Kodi: download ældre versioner

The more observant of you will have noticed that we've had some issues getting this version out to everyone, so some of you will have received this already depending on what channel you use (Flatpak, Google Play, winget community repos...). No matter, it's here for everyone now.
While work is well underway on our next major release, with Alphas already out for Kodi 22.x "Piers", this doesn't mean we've given up on 21.x "Omega", as that's very much still our current release. So, with minimal fanfare, we present to you a package of changes, bug fixes and backports that we like to call Kodi 21.3 "Omega". Full changelog from 21.2 here.

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

*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 we 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)
Video
- Fixed HDR passthrough on video sources with partial or missing display metadata (only GL/GLES platforms) (PR)
- Fixed HDR to SDR tone mapping on video sources with partial or missing display metadata (only GL/GLES platforms) (PR)
- Fixed possible incorrect picture metadata if playing different HDR videos without stopping the previous one and the videos had different HDR metadata (all platforms) (PR)
- Fixed on Blu-Ray discs some BD-j menu items not displaying correctly due to multi-thread timing issues (PR)
- Fixed deletion of bookmarks in video if the video has also chapters (PR)
Music
- Fixed an issue with the last track duration of some albums stored in mka containers (PR)
Plugins
- Fixed missing context menu entries for plugin-provided items (PR)
Filesystem
- Restored the ability of enter credentials when browsing SMB shares (only POSIX platforms) (PR)
- Updated cURL to 8.10.0 to fix issues with FTP TLS sources (PR)
PVR
- EPG search fixes (PR)
- Fixed resume points for recordings not honoured (PR)
- Fixed 'User has no access / server' error if broadcasts have been shifted (PR)
- Fixed default select action 'show info' for PVR items (PR)
Skin/GUI
- Added Donation tab in System Settings (PR)
- In preparation for our next major release, we've been updating the translation strings in all 78 of our binary add-ons (audio, inputstream, peripheral, screensaver, vfs, visualisation...). These updates have now all been backported to this release, so there's a bonus of a year's worth of fixes and improvements here.
Android
- 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)
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