Jellyfin has plenty of issues with public instances too. It's just the reality of exposing to the public internet, unless it's something that has a lot of dedicated work going into security it's going to have problems.
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Also I use Jellyfin btw.
Oh god, its the new Arch isn't it...
No nix is the new arch.
Lol
Sure explains why Plex was so cagey and uninformative when they emailed everyone to update their servers a couple months back. Not so much as a CVE report or change set.
A vulnerability? No…. 4 of them. And they stack.
I just assumed it was because it lined up with them destroying the GUI, the new layout is the hot garbage that finally got my wife to opt for jellyfin.
That kind of is the proper way to handle this. You don’t want to hint bad actors where to look and give people some time to update.
As someone who has nearly all internet facing software auto update with watchtower nightly my cortisol is so low
You mean watchtower by containrrr? That repo seems archived.
Also, if you don't mind me asking, how does that even work? There is a far from zero chance of potentially breaking changes on any given update, so with auto-updates, do you just accept that something might suddenly stop working, or do you just get notifications that a new version is available and update manually?
If it breaks I either fix it (often it's just an issue where the new version needs extra config added), or roll back to a backup and pin the old version temporarily if it really went wrong and I can't recover otherwise.
Backups run early AM before any auto updates start, and no one is using services and changing data then, so nothing should really ever be lost by rolling back.
I use one of the maintained forks of watchtower.
I use it to auto update within stable versions for things that are reputable enough to not make breaking changes, so nginx, apache, wireguard, traefik, etc. In over 10 years of running Plex I don't think I've experienced a breaking update in the last 5-7 years at least, so I consider it safe enough. Any other software like Immich that I'm not sure if that's safe, I keep it behind a vpn and update manually. But for things as big as nginx especially I feel very safe letting it auto update within a major version.
If you want to expose plex to the open Internet (not a VPN) Don't open the plex port to the internet. Turn off the "remote access" setting and run it behind a reverse proxy instead.
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