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=== Live TV and PVR (Personal Video Recorder) ===
=== Live TV and PVR (Personal Video Recorder) ===
* * Major gui actions refactoring and context menu rewrite in the PVR section<ref>ttp://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/10870</ref><ref>http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11115</ref>
* Major gui actions refactoring and context menu rewrite in the PVR section<ref>http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/10870</ref><ref>http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11115</ref>
* Removed streamURL support for PVR as migrated relevant streaming functions to InputStream API<ref>https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12550</ref>
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=== Other ===
=== Other ===
* Added a new unified setting for "Startup action" and added "Play TV/Radio"<ref>https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12548</ref>
* Added support to build Kodi with support for Bluetooth<ref>http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11137</ref>
* Added support to build Kodi with support for Bluetooth<ref>http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11137</ref>
* Improved Kodi's JSON-RPC API
* Improved Kodi's JSON-RPC API
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=== Android Specific ===
=== Android Specific ===
* Changed Zeroconf to be disabled by default on Android due to unresolved bugs<ref>http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11393</ref>
* Added support for ZeroConf via Android API (and deprecates mDNSresponder)<ref>http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11393</ref>
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Kodi v17 (Krypton) final has just been released, so please keep in mind that a final non-alpha/beta v18 (Leia) release is still far far away into the future. As such, these new features/functions and API changes is a placeholder containing changes to the current Kodi mainline (the git master tree repository on GitHub). It is a very much a work in progress, this is only listing changes commited to the master branch after Jarvis branching, and many many many features/functions and API additions, alterations or removal are still subject to future change.
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This page or section describes features that are a future part of the Kodi v18 release, codename "Leia". For more information see development builds.

This is a placeholder and Kodi Wiki copy of the condensed changelog for the future Kodi v18.x version (codename: "Leia") releases with a summery of the most important core features and functions as well as other notable changes to key areas of the application software or its user interface.

Changelog

Gaming (Games interface and Game Clients)

  • Added a RetroPlayer player core supporting game clients as well as emulator cores via libretro API[1][2]
  • Added support for Game Client Addons as new type of addons with just-in-time emulator installation[1]
  • Added a Games window entry to the GUI[1]
  • Added a gaming and game configuration interface for Game settings to the GUI[1]
  • Added support for Game Info Tags (game info tag) and exposed properties to Python list items[1]
  • Added a savestate (savestate) manager to Kodi for games[3]
  • Added support for in-game (save RAM) saves[4]
  • Added support for Keyboard players via Joystick Emulation[1]
  • Added support for libretro API and game cores (emulators and games) that support it
  • Added game clients addons for many popular third-party game console emulators and games *
    • * Game Client Addons for Kodi is changing quickly so checkout the game clients addons article for a current list
  • Extended Kodi's Addon API to support Game Client Addons, supporting Kodi's VFS (Virtual File System), etc.[1]
  • ?

Live TV and PVR (Personal Video Recorder)

  • Major gui actions refactoring and context menu rewrite in the PVR section[5][6]
  • Removed streamURL support for PVR as migrated relevant streaming functions to InputStream API[7]
  • ?

Add-ons Framework, API, and Manager

For full changelogs of all Addons APIs, see Leia API changes, JSON-RPC, and Add-ons Development Forums

  • Major refactoring of Kodi's handling of binary addons[8]
  • Added support for VFS (Virtual File System) addons[9]
  • Added support to allow Python addons to set the videoinfotag path[10]
  • Added support to allow Python addons to get/set the dbid of a (music) listitem[11]
  • Added support for mediatype to musicinfotag tag retrieving via Python API[12]
  • Added support "int/float slider" to Kodi's Python API[13]
  • Added support "setContent for mediawindows" to Kodi's Python API[14]
  • ?

GUI Engine (Skinning Engine)

For full changelog on changes to the skinning engine, see Leia API changes and the Skin Development Forum

  • Added windows to support Games in the new default skins (Estuary and Estouchy)
  • Added support for skins/gui to allow implicit container referencing for non-media windows[15]
  • Added support for addons to add "Enable/Disable" to context menu[16]
  • Added support for remember last used keyboard layout in GUI[17]
  • Improved Kodi's GUI engine support for scaling container layouts[18]
  • Improved Kodi's GUI engine by allowing %-values for origin, camera and animation attribs[19]
  • Updated guilib ABI (for libgui) to version 5.13.0[20]
  • Updated keyboard layout for some languages and added new keyboard layout for Croatian QWERTZ
  • ?

Platform Independent Playback

  • Added a VC1-Packet bitstream parser implementation for improved VC-1 playback[21]
  • ?

Library

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Web Scrapers

  • Added support for Python (script) based web scrapers for Kodi[22]
  • Refactored and updated many XML based scrapers in Kodi for music, movies, tv shows, and music videos
  • ?

AudioEngine

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Other

  • Added a new unified setting for "Startup action" and added "Play TV/Radio"[23]
  • Added support to build Kodi with support for Bluetooth[24]
  • Improved Kodi's JSON-RPC API
  • Improved code documentation in doxygen coding guidelines
  • Removed all glew (libglew library) dependencies in Kodi's code[25]
  • ?

Android Specific

  • Added support for ZeroConf via Android API (and deprecates mDNSresponder)[26]
  • ?

BSD Specific

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Linux Specific

  • Added support for Mir windowing system for Kodi[27] and added support for VAAPI on Mir using DRM[28]
  • Added support for build Kodi with imx support using CMake[29]
  • Moved the CMake build system to the top of the code tree (moved to root)[30]
  • Removed support for autotools based build system for Kodi and binary addons (in favour of CMake)[31]
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iOS Specific

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OS X Specific

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Windows Specific

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References

See also

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