Kodi 22.0a3-Piers

Changelog

Release highlights

• Added support for taglines in TV shows
• Added support for H264 AVCC subtitles
• Added support for full IANA language tags
• Added JSON RPC methods "Player.GetChapters" and "Player.OnPropertyChanged"
• Upgraded FFmpeg to v8.0.1
• Upgraded Python to v3.14.3
• Changed MySQL/MariaDB charset to utf8mb4 and collation to general_ci (case insensitive)

Video

• Improved Blu-ray support for both menus and playback
• Improved TV show episode handling for blu-ray
• Improved changing chapters in movies
• Improved seeking during tempo change

Audio

• Changed default samplerate from 44.1kHz to 48kHz
• Fixed missing 200ms of audio at the start of video playback
• Fixed occasional missing audio when changing playback speed
• Fixed AC3 audio duration being incorrect for non-48KHz content
• Improved handling of low-latency audio

Subtitles

• Fixed handling of WebVTT (ISOBMFF) subtitles
• Fixed PGS/VobSub subtitle selection for foreign audio tracks
• Fixed crash when handling some BCP47 language tags added in Alpha 2

Library

• Improved tagline handling for movies and TV shows

Games

• Added N64 support using software rendering
• Improved shader support
• Fixed Black screen for games with unaligned textures
• Fixed crash when changing resolution

Streaming and network

• Fixed playback of tcp:// streams
• Fixed media info display for strm:// streams
• Fixed occasional errors resuming UPnP playback

Stacks and compressed archives

• Added support for folder stacks, useful for DVD/Bluray folders
• Improved playback of folder stacks
• Improved handling media inside compressed archives
• Fixed handling of zip files greater than 4GB

Profiles

• Improved creating profiles in custom folders
• Fixed deadlock when viewing Weather with multiple profiles
• Highlighted current profile in profile selection dialog

Platforms

Android

• Fixed Auto Frame Rate (AFR) when resuming from standby
• Improved handling of Dolby Vision L5 metadata
• Improved handling of foreign subtitles

webOS Video

• General improvements for Dolby Vision support
• Improved handling of Dolby Vision L5 metadata
• Fixed tempo control

webOS Audio

• Improved audio passthrough support
• Improved volume handling in non-passthrough mode
• Improved Dolby Digital audio when using eARC
• Fixed AAC playback on some older versions of webOS

Windows

• Added front-to-back rendering
• Changed default audio output to XAUDIO and WASAPI
• Fixed Kodi unable to run on Windows 8.1

Linux

• Improved power management for systems without logind
• Extended range of keyboard keys and remote buttons
• Fixed long-pressing keyboard keys on Wayland

FreeBSD

• Extract to disk instead of RAM for large compressed archives

A little love for developers and security researchers

• (For researchers) Dropped some unused code that kept tripping CVEs
• (For developers) New KodiAI app on GitHub
• (For developers) Added support for Visual Studio 2026
• (For developers) Improved compatibility with C++23
• (For developers) Added meson support for building dependencies

Known Issues

• Kodi is incompatible with MySQL 9.6 ('sets' is now a reserved keyword). A fix will be devised for the next v22 prerelease.
• Blu-ray stream details aren't saved in the library