Kodi v18 (Leia) changelog

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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 and Game OSD (On-Screen-Display) entries to the GUI[1][3]
  • 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[4]
  • Added initial support for basic gameplay persistence (auto-save & auto-load)[5]
  • Added support for in-game (save RAM) saves[6]
  • 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[7][8]
  • Added info support to the recently played channel widget in Kodi's default skin (Estuary)
  • Added episode name to Live TV and recordings OSD sub label in Kodi's default skin (Estuary)
  • Added new API function "GetDescrambleInfo" for additional addon capability[9]
  • Added new API function "SetRecordingLifetime" for additional addon capability[9]
  • Added new API function "PVR_ADDON_CAPABILITIES.bSupportsRecordingsRename" for additional addon capability[9]
  • Added new timer type attribute "PVR_TIMER_TYPE_SUPPORTS_ANY_CHANNEL" for additional addon capability[9]
  • Added new field "PVR_RECORDING.strGenreDescription" for additional addon capability[9]
  • Removed streamURL support for PVR as migrated relevant streaming functions to InputStream API[10]
  • Added, updated, and improved PVR backend clients addons for all popular third-party external PVR backend platforms:
  • ?

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 core handling and GUI management of binary addons[11]
  • Added framework to support VFS (Virtual File System) as binary addons[12]
  • Added framework support for binary addons for video decoder codecs[13]
  • Added extentions to Kodi's Addons API to support binary addons for video decoder codecs[13]
  • Added option to pass HTTP cookies with AVOption to Kodi's Video Player[14]
  • Added support to allow addons to edit all used controls on their processed window[15]
  • Added support to allow Python addons to set the videoinfotag path[16]
  • Added support to allow Python addons to get/set the dbid of a (music) listitem[17]
  • Added support for mediatype to musicinfotag tag retrieving via Python API[18]
  • Added support "int/float slider" to Kodi's Python API[19]
  • Added support "setContent for mediawindows" to Kodi's Python API[20]
  • Added help for load of shared library and allow the use of their own addon temp folder[21]
  • Added support to inspect add-on dependencies prior to installation[22]
  • Changed to new addon gui interface for list items to use on addon window[23]
  • Changed service addons to use event handlers instead of synchronous addon hooks[24]
  • ?

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 and Game OSD in the new default skins (Estuary and Estouchy)
  • Added support for addons to use banner and ClearLogo[25]
  • Added support for skins/gui to allow implicit container referencing for non-media windows[26]
  • Added support for addons to add "Enable/Disable" to context menu[27]
  • Added support for remember last used keyboard layout in GUI[28]
  • Added support for ISO 639-2/T language code retrieval (required by libbluray)[29]
  • Improved Kodi's GUI engine with optimizations for message handling and SmartRedraw[30]
  • Improved Kodi's GUI engine support for scaling container layouts[31]
  • Improved Kodi's GUI engine by allowing %-values for origin, camera and animation attribs[32]
  • Updated guilib ABI (for libgui) to version 5.13.0[33]
  • Updated keyboard layout for some languages and added new keyboard layout for others, like Croatian QWERTZ
  • ?

Platform Independent Playback

  • Added support for "InputStream" (input stream) addons to pass CryptoSession flags field[34]
  • Added support for BD-J / Blu-ray Disc Java menu support (requires system Java runtime enviroment)[35][36]
  • Added support for Blu-ray Disc detection and use provided meta data for Blu-ray Disc names[37]
  • Added support for video buffers to be used by decoders and renderers[38]
    • Added support for platforms to register custom buffers, like example dma[38]
  • Added a VC1-Packet bitstream parser implementation for improved VC-1 playback[39]
  • Added and updated many (binary) audio decoder and encoder addons for Kodi
  • Added a few (binary) video decoder addons for Kodi[13]
  • Upgraded FFmpeg multimedia codec and demux libraries to stable branch release version FFmpeg 3.3 (3.3.2)[40][41]
  • Removed the unused and unmaintained OpenMAX video decoder from Kodi's VideoPlayer[42]
  • Removed certain audio codecs from core and made them into audio decoder and audio encoder add-ons
  • Removed certain video codecs from core and made them into video decoder add-ons[13]
  • ?

Library

  • Added support to "Sort By Date Added" in Music Video title node[43]
  • ?

Web Scrapers

  • Added support for Python (script) based web scrapers for Kodi[44]
  • Refactored and updated many XML based scrapers in Kodi for music, movies, tv shows, and music videos
  • Updated music, movies, tv shows, and music video scrapers for Kodi
  • ?

AudioEngine

  • Improved the default cross-platform event driven active state machine pattern ActiveAE (Kodi's AudioEngine)
  • Improved ALSA sink for ActiveAE for Linux Desktop and generic Linux based Embedded Systems
  • Improved PulseAudio sink for ActiveAE for Linux Desktop
  • Improved OSS (Open Sound System) sink for ActiveAE for BSD, like FreeBSD and similar BSD Unix based systems
  • Improved AUDIOTRACK sink for ActiveAE for Amlogic
  • Improved Pi Audio sink for ActiveAE for Raspberry Pi
  • Improved DirectSound sink for ActiveAE for Windows
  • Improved WASAPI sink for ActiveAE for Windows
  • Improved CoreAudio sink for ActiveAE for (Mac) OS X and iOS
  • Improved Darwin sink for ActiveAE for (Mac) OS X and iOS
  • ?

Other

  • Added a new unified setting for "Startup action" and added "Play TV/Radio"[45]
  • Added support to build Kodi with support for Bluetooth[46]
  • Added possibility for CMake build system to add additional libraries on install[47]
  • Improved Kodi's JSON-RPC API
  • Improved code documentation in doxygen coding guidelines
  • Changed XML format of setting values for Kodi's settings configuration[48]
  • Updated critical dependency libraries such as openssl, gnutls, and CMake (used to compile Kodi and its binary addons)
  • Removed last dependencies of SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) which was only hardware abstraction for input devices[49]
  • Removed all glew (libglew library) dependencies in Kodi's code[50]
  • ?

Android Specific

  • Added support for Android to move the Kodi app to SD card[51]
  • Moved to Android NDK 14b
  • Change Rendertype from GUILayer to VideoLayer for Android MediaCodecSurface[52]
  • Changed to support ZeroConf via Android API (and deprecates mDNSresponder)[53]
  • Changed to support network information via Android API (and deprecates POSIX)[54]
  • Changed handling of Kodi's Java interfaces via JNI for better consistency[55]
  • ?

BSD Specific

  • Improved Kodi support for BSD (operating system) on FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and other similar BSD platforms
  • Improved VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) support (requires VAAPI compatible hardware and drivers)
  • Improved VDPAU (NVIDIA) Hardware Video Acceleration (requires VDPAU compatible hardware and drivers)
  • ?

Linux Specific

  • Added support for a generic DRM/KMS implementation using GBM to create required surfaces[56]
  • Added support for Mir windowing system for Kodi[57] and added support for VAAPI on Mir using DRM[58]
  • Added support more yuv420p bitwidths for direct rendering on Linux[59]
  • Added support for using VAAPI hardware video decoding with OpenGL ES[60]
  • Added support for build Kodi with imx support using CMake[61]
  • Moved the CMake build system to the top of the code tree (moved to root)[62]
  • Improved support for UltraHD decoding / 4K resolution output when hardware supports it
  • Improved ARM processor architecture (using Raspberry Pi as reference device)
  • Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support (using Raspberry Pi as reference device)
  • Improved VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) support (requires VAAPI compatible hardware and drivers)
  • Improved VDPAU (NVIDIA) Hardware Video Acceleration (requires VDPAU compatible hardware and drivers)
  • Improved XvBA (AMD/ATI) Hardware Video Acceleration (requires XvBA compatible hardware and drivers)
  • Removed support for autotools based build system for Kodi and binary addons (in favour of CMake)[63]
  • ?

iOS Specific

  • ?

OS X Specific

  • ?

Windows Specific

  • Added support to build Kodi for Windows 64 / Windows for Intel 64-bit (x86-64)[64]
  • Added support for 3D LUT (3D Lookup Table) and dithering to Windows video renderer[65]
  • Changed the inner working of render buffers and rendering methods[65]
  • Changed windowing systems for screen saver handling on Windows OS platforms
  • Removed ARGET_POSIX ifdefs from posix/main.cpp and make Kodi for Windows platform independent of posix/main.cpp[66]
  • ?

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 RetroPlayer http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=164725
  2. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11022
  3. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12367
  4. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11034
  5. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12434
  6. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11380
  7. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/10870
  8. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11115
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12303
  10. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12550
  11. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pulls?q=label%3A%22Binary+Addons%22+is%3Aclosed
  12. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/8966
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12340
  14. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12257
  15. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12259
  16. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11012
  17. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/10858
  18. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11110
  19. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11230
  20. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11258
  21. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12379
  22. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12242
  23. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12214
  24. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12370
  25. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12244
  26. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/10883
  27. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11124
  28. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11242
  29. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12258
  30. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12213
  31. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11229
  32. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11233
  33. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11306
  34. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12428
  35. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12339
  36. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12310
  37. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12488
  38. 38.0 38.1 https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12212
  39. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11417
  40. http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob_plain;f=Changelog;hb=release/3.3.2 FFmpeg 3.3.2 release changelog
  41. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12358
  42. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12197
  43. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12495
  44. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/9984
  45. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12548
  46. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11137
  47. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12423
  48. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12277
  49. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12272
  50. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11128
  51. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12168
  52. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12097
  53. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11393
  54. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12243
  55. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12292
  56. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11955
  57. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/10898
  58. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11040
  59. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12479
  60. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12113
  61. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11288
  62. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/10446
  63. http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/10429
  64. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12065
  65. 65.0 65.1 https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12475
  66. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12215

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