Kodi 22.0b1-Piers

Changelog

Video

• Upgraded to FFmpeg 8.1.2
• Added live bitrate infolabels
• Improved accuracy for chapter changes
• Improved handling of chapters read by FFmpeg
• Improved tempo settings
• Integrated bookmarks into forward/backward skip
• Fixed seeking during 1.6x tempo
• Fixed AV1 playback with keyframe-filtering=2
• Fixed broken OSD for DVDs after Alpha 3

Audio

• Fixed possible crash during DTS-HD audio playback
• Fixed audio delay for live TV with AC3/EAC3 passthrough

Subtitles

• Subtitle visibility improvements
• Subtitle timing improvements
• Fixed handling of ASS/SSA script headers
• Shows the codec of the current subtitle of the playing video

Library

• Added "Media Details" dialog
• Added audio language to media item badges
• Added additional HDR formats to the UI
• Fixed duplicate taglines in the library view
• Fixed various stream detail issues
• Improved Bluray handling for .nfo files
• Improved Bluray playcount handling
• Improved stacking for movie/folder path names with roman numerals
• Fixed handling of more complex episode ranges
• Improved Movie Version scanning behavior
• Improved media badges

Music

• Fixed several issues for CUE sheets
• Fixed several audiobook issues
• Fixed rescanning music items

PVR

• Improved daily wake-up timer

Games

• Added new Disc Manager
• Fixed possible crash when changing resolution
• Fixed M3U handling for multi-disc games
• Fixed transparency when choosing video filters
• Added ability for Amiga controllers to autoconnect
• Added "Select" button for Amiga controllers

Network

• Fixed NFSv4 file creation with atomic O_EXCL flag
• Fixed possible crash when a JSON-RPC TCP client disconnects
• Fixed parsing NFS URL options
• Fixed reading DVD folders on NFS
• Fixed SMB session exhaustion (Windows desktop is limited to 20 connections)
• Extended the JSON-RPC method Textures.GetTextures to report texture status
• Fixed potential XSS and open redirects in the web UI

Databases

• Fixed incompatibility with MySQL 9.6 and above
• Fixed incompatibility with MariaDB 10.x remote databases
• Fixed possible crash when MySQL server is temporarily unavailable

Inputstream add-ons

• Added HDR, color metadata, 10-bit and 12-bit to Inputstream add-ons
• Fixed non-encrypted streams in Inputstream add-ons

Peripherals

• Improved CEC handling (product of DevCon 2026 outside Barcelona)
• Fixed crash when rapidly hotplugging Linux joysticks

Profiles

• Fixed possible crash switching to a profile that has never been used before
• Fixed migrations across different profiles

Skinning

• Blocked clicks on disabled buttons
• Small tweaks to default Estuary skin
• Fixed nested label formatting
• Fixed scrolling text speed scaling with display resolution
• Fixes for skin reloading for skin developers
• Improved HDR profile support
• Added skin setting for showing original/localised movie titles

Python

• Upgraded to Python 3.14.6
• Fixed addVideoStream(), addAudioStream() and addSubtileStream()

Platforms

Android

• Fixed crash when using voice recognition
• Fixed general app failures due to JNI exception
• Fixed crash when starting Zeroconf browser
• Fixed error when running "Library > Clean library" in settings

Linux (general)

• Increased support for remote keys

Embedded Linux (DRM, GBM, and GLES)

• Substantial rewrite of Linux rendering
• Brings GLES to feature parity with GL
• Added full HDR end-to-end support (decode, colorimetry, tonemapped GUI, and 10-bit output)
• Added 12-bit decoding support
• Added dithering and HQ scalers for GLES
• Added "auto" dithering mode (GLES-only)
• Added YUV 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 support
• Added VAAPI hardware decoding of HEVC 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 (GLES-only)
• Improved video performance
• Improved GUI appearance in HDR mode
• Expanded hardware support, especially for ARM devices
• Fixed BT.2020 colorimetry signalling for DP-HDMI dongles
• Fixed numerous "limited-range" video black-level issues

webOS

• Fixed screensaver enabling during playback on webOS 4
• Fixed playback on webOS 26
• Fixed forced aspect ratio playback

tvOS

• Improved Siri Remote playback controls

Developers

• Fixed build failure with Visual Studio 2026 18.6.0 (May 2026 Update)
• Change minimum required FFmpeg version from 8.1.0 to 8.1.1
• Warning for case-sensitive filesystem users: a filename was corrected, and may cause git errors

Known issues

• On some GBM/GLES platforms, fullscreen video may show stale or flickering overlay graphics