winget install --id XBMCFoundation.KodiAbout Kodi
Kodi is a free and open source media player application developed by the Kodi Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium. Kodi is available for multiple operating-systems and hardware platforms, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet.
What's new in 21.3.0.0
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 glitche...
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 21.3.0.0 | Unknown | 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... |
| 21.2.0.0 | Unknown | *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 g... |
| 21.1.0.0 | Unknown | No notes |
| 21.0.0.0 | Unknown | No notes |
| 20.5.0.0 | Unknown | No notes |
| 20.4.0.0 | Unknown | No notes |
| 20.3.0.0 | Unknown | No notes |
| 20.1.0.0 | Unknown | No notes |
| 20.0.0.0 | Unknown | No notes |
| 19.4.0.0 | Unknown | No notes |
| 19.3.0.0 | Unknown | No notes |
| 19.2.0.0 | Unknown | No notes |
| 19.1.0.0 | Unknown | No notes |
| 19.0.0.0 | Unknown | No notes |
| 18.9.0.0 | Unknown | No notes |
| 18.8.0.0 | Unknown | No notes |
| 18.7.0.0 | Unknown | No notes |
| 18.6.0.0 | Unknown | No notes |
| 18.5.0.0 | Unknown | No notes |
| 18.4.0.0 | Unknown | No notes |