SparkBox patches — Sun Oct 4, 2026
Posted by Chris
SparkBox releases shipped on Sun Oct 4, 2026 (UTC), in order, newest at the bottom. This thread is updated as releases land during the day. Update from the SparkBox dashboard, or run sudo sparkbox upgrade on your SparkBox host. Legend boxes get every release the day it ships; free boxes get it after it has run there for a week. If a problem remains after updating, submit a private support ticket or reply below with the app name, what you expected, and what happened instead. Earlier days: Sat Oct 3, 2026 · Fri Oct 2, 2026 · Thu Oct 1, 2026 · Wed Sep 30, 2026 · Tue Sep 29, 2026 · Mon Sep 28, 2026 · Sun Sep 27, 2026 v1.6.852 — Change an installed app's options from My apps - In the V3 My apps page and the V2 App Store, an installed app with options you can change now has a Settings button. For Media Center that includes Request from inside Jellyfin (the heart button), Lidarr and Byparr; for Immich, its machine learning; for Nextcloud, OnlyOffice. Change what you want, press Save, and SparkBox restarts the app for you when the change needs it, and says so. Before, these options showed only when you first installed the app, so changing one later meant a trip to the classic dashboard. Passwords and keys are still changed in the classic settings. - When the fix you need is in a newer SparkBox, Tom AI now tells you to run sudo sparkbox upgrade, or to use Update SparkBox on the Updates page. It used to suggest sudo sparkbox update, which only refreshes your apps and never installs a newer SparkBox. v1.6.853 — Tom AI shows what it found when it runs out of steps - When Tom AI used up its steps before finishing an answer, all you got was "I dug into it but ran out of steps", and asking again started the same checks from scratch. Now it shows what its checks of your box found so far, and when you ask it to keep going it picks up from those results. - On the home page, "Into your library" said a waiting download "often clears on its own" even when Sonarr or Radarr gave a reason that never clears by waiting, such as "Found archive file, might need to be extracted". It now says the download won't move on its own, and Ask Tom AI passes the card's own advice along with your question (for an archive: install the free Unpackerr app from the App Store). v1.6.854 — A Jellyfin password reset that can't go through now tells you what to do - When Tom AI or the Reset button in Settings → Passwords tried to reset the Jellyfin admin password and Jellyfin would not let SparkBox in, all you saw was "the password reset command failed", and Tom AI handed the problem on instead of helping. Now you get the reason and the one step that fixes it — most often: if you made your own Jellyfin admin or changed its password inside Jellyfin, tell SparkBox that password with echo 'your-jellyfin-password' | sudo sparkbox reset-password jellyfin --resync, and the reset works from then on.