Talk:Kodi v14 (Helix) changelog

Posted initial condensed changelog for Gotham
I have only posted an initial condensed changelog list here at Kodi v14 (Helix) changelog just to help anyone get started. I am not sure if all the features and functions that I posted actually made it into Kodi v14 (Helix) before the feature freeze or not, or if some of them was bumped to the next of future version of. Please also note that some things that I did put in it have probably been sorted into the wrong category. I am however sure that must have missed many things and that this list is not yet complete, even as just a condensed changelog, so please, any assistance in improving is would be very much appreciated Gamester17 (talk) 06:05, 15 April 2015 (EDT)

Tips for maintaining release changelogs
Hiya all! If any of you guys are looking to volunteer assisting with maintaining a condensed changelog then may I suggest that you utilize the Kodi article on Wikipedia and/or Kodi's own Wiki here on http://kodi.wiki/index.php

condensed changelog is available on Wikipedia today as release history listed under the Releases section (click "[expand]" to see the list):
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodi_%28software%29#Releases

Best source today is the closed pull requests, and you also have all non-pull repository checkins under Timeline on Kodi's Trac site:
 * https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/milestones?state=closed
 * http://trac.kodi.tv/timeline

Most of that information has been copied the Changelog (for a full changelog) and Releases (for condensed changelogs history) articles on http://kodi.wiki/index.php or vice verse:
 * Releases

Before the changelogs http://kodi.wiki/index.php was listed per point release:
 * http://kodi.wiki/index.php?title=Category:Point_releases
 * http://kodi.wiki/index.php?title=XBMC_9.04_point_release

There used to be a condensed changelog available as Roadmap on Kodi's Trac but that has not been maintained for a long time:
 * http://trac.kodi.tv/roadmap
 * http://trac.kodi.tv/milestone/Future%20/%20Pending
 * http://trac.kodi.tv/milestone/10.0%20%22Dharma%22
 * http://trac.kodi.tv/milestone/11.0%20%22Eden%22
 * http://trac.kodi.tv/milestone/12.0%20%22Frodo%22
 * http://trac.kodi.tv/milestone/13.0%20%22Gotham%22

Some more information on the new Gotham features also look to be available in the kodi.tv wiki today, and hopefully this will become a tradition to follow in future releases as well:
 * http://kodi.wiki/index.php?title=Category:Gotham_feature

Personally I think it is mostly uninteresting to keep a condensed changelog for each nightly or even alpha releases, as the monthly blog posts on kodi.tv main news page work better for those. Regards // Gamester17 (talk) 06:05, 15 April 2015 (EDT)

Features and functions that did not make it into Gotham?
Here below is a condensed list of larger features and functions that it looks like they did not make it into Gotham but there still are opened pull requests or development branches for these things. Gamester17 (talk) 06:05, 15 April 2015 (EDT)
 * Add "Heimdall" new multi-scource metadata extraction engine and web scraper framework and addon API for compatible scrapers
 * Add new "Heimdall" compatible scrapers for Games (e.g. TheGamesDB.net), Movies, TV Shows, Music Videos, and Music, etc.
 * Extend the Addon API to support Game Client Addons, supporting Kodi's VFS (Virtual File System), etc.
 * Add support for "Peripheral" Addons for updatable configuration of input devices
 * Add UPnP Multi-Client support with full UPnP server/backend Bi-Directional client/frontend communication and sharing
 * Add support for flagging of local verses remote content, and flagging of online verses temporary offline remote content
 * Add support for handling duplicate media in several ways (ex. multiple versions of same movie in different resolutions)
 * Add Pictures (Digital Images) Library GUI with metadata tags scraper to database and OSD interface
 * Add further optimizations to Kodi's GUI engine for faster rendering on low resource embedded devices
 * Add abstracted scene-graph deferred rendering for GUI renderer abstraction
 * Add framework support for binary addons (inc. closed source proprietary addons) for media player cores
 * Extend Addons API to support binary addons (inc. closed source proprietary addons), for media player cores
 * Add support for C#, Java, Go, Modula-3, OCaml, Octav], and Scheme addons via Groovy and SWIG code-generation
 * Add support for Lua, Perl, PHP, R, Ruby, Tcl scripting languages based add-ons via Groovy and SWIG
 * MIPS processor architecture support for Android
 * MIPS processor architecture support for Linux
 * Add support for display on DirectFB support via Mesa and DRM for OpenGL ES 2.0 support
 * Added initial native support for rendering display and input on Wayland compositors
 * Add support for Place-Shifting streaming videos / music output ability to UPnP Server, Web Server and JSON-RPC API's
 * Add on-the-fly video transcoding output ability to the UPnP Server, Web Server, and JSON-RPC API's for remote apps
 * Add on-the-fly audio transcoding output ability to the UPnP Server, Web Server, and JSON-RPC API's for remote apps
 * Add on-the-fly image transcoding output ability to UPnP Server, Web Server, and JSON-RPC API for remote apps
 * Add initial optional X11 support on EGL (EGL-X11) based systems on Linux, full-screen mode only
 * Add native BD-J (Blu-ray Disc Java) and BD-Live menu and navigation support for decrypted Blu-ray Disc (via libbluray)
 * Add Blu-ray AACS decryption and DRM encrypted playback via third-party library (libaacs)
 * Move music lyrics addon core handling to core and added native support for lyric plugin services
 * Move LCD API and LCDproc support out of Kodi's core and instead into a Python script service add-on
 * Move Last.fm scrobbler and Love/Hate scrobbling out of Kodi's core and instead into an add-on
 * Replace cximage and imagelib with the freeimage