Today we're happy to release OSMC's August 2025 update for all supported devices. We hope you're having a fantastic Summer and want to keep your OSMC experience running smoothly.

USA shipment warning

From 29th August, all items sent to the USA will have tariffs applied from them and the $800 USD deminimis rule will be removed for all countries. We are looking at mitigating this but given such short notice, it is likely we will not be able to ship orders to the US for a while after this date. As such, we advise anyone wishing to order OSMC products to bring these orders forward before this date.

Dolby Vision support

In case you missed it, we are now happy to announce TV-led Dolby Vision support for Vero V devices. You can learn more about Dolby Vision here.

Nothing needs to be done to enable this functionality beyond updating to the latest version of OSMC.

End of support for Vero 4K / 4K + (one more update)

We announced end of life support with the last OSMC update. However some users reported an issue with seeking when we released Kodi v21.2. As a result, we addressed this with a final update and also updated the final OSMC installation images so that users could always install the latest version of Kodi which did not exhibit this issue.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed seeking issues on Vero devices which could cause freezes
  • Fixed an issue which could prevent NTP time daemon from working on new installations of OSMC
  • Fixed an issue with zooming on video files when using hardware accelerated playback on Vero V
  • OSMC Skin: fixed missing OSD icon for auto masking feature
  • OSMC Skin: fix custom masking colour setting
  • Dolby Vision: fixed an issue that could cause some TVs to show a blank screen
  • Dolby Vision: fixed flashes of corrupted colours in some circumstances
  • Dolby Vision: fixed playback of official Apple streams which flag as Profile 5 in RPU but are actually Profile 8

Improving the user experience

  • Improved Profile 5 Dolby Vision colours on Vero V
  • Improved VNC server on Vero devices
  • OSMC Skin: change masking bars to allow fully transparent colour values
  • Limit number of HDMI resets when starting and stopping playback on Vero V for a smoother playback experience
  • Dolby Vision: improved playback with some problematic clips
  • Improved switching between RGB and YUV output without reboot on Vero V
  • Added support for dynamic metadata with AV-1 codec on Vero V

Wrap up

To get the latest and greatest version of OSMC, simply head to My OSMC -> Updater and check for updates manually on your exising OSMC set up. Of course — if you have updates scheduled automatically you should receive an update notification shortly.

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You may also wish to check out our Store, which offers a wide variety of high quality products which will help you get the most out of OSMC.

Vero V is our latest and greatest flagship and the best way to enjoy OSMC and with Dolby Vision now supported, it's better than ever.