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Kodi 22's second release candidate adds chapter jumping and wider HDR support.

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◆Current state
Kodi v22 Piers is in release candidates. RC2 on November 10 adds chapter, scene marker and bookmark jumping with Up/Down during playback, HDR10 and HLG on tvOS, and Dolby Vision Low Latency on Xbox. The rest is a long fix list across Blu-ray playlists and menus, HDR detection on Android and audio sync.
◆Where it's heading
The v22 cycle is closing: RC1 brought FFmpeg 9.0.2 and HDR subtitle overlays, and RC2 is mostly platform HDR coverage and Blu-ray fixes. Feature work is now small and targeted.
◆Prediction
Expect a final v22.0 release within weeks, since two release candidates have landed six weeks apart with shrinking feature lists.

◆Recent moves

  1. 4d ago

    Kodi 22 RC2 adds chapter jumping and HDR on tvOS and Xbox

    RC2 adds chapter and bookmark jumping, HDR10 and HLG on tvOS and Dolby Vision Low Latency on Xbox, plus Blu-ray fixes. It is late-cycle polish on the way to v22.0.

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  2. 1mo ago

    First Piers release candidate adds HDR subtitle overlays

    The first candidate upgrades FFmpeg to 9.0.2, adds HDR overlays including UHD PGS subtitles, and clears a long list of hangs, crashes and disc faults. It marks the shift the betas were heading toward: the Piers feature set is settled and stabilization has taken over.

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  3. 2mo ago

    Beta 2 rebases on FFmpeg 9.0.1 and Libbluray 1.5.0

    The second beta pairs two dependency rebases — FFmpeg 9.0.1 and Libbluray 1.5.0 — with a long correction pass across video, HDR, Blu-ray, audio, subtitles and PVR. HDR screenshots are newly enabled and ReplayGain PreAmp is recentred on 0 dB, but the bulk is platform-specific playback repair, which is the expected shape once a foundations cycle reaches beta.

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  4. 3mo ago

    v22.0a3-Piers

    An alpha continuing the v22 rebuild ahead of the beta series. Sequence should be read with care — this feed dates the alpha 3 and beta 1 entries out of order.

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  5. 4mo ago

    v22.0b1-Piers

    The first beta, marking the point where the v22 cycle shifted from landing features to stabilising them. Beta 2 continues directly from here.

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  6. 7mo ago

    v22.0a2-Piers

    An early v22 alpha, part of the run that carried the FFmpeg, Python and database foundations work before the feature set settled.

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