Dave C

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A new version of Kodi has been released today. You will be able to update it automatically from the Google Play Store, a guide can be found here if you have not done this before. Or you can download it manually from the Kodi homepage at https://kodi.tv/.

All of our Android boxes and Windows devices can run the latest Kodi. If you have an old model or want something a bit faster check out our range at their respective links.

The changes in this version include

Audio
  • Fixes around visualisations
  • Fixes around pause/resume
  • Fixes around TrueHD crashes
  • Workaround firmware bug (AMLogic v23) (sidenote: there are many more Android audio fixes that can't be merged into 18.x "Leia" because of old AMLogic workarounds)
    Fix to correctly resume audio-only MPEG-TS streams
  • Correct headphone enumeration (Android)
Build System
  • Updates for missing includes
  • Updates for Cmake (Windows)
  • Updates for device handling and packaging (macOS)
Games
  • Fixes for launching disc images and .zip files
  • Fixes for black screen for RGB emulators (Rpi)
Interface/Look-and-feel
  • Fixes around TextureCache
  • Fixes for windowing, refresh rate, mode change and others (Android)
  • Fixes for floating/split keyboard (iOS)
  • Fix for artist slideshow (Estuary)
  • Fix media view from addon given content
Playback/Display
  • Fixed race condition for OnPlaybackStarted
  • Fixes for MIME type (Android)
  • Support for DolbyVision streams via addons
  • Fixes for maximum width and height/vertical-shift (Android)
  • Fix for scanning in sub-directories
  • Fix size of EAGL layer on external screen (iOS)
  • Fix for glTexImage3D (Linux)
  • Fix for seeking issues
  • Reset playlist on new file playback
PVR
  • Fix for multiline episode names
Other/General
  • Fixed incorrectly formatted region time
  • Pass JSON serialised path settings to python scrapers
  • Fix file access on auto-mounted sources
  • Fix seeking with FileCache lockup
  • Fix passthrough on USB devices (Android)
  • Fix crash if profile.xml gets broken
  • Fix cache forward size on EOF