Archive talk:Kodi v15 (Isengard) changelog

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Posted initial condensed changelog for Isengard

I have only posted an initial condensed changelog list here at Kodi v15 (Isengard) 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 v15 (Isengard) before the feature freeze or not, or if some of them was bumped to the next of future version of Kodi. 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) 06:15, 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

Kodi condensed changelog is available on Wikipedia today as release history listed under the Releases section (click "[expand]" to see the list):

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:

Template:Changelogs Before the changelogs http://kodi.wiki/index.php was listed per point release:

Best source today is the closed pull requests, and you also have all non-pull repository checkins under Timeline on Kodi's Trac site:

There used to be a condensed changelog available as Roadmap on Kodi's Trac but that has not been maintained for a long time:

Some more information on the new Isengard 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:

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 // ~

Features and functions that did not make it into Isengard?

Here below is a condensed list of larger features and functions that it looks like they did not make it into Isengard but there still are opened pull requests or development branches for these things. Gamester17 (talk) 06:15, 15 April 2015 (EDT)

  • Add a unified Games Manager Library and GUI front-end launcher with online metadata web scraping support
  • Add Games entry to the GUI, also introduces Game Addons as new type of addons with just-in-time emulator installation
  • Add Games Library for Game Metadata, exposing info (current level, number of lives, number of coins earned, etc.) to GUI
  • 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 RetroPlayer Video Game Console Emulator (ROM image player) interface supporting the libretro API and emulator cores
  • Add generic and user-mappable cross-platform Joystick (and Gamepad) abstraction layer for joystick APIs and joystick clients
  • Add support for "Peripheral" Addons for updatable configuration of input devices[1]
  • 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[2]
  • 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 wikipedia:SWIG code-generation
  • Add support for Lua, Perl, PHP, R, Ruby, Tcl scripting languages based add-ons via wikipedia:Groovy and wikipedia:SWIG
  • MIPS processor architecture support for wikipedia:Sigma Designs MIPS SoCs on Android
  • MIPS processor architecture support for wikipedia:Sigma Designs MIPS SoCs on Linux
  • ARM processor architecture support for wikipedia:Sigma Designs MIPS SoCs on Android
  • ARM processor architecture support for wikipedia:Sigma Designs MIPS SoCs on Linux
  • Add support for display on wikipedia: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 wikipedia: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
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