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Is it too late to say "Happy New Year"? Probably, but this is still the first release of 2022, so let's go with that anyway.

It's point release o'clock once more, so, without further fanfare, I give you Kodi "Matrix" 19.4: more bug fixes, some backports, no real new features. Full changelog since 19.3 on Github, as usual.

Estuary

    Fix: Home screen context menu fix for when there are more than 10 items in menu.
    Fix: Seekbar wouldn't disappear after 5 sec when using remote app e.g. Kore or JSON to pause Kodi.

Input

    Fix: English keyboard missing semi-colon.
    Fix: Chinese keyboard character now displaying correctly.

Music

    Fix: Artist discography export to NFO.

PVR

    New: Sort method for recordings based on season and episode.
    Fix: Crash when navigating an empty guide.
    Fix: Hiding/deleting channel group now working correctly.

UI

    Fix: Any Favourites for a restricted/locked media source are now hidden.
    Fix: Blu-ray ISO title and watched status now displayed correctly.
    Fix: Wrong language identified from subtitle name corrected.

Video

    Fix: EDL mute now working.
    Fix: ASS subtitles display now working correctly.

Android specifics

    Fix: Audio buffers adjusted.
    Fix: Various TrueHD stutter/dropout issues corrected.

Linux specifics

    Fix: Automatic play of DVDs.

MacOS specifics

    Fix: Mouse cursor positioning in full-screen.

Windows specifics

    Fix: Flickering with interlaced H.264 SD on AMD GPUs.
    Fix: Crash on unexpected network configuration (e.g. no MAC address obtained).

Xbox specifics

    New: Passthrough audio via WASAPI.
    Fix: Permission error preventing installation of Python add-ons.

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Video

    AV1 hardware decoding for Android. PR
    AV1 hardware decoding for Linux via VAAPI PR
    Bump to FFMPEG 4.4 PR

Subtitles

    Add new font style settings such as border size/colour, background type/colour/opacity, shadow colour/opacity, and blur
    Add support to display subtitles with dynamic positions which make use of position tags
    Add underlined and strikethrough text style support
    Add a new wide colour palette in colour settings
    Add a new setting to change text alignment for closed caption subtitles for a better reading
    Add a new setting to override subtitles metadata like style and position
    Improved font size that now match the point/pixel proportion
    When Kodi is in windowed mode subtitles are now always displayed correctly
    Improved VPlayer for better reading of multiline text
    Improved SAMI format to better support multiple languages
    Improved TX3G format to support multiple styles, colours and alpha channel
    ASS/SSA subtitles are displayed without flickering
    Improved image-based subtitle rendering to keep a better aspect ratio
    Add support to the WebVTT subtitle format type
    Improved font list setting - the actual names of the fonts are now listed
    Add support to OpenType font type (OTF)
    Improved calibration window, so it's now possible to also reset the calibration settings
    Subtitle settings can now be changed while in playback without side effects

Discs

    Fix resume of Blu-Rays and DVD ISOs in file mode (not in library)
    Fix playback of some optical discs on Linux due the incorrect mapping of mountpoints
    On Linux optical media is now mounted by default (via udisks)
    Partial code cleanup and platform split of disc drive handling
    Skin cosmetics
    Fix duplicated context menu items

EDL

    Fix EDL mute sections and EDL cuts

GUI

    Fix wrap lists
    Fix hitrect on auto sized buttons
    Fix some context menu options not triggering the respective builtin action
    Independent volume setting for GUI sounds PR
    Password reveal button in keyboard dialog PR

Input

    Added Steam Deck built-in controller support

Skinning

    Add a new Colour Picker window dialog to allow display a colour list
    Improved image control to support read dynamic $INFO data to "colordiffuse" tag
    Improved Player Process Info window - new information has been added and grouped by context
    New media flags for HDR videos: detect, store and process the type of HDR in a video file PR
    Skinners can now define modal dialogs if its visibility depends on Boolean condition evaluation
    Deprecation of old infolabels with the introduction of new generic ones (e.g. Player.Editlist, Player.Cuts, etc)

Estuary/Estouchy

    Estuary PVR Home Screen: New widget for timers (replacing old current/next recording widget)
    Estuary PVR Home Screen: Add percentage played progress bars to Recent Channels and Recent Recordings widgets
    Estuary PVR Home Screen: Change default click action to open the Guide window
    Improve display of EDL markers on the default skin (EDL mutes are now shown, cut sections are also identified)

Games

    Savestate manager for Retroplayer with captions describing the state of the game provided by https://retroachievements.org/ PR
    In-game Port Setup dialog to change between game controllers PR

Platform Specifics

    UNIX Family Platforms:
        Implement WS-Discovery (SMB discovery) for *ix platforms (Android/Linux/Apple) PR

    iOS/TVOS:
        Improved Siri Remote handling PR
        Improved "Now Playing" info PR

    macOS:
        Initial support for M1 native including native windowing/input handling PR NOTE: We do not provide prebuilt M1 dmg's. Any devs willing to work on ironing out the many corner cases of the native windowing implementation, don't hesitate to ping @fuzzard on the forums if you have any questions.
        Extend GameController support to OSX PR
        Many code cleanups/refinements/refactors

    Android:
        Update Android build to use Gradle for signing/aligning/packing PR

    Linux:
        Add ACES/Hable Tonemapping for GLES PR
        More BiCubic Shaders for GLES PR
        Pipewire support PR

    Windows:
        New setting to use 10 bit swapchain for SDR videos. Improves video quality and more precise colour conversions: YUV to RGB, limited to full range, shaders, etc. This is true even if video output is limited to 8 bit RGB by system or graphics driver. PR
        Improved DXVA2 (HW video decoding) performance by sharing decoding and rendering surfaces. Avoids video copy operations and drastically reduces video memory usage on NVIDIA and AMD graphics using recent drivers. PR

i8n support

    Harfbuzz rendering for scripts with open type font shaping features PR

PVR

    Channels and Recordings can specify a provider PR
    Read-only recordings supported
    EPG Search: Add Saved Searches, incl. new Estuary PVR Home Screen widget
    Channel Manager: Add possibility to refresh all channel logos
    Settings: Add possibility to specify which data to delete when resetting PVR database
    Automatic cleanup of cached PVR images (texture.db and cached image files)
    Functional Improvements for multi PVR Add-on scenarios
    Performance improvements, esp. for large number of channels

Build System/Dependencies

    Most dependencies have been updated to latest, or close to, for Apple/Android platforms
    Many cmake updates to update build system

Date/Time

    Many many updates/changes to use std::chrono throughout the code base

Addons

    Colour Picker PR
    Colour button setting PR
    Add support to add video HDR type info to a video list item
    Function for removing orphaned dependencies recursively PR

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Platform Specific

    Android

        Fix a stutter when the Kodi Android app was opened, closed and opened again. One of our team members (@thexai) noticed an issue with a recent PR that caused media stuttering to occur only after the app was opened and closed and reopened again without a force close. @ksooo has come up with a fix, so hopefully playback should be a better experience over Alpha 1.
        Another TrueHD fix - buffers reduced to a specific level to optimise data throughput - Android: Adjust buffer size/duration for TrueHD IEC.
        More local app icons should render fully in Kodi - Android: CFileAndroidApp::ReadIcon: Add support for icons provided a....
        Fix a packaging error for binary python modules (pycryptodome) - Android: packaging: don't delete cryptodome libraries from depends i....

    XBox
        Fixes some specific H.265 video crashes - XBox: DXVA2: Allows the use of more than 16 decoding surfaces for H265 Full HD or less.

Python

    Android and Apple systems have had their Python version bumped to 3.9.13 in accordance with the latest release of the CPython 3.9 series. Of note, there have been fixes by the CPython team specifically for issues raised by Kodi community members around some crashes. Thanks to those members raising the upstream issues, and the fantastic CPython team for fixing them.

    Please note, this does not affect any of our Windows releases, or if you are using Linux.

Filesystems

    Fix a regression that caused thumbnails to not appear when accessed from "remote" filesystems (e.g. WebDAV) - fixed: URIUtils::IsInternetStream() didn't properly handle filesystem....

Closed Captions

    Fix an instance of Closed Captions not working. A forum member was able to provide an extremely helpful sample that allowed @enen92 to track down an issue with closed captions not working correctly. Incidentally, this also fixes Closed Captions for some Inputstream.Adaptive streams as confirmed by @CastagnaIT.

Subtitles

    Multiple WebVTT fixes
        Subtitles: WebVTT: Fix X-TIMESTAMP-MAP LOCAL parsing.
        Subtitles: WebVTT: Clear all overlays just before creating a new parser.
        Subtitles: WevVTT: Sync cue timestamps with period start.

Bluray

    Fix BluRay resume issues - Discs: Fix resume of Blurays and BluRay ISOs (state serializer).

Thumbnail Images

    Reduce "quality" of thumbnail creation - FFmpegImage: Reduce quality a tiny bit

    NOTE: An advanced setting is available for those users who wish to alter the default further. More information can be found on the wiki.

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Addons

    Some crashes in addon installation and repository checks have been corrected (ksooo, howie-f)

    AlwinEsch has implemented a large feature to allow multiple instances of the same binary addon.

    This allows, for example, two instances of a PVR addon (e.g. PVR.HTS) to run using different backend provider instances. The usage of this will require updates from the various binary addons that will start to happen, so if you are interested in helping your favourite PVR addon to implement this, check out the above PVR.HTS PR, as well as the following PVR.Demo PR

Database

    ksooo has been optimising various things in our db wrappers for better performance (link)

DVD

    Fix DVD Menu indicators for DRMPrime (link)

Filesystem

    Fix NFS for Windows platforms after some recent NFS updates
    Several NFS improvements/cleanups
    Initial NFS4 implementation (link)

Font/Glyh

    Several improvements around our Font/Glyph Handling code from several team members (ksooo, thexai, sarbes) - improvements that should help low power machines in particular, but all platforms generally.
    Harbuzz glyph caching improvements (link)
    Fix some inconsistencies with RTL languages and certain skinning components (link)

Games

    Improvements/cleanups regarding controllers (link)
    Fix crash if controller info files don't have correct info (link)

General

    Rechi has done a bunch of leg work implementing improvements from Static analysis tools like CPPCheck (link) and ClangTidy (link)
    Remove obsolete addons from Core Kodi install (link)
    Fixed wrong player playlist with playlist files (link)
    Fixed wrong player playlist with playlist files on widgets (link)

Input

    Fix using mouse to drag/drop some controls (link)

Platform Specific

    Linux GBM
        Ability to set HDR Output (link)

    MacOS
        Allow the OSX arm64 (Apple Silicon) build to correctly find appropriate binary addons from repositories.

    Windows
        Fix incorrect window positioning when transitioning window to fullscreen and back (link)

PVR

    ksooo continues updating/refining/fixing all things PVR related

Skinning

    Estuary
        Show titles when "Flatten Hierarchy" setting enabled (link)

Subtitles

    Further improvements/refinements to subtitles from CastagnaIT

Video

    Fix for 3D MVC Playback

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Here we go folks: ramping things up, so we now have the first Beta for Kodi v20, "Nexus".

As always, thanks go out to all contributors for their work. We are nearing 4,000 commits since v19 "Matrix" was first released on February 19th 2021. For everyone that has contributed, both those in Team Kodi, and all other developers that choose to roll up their sleeves and fix an issue - thank you. Everyone appreciates you for making Kodi better.

We also want to thank all those users who provide endless support on the forums, we appreciate you, and all the support anyone provides to our users.
Release notes

Addons

    Assorted binary addon fixes/updates - imagedecoder, screensaver, vis. Thanks to @AlwinEsch as always for the huge amount of work supporting Kodi's addon interfaces.
    Fix/refactor "multi instance" GUI settings for addons. This work carries on from the PVR binary addons being able to have multiple backend instances (link).
    New id3 tag metadata stream support for PVR Radio addons (link).
    Add new SetVideoResolution with max resolution (link).

Database

    Clean DB was previously broken in earlier Nexus builds. This has now been fixed by @enen92 (link).

Disc

    Update libbluray to 1.3.2 for all platforms (link).
    Fix a "double free" issue when ejecting a disk (link) - Sidenote: thank you @prahal for your first contribution to Kodi core.
    Handle BD_EVENT_DISCONTINUITY (link).

Filesystem

    UPNP fixes for picture handling (link).
    First time contributor @ihipop improved support for subtitle formats when accessed via UPNP DLNA (link).

General

    Fix bookmark resume for .strm files (link).
    Fix jsonrpc Player.GetProperties response when playback from a widget is done (link).
    Fix race condition in CJobmanager causing crashes (link) - Sidenote: @neo1973 is our newest team member, welcome to the team!
    Application refactors. A large effort by @notspiff refactoring some very old code into more manageable chunks.
    Assorted improvements found by static analysis tools. Thanks @Rechi.
    Write correct duration to tracks in M3U playlists (link).
    Improvements to the header inclusions for a lot of areas of Kodi. This is a step to improve build times in general that mostly aims to reduce the number of components rebuilt when changes were made in a few extremely common objects. Thanks @notspiff, @ksooo.
    @rubpa has diagnosed and fixed a race condition in picture thumbnail loading (link).

Input

    Mouse cleanup (link).

network

    Another first time contributor @jjlin added support for HTTPS proxies (link).

Platform Specific

    Unix based platforms
        Android and Apple platforms now ship with Python 3.11 built in. Python 3.11 is a very notable release due to considerable improvements in CPython regarding speed. Checkout the python release notes for more info.

    Android
        Android builds will now be built as RelwithDebinfo by default for our Jenkins builds. This means nightlies and most other Android builds built by PRs will be with the more optimised RelwithDebinfo instead of Debug. This was done as some issues being investigated by devs was found to be purely cause by the slower Debug build types.
        A number of improvements by @joseluismarti.
        More class parameters have been added to allow more corner cases for starting android apps (link).

    macOS
        Prevent crash on exit (link).

    TVOS
        Sensitivity on the Remote has been reduced, and the tooltip and setting has been made more intuitive by @sy6sy2.

    Windows
        Remember window position of Kodi when run in windowed mode (link).
        First time contributor @sryze fixed a cmake warning for windows building (link).
        A new setting to allow setting the peak luminance for a display (link).
        Fixes to slow python usage on UWP platforms (eg Xbox) (link).

PVR

    Assorted EPG search fixes.
    Added possibility to browse available PVR client add-ons from PVR settings.
    Channels and Recordings now can be sorted by provider.
    Various fixes and performance improvements.
    Large refactoring improvements.

Favourites

    Replace favourites dialog with new favourites window, providing different views and other enhancements.

Skinning

    Added a new infobool System.Setting(hideunwatchedepisodethumbs) (link).

    Estuary specifics
        PVR Channel Manager redesign.
        Click on PVR Home screen section icon now opens Channels window again.
        Some smaller changes to the PVR OSD.
        Extend music context menu functionality, add ability to play albums directly from home screen.
        Extend video context menu functionality.

Subtitles

    Fix for 3D MVC subtitles not appearing correct when frame packed (link).

Video

    Inputstream support for AV1 codec (link).
    Don't attempt to use hardware AV1 decode if forcing software decoding. This fixes AV1 thumbnail generation on devices that don't support AV1 hardware decoding (link).

Thank you once again to everyone who has contributed to this release.

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Here we go folks, ramping things up and we have the first Release Candidate (RC) for Kodi "Nexus".

As always, thanks go out to all contributors for their work. We are nearing 4,000 commits since v19 "Matrix" was first released on February 19th 2021. For everyone that has contributed, both those in Team Kodi and all other devs that choose to roll up their sleeves and fix an issue. Everyone appreciates you for making Kodi better.

We also want to thank all those users who provide endless support on the forums, we appreciate you, and all the support anyone provides to our users.
Addon Devs

We'll put this at the top of this post, as there was an API break after Beta 1 was released. The details can be seen on the forums (and of course discussed if any assistance is required).

Essentially, if you use either the Python InfoTagVideo or VideoStreamDetail APIs, some functions had their variable names changed to bring consistency to the new set of APIs introduced earlier in Nexus.

We strongly advise users to always update to the latest test releases if you are on the bleeding edge, however if you are on older releases (e.g. Alphas or Beta 1), you may want to block updates on your addons as dev's update their addons to target RC and the final V20 release.
Release notes

Addons

    A BREAKING API change was introduced for the VideoStreamDetail and InfoTagVideo Python APIs. This affects set APIs that were introduced in the v20 development cycle. We would not normally do such a change when we enter Beta phase, but we believe fixing this now would cause fewer issues for all the addon devs out there for v21 (supporting 2 different APIs for v20/v21). Details around what is affected can be seen in the PR. In addition, further details can be seen and discussed on the forums.
    A number of bundled addons have been updated. This should reduce the number of addons that immediately do updates on installation of RC1.

Scrapers

    Due to the above breaking API change, the TVDB TV Show scraper was updated to prevent breaking. The result is that the updated scraper will be broken on any Kodi v20 release prior to this RC1 release. If you are using an older v20 install, then you need to update for continued functioning of the TMDB TV Show scraper.
    In addition, we took this opportunity to fix a long outstanding issue with the Python TV Show scrapers described here. The result is that if you are adding new episodes to existing TV shows in your library, you need to refresh the show to download the new episode guide. If you are using NFO files, the episode guide in those files needs updating also.
    TMDB TV Shows and TV Maze scrapers have been updated, with TVDB v4 to be updated in the near future. More details can be found here.

Games

    @lrusak fixed a crash that was introduced into Beta1. Some Linux users were finding Kodi was crashing on startup (link).
    @lrusak again fixed a black screen issue with standalone games (link).

General

    Add support for action "play" to many more items such as widgets/favourites on the homescreen (link).
    Fix a regression with duplicate/incorrect context menu entries (link).
    @ksooo fixed another regression for addons that caused the "continue watching" context menu not to show the resume time (link).
    @repojohnray has been providing a number of fixes/cleanups lately that are targeting memory leaks. Subtitles and a number of Linux specific areas have had improvements made to them.
    A new contributer @larrignon has fixed a logging message that occurred when an empty directory was searched by scrapers (link).

Music

    Fix crash when queuing multichannel audio files. This fixes a regression introduced in Beta 1 (link).
    Fix default fallback image to be more relevant to a music item (CD Case instead of a Folder) (link).

Platform Specific

    Android
        @joseluismarti has contributed a number of cleanups/fixes for Android.
        @a1rwulf bumped our SDK target to 31. Along with a number of fixes @joseluismarti contributed over the past few months, this has allowed us to finally do a release to the Google Play Store. RC1 has been released to the Testing channel, and we'll ramp up deployment over the next week or so to more users in the Testing channel

    macOS
        @enen92 has made a number of fixes to what is know as the macOS native windowing implementation. This won't affect too many people right now, as the default release uses SDL windowing, however anyone building the native macOS ARM version (or using the test builds) should see a number of improvements around windowing.
        Add speech to text service implementation (usable from keyboard dialog)

    Windows and Xbox
        Kodi RC 1 has been submitted to the Microsoft Store as an update. Users should start receiving this shortly. Be aware that you may have to uninstall and reinstall your Xbox version, because the OS is not updating cleanly.

Skinning

    Fix a crash if an include has an empty condition. This was reported by @jurialmunkey and was an effect when a PARAM was used in the include condition that may have been empty (link).

    Fix a crash that could occur in the event of a textbox that was too small for a font used, and therefore the text would not fit (link).

    Estuary Specifics
        Music: Extend context menu functionality, add ability to play albums directly from home screen
        Video: Extend context menu functionality
        PVR: New home screen widget for saved searches
        PVR: Reworked home screen widget for timers
        PVR: Some smaller visual changes to the OSD and the home screen widgets
        Add possibility to use the play button (on remote, keyboard, ...) to start playback of many different items shown on the home screen (e.g. songs, movies, episodes, Live-TV channels, recordings, albums, TV shows, single seasons, movie sets - just try it out...)

Subtitles

    Fix a regex for Sami subtitles (link).

Teletext

    @enen92 has made a few fixes for teletext usage. A crash and a usability issue were resolved (link).
    Another crash was resolved (link).
    Flashing teletext was blinking at an extremely fast pace. This fixes an regression introduced by a large core change regarding time related functions (link).

UPNP

    Fix some crashes occurring on startup if UPnP items were on homescreen widgets. Check the PR for gritty details (link).

Video

    A new feature has been introduced to allow the possibility of 'continue watching' (aka resume) for certain video folders from the context menu of several folder locations (eg Movie Sets, TV Shows including seasons, and more). The best way to see more info about this is to see the PR.

PVR

    Multi-instance support for PVR client-addons (first implemented by pvr.hts, more to come)
    Persistent EPG searches
    Automatic cleanup of texture database and removal of related stale image files
    Add possibility to refresh channel logos in the Channel manager
    Selection of items to delete when resetting the PVR database
    Various performance optimisations, larger code refactoring

Favourites

    New favourites window, providing different views and other enhancements

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Database

    A couple of fixes have gone in to resolve database migration issues from v19.
    The first of these is the EPG database migration. This fixes the problem with the EPG loading and then disappearing. Thanks @ksooo for the prompt fix.
    A second DB migration issue that only occurred on the Microsoft UWP platform (Xbox and UWP desktop) has been fixed by @thexai . This was an odd one, as the code that dealt with the failure was old code (6+ years). It was traced to an odd race condition that only manifested on the UWP platforms, however the root cause potentially could happen on any other platform.

General

    A fix for playlist detection for both Audio and Video was made by @ksooo - https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/22270

Platform Specific

    Linux
        @popcornmix has fixed an issue for DRMPrime on Linux. This allows hardware formats like Broadcom 8-bit (SAND128) and 10-bit (P030) can now be correctly rendered with the latest Mesa.

    macOS
        A fix to allow Kodi to execute on macOS 10.13 has been made. We would still strongly suggest users use a newer version (10.14+), however this allows users still on 10.13 to run Kodi.
        A regression for macOS reading actual disks was resolved by @enen92 . As part of this, the libcdio driver was also fixed to enable disk usage on Apple Silicon native builds.

    Windows
        A fix to a crash that only occurred on Windows Debug builds has been resolved. This didn't affect users of the actual RC1 release, but Windows devs who would attempt to execute Kodi as a Debug build were quickly halted.

PVR

    An issue around multiple resume dialogs has been fixed by @emveepee - https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/22247

Teletext

    Another Teletext issue has been resolved by @repojohnray. @repojohnray has contributed a number of fixes for v20 to help increase the reliability and safety of Kodi.

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    EndTime: fix overflow when doing large comparisons by @fritsch in #22471
    DXVA: fix AMD SD interlaced workaround by @thexai in #22489
    [video][music] Fixes for playback related context menu item apperance by @ksooo in #22533
    [PVR] Fix sort by channel backend order. by @ksooo in #22544
    [backport] TrueHD fixes + AudioTrack fixes + PAPlayer fixes by @thexai in #22564
    [video][music] Fix next item not selected on queue item context menu item. by @ksooo in #22555
    [video][music] Fix 'Play' and other related context menu items not appearing … by @ksooo in #22575
    [backport] Retroplayer: Savestate manager fixes by @KOPRajs in #22517
    backport: [android] strip abi version off cryptodome lib names by @wsnipex in #22550
    [backport][addons][filesystem] Fix memory limits with kodi::vfs::readline by @phunkyfish in #22593
    [backport][Android][gradle] Configure android.ndkPath by @joseluismarti in #22586
    Fix version format as they need to be sortable by @razzeee in #22504
    [backport][Video][GUIViewState] Add and set missing playlist sort by @CastagnaIT in #22601
    [favourites][keymaps] Favourites Browser window: Catch-up on features of the deprecated Favourites dialog by @ksooo in #22604
    [video][music] Fix playlist item order. … by @ksooo in #22610
    [backport] windowing: X11: Add missing include (fix build with GCC 13) by @thesamesam in #22630
    [PVR] CPVRClients: Optimize calls which obtain client capabilities. by @ksooo in #22655
    [Backport] Game OSD: Address savestate manager usability issues by @garbear in #22632
    [Windows] handle WM_INITMENU event to disable move from system menu when window is in full screen by @thexai in #22671
    [dllwrapper] wrap dll_stat64 and dll_fstat64 by @vpeter4 in #22683
    [Backport] RetroPlayer: Code improvements by @garbear in #22666
    [backport][python][xbmcgui] Fix ControlEdit constructor args by @CastagnaIT in #22704
    [backport] RetroPlayer: Improve reading from write-only memory by @garbear in #22694
    fixed: PVR timer validation was broken for certain (TVHeadend) timer rules by @arnova in #22732
    [backport] tools/depends: Python update to 3.11.2 by @lrusak in #22749
    render the .notdef characters to fix drawing of text with missing unicode font by @fritsch in #22659
    [Backport][Subtitles] Fix subtitles in livestreams with high start timestamps by @mediaminister in #22568
    [backport][Subtitles][TagSami] Handle basic color names by @CastagnaIT in #22718
    [backport][Subtitles][WebVTT] Fixed segmented webvtt sync by @CastagnaIT in #22709
    [backport][Subtitles][WebVTT] Fix overlapped subtitles on malformed segments by @CastagnaIT in #22719
    [backport][Subtitles][Libass] Fix line spacing to avoid overlap box by @CastagnaIT in #22660
    Audio Backports from testing group by @fritsch in #22757
    [backport][pvr] Always retirieve the max DB ID for providers when reading them from the DB - Nexus by @phunkyfish in #22741
    [Backport] Savestate Manager: Break dependency on DialogSelect and add "Saved with" by @garbear in #22750
    [Backport] RetroPlayer: Faster in-game savestate dialog and autosaves by @garbear in #22754
    [backport][upnp]: fix state reporting by @enen92 in #22785
    [Nexus] Update translation related workflows by @gade01 in #22797
    [backport][upnp]: load library art before broadcasting remote watched state by @enen92 in #22783
    [backport] CSMBDirectory: fix return value for smbc_getxattr by @howie-f in #22767
    [settings][airplay] Fix password setting order/dependencies by @enen92 in #22814
    [backport][Subtitles] Fix RTL on subtitles by @CastagnaIT in #22776
    [backport][Subtitles][TX3G] Fix styles lookup by @CastagnaIT in #22831
    [backport][Android] Fix symbol relocation errors on Android x86 by @joseluismarti in #22833
    [Backport] Savestate rendering by @garbear in #22781
    [backport][libass] Temporary font folder checking by @joseluismarti in #22849
    [GUI][GUIImage] Fix inconsistencies for colordiffuse by @enen92 in #22848
    [Backport] Port Dialog: Fix resetting multitaps by @garbear in #22844
    [PVR] Rework PVR windows late init. by @ksooo in #22864
    VideoPlayerAudio: use simple algorithm for self-learning max allowed a/v Out-Of-Sync by @fritsch in #22870
    StringUtils: fix sorting by name with ascii punctuation and symbols o… by @vpeter4 in #22556
    [Backport][GUIImage] Fix regression for color diffuse if no info is set by @enen92 in #22872
    AudioTrack: Increase robustness by @fritsch in #22795
    [backport][Valgrind] Fix some jumps depending on uninitialized values by @neo1973 in #22850
    [Backport] guilib: Fix warning in GUIListGroup control by @garbear in #22887
    [video] Fix watched status not taken into account when queueing items. by @ksooo in #22903
    [backport][Skin][Estuary] Fix player settings adjustments if autoclose video osd is active by @enen92 in #22904
    AESinkAudioTrack: Revert sanity checking by @fritsch in #22905
    [Windows][Installer] fix the missing .html files of Chorus2 with proper exclusion of .h by @thexai in #22908
    [Addons] Having no repos is no error by @mglae in #22916
    [backport] NFSv3 and NFSv4 fixes and improvements by @thexai in #22909
    [Backport] Controller Dialog: Fix "Ignore Input" buttons not being saved by @garbear in #22893
    [Backport] Fixes and improvements from "show actual controllers" PR by @garbear in #22892
    Revert "AESinkAudioTrack: Use most simple pause() logic" by @fritsch in #22907
    ActiveAESink: workaround for TrueHD and DD+ broken after pause or seek in AudioTrack RAW (Android only) by @fritsch in #22945
    [Backport] Sync controller add-ons with controller-topology-project by @garbear in #22928
    [Windows] Fix SMB read chunk size when is not used FileCache by @thexai in #22946
    [upnp] fix regressions for folder definitions by @enen92 in #22859
    [BP] [jenkins][Apple] Some fixes for apple buildsteps in #22958
    [BP] tools/depends: make the hash file an order only prerequisite in #22959
    [BP] VideoPlayerCodec: Stop dividing by zero in #22957
    [BP][Windows][dxva] fix processor height in #22962
    [BP] ExifParser: Fix several out of bounds accesses while parsing exif information in #22960
    [BP][Windows] shrink window to fit the screen and avoid a crash in #22961
    [Nexus] Bump version 20.1 by @fuzzard in #22965

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It's been a hectic last couple of months in the world of Kodi, but the wheels keep on turning. Without any further ado, we are happy to announce the first Alpha release for Kodi 21.x "Omega".

This is a major release, so, as you'd expect, it comes with many new features. However, with a core change to FFmpeg 6.0, there is a very good chance that some regressions may occur. As such, please be aware that installing this will most likely break things, and we'd really like your help at that point to identify the problems and get them fixed. Please raise Github issues with full debug logs to help us resolve any regressions you wonderful testers come across.

So, all that aside... what's actually changed?

Changelog

Build/Dependencies

    Build support for GCC13 has been fixed by some users. This allows Kodi to be built on newer toolchains that refactored some header inclusions.
    Some general version bumps have been made for an assortment of dependencies for Android/Apple/CI platforms. Thanks @craigcarnell, @fuzzard.
    @lrusak has endeavoured to improve the way some of the Android/Apple/CI dependency systems work and handle different states.
    @Rechi has fixed a few cmake deprecations and pkgconfig detection issues.

Documentation

    Some new contributors noted some of our contributing guideline documentation was lacking. A few people have helped contribute to hopefully make them more helpful/informative.
    @fixthething has updated some of the Ubuntu build documentation to reflect some modern package names used in more recent Ubuntu versions.

FFmpeg

    Use upstream FFmpeg. This is a big achievement and allows easier FFmpeg updates in the future.
    Update to version 6.0. This puts us inline with the latest FFmpeg release. Compatibility with 5.1.x has been retained for Linux distro support.

Filesystem

    With the introduction of NFSv4 support, a number of issues were quickly discovered by users. @thexai has fixed a many of these, such as timeouts/chunk size defaults for NFSv4.

General

    @repojonray has provided a number of general fixes/improvements to various areas to address e.g. memory leaks and performance improvements.
    Modernisation of several areas of Kodi have been undertaken by a number of developers. A lot of this work will go unseen by users, however it's helping to make Kodi's huge amount of code more maintainable for the future. @lrusak, @neo1973 , @repojohnray, @enen92, @Rechi .
    Add setting to disable screensaver while playing audio.
    @DeltaMikeCharlie has contributed some improvements to the UX regarding date format options.

Games

    Improvements are continually being made to the Retroplayer ecoystem by several devs/users. Thanks to @KOPRajs, @garbear .

JSON-RPC

    genre has been added to the Video.Fields.Episodes field.

Music

    Add support for reading (and writing) M3U8 playlist files. This provides support for non-ASCII characters in the playlist files (UTF-8 character support).

Platform Specifics

    Android:
        Improved Dolby Vision detection and compatibility: implemented support of DV in MKV containers, better handling of different DV profiles with fallback to HDR10 when is possible and display is not DV capable. For some devices, we can now also support hardware tone mapping DV profiles 4, 5 to SDR. Supported profiles vary on different Android devices: for example, the 2019 Shield supports profiles 4, 5, 7, 8 in DV and fallback to HDR10 (profiles 7, but not HW tone mapping to SDR. Similarly, the Fire TV Stick doesn't supports profile 7 although it does support HW tone mapping of profile 5 to SDR (profiles 4, 5, 8 are supported with DV display).
        Implemented minimise shutdown function in Power Saving settings.
        Multiple small internal improvements and use of newer Android APIs to replace deprecated ones.
        @joseluismarti is slowly improving/updating a number of Android-specific features that enable the project to stay up to date with Google Play Store submission requirements.

    iOS/TVOS:
        Support for Channel Up/Down keys when using the iPhone Apple TV Remote app connected to an Apple TV has been added.

    Linux:

        Pipewire:
            Fix implementation to work properly with AudioEngine.
            Add support for passthrough formats. This includes HD audio formats like DTS-HD and TrueHD.

        GBM:
            Add support for libdisplay-info to help parse EDID information and determine display capabilities.

    macOS:
        @enen92 has been slowly but surely improving lots of the macOS native windowing implementation (mouse, resizing, menu bar, shortcut key handling, etc.) that was introduced in Nexus. The official macOS builds do not use this functionality at this point, but with enen92's work, we are inching closer to using it as our default for v21.
        macOS CD/DVD drive handling has been fixed. This also allows M1-based machines to read disks correctly.

    Windows:
        Minimum Windows supported version has been raised to Windows 8.1.
        If they're available, we will now use displays' friendly names in settings (e.g. "LG TV #1").
        Added a setting to use the Windows HDR/SDR brightness balance setting for GUI and subtitles when the display is in HDR PQ mode, and also improved the curve of internal method GUI SDR max peak luminance.
        Improved read performance over SMB in some special cases, e.g. playing full Blu-ray folders.
        Improved graphics compatibility and fallback to enable running in some limited VM hardware (Hyper-V) even without video decoding support.
        Various improvements in DXVA render method to avoid incompatibilities in old hardware or Windows 8, especially in the case of sources with BT.2020 colour space.
        Implemented support for DXVA2 AV1 hardware video decoding 8-bit and 10-bit.
        Specific SDK requirements for building UWP packages have been removed to allow the use of newer SDKs from Visual Studio.

Picture

    Fix security issues discovered regarding image EXIF metadata. Further fixes were also backported from the upstream EXIF data parsing library that is in use in Kodi.

PVR

    Add possibility to sort channel groups to your liking.

Settings

    Some fixes to regressions in Settings visibility have been made.

Subtitles:

    The display of MKV files containing text subtitle entries without the duration set on the Matroska block were fixed, retaining Kodi v19 behaviour. This includes the teletext autoconversion to srt done in PVR backends (e.g. tvheadend).
    Fixed setting of subtitle offset when auto-close video OSD is set.
    @CastagnaIT has continued to support/fix issues with the new subtitle system as they are reported.

UPnP:

    Improved compatibility with official smart TV applications when displaying and browsing served UPnP Kodi libraries.
    Fix artwork when playing/refreshing UPnP items.

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Time for the next milestone release for Kodi 21 "Omega". This is our second Alpha release for this cycle.

This is a major release, so, as you'd expect, it comes with many new features. However, with a core change to FFmpeg 6.0, there is a very good chance that some regressions may occur. As such, please be aware that installing this will most likely break things, and we'd really like your help at that point to identify the problems and get them fixed. Please raise Github issues with full debug logs to help us resolve any issues you wonderful testers come across.

Over the last couple of months we've merged 120 pull requests - fixing issues, adding features, and improving Kodi.

So... what's actually changed?

Changelog

Build/Dependencies

    Apple platforms are now all built using newer version of Xcode (14.2) and the relevant SDKs. Thanks to a combination of a new M1 Mac mini hardware donation from long time supporter of the project, MacMiniVault.com, and also the Kodi foundation purchasing a second M1 Mac mini, we have been able to decommission our ageing Intel Mac mini's that have been in use for a long time.
    Building on Windows now uses the system curl executable instead of our formerly bundled (ancient) wget executable.
    Improvements to dependency building have been made by @lrusak to make the downloading/hash checking more robust.

Estuary

    Improvements to the seek window timeouts have been made to more correctly disappear after appropriate timeouts.
    Fix visibility of 'next recording' label in PVRTimers was made by @ksooo.

FFmpeg

    One of our newer team members, @neo1973 , has made some cleanups and fixed some crashes in our ffmpeg side data usage, as well as other improvements with our ffmpeg API usage.

General

    Improvements made to handling of movement keys (e.g. PageUp, Down, Home, End) in certain lists such as Settings.
    @rmrector has been endeavouring to improve image cache handling for GUI items. We look forward to the further work he has in the pipeline to improve the cache handling.
    Extraart configurations in advancedsettings.xml for Kodi 18 will no longer be migrated to the new GUI settings when upgrading. If you had meaningful configuration there, check that the artwork settings in the GUI match your preferences.
    @CrystalP extended the navigation history to track the line number of the selected item so that it can be restored when the item disappears from the list, instead of resetting the selection to the top of the list (usually the ..) after the end of playback or changing the watched status of an item.
    The generation of thumbnails was fixed for pictures in portrait orientation. The existing thumbnails in KODI_HOME/userdata/Thumbnails/* must be deleted in order to have new correct ones recreated.

JSON-RPC

    VideoLibrary.GetEpisodeDetails now returns "studio" and "genre" added by @scott967 in https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23112.

Platform Specifics

    Android:
        @joseluismarti has continued with more cleanups and improvements to the Android codebase. Each improvement makes things easier to manage, and is greatly appreciated.
        @fritsch has been able to make further improvements to AudioTrack to handle hardware that has sinks that get "stuck". Its always a fine line making changes in the Android world, as the multitude of hardware vendors have widely varying implementation qualities of the standard Android APIs.

    Linux:
        @lrusak has added the ability for users to select the audio backend with a command line switch when starting Kodi. This also allows seeing with which enabled audio backends Kodi was built. For more information check out the following PR.

    macOS:
        The minimum OS required for Kodi on macOS is now Mojave (10.14). This was done to allow the project to continue using more modern C++ 17 features. macOS Mojave was released on 24th September 2018 and hardware supported can be seen at Apple.com.
        @enen92 has continued to further improve what is known as "Native windowing" for our macOS codebase that will eventually lead to a formal Apple Silicon version. Improvements to window resizing, menu's, window blanking, improved multiple monitor handling and more.
        For developers, Kodi can also now more easily be run from Xcode without having to alter schemes.
        @ksooo has now correctly added Speechrecognition entitlements for Apple platforms (including iOS/tvOS) which fixes a crash when microphone usage was triggered.
        Support for HiDPI resolutions, such as those marketed as Retina displays, has been introduced in the native windowing version. This enhancement allows Kodi's graphical user interface (GUI) to showcase higher pixel densities, resulting in a sleek and polished appearance on modern Macs.

    webOS
        @sundermann and @craigcarnell have made further improvements to the new webOS platform. Screensaver support has been added, along with audio sink improvements and updates to codec hardware support.

    Windows:
        Minimum Windows supported version has been raised to Windows 8.1.
        @CrystalP and @thexai have made a number of improvements to windows HDR/SDR/HLG display including tonemapping and hardware DXVA support for a number of combinations of those media types.
        @thexai implemented support for "Video Super Resolution" for Nvidia (RTX ) and Intel (ARC) compatible hardware. Please note, we obviously cant test all combinations of hardware, so don't expect this to work for every combination under the sun. Give it a try and report any issues WITH debug logs.
        Bump to libdav1d to version 1.20 should improve AV1 playback support for windows platforms.

Python

    A fix for a regression was made by @lrusak that puts addon paths at the front of the system paths. This fixes addons using system modules instead of potentially customised Kodi modules of the same name. This mostly affects Linux based systems.

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    [Estuary][MusicViz] Fix label height by @enen92 in #22977
    [Backport][Settings] Remove IsFullScreen complex condition by @enen92 in #22980
    [backport][windowing] fix uninitialised weight by @joseluismarti in #22986
    [video] Fix playlist window data by @ksooo in #23013
    [UPnP] Add extensions to libplatinum mimetypes by @enen92 in #22997
    [Xbox] RendererShaders: Concurrency::event is broken on UWP/Xbox, remove parallelism by @thexai in #23014
    [subtitles] Fix mkv subtitles without duration by @enen92 in #23102
    [Backport] Python API: Fix setting picture/game info via InfoTags by @garbear in #23094
    [Backport] Python API: Add missing gameinfo to Player class by @garbear in #23095
    [backport][Subtitles][WebVTT] Fix reversed pts offset correction by @CastagnaIT in #23128
    [Nexus][PVR] Fix last opened group not always restored on Kodi startup. by @ksooo in #23165
    [Backport] RetroPlayer: Fix memory exhaustion with zero-copy emulators by @garbear in #23142
    [backport][Android] Avoid crash when create recommendation channels a… by @joseluismarti in #23166
    [Nexus][PVR] Prevent crash on saved search by @emveepee in #23195
    [Nexus] ViderPlayerAudio: fix setting of resample mode on stream change by @mglae in #23167
    [BP][Windows] restore window position and size up to virtual screen min-max width & height by @CrystalP in #23218
    [Backport][Windows] fix thread names in debugger / crash dumps by @CrystalP in #23243
    [Windows][build ffmpeg] more robust build scripts by @thexai in #23219
    [backport] Revert "[cmake] glx: find glx library instead of gl" by @lrusak in #23275
    [backport] CPythonInvoker: fix python path by inserting custom path before default path by @lrusak in #23274
    [Backport][Windows] fix playback of HDR material when Windows is already in HDR mode (AMD) by @CrystalP in #23270
    [backport][Nexus]Fix build with GCC>=13 by @bkuhls in #23314
    [Nexus][platform] macOS,iOS: Add speech recognition and microphone usage des… by @ksooo in #23341
    [backport] SavestateFlatBuffer: Remove forward declararion of FlatBufferBuilder by @neo1973 in #23334
    [backport] Fix build with GCC>=13 by @neo1973 in #23333
    [Estuary] Reset 1110_seekbar timer on seeks by @enen92 in #23382
    [Nexus][PVR] Timer settings dialog: Set certain settings to default on change of timer type. by @ksooo in #23385
    [Nexus][video] Fix watched/unwatched filter not working when creating playli… by @ksooo in #23398
    [BP][CMake][FlatC] Don't use local flatc with ENABLE_INTERNAL_FLATBUFFERS if versions don't match by @fuzzard in #23386
    [Estuary] Also start timer (with reset) on seeks by @enen92 in #23400
    [BP] SysfsPath: Have CSysfsPath::Get() return a std::optional because reads can fail by @neo1973 in #23390
    [BP] CRenderManager: Add missing member initialization by @neo1973 in #23391
    Fix Thumbnails of Rotated Pictures by @CrystalP in #23319
    [backport][Addons][Filesystem] No cache, not treat compressed files as directory by @CastagnaIT in #22929
    [Nexus] Backport E-AC3 fixes from master by @HiassofT in #23411
    [backport][Android] Prefer Google raw decoder over MediaTek on old An… by @joseluismarti in #23452
    [FontUtils] Give priority to MS font family name in english by @CastagnaIT in #23444
    [Nexus] Bump version 20.2 by @fuzzard in #23454

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Time for the next milestone release for Kodi 21 "Omega". Slightly delayed this time around compared to what we were striving for, however we are happy to announce the arrival of Alpha 3.

This is a major release, so, as you'd expect, it comes with many new features. However, with a core change to FFmpeg 6.0, there is a very good chance that some regressions may occur. As such, please be aware that installing this will most likely break things, and we'd really like your help at that point to identify the problems and get them fixed. Please raise Github issues with full debug logs to help us resolve any issues you wonderful testers come across.

A further 176 Pull Requests have been merged since Alpha 2 - fixing issues, adding features, and improving Kodi.

So... what's actually changed?

Changelog

Estuary

    A change to Estuary to add "more..." to size-limited lists has been made by @ksooo. The effect of this can be seen in homescreen widgets that have more than 15 items.
    A number of changes to support video information for Movie Sets and TV Seasons has been made.

FFmpeg

    @popcornmix has made several fixes to our FFmpeg library usage. This has gone through several iterations now, and has affected seeking and playback to various degrees. Hopefully, the last of these regressions has now been squashed, but please do let us know if you experience any further regressions around playback using FFmpeg.

Filesystem

    @thexai has changed the chunk size of data requests for local media, increasing it 64kb to improve data throughput.

Games

    @garbear continues to improve the gaming interface of Kodi. Changes around player management/assignment have been made in https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23548. Have a read of that PR for more details/info.

General

    @ksooo has continued his whack-a-mole approach with issues regarding menu usage across the Kodi codebase. A fix for no information dialog for music videos, "Local art" missing for the art selection dialog, and further art dialog selection issues are amongst some of the latest fixes.
    TV Shows/Seasons/Movie sets/Recording folders now expose their 'in progress' state via LISTITEM_IS_RESUMABLE.
    The content of the refresh progress dialog has been improved a bit to be more informative for the user - for example, to display the current season and episode being refreshed.
    @repojohnray has had a (lingering) PR merged that fixes a memory leak in context menus.
    Some improvements and optimisations have been made by @neo1973 . This affects several areas (database and curl usage), and every performance fix is greatly appreciated.
    @rmrector has been digging into the image usage of Kodi (caching, allow remote viewing of images without having been displayed in Kodi, preloading of images and general streamlining of the API), and has made several improvements leading to more hotly-anticipated changes to come in the future.

Platform Specifics

    Android:
        @quietvoid has had a PR merged that enables the ability to convert some Dolby Vision media types to more common types to allow playback. A forum thread has been around for testing that can explain the benefits a little better than this blog editor, so head there for some info and any feedback/support around the feature: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=371557.
        @fritsch has once again delved into our Audio Engine to fix a regression for Amazon FireTV 4K users: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23687.
        @joseluismarti has further updated some Android dependencies and fixed/modernised areas of our Android API usage.

    Linux:
        Support for cpu_thermal hwmon has been added. This enables devices like the Raspberry Pi to report CPU temperatures without the use of external scripts (as have been common in projects like LibreELEC).
        @smp79 submitted a fix for VAAPI VP9 Profile 2 playback.

    macOS:
        @kambala-decapitator has fixed a crash in the SDL versions of Kodi when pressing the Caps-Lock key. This did not affect the "native windowing" version of Kodi we have migrated to for v21 nightlies, however if you are building for x86_64 intel Macs then this should make using that key less troublesome.
        @enen92 continues his work on improving Kodi for macOS. Network System info has been tackled to improve its speed, and more accurately represent network information like DNS servers used.
        macOS temperature information is currently not supported on Apple Silicon devices due to our usage of a library that does not support them. @enen92 has made a change to report N/A instead of 0.0 for CPU/GPU temperatures.
        Media keys are now supported on macOS.
        Some improvements for moving the Kodi app window from high-DPI screens with differing refresh rates.
        macOS releases are now defaulting to the "native windowing" system.

    webOS
        @sundermann has continued with further improvements to the webOS port, most notably around passthrough and video decoding.

    Windows:
        A PR intended to fix an issue around the Windows platform regularly losing track of the audio output device has been merged by @thexai. This hopefully makes Windows audio outputs more robust to situations where driver updates may change naming.
        @CrystalP has been contributing a number of fixes/improvements particularly aimed at Windows. These include a fix for refresh rate switching for Intel and Nvidia graphics cards that was accidentally broken by a fix aimed at AMD cards.
        More improvements to the recently add Video Super Resolution implementation have been made.

PVR

    A first time contributor @ivanllc has had a PR merged to add a "2 minute" option to the padding timer for PVR recordings.
    @ksooo continues to improve the Kodi PVR system. A number of changes were made, including fixes and tidy ups from static analysis tools (cppcheck and clang-tidy).
    Fixed a long-standing bug with subtitle selection not being preserved upon channel playback restart.

Python

    Changes made to support building Kodi when using Python 3.12.
    Python invoker now passes sys.argv arguments in a logical order to Python addons thanks to @scott967.

Skinning

    a change by @smfontes to allow loading of font sets defined in a skins/fonts folder: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/22993.

Subtitles

    Support for .ttc font collections has been added.

Video

    TV show groups (seasons, movie sets, PVR recording folders) with at least one started element (episodes, movies, recordings) but no completely watched ones are now considered as 'in progress' and they, for example, now appear in the respective "In progress" GUI elements like widgets and video windows.
    Fixed play counts (watched state) and last played date of episodes and movies not being preserved on internet update.
    Default select action for videos fixed.

VideoPlayer

    @alanswanson has provided a change to use the FFmpeg software deinterlacer from yadiff to bwdif. This is said to have fairly significant performance improvements over the old interlacing method.

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    [doxygen] System.HasNetwork is not implemented. Document this by @fuzzard in #23736
    [cmake][buildtools] use flatbuffers::flatc target for executable by @fuzzard in #23714
    [cmake] convert some find modules to full TARGET usage by @fuzzard in #23727
    [webOS] Support relaunch by @sundermann in #23684
    Some small simplifications by @notspiff in #23740
    [cmake][win] Generate complete build dir layout for Multiconfig gen (VS) by @fuzzard in #22112
    [macos][network] Avoid executing shell commands to get the DefaultGateway and nameserver list by @enen92 in #23724
    [XBMCTinyXML2] Resolve warnings by @enen92 in #23744
    [video] Refactor artwork selection (last step) by @ksooo in #23734
    [PVR] Fix CPVRRecordingsPath path directory/params parsing. by @ksooo in #23751
    [Cmake] fix dav1d ENABLE_INTERNAL build by @fuzzard in #23746
    [cmake] Add FindDetours for windows by @fuzzard in #23747
    [info] Platform code for GPUInfo by @enen92 in #23741
    Fixup warnings macos by @enen92 in #23756
    [cmake] Remove XBT_FILES as a dependency of generate-packaging TARGET by @fuzzard in #23761
    [cmake] Migrate more modules to TARGET usage by @fuzzard in #23748
    [MUSIC] Scrape, store and process yt links from TADB for songs in a users local library by @the-black-eagle in #22654
    [Video] Fix crash when scan to library on a directory containing new movies by @joseluismarti in #23767
    [Windows] Fix 24Hz refresh rate when HDR is ON on AMD systems by @thexai in #23766
    [video] CVideoTagExtractionHelper::ExtractEmbeddedArtFor: Use item's dyn path by @ksooo in #23774
    [VideoPlayer] Fixed: Infinite video halt when cache is full & valid by @honest-mule in #23760
    [pipewire] Fix heap-use-after-free in AE::SINK::CAESinkPipewire::EnumerateDevicesEx by @dobo90 in #23716
    tools/depends: Fix rustup by delegating shell choice to shebang by @garbear in #23755
    [cmake] Fix linux Install.cmake after PR 22112 by @fuzzard in #23754
    [cmake] Add platform specific cmake search configurations by @fuzzard in #23776
    [android] Allow packaging other themes for bundled skins by @fuzzard in #23782
    [cmake] gen_skin_pack move to add_custom_command by @fuzzard in #23779
    [guilib][vfs][imagecache] Load video chapter images into texture cache when viewed, like standard images by @rmrector in #23639
    [video] 'Choose art' improvements by @ksooo in #23775
    [PVR][Estuary] Add ParentalRatingCode availability for Skins by @DeltaMikeCharlie in #23586
    [depends][native] Bump meson 1.2.1 by @fuzzard in #23790
    [darwin] Fix header inclusion for Xcode 15 by @fuzzard in #23791
    [cmake] Add build targets always for multi config generators by @fuzzard in #23750
    [cmake] gen_skin_pack remove BYPRODUCT to fix ninja build by @fuzzard in #23795
    [webOS] Signal Dolby Vision with AV1 codec by @quietvoid in #23771
    [depends] Bump zlib to 1.3 by @joseluismarti in #23794
    [FileCache] code improvements, no functional changes by @thexai in #23802
    [Estuary] Update aspect ratio of InfoWallMovieLayout by @gemedet in #23745
    [video] Video info dialog: Reinit cast list on re-open of dialog afte… by @ksooo in #23810
    [webOS] RendererStarfish: Derive from CBaseRenderer by @sundermann in #23815
    Fix build of native/waylandpp-scanner with GCC 13 by @throwaway96 in #23825
    [cmake] add_custom_command only use OUTPUT genex for multi config generators by @fuzzard in #23823
    [Cmake] Create build_internal_depends for MultiConfig Generators by @fuzzard in #23807
    [Cmake] assorted updates to search paths and fixes to *_LIBRARIES usage by @fuzzard in #23809
    [Cmake] FindASS migrate to TARGET usage by @fuzzard in #23824
    [tools/depends][native] gettext force am_cv_func_iconv_works for apple host by @fuzzard in #23829
    [webOS] Don't assume libraries in RUNPATH to be available by @sundermann in #23826
    [webOS] Tune for Cortex-A53 by @throwaway96 in #23822
    [cmake] More TARGET usage (opengl/opengles/iconv/Pulseaudio) by @fuzzard in #23749
    [Android] Replace enum HDRTypes with Display.HdrCapabilities constants by @joseluismarti in #23769
    [upnp] Fix smart playlist folder definitions by @enen92 in #23831
    Fix detect strm file for resume. by @Acidzero2020 in #23841
    [video] use ffmpeg av_display_rotation_get for rotation from metadata by @enen92 in #23832
    [cmake] add EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL when adding to build_internal_depends by @fuzzard in #23842
    [listproviders] CDirectoryProvider: Add attribute 'browse' … by @ksooo in #23814
    [edl] Allow EDL files on private subnets for network shares rather than the one the Kodi host in on by @enen92 in #23836
    [db][streamdetails] Reintroduce external subtitles into streamdetails by @enen92 in #23835
    [guilib] let oninfo propagate from the item to the container if the c… by @enen92 in #23843
    [docs] minors for streamdetails by @enen92 in #23849
    [windows] Fix CGUIMediaWindow::WaitGetDirectoryItems to leave 'wait f… by @ksooo in #23844
    [listproviders][video][PVR][utils][builtins] Fix and Refactor Video Select Actions by @ksooo in #23848
    Revert "[docs] Fix for-the-badge badges" by @enen92 in #23852
    Add infolabels for video width and height by @graham8 in #23850
    [cmake] windows remove superfluous installdata by @fuzzard in #23853
    [macos][depends] Add Smctemp to depends by @enen92 in #23770
    [macos][input] Support NSEnterCharacter for XBMCK_RETURN by @enen92 in #23860
    [favourites][listproviders] Add support for Video Select Actions for Favourites by @ksooo in #23857
    [webOS] Acb (webOS 4.x) support by @mariotaku in #23834
    [webOS] Fix timezone reading by @sundermann in #23847
    [cmake] FindRapidJSON update to newer module standards by @fuzzard in #23851
    Build curl without libpsl dependency by @throwaway96 in #23837
    [Android] Neon is being enabled by default by @joseluismarti in #23830
    [settings][video][PVR][listproviders][favourites] Add default play action setting. by @ksooo in #23863
    [Estuary][Estouchy] Retire Favourites dialog, use Favourites window instead. by @ksooo in #23861
    [favourites] Remove CGUIDialogFavourites. by @ksooo in #23862
    [macOS] Drop SDL windowing implementation by @enen92 in #22990
    [cmake] Refactor and simplify FindFmt.cmake by @fuzzard in #23876
    [fileitem] Fix playlist favourites not working as expected by @ksooo in #23881
    CAddonSettings: Prevent reference cycle with CAddon by @neo1973 in #23864
    [macos][cocoainterface] Address deprecations by @enen92 in #23880
    [VideoPlayer] Updates audio/video queues for nowadays maximum bitrates by @thexai in #23883
    [cmake][linux] remove unused variables by @fuzzard in #23891
    [favourites] Fix CFavouritesService::IsFavourited to only compare man… by @ksooo in #23885
    [video] Fix 'Play using' and external default player not working. by @ksooo in #23894
    [Teletext] Only override the language code from header if it is actua… by @enen92 in #23890
    [DRMPRIME] Remove pitch check by @jernejsk in #23889
    [GUIDialogTeletext] Mark dirty if data has changed in the decoder by @enen92 in #23896
    [favourites] Add selected items of the target to favourite's context menu by @ksooo in #23895
    [video] CGUIWindowVideoBase: Fix CVideoSelectActionProcessor::OnResumeSelected by @ksooo in #23902
    Translations update from Kodi Weblate by @weblate in #23666
    [video] Fix play/resume of DB and DVD disc images not working from Homescreen widgets by @ksooo in #23905
    [Android][docs] Install NDK using Android SDK Manager by @joseluismarti in #23888
    [windows] CGUIMediaWindow::OnContextButton: Fix 'Browse into' … by @ksooo in #23909
    [video][music] Migrate 'Play using...' to "new" context menu system. by @ksooo in #23901
    [webOS] Acb: Install empty dummy library by @sundermann in #23906
    [upnp] Fix upnp thumbs when using Kodi as a renderer by @enen92 in #23910
    [webOS] Revert "webos: Disable getauxval" by @sundermann in #23911
    [video][music] Migrate last pieces of 'Browse into' to new context menu system. by @ksooo in #23915
    [upnp] clang-format UPnPInternal.cpp by @enen92 in #23916
    [cmake] FindIconv dont add target if libc is the detected provider for iconv by @fuzzard in #23912
    [cmake] FindOpenGLES add IMPORTED_NO_SONAME property by @fuzzard in #23913
    [clang-tidy] modernize-make-(shared|unique) by @Rechi in #23904
    [video][music] Hide play-related context menu items for party mode pl… by @ksooo in #23919
    [cores] Fix external player not recognized as default player. by @ksooo in #23923
    [webOS] Set required memory by @sundermann in #23805
    [favourites] Fix context menu item 'play' and 'resume' not working. by @ksooo in #23925
    add missing c++ headers by @mlauss2 in #23920
    changed: Redact paths in audio/video error toasts by @arnova in #23918
    [favourites][listproviders] Favourites: Add support for action 'info'. by @ksooo in #23924
    fix python XBMCAddon::xbmcgui::Window::onAction() action.getButtonCode() by @icr8ions in #23789
    [fileitem][pvr] Fix context menu item "information" not working... by @ksooo in #23930
    [application] Fix bd selection menu shown when external player is used. by @ksooo in #23931
    [webOS] Pause video on minimize by @sundermann in #23854
    [Windows][UWP] VSync Detection Fixes and Improvements by @CrystalP in #23893
    [PVR] Fix 'switch to previous channel' not working if it is in anothe… by @ksooo in #23932
    [fileitem] Fix mimetype not set/updated properly on loading details. by @ksooo in #23939
    [wayland][input] Remove dead code by @enen92 in #23938
    [webOS] Renderer: Fix render region by @sundermann in #23917
    [favourites] Fix crash on moving items in favourites widget and favourites window. by @ksooo in #23946
    [Android] Clang -march flag is not needed by @joseluismarti in #23872
    [clang-tidy] fix performance-* warnings by @Rechi in #23941
    [linux] add --gl-interface= switch by @lrusak in #23907
    CPlatformFreebsd: use app params to set audio backend by @lrusak in #23886
    CNetworkPosix: implement ping using sockets instead of system call to ping by @lrusak in #23870
    [uPnP] Fix playback of files accessed with curl (ftp, http, ...) by @CrystalP in #23711
    [Android][FFmpeg] flag --enable-neon has no actual effects on Android targets by @joseluismarti in #23839
    [keymaps] Remove leftovers from favourites dialog. by @ksooo in #23951
    [rendering] use default luminance for tone mapping of streams with bad metadata by @CrystalP in #23078
    [Eventlog] fix eventlog messages by @DaVukovic in #23827
    [cmake] FindPulseAudio fix compile definition by @fuzzard in #23955
    [Omega] Beta1 by @fuzzard in #23948

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