New features
- Search the Live TV guide for channels and programs
- Music sessions restore paused on launch
- Account preferences section
Playback
- Android playback moves to the mpv player backend
- ExoPlayer stays selectable under Settings > Playback > Player Backend
- 10-bit and HDR video reach the display untouched on Android
- Software-decoded HDR stays HDR on Android
- Stopping HDR playback no longer leaves the TV black for up to 30 seconds
- Apple devices keep hardware decoding through a transient decode error
- Playback starts again after a failed player handoff instead of needing a restart
- Android direct play no longer switches to the mpv backend mid-episode
- Android direct play honors DTS-HD MA and container aspect ratios
- The play-next prompt shows the next episode's thumbnail
- Play Next Countdown is configurable from 0 to 30 seconds
- Brightness swipe, volume swipe, and pinch-to-zoom each have their own switch
- A Deinterlacing toggle for DVD-era content on the mpv backend
- A 140% zoom preset
- A separate default streaming quality for cellular connections
Plex
- A quality preset direct plays a file already under it instead of transcoding
- Shows with credits detection disabled no longer get a skip-credits action
- Instant Mix reports failures instead of doing nothing
- Home-video libraries offer User Rating and Plays sorts
Jellyfin & Emby
- A device without a hardware decoder is no longer handed that codec's transcode
- Servers with an AV1 encoder can transcode to AV1
- Audio can no longer be what blocks direct play
- A video-only transcode copies DTS or TrueHD instead of re-encoding it
Explore & trackers
- Sign in to Seerr with Quick Connect
- Seerr accepts a URL typed without http:// or https://
Downloads
- Downloaded tracks are filed under Music/Artist/Album with real track names
UI
- A Grid Spacing setting controls the gap between library posters
- Settings are reorganized into General, Appearance, and Playback homes
- Artwork and library requests are several times faster on Android
TV
- Mark a whole season watched from the show screen
- TrueHD, DTS-HD MA, and E-AC3 bitstream to the receiver on Android TV
- Bitstream passthrough is on by default on Android TV
- HDR letterbox bars are black instead of gray on Fire TV
Desktop
- Text and icons render correctly on macOS again
- Video stays visible while the player UI is on screen on Windows
- Always on Top persists across episodes