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Features

  • Plays virtually all audio and video formats
  • Network playback with streaming from local or internet sources
  • Automatic library creation with artwork, descriptions and fanart

Recent releases

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21.3-Omega Bug fix
Notable features
  • Added HDR support on Xbox One
  • Improved speed of video library rescans
  • Fixed multi-episode files overwriting the first episode
Full changelog

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

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