Kodi v18 (Leia) changelog
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Kodi v18 (Leia) changelog
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NOTICE: Kodi v17 (Krypton) final have not even been released yet, 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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FUTURE Leia FEATURE: 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 a Games window entry to the GUI, also introduces Game Addons as new type of addons with just-in-time emulator installation[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 support for Keyboard players via Joystick Emulation[1]
- Extended Kodi's Addon API to also support Game Client Addons, supporting Kodi's VFS (Virtual File System), etc.[1]
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Live TV and PVR (Personal Video Recorder)
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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[3]
- Added support for VFS (Virtual File System) addons[4]
- Added support "int/float slider" to Kodi's Python APICite error: Closing
</ref>missing for<ref>tag - Added support "setContent for mediawindows" to Kodi's Python API[5]
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GUI Engine (Skinning Engine)
For full changelog on changes to the skinning engine, see Leia API changes and the Skin Development Forum
- Added support for remember last used keyboard layout in GUI[6]
- Improved Kodi's GUI engine support for scaling container layouts[7]
- Improved Kodi's GUI engine by allowing %-values for origin, camera and animation attribs[8]
- Updated guilib ABI (for libgui) to version 5.13.0[9]
- Updated keyboard layout for some languages and added new keyboard layout for Croatian QWERTZ
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Platform Independent Playback
- Added a VC1-Packet bitstream parser implementation for improved VC-1 playback[10]
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Library
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Web Scrapers
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AudioEngine
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Other
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Android Specific
- Changed Zeroconf to be disabled by default on Android due to unresolved bugs[11]
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BSD Specific
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Linux Specific
- Added support for build Kodi with imx support using CMake[12]
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iOS Specific
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OS X Specific
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Windows Specific
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 RetroPlayer http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=164725
- ↑ http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11022
- ↑ http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pulls?q=label%3A%22Binary+Addons%22+is%3Aclosed
- ↑ http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/8966
- ↑ http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11258
- ↑ http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11242
- ↑ http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11229
- ↑ http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11233
- ↑ http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11306
- ↑ http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11417
- ↑ http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11393
- ↑ http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11288