))]);
+
                 dto.AlbumArtists = hasAlbumArtist.AlbumArtists
-                    // .Except(foundArtists, new DistinctNameComparer())
+                    .Where(name => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(name))
-                    .Select(i =>
+                    .Distinct()
-                    {
+                    .Select(name => albumArtistsLookup.TryGetValue(name, out var albumArtists) && albumArtists.Length > 0
-                        // This should not be necessary but we're seeing some cases of it
+                        ? new NameGuidPair { Name = name, Id = albumArtists[0].Id }
-                        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(i))
+                        : null)
-                        {
+                    .Where(item => item is not null)
-                            return null;
+                    .ToArray();
-                        }
-
-                        var artist = _libraryManager.GetArtist(i, new DtoOptions(false)
-                        {
-                            EnableImages = false
-                        });
-                        if (artist is not null)
-                        {
-                            return new NameGuidPair
-                            {
-                                Name = artist.Name,
-                                Id = artist.Id
-                            };
-                        }
-
-                        return null;
-                    }).Where(i => i is not null).ToArray();
             }
 
             // Add video info

Emby.Server.Implementations/IO/LibraryMonitor.cs

@@ -352,6 +352,12 @@ namespace Emby.Server.Implementations.IO
                 return;
             }
 
+            var fileInfo = _fileSystem.GetFileSystemInfo(path);
+            if (DotIgnoreIgnoreRule.IsIgnored(fileInfo, null))
+            {
+                return;
+            }
+
             // Ignore certain files, If the parent of an ignored path has a change event, ignore that too
             foreach (var i in _tempIgnoredPaths.Keys)
             {

Emby.Server.Implementations/Images/BaseDynamicImageProvider.cs

@@ -267,22 +267,24 @@ namespace Emby.Server.Implementations.Images
         {
             var image = item.GetImageInfo(type, 0);
 
-            if (image is not null)
+            if (image is null)
             {
-                if (!image.IsLocalFile)
+                return GetItemsWithImages(item).Count is not 0;
-                {
+            }
-                    return false;
-                }
 
-                if (!FileSystem.ContainsSubPath(item.GetInternalMetadataPath(), image.Path))
+            if (!image.IsLocalFile)
-                {
+            {
-                    return false;
+                return false;
-                }
+            }
 
-                if (!HasChangedByDate(item, image))
+            if (!FileSystem.ContainsSubPath(item.GetInternalMetadataPath(), image.Path))
-                {
+            {
-                    return false;
+                return false;
-                }
+            }
+
+            if (!HasChangedByDate(item, image))
+            {
+                return false;
             }
 
             return true;

Emby.Server.Implementations/Images/CollectionFolderImageProvider.cs

@@ -98,5 +98,11 @@ namespace Emby.Server.Implementations.Images
 
             return base.CreateImage(item, itemsWithImages, outputPath, imageType, imageIndex);
         }
+
+        protected override bool HasChangedByDate(BaseItem item, ItemImageInfo image)
+        {
+            var age = DateTime.UtcNow - image.DateModified;
+            return age.TotalDays > 7;
+        }
     }
 }

Emby.Server.Implementations/Library/IgnorePatterns.cs

@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ namespace Emby.Server.Implementations.Library
             "**/lost+found",
             "**/subs/**",
             "**/subs",
+            "**/.snapshots/**",
+            "**/.snapshots",
+            "**/.snapshot/**",
+            "**/.snapshot",
 
             // Trickplay files
             "**/*.trickplay",

Emby.Server.Implementations/Library/LibraryManager.cs

@@ -2202,6 +2202,12 @@ namespace Emby.Server.Implementations.Library
         public Task UpdateItemAsync(BaseItem item, BaseItem parent, ItemUpdateType updateReason, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
             => UpdateItemsAsync([item], parent, updateReason, cancellationToken);
 
+        /// <inheritdoc />
+        public async Task ReattachUserDataAsync(BaseItem item, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
+        {
+            await _itemRepository.ReattachUserDataAsync(item, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
+        }
+
         public async Task RunMetadataSavers(BaseItem item, ItemUpdateType updateReason)
         {
             if (item.IsFileProtocol)
@@ -3195,19 +3201,7 @@ namespace Emby.Server.Implementations.Library
             var rootFolderPath = _configurationManager.ApplicationPaths.DefaultUserViewsPath;
             var virtualFolderPath = Path.Combine(rootFolderPath, virtualFolderName);
 
-            var shortcutFilename = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(path);
+            CreateShortcut(virtualFolderPath, pathInfo);
-
-            var lnk = Path.Combine(virtualFolderPath, shortcutFilename + ShortcutFileExtension);
-
-            while (File.Exists(lnk))
-            {
-                shortcutFilename += "1";
-                lnk = Path.Combine(virtualFolderPath, shortcutFilename + ShortcutFileExtension);
-            }
-
-            _fileSystem.CreateShortcut(lnk, _appHost.ReverseVirtualPath(path));
-
-            RemoveContentTypeOverrides(path);
 
             if (saveLibraryOptions)
             {
@@ -3372,5 +3366,24 @@ namespace Emby.Server.Implementations.Library
 
             return item is UserRootFolder || item.IsVisibleStandalone(user);
         }
+
+        public void CreateShortcut(string virtualFolderPath, MediaPathInfo pathInfo)
+        {
+            var path = pathInfo.Path;
+            var rootFolderPath = _configurationManager.ApplicationPaths.DefaultUserViewsPath;
+
+            var shortcutFilename = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(path);
+
+            var lnk = Path.Combine(virtualFolderPath, shortcutFilename + ShortcutFileExtension);
+
+            while (File.Exists(lnk))
+            {
+                shortcutFilename += "1";
+                lnk = Path.Combine(virtualFolderPath, shortcutFilename + ShortcutFileExtension);
+            }
+
+            _fileSystem.CreateShortcut(lnk, _appHost.ReverseVirtualPath(path));
+            RemoveContentTypeOverrides(path);
+        }
     }
 }

Emby.Server.Implementations/Localization/LocalizationManager.cs

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ namespace Emby.Server.Implementations.Localization
 
         private readonly JsonSerializerOptions _jsonOptions = JsonDefaults.Options;
 
+        private readonly ConcurrentDictionary<string, CultureDto?> _cultureCache = new(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
         private List<CultureDto> _cultures = [];
 
         private FrozenDictionary<string, string> _iso6392BtoT = null!;
@@ -161,6 +162,7 @@ namespace Emby.Server.Implementations.Localization
                     list.Add(new CultureDto(name, displayname, twoCharName, threeLetterNames));
                 }
 
+                _cultureCache.Clear();
                 _cultures = list;
                 _iso6392BtoT = iso6392BtoTdict.ToFrozenDictionary(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
             }
@@ -169,20 +171,31 @@ namespace Emby.Server.Implementations.Localization
         /// <inheritdoc />
         public CultureDto? FindLanguageInfo(string language)
         {
-            // TODO language should ideally be a ReadOnlySpan but moq cannot mock ref structs
+            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(language))
-            for (var i = 0; i < _cultures.Count; i++)
             {
-                var culture = _cultures[i];
+                return null;
-                if (language.Equals(culture.DisplayName, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
-                    || language.Equals(culture.Name, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
-                    || culture.ThreeLetterISOLanguageNames.Contains(language, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
-                    || language.Equals(culture.TwoLetterISOLanguageName, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
-                {
-                    return culture;
-                }
             }
 
-            return default;
+            return _cultureCache.GetOrAdd(
+                language,
+                static (lang, cultures) =>
+                {
+                    // TODO language should ideally be a ReadOnlySpan but moq cannot mock ref structs
+                    for (var i = 0; i < cultures.Count; i++)
+                    {
+                        var culture = cultures[i];
+                        if (lang.Equals(culture.DisplayName, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+                            || lang.Equals(culture.Name, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+                            || culture.ThreeLetterISOLanguageNames.Contains(lang, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+                            || lang.Equals(culture.TwoLetterISOLanguageName, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+                        {
+                            return culture;
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                    return null;
+                },
+                _cultures);
         }
 
         /// <inheritdoc />
@@ -311,15 +324,19 @@ namespace Emby.Server.Implementations.Localization
             else
             {
                 // Fall back to server default language for ratings check
-                // If it has no ratings, use the US ratings
+                var ratingsDictionary = GetParentalRatingsDictionary();
-                var ratingsDictionary = GetParentalRatingsDictionary() ?? GetParentalRatingsDictionary("us");
                 if (ratingsDictionary is not null && ratingsDictionary.TryGetValue(rating, out ParentalRatingScore? value))
                 {
                     return value;
                 }
             }
 
-            // If we don't find anything, check all ratings systems
+            // If we don't find anything, check all ratings systems, starting with US
+            if (_allParentalRatings.TryGetValue("us", out var usRatings) && usRatings.TryGetValue(rating, out var usValue))
+            {
+                return usValue;
+            }
+
             foreach (var dictionary in _allParentalRatings.Values)
             {
                 if (dictionary.TryGetValue(rating, out var value))

Emby.Server.Implementations/Session/SessionManager.cs

@@ -1175,7 +1175,8 @@ namespace Emby.Server.Implementations.Session
             return session;
         }
 
-        private SessionInfoDto ToSessionInfoDto(SessionInfo sessionInfo)
+        /// <inheritdoc />
+        public SessionInfoDto ToSessionInfoDto(SessionInfo sessionInfo)
         {
             return new SessionInfoDto
             {

Emby.Server.Implementations/Updates/InstallationManager.cs

@@ -156,6 +156,11 @@ namespace Emby.Server.Implementations.Updates
                 _logger.LogError(ex, "The URL configured for the plugin repository manifest URL is not valid: {Manifest}", manifest);
                 return Array.Empty<PackageInfo>();
             }
+            catch (NotSupportedException ex)
+            {
+                _logger.LogError(ex, "The URL scheme configured for the plugin repository is not supported: {Manifest}", manifest);
+                return Array.Empty<PackageInfo>();
+            }
             catch (HttpRequestException ex)
             {
                 _logger.LogError(ex, "An error occurred while accessing the plugin manifest: {Manifest}", manifest);

Jellyfin.Api/Controllers/AudioController.cs

@@ -92,18 +92,18 @@ public class AudioController : BaseJellyfinApiController
     [ProducesAudioFile]
     public async Task<ActionResult> GetAudioStream(
         [FromRoute, Required] Guid itemId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? container,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? container,
         [FromQuery] bool? @static,
         [FromQuery] string? @params,
         [FromQuery] string? tag,
         [FromQuery, ParameterObsolete] string? deviceProfileId,
         [FromQuery] string? playSessionId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? segmentContainer,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? segmentContainer,
         [FromQuery] int? segmentLength,
         [FromQuery] int? minSegments,
         [FromQuery] string? mediaSourceId,
         [FromQuery] string? deviceId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? audioCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? audioCodec,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableAutoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowVideoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowAudioStreamCopy,
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ public class AudioController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? audioChannels,
         [FromQuery] int? maxAudioChannels,
         [FromQuery] string? profile,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegex)] string? level,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegexStr)] string? level,
         [FromQuery] float? framerate,
         [FromQuery] float? maxFramerate,
         [FromQuery] bool? copyTimestamps,
@@ -133,8 +133,8 @@ public class AudioController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? cpuCoreLimit,
         [FromQuery] string? liveStreamId,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableMpegtsM2TsMode,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? videoCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? videoCodec,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? subtitleCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? subtitleCodec,
         [FromQuery] string? transcodeReasons,
         [FromQuery] int? audioStreamIndex,
         [FromQuery] int? videoStreamIndex,
@@ -259,18 +259,18 @@ public class AudioController : BaseJellyfinApiController
     [ProducesAudioFile]
     public async Task<ActionResult> GetAudioStreamByContainer(
         [FromRoute, Required] Guid itemId,
-        [FromRoute, Required] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string container,
+        [FromRoute, Required] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string container,
         [FromQuery] bool? @static,
         [FromQuery] string? @params,
         [FromQuery] string? tag,
         [FromQuery, ParameterObsolete] string? deviceProfileId,
         [FromQuery] string? playSessionId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? segmentContainer,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? segmentContainer,
         [FromQuery] int? segmentLength,
         [FromQuery] int? minSegments,
         [FromQuery] string? mediaSourceId,
         [FromQuery] string? deviceId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? audioCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? audioCodec,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableAutoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowVideoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowAudioStreamCopy,
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ public class AudioController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? audioChannels,
         [FromQuery] int? maxAudioChannels,
         [FromQuery] string? profile,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegex)] string? level,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegexStr)] string? level,
         [FromQuery] float? framerate,
         [FromQuery] float? maxFramerate,
         [FromQuery] bool? copyTimestamps,
@@ -300,8 +300,8 @@ public class AudioController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? cpuCoreLimit,
         [FromQuery] string? liveStreamId,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableMpegtsM2TsMode,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? videoCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? videoCodec,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? subtitleCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? subtitleCodec,
         [FromQuery] string? transcodeReasons,
         [FromQuery] int? audioStreamIndex,
         [FromQuery] int? videoStreamIndex,

Jellyfin.Api/Controllers/DynamicHlsController.cs

@@ -167,18 +167,18 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
     [ProducesPlaylistFile]
     public async Task<ActionResult> GetLiveHlsStream(
         [FromRoute, Required] Guid itemId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? container,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? container,
         [FromQuery] bool? @static,
         [FromQuery] string? @params,
         [FromQuery] string? tag,
         [FromQuery, ParameterObsolete] string? deviceProfileId,
         [FromQuery] string? playSessionId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? segmentContainer,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? segmentContainer,
         [FromQuery] int? segmentLength,
         [FromQuery] int? minSegments,
         [FromQuery] string? mediaSourceId,
         [FromQuery] string? deviceId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? audioCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? audioCodec,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableAutoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowVideoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowAudioStreamCopy,
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? audioChannels,
         [FromQuery] int? maxAudioChannels,
         [FromQuery] string? profile,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegex)] string? level,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegexStr)] string? level,
         [FromQuery] float? framerate,
         [FromQuery] float? maxFramerate,
         [FromQuery] bool? copyTimestamps,
@@ -208,8 +208,8 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? cpuCoreLimit,
         [FromQuery] string? liveStreamId,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableMpegtsM2TsMode,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? videoCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? videoCodec,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? subtitleCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? subtitleCodec,
         [FromQuery] string? transcodeReasons,
         [FromQuery] int? audioStreamIndex,
         [FromQuery] int? videoStreamIndex,
@@ -416,12 +416,12 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] string? tag,
         [FromQuery, ParameterObsolete] string? deviceProfileId,
         [FromQuery] string? playSessionId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? segmentContainer,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? segmentContainer,
         [FromQuery] int? segmentLength,
         [FromQuery] int? minSegments,
         [FromQuery, Required] string mediaSourceId,
         [FromQuery] string? deviceId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? audioCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? audioCodec,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableAutoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowVideoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowAudioStreamCopy,
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? audioChannels,
         [FromQuery] int? maxAudioChannels,
         [FromQuery] string? profile,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegex)] string? level,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegexStr)] string? level,
         [FromQuery] float? framerate,
         [FromQuery] float? maxFramerate,
         [FromQuery] bool? copyTimestamps,
@@ -453,8 +453,8 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? cpuCoreLimit,
         [FromQuery] string? liveStreamId,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableMpegtsM2TsMode,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? videoCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? videoCodec,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? subtitleCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? subtitleCodec,
         [FromQuery] string? transcodeReasons,
         [FromQuery] int? audioStreamIndex,
         [FromQuery] int? videoStreamIndex,
@@ -592,12 +592,12 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] string? tag,
         [FromQuery, ParameterObsolete] string? deviceProfileId,
         [FromQuery] string? playSessionId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? segmentContainer,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? segmentContainer,
         [FromQuery] int? segmentLength,
         [FromQuery] int? minSegments,
         [FromQuery, Required] string mediaSourceId,
         [FromQuery] string? deviceId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? audioCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? audioCodec,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableAutoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowVideoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowAudioStreamCopy,
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? audioChannels,
         [FromQuery] int? maxAudioChannels,
         [FromQuery] string? profile,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegex)] string? level,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegexStr)] string? level,
         [FromQuery] float? framerate,
         [FromQuery] float? maxFramerate,
         [FromQuery] bool? copyTimestamps,
@@ -628,8 +628,8 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? cpuCoreLimit,
         [FromQuery] string? liveStreamId,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableMpegtsM2TsMode,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? videoCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? videoCodec,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? subtitleCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? subtitleCodec,
         [FromQuery] string? transcodeReasons,
         [FromQuery] int? audioStreamIndex,
         [FromQuery] int? videoStreamIndex,
@@ -762,12 +762,12 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] string? tag,
         [FromQuery, ParameterObsolete] string? deviceProfileId,
         [FromQuery] string? playSessionId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? segmentContainer,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? segmentContainer,
         [FromQuery] int? segmentLength,
         [FromQuery] int? minSegments,
         [FromQuery] string? mediaSourceId,
         [FromQuery] string? deviceId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? audioCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? audioCodec,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableAutoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowVideoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowAudioStreamCopy,
@@ -778,7 +778,7 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? audioChannels,
         [FromQuery] int? maxAudioChannels,
         [FromQuery] string? profile,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegex)] string? level,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegexStr)] string? level,
         [FromQuery] float? framerate,
         [FromQuery] float? maxFramerate,
         [FromQuery] bool? copyTimestamps,
@@ -799,8 +799,8 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? cpuCoreLimit,
         [FromQuery] string? liveStreamId,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableMpegtsM2TsMode,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? videoCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? videoCodec,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? subtitleCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? subtitleCodec,
         [FromQuery] string? transcodeReasons,
         [FromQuery] int? audioStreamIndex,
         [FromQuery] int? videoStreamIndex,
@@ -934,12 +934,12 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] string? tag,
         [FromQuery, ParameterObsolete] string? deviceProfileId,
         [FromQuery] string? playSessionId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? segmentContainer,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? segmentContainer,
         [FromQuery] int? segmentLength,
         [FromQuery] int? minSegments,
         [FromQuery] string? mediaSourceId,
         [FromQuery] string? deviceId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? audioCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? audioCodec,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableAutoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowVideoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowAudioStreamCopy,
@@ -951,7 +951,7 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? audioChannels,
         [FromQuery] int? maxAudioChannels,
         [FromQuery] string? profile,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegex)] string? level,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegexStr)] string? level,
         [FromQuery] float? framerate,
         [FromQuery] float? maxFramerate,
         [FromQuery] bool? copyTimestamps,
@@ -970,8 +970,8 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? cpuCoreLimit,
         [FromQuery] string? liveStreamId,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableMpegtsM2TsMode,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? videoCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? videoCodec,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? subtitleCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? subtitleCodec,
         [FromQuery] string? transcodeReasons,
         [FromQuery] int? audioStreamIndex,
         [FromQuery] int? videoStreamIndex,
@@ -1107,7 +1107,7 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromRoute, Required] Guid itemId,
         [FromRoute, Required] string playlistId,
         [FromRoute, Required] int segmentId,
-        [FromRoute, Required] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string container,
+        [FromRoute, Required] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string container,
         [FromQuery, Required] long runtimeTicks,
         [FromQuery, Required] long actualSegmentLengthTicks,
         [FromQuery] bool? @static,
@@ -1115,12 +1115,12 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] string? tag,
         [FromQuery, ParameterObsolete] string? deviceProfileId,
         [FromQuery] string? playSessionId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? segmentContainer,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? segmentContainer,
         [FromQuery] int? segmentLength,
         [FromQuery] int? minSegments,
         [FromQuery] string? mediaSourceId,
         [FromQuery] string? deviceId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? audioCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? audioCodec,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableAutoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowVideoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowAudioStreamCopy,
@@ -1131,7 +1131,7 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? audioChannels,
         [FromQuery] int? maxAudioChannels,
         [FromQuery] string? profile,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegex)] string? level,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegexStr)] string? level,
         [FromQuery] float? framerate,
         [FromQuery] float? maxFramerate,
         [FromQuery] bool? copyTimestamps,
@@ -1152,8 +1152,8 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? cpuCoreLimit,
         [FromQuery] string? liveStreamId,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableMpegtsM2TsMode,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? videoCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? videoCodec,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? subtitleCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? subtitleCodec,
         [FromQuery] string? transcodeReasons,
         [FromQuery] int? audioStreamIndex,
         [FromQuery] int? videoStreamIndex,
@@ -1292,7 +1292,7 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromRoute, Required] Guid itemId,
         [FromRoute, Required] string playlistId,
         [FromRoute, Required] int segmentId,
-        [FromRoute, Required] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string container,
+        [FromRoute, Required] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string container,
         [FromQuery, Required] long runtimeTicks,
         [FromQuery, Required] long actualSegmentLengthTicks,
         [FromQuery] bool? @static,
@@ -1300,12 +1300,12 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] string? tag,
         [FromQuery, ParameterObsolete] string? deviceProfileId,
         [FromQuery] string? playSessionId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? segmentContainer,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? segmentContainer,
         [FromQuery] int? segmentLength,
         [FromQuery] int? minSegments,
         [FromQuery] string? mediaSourceId,
         [FromQuery] string? deviceId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? audioCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? audioCodec,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableAutoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowVideoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowAudioStreamCopy,
@@ -1317,7 +1317,7 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? audioChannels,
         [FromQuery] int? maxAudioChannels,
         [FromQuery] string? profile,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegex)] string? level,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegexStr)] string? level,
         [FromQuery] float? framerate,
         [FromQuery] float? maxFramerate,
         [FromQuery] bool? copyTimestamps,
@@ -1336,8 +1336,8 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? cpuCoreLimit,
         [FromQuery] string? liveStreamId,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableMpegtsM2TsMode,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? videoCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? videoCodec,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? subtitleCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? subtitleCodec,
         [FromQuery] string? transcodeReasons,
         [FromQuery] int? audioStreamIndex,
         [FromQuery] int? videoStreamIndex,
@@ -1421,10 +1421,20 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
                 cancellationTokenSource.Token)
             .ConfigureAwait(false);
         var mediaSourceId = state.BaseRequest.MediaSourceId;
+        double fps = state.TargetFramerate ?? 0.0f;
+        int segmentLength = state.SegmentLength * 1000;
+
+        // If video is transcoded and framerate is fractional (i.e. 23.976), we need to slightly adjust segment length
+        if (!EncodingHelper.IsCopyCodec(state.OutputVideoCodec) && Math.Abs(fps - Math.Floor(fps + 0.001f)) > 0.001)
+        {
+            double nearestIntFramerate = Math.Ceiling(fps);
+            segmentLength = (int)Math.Ceiling(segmentLength * (nearestIntFramerate / fps));
+        }
+
         var request = new CreateMainPlaylistRequest(
             mediaSourceId is null ? null : Guid.Parse(mediaSourceId),
             state.MediaPath,
-            state.SegmentLength * 1000,
+            segmentLength,
             state.RunTimeTicks ?? 0,
             state.Request.SegmentContainer ?? string.Empty,
             "hls1/main/",
@@ -1839,8 +1849,9 @@ public class DynamicHlsController : BaseJellyfinApiController
             {
                 if (isActualOutputVideoCodecHevc)
                 {
-                    // Prefer dvh1 to dvhe
+                    // Use hvc1 for 8.4. This is what Dolby uses for its official sample streams. Tagging with dvh1 would break some players with strict tag checking like Apple Safari.
-                    args += " -tag:v:0 dvh1 -strict -2";
+                    var codecTag = state.VideoStream.VideoRangeType == VideoRangeType.DOVIWithHLG ? "hvc1" : "dvh1";
+                    args += $" -tag:v:0 {codecTag} -strict -2";
                 }
                 else if (isActualOutputVideoCodecAv1)
                 {

Jellyfin.Api/Controllers/ItemUpdateController.cs

@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ public class ItemUpdateController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         {
             if (item is IHasAlbumArtist hasAlbumArtists)
             {
-                hasAlbumArtists.AlbumArtists = Array.ConvertAll(request.AlbumArtists, i => i.Name);
+                hasAlbumArtists.AlbumArtists = Array.ConvertAll(request.AlbumArtists, i => i.Name.Trim());
             }
         }
 
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ public class ItemUpdateController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         {
             if (item is IHasArtist hasArtists)
             {
-                hasArtists.Artists = Array.ConvertAll(request.ArtistItems, i => i.Name);
+                hasArtists.Artists = Array.ConvertAll(request.ArtistItems, i => i.Name.Trim());
             }
         }
 

Jellyfin.Api/Controllers/LibraryStructureController.cs

@@ -342,6 +342,17 @@ public class LibraryStructureController : BaseJellyfinApiController
             return NotFound();
         }
 
+        LibraryOptions options = item.GetLibraryOptions();
+        foreach (var mediaPath in request.LibraryOptions!.PathInfos)
+        {
+            if (options.PathInfos.Any(i => i.Path == mediaPath.Path))
+            {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            _libraryManager.CreateShortcut(item.Path, mediaPath);
+        }
+
         item.UpdateLibraryOptions(request.LibraryOptions);
         return NoContent();
     }

Jellyfin.Api/Controllers/LiveTvController.cs

@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ public class LiveTvController : BaseJellyfinApiController
     /// <returns>A <see cref="NoContentResult"/>.</returns>
     [HttpPost("Tuners/{tunerId}/Reset")]
     [ProducesResponseType(StatusCodes.Status204NoContent)]
-    [Authorize(Policy = Policies.LiveTvManagement)]
+    [Authorize(Policy = Policies.RequiresElevation)]
     public async Task<ActionResult> ResetTuner([FromRoute, Required] string tunerId)
     {
         await _liveTvManager.ResetTuner(tunerId, CancellationToken.None).ConfigureAwait(false);
@@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ public class LiveTvController : BaseJellyfinApiController
     /// <response code="200">Created tuner host returned.</response>
     /// <returns>A <see cref="OkResult"/> containing the created tuner host.</returns>
     [HttpPost("TunerHosts")]
-    [Authorize(Policy = Policies.LiveTvManagement)]
+    [Authorize(Policy = Policies.RequiresElevation)]
     [ProducesResponseType(StatusCodes.Status200OK)]
     public async Task<ActionResult<TunerHostInfo>> AddTunerHost([FromBody] TunerHostInfo tunerHostInfo)
         => await _tunerHostManager.SaveTunerHost(tunerHostInfo).ConfigureAwait(false);
@@ -995,7 +995,7 @@ public class LiveTvController : BaseJellyfinApiController
     /// <response code="204">Tuner host deleted.</response>
     /// <returns>A <see cref="NoContentResult"/>.</returns>
     [HttpDelete("TunerHosts")]
-    [Authorize(Policy = Policies.LiveTvManagement)]
+    [Authorize(Policy = Policies.RequiresElevation)]
     [ProducesResponseType(StatusCodes.Status204NoContent)]
     public ActionResult DeleteTunerHost([FromQuery] string? id)
     {
@@ -1028,7 +1028,7 @@ public class LiveTvController : BaseJellyfinApiController
     /// <response code="200">Created listings provider returned.</response>
     /// <returns>A <see cref="OkResult"/> containing the created listings provider.</returns>
     [HttpPost("ListingProviders")]
-    [Authorize(Policy = Policies.LiveTvManagement)]
+    [Authorize(Policy = Policies.RequiresElevation)]
     [ProducesResponseType(StatusCodes.Status200OK)]
     [SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Performance", "CA5350:RemoveSha1", MessageId = "AddListingProvider", Justification = "Imported from ServiceStack")]
     public async Task<ActionResult<ListingsProviderInfo>> AddListingProvider(
@@ -1054,7 +1054,7 @@ public class LiveTvController : BaseJellyfinApiController
     /// <response code="204">Listing provider deleted.</response>
     /// <returns>A <see cref="NoContentResult"/>.</returns>
     [HttpDelete("ListingProviders")]
-    [Authorize(Policy = Policies.LiveTvManagement)]
+    [Authorize(Policy = Policies.RequiresElevation)]
     [ProducesResponseType(StatusCodes.Status204NoContent)]
     public ActionResult DeleteListingProvider([FromQuery] string? id)
     {
@@ -1087,7 +1087,7 @@ public class LiveTvController : BaseJellyfinApiController
     /// <response code="200">Available countries returned.</response>
     /// <returns>A <see cref="FileResult"/> containing the available countries.</returns>
     [HttpGet("ListingProviders/SchedulesDirect/Countries")]
-    [Authorize(Policy = Policies.LiveTvAccess)]
+    [Authorize(Policy = Policies.RequiresElevation)]
     [ProducesResponseType(StatusCodes.Status200OK)]
     [ProducesFile(MediaTypeNames.Application.Json)]
     public async Task<ActionResult> GetSchedulesDirectCountries()
@@ -1108,7 +1108,7 @@ public class LiveTvController : BaseJellyfinApiController
     /// <response code="200">Channel mapping options returned.</response>
     /// <returns>An <see cref="OkResult"/> containing the channel mapping options.</returns>
     [HttpGet("ChannelMappingOptions")]
-    [Authorize(Policy = Policies.LiveTvAccess)]
+    [Authorize(Policy = Policies.RequiresElevation)]
     [ProducesResponseType(StatusCodes.Status200OK)]
     public Task<ChannelMappingOptionsDto> GetChannelMappingOptions([FromQuery] string? providerId)
         => _listingsManager.GetChannelMappingOptions(providerId);
@@ -1120,7 +1120,7 @@ public class LiveTvController : BaseJellyfinApiController
     /// <response code="200">Created channel mapping returned.</response>
     /// <returns>An <see cref="OkResult"/> containing the created channel mapping.</returns>
     [HttpPost("ChannelMappings")]
-    [Authorize(Policy = Policies.LiveTvManagement)]
+    [Authorize(Policy = Policies.RequiresElevation)]
     [ProducesResponseType(StatusCodes.Status200OK)]
     public Task<TunerChannelMapping> SetChannelMapping([FromBody, Required] SetChannelMappingDto dto)
         => _listingsManager.SetChannelMapping(dto.ProviderId, dto.TunerChannelId, dto.ProviderChannelId);
@@ -1144,7 +1144,7 @@ public class LiveTvController : BaseJellyfinApiController
     /// <returns>An <see cref="OkResult"/> containing the tuners.</returns>
     [HttpGet("Tuners/Discvover", Name = "DiscvoverTuners")]
     [HttpGet("Tuners/Discover")]
-    [Authorize(Policy = Policies.LiveTvManagement)]
+    [Authorize(Policy = Policies.RequiresElevation)]
     [ProducesResponseType(StatusCodes.Status200OK)]
     public IAsyncEnumerable<TunerHostInfo> DiscoverTuners([FromQuery] bool newDevicesOnly = false)
         => _tunerHostManager.DiscoverTuners(newDevicesOnly);
@@ -1192,7 +1192,7 @@ public class LiveTvController : BaseJellyfinApiController
     [ProducesVideoFile]
     public ActionResult GetLiveStreamFile(
         [FromRoute, Required] string streamId,
-        [FromRoute, Required] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string container)
+        [FromRoute, Required] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string container)
     {
         var liveStreamInfo = _mediaSourceManager.GetLiveStreamInfoByUniqueId(streamId);
         if (liveStreamInfo is null)

Jellyfin.Api/Controllers/SyncPlayController.cs

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ public class SyncPlayController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromBody, Required] NewGroupRequestDto requestData)
     {
         var currentSession = await RequestHelpers.GetSession(_sessionManager, _userManager, HttpContext).ConfigureAwait(false);
-        var syncPlayRequest = new NewGroupRequest(requestData.GroupName);
+        var syncPlayRequest = new NewGroupRequest(requestData.GroupName.Trim());
         return Ok(_syncPlayManager.NewGroup(currentSession, syncPlayRequest, CancellationToken.None));
     }
 

Jellyfin.Api/Controllers/UniversalAudioController.cs

@@ -102,13 +102,13 @@ public class UniversalAudioController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] string? mediaSourceId,
         [FromQuery] string? deviceId,
         [FromQuery] Guid? userId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? audioCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? audioCodec,
         [FromQuery] int? maxAudioChannels,
         [FromQuery] int? transcodingAudioChannels,
         [FromQuery] int? maxStreamingBitrate,
         [FromQuery] int? audioBitRate,
         [FromQuery] long? startTimeTicks,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? transcodingContainer,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? transcodingContainer,
         [FromQuery] MediaStreamProtocol? transcodingProtocol,
         [FromQuery] int? maxAudioSampleRate,
         [FromQuery] int? maxAudioBitDepth,

Jellyfin.Api/Controllers/VideosController.cs

@@ -315,18 +315,18 @@ public class VideosController : BaseJellyfinApiController
     [ProducesVideoFile]
     public async Task<ActionResult> GetVideoStream(
         [FromRoute, Required] Guid itemId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? container,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? container,
         [FromQuery] bool? @static,
         [FromQuery] string? @params,
         [FromQuery] string? tag,
         [FromQuery, ParameterObsolete] string? deviceProfileId,
         [FromQuery] string? playSessionId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? segmentContainer,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? segmentContainer,
         [FromQuery] int? segmentLength,
         [FromQuery] int? minSegments,
         [FromQuery] string? mediaSourceId,
         [FromQuery] string? deviceId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? audioCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? audioCodec,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableAutoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowVideoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowAudioStreamCopy,
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ public class VideosController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? audioChannels,
         [FromQuery] int? maxAudioChannels,
         [FromQuery] string? profile,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegex)] string? level,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegexStr)] string? level,
         [FromQuery] float? framerate,
         [FromQuery] float? maxFramerate,
         [FromQuery] bool? copyTimestamps,
@@ -358,8 +358,8 @@ public class VideosController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? cpuCoreLimit,
         [FromQuery] string? liveStreamId,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableMpegtsM2TsMode,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? videoCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? videoCodec,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? subtitleCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? subtitleCodec,
         [FromQuery] string? transcodeReasons,
         [FromQuery] int? audioStreamIndex,
         [FromQuery] int? videoStreamIndex,
@@ -556,18 +556,18 @@ public class VideosController : BaseJellyfinApiController
     [ProducesVideoFile]
     public Task<ActionResult> GetVideoStreamByContainer(
         [FromRoute, Required] Guid itemId,
-        [FromRoute, Required] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string container,
+        [FromRoute, Required] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string container,
         [FromQuery] bool? @static,
         [FromQuery] string? @params,
         [FromQuery] string? tag,
         [FromQuery] string? deviceProfileId,
         [FromQuery] string? playSessionId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? segmentContainer,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? segmentContainer,
         [FromQuery] int? segmentLength,
         [FromQuery] int? minSegments,
         [FromQuery] string? mediaSourceId,
         [FromQuery] string? deviceId,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? audioCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? audioCodec,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableAutoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowVideoStreamCopy,
         [FromQuery] bool? allowAudioStreamCopy,
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ public class VideosController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? audioChannels,
         [FromQuery] int? maxAudioChannels,
         [FromQuery] string? profile,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegex)] string? level,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegexStr)] string? level,
         [FromQuery] float? framerate,
         [FromQuery] float? maxFramerate,
         [FromQuery] bool? copyTimestamps,
@@ -599,8 +599,8 @@ public class VideosController : BaseJellyfinApiController
         [FromQuery] int? cpuCoreLimit,
         [FromQuery] string? liveStreamId,
         [FromQuery] bool? enableMpegtsM2TsMode,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? videoCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? videoCodec,
-        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex)] string? subtitleCodec,
+        [FromQuery] [RegularExpression(EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegexStr)] string? subtitleCodec,
         [FromQuery] string? transcodeReasons,
         [FromQuery] int? audioStreamIndex,
         [FromQuery] int? videoStreamIndex,

Jellyfin.Api/Helpers/DynamicHlsHelper.cs

@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ public class DynamicHlsHelper
         // from universal audio service, need to override the AudioCodec when the actual request differs from original query
         if (!string.Equals(state.OutputAudioCodec, _httpContextAccessor.HttpContext.Request.Query["AudioCodec"].ToString(), StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
         {
-            var newQuery = Microsoft.AspNetCore.WebUtilities.QueryHelpers.ParseQuery(_httpContextAccessor.HttpContext.Request.QueryString.ToString());
+            var newQuery = Microsoft.AspNetCore.WebUtilities.QueryHelpers.ParseQuery(queryString);
             newQuery["AudioCodec"] = state.OutputAudioCodec;
             queryString = Microsoft.AspNetCore.WebUtilities.QueryHelpers.AddQueryString(string.Empty, newQuery);
         }
@@ -173,10 +173,21 @@ public class DynamicHlsHelper
             queryString += "&TranscodeReasons=" + state.Request.TranscodeReasons;
         }
 
-        // Main stream
+        // Video rotation metadata is only supported in fMP4 remuxing
-        var playlistUrl = isLiveStream ? "live.m3u8" : "main.m3u8";
+        if (state.VideoStream is not null
+            && state.VideoRequest is not null
+            && (state.VideoStream?.Rotation ?? 0) != 0
+            && EncodingHelper.IsCopyCodec(state.OutputVideoCodec)
+            && !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(state.Request.SegmentContainer)
+            && !string.Equals(state.Request.SegmentContainer, "mp4", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+        {
+            queryString += "&AllowVideoStreamCopy=false";
+        }
 
-        playlistUrl += queryString;
+        // Main stream
+        var baseUrl = isLiveStream ? "live.m3u8" : "main.m3u8";
+        var playlistUrl = baseUrl + queryString;
+        var playlistQuery = Microsoft.AspNetCore.WebUtilities.QueryHelpers.ParseQuery(queryString);
 
         var subtitleStreams = state.MediaSource
             .MediaStreams
@@ -198,37 +209,36 @@ public class DynamicHlsHelper
             AddSubtitles(state, subtitleStreams, builder, _httpContextAccessor.HttpContext.User);
         }
 
-        // Video rotation metadata is only supported in fMP4 remuxing
-        if (state.VideoStream is not null
-            && state.VideoRequest is not null
-            && (state.VideoStream?.Rotation ?? 0) != 0
-            && EncodingHelper.IsCopyCodec(state.OutputVideoCodec)
-            && !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(state.Request.SegmentContainer)
-            && !string.Equals(state.Request.SegmentContainer, "mp4", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
-        {
-            playlistUrl += "&AllowVideoStreamCopy=false";
-        }
-
         var basicPlaylist = AppendPlaylist(builder, state, playlistUrl, totalBitrate, subtitleGroup);
 
         if (state.VideoStream is not null && state.VideoRequest is not null)
         {
             var encodingOptions = _serverConfigurationManager.GetEncodingOptions();
 
-            // Provide SDR HEVC entrance for backward compatibility.
+            // Provide AV1 and HEVC SDR entrances for backward compatibility.
-            if (encodingOptions.AllowHevcEncoding
+            foreach (var sdrVideoCodec in new[] { "av1", "hevc" })
-                && !encodingOptions.AllowAv1Encoding
-                && EncodingHelper.IsCopyCodec(state.OutputVideoCodec)
-                && state.VideoStream.VideoRange == VideoRange.HDR
-                && string.Equals(state.ActualOutputVideoCodec, "hevc", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
             {
-                var requestedVideoProfiles = state.GetRequestedProfiles("hevc");
+                var isAv1EncodingAllowed = encodingOptions.AllowAv1Encoding
-                if (requestedVideoProfiles is not null && requestedVideoProfiles.Length > 0)
+                    && string.Equals(sdrVideoCodec, "av1", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+                    && string.Equals(state.ActualOutputVideoCodec, "av1", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
+                var isHevcEncodingAllowed = encodingOptions.AllowHevcEncoding
+                    && string.Equals(sdrVideoCodec, "hevc", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+                    && string.Equals(state.ActualOutputVideoCodec, "hevc", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
+                var isEncodingAllowed = isAv1EncodingAllowed || isHevcEncodingAllowed;
+
+                if (isEncodingAllowed
+                    && EncodingHelper.IsCopyCodec(state.OutputVideoCodec)
+                    && state.VideoStream.VideoRange == VideoRange.HDR)
                 {
-                    // Force HEVC Main Profile and disable video stream copy.
+                    // Force AV1 and HEVC Main Profile and disable video stream copy.
-                    state.OutputVideoCodec = "hevc";
+                    state.OutputVideoCodec = sdrVideoCodec;
-                    var sdrVideoUrl = ReplaceProfile(playlistUrl, "hevc", string.Join(',', requestedVideoProfiles), "main");
+
-                    sdrVideoUrl += "&AllowVideoStreamCopy=false";
+                    var sdrPlaylistQuery = playlistQuery;
+                    sdrPlaylistQuery["VideoCodec"] = sdrVideoCodec;
+                    sdrPlaylistQuery[sdrVideoCodec + "-profile"] = "main";
+                    sdrPlaylistQuery["AllowVideoStreamCopy"] = "false";
+
+                    var sdrVideoUrl = Microsoft.AspNetCore.WebUtilities.QueryHelpers.AddQueryString(baseUrl, sdrPlaylistQuery);
 
                     // HACK: Use the same bitrate so that the client can choose by other attributes, such as color range.
                     AppendPlaylist(builder, state, sdrVideoUrl, totalBitrate, subtitleGroup);
@@ -238,12 +248,30 @@ public class DynamicHlsHelper
                 }
             }
 
+            // Provide H.264 SDR entrance for backward compatibility.
+            if (EncodingHelper.IsCopyCodec(state.OutputVideoCodec)
+                && state.VideoStream.VideoRange == VideoRange.HDR)
+            {
+                // Force H.264 and disable video stream copy.
+                state.OutputVideoCodec = "h264";
+
+                var sdrPlaylistQuery = playlistQuery;
+                sdrPlaylistQuery["VideoCodec"] = "h264";
+                sdrPlaylistQuery["AllowVideoStreamCopy"] = "false";
+
+                var sdrVideoUrl = Microsoft.AspNetCore.WebUtilities.QueryHelpers.AddQueryString(baseUrl, sdrPlaylistQuery);
+
+                // HACK: Use the same bitrate so that the client can choose by other attributes, such as color range.
+                AppendPlaylist(builder, state, sdrVideoUrl, totalBitrate, subtitleGroup);
+
+                // Restore the video codec
+                state.OutputVideoCodec = "copy";
+            }
+
             // Provide Level 5.0 entrance for backward compatibility.
             // e.g. Apple A10 chips refuse the master playlist containing SDR HEVC Main Level 5.1 video,
             // but in fact it is capable of playing videos up to Level 6.1.
-            if (encodingOptions.AllowHevcEncoding
+            if (EncodingHelper.IsCopyCodec(state.OutputVideoCodec)
-                && !encodingOptions.AllowAv1Encoding
-                && EncodingHelper.IsCopyCodec(state.OutputVideoCodec)
                 && state.VideoStream.Level.HasValue
                 && state.VideoStream.Level > 150
                 && state.VideoStream.VideoRange == VideoRange.SDR
@@ -273,12 +301,15 @@ public class DynamicHlsHelper
             var variation = GetBitrateVariation(totalBitrate);
 
             var newBitrate = totalBitrate - variation;
-            var variantUrl = ReplaceVideoBitrate(playlistUrl, requestedVideoBitrate, requestedVideoBitrate - variation);
+            var variantQuery = playlistQuery;
+            variantQuery["VideoBitrate"] = (requestedVideoBitrate - variation).ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+            var variantUrl = Microsoft.AspNetCore.WebUtilities.QueryHelpers.AddQueryString(baseUrl, variantQuery);
             AppendPlaylist(builder, state, variantUrl, newBitrate, subtitleGroup);
 
             variation *= 2;
             newBitrate = totalBitrate - variation;
-            variantUrl = ReplaceVideoBitrate(playlistUrl, requestedVideoBitrate, requestedVideoBitrate - variation);
+            variantQuery["VideoBitrate"] = (requestedVideoBitrate - variation).ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+            variantUrl = Microsoft.AspNetCore.WebUtilities.QueryHelpers.AddQueryString(baseUrl, variantQuery);
             AppendPlaylist(builder, state, variantUrl, newBitrate, subtitleGroup);
         }
 
@@ -863,23 +894,6 @@ public class DynamicHlsHelper
         return variation;
     }
 
-    private string ReplaceVideoBitrate(string url, int oldValue, int newValue)
-    {
-        return url.Replace(
-            "videobitrate=" + oldValue.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture),
-            "videobitrate=" + newValue.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture),
-            StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
-    }
-
-    private string ReplaceProfile(string url, string codec, string oldValue, string newValue)
-    {
-        string profileStr = codec + "-profile=";
-        return url.Replace(
-            profileStr + oldValue,
-            profileStr + newValue,
-            StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
-    }
-
     private string ReplacePlaylistCodecsField(StringBuilder playlist, StringBuilder oldValue, StringBuilder newValue)
     {
         var oldPlaylist = playlist.ToString();

Jellyfin.Api/Helpers/StreamingHelpers.cs

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Globalization;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
+using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 using System.Threading;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using Jellyfin.Api.Extensions;
@@ -17,9 +18,7 @@ using MediaBrowser.Controller.MediaEncoding;
 using MediaBrowser.Controller.Streaming;
 using MediaBrowser.Model.Dlna;
 using MediaBrowser.Model.Dto;
-using MediaBrowser.Model.Entities;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
-using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.HttpResults;
 using Microsoft.Net.Http.Headers;
 
 namespace Jellyfin.Api.Helpers;
@@ -422,14 +421,18 @@ public static class StreamingHelpers
                     request.Static = string.Equals("true", val, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
                     break;
                 case 4:
-                    if (videoRequest is not null)
+                    if (videoRequest is not null && IsValidCodecName(val))
                     {
                         videoRequest.VideoCodec = val;
                     }
 
                     break;
                 case 5:
-                    request.AudioCodec = val;
+                    if (IsValidCodecName(val))
+                    {
+                        request.AudioCodec = val;
+                    }
+
                     break;
                 case 6:
                     if (videoRequest is not null)
@@ -483,7 +486,7 @@ public static class StreamingHelpers
                     request.StartTimeTicks = long.Parse(val, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
                     break;
                 case 15:
-                    if (videoRequest is not null)
+                    if (videoRequest is not null && Regex.IsMatch(val, EncodingHelper.LevelValidationRegexStr))
                     {
                         videoRequest.Level = val;
                     }
@@ -504,7 +507,7 @@ public static class StreamingHelpers
 
                     break;
                 case 18:
-                    if (videoRequest is not null)
+                    if (videoRequest is not null && IsValidCodecName(val))
                     {
                         videoRequest.Profile = val;
                     }
@@ -563,7 +566,11 @@ public static class StreamingHelpers
 
                     break;
                 case 30:
-                    request.SubtitleCodec = val;
+                    if (IsValidCodecName(val))
+                    {
+                        request.SubtitleCodec = val;
+                    }
+
                     break;
                 case 31:
                     if (videoRequest is not null)
@@ -586,6 +593,11 @@ public static class StreamingHelpers
         }
     }
 
+    private static bool IsValidCodecName(string val)
+    {
+        return EncodingHelper.ContainerValidationRegex().IsMatch(val);
+    }
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Parses the container into its file extension.
     /// </summary>

Jellyfin.Api/Models/SyncPlayDtos/NewGroupRequestDto.cs

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
+
 namespace Jellyfin.Api.Models.SyncPlayDtos;
 
 /// <summary>
@@ -17,5 +19,6 @@ public class NewGroupRequestDto
     /// Gets or sets the group name.
     /// </summary>
     /// <value>The name of the new group.</value>
+    [StringLength(200, ErrorMessage = "Group name must not exceed 200 characters.")]
     public string GroupName { get; set; }
 }

Jellyfin.Api/WebSocketListeners/SessionInfoWebSocketListener.cs

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ using MediaBrowser.Controller.Authentication;
 using MediaBrowser.Controller.Library;
 using MediaBrowser.Controller.Net;
 using MediaBrowser.Controller.Session;
+using MediaBrowser.Model.Dto;
 using MediaBrowser.Model.Session;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
 
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@ namespace Jellyfin.Api.WebSocketListeners;
 /// <summary>
 /// Class SessionInfoWebSocketListener.
 /// </summary>
-public class SessionInfoWebSocketListener : BasePeriodicWebSocketListener<IEnumerable<SessionInfo>, WebSocketListenerState>
+public class SessionInfoWebSocketListener : BasePeriodicWebSocketListener<IEnumerable<SessionInfoDto>, WebSocketListenerState>
 {
     private readonly ISessionManager _sessionManager;
     private bool _disposed;
@@ -52,24 +53,26 @@ public class SessionInfoWebSocketListener : BasePeriodicWebSocketListener<IEnume
     /// Gets the data to send.
     /// </summary>
     /// <returns>Task{SystemInfo}.</returns>
-    protected override Task<IEnumerable<SessionInfo>> GetDataToSend()
+    protected override Task<IEnumerable<SessionInfoDto>> GetDataToSend()
     {
-        return Task.FromResult(_sessionManager.Sessions);
+        return Task.FromResult(_sessionManager.Sessions.Select(_sessionManager.ToSessionInfoDto));
     }
 
     /// <inheritdoc />
-    protected override Task<IEnumerable<SessionInfo>> GetDataToSendForConnection(IWebSocketConnection connection)
+    protected override Task<IEnumerable<SessionInfoDto>> GetDataToSendForConnection(IWebSocketConnection connection)
     {
+        var sessions = _sessionManager.Sessions;
+
         // For non-admin users, filter the sessions to only include their own sessions
         if (connection.AuthorizationInfo?.User is not null &&
             !connection.AuthorizationInfo.IsApiKey &&
             !connection.AuthorizationInfo.User.HasPermission(PermissionKind.IsAdministrator))
         {
             var userId = connection.AuthorizationInfo.User.Id;
-            return Task.FromResult(_sessionManager.Sessions.Where(s => s.UserId.Equals(userId) || s.ContainsUser(userId)));
+            sessions = sessions.Where(s => s.UserId.Equals(userId) || s.ContainsUser(userId));
         }
 
-        return Task.FromResult(_sessionManager.Sessions);
+        return Task.FromResult(sessions.Select(_sessionManager.ToSessionInfoDto));
     }
 
     /// <inheritdoc />

Jellyfin.Data/Jellyfin.Data.csproj

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
   <PropertyGroup>
     <Authors>Jellyfin Contributors</Authors>
     <PackageId>Jellyfin.Data</PackageId>
-    <VersionPrefix>10.11.4</VersionPrefix>
+    <VersionPrefix>10.11.7</VersionPrefix>
     <RepositoryUrl>https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin</RepositoryUrl>
     <PackageLicenseExpression>GPL-3.0-only</PackageLicenseExpression>
   </PropertyGroup>

Jellyfin.Data/UserEntityExtensions.cs

@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ public static class UserEntityExtensions
         entity.Permissions.Add(new Permission(PermissionKind.EnableSyncTranscoding, true));
         entity.Permissions.Add(new Permission(PermissionKind.EnableAudioPlaybackTranscoding, true));
         entity.Permissions.Add(new Permission(PermissionKind.EnableLiveTvAccess, true));
-        entity.Permissions.Add(new Permission(PermissionKind.EnableLiveTvManagement, true));
+        entity.Permissions.Add(new Permission(PermissionKind.EnableLiveTvManagement, false));
         entity.Permissions.Add(new Permission(PermissionKind.EnableSharedDeviceControl, true));
         entity.Permissions.Add(new Permission(PermissionKind.EnableVideoPlaybackTranscoding, true));
         entity.Permissions.Add(new Permission(PermissionKind.ForceRemoteSourceTranscoding, false));

Jellyfin.Server.Implementations/FullSystemBackup/BackupService.cs

@@ -118,15 +118,21 @@ public class BackupService : IBackupService
                 throw new NotSupportedException($"The loaded archive '{archivePath}' is made for a newer version of Jellyfin ({manifest.ServerVersion}) and cannot be loaded in this version.");
             }
 
-            void CopyDirectory(string source, string target)
+            void CopyDirectory(string source, string target, string[]? exclude = null)
             {
                 var fullSourcePath = NormalizePathSeparator(Path.GetFullPath(source) + Path.DirectorySeparatorChar);
                 var fullTargetRoot = Path.GetFullPath(target) + Path.DirectorySeparatorChar;
+                var excludePaths = exclude?.Select(e => $"{source}/{e}/").ToArray();
                 foreach (var item in zipArchive.Entries)
                 {
                     var sourcePath = NormalizePathSeparator(Path.GetFullPath(item.FullName));
                     var targetPath = Path.GetFullPath(Path.Combine(target, Path.GetRelativePath(source, item.FullName)));
 
+                    if (excludePaths is not null && excludePaths.Any(e => item.FullName.StartsWith(e, StringComparison.Ordinal)))
+                    {
+                        continue;
+                    }
+
                     if (!sourcePath.StartsWith(fullSourcePath, StringComparison.Ordinal)
                         || !targetPath.StartsWith(fullTargetRoot, StringComparison.Ordinal)
                         || Path.EndsInDirectorySeparator(item.FullName))
@@ -142,8 +148,10 @@ public class BackupService : IBackupService
             }
 
             CopyDirectory("Config", _applicationPaths.ConfigurationDirectoryPath);
-            CopyDirectory("Data", _applicationPaths.DataPath);
+            CopyDirectory("Data", _applicationPaths.DataPath, exclude: ["metadata", "metadata-default"]);
             CopyDirectory("Root", _applicationPaths.RootFolderPath);
+            CopyDirectory("Data/metadata", _applicationPaths.InternalMetadataPath);
+            CopyDirectory("Data/metadata-default", _applicationPaths.DefaultInternalMetadataPath);
 
             if (manifest.Options.Database)
             {
@@ -403,6 +411,15 @@ public class BackupService : IBackupService
                 if (backupOptions.Metadata)
                 {
                     CopyDirectory(Path.Combine(_applicationPaths.InternalMetadataPath), Path.Combine("Data", "metadata"));
+
+                    // If a custom metadata path is configured, the default location may still contain data.
+                    if (!string.Equals(
+                            Path.GetFullPath(_applicationPaths.DefaultInternalMetadataPath),
+                            Path.GetFullPath(_applicationPaths.InternalMetadataPath),
+                            StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+                    {
+                        CopyDirectory(Path.Combine(_applicationPaths.DefaultInternalMetadataPath), Path.Combine("Data", "metadata-default"));
+                    }
                 }
 
                 var manifestStream = zipArchive.CreateEntry(ManifestEntryName).Open();

Jellyfin.Server.Implementations/Item/BaseItemRepository.cs

@@ -275,8 +275,9 @@ public sealed class BaseItemRepository
         }
 
         dbQuery = ApplyQueryPaging(dbQuery, filter);
+        dbQuery = ApplyNavigations(dbQuery, filter);
 
-        result.Items = GetEntities(dbQuery, context, filter).Select(w => DeserializeBaseItem(w, filter.SkipDeserialization)).ToArray();
+        result.Items = dbQuery.AsEnumerable().Where(e => e is not null).Select(w => DeserializeBaseItem(w, filter.SkipDeserialization)).ToArray();
         result.StartIndex = filter.StartIndex ?? 0;
         return result;
     }
@@ -295,7 +296,27 @@ public sealed class BaseItemRepository
         dbQuery = ApplyGroupingFilter(context, dbQuery, filter);
         dbQuery = ApplyQueryPaging(dbQuery, filter);
 
-        return GetEntities(dbQuery, context, filter).Select(w => DeserializeBaseItem(w, filter.SkipDeserialization)).ToArray();
+        var hasRandomSort = filter.OrderBy.Any(e => e.OrderBy == ItemSortBy.Random);
+        if (hasRandomSort)
+        {
+            var orderedIds = dbQuery.Select(e => e.Id).ToList();
+            if (orderedIds.Count == 0)
+            {
+                return Array.Empty<BaseItemDto>();
+            }
+
+            var itemsById = ApplyNavigations(context.BaseItems.Where(e => orderedIds.Contains(e.Id)), filter)
+                .AsEnumerable()
+                .Select(w => DeserializeBaseItem(w, filter.SkipDeserialization))
+                .Where(dto => dto is not null)
+                .ToDictionary(i => i!.Id);
+
+            return orderedIds.Where(itemsById.ContainsKey).Select(id => itemsById[id]).ToArray()!;
+        }
+
+        dbQuery = ApplyNavigations(dbQuery, filter);
+
+        return dbQuery.AsEnumerable().Where(e => e is not null).Select(w => DeserializeBaseItem(w, filter.SkipDeserialization)).ToArray();
     }
 
     /// <inheritdoc/>
@@ -337,7 +358,9 @@ public sealed class BaseItemRepository
         mainquery = ApplyGroupingFilter(context, mainquery, filter);
         mainquery = ApplyQueryPaging(mainquery, filter);
 
-        return GetEntities(mainquery, context, filter).Select(w => DeserializeBaseItem(w, filter.SkipDeserialization)).ToArray();
+        mainquery = ApplyNavigations(mainquery, filter);
+
+        return mainquery.AsEnumerable().Where(e => e is not null).Select(w => DeserializeBaseItem(w, filter.SkipDeserialization)).ToArray();
     }
 
     /// <inheritdoc />
@@ -404,6 +427,36 @@ public sealed class BaseItemRepository
         return dbQuery;
     }
 
+    private static IQueryable<BaseItemEntity> ApplyNavigations(IQueryable<BaseItemEntity> dbQuery, InternalItemsQuery filter)
+    {
+        if (filter.TrailerTypes.Length > 0 || filter.IncludeItemTypes.Contains(BaseItemKind.Trailer))
+        {
+            dbQuery = dbQuery.Include(e => e.TrailerTypes);
+        }
+
+        if (filter.DtoOptions.ContainsField(ItemFields.ProviderIds))
+        {
+            dbQuery = dbQuery.Include(e => e.Provider);
+        }
+
+        if (filter.DtoOptions.ContainsField(ItemFields.Settings))
+        {
+            dbQuery = dbQuery.Include(e => e.LockedFields);
+        }
+
+        if (filter.DtoOptions.EnableUserData)
+        {
+            dbQuery = dbQuery.Include(e => e.UserData);
+        }
+
+        if (filter.DtoOptions.EnableImages)
+        {
+            dbQuery = dbQuery.Include(e => e.Images);
+        }
+
+        return dbQuery;
+    }
+
     private IQueryable<BaseItemEntity> ApplyQueryPaging(IQueryable<BaseItemEntity> dbQuery, InternalItemsQuery filter)
     {
         if (filter.Limit.HasValue || filter.StartIndex.HasValue)
@@ -429,50 +482,18 @@ public sealed class BaseItemRepository
         dbQuery = TranslateQuery(dbQuery, context, filter);
         dbQuery = ApplyGroupingFilter(context, dbQuery, filter);
         dbQuery = ApplyQueryPaging(dbQuery, filter);
+        dbQuery = ApplyNavigations(dbQuery, filter);
         return dbQuery;
     }
 
     private IQueryable<BaseItemEntity> PrepareItemQuery(JellyfinDbContext context, InternalItemsQuery filter)
     {
-        IQueryable<BaseItemEntity> dbQuery = context.BaseItems;
+        IQueryable<BaseItemEntity> dbQuery = context.BaseItems.AsNoTracking();
         dbQuery = dbQuery.AsSingleQuery();
 
         return dbQuery;
     }
 
-    private IReadOnlyList<BaseItemEntity> GetEntities(IQueryable<BaseItemEntity> dbQuery, JellyfinDbContext context, InternalItemsQuery filter)
-    {
-        var items = dbQuery.AsEnumerable().Where(e => e is not null).ToArray();
-        var itemIds = items.Select(e => e.Id).ToArray();
-
-        if (filter.TrailerTypes.Length > 0 || filter.IncludeItemTypes.Contains(BaseItemKind.Trailer))
-        {
-            context.BaseItemTrailerTypes.WhereOneOrMany(itemIds, e => e.ItemId).Load();
-        }
-
-        if (filter.DtoOptions.ContainsField(ItemFields.ProviderIds))
-        {
-            context.BaseItemProviders.WhereOneOrMany(itemIds, e => e.ItemId).Load();
-        }
-
-        if (filter.DtoOptions.ContainsField(ItemFields.Settings))
-        {
-            context.BaseItemMetadataFields.WhereOneOrMany(itemIds, e => e.ItemId).Load();
-        }
-
-        if (filter.DtoOptions.EnableImages)
-        {
-            context.BaseItemImageInfos.WhereOneOrMany(itemIds, e => e.ItemId).Load();
-        }
-
-        if (filter.DtoOptions.EnableUserData)
-        {
-            context.UserData.WhereOneOrMany(itemIds, e => e.ItemId).Load();
-        }
-
-        return items;
-    }
-
     /// <inheritdoc/>
     public int GetCount(InternalItemsQuery filter)
     {
@@ -615,7 +636,6 @@ public sealed class BaseItemRepository
 
         var ids = tuples.Select(f => f.Item.Id).ToArray();
         var existingItems = context.BaseItems.Where(e => ids.Contains(e.Id)).Select(f => f.Id).ToArray();
-        var newItems = tuples.Where(e => !existingItems.Contains(e.Item.Id)).ToArray();
 
         foreach (var item in tuples)
         {
@@ -649,19 +669,6 @@ public sealed class BaseItemRepository
 
         context.SaveChanges();
 
-        foreach (var item in newItems)
-        {
-            // reattach old userData entries
-            var userKeys = item.UserDataKey.ToArray();
-            var retentionDate = (DateTime?)null;
-            context.UserData
-                .Where(e => e.ItemId == PlaceholderId)
-                .Where(e => userKeys.Contains(e.CustomDataKey))
-                .ExecuteUpdate(e => e
-                    .SetProperty(f => f.ItemId, item.Item.Id)
-                    .SetProperty(f => f.RetentionDate, retentionDate));
-        }
-
         var itemValueMaps = tuples
             .Select(e => (e.Item, Values: GetItemValuesToSave(e.Item, e.InheritedTags)))
             .ToArray();
@@ -757,6 +764,43 @@ public sealed class BaseItemRepository
         transaction.Commit();
     }
 
+    /// <inheritdoc  />
+    public async Task ReattachUserDataAsync(BaseItemDto item, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
+    {
+        ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(item);
+        cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();
+
+        var dbContext = await _dbProvider.CreateDbContextAsync(cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
+
+        await using (dbContext.ConfigureAwait(false))
+        {
+            var transaction = await dbContext.Database.BeginTransactionAsync(cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
+            await using (transaction.ConfigureAwait(false))
+            {
+                var userKeys = item.GetUserDataKeys().ToArray();
+                var retentionDate = (DateTime?)null;
+
+                await dbContext.UserData
+                    .Where(e => e.ItemId == PlaceholderId)
+                    .Where(e => userKeys.Contains(e.CustomDataKey))
+                    .ExecuteUpdateAsync(
+                        e => e
+                            .SetProperty(f => f.ItemId, item.Id)
+                            .SetProperty(f => f.RetentionDate, retentionDate),
+                        cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
+
+                // Rehydrate the cached userdata
+                item.UserData = await dbContext.UserData
+                    .AsNoTracking()
+                    .Where(e => e.ItemId == item.Id)
+                    .ToArrayAsync(cancellationToken)
+                    .ConfigureAwait(false);
+
+                await transaction.CommitAsync(cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     /// <inheritdoc  />
     public BaseItemDto? RetrieveItem(Guid id)
     {
@@ -864,7 +908,7 @@ public sealed class BaseItemRepository
         }
 
         dto.ExtraIds = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(entity.ExtraIds) ? [] : entity.ExtraIds.Split('|').Select(e => Guid.Parse(e)).ToArray();
-        dto.ProductionLocations = entity.ProductionLocations?.Split('|') ?? [];
+        dto.ProductionLocations = entity.ProductionLocations?.Split('|', StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries) ?? [];
         dto.Studios = entity.Studios?.Split('|') ?? [];
         dto.Tags = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(entity.Tags) ? [] : entity.Tags.Split('|');
 
@@ -1026,7 +1070,7 @@ public sealed class BaseItemRepository
         }
 
         entity.ExtraIds = dto.ExtraIds is not null ? string.Join('|', dto.ExtraIds) : null;
-        entity.ProductionLocations = dto.ProductionLocations is not null ? string.Join('|', dto.ProductionLocations) : null;
+        entity.ProductionLocations = dto.ProductionLocations is not null ? string.Join('|', dto.ProductionLocations.Where(p => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(p))) : null;
         entity.Studios = dto.Studios is not null ? string.Join('|', dto.Studios) : null;
         entity.Tags = dto.Tags is not null ? string.Join('|', dto.Tags) : null;
         entity.LockedFields = dto.LockedFields is not null ? dto.LockedFields
@@ -1556,29 +1600,36 @@ public sealed class BaseItemRepository
 
         IOrderedQueryable<BaseItemEntity>? orderedQuery = null;
 
+        // When searching, prioritize by match quality: exact match > prefix match > contains
+        if (hasSearch)
+        {
+            orderedQuery = query.OrderBy(OrderMapper.MapSearchRelevanceOrder(filter.SearchTerm!));
+        }
+
         var firstOrdering = orderBy.FirstOrDefault();
         if (firstOrdering != default)
         {
             var expression = OrderMapper.MapOrderByField(firstOrdering.OrderBy, filter, context);
-            if (firstOrdering.SortOrder == SortOrder.Ascending)
+            if (orderedQuery is null)
             {
-                orderedQuery = query.OrderBy(expression);
+                // No search relevance ordering, start fresh
+                orderedQuery = firstOrdering.SortOrder == SortOrder.Ascending
+                    ? query.OrderBy(expression)
+                    : query.OrderByDescending(expression);
             }
             else
             {
-                orderedQuery = query.OrderByDescending(expression);
+                // Search relevance ordering already applied, chain with ThenBy
+                orderedQuery = firstOrdering.SortOrder == SortOrder.Ascending
+                    ? orderedQuery.ThenBy(expression)
+                    : orderedQuery.ThenByDescending(expression);
             }
 
             if (firstOrdering.OrderBy is ItemSortBy.Default or ItemSortBy.SortName)
             {
-                if (firstOrdering.SortOrder is SortOrder.Ascending)
+                orderedQuery = firstOrdering.SortOrder is SortOrder.Ascending
-                {
+                    ? orderedQuery.ThenBy(e => e.Name)
-                    orderedQuery = orderedQuery.ThenBy(e => e.Name);
+                    : orderedQuery.ThenByDescending(e => e.Name);
-                }
-                else
-                {
-                    orderedQuery = orderedQuery.ThenByDescending(e => e.Name);
-                }
             }
         }
 
@@ -2445,35 +2496,24 @@ public sealed class BaseItemRepository
 
         if (filter.ExcludeInheritedTags.Length > 0)
         {
+            var excludedTags = filter.ExcludeInheritedTags;
             baseQuery = baseQuery.Where(e =>
-                !e.ItemValues!.Any(f => f.ItemValue.Type == ItemValueType.Tags && filter.ExcludeInheritedTags.Contains(f.ItemValue.CleanValue))
+                !e.ItemValues!.Any(f => f.ItemValue.Type == ItemValueType.Tags && excludedTags.Contains(f.ItemValue.CleanValue))
-                && (e.Type != _itemTypeLookup.BaseItemKindNames[BaseItemKind.Episode] || !e.SeriesId.HasValue ||
+                && (!e.SeriesId.HasValue || !context.ItemValuesMap.Any(f => f.ItemId == e.SeriesId.Value && f.ItemValue.Type == ItemValueType.Tags && excludedTags.Contains(f.ItemValue.CleanValue))));
-                !context.ItemValuesMap.Any(f => f.ItemId == e.SeriesId.Value && f.ItemValue.Type == ItemValueType.Tags && filter.ExcludeInheritedTags.Contains(f.ItemValue.CleanValue))));
         }
 
         if (filter.IncludeInheritedTags.Length > 0)
         {
-            // For seasons and episodes, we also need to check the parent series' tags.
+            var includeTags = filter.IncludeInheritedTags;
-            if (includeTypes.Any(t => t == BaseItemKind.Episode || t == BaseItemKind.Season))
+            var isPlaylistOnlyQuery = includeTypes.Length == 1 && includeTypes.FirstOrDefault() == BaseItemKind.Playlist;
-            {
+            baseQuery = baseQuery.Where(e =>
-                baseQuery = baseQuery.Where(e =>
+                e.ItemValues!.Any(f => f.ItemValue.Type == ItemValueType.Tags && includeTags.Contains(f.ItemValue.CleanValue))
-                    e.ItemValues!.Any(f => f.ItemValue.Type == ItemValueType.Tags && filter.IncludeInheritedTags.Contains(f.ItemValue.CleanValue))
-                    || (e.SeriesId.HasValue && context.ItemValuesMap.Any(f => f.ItemId == e.SeriesId.Value && f.ItemValue.Type == ItemValueType.Tags && filter.IncludeInheritedTags.Contains(f.ItemValue.CleanValue))));
-            }
 
-            // A playlist should be accessible to its owner regardless of allowed tags.
+                // For seasons and episodes, we also need to check the parent series' tags.
-            else if (includeTypes.Length == 1 && includeTypes.FirstOrDefault() is BaseItemKind.Playlist)
+                || (e.SeriesId.HasValue && context.ItemValuesMap.Any(f => f.ItemId == e.SeriesId.Value && f.ItemValue.Type == ItemValueType.Tags && includeTags.Contains(f.ItemValue.CleanValue)))
-            {
+
-                baseQuery = baseQuery.Where(e =>
+                // A playlist should be accessible to its owner regardless of allowed tags
-                    e.ItemValues!.Any(f => f.ItemValue.Type == ItemValueType.Tags && filter.IncludeInheritedTags.Contains(f.ItemValue.CleanValue))
+                || (isPlaylistOnlyQuery && e.Data!.Contains($"OwnerUserId\":\"{filter.User!.Id:N}\"")));
-                    || e.Data!.Contains($"OwnerUserId\":\"{filter.User!.Id:N}\""));
-                // d        ^^ this is stupid it hate this.
-            }
-            else
-            {
-                baseQuery = baseQuery.Where(e =>
-                    e.ItemValues!.Any(f => f.ItemValue.Type == ItemValueType.Tags && filter.IncludeInheritedTags.Contains(f.ItemValue.CleanValue)));
-            }
         }
 
         if (filter.SeriesStatuses.Length > 0)
@@ -2627,6 +2667,21 @@ public sealed class BaseItemRepository
             .Where(e => artistNames.Contains(e.Name))
             .ToArray();
 
-        return artists.GroupBy(e => e.Name).ToDictionary(e => e.Key!, e => e.Select(f => DeserializeBaseItem(f)).Cast<MusicArtist>().ToArray());
+        var lookup = artists
+            .GroupBy(e => e.Name!)
+            .ToDictionary(
+                g => g.Key,
+                g => g.Select(f => DeserializeBaseItem(f)).Where(dto => dto is not null).Cast<MusicArtist>().ToArray());
+
+        var result = new Dictionary<string, MusicArtist[]>(artistNames.Count);
+        foreach (var name in artistNames)
+        {
+            if (lookup.TryGetValue(name, out var artistArray))
+            {
+                result[name] = artistArray;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return result;
     }
 }

Jellyfin.Server.Implementations/Item/OrderMapper.cs

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ using System.Linq.Expressions;
 using Jellyfin.Data.Enums;
 using Jellyfin.Database.Implementations;
 using Jellyfin.Database.Implementations.Entities;
+using Jellyfin.Extensions;
 using MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities;
 using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
 
@@ -68,4 +69,30 @@ public static class OrderMapper
             _ => e => e.SortName
         };
     }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Creates an expression to order search results by match quality.
+    /// Prioritizes: exact match (0) > prefix match with word boundary (1) > prefix match (2) > contains (3).
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="searchTerm">The search term to match against.</param>
+    /// <returns>An expression that returns an integer representing match quality (lower is better).</returns>
+    public static Expression<Func<BaseItemEntity, int>> MapSearchRelevanceOrder(string searchTerm)
+    {
+        var cleanSearchTerm = GetCleanValue(searchTerm);
+        var searchPrefix = cleanSearchTerm + " ";
+        return e =>
+            e.CleanName == cleanSearchTerm ? 0 :
+            e.CleanName!.StartsWith(searchPrefix) ? 1 :
+            e.CleanName!.StartsWith(cleanSearchTerm) ? 2 : 3;
+    }
+
+    private static string GetCleanValue(string value)
+    {
+        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(value))
+        {
+            return value;
+        }
+
+        return value.RemoveDiacritics().ToLowerInvariant();
+    }
 }

Jellyfin.Server/Migrations/Routines/FixLibrarySubtitleDownloadLanguages.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Threading;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using Jellyfin.Server.ServerSetupApp;
+using MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities;
+using MediaBrowser.Controller.Library;
+using MediaBrowser.Model.Globalization;
+using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
+
+namespace Jellyfin.Server.Migrations.Routines;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Migration to fix broken library subtitle download languages.
+/// </summary>
+[JellyfinMigration("2026-02-06T20:00:00", nameof(FixLibrarySubtitleDownloadLanguages))]
+internal class FixLibrarySubtitleDownloadLanguages : IAsyncMigrationRoutine
+{
+    private readonly ILocalizationManager _localizationManager;
+    private readonly ILibraryManager _libraryManager;
+    private readonly ILogger _logger;
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="FixLibrarySubtitleDownloadLanguages"/> class.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="localizationManager">The Localization manager.</param>
+    /// <param name="startupLogger">The startup logger for Startup UI integration.</param>
+    /// <param name="libraryManager">The Library manager.</param>
+    /// <param name="logger">The logger.</param>
+    public FixLibrarySubtitleDownloadLanguages(
+        ILocalizationManager localizationManager,
+        IStartupLogger<FixLibrarySubtitleDownloadLanguages> startupLogger,
+        ILibraryManager libraryManager,
+        ILogger<FixLibrarySubtitleDownloadLanguages> logger)
+    {
+        _localizationManager = localizationManager;
+        _libraryManager = libraryManager;
+        _logger = startupLogger.With(logger);
+    }
+
+    /// <inheritdoc />
+    public Task PerformAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
+    {
+        _logger.LogInformation("Starting to fix library subtitle download languages.");
+
+        var virtualFolders = _libraryManager.GetVirtualFolders(false);
+
+        foreach (var virtualFolder in virtualFolders)
+        {
+            var options = virtualFolder.LibraryOptions;
+            if (options.SubtitleDownloadLanguages is null || options.SubtitleDownloadLanguages.Length == 0)
+            {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            // Some virtual folders don't have a proper item id.
+            if (!Guid.TryParse(virtualFolder.ItemId, out var folderId))
+            {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            var collectionFolder = _libraryManager.GetItemById<CollectionFolder>(folderId);
+            if (collectionFolder is null)
+            {
+                _logger.LogWarning("Could not find collection folder for virtual folder '{LibraryName}' with id '{FolderId}'. Skipping.", virtualFolder.Name, folderId);
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            var fixedLanguages = new List<string>();
+
+            foreach (var language in options.SubtitleDownloadLanguages)
+            {
+                var foundLanguage = _localizationManager.FindLanguageInfo(language)?.ThreeLetterISOLanguageName;
+                if (foundLanguage is not null)
+                {
+                    // Converted ISO 639-2/B to T (ger to deu)
+                    if (!string.Equals(foundLanguage, language, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+                    {
+                        _logger.LogInformation("Converted '{Language}' to '{ResolvedLanguage}' in library '{LibraryName}'.", language, foundLanguage, virtualFolder.Name);
+                    }
+
+                    if (fixedLanguages.Contains(foundLanguage, StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+                    {
+                        _logger.LogInformation("Language '{Language}' already exists for library '{LibraryName}'. Skipping duplicate.", foundLanguage, virtualFolder.Name);
+                        continue;
+                    }
+
+                    fixedLanguages.Add(foundLanguage);
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    _logger.LogInformation("Could not resolve language '{Language}' in library '{LibraryName}'. Skipping.", language, virtualFolder.Name);
+                }
+            }
+
+            options.SubtitleDownloadLanguages = [.. fixedLanguages];
+            collectionFolder.UpdateLibraryOptions(options);
+        }
+
+        _logger.LogInformation("Library subtitle download languages fixed.");
+
+        return Task.CompletedTask;
+    }
+}

Jellyfin.Server/Migrations/Routines/MigrateLibraryDb.cs

@@ -464,6 +464,16 @@ internal class MigrateLibraryDb : IDatabaseMigrationRoutine
 
         SqliteConnection.ClearAllPools();
 
+        using (var checkpointConnection = new SqliteConnection($"Filename={libraryDbPath}"))
+        {
+            checkpointConnection.Open();
+            using var cmd = checkpointConnection.CreateCommand();
+            cmd.CommandText = "PRAGMA wal_checkpoint(TRUNCATE);";
+            cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
+        }
+
+        SqliteConnection.ClearAllPools();
+
         _logger.LogInformation("Move {0} to {1}.", libraryDbPath, libraryDbPath + ".old");
         File.Move(libraryDbPath, libraryDbPath + ".old", true);
     }
@@ -1163,7 +1173,9 @@ internal class MigrateLibraryDb : IDatabaseMigrationRoutine
                 Item = null!,
                 ProviderId = e[0],
                 ProviderValue = string.Join('|', e.Skip(1))
-            }).ToArray();
+            })
+            .DistinctBy(e => e.ProviderId)
+            .ToArray();
         }
 
         if (reader.TryGetString(index++, out var imageInfos))

MediaBrowser.Common/MediaBrowser.Common.csproj

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   <PropertyGroup>
     <Authors>Jellyfin Contributors</Authors>
     <PackageId>Jellyfin.Common</PackageId>
-    <VersionPrefix>10.11.4</VersionPrefix>
+    <VersionPrefix>10.11.7</VersionPrefix>
     <RepositoryUrl>https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin</RepositoryUrl>
     <PackageLicenseExpression>GPL-3.0-only</PackageLicenseExpression>
   </PropertyGroup>

MediaBrowser.Controller/Entities/BaseItem.cs

@@ -1172,11 +1172,18 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities
                 info.Video3DFormat = video.Video3DFormat;
                 info.Timestamp = video.Timestamp;
 
-                if (video.IsShortcut)
+                if (video.IsShortcut && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(video.ShortcutPath))
                 {
-                    info.IsRemote = true;
+                    var shortcutProtocol = MediaSourceManager.GetPathProtocol(video.ShortcutPath);
-                    info.Path = video.ShortcutPath;
+
-                    info.Protocol = MediaSourceManager.GetPathProtocol(info.Path);
+                    // Only allow remote shortcut paths — local file paths in .strm files
+                    // could be used to read arbitrary files from the server.
+                    if (shortcutProtocol != MediaProtocol.File)
+                    {
+                        info.IsRemote = true;
+                        info.Path = video.ShortcutPath;
+                        info.Protocol = shortcutProtocol;
+                    }
                 }
 
                 if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(info.Container))
@@ -2053,6 +2060,9 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities
         public virtual async Task UpdateToRepositoryAsync(ItemUpdateType updateReason, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
          => await LibraryManager.UpdateItemAsync(this, GetParent(), updateReason, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
 
+        public async Task ReattachUserDataAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken) =>
+            await LibraryManager.ReattachUserDataAsync(this, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Validates that images within the item are still on the filesystem.
         /// </summary>

MediaBrowser.Controller/Entities/Folder.cs

@@ -452,6 +452,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities
                 // That's all the new and changed ones - now see if any have been removed and need cleanup
                 var itemsRemoved = currentChildren.Values.Except(validChildren).ToList();
                 var shouldRemove = !IsRoot || allowRemoveRoot;
+                var actuallyRemoved = new List<BaseItem>();
                 // If it's an AggregateFolder, don't remove
                 if (shouldRemove && itemsRemoved.Count > 0)
                 {
@@ -467,6 +468,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities
                         {
                             Logger.LogDebug("Removed item: {Path}", item.Path);
 
+                            actuallyRemoved.Add(item);
                             item.SetParent(null);
                             LibraryManager.DeleteItem(item, new DeleteOptions { DeleteFileLocation = false }, this, false);
                         }
@@ -477,6 +479,20 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities
                 {
                     LibraryManager.CreateItems(newItems, this, cancellationToken);
                 }
+
+                // After removing items, reattach any detached user data to remaining children
+                // that share the same user data keys (eg. same episode replaced with a new file).
+                if (actuallyRemoved.Count > 0)
+                {
+                    var removedKeys = actuallyRemoved.SelectMany(i => i.GetUserDataKeys()).ToHashSet();
+                    foreach (var child in validChildren)
+                    {
+                        if (child.GetUserDataKeys().Any(removedKeys.Contains))
+                        {
+                            await child.ReattachUserDataAsync(cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
             }
             else
             {

MediaBrowser.Controller/Entities/TV/Season.cs

@@ -201,12 +201,17 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities.TV
 
         public List<BaseItem> GetEpisodes(Series series, User user, IEnumerable<Episode> allSeriesEpisodes, DtoOptions options, bool shouldIncludeMissingEpisodes)
         {
+            if (series is null)
+            {
+                return [];
+            }
+
             return series.GetSeasonEpisodes(this, user, allSeriesEpisodes, options, shouldIncludeMissingEpisodes);
         }
 
         public List<BaseItem> GetEpisodes()
         {
-            return Series.GetSeasonEpisodes(this, null, null, new DtoOptions(true), true);
+            return GetEpisodes(Series, null, null, new DtoOptions(true), true);
         }
 
         public override List<BaseItem> GetChildren(User user, bool includeLinkedChildren, InternalItemsQuery query)

MediaBrowser.Controller/Entities/TV/Series.cs

@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities.TV
             query.AncestorWithPresentationUniqueKey = null;
             query.SeriesPresentationUniqueKey = seriesKey;
             query.IncludeItemTypes = new[] { BaseItemKind.Season };
-            query.OrderBy = new[] { (ItemSortBy.IndexNumber, SortOrder.Ascending) };
+            query.OrderBy = new[] { (ItemSortBy.SortName, SortOrder.Ascending) };
 
             if (user is not null && !user.DisplayMissingEpisodes)
             {
@@ -247,6 +247,10 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities.TV
 
                 query.AncestorWithPresentationUniqueKey = null;
                 query.SeriesPresentationUniqueKey = seriesKey;
+                if (query.OrderBy.Count == 0)
+                {
+                    query.OrderBy = new[] { (ItemSortBy.SortName, SortOrder.Ascending) };
+                }
 
                 if (query.IncludeItemTypes.Length == 0)
                 {

MediaBrowser.Controller/Library/ILibraryManager.cs

@@ -281,6 +281,14 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.Library
         /// <returns>Returns a Task that can be awaited.</returns>
         Task UpdateItemAsync(BaseItem item, BaseItem parent, ItemUpdateType updateReason, CancellationToken cancellationToken);
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Reattaches the user data to the item.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="item">The item.</param>
+        /// <param name="cancellationToken">The cancellation token.</param>
+        /// <returns>A task that represents the asynchronous reattachment operation.</returns>
+        Task ReattachUserDataAsync(BaseItem item, CancellationToken cancellationToken);
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Retrieves the item.
         /// </summary>
@@ -652,5 +660,12 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.Library
         /// This exists so plugins can trigger a library scan.
         /// </remarks>
         void QueueLibraryScan();
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Add mblink file for a media path.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="virtualFolderPath">The path to the virtualfolder.</param>
+        /// <param name="pathInfo">The new virtualfolder.</param>
+        public void CreateShortcut(string virtualFolderPath, MediaPathInfo pathInfo);
     }
 }

MediaBrowser.Controller/MediaBrowser.Controller.csproj

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   <PropertyGroup>
     <Authors>Jellyfin Contributors</Authors>
     <PackageId>Jellyfin.Controller</PackageId>
-    <VersionPrefix>10.11.4</VersionPrefix>
+    <VersionPrefix>10.11.7</VersionPrefix>
     <RepositoryUrl>https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin</RepositoryUrl>
     <PackageLicenseExpression>GPL-3.0-only</PackageLicenseExpression>
   </PropertyGroup>

MediaBrowser.Controller/MediaEncoding/EncodingHelper.cs

@@ -33,18 +33,18 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.MediaEncoding
     public partial class EncodingHelper
     {
         /// <summary>
-        /// The codec validation regex.
+        /// The codec validation regex string.
         /// This regular expression matches strings that consist of alphanumeric characters, hyphens,
         /// periods, underscores, commas, and vertical bars, with a length between 0 and 40 characters.
         /// This should matches all common valid codecs.
         /// </summary>
-        public const string ContainerValidationRegex = @"^[a-zA-Z0-9\-\._,|]{0,40}$";
+        public const string ContainerValidationRegexStr = @"^[a-zA-Z0-9\-\._,|]{0,40}$";
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// The level validation regex.
+        /// The level validation regex string.
         /// This regular expression matches strings representing a double.
         /// </summary>
-        public const string LevelValidationRegex = @"-?[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?";
+        public const string LevelValidationRegexStr = @"-?[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?";
 
         private const string _defaultMjpegEncoder = "mjpeg";
 
@@ -85,8 +85,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.MediaEncoding
         private readonly Version _minFFmpegVaapiDeviceVendorId = new Version(7, 0, 1);
         private readonly Version _minFFmpegQsvVppScaleModeOption = new Version(6, 0);
         private readonly Version _minFFmpegRkmppHevcDecDoviRpu = new Version(7, 1, 1);
-
+        private readonly Version _minFFmpegReadrateCatchupOption = new Version(8, 0);
-        private static readonly Regex _containerValidationRegex = new(ContainerValidationRegex, RegexOptions.Compiled);
 
         private static readonly string[] _videoProfilesH264 =
         [
@@ -180,6 +179,15 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.MediaEncoding
             RemoveHdr10Plus,
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// The codec validation regex.
+        /// This regular expression matches strings that consist of alphanumeric characters, hyphens,
+        /// periods, underscores, commas, and vertical bars, with a length between 0 and 40 characters.
+        /// This should matches all common valid codecs.
+        /// </summary>
+        [GeneratedRegex(@"^[a-zA-Z0-9\-\._,|]{0,40}$")]
+        public static partial Regex ContainerValidationRegex();
+
         [GeneratedRegex(@"\s+")]
         private static partial Regex WhiteSpaceRegex();
 
@@ -476,7 +484,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.MediaEncoding
                     return GetMjpegEncoder(state, encodingOptions);
                 }
 
-                if (_containerValidationRegex.IsMatch(codec))
+                if (ContainerValidationRegex().IsMatch(codec))
                 {
                     return codec.ToLowerInvariant();
                 }
@@ -517,7 +525,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.MediaEncoding
 
         public static string GetInputFormat(string container)
         {
-            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(container) || !_containerValidationRegex.IsMatch(container))
+            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(container) || !ContainerValidationRegex().IsMatch(container))
             {
                 return null;
             }
@@ -735,7 +743,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.MediaEncoding
         {
             var codec = state.OutputAudioCodec;
 
-            if (!_containerValidationRegex.IsMatch(codec))
+            if (!ContainerValidationRegex().IsMatch(codec))
             {
                 codec = "aac";
             }
@@ -1267,6 +1275,20 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.MediaEncoding
                     }
                 }
 
+                // Use analyzeduration also for subtitle streams to improve resolution detection  with streams inside MKS files
+                var analyzeDurationArgument = GetFfmpegAnalyzeDurationArg(state);
+                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(analyzeDurationArgument))
+                {
+                    arg.Append(' ').Append(analyzeDurationArgument);
+                }
+
+                // Apply probesize, too, if configured
+                var ffmpegProbeSizeArgument = GetFfmpegProbesizeArg();
+                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(ffmpegProbeSizeArgument))
+                {
+                    arg.Append(' ').Append(ffmpegProbeSizeArgument);
+                }
+
                 // Also seek the external subtitles stream.
                 var seekSubParam = GetFastSeekCommandLineParameter(state, options, segmentContainer);
                 if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(seekSubParam))
@@ -1768,38 +1790,40 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.MediaEncoding
 
         public static string NormalizeTranscodingLevel(EncodingJobInfo state, string level)
         {
-            if (double.TryParse(level, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, out double requestLevel))
+            if (!double.TryParse(level, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, out double requestLevel))
             {
-                if (string.Equals(state.ActualOutputVideoCodec, "av1", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+                return null;
+            }
+
+            if (string.Equals(state.ActualOutputVideoCodec, "av1", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+            {
+                // Transcode to level 5.3 (15) and lower for maximum compatibility.
+                // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Levels
+                if (requestLevel < 0 || requestLevel >= 15)
                 {
-                    // Transcode to level 5.3 (15) and lower for maximum compatibility.
+                    return "15";
-                    // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Levels
-                    if (requestLevel < 0 || requestLevel >= 15)
-                    {
-                        return "15";
-                    }
                 }
-                else if (string.Equals(state.ActualOutputVideoCodec, "hevc", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+            }
-                         || string.Equals(state.ActualOutputVideoCodec, "h265", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+            else if (string.Equals(state.ActualOutputVideoCodec, "hevc", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+                     || string.Equals(state.ActualOutputVideoCodec, "h265", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+            {
+                // Transcode to level 5.0 and lower for maximum compatibility.
+                // Level 5.0 is suitable for up to 4k 30fps hevc encoding, otherwise let the encoder to handle it.
+                // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding_tiers_and_levels
+                // MaxLumaSampleRate = 3840*2160*30 = 248832000 < 267386880.
+                if (requestLevel < 0 || requestLevel >= 150)
                 {
-                    // Transcode to level 5.0 and lower for maximum compatibility.
+                    return "150";
-                    // Level 5.0 is suitable for up to 4k 30fps hevc encoding, otherwise let the encoder to handle it.
-                    // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding_tiers_and_levels
-                    // MaxLumaSampleRate = 3840*2160*30 = 248832000 < 267386880.
-                    if (requestLevel < 0 || requestLevel >= 150)
-                    {
-                        return "150";
-                    }
                 }
-                else if (string.Equals(state.ActualOutputVideoCodec, "h264", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+            }
+            else if (string.Equals(state.ActualOutputVideoCodec, "h264", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+            {
+                // Transcode to level 5.1 and lower for maximum compatibility.
+                // h264 4k 30fps requires at least level 5.1 otherwise it will break on safari fmp4.
+                // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding#Levels
+                if (requestLevel < 0 || requestLevel >= 51)
                 {
-                    // Transcode to level 5.1 and lower for maximum compatibility.
+                    return "51";
-                    // h264 4k 30fps requires at least level 5.1 otherwise it will break on safari fmp4.
-                    // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding#Levels
-                    if (requestLevel < 0 || requestLevel >= 51)
-                    {
-                        return "51";
-                    }
                 }
             }
 
@@ -2189,12 +2213,10 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.MediaEncoding
                 }
             }
 
-            var level = state.GetRequestedLevel(targetVideoCodec);
+            var level = NormalizeTranscodingLevel(state, state.GetRequestedLevel(targetVideoCodec));
 
             if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(level))
             {
-                level = NormalizeTranscodingLevel(state, level);
-
                 // libx264, QSV, AMF can adjust the given level to match the output.
                 if (string.Equals(videoEncoder, "h264_qsv", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
                     || string.Equals(videoEncoder, "libx264", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
@@ -6359,6 +6381,19 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.MediaEncoding
                     }
                 }
 
+                // Block unsupported H.264 Hi422P and Hi444PP profiles, which can be encoded with 4:2:0 pixel format
+                if (string.Equals(videoStream.Codec, "h264", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+                    && ((videoStream.Profile?.Contains("4:2:2", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) ?? false)
+                        || (videoStream.Profile?.Contains("4:4:4", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) ?? false)))
+                {
+                    // VideoToolbox on Apple Silicon has H.264 Hi444PP and theoretically also has Hi422P
+                    if (!(hardwareAccelerationType == HardwareAccelerationType.videotoolbox
+                          && RuntimeInformation.OSArchitecture.Equals(Architecture.Arm64)))
+                    {
+                        return null;
+                    }
+                }
+
                 var decoder = hardwareAccelerationType switch
                 {
                     HardwareAccelerationType.vaapi => GetVaapiVidDecoder(state, options, videoStream, bitDepth),
@@ -7103,9 +7138,8 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.MediaEncoding
             }
         }
 
-        public string GetInputModifier(EncodingJobInfo state, EncodingOptions encodingOptions, string segmentContainer)
+        private string GetFfmpegAnalyzeDurationArg(EncodingJobInfo state)
         {
-            var inputModifier = string.Empty;
             var analyzeDurationArgument = string.Empty;
 
             // Apply -analyzeduration as per the environment variable,
@@ -7121,6 +7155,26 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.MediaEncoding
                 analyzeDurationArgument = "-analyzeduration " + ffmpegAnalyzeDuration;
             }
 
+            return analyzeDurationArgument;
+        }
+
+        private string GetFfmpegProbesizeArg()
+        {
+            var ffmpegProbeSize = _config.GetFFmpegProbeSize();
+
+            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(ffmpegProbeSize))
+            {
+                return $"-probesize {ffmpegProbeSize}";
+            }
+
+            return string.Empty;
+        }
+
+        public string GetInputModifier(EncodingJobInfo state, EncodingOptions encodingOptions, string segmentContainer)
+        {
+            var inputModifier = string.Empty;
+            var analyzeDurationArgument = GetFfmpegAnalyzeDurationArg(state);
+
             if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(analyzeDurationArgument))
             {
                 inputModifier += " " + analyzeDurationArgument;
@@ -7129,11 +7183,11 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.MediaEncoding
             inputModifier = inputModifier.Trim();
 
             // Apply -probesize if configured
-            var ffmpegProbeSize = _config.GetFFmpegProbeSize();
+            var ffmpegProbeSizeArgument = GetFfmpegProbesizeArg();
 
-            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(ffmpegProbeSize))
+            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(ffmpegProbeSizeArgument))
             {
-                inputModifier += $" -probesize {ffmpegProbeSize}";
+                inputModifier += " " + ffmpegProbeSizeArgument;
             }
 
             var userAgentParam = GetUserAgentParam(state);
@@ -7173,8 +7227,10 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.MediaEncoding
                 inputModifier += GetVideoSyncOption(state.InputVideoSync, _mediaEncoder.EncoderVersion);
             }
 
+            int readrate = 0;
             if (state.ReadInputAtNativeFramerate && state.InputProtocol != MediaProtocol.Rtsp)
             {
+                readrate = 1;
                 inputModifier += " -re";
             }
             else if (encodingOptions.EnableSegmentDeletion
@@ -7185,7 +7241,15 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.MediaEncoding
             {
                 // Set an input read rate limit 10x for using SegmentDeletion with stream-copy
                 // to prevent ffmpeg from exiting prematurely (due to fast drive)
-                inputModifier += " -readrate 10";
+                readrate = 10;
+                inputModifier += $" -readrate {readrate}";
+            }
+
+            // Set a larger catchup value to revert to the old behavior,
+            // otherwise, remuxing might stall due to this new option
+            if (readrate > 0 && _mediaEncoder.EncoderVersion >= _minFFmpegReadrateCatchupOption)
+            {
+                inputModifier += $" -readrate_catchup {readrate * 100}";
             }
 
             var flags = new List<string>();

MediaBrowser.Controller/Persistence/IItemRepository.cs

@@ -35,6 +35,14 @@ public interface IItemRepository
 
     void SaveImages(BaseItem item);
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Reattaches the user data to the item.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="item">The item.</param>
+    /// <param name="cancellationToken">The cancellation token.</param>
+    /// <returns>A task that represents the asynchronous reattachment operation.</returns>
+    Task ReattachUserDataAsync(BaseItem item, CancellationToken cancellationToken);
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Retrieves the item.
     /// </summary>

MediaBrowser.Controller/Session/ISessionManager.cs

@@ -350,5 +350,12 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.Session
         /// <param name="sessionIdOrPlaySessionId">The session id or playsession id.</param>
         /// <returns>Task.</returns>
         Task CloseLiveStreamIfNeededAsync(string liveStreamId, string sessionIdOrPlaySessionId);
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets the dto for session info.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="sessionInfo">The session info.</param>
+        /// <returns><see cref="SessionInfoDto"/> of the session.</returns>
+        SessionInfoDto ToSessionInfoDto(SessionInfo sessionInfo);
     }
 }

MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding/Encoder/EncoderValidator.cs

@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Encoder
         [GeneratedRegex("^\\s\\S{6}\\s(?<codec>[\\w|-]+)\\s+.+$", RegexOptions.Multiline)]
         private static partial Regex CodecRegex();
 
-        [GeneratedRegex("^\\s\\S{3}\\s(?<filter>[\\w|-]+)\\s+.+$", RegexOptions.Multiline)]
+        [GeneratedRegex("^\\s\\S{2,3}\\s(?<filter>[\\w|-]+)\\s+.+$", RegexOptions.Multiline)]
         private static partial Regex FilterRegex();
     }
 }

MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding/Probing/ProbeResultNormalizer.cs

@@ -299,9 +299,12 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Probing
                 // Handle WebM
                 else if (string.Equals(splitFormat[i], "webm", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                 {
-                    // Limit WebM to supported codecs
+                    // Limit WebM to supported stream types and codecs.
-                    if (mediaStreams.Any(stream => (stream.Type == MediaStreamType.Video && !_webmVideoCodecs.Contains(stream.Codec, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+                    // FFprobe can report "matroska,webm" for Matroska-like containers, so only keep "webm" if all streams are WebM-compatible.
-                        || (stream.Type == MediaStreamType.Audio && !_webmAudioCodecs.Contains(stream.Codec, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))))
+                    // Any stream that is not video nor audio is not supported in WebM and should disqualify the webm container probe result.
+                    if (mediaStreams.Any(stream => stream.Type is not MediaStreamType.Video and not MediaStreamType.Audio)
+                        || mediaStreams.Any(stream => (stream.Type == MediaStreamType.Video && !_webmVideoCodecs.Contains(stream.Codec, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+                            || (stream.Type == MediaStreamType.Audio && !_webmAudioCodecs.Contains(stream.Codec, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))))
                     {
                         splitFormat[i] = string.Empty;
                     }
@@ -853,7 +856,12 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Probing
                 }
 
                 // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17353387/how-to-detect-anamorphic-video-with-ffprobe
-                if (string.Equals(streamInfo.SampleAspectRatio, "1:1", StringComparison.Ordinal))
+                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(streamInfo.SampleAspectRatio)
+                    && string.IsNullOrEmpty(streamInfo.DisplayAspectRatio))
+                {
+                    stream.IsAnamorphic = false;
+                }
+                else if (string.Equals(streamInfo.SampleAspectRatio, "1:1", StringComparison.Ordinal))
                 {
                     stream.IsAnamorphic = false;
                 }

MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding/Subtitles/SubtitleEncoder.cs

@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Subtitles
         {
             using (await _semaphoreLocks.LockAsync(outputPath, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false))
             {
-                if (!File.Exists(outputPath))
+                if (!File.Exists(outputPath) || _fileSystem.GetFileInfo(outputPath).Length == 0)
                 {
                     await ConvertTextSubtitleToSrtInternal(subtitleStream, mediaSource, outputPath, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
                 }
@@ -423,9 +423,22 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Subtitles
                     }
                 }
             }
-            else if (!File.Exists(outputPath))
+            else if (!File.Exists(outputPath) || _fileSystem.GetFileInfo(outputPath).Length == 0)
             {
                 failed = true;
+
+                try
+                {
+                    _logger.LogWarning("Deleting converted subtitle due to failure: {Path}", outputPath);
+                    _fileSystem.DeleteFile(outputPath);
+                }
+                catch (FileNotFoundException)
+                {
+                }
+                catch (IOException ex)
+                {
+                    _logger.LogError(ex, "Error deleting converted subtitle {Path}", outputPath);
+                }
             }
 
             if (failed)
@@ -499,7 +512,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Subtitles
 
                     var releaser = await _semaphoreLocks.LockAsync(outputPath, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
 
-                    if (File.Exists(outputPath))
+                    if (File.Exists(outputPath) && _fileSystem.GetFileInfo(outputPath).Length > 0)
                     {
                         releaser.Dispose();
                         continue;
@@ -556,7 +569,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Subtitles
                 var outputPaths = new List<string>();
                 var args = string.Format(
                     CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
-                    "-i {0} -copyts",
+                    "-i {0}",
                     inputPath);
 
                 foreach (var subtitleStream in subtitleStreams)
@@ -581,7 +594,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Subtitles
                     outputPaths.Add(outputPath);
                     args += string.Format(
                         CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
-                        " -map 0:{0} -an -vn -c:s {1} \"{2}\"",
+                        " -map 0:{0} -an -vn -c:s {1} -flush_packets 1 \"{2}\"",
                         streamIndex,
                         outputCodec,
                         outputPath);
@@ -600,7 +613,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Subtitles
             var outputPaths = new List<string>();
             var args = string.Format(
                 CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
-                "-i {0} -copyts",
+                "-i {0}",
                 inputPath);
 
             foreach (var subtitleStream in subtitleStreams)
@@ -626,7 +639,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Subtitles
                 outputPaths.Add(outputPath);
                 args += string.Format(
                     CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
-                    " -map 0:{0} -an -vn -c:s {1} \"{2}\"",
+                    " -map 0:{0} -an -vn -c:s {1} -flush_packets 1 \"{2}\"",
                     streamIndex,
                     outputCodec,
                     outputPath);
@@ -713,10 +726,24 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Subtitles
             {
                 foreach (var outputPath in outputPaths)
                 {
-                    if (!File.Exists(outputPath))
+                    if (!File.Exists(outputPath) || _fileSystem.GetFileInfo(outputPath).Length == 0)
                     {
                         _logger.LogError("ffmpeg subtitle extraction failed for {InputPath} to {OutputPath}", inputPath, outputPath);
                         failed = true;
+
+                        try
+                        {
+                            _logger.LogWarning("Deleting extracted subtitle due to failure: {Path}", outputPath);
+                            _fileSystem.DeleteFile(outputPath);
+                        }
+                        catch (FileNotFoundException)
+                        {
+                        }
+                        catch (IOException ex)
+                        {
+                            _logger.LogError(ex, "Error deleting extracted subtitle {Path}", outputPath);
+                        }
+
                         continue;
                     }
 
@@ -755,7 +782,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Subtitles
         {
             using (await _semaphoreLocks.LockAsync(outputPath, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false))
             {
-                if (!File.Exists(outputPath))
+                if (!File.Exists(outputPath) || _fileSystem.GetFileInfo(outputPath).Length == 0)
                 {
                     var subtitleStreamIndex = EncodingHelper.FindIndex(mediaSource.MediaStreams, subtitleStream);
 
@@ -857,9 +884,22 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Subtitles
                     _logger.LogError(ex, "Error deleting extracted subtitle {Path}", outputPath);
                 }
             }
-            else if (!File.Exists(outputPath))
+            else if (!File.Exists(outputPath) || _fileSystem.GetFileInfo(outputPath).Length == 0)
             {
                 failed = true;
+
+                try
+                {
+                    _logger.LogWarning("Deleting extracted subtitle due to failure: {Path}", outputPath);
+                    _fileSystem.DeleteFile(outputPath);
+                }
+                catch (FileNotFoundException)
+                {
+                }
+                catch (IOException ex)
+                {
+                    _logger.LogError(ex, "Error deleting extracted subtitle {Path}", outputPath);
+                }
             }
 
             if (failed)

MediaBrowser.Model/MediaBrowser.Model.csproj

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   <PropertyGroup>
     <Authors>Jellyfin Contributors</Authors>
     <PackageId>Jellyfin.Model</PackageId>
-    <VersionPrefix>10.11.4</VersionPrefix>
+    <VersionPrefix>10.11.7</VersionPrefix>
     <RepositoryUrl>https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin</RepositoryUrl>
     <PackageLicenseExpression>GPL-3.0-only</PackageLicenseExpression>
   </PropertyGroup>

MediaBrowser.Providers/Manager/MetadataService.cs

@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Providers.Manager
 
             if (isFirstRefresh)
             {
-                await SaveItemAsync(metadataResult, ItemUpdateType.MetadataImport, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
+                await SaveItemAsync(metadataResult, ItemUpdateType.MetadataImport, false, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
             }
 
             // Next run metadata providers
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Providers.Manager
                     }
 
                     // Save to database
-                    await SaveItemAsync(metadataResult, updateType, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
+                    await SaveItemAsync(metadataResult, updateType, isFirstRefresh, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
                 }
 
                 return updateType;
@@ -275,9 +275,14 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Providers.Manager
             }
         }
 
-        protected async Task SaveItemAsync(MetadataResult<TItemType> result, ItemUpdateType reason, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
+        protected async Task SaveItemAsync(MetadataResult<TItemType> result, ItemUpdateType reason, bool reattachUserData, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
         {
             await result.Item.UpdateToRepositoryAsync(reason, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
+            if (reattachUserData)
+            {
+                await result.Item.ReattachUserDataAsync(cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
+            }
+
             if (result.Item.SupportsPeople && result.People is not null)
             {
                 var baseItem = result.Item;

MediaBrowser.Providers/MediaInfo/ProbeProvider.cs

@@ -262,9 +262,28 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Providers.MediaInfo
 
         private void FetchShortcutInfo(BaseItem item)
         {
-            item.ShortcutPath = File.ReadAllLines(item.Path)
+            var shortcutPath = File.ReadAllLines(item.Path)
                 .Select(NormalizeStrmLine)
                 .FirstOrDefault(i => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(i) && !i.StartsWith('#'));
+
+            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(shortcutPath))
+            {
+                return;
+            }
+
+            // Only allow remote URLs in .strm files to prevent local file access
+            if (Uri.TryCreate(shortcutPath, UriKind.Absolute, out var uri)
+                && (string.Equals(uri.Scheme, "http", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+                    || string.Equals(uri.Scheme, "https", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+                    || string.Equals(uri.Scheme, "rtsp", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+                    || string.Equals(uri.Scheme, "rtp", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)))
+            {
+                item.ShortcutPath = shortcutPath;
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                _logger.LogWarning("Ignoring invalid or non-remote .strm path in {File}: {Path}", item.Path, shortcutPath);
+            }
         }
 
         /// <summary>

MediaBrowser.Providers/Playlists/PlaylistMetadataService.cs

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ public class PlaylistMetadataService : MetadataService<Playlist, ItemLookupInfo>
             }
             else
             {
-                targetItem.LinkedChildren = sourceItem.LinkedChildren.Concat(targetItem.LinkedChildren).Distinct().ToArray();
+                targetItem.LinkedChildren = sourceItem.LinkedChildren.Concat(targetItem.LinkedChildren).DistinctBy(i => i.Path).ToArray();
             }
 
             if (replaceData || targetItem.Shares.Count == 0)

MediaBrowser.Providers/Plugins/Tmdb/Movies/TmdbMovieProvider.cs

@@ -303,9 +303,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Providers.Plugins.Tmdb.Movies
                         CrewMember = crewMember,
                         PersonType = TmdbUtils.MapCrewToPersonType(crewMember)
                     })
-                    .Where(entry =>
+                    .Where(entry => TmdbUtils.WantedCrewKinds.Contains(entry.PersonType));
-                        TmdbUtils.WantedCrewKinds.Contains(entry.PersonType) ||
-                        TmdbUtils.WantedCrewTypes.Contains(entry.CrewMember.Job ?? string.Empty, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
 
                 if (config.HideMissingCrewMembers)
                 {

MediaBrowser.Providers/Plugins/Tmdb/TV/TmdbEpisodeProvider.cs

@@ -275,9 +275,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Providers.Plugins.Tmdb.TV
                         CrewMember = crewMember,
                         PersonType = TmdbUtils.MapCrewToPersonType(crewMember)
                     })
-                    .Where(entry =>
+                    .Where(entry => TmdbUtils.WantedCrewKinds.Contains(entry.PersonType));
-                        TmdbUtils.WantedCrewKinds.Contains(entry.PersonType) ||
-                        TmdbUtils.WantedCrewTypes.Contains(entry.CrewMember.Job ?? string.Empty, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
 
                 if (config.HideMissingCrewMembers)
                 {

MediaBrowser.Providers/Plugins/Tmdb/TV/TmdbSeasonProvider.cs

@@ -120,9 +120,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Providers.Plugins.Tmdb.TV
                         CrewMember = crewMember,
                         PersonType = TmdbUtils.MapCrewToPersonType(crewMember)
                     })
-                    .Where(entry =>
+                    .Where(entry => TmdbUtils.WantedCrewKinds.Contains(entry.PersonType));
-                        TmdbUtils.WantedCrewKinds.Contains(entry.PersonType) ||
-                        TmdbUtils.WantedCrewTypes.Contains(entry.CrewMember.Job ?? string.Empty, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
 
                 if (config.HideMissingCrewMembers)
                 {

MediaBrowser.Providers/Plugins/Tmdb/TV/TmdbSeriesProvider.cs

@@ -367,9 +367,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Providers.Plugins.Tmdb.TV
                         CrewMember = crewMember,
                         PersonType = TmdbUtils.MapCrewToPersonType(crewMember)
                     })
-                    .Where(entry =>
+                    .Where(entry => TmdbUtils.WantedCrewKinds.Contains(entry.PersonType));
-                        TmdbUtils.WantedCrewKinds.Contains(entry.PersonType) ||
-                        TmdbUtils.WantedCrewTypes.Contains(entry.CrewMember.Job ?? string.Empty, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
 
                 if (config.HideMissingCrewMembers)
                 {

MediaBrowser.Providers/Plugins/Tmdb/TmdbClientManager.cs

@@ -518,7 +518,10 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Providers.Plugins.Tmdb
                 return null;
             }
 
-            return _tmDbClient.GetImageUrl(size, path, true).ToString();
+            // Use "original" as default size if size is null or empty to prevent malformed URLs
+            var imageSize = string.IsNullOrEmpty(size) ? "original" : size;
+
+            return _tmDbClient.GetImageUrl(imageSize, path, true).ToString();
         }
 
         /// <summary>

MediaBrowser.Providers/Plugins/Tmdb/TmdbUtils.cs

@@ -69,19 +69,20 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Providers.Plugins.Tmdb
         /// <returns>The Jellyfin person type.</returns>
         public static PersonKind MapCrewToPersonType(Crew crew)
         {
-            if (crew.Department.Equals("production", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+            if (crew.Department.Equals("directing", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
-                && crew.Job.Contains("director", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+                && crew.Job.Equals("director", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
             {
                 return PersonKind.Director;
             }
 
             if (crew.Department.Equals("production", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
-                && crew.Job.Contains("producer", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+                && crew.Job.Equals("producer", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
             {
                 return PersonKind.Producer;
             }
 
-            if (crew.Department.Equals("writing", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+            if (crew.Department.Equals("writing", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+                && (crew.Job.Equals("writer", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) || crew.Job.Equals("screenplay", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)))
             {
                 return PersonKind.Writer;
             }

MediaBrowser.Providers/Subtitles/SubtitleManager.cs

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Threading;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using Emby.Naming.Common;
 using Jellyfin.Extensions;
 using MediaBrowser.Common.Extensions;
 using MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities;
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Providers.Subtitles
         private readonly ILibraryMonitor _monitor;
         private readonly IMediaSourceManager _mediaSourceManager;
         private readonly ILocalizationManager _localization;
+        private readonly HashSet<string> _allowedSubtitleFormats;
 
         private readonly ISubtitleProvider[] _subtitleProviders;
 
@@ -41,7 +43,8 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Providers.Subtitles
             ILibraryMonitor monitor,
             IMediaSourceManager mediaSourceManager,
             ILocalizationManager localizationManager,
-            IEnumerable<ISubtitleProvider> subtitleProviders)
+            IEnumerable<ISubtitleProvider> subtitleProviders,
+            NamingOptions namingOptions)
         {
             _logger = logger;
             _fileSystem = fileSystem;
@@ -51,6 +54,9 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Providers.Subtitles
             _subtitleProviders = subtitleProviders
                 .OrderBy(i => i is IHasOrder hasOrder ? hasOrder.Order : 0)
                 .ToArray();
+            _allowedSubtitleFormats = new HashSet<string>(
+                namingOptions.SubtitleFileExtensions.Select(e => e.TrimStart('.')),
+                StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
         }
 
         /// <inheritdoc />
@@ -171,6 +177,12 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Providers.Subtitles
         /// <inheritdoc />
         public Task UploadSubtitle(Video video, SubtitleResponse response)
         {
+            var format = response.Format;
+            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(format) || !_allowedSubtitleFormats.Contains(format))
+            {
+                throw new ArgumentException($"Unsupported subtitle format: '{format}'");
+            }
+
             var libraryOptions = BaseItem.LibraryManager.GetLibraryOptions(video);
             return TrySaveSubtitle(video, libraryOptions, response);
         }
@@ -193,7 +205,13 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Providers.Subtitles
                 }
 
                 var savePaths = new List<string>();
-                var saveFileName = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(video.Path) + "." + response.Language.ToLowerInvariant();
+                var language = response.Language.ToLowerInvariant();
+                if (language.AsSpan().IndexOfAny(Path.DirectorySeparatorChar, Path.AltDirectorySeparatorChar) >= 0)
+                {
+                    throw new ArgumentException("Language contains invalid characters.");
+                }
+
+                var saveFileName = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(video.Path) + "." + language;
 
                 if (response.IsForced)
                 {
@@ -221,15 +239,22 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Providers.Subtitles
 
         private async Task TrySaveToFiles(Stream stream, List<string> savePaths, Video video, string extension)
         {
+            if (!_allowedSubtitleFormats.Contains("." + extension, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+            {
+                throw new ArgumentException($"Invalid subtitle format: {extension}");
+            }
+
             List<Exception>? exs = null;
 
             foreach (var savePath in savePaths)
             {
-                var path = savePath + "." + extension;
+                var path = Path.GetFullPath(savePath + "." + extension);
                 try
                 {
-                    if (path.StartsWith(video.ContainingFolderPath, StringComparison.Ordinal)
+                    var containingFolder = video.ContainingFolderPath + Path.DirectorySeparatorChar;
-                            || path.StartsWith(video.GetInternalMetadataPath(), StringComparison.Ordinal))
+                    var metadataFolder = video.GetInternalMetadataPath() + Path.DirectorySeparatorChar;
+                    if (path.StartsWith(containingFolder, StringComparison.Ordinal)
+                            || path.StartsWith(metadataFolder, StringComparison.Ordinal))
                     {
                         var fileExists = File.Exists(path);
                         var counter = 0;

MediaBrowser.XbmcMetadata/Savers/BaseNfoSaver.cs

@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.XbmcMetadata.Savers
                 writer.WriteElementString("aspectratio", hasAspectRatio.AspectRatio);
             }
 
-            if (item.TryGetProviderId(MetadataProvider.Tmdb, out var tmdbCollection))
+            if (item.TryGetProviderId(MetadataProvider.TmdbCollection, out var tmdbCollection))
             {
                 writer.WriteElementString("collectionnumber", tmdbCollection);
                 writtenProviderIds.Add(MetadataProvider.TmdbCollection.ToString());

SharedVersion.cs

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 using System.Reflection;
 
-[assembly: AssemblyVersion("10.11.4")]
+[assembly: AssemblyVersion("10.11.7")]
-[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("10.11.4")]
+[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("10.11.7")]

src/Jellyfin.Drawing.Skia/SkiaEncoder.cs

@@ -24,61 +24,29 @@ public class SkiaEncoder : IImageEncoder
     private static readonly HashSet<string> _transparentImageTypes = new(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase) { ".png", ".gif", ".webp" };
     private readonly ILogger<SkiaEncoder> _logger;
     private readonly IApplicationPaths _appPaths;
-    private static readonly SKImageFilter _imageFilter;
+    private static readonly SKTypeface?[] _typefaces = InitializeTypefaces();
-    private static readonly SKTypeface[] _typefaces;
+    private static readonly SKImageFilter _imageFilter = SKImageFilter.CreateMatrixConvolution(
+        new SKSizeI(3, 3),
+        [
+            0,    -.1f,    0,
+            -.1f, 1.4f, -.1f,
+            0,    -.1f,    0
+        ],
+        1f,
+        0f,
+        new SKPointI(1, 1),
+        SKShaderTileMode.Clamp,
+        true);
 
     /// <summary>
     /// The default sampling options, equivalent to old high quality filter settings when upscaling.
     /// </summary>
-    public static readonly SKSamplingOptions UpscaleSamplingOptions;
+    public static readonly SKSamplingOptions UpscaleSamplingOptions = new SKSamplingOptions(SKCubicResampler.Mitchell);
 
     /// <summary>
     /// The sampling options, used for downscaling images, equivalent to old high quality filter settings when not upscaling.
     /// </summary>
-    public static readonly SKSamplingOptions DefaultSamplingOptions;
+    public static readonly SKSamplingOptions DefaultSamplingOptions = new SKSamplingOptions(SKFilterMode.Linear, SKMipmapMode.Linear);
-
-#pragma warning disable CA1810
-    static SkiaEncoder()
-#pragma warning restore CA1810
-    {
-        var kernel = new[]
-        {
-            0,    -.1f,    0,
-            -.1f, 1.4f, -.1f,
-            0,    -.1f,    0,
-        };
-
-        var kernelSize = new SKSizeI(3, 3);
-        var kernelOffset = new SKPointI(1, 1);
-        _imageFilter = SKImageFilter.CreateMatrixConvolution(
-            kernelSize,
-            kernel,
-            1f,
-            0f,
-            kernelOffset,
-            SKShaderTileMode.Clamp,
-            true);
-
-        // Initialize the list of typefaces
-        // We have to statically build a list of typefaces because MatchCharacter only accepts a single character or code point
-        // But in reality a human-readable character (grapheme cluster) could be multiple code points. For example, 🚵🏻‍♀️ is a single emoji but 5 code points (U+1F6B5 + U+1F3FB + U+200D + U+2640 + U+FE0F)
-        _typefaces =
-        [
-            SKFontManager.Default.MatchCharacter(null, SKFontStyleWeight.Bold, SKFontStyleWidth.Normal, SKFontStyleSlant.Upright, null, '鸡'), // CJK Simplified Chinese
-            SKFontManager.Default.MatchCharacter(null, SKFontStyleWeight.Bold, SKFontStyleWidth.Normal, SKFontStyleSlant.Upright, null, '雞'), // CJK Traditional Chinese
-            SKFontManager.Default.MatchCharacter(null, SKFontStyleWeight.Bold, SKFontStyleWidth.Normal, SKFontStyleSlant.Upright, null, 'ノ'), // CJK Japanese
-            SKFontManager.Default.MatchCharacter(null, SKFontStyleWeight.Bold, SKFontStyleWidth.Normal, SKFontStyleSlant.Upright, null, '각'), // CJK Korean
-            SKFontManager.Default.MatchCharacter(null, SKFontStyleWeight.Bold, SKFontStyleWidth.Normal, SKFontStyleSlant.Upright, null, 128169), // Emojis, 128169 is the 💩emoji
-            SKFontManager.Default.MatchCharacter(null, SKFontStyleWeight.Bold, SKFontStyleWidth.Normal, SKFontStyleSlant.Upright, null, 'ז'), // Hebrew
-            SKFontManager.Default.MatchCharacter(null, SKFontStyleWeight.Bold, SKFontStyleWidth.Normal, SKFontStyleSlant.Upright, null, 'ي'), // Arabic
-            SKTypeface.FromFamilyName("sans-serif", SKFontStyleWeight.Bold, SKFontStyleWidth.Normal, SKFontStyleSlant.Upright) // Default font
-        ];
-
-        // use cubic for upscaling
-        UpscaleSamplingOptions = new SKSamplingOptions(SKCubicResampler.Mitchell);
-        // use bilinear for everything else
-        DefaultSamplingOptions = new SKSamplingOptions(SKFilterMode.Linear, SKMipmapMode.Linear);
-    }
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="SkiaEncoder"/> class.
@@ -132,7 +100,7 @@ public class SkiaEncoder : IImageEncoder
     /// <summary>
     /// Gets the default typeface to use.
     /// </summary>
-    public static SKTypeface DefaultTypeFace => _typefaces.Last();
+    public static SKTypeface? DefaultTypeFace => _typefaces.Last();
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Check if the native lib is available.
@@ -152,6 +120,40 @@ public class SkiaEncoder : IImageEncoder
         }
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Initialize the list of typefaces
+    /// We have to statically build a list of typefaces because MatchCharacter only accepts a single character or code point
+    /// But in reality a human-readable character (grapheme cluster) could be multiple code points. For example, 🚵🏻‍♀️ is a single emoji but 5 code points (U+1F6B5 + U+1F3FB + U+200D + U+2640 + U+FE0F).
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <returns>The list of typefaces.</returns>
+    private static SKTypeface?[] InitializeTypefaces()
+    {
+        int[] chars = [
+            '鸡', // CJK Simplified Chinese
+            '雞', // CJK Traditional Chinese
+            'ノ', // CJK Japanese
+            '각', // CJK Korean
+            128169, // Emojis, 128169 is the Pile of Poo (💩) emoji
+            'ז', // Hebrew
+            'ي' // Arabic
+        ];
+        var fonts = new List<SKTypeface>(chars.Length + 1);
+        foreach (var ch in chars)
+        {
+            var font = SKFontManager.Default.MatchCharacter(null, SKFontStyleWeight.Bold, SKFontStyleWidth.Normal, SKFontStyleSlant.Upright, null, ch);
+            if (font is not null)
+            {
+                fonts.Add(font);
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Default font
+        fonts.Add(SKTypeface.FromFamilyName("sans-serif", SKFontStyleWeight.Bold, SKFontStyleWidth.Normal, SKFontStyleSlant.Upright)
+            ?? SKFontManager.Default.MatchCharacter(null, SKFontStyleWeight.Bold, SKFontStyleWidth.Normal, SKFontStyleSlant.Upright, null, 'a'));
+
+        return fonts.ToArray();
+    }
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Convert a <see cref="ImageFormat"/> to a <see cref="SKEncodedImageFormat"/>.
     /// </summary>
@@ -809,7 +811,7 @@ public class SkiaEncoder : IImageEncoder
     {
         foreach (var typeface in _typefaces)
         {
-            if (typeface.ContainsGlyphs(c))
+            if (typeface is not null && typeface.ContainsGlyphs(c))
             {
                 return typeface;
             }

src/Jellyfin.Extensions/Jellyfin.Extensions.csproj

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
   <PropertyGroup>
     <Authors>Jellyfin Contributors</Authors>
     <PackageId>Jellyfin.Extensions</PackageId>
-    <VersionPrefix>10.11.4</VersionPrefix>
+    <VersionPrefix>10.11.7</VersionPrefix>
     <RepositoryUrl>https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin</RepositoryUrl>
     <PackageLicenseExpression>GPL-3.0-only</PackageLicenseExpression>
   </PropertyGroup>

src/Jellyfin.LiveTv/IO/EncodedRecorder.cs

@@ -156,6 +156,13 @@ namespace Jellyfin.LiveTv.IO
             if (mediaSource.ReadAtNativeFramerate)
             {
                 inputModifier += " -re";
+
+                // Set a larger catchup value to revert to the old behavior,
+                // otherwise, remuxing might stall due to this new option
+                if (_mediaEncoder.EncoderVersion >= new Version(8, 0))
+                {
+                    inputModifier += " -readrate_catchup 100";
+                }
             }
 
             if (mediaSource.RequiresLooping)

src/Jellyfin.LiveTv/TunerHosts/M3uParser.cs

@@ -93,6 +93,13 @@ namespace Jellyfin.LiveTv.TunerHosts
                 }
                 else if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(extInf) && !trimmedLine.StartsWith('#'))
                 {
+                    if (!IsValidChannelUrl(trimmedLine))
+                    {
+                        _logger.LogWarning("Skipping M3U channel entry with non-HTTP path: {Path}", trimmedLine);
+                        extInf = string.Empty;
+                        continue;
+                    }
+
                     var channel = GetChannelInfo(extInf, tunerHostId, trimmedLine);
                     channel.Id = channelIdPrefix + trimmedLine.GetMD5().ToString("N", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
 
@@ -247,6 +254,16 @@ namespace Jellyfin.LiveTv.TunerHosts
             return numberString;
         }
 
+        private static bool IsValidChannelUrl(string url)
+        {
+            return Uri.TryCreate(url, UriKind.Absolute, out var uri)
+                && (string.Equals(uri.Scheme, "http", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+                    || string.Equals(uri.Scheme, "https", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+                    || string.Equals(uri.Scheme, "rtsp", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+                    || string.Equals(uri.Scheme, "rtp", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+                    || string.Equals(uri.Scheme, "udp", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
+        }
+
         private static bool IsValidChannelNumber(string numberString)
         {
             if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(numberString)

tests/Jellyfin.MediaEncoding.Tests/Probing/ProbeResultNormalizerTests.cs

@@ -195,6 +195,18 @@ namespace Jellyfin.MediaEncoding.Tests.Probing
             Assert.False(res.MediaStreams[0].IsAVC);
         }
 
+        [Fact]
+        public void GetMediaInfo_WebM_Like_Mkv()
+        {
+            var bytes = File.ReadAllBytes("Test Data/Probing/video_web_like_mkv_with_subtitle.json");
+            var internalMediaInfoResult = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<InternalMediaInfoResult>(bytes, _jsonOptions);
+
+            MediaInfo res = _probeResultNormalizer.GetMediaInfo(internalMediaInfoResult, VideoType.VideoFile, false, "Test Data/Probing/video_metadata.mkv", MediaProtocol.File);
+
+            Assert.Equal("mkv", res.Container);
+            Assert.Equal(3, res.MediaStreams.Count);
+        }
+
         [Fact]
         public void GetMediaInfo_ProgressiveVideoNoFieldOrder_Success()
         {

tests/Jellyfin.MediaEncoding.Tests/Test Data/Probing/video_web_like_mkv_with_subtitle.json

@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+{
+    "streams": [
+        {
+            "index": 0,
+            "codec_name": "vp8",
+            "codec_long_name": "On2 VP8",
+            "profile": "1",
+            "codec_type": "video",
+            "codec_tag_string": "[0][0][0][0]",
+            "codec_tag": "0x0000",
+            "width": 540,
+            "height": 360,
+            "coded_width": 540,
+            "coded_height": 360,
+            "closed_captions": 0,
+            "film_grain": 0,
+            "has_b_frames": 0,
+            "sample_aspect_ratio": "1:1",
+            "display_aspect_ratio": "3:2",
+            "pix_fmt": "yuv420p",
+            "level": -99,
+            "field_order": "progressive",
+            "refs": 1,
+            "r_frame_rate": "2997/125",
+            "avg_frame_rate": "2997/125",
+            "time_base": "1/1000",
+            "start_pts": 0,
+            "start_time": "0.000000",
+            "disposition": {
+                "default": 1,
+                "dub": 0,
+                "original": 0,
+                "comment": 0,
+                "lyrics": 0,
+                "karaoke": 0,
+                "forced": 0,
+                "hearing_impaired": 0,
+                "visual_impaired": 0,
+                "clean_effects": 0,
+                "attached_pic": 0,
+                "timed_thumbnails": 0,
+                "captions": 0,
+                "descriptions": 0,
+                "metadata": 0,
+                "dependent": 0,
+                "still_image": 0
+            },
+            "tags": {
+                "language": "eng"
+            }
+        },
+        {
+            "index": 1,
+            "codec_name": "vorbis",
+            "codec_long_name": "Vorbis",
+            "codec_type": "audio",
+            "codec_tag_string": "[0][0][0][0]",
+            "codec_tag": "0x0000",
+            "sample_fmt": "fltp",
+            "sample_rate": "44100",
+            "channels": 2,
+            "channel_layout": "stereo",
+            "bits_per_sample": 0,
+            "r_frame_rate": "0/0",
+            "avg_frame_rate": "0/0",
+            "time_base": "1/1000",
+            "start_pts": 0,
+            "start_time": "0.000000",
+            "duration": "117.707000",
+            "bit_rate": "127998",
+            "disposition": {
+                "default": 1,
+                "dub": 0,
+                "original": 0,
+                "comment": 0,
+                "lyrics": 0,
+                "karaoke": 0,
+                "forced": 0,
+                "hearing_impaired": 0,
+                "visual_impaired": 0,
+                "clean_effects": 0,
+                "attached_pic": 0,
+                "timed_thumbnails": 0,
+                "captions": 0,
+                "descriptions": 0,
+                "metadata": 0,
+                "dependent": 0,
+                "still_image": 0
+            },
+            "tags": {
+                "language": "eng"
+            }
+        },
+        {
+            "index": 2,
+            "codec_name": "subrip",
+            "codec_long_name": "SubRip subtitle",
+            "codec_type": "subtitle",
+            "codec_tag_string": "[0][0][0][0]",
+            "codec_tag": "0x0000",
+            "disposition": {
+                "default": 0,
+                "dub": 0,
+                "original": 0,
+                "comment": 0,
+                "lyrics": 0,
+                "karaoke": 0,
+                "forced": 0,
+                "hearing_impaired": 0,
+                "visual_impaired": 0,
+                "clean_effects": 0,
+                "attached_pic": 0,
+                "timed_thumbnails": 0,
+                "captions": 0,
+                "descriptions": 0,
+                "metadata": 0,
+                "dependent": 0,
+                "still_image": 0
+            },
+            "tags": {
+                "language": "eng"
+            }
+        }
+    ],
+    "format": {
+        "filename": "sample.mkv",
+        "nb_streams": 3,
+        "nb_programs": 0,
+        "format_name": "matroska,webm",
+        "format_long_name": "Matroska / WebM",
+        "start_time": "0.000000",
+        "duration": "117.700914",
+        "size": "8566268",
+        "bit_rate": "582239",
+        "probe_score": 100
+    }
+}

tests/Jellyfin.Server.Implementations.Tests/Localization/LocalizationManagerTests.cs

@@ -203,6 +203,25 @@ namespace Jellyfin.Server.Implementations.Tests.Localization
             Assert.Null(localizationManager.GetRatingScore(value));
         }
 
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData("TV-MA", "DE", 17, 1)] // US-only rating, DE country code
+        [InlineData("PG-13", "FR", 13, 0)] // US-only rating, FR country code
+        [InlineData("R", "JP", 17, 0)] // US-only rating, JP country code
+        public async Task GetRatingScore_FallbackPrioritizesUS_Success(string rating, string countryCode, int expectedScore, int? expectedSubScore)
+        {
+            var localizationManager = Setup(new ServerConfiguration()
+            {
+                MetadataCountryCode = countryCode
+            });
+            await localizationManager.LoadAll();
+
+            var score = localizationManager.GetRatingScore(rating);
+
+            Assert.NotNull(score);
+            Assert.Equal(expectedScore, score.Score);
+            Assert.Equal(expectedSubScore, score.SubScore);
+        }
+
         [Theory]
         [InlineData("Default", "Default")]
         [InlineData("HeaderLiveTV", "Live TV")]