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 ad
Slightly delayed Alpha 2, but here we go. We had a bit of a wild ride more due to behind the scenes update and changes - however, the good news is that it's given us more time for fixes and additions.
Release notes
Platform Specific
Android
XBox
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
Closed Captions
Subtitles
Multiple WebVTT fixes
Bluray
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.
Skinning
Skinners, have a look on the forums for more info.
Once again, consider this an alpha release. Backup your configs before testing, and please let us know of any regressions or issues
If you want to take the plunge, you can get Alpha 2 from here. Select your platform of choice, and look in the "Prerelease" section.
As usual - well, it is open source - you can see what's changed between v20 Alpha 1 and Alpha 2 here.
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