SparkBox patches — Tue Oct 20, 2026
Posted by Chris
SparkBox releases shipped on Tue Oct 20, 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: Mon Oct 19, 2026 · Sun Oct 18, 2026 · Sat Oct 17, 2026 · Fri Oct 16, 2026 · Thu Oct 15, 2026 · Wed Oct 14, 2026 · Tue Oct 13, 2026 v1.6.990 — A new Media Center is no longer left half set up; Plex's setup no longer ends on an empty home screen - On some new installs, Media Center's automatic setup stopped part way: Jellyfin was set up, but its login was not saved and Seerr was never signed in, while the dashboard already said Media Center was installed. The setup no longer depends on the step that failed, tries that step again when it is needed, and the checkup now says when the first setup stopped and what to run: sudo sparkbox up media. - After you claim Plex, SparkBox no longer makes Plex's Movies and TV Shows libraries by itself for now. Libraries made that way did not show on Plex's home screen or in its sidebar, so Plex's setup ended on "Your home screen is empty". Add your libraries in Plex's own setup as before (Movies is /data/Movies, TV is /data/TV). If SparkBox already made them for you, they are there: in Plex, open More in the sidebar and pin Movies and TV Shows. - The VPN guides no longer quote a dated monthly price for Surfshark; they describe the deal the way Surfshark's own page does (a discount plus 4 extra months free). v1.6.991 — Switching on a Jellyfin plugin in Media Center settings installs it - Switching on Jellyfin Enhanced or Intro Skipper in Media Center's settings and pressing Save restarted the media apps, but the plugin never arrived and nothing said why. The plugin is now installed a minute or two after Save, and Jellyfin restarts once to load it. If you switched one on before this update, it installs the next time the media apps restart, for example after sudo sparkbox restart media. For Jellyfin Enhanced, press Ctrl+Shift+R once on Jellyfin's page in your browser afterwards (Cmd+Shift+R on a Mac). v1.6.992 — Tom AI no longer offers a fix that can't reach the blocked folders inside your library - When the checkup said your apps can't write into some folders inside your library (usually folders copied in by your NAS's own account or from Windows), Tom AI offered its one-click media permissions fix, which never changes folders that already hold your files. It then said your library was writable while upgrades, renames and imports into those folders kept failing. Tom AI now tells you to run sudo sparkbox check-media-perms over SSH instead: it names the blocked folders and prints the one command that lets your apps write there on your box. v1.6.993 — The new Media page is on your box, switched off while it is tested - A new Media page is coming: search for a movie or show and request it, follow each request while it downloads with the time left, press Play when it is ready, and see in plain words why something has not arrived, with a fix button where SparkBox already has a safe one. This release puts it on your box switched off while it is tested, so nothing on your box changes yet. - If you choose to share crash reports, they now include less of the address of the page that was open.