Tips, updates, and guides from the JellyWatch team.
Master Jellyfin CSS customization in 2026. Install Ultrachromic, KefinTweaks, and the JellyFlix Netflix theme with one click via Skin Manager, or write your own CSS to change colors, hide elements, and build a fully personalized interface. Includes 15+ ready-to-use snippets.
A complete guide to installing Emby Server in 2026 Docker Compose setup, hardware transcoding with Intel QSV and NVIDIA NVENC, Caddy reverse proxy, library configuration, and Emby Premiere activation. Everything you need to go from zero to streaming.
Everything you need to install Jellyfin in 2026 Docker Compose with hardware transcoding, reverse proxy with Caddy, library setup, and first-run configuration. The fastest path from zero to a fully working self-hosted media server.
After the turbulent 10.11 release, the Jellyfin team is considering a major versioning change - dropping the "10" prefix entirely and jumping to 12.0. This article explains the community debate that triggered it, what the new versioning signals, and what features are planned for the next major release.
A detailed technical comparison that went viral on the Emby community forums: after weeks of side-by-side testing, one long-time Emby user concluded that Jellyfin now outperforms Emby in transcoding quality, HDR tone mapping, AV1 support, and codec flexibility. Here is what the data shows.
Hundreds of users hit database migration failures, library loading times of 30+ minutes, and broken Home Videos libraries after upgrading to Jellyfin 10.11. This is the full post-mortem - what went wrong, why, and how the team fixed it across six point releases.
Apply DevOps principles to your Jellyfin homelab. This guide covers automated container updates with Watchtower, Docker healthchecks, dependency management with Renovate, and building a self-healing media server stack.
Jellyfin 10.11.7 patches 4 security vulnerabilities rated extremely important. All users on versions prior to 10.11.7 should upgrade immediately. Details on the fixes and how to update safely.
The current stable version of Jellyfin is 10.11.5 as of March 2026. This article covers what changed in 10.11, which bugs were fixed in the point releases, what the new web UI looks like, and what is coming in the next major release (10.12 / 12.0).
