KODI 20 Nexus Alpha 3, available for download and install

Ready to download and install the new official version of Kodi 20 “Nexus” Alpha 3. A new update that continues to evolve this software until its final version, in a few months it will be stable.

The changes made on this new version Kodi v20 Nexus are few at the aesthetic level as we can appreciate, and it seems a fairly similar version in this aspect. Internally, we have the official changelog published for more details. In any case, we have versions available for Windows in 32 and 64bit compilations in addition to the compilations for Android in ARM V7A format for greater compatibility and ARM V8A for Shield TV or similar.

- SOME ADD-ONS DON’T WORK WITH THIS VERSION, downgrade and install KODI 18.9 to solve problems.

You can compare this SoC with our recommended TV-Box models to know alternatives.

Download KODI 20 Nexus Alpha 3

Download installer Kodi v20 Nexus Alpha3 installer for Windows 64 bit, recommended for any PC.
Download installer Kodi v20 Nexus Alpha3 for Windows 32 bit, for very old PCs.
Download apk Kodi v20 Nexus Alpha3 for Android 32 bit ARM V7A, compatible with all the TV-Box.
Download apk Kodi v20 Nexus Alpha3 for Android 64 bit ARM V8A, only NVidia, Realtek and some Rockchip SoC’s.
NOTE DOWNLOAD: there are browsers that block EXE and APK download, use right click “Save link as”, then in the download tab below click on the little arrow above next to “Discard” and select SAVE.

Changelog

Addons

Some crashes in addon installation and repository checks have been corrected (ksooo, howie-f)
AlwinEsch has implemented a large feature to allow multiple instances of the same binary addon.
This allows, for example, two instances of a PVR addon (e.g. PVR.HTS) to run using different backend provider instances. The usage of this will require updates from the various binary addons that will start to happen, so if you are interested in helping your favourite PVR addon to implement this, check out the above PVR.HTS PR, as well as the following PVR.Demo PR

Database

ksooo has been optimising various things in our db wrappers for better performance (link)

DVD

Fix DVD Menu indicators for DRMPrime (link)

Filesystem

Fix NFS for Windows platforms after some recent NFS updates
Several NFS improvements/cleanups
Initial NFS4 implementation (link)

Font/Glyh

Several improvements around our Font/Glyph Handling code from several team members (ksooo, thexai, sarbes) – improvements that should help low power machines in particular, but all platforms generally.
Harbuzz glyph caching improvements (link)
Fix some inconsistencies with RTL languages and certain skinning components (link)

Games

Improvements/cleanups regarding controllers (link)
Fix crash if controller info files don’t have correct info (link)

General

Rechi has done a bunch of leg work implementing improvements from Static analysis tools like CPPCheck (link) and ClangTidy (link)
Remove obsolete addons from Core Kodi install (link)
Fixed wrong player playlist with playlist files (link)
Fixed wrong player playlist with playlist files on widgets (link)

Input

Fix using mouse to drag/drop some controls (link)

Platform Specific

Linux GBM
- Ability to set HDR Output (link)
MacOS
- Allow the OSX arm64 (Apple Silicon) build to correctly find appropriate binary addons from repositories.
Windows
- Fix incorrect window positioning when transitioning window to fullscreen and back (link)