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