We already have Kodi v18 RC1 Leia ready to download, a version that updates detected bugs in the official version 18.0. A final version substantially changes its internal code and makes for example that the compatible skins for this last version are only a few, since they need to be updated in each version. Soon we will have a final version of this new update that will also be distributed by Google Play.
Download
- Manual download Kodi v18.1 RC1 Leia
- For Android, download the 32bit ARM7A version, the 64bit V8 version only for NVidia So, Realtek and some Rockchip.
- For Windows download 64bit version
List of most important changes in this version
- We have an infinite list of changes that we can consult in this link.
- Speed up Player and Playlists operations with JSON-RPC
- Define a senseful default value for advanced settings “updateemptytagsinterval”
- Revert edge case crash fix that caused DVDs to be not recognised on Mac OS
- Remove “dxvaallowhqscaling” advanced setting to prepare for DXVA improvements in v18.2 for Windows
- Linux X11: fix usage of required configuration values
- Add date to the log records
- Don’t react on DPI change event on Win10 >= FCU
- Fix Android MediaCodec freeze on early disposal of a stream
- Flush streamplayers if abort is requested which solves waiting too long (on skipping DVD intros, for example)
- Fix ListitemAbsolute and ListItemPosition in GUI engine
- Ignore very first “server not reachable” notification for PVR servers
- Use extended result codes for SQLite
- Fix invalid PTS decoder value which should inprove MPEG2 playback on Android devices
- update SSL CA trust store
- Handle empty vertex buffers in GUIFontTTFGL which caused a hard crash
- Reintroduce setting “Close channel OSD after switching channels” for PVR
- Fix thread logging on Android which causes e.g. frozen DVD/Bluray playback
- Avoid attempt to load music info for smartplaylists
- Fix Top 100 Albums regression
- RenderCapture: Only query Occlusion if GL lower 1.5
- Check current mode if whitelist doesn’t match and take correct action
- Check if app intent is valid on Android. This fixes a hard crash when trying to open Kodi again
- Fix PVR input stream creation for pvr file items only containing a path and no recording/channel tag.
- Fix playing VP9 streams using inputstream addon. It failed because codec extradata is non-existent for this stream codec.
- Catch an exception while reading or writing a file
- Fix logical “or” operation in GUI engine
- Check the system capabilities to support sleep states S1/S2/S3/S4 before reporting them as available
- Fix crash in PCSX ReARMed with BIOS
- Several Estuary cosmetic fixes
