Release summary

Major user-facing changes include:

Video/audio

• Upgraded to FFmpeg 8
• Added HEIF/HEIC support
• Fixed playing streams with more than 256 audio+video+subtitles tracks
• Improved audio channel handling
• Improved subtitle selection for "forced_only" subtitles

Library/Sources and Management

• Added Season Plot
• Added Movie/TV Show Original Language
• Fixed bug in Alpha 1 where scanning fails if local NFO files are present
• Improved Video Version importing

PVR

• Fixed Daylight Saving Time switching issues

Weather

• New Weather Skinning API
• Various fixes and improvements for the Home widget and Weather window

Python

• Upgraded to Python 3.13.7
• Added ability to set available fanart

Platforms

• Windows
  • Multiple Kodi instances can now be run simultaneously
• Android
  • New dialog explaining microphone permission
• macOS
  • Fixed high CPU usage in the background
• LG webOS
  • Improvements for new Media Pipeline
  • Fixed very bright subtitles and GUI when playing HDR / DolbyVision content
  • Fixed subtitles sometimes not displaying

Release Summary

Major user-facing changes include:

Video

• Added HDR support on Xbox One
• Fixed Blu-ray playback on Linux
• Fixed audio/subtitle issues when resuming Blu-rays
• Fixed handling of HDR10 light metadata changes
• Fixed subtitle selection for ISO 639-1 (two-letter) language codes

Library/Sources and Management

• Improved speed of video library rescans
• Fixed multi-episode files overwriting the first episode
• Fixed info dialog for certain Movie Versions
• Fixed some false positives detecting Movie Versions

Music

• Fixed CDDB lookups using Gnudb.org's CDDB API
• Fixed album search failing for artist names

Audio

• Fixed rare Pipewire crash when connecting/removing audio devices

PVR

• Fixed crash when a PVR stream is stopped via remote app

Peripherals

• Added support for Turkish keyboards on Linux
• Fixed enabling and disabling Pulse-Eight CEC adapters
• Fixed the Delete and Alternative Insert keys on macOS
• Fixed minor visual glitches when managing peripherals

Addons

• Fixed updating add-ons after 25 days of inactivity (extended to ~68 years)

Skin/GUI

• Fixed busy dialog crash when multiple dialogs are opened
• Fixed suspend dialog remaining open after the system wakes up
• Improved touch support for slider dialog arrows

Network

• Added support for HTTP Basic Authentication
• Fixed some network streams failing due to interrupted HTTP/2 transfers
• Updated libnfs to v6 for embedded platforms
• Updated CA certificates to 2025-07-15 from the Mozilla CA certificate store

Changelog

Video/audio

• Upgraded to FFmpeg 7
• Blu-ray menu support
• Audio book chapter support
• Movie Versions/Extras full redesign
• Better stream selection
• Automatic cleaning of cached images/artwork

PVR

• New Recently Added Channels (plus new widget)
• New Providers window (requires skin support)
• New Custom Timers
• Improved channel groups
• Improved saved searches
• Improved recording functionality
• Improved EPG search
• 1-minute EPG resolution (requires skin support)

Games

• Shader support (from Google Summer of Code 2017/2019)
• Improved mouse and keyboard support

Performance

• Reduced memory usage for single- and dual-channel textures
• Improved performance and memory usage on OpenGL and OpenGLES

Network

• Improved SMB GUI settings
• Support for SMBv2.0 devices lacking SMBv2.1 features such as "large MTU"
• Fixed connecting to Windows SMB servers with no password
• Drastically improved performance at listing large SMB directories

Platforms

• Windows/Xbox
  • Initial Windows ARM64 desktop support
  • Python 3.13 on Windows/Xbox
  • Enabled XAudio2 sink for Windows desktop (was previously only on Xbox)
  • Enhanced Video Super Resolution feature with 10-bit SDR support (Intel and Nvidia) and HDR10 (Nvidia)
• Android
  • Enabled file sharing to other apps and players
  • Improved channels on the home page
  • Upgraded to Android 15
  • Minimum Android version is now 7.0
  • Android support for 16KB page size
• LG webOS
  • New unified media pipeline
• HDR passthrough on OpenGL (was previously only on OpenGLES)

Peripherals

• Improved OSMC Remote support
• Improved Pulse-Eight CEC Adapter support
• Improved Flirc support

Blog Announcement

Kodi 21.2 "Omega" - Release: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-21-2-omega-release/

Downloads

https://kodi.tv/download/

What's Changed

• [Backport][Windows] Fix crash when audio device not has 'PKEY_Device_EnumeratorName' property by @thexai in #25660
• Backport #25657 (OSMC remote keymapping) by @samnazarko in #25658
• [Backport] Android default buttonmaps and generic controllers by @garbear in #25389
• [Backport][Windows] Fix Discovery of MAC Address by @CrystalP in #25707
• [backport v21] CPUInfo: make sure m_cpuFeatures is initialized by @peat-psuwit in #25715
• [Omega][dvdread] fix warning 'gcc_struct' attribute directive ignored by @ksooo in #25726
• [Omega][video] Video navigation window: Replace context menu items 'Set acto… by @ksooo in #25725
• [Omega][PVR] EPG search fixes by @ksooo in #25741
• [Omega][PVR][video] Fix loading of recording folder resume information. by @ksooo in #25765
• [Omega][PVR] Async EPG update: Fix removal of EPG events notified as 'deleted'. by @ksooo in #25782
• [Omega][PVR] Context menu item 'Stop recording': Fix visibility condition for EPG gap tags by @ksooo in #25783
• [Omega][PVR] Context menu item 'Start recording': Fix to respect other runni… by @ksooo in #25790
• [Omega][PVR] [PVR] Async EPG update: Fix removal of EPG events notified as ' deleted', take 2 by @ksooo in #25796
• [BP][UPnP] Do not scan for external subs for UPnP renderer by @CrystalP in #25830
• [addons] add missing flag to filesystem translation from binary add-ons - Backport by @phunkyfish in #25835
• [partial backport][GUI][GUIDialogSubtitleSettings] Add missing original flag support by @CastagnaIT in #25810
• [backport][CharArrayParser] Skip malformed EOL by @CastagnaIT in #25803
• [backport][DirectoryFactory] Store CFileItem mimetype to CURL, to avoid forced HTTP HEAD requests by @CastagnaIT in #25793
• [Omega][Android] Fix resuming paused media playback not working via play/pau… by @ksooo in #25859
• [BP][Libcdio-gplv3] Fix crash on macOS (upstream patch) by @enen92 in #25833
• [backport][subtitles][libass] Fallback value for no PlayResY by @CastagnaIT in #25881
• [BP] Restore Library Scan Performance by @CrystalP in #25884
• MediaSession: Properly update when pressing stop by @fritsch in #25843
• [backport][msvcrt] Fix buffer overflow due to fixed "var" size by @CastagnaIT in #25880
• [BP][depends] look for android sdk manager under latest subdir by @fuzzard in #25948
• [BP] Shut down gracefully if OpenGL context is not properly set up by @basilgello in #25931
• [backport][GUITextLayout] Removed custom chinese chars line break by @CastagnaIT in #25695
• [VideoPlayer] Make sure process info is updated on close by @enen92 in #26017
• [Backport][video] Preserve special characters in default names of extras by @CrystalP in #25970
• [backport] Add a scaling factor to XBMC_ResizeEvent by @neo1973 in #25996
• [Backport] System Info: Two improvements by @garbear in #26049
• [Backport] Games: Fix $VAR[] and $INFO[] usage in tag by @garbear in #26095
• [Omega][video] Fix default select action 'show info' processing for PVR items. by @ksooo in #26131
• [backport][guilib] Fix bookmark deletion in presence of chapters by @CrystalP in #26081
• [Backport] Games: Fix delay opening context menu on all file items by @garbear in #26088
• [Backport] Port Dialog: Fix resetting daisy-chained controllers by @garbear in #26111
• [Backport] System Info: Add Donate tab and QR codes by @garbear in #26094
• [Omega backport] Change width of XBMC_keysym.scancode member from 8 to 32 bit by @oliver in #26100
• [backport] Include missing includes by @neo1973 in #26139
• [backport] CFile: Handle std::bad_alloc in LoadFile by @neo1973 in #26137
• [Backport][Windows] Add full support for HDR toggle in Windows 11 24H2 by @thexai in #26135
• [BP] apple toolchain fixups by @fuzzard in #26155
• [Backport][MUSIC][AUDIOBOOKS] Fix mka/m4b track durations by @the-black-eagle in #26146
• [Backport][swig] Fix building with swig 4.3.0 by @heitbaum in #26163
• [Backport][Windows] Fix conditions to trigger FFmpeg rebuild by @thexai in #26161
• [Omega] LinuxRendererGLES: enable HDR passthrough for HDR videos with missing or incomplete metadata by @smp79 in #26134
• [backport][Android] Avoid failure when getInterfaceName() method returns null by @joseluismarti in #26151
• [backport] RecursiveMutex: Prevent initialization-order-fiasco of mutex attribute by @neo1973 in #26136
• [Backport] LinuxRendererGL/GLES: improve conditions to enable HDR to SDR tone mapping by @thexai in #26144
• [backport][cmake] do not use distutils in cmake scripts by @hbiyik in #26153
• [backport] egl async rendering fixes by @hbiyik in #26152
• [Backport] RenderManager: improve VideoPicture comparison for HDR by @thexai in #26145
• [Omega][video][music] Fix missing context menu entries for plugin-provided items. by @ksooo in #26172
• [Omega][tools/depends][target] Bump curl 8.10.0 by @blunden in #25849
• [backport] Python: allow building against Python 3.13 by @neo1973 in #26198
• [backport] GLES: disable attribute array when rendering from FBO by @neo1973 in #26199
• [Omega][FileItem] Fix missing dynpath in fileitems restored from disc cache. by @ksooo in #26214
• [Backport][VideoInfoScanner] Fix #25662 - save all tv show and episode actor images in tv show .actors folder. by @78andyp in #26192
• [backport][Android] Mark window dirty on app resume by @joseluismarti in #26226
• [backport][cmake][linux] Fix python modules install location for cross builds by @neo1973 in #26225
• [Backport] Fix segfault on exit if Peripherals dialog is loaded by @garbear in #26200
• [Backport] macOS-inspired controller fixes by @garbear in #26201
• [Backport][tools/depends][target] Bump dav1d 1.4.1 by @thexai in #26147
• [Backport][FileSystem][POSIX] Fix prompt for credentials when browsing SMB files by @thexai in #26179
• [backport][Android TV] fixed cover display for channels by @neo1973 in #26138
• [Backport][Games] Fix handling of zip files in My Games window if vfs.libarchive is installed by @garbear in #26241
• [backport][VideoInfoScanner] Honor importwatchedstate and importresumepoint from AS.xml by @neo1973 in #26177
• [Backport][DVDInputStreamBluray] fix multithreading issue in read_blocks callback by @fritsch in #26267
• [Backport] Fix build with taglib2 by @basilgello in #26279
• [Backport][Addons] Add missing error logging when no supported platforms are provided by @garbear in #26281
• [BACKPORT][MUSIC][AUDIOBOOKS] Fix duration for last track in some mka files by @the-black-eagle in #26282
• [Omega][video] Fix mark watched/unwatched missing in certain context menus. by @ksooo in #26294
• [Omega] Release 21.2 by @garbear in #26259

Full Changelog: 21.1-Omega...v21.2-Omega

What's Changed

• [backport][guilib] Fix two heap-user-after-free by @neo1973 in #24946
• [backport][DllLoader] Remove fstatvfs64 wrapper by @joseluismarti in #24968
• [webinterface.default] Update to 21.x-1.0.1 by @enen92 in #24879
• [backport][MacOS] Handle MediaKey callback in main thread by @enen92 in #24983
• [Omega][video] CGUIDialogVideoManager: Fix master profile database instance … by @ksooo in #24998
• [backport][video] Improve Performance of the "Choose version" dialog by @CrystalP in #25004
• [backport][Android] Fix wake-up when sleeping with active hdmi by @hugbug in #24993
• GBM: fix setting no HDR mode (on SDR display) by @mglae in #24865
• [backport][videoplayer] Fix Playback Delay for Items from uPnP sources by @CrystalP in #25017
• Linux: Use pulseaudio by default again by @fritsch in #25019
• [BP][ffmpeg] Fix stereo upmixing by @sundermann in #25038
• [BP][Xbox] Fix crash when DisplayInformation it's called from other thread by @thexai in #25037
• [backport][GUIDialogSettingsBase] Clean-up owned edit control in FreeControls() by @neo1973 in #25020
• MacOS: Avoid rendering refresh while liveresizing by @enen92 in #25030
• Backport: MediaSession: Update only when something changes by @fritsch in #25041
• [backport][VideoPlayerVideo] Dont require extradata for avc3, avc4 by @CastagnaIT in #24942
• [backport][video] Fix Movie Information Refresh by @CrystalP in #25016
• [backport][guilib] Decouple left/right text truncate from alignment by @CastagnaIT in #24851
• Add System.Platform.WebOS conditional [Omega backport] by @matthuisman in #25074
• [BP] AEStreamInfo: remove spammy EAC3 log line by @thexai in #25108
• [backport][GUITextLayout] Fix text wrap and justify alignment by @CastagnaIT in #25001
• [BP][FileSystem] Fix playback stop when read external SRT subtitles files by @thexai in #25129
• Bump version to 21.0.1 to allow Android install on top of Play Store version by @thexai in #25130
• [BP][Scraper] Set path when scraping filename identifiers by @sundermann in #25150
• [backport] fix gcc-14 compile issues for Omega by @heitbaum in #25107
• [backport]fix loading a video thumb in picture browser by @rmrector in #25138
• [Omega] game.controller.keyboard: Update to version 1.1.43 by @garbear in #25152
• [Backport] [GUI] Move dialog settings button and control ID range by @Hitcher in #25169
• [Omega][PVR] Timer settings dialog: Fix selection of current channel, for ex… by @ksooo in #25190
• [Omega][PVR] Fix crash on creation of epg-based reminder rule with 'any channel'… by @ksooo in #25192
• [Omega] Fix loading ISO files on Android arm-v7a by @joseluismarti in #25156
• [backport][GUIFontTTF] Fix regressions on centered GUI text by @CastagnaIT in #25168
• [backport][GUI] Fix network link status in system info by @joseluismarti in #25220
• [bp] fix typo: [cleanup] convert defines to functions by @howie-f in #25181
• [backport][wayland] Treat monitor physical width/height of 0 as invalid by @j-piecuch in #25235
• [BP] Fix rare random audio dropouts in some TrueHD sources (passthrough) by @thexai in #25238
• [Backport][Video] Fix Episode NFO parsing error (introduced in #24565). by @78andyp in #25201
• [BP] FileCache: fix unnecessary use of StreamBuffer when is used FileCache by @thexai in #25251
• [Omega][PVR] CPVRChannelGroupFromClient::UpdateFromClients: Update from own … by @ksooo in #25271
• [Backport] [Joysticks] Fix mapping PS4 trigger analog semiaxes by @garbear in #25225
• [Backport][Input] Fix Persian keyboard layout by @joseluismarti in #25249
• [Omega][settings] Fix empty heading of input dialogs (keyboard, number, ...)… by @ksooo in #25283
• [Omega][video] VideoSelectActionProcessor: On ACTION_INFO, if the item has n… by @ksooo in #25287
• [BP][FileSystem] limit SMB chunk size to 64 KB for SMBv1 by @thexai in #25295
• [Omega][PVR] Timer settings dialog: When creating new timer rules without an… by @ksooo in #25302
• [Backport]Rendering: drop markwindow dirty after setrendergui change by @enen92 in #25165
• [build] fix missing include by @howie-f in #25320
• fixed: infinite loop parsing an invalid moving speed config by @notspiff in #25322
• [Backport] new TrueHD MAT packer code + move TrueHD packing to CDVDAudioCodecPassthrough by @thexai in #25312
• [Backport] [Android] Allow setting the VideoLayout view to transparent color by @quietvoid in #25335
• [Omega][PVR] CPVRClient: Request TV groups and members only if the addon sup… by @ksooo in #25333
• [BP][tools/depends] Bump rust 1.79 and add Cargo.lock files by @fuzzard in #25342
• [backport][CharsetConverter] Fix crash if iconv returns EINVAL by @enen92 in #25350
• [backport] Tuple: fix warning maybe-uninitialized by @vpeter4 in #25381
• [backport] libUPnP: Fix memory allocation of size 0 by @vpeter4 in #25375
• [backport][Windows] Fix rx6400 detection by @CrystalP in #25369
• [Omega] Python: Restore close of WindowXML when application exits by @garbear in #25399
• [Omega] Python: Fix hang at application shutdown by @garbear in #25400
• [Backport][AudioEngine] Make a smarter choice between PulseAudio and PipeWire by @neo1973 in #25252
• [Omega] [PVR] Fix Reminders update special cases by @ksooo in #25469
• [Omega] [video| Fix bookmarks db persistence by @ksooo in https://github.com//pull/25470
• [Omega][video] Do not show video info dialog if item has an empty video info tag by @ksooo in #25489
• Don't change fileending to png - Backport by @razzeee in #25484
• Fix typo in strings.po by @Hitcher in #25490
• [backport][videodb][videoversion] Fix Leaks on Movie / Asset Removal by @CrystalP in #25462
• [Backport] Fix missing subtitle help tips by @Hitcher in #25492
• [backport][FileItem] Fix mimetype content lookup regression by @CastagnaIT in #25477
• [backport][DVDFactorySubtitle] Improved ASS format detection by @CastagnaIT in #25455
• [Backport][DirectSound] Fix buffer underrun for Bluetooth audio devices by @thexai in #25511
• [backport][GUI][X11] Fix deadlock on dialog renderloop by @enen92 in #25451
• [PVR] Group Manager: Do not show hidden channels in list of ungrouped… by @ksooo in #25550
• [Backport][Estuary] Fix watched icons for episodes & sets by @jjd-uk in #25554
• [BP] Bump Android SDK 34 + AGP 8.1 by @fuzzard in #25583
• [backport] KeyboardTranslator: Fix call to StringUtils::ToLower by @neo1973 in #25572
• [MUSIC] Fix separators so that artist sortnames split correctly by @the-black-eagle in #25557
• [Omega][PVR] Fix major design flaw to use std::hash value as persistent client UID by @ksooo in #25594
• [Omega][video] Change select action choose implementation to open the full context menu of the item… by @ksooo in #25596
• [Omega] Show "Maximum rewind time" on basic level by @garbear in #25585
• [Omega][video][windows] Fix videos provided by plugins not played from info … by @ksooo in #25611
• [backport] TestConversionMatrix: Add missing <iomanip> include by @neo1973 in #25627
• [cmake][addons] Dont quote variable passed to externalproject_add by @fuzzard in #25628
• [Omega] Release 21.1 by @fuzzard in #25620

Full Changelog: 21.0-Omega...21.1-Omega

What's Changed

• Complete list of changes can be viewed at 20.0-Nexus...21.0-Omega
• [guilib][EditControl] Improved rendering of label texts by @CastagnaIT in #22691
• SavestateFlatBuffer: Remove forward declararion of FlatBufferBuilder by @neo1973 in #23332
• [macos][nativewindowing] Suport HiDPI (retina) displays by @enen92 in #23259
• Add .gradle directory to .gitignore by @joseluismarti in #23339
• [platform] macOS,iOS: Add speech recognition and microphone usage des… by @ksooo in #23337
• [subtitles] Avoid calls to virtual methods on destructor by @enen92 in #23343
• [webOS] Audio sink improvements by @sundermann in #23295
• [buildsteps] osx-arm add test execution by @fuzzard in #23349
• depends/libmicrohttpd: bump to the new version by @Karlson2k in #23342
• [Windows] Add DXVA Video Super Resolution upscaler by @thexai in #23336
• Translations update from Kodi Weblate by @weblate in #23330
• Sync of addon metadata translations by @github-actions in #23356
• [guillib] Handle Page Up/Down/Home/End in settings / CGUIControlGroupList by @CrystalP in #22894
• [Buildsteps] Use xcode 14.2 and relevant SDK's for Apple platforms by @fuzzard in #23348
• [depends] Update flatbuffers to 23.3.3 and raise min OSX version to 10.14 by @neo1973 in #23266
• SysfsPath: Have CSysfsPath::Get() return a std::optional because reads can fail by @neo1973 in #23283
• CAppParamParserLinux: add --audio-backend= switch by @lrusak in #23148
• [Depends][native] Bump cmake 3.26.4 by @fuzzard in #23322
• [macos][nativewindow] Support fullscreen move / Fix display lost by @enen92 in #23335
• [Windows] DXVA: check if HDR10 color spaces are supported by video processor by @thexai in #23358
• CTextureBundleXBT: return std::optional by @lrusak in #23168
• threads: linux: simplify setting thread priority by @lrusak in #23227
• TextureFormats.h: use XB_FMT as an enum by @lrusak in #23240
• [Windows] remove unnecessary log for Intel without super resolution scaler support by @CrystalP in #23372
• Maintain the selection position after end of playback / watched status change by @CrystalP in #23311
• [Estuary] Reset 1110_seekbar timer on seeks by @enen92 in #23380
• AudioTrack: Check Head Movement to detect stuck sinks by @fritsch in #23375
• [PVR] Timer settings dialog: Set certain settings to default on change of timer type by @ksooo in #23384
• [tools/depends][target] fix removed download target by @fuzzard in #23379
• [Windowing] Fix regression for resolution label by @enen92 in #23371
• [Windows] HLG > PQ HDR Playback Fixes by @CrystalP in #23362
• [video] Fix watched/unwatched filter not working when creating playli… by @ksooo in #23394
• Pipewire: Catch exceptions in CPipewire::Create() by @neo1973 in #23282
• [Estuary] Also start timer (with reset) on seeks by @enen92 in #23399
• [Windows][dxva] Disable processor tone mapping for AMD and HDR to HDR by @CrystalP in #23404
• [Windows] Add render method information to the debug OSD by @CrystalP in #23377
• [Omega] Alpha 2 by @fuzzard in #23407
• Native Flatbuffers update and minor cmake module update by @fuzzard in #23395
• [tools/depends][target] config.site remove PYTHON_VERSION variable by @fuzzard in #23378
• [Android][cmake] adjust macros according to the API we are targeting by @joseluismarti in #23414
• [Windows][dxva] refactor video processor code by @CrystalP in #23408
• [windows] Distinguish between host/native download/tools for windows build by @fuzzard in #23409
• [tools/depends][native] texturepacker update and use cmake to build by @fuzzard in #23396
• [Windows] Remove workaround for Video Super Resolution by @thexai in #23416
• [PVR] Dynamic timer types: Update timer types from client whenever a … by @ksooo in #23393
• [windows] remove doxygen from native dep list by @fuzzard in #23418
• [skin, gui] Look for definitions in xml files in /fonts directory by @smfontes in #22993
• [windows] Dont ship vswhere executable by @fuzzard in #23425
• [Windows][dxva] Test support of the video processor for SDR to SDR conversion by @CrystalP in #23423
• [Windows][deps] Bump libass to 0.17.1 by @CastagnaIT in #23420
• [Windows] Add "Graphics" log component for Direct3D by @CrystalP in #23422
• [Windowing] Make HiDPI more generic/platform agnostic by @enen92 in #23410
• Build jsonschemabuilder for all platforms from source by @fuzzard in #23419
• [cmake] TexturePacker: don't force static libraries by @lrusak in #23428
• Windowing: fix dialog confirmation not showing when moving fullscreen… by @enen92 in #23432
• [macOS] Default to nativewindowing by @enen92 in #23438
• [Windows] DXVAHD: simplifies parameters in CProcessorHD::Open() by @thexai in #23440
• [Android] Remove unnecessary if and use MediaFormat constants by @joseluismarti in #23442
• Translations update from Kodi Weblate by @weblate in #23370
• Sync of addon metadata translations by @github-actions in #23446
• [Subtitles] Add support to font collection (.ttc) by @CastagnaIT in #23429
• [Subtitles][libass] Enable bidi brackets for adapted subs by @CastagnaIT in #23421
• [Windows] Setting for high precision processing / HDR tone mapping by @CrystalP in #23359
• [Android] Prefer Google raw decoder over MediaTek on old Android devices by @joseluismarti in #23447
• [Windows] refactor DXGI_FORMAT to std::string for Debug Info OSD by @thexai in #23456
• [Windows] refactor Video Super Resolution by @CrystalP in #23458
• [video] Fix auto play next video not working from inside video info dialog by @ksooo in #23460
• [clang-tidy] fix performance-* warnings by @Rechi in #22812
• [Windows] Remove unused code in DeviceResources.cpp by @thexai in #23464
• [Windows] remove unused extra frame rate doubling for interlaced resolutions in CVideoSyncD3D by @CrystalP in #23463
• [PVR] Fix some CPPCheck and clang-tidy warnings by @ksooo in #23459
• [input] remove unused tinyxml usage in InputCodineTableFactory by @fuzzard in #23465
• [Windows] Fix: show 119.88Hz and future higher fractional refresh rates correctly by @CrystalP in #23461
• [addons] fix debug assert because of non-deterministic comparison of dependencies by @CrystalP in #23469
• Revert "[Android][cmake] adjust macros according to the API we are targeting" by @joseluismarti in #23475
• [video] Take 2 to fix auto play next video not working from inside video info dialog. by @ksooo in #23474
• [music][video] Context menu play items: Set playlist_type_hint before… by @ksooo in #23478
• [Estuary] Reset timer as long as the osd is shown by @enen92 in #23476
• Peripheral API v3.0.1: Expose keyboard/mouse types to add-on by @garbear in #23468
• [Windows] RetroPlayer: Fix blue/pink washed out colors on 10-bit displays by @garbear in #23467
• [guilib][vfs][imagecache] Load video thumbnail images into texture cache when viewed, like standard images by @rmrector in #23134
• [Windows] Remove unused variables by @thexai in #23491
• [Windows][dxva] refactor CProcessorHD/CEnumeratorHD to remove direct access to the D3D enumerator interfaces by @CrystalP in #23484
• [macos][nativewindowing] Check and update monitor setting on startup by @enen92 in https://github.com/xbmc/x...

What's Changed

• [BP][macOS] fall back to legacy OpenGL profile on NSOpenGLContext creation error #24822 by @kambala-decapitator in #24823
• [BP][cmake] UWP fix escaping generate-UWP-pythonfix script by @fuzzard in #24839
• [BP][tools/depends] LLVM15 support - reduce errors to warnings by @fuzzard in #24840
• Install scalable svg icon by @razzeee in #24853
• [Omega][video] Fix regression when playing deleted movie. by @ksooo in #24863
• [Omega] RC2 by @fuzzard in #24848

Full Changelog: 21.0rc1-Omega...21.0rc2-Omega

What's Changed

• Fix player controls by @Hitcher in #24715
• [Settings] Fix Read Factor displayed as 0.0x in logs when setting value is "Adaptive" by @thexai in #24722
• [Android] Fix Zip Path Traversal vulnerability by @joseluismarti in #24730
• Add branding color to metainfo for linux by @razzeee in #24734
• [Android] Remove unused code and improve extraction of the apk file by @joseluismarti in #24735
• [FileSystem] Fix: not use CFileStreamBuffer in all network files by @thexai in #24733
• [plugins] Ignore fileaction (play) if item is not playable... by @enen92 in #24743
• macos: remove dead code by @enen92 in #24759
• [Android] zipAlignEnabled has been deprecated for a while by @joseluismarti in #24761
• [MUSIC] Get correct duration of stream from FFMPEG for audiobook chap… by @the-black-eagle in #24732
• [guiinfo] Fix LISTITEM_LABEL for movies with multiple versions only … by @ksooo in #24753
• VideoPlayer: Reset stale stream times after a flush by @popcornmix in #24748
• MacOS: Implement hotkeycontroller to fix exclusive mediakey usage by @enen92 in #24765
• [Android] Use compileSdk, minSdk and targetSdk by @joseluismarti in #24778
• [Android] Adjustments in manifest file by @joseluismarti in #24781
• AESinkPipewire: Properly identify HDMI devices by @fritsch in #24740
• [Windows] Fix inaccurate 10-bit SDR / HDR color using Pixel Shaders by @thexai in #24739
• Fix regression for play actions by @enen92 in #24789
• [VideoPlayer] Fix initial interlaced stream refresh rate switch by @CrystalP in #24785
• [video] fix selection after changing video or extra art by @CrystalP in #24792
• [PVR] Channel Manager: Fix refresh channel icons; old icons still shown after refresh. by @ksooo in #24793
• [video] fix selected item after removing version/extra by @CrystalP in #24791
• [doc] Fix incorrect tag name for the disabled slider bar texture by @CrystalP in #24804
• Bump androidx.tvprovider:tvprovider by @joseluismarti in #24805
• [video] remove unused string by @CrystalP in #24807
• [Docs] Fix doxygen references for cutlist deprecation by @enen92 in #24801
• [Android] Adjust GUI SRD peak luminance when display is in HDR PQ mode by @thexai in #24756
• Store streamed video subtitle on custom subtitles path if defined by user by @hagaygo in #24752
• [Omega] Release RC1 by @fuzzard in #24783

New Contributors

• @hagaygo made their first contribution in #24752

Full Changelog: 21.0b3-Omega...21.0rc1-Omega

What's Changed

• [Backport] Revert Android joystick fixes by @garbear in #24708
• [Backport] Android: add colorMode config to .Main activity in AndroidManifest.xml by @matthuisman in #24711
• AESinkAudioTrack: Help broken firmwares to make kodi ignore broken delay by @fritsch in #24729
• [backport] Allow to build with taglib-2.0 by @neo1973 in #24772
• Add branding color to metainfo for linux by @razzeee in #24774
• [backport] EGLUtils: Fix nullptr usage in EglErrorCallback by @neo1973 in #24773
• [Nexus] Release 20.5 by @fuzzard in #24782

Full Changelog: 20.4-Nexus...20.5-Nexus

What's Changed

• [GUI] [Skins] Bump skins backwards-compatibility abi to 5.17.0 by @jjd-uk in #23927
• Network: dns lookup can return an IPv6 address by @joseluismarti in #24209
• [UPnP] Fix crash when adding UPnP source while UPnP is disabled by @neo1973 in #24215
• [groovy] Remove bundled groovy/apache commons binaries by @fuzzard in #24199
• [DllLibCurl][TestXBMCTinyXML2] Fix memory leaks by @neo1973 in #24211
• [Estuary] Fix shift view overlay by @jjd-uk in #24217
• [VideoVersion] Improved the same video detection by @xodidox in #24157
• [Windows] Fix chroma upsampling for software render method by @CrystalP in #24222
• [video] Video Versions Playback: Fixes and Cleanup by @ksooo in #24224
• [Windows] Fix chroma upsampling for pixel shaders render method by @CrystalP in #24221
• [video] Video versions: Add context menu item "Play using..." and "Play version using..." by @ksooo in #24234
• [Windows] fix chroma upscaling with software render method v2 by @CrystalP in #24237
• [application] Fix a race condition on CApplicationPlayerCallback::m_itemCurrentFile by @dobo90 in #23710
• [info] Deprecated Process and Colour picture/slideshow infos by @enen92 in #24218
• [video][guilib][input] Change video versions and extra selection to use Kodi's stock select dialog by @ksooo in #24249
• [video] CVideoInfoTag: Remove CVideoDataBase dependency. by @ksooo in #24253
• [Estuary] Fix video version dialog 'add extras' and 'add version' button not always visible. by @ksooo in #24260
• [video] Video version select: Hide extras/versions button if no extras/versions available. by @ksooo in #24261
• [UPnP] Fix playback restore after pause by @enen92 in #24257
• [guilib][GUIFadeLabelControl] Fix text right alignment by @CastagnaIT in #24266
• Fix compiler warning in BlurayCallback.cpp by @garbear in #24265
• [VideoPlayer] Call EnableStream when playback start disabled subtitles by @CastagnaIT in #24186
• [info] Add Player.IsRemote and Player.IsExternal by @enen92 in #24268
• [cmake] FindFFMPEG refactor target creation by @fuzzard in #24241
• Fix potential segfault when missing "layoutList" element by @garbear in #24242
• [Estuary] Hide next if conditions for next don't met by @enen92 in #24270
• [UPnP] Move Player to its own thread by @enen92 in #24262
• [UPnP] Player: Make hasvideo and hasaudio conditional on the item type by @enen92 in #24272
• [Discs][UPnP] Don't show simplified menu if playing to remote players by @enen92 in #24273
• [RSS] Fix parsing logic by @neo1973 in #24231
• [Windows] Fix chroma upsampling for AMD dxva processor and 10 bit output of SDR sources by @CrystalP in #24227
• [VideoDB] fix movie title index creation and version bump by @CrystalP in #24226
• Fix edge case when downloading subtitles for http(s) streams by @Pedrock in #24252
• [Estuary] Fix selected colours by @Hitcher in #24256
• [Estuary] Make all views consistent with PR#24168 by @Hitcher in #24258
• [UPnP] Player: Add option to avoid volume synchronization to target by @enen92 in #24263
• [tvOS] Fix binary addons (PVR) multi instance settings reset by @sy6sy2 in #24259
• [UPnP] Fix playlist playback on remote players by @enen92 in #24274
• [UPnP] Remove unuseful code block plus strong dependency on CApp by @enen92 in #24275
• [Settings] Disable video version scan by @jjd-uk in #24279
• [Estuary] Fix collection info layout by @Hitcher in #24254
• [UPnP] Assorted include cleanups by @enen92 in #24281
• [Estuary][GUI] Do not activate fullscreen window if rendering video to remote targets (UPnP) by @enen92 in #24280
• [video] Video version dialog: Fix artwork refresh. by @ksooo in #24282
• [video] Video Version Dialog Cleanup by @ksooo in #24290
• [video] Video version dialog: Fix wrong item played. by @ksooo in #24292
• [ContextMenus] Don't show move up/down if single favourite by @enen92 in #24298
• [dialogs] Fix CGUIDialogSubtitleSettings::BrowseForSubtitle to use it… by @ksooo in #24303
• [Pictures] Implement Slideshow delegator design pattern by @enen92 in #24291
• [ContextMenus][PVR] Do not show play using for live tv by @enen92 in #24297
• [UPnP] Access to g_UserData must be protected by @enen92 in #24296
• [video][Estuary] Separate video versions from video extras at GUI level by @ksooo in #24302
• [video] Versions/Extras Manage Dialogs: Selection improvements by @ksooo in #24316
• [video] Fix crash on strm file playback. by @ksooo in #24318
• [video] Fix playback of multi-version movies. Do not prompt for versi… by @ksooo in #24327
• Update some video versions messages by @CrystalP in #24326
• [video] Cleanup translation of versions/extras dialog messages by @CrystalP in #24332
• [Estuary] Fix button visibility in video versions manager by @Hitcher in #24325
• [cmake] FindTagLib Add version test for internal build by @fuzzard in #24313
• [video] Video versions select dialog: Highlight default version in list of versions by @ksooo in #24336
• [video] Fix no video information available when playing strm files, … by @ksooo in #24333
• [video][dialogs] Video versions: Fix delay before "Convert to version" video select dialog opens by @ksooo in #24331
• [depends][Windows] msys2 fixes and update to 20231026 by @CrystalP in #24133
• [tools/depends][target] Bump Harfbuzz + Android NDK26+ build fixes by @fuzzard in #24312
• [guilib][GUITextBox] Use vecText to determine text width by @CastagnaIT in #24315
• [InputStreamAddon] Fix memory leak by @neo1973 in #24214
• [GUI] Fix focus behaviour when scrolling to the bottom of the panel by @joseluismarti in #24232
• [Pictures] Fix exif parsing regression from v19 by @enen92 in #24344
• [video] Separate video versions and extras items by @ksooo in #24340
• Translations update from Kodi Weblate by @weblate in #24230
• Sync of addon metadata translations by @github-actions in #24357
• [video] Video Versions/Extras: More smaller cleanup and fixes by @ksooo in #24356
• [Estuary] Update versions icon for views by @Hitcher in #24317
• [CACerts] Update to 2023-12-12 by @fuzzard in #24361
• Support build with taglib-2.0 by @heitbaum in #24339
• [Video] Improve default folder for "Add Extra" file picker by @CrystalP in #24362
• [video] Remove context menu item 'Add as version to...' by @ksooo in #24365
• [Videodb] Fix of previous data migration and refactors by @CrystalP in #24370
• [video] Video Versions: Fix empty context menu item label. by @ksooo in #24373
• [Estuary] Better visual indicator of focused item by @Hitcher in #24323
• [Android] Fix audio engine initialisation after sleep by @hugbug in #24369
• langinfo.xml: Change Canadian shortdate format to YYYY-MM-DD by @neo1973 in #24328
• [Pictures addons] support Date Taken sort for pics decoded via addons by @rubpa in #24307
• [Video] Redesign of the "Add version" dialog of Manage versions by @CrystalP in #24364
• [UPnP] Renderer: use app messenger instead of calling into g_App by @enen92 in #24376
• [video] Fix/cleanup: We never want to obtain all video versions and all extras at the same time. by @ksooo in #24387
• [video] Movies window: Movies/Versions node: Context menu f...