Jellyfin on Roku 3.0.0 released

[joshuaboniface]

Woke up this morning to read a bunch of people having similar issues. Their Roku forcing an update and now they can’t use their Jellyfin app. The entire reason I set this up in the first place was so that I had total control. This is absolute bullshit that these companies control and force devices into obsolescence that worked perfectly fine before. Now I have to figure out how to not only update my Jellyfin server but also my operating system. I was fine with everything the way it was and now it’s going to cost me hours figuring this all out again and possibly having to replace an otherwise perfect fine computer just so I can continue to use the Jellyfin service. This is an extremely frustrating situation. I know I’m not the only one that feels this way. Not sure why people can’t leave shit well and good alone! If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!

Jellyfin isn't a company or product. We're a volunteer only free and open source project. Just to make that clear. We're not forcing you to do anything, you can run older versions if you want. But we're not going to support older versions through the official install methods, because doing so isn't feasible in terms of the work required, and devices with app stores especially don't tend to support this. Running old versions of the server also potentially puts you at risk of security issues of which there are a non-zero number if you expose it to the internet.

I definitely understand the frustration. Personally, I value stability of my systems Above All Else and by that I mean things not changing. But the software moves forward all the time, there's new features and such that require updates, and after enough time clients simply cannot keep old compatibility while still moving forward with those new features. 10.8 is two major versions old and there is a lot that has changed in the meantime, and a lot more will change with the next release due out in about a month.

And just on that last sentence, there is quite a lot broken which is why we keep fixing things. You may not see it but plenty of people do ;-)