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Kodi 21.2 Omega has now been released available for Windows, Mac, and iOS and Android platforms.
Kodi is often the best open source media software, and the team has just revealed that the second version of Kodi 21 Omega is already accessible.
a significant update to this multi-award winning, free, open-source, cross-platform home theater/media center software and digital media entertainment hub.
*UPDATE FOR WINDOWS USERS: If you're experiencing crashes since this update was released, please read the note at the end of this post about updating your Visual C++ runtime.*
New Year, New Kodi? Not quite, but here Kodi Team go with the next point release of the 21.x "Omega" series.
The usual story: bugfixes, not features. The full changelog can be found on Github, as usual.
Release Summary:
Major user-facing changes include:
Library/Sources and Management
Fixed a bug that ignored images in the ...\season\.actors folder. The \season\.actors folders have been deprecated and all actors are saved in the \TV Show\.actors folder. (forum, PR)
Restore performance of movie addition to the library to v20 (Nexus) level (PR)
Fixed/improved playback from some UPnP server software (at least UMS and Gerbera. Some NAS UPnP servers are based on UMS under the covers). Playback starts faster and multiple videos can be played consecutively. (PR)
Preserve special characters in names of scanned or added movie extras (PR)
Replace context menu items 'Set actor/artist thumb' with 'Choose art' to make it possible again to add/and set other artwork, not only thumbnails (PR)
Fixed mark watched/unwatched operations missing in certain context menus (PR)
Honour importwatchedstate and importresumepoint settings from advancedsettings.xml (PR)
Greatly improved joystick support on Android (PR) Fixed possible crash when getInterfaceName method returns null (PR) Fixed resuming paused media playback not working via play/pause media key press (PR) Fixed black screen when resuming app from minimised state (PR) Linux Fixed memory corruption when high quality video scalers are used (PR).
Fixed possible infinite loop when using GBM and a DRM Atomic Commit fails (PR)
Fixed windowed Kodi becoming larger on every start when running on Wayland with a scale factor (PR) OSX.
Fixed crash when trying to detect optical media (PR) Windows Fixed the crash issue that occurred when accessing the computer using Remote Desktop Protocol (PR).
Fixed the ability of the built-in WOL feature to wake up servers (PR).
Fixed the potential crash occurred when the system contained environment variables name with a length of more than 64 characters (PR).
Fixed HDR feature did not work on Windows 11 24H2 under some circumstances (PR) Improved support for WCG displays on Windows 11 24H2 (PR).