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2026.9.1
September 2, 2026
Aether now carries a date as its version, 2026.9.1 is the release that follows 1.2.5. Under the hood it is the biggest speed release so far. FASTER EVERYWHERE • Play starts noticeably sooner. PrismCore hands the player its first picture after about two seconds of the file instead of six, direct-play files and downloads show a frame as soon as bytes arrive, and the work that used to queue up behind Play — the probe, the server, the screen’s HDR switch — now runs at the same time. • Smoother playback. Seeking no longer rebuilds the audio path, the stall guard acts on evidence instead of a timer, and the seek bar’s buffered band is back. • A title’s page loads in one round: Aether asks your server and TMDb for everything at once, never twice. • A big library scrolls the same at the bottom as at the top, and its sorted views read straight off an index. Filters, Spotlight, genre and year lists no longer read your whole catalogue. • Library scans skip titles that have not changed. Pull to refresh asks what is new instead of re-reading everything. • Live TV opens right away on huge playlists: the guide only builds the rows you can see, refreshes only when the provider’s guide changed, and reads its timestamps twenty times cheaper. NEW • A new optical-glass icon on every screen — with real depth on Apple TV and Vision Pro. • A title’s page plays its theme music after the preview, the way the Apple TV shelf does. Turn it off in Settings ▸ Playback ▸ Previews. • The page names the copy that will play — server, resolution, codec, bitrate — and Choose Version lists every file on every server with its size and audio. Audio and Subtitles are round buttons under Play. • Watchlist gets the Library’s header and its Filter & Sort: Movies / TV Shows, genres from what you saved, Unwatched, and sort by Added or Title. See All filters and sorts too — now on the Mac as well. • Every streaming rail — “New on Netflix”, “Top on Disney+” — is its own row in Settings ▸ Home Rails, movable and hideable on its own. • A 3D copy says so on the title’s page, not only inside the version picker. • Title logos follow the app’s language. Servers show a grey dot when they cannot be reached right now, and Services & Sync says plainly when your devices last synced. • Settings is a real system list on iPhone, iPad and Vision Pro. What’s New is a list, grouped by month, with dates. • Films whose server never names the container now play — Aether asks the server what to send instead of guessing. FIXED • Posters no longer vanish while you scroll; the Quality filter — 4K, Dolby Vision, Atmos — filters again on large libraries. • Apple TV: Library controls change the grid again, and Discover keeps up with the remote. • iPhone: the player keeps its size through a rotation, Live TV rotates to landscape with Allow Portrait Playback, and closing the player no longer crashes on iOS 27. • Your whole Plex watchlist arrives, not just the first page. A watched episode stays out of Continue Watching across servers. Reopening a show refreshes its seasons. Titles TMDb cannot place keep their trailers and previews. • Live TV: channel column back to a column, guide rows land without stutter, channels pair with their programmes regardless of id case, no empty rows after a refresh. Music libraries have their own switch. Thanks to everyone on the Aether Discord who sent logs and files — most of this list started as your reports.
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