Kodi

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