We already have the official version of Kodi Leia v18.4 ready for download and install, a version that updates the previous official version 18.3. Since version 18 we have substantial changes in its internal code and makes for example that compatible skins for this latest version are only a few, since they need to be updated in each version.
Download
- Manual download Kodi v18.4 Leia
- For Android, download the 32bit ARM7A version, the 64bit V8 version only for NVidia, Realtek and some Rockchip SoC’s.
- For Windows download 64bit version
Changelog
Interface
- Fix Missing text when sorting from inside addon
- Clear/save focus-history when leaving window with focus on parent folder item
- Picture slideshow fixes (Estuary)
- Subscribe to controller install events (games)
- Fix radio button text length (Estuary)
- Fix season/episode formatting for video addons (video)
- Don’t consider display mode ids constant (Android)
Playback/Display
- Fix PlayMedia builtin for playlists (.strm) and “artists” smart playlists (music)
- Fix PlayMedia builtin for smart playlists and playlists (music)
- FFmpeg: Bump to 4.0.4-Leia-18.4
- Load program from stream property without using streaminfo (video)
- Fix initialization of AVD3D11VAContext structure (video, Windows)
- Fix TS resume point, related to PR16314 (video)
- Fixed memory leak, fixed segfault (video, Linux)
- Fix PAPlayer to handle passthrough for TrueHD (audio)
PVR
- Fix component dependencies
- PVRRecordings: Prevent concurrent calls to video database
Other/General fixes
- Use first protocol from add-on in add network dialog
- Use exact matching for protocol in file+dir factories
- Use of absolute paths in combination with hosts in URLs
- Fix file times for vfs addons
- Fix + sign HTTP folder
- Corrections to filesystem CircularCache initialization and termination
- Controller fixes
- Delete stream details when video info is refreshed
- Do not attempt to further resolve plugin paths for failing entries
- Revert “fixed: We should always update stream details from player…”