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== Release history == | == Release history == | ||
This is | This is the Kodi release history with condensed summaries of the changes present between each release and the one prior to it; only the most important or notable new features, functions, and changes in each stable version of {{kodi}} are shown here. A link to the unabridged changelog for any version can be found on that release's announcement post on the Kodi Blog. | ||
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| style="background:#a0e75a;"| Green | | style="background:#a0e75a;"| Green | ||
| Current release | | Current release | ||
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| style="background: | | style="background:salmon;"| Red | ||
| | | Old releases | ||
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! [[Codename]] | |||
! Version | ! Version | ||
! Release date | ! scope="col" style="width: 10%" | Release date | ||
! Significant changes | ! Significant changes | ||
! XBMC Live based on | ! XBMC Live based on | ||
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| style=" | ! style="background: skyblue;" | [[Kodi v19 (Matrix) FAQ|Matrix]] | ||
| | | style="background: skyblue; text-align: right;" | 19.0 | ||
| {{ | | style="background: skyblue;" | TBA | ||
| {{main|Kodi v19 (Matrix) changelog|Matrix API changes}} | |||
* | | N/A | ||
|{{ | |- | ||
! rowspan="6" style="background: #a0e75a;" | [[Kodi v18 (Leia) FAQ|Leia]] | |||
| style="background: #a0e75a; text-align: right;" | 18.5 | |||
| style="background: #a0e75a;" | [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-leia-185-release 17 Nov 2019] | |||
| rowspan="6" | {{main|Kodi v18 (Leia) changelog|Leia API changes}}<br />29 December 2017 - XBox One v18 Alpha released to Windows Store | |||
* Retroplayer gaming and associated game control support | |||
* Digital Rights Management decryption support | |||
* Music Library – new ways to explore and enjoy your music collection | |||
* Live TV improvements, including support for new back-ends | |||
* Binary addon support and the binary addon repository | |||
* Android Leanback and voice control | |||
* Playback improvements (audio and video), including improved Blu-ray support | |||
| rowspan="5" | N/A | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 18.4 | |||
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-leia-184-release 1 Sept 2019] | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 18.3 | |||
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-leia-183-release 27 June 2019]|| | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 18.2 | |||
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-leia-182-release 22 April 2019] | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 18.1 | |||
| 17 February 2019 | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 18.0 | |||
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-180 29 January 2019] | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan="7" style="background: salmon;" | [[Kodi v17 (Krypton) FAQ|Krypton]] | |||
| style="background: salmon; text-align: right;" | 17.6 | |||
| style="background: salmon;" | [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v176-final-very-last 15 November 2017] | |||
| rowspan="7" | {{main|Kodi v17 (Krypton) changelog|Krypton API changes}} | |||
| rowspan="7" | N/A | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 17.5 | |||
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v175-final-another-bunch-fixes 24 October 2017] | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 17.4 | |||
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v174-final-just-bunch-fixes 22 August 2017] | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 17.3 | |||
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v173-minor-bug-fix-and-security-release 25 May 2017] | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 17.2 | |||
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v172-minor-bug-fix-and-security-release 21 May 2017] | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 17.1 | |||
| [https://kodi.tv/kodi-v17-1-krypton 23 March 2017] | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 17.0 | |||
| [https://kodi.tv/kodi17 5 February 2017] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style=" | ! rowspan="2" style="background: salmon;" | [[Kodi v16 (Jarvis) FAQ|Jarvis]] | ||
| | | style="text-align: right;" | 16.1 | ||
| {{ | | [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-161-%E2%80%93-jarvis-%E2%80%93-mark-xvi 24 April 2016] | ||
| rowspan="2" | {{main|Kodi v16 (Jarvis) changelog|Jarvis API changes}} | |||
* | * Added FM Radio receiver based upon RTL-SDR as PVR Addon backend client | ||
* | * Added support to PVR API for Scheduling Recordings of TV Shows (EPG based DVR Timers for "Series Recording") | ||
* | * Added 'Play recording' context menu option if an EPG entry has an associated (PVR) recording | ||
* | * Added, updated, and improved PVR backend clients addons for all popular third-party external [[PVR backend]] platforms: | ||
* | ** [[Add-on:IPTV Simple Client|IPTV Simple Client]], [[Add-on:FilmOn PVR Client|FilmOn]], [[Add-on:Stalker Client|Stalker Middleware]], [[Add-on:HDHomeRun PVR|HDHomeRun]], [[Add-on:VU+ / Enigma2 Client|Enigma2 (Dreambox / Vu+ / DBox2)]], [[Add-on:VBox TV Gateway PVR Client|VBox TV Gateway]], [[Add-on:Njoy N7 PVR Client|Njoy Digital (N7)]], [[Add-on:PCTV Systems Client|PCTV Systems (Broadway)]], [[Add-on:Tvheadend HTSP Client|Tvheadend HTSP Client]], [[Add-on:VDR VNSI Client|VDR VNSI Client]], [[Add-on:MythTV PVR Client|MythTV PVR Client]], [[Add-on:NextPVR PVR Client|NextPVR (former GB-PVR)]], [[Add-on:Argus TV Client|Argus TV (former ForTheRecord)]], [[Add-on:DVBLink PVR Client|DVBLink PVR Client]], [[Add-on:DVBViewer Client|DVBViewer Client]], [[Add-on:MediaPortal PVR Client|MediaPortal PVR Client]], [[Add-on:PVR.WMC|WMC (Windows Media Center)]] | ||
* | * Added automatic dependency handling for binary addons | ||
* | * Improved add-on update and rollback support by adding ability to choose a specific repo and allow repositories to hold many versions of same addon | ||
* | * Changed saving of skin settings which are now stored as separate files | ||
* | * Added support for Animated GIF images to loadable for any kind of textures, e.g. Posters and FanArt | ||
* | * Added support for image resource (e.g. weather fanart, studio logos, genre icons, etc.) and sound resource (e.g. button clicks, transitions, errors, etc.) addons | ||
* | * Added new infolabels that can display audio/subtitle properties for all available streams | ||
* | * Added support for sortby and sortorder attributes to the <content> element | ||
* | * Improved touch and gesture support for all platforms, and overhauled [[Add-on:Re-Touched|Re-Touched]], the default touch screen skin | ||
* | * Added support for lossless software decode of DTS-HD tracks/streams in videos using libdcadec | ||
* | * Improved and enhanced Blu-ray support (including updated libbluray dependecies) | ||
* | * Upgraded FFmpeg multimedia codec and demux libraries to stable branch release version [http://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html#release_2.8.5 FFmpeg 2.8.5] | ||
| | * Removed certain audio codecs from core and made them into audio decoder and audio encoder add-ons | ||
* Unified the music library and files view (similar to video library structure) | |||
* Added option for for user ratings of video items and editing user ratings from the GUI frontend | |||
* Added support to sort by top albums by play count in the music library | |||
* Updated movie, TV show, music and music video scrapers | |||
* Improved ALSA, PulseAudio and OSS sinks for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Linux desktops/embedded systems | |||
* Improved Pi Audio sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for [[Raspberry Pi]] | |||
* Improved DirectSound and WASAPI sinks for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Windows | |||
* Improved CoreAudio and Darwin sinks for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for (Mac) OS X and iOS | |||
* Added ability to open and edit playlists from within Kodi | |||
* Added "long-press" support to extend the functionality of a single button on a remote control | |||
* Improved code stability and performance as well as general code clean-up in many core areas | |||
* Improved the the integrated UPnP / DNLA Media Server and Client | |||
* Improved AirPlay compatibility support for iOS 8 (via updated libshairplay) and added initial support for AirPlay from iOS 9 devices | |||
* Improved [[CEC|HDMI CEC (Consumer Electronics Control)]] support for [http://libcec.pulse-eight.com/ Pulse-Eight's LibCEC] | |||
* Removed karaoke features due to lack of maintainer | |||
* Added proper implementation of handling MEDIA keys support on Android | |||
* Improved support for UltraHD decoding / 4K resolution output when HW supports it | |||
* Improved display of other Android apps while browsing these under Kodi as application launcher | |||
* Improved touch-screen keymapping for Android based platforms for better gesture support | |||
* Improved Kodi support for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution BSD (operating system)] on FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and other similar BSD platforms | |||
* Improved VAAPI (Video Acceleration API for Intel), VDPAU (NVIDIA) and XvBA (AMD/ATI) video hardware acceleration (requires VAAPI/VDPAU/XvBA compatible hardware and drivers) | |||
* Improved automatic refresh rate switching support for video playback | |||
* Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support on ARM processor architecture (using [[WeTek Play]] and [[Raspberry Pi]] as reference devices) | |||
* Improved OpenMAX Video Acceleration API support for Linux (using Raspberry Pi as reference hardware) | |||
* Improved touch and gesture support for iOS based iDevice platforms (iPad, iPod, and iPhone) | |||
* Removed support for Apple TV 2 | |||
* Removed support for iOS 5.1 devices (e.g. iPad 1) | |||
* Updated the whole rendering system on Microsoft Windows platforms to DirectX 11 and Direct3D 11 native support | |||
* Improved DXVA/DXVA2 rendering and decoding on Windows (when using DirectX 11 device drivers) | |||
| rowspan="2" | N/A | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style=" | | style="text-align: right;" | 16.0 | ||
| | | [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-160-jarvis-mark-xvi 21 February 2016] | ||
|- | |- | ||
! rowspan="3" style="white-space: nowrap; background: salmon;" | [[Kodi v15 (Isengard) FAQ|Isengard]] | |||
| 15 | | style="text-align: right;" | 15.2 | ||
| | | [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-152-isengard-final-chapter 19 October 2015] | ||
| | | rowspan="3" | {{main|Kodi v15 (Isengard) changelog|Isengard API changes}} | ||
* | * Added possibility to use multiple PVR clients for different PVR backends at the same time | ||
* | * Improved PVR, EPG, and OSD frontend GUI in Kodi and extended the PVR API to support more features and functions | ||
* "XBMC | * Improved PVR API and database adding many new EPG and Channel properties | ||
* | * Improved PVR / DVR timeshift support to pause Live TV (note that each PVR backend still need to support timeshifting) | ||
* | * Improved PVR / EPG extensions and notifications support over the JSON-RPC API | ||
| | * Improved Closed Captions (CC) support for Live TV | ||
* Improved the "GlobalSearch" (service addon) function by adding EPG search support | |||
* Added, updated, and improved PVR backend clients addons for all popular third-party external [[PVR backend]] platforms: | |||
** [[PVR/Testing|PVR Demo Client]] dummy addon with fake (method stub) backend for skin development and regression testing | |||
** [[PVR/Backend/IPTV|IPTV (IPTV Simple Client)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | |||
** [[Add-on:FilmOn PVR Client|FilmOn]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | |||
** [[Add-on:PCTV Systems Client|PCTV Systems (Broadway)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | |||
** [[Add-on:Stalker Client|Stalker Middleware]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | |||
** [[Add-on:VBox TV Gateway PVR Client|VBox TV Gateway]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | |||
** [[PVR/Backend/Tvheadend|Tvheadend]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | |||
** [[PVR/Backend/NextPVR|NextPVR (former GB-PVR)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | |||
** [[PVR/Backend/Njoy|Njoy Digital (N7)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | |||
** [[PVR/Backend/MediaPortal|MediaPortal]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | |||
** [[PVR/Backend/MythTV|MythTV]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from the Kodi's community | |||
** [[PVR/Backend/VDR|VDR (Video Disk Recorder)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | |||
** [[PVR/Backend/VUPlus|Enigma2 (Dreambox / Vu+ / DBox2)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | |||
** [[PVR/Backend/ForTheRecord|Argus TV / ForTheRecord]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | |||
** [[Add-on:PVR.WMC|WMC (Windows Media Center)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | |||
** [[DVBLink]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | |||
** [[PVR/Backend/DVBViewer|DVBViewer]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | |||
* Removed internal MythTV VFS client code in favour of its external PVR Client Addons | |||
* Removed internal VDR (VTP) VFS client code in favour of its external PVR Client Addons | |||
* Removed internal Tvheadend (HTSP) VFS client code in favour of its external PVR Client Addons | |||
* Removed internal TuxBox (Dreambox/DBox2/Vu+/Enigma1/2) VFS client code in favor of external PVR Client Addons | |||
* Removed internal ReplayTV (DirectTV) VFS client code since its old and was no longer being maintained by anyone | |||
* Removed internal SlingBox VFS client code since its old and is no longer being maintained by anyone | |||
* Improved Addon Manager frontend GUI in Kodi, adding support for categorization, new manager layout and more | |||
* Added initial integration for binary addons support and changing the Kodi build system around it | |||
* Added framework support for binary addons for audio decoder and audio encoder codecs | |||
* Extend Addons API to support binary addons for audio decoder and audio encoder codecs | |||
* Added support for context-menu addons for skinners and addon developers | |||
* Added option for addons scripts to check status of DPMS energy saving functions of underlying OS | |||
* Improved the ability to [http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/901 extend Kodi's native Python API by writing C++ code generated] via [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy_%28programming_language%29 Groovy] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy_%28programming_language%29 SWIG] | |||
* Improved Addons API for homebrew DIY RGB LED [[Ambient lighting]] (Ambilight clone) client software such as [[Add-on:XBMC Boblight|Boblight]] | |||
* Improved addon management at Kodi version upgrade by immediately fetch updates from repository after upgrade | |||
* Added support for context-menu addons for skinners and addon developers | |||
* Added support Sound Addons for skins instead of including sound files within each skin. | |||
* Improved PVR / EPG / Live TV and context menus interfaces in Kodi's GUI skinning engine (already used in Confluence) | |||
* Added support for Language Addons, moving internal Language translation files into external Language Addons | |||
* Added an accessibility settings section to provide one configuration area for the visually and hearing impaired | |||
* Added further optimizations to Kodi's GUI engine for faster rendering on low resource embedded devices | |||
* Added new icon types and missing icons to Confluence | |||
* Added PVR and EPG support to the Re-Touched (touchscreen friendly) skin | |||
* Improved [[Dirty regions|Dirty Regions]] rendering on all platforms | |||
* Improved Stereoscopic 3D rendering support (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, and Anaglyph) to Kodi's GUI skinning engine | |||
* Improved Stereoscopic 3D rendering support (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, and Anaglyph) for Subtitles when in 3D mode | |||
* Improved navigation of video audio tracks and subtitle selection lists | |||
* Improved touch and gesture support for all platforms, and also improved the default touch screen skin ([[Add-on:Re-Touched|Re-Touched]]) | |||
* Improved and expanded the internationalization options and regional configuration settings in the GUI | |||
* Improved GUI settings configuration levels for Basic, Standard, Advanced, Expert (defaults to "Standard") | |||
* Improved selection when installing new skins | |||
* Update the default bold and regular Roboto TTF fonts from Google | |||
* Updated keyboard layout for many languages | |||
* Restructured settings windows and descriptions for almost every setting and configuration | |||
* Removed legacy code to backwards compatibility for skins made pre-Frodo (XBMC 11.0) | |||
* Added adaptive skipping/seeking through audio and video playback, also known as "[[skip steps]]" | |||
* Improved support for H.264 (including [[Hi10P]]) multi-threaded video decoding when software decoder on CPU is used | |||
* Improved Stereoscopic 3D playback with video playlist switching when playlists have 2D and 3D videos | |||
* Added support for MK3D (Matroska 3D) video extensions and enable double cache by default on these videos | |||
* Added a Chapter Selector Window with visual thumbnails shows thumbs on where to skip to in video | |||
* Added support for Closed Captions (CC) in CEA-608 and CEA-708 formats (ATSC Closed Caption) | |||
* Added support for external subtitles over UPnP / DNLA through the settings section | |||
* Upgraded FFmpeg (libavcodec and libavformat) libraries to release version [http://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html#release_2.6.2 FFmpeg 2.6.2] | |||
* Remove certain audio codecs from core and made them into audio decoder and audio encoder add-ons | |||
* Disabled hardware video decoding of MPEG-2 videos with Standard Definition resolution by default | |||
* Added support for [[Music_nodes| music nodes]] that can defined views that are used to organize your media from the music menu | |||
* Added support for marking as watched during other library operations like “update library” when scanning sources | |||
* Added support for allowing different sort orders for different sort methods | |||
* Added ability to jump to first unwatched episode in TV section by default | |||
* Added support to rescrape season art for newly added seasons | |||
* Improved MusicBrainz tags support to the Music Library and Database | |||
* Improved and extended [[Smart playlists|Smart Playlists]] functionality | |||
* Improved performance for SQL database queries for faster library browsing | |||
* Updated music, movies, tv shows, and music video scrapers for Kodi | |||
* Improved the default cross-platform event driven active state machine pattern [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] (Kodi's [[AudioEngine]]) | |||
* Improved ALSA sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Linux Desktop and generic Linux based Embedded Systems | |||
* Improved PulseAudio sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Linux Desktop | |||
* Improved OSS (Open Sound System) sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for BSD, like FreeBSD and similar BSD Unix based systems | |||
* Improved AUDIOTRACK sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for [[Amlogic]] | |||
* Improved Pi Audio sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for [[Raspberry Pi]] | |||
* Improved DirectSound sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Windows | |||
* Improved WASAPI sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Windows | |||
* Improved CoreAudio sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for (Mac) OS X and iOS | |||
* Improved Darwin sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for (Mac) OS X and iOS | |||
* Added new audio visualization addons (only OpenGL versions for Linux and OS X for now)? | |||
* Improved display of CPU / GPU frequency and temperature for all supported platforms | |||
* Improved keymap for music playback, as while in full screen pressing select/ok button will now show the OSD | |||
* Added support for [[wikipedia:WSGI|WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface)]] to extend the Python Script support in Kodi's integrated webserver | |||
* Added support for JSONP for JSON-RPC requests to Kodi's integrated webserver | |||
* Added support for image resizing to Kodi's integrated webserver | |||
* Improved webserver caching control | |||
* Improved the JSON-RPC API | |||
* Improved the the integrated UPnP Media Server and Client | |||
* Changed Kodi application code base to C++11 | |||
* Improved [[CEC|HDMI CEC (Consumer Electronics Control)]] support for [http://libcec.pulse-eight.com/ Pulse-Eight's LibCEC] | |||
* Upgraded HDMI-CEC libraries code from Pulse-Eight to [http://raw.githubusercontent.com/Pulse-Eight/libcec/master/ChangeLog LibCEC release version 3.0.0] | |||
* Upgraded DVD-Video navigation and playback libraries (libdvdnav, libdvdread, and libdvdcss) | |||
* Upgraded SAMBA client code library to version 3.6.12 for improved support for SMB/CIFS protocol | |||
* Updated community maintained translations to over 60+ languages to date for Kodi via [[Translation System|Transifex Translation System]] | |||
* Removed internal DAAP VFS client code for iIunes 6.x music shares (network stream from older Apple iTunes) | |||
* Removal AFP filesystem support from Kodi's VFS (Virtual File System) | |||
* Improved code stability and performance as well as general code clean-up in all areas | |||
* Improved MediaCodec API video decoding implementations support for Android 4.2 (API level 17) and later | |||
* Improved the dedicated AMLCodec hardware accelerated video decoding support for [[Amlogic]] devices | |||
* Added automatic refresh rate switching support for video playback on Android 5.0 and later (>= API 21), including Android TV<ref>http://github.com/anssih/xbmc/commits/android/refreshrate_wip WIP refreshrate</ref> | |||
* Added support for HEVC hardware decoding for MediaCodec API in Android 4.4.2 and later when the VPU supports it | |||
* Added support for HEVC hardware decoding on [[Amlogic]] SoCs in Android 4.4.2 and later when the VPU supports it | |||
* Added support for UltraHD decoding / 4K resolution output on [[Amlogic]] SoCs in Android when HW supports it | |||
* Added support for screenshot and video bookmarks on [[Amlogic]] SoCs hardware | |||
* Added support for LCD/VFD display panel output on [[Amlogic]] SoCs hardware | |||
* Added support for de-interlacing using BOB deinterlace method on Android | |||
* Added support for 7.1 channels PCM playback | |||
* Added support for system handling of audio volume on Android | |||
* Moved to Android API 17 as minimum with SDK 14 and NDK 10e, meaning at least Android 4.2 is now required | |||
* Improved [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Advanced_SIMD_.28NEON.29 NEON (Advanced SIMD instruction set)] CPU acceleration support for ARM architecture | |||
* Removed the dependency for root/SU access permission rights on Android | |||
* Improved Kodi support for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution BSD (operating system)] on FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and other similar BSD platforms | |||
* Added MIPS processor architecture support for Linux (Imagination Technologies MIPS Creator CI20 as reference) | |||
* Added support for HEVC hardware video decoding on [[Amlogic]] SoCs when the VPU supports it | |||
* Added support for UltraHD decoding / 4K resolution output on [[Amlogic]] SoCs in Android when HW supports it | |||
* Added support for screenshot and video bookmarks on [[Amlogic]] SoCs hardware | |||
* Added support for LCD/VFD display panel output on [[Amlogic]] SoCs hardware | |||
* Improved video accelerated decoding on [[Freescale|Freescale i.MX 6]] based devices | |||
* Improved ARM processor architecture (using [[WeTek Play]] and [[Raspberry Pi]] as reference devices) | |||
* Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support (using [[WeTek Play]] and [[Raspberry Pi]] as reference devices) | |||
* 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) | |||
* Improved OpenMAX Video Acceleration API support for Linux (using Raspberry Pi as reference hardware) | |||
* Improved dedicated AMLCodec hardware accelerated video decoding support for Linux on [[Amlogic]] devices | |||
* Improved AMD/Intel x86-64 64-bit (AMD64 / IA-64t CPU architectures) support under Linux | |||
* Removed dependencies of SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) for everything but hardware abstraction for input devices | |||
* Improve Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support for iOS (on iPad, iPhone, and iPod iDevices) | |||
* Moved to iOS 8.1 SDK, minimum iOS 5.1 is now required, this removes support for Apple TV 2 builds | |||
* Improve Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support for (Mac) OS X | |||
* Added Kodi support for OS X 10.10 "Yosemite" from Apple | |||
* Moved to OS X 10.10 SDK, meaning minimum (Mac) OS X 10.7 Lion is now required, and no more 32-bit builds | |||
* Improved DXVA/DXVA2 (DirectX Video Acceleration) support (requires DXVA/DXVA2 compatible hardware and drivers) | |||
* Added support for HEVC hardware video decoding via DXVA on Windows when hardware and driver supports exist | |||
| rowspan="3" | N/A | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style=" | | style="text-align: right;" | 15.1 | ||
| | | [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-151-isengard-maintenance-release 16 August 2015] | ||
|- | |- | ||
| style=" | | style="text-align: right;" | 15.0 | ||
| | | [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-150-isengard-one-release-rule-them-all 21 July 2015] | ||
|- | |- | ||
| style=" | ! rowspan="3" style="background: salmon;" | [[Kodi v14 (Helix) FAQ|Helix]] | ||
| style="text-align: right;" | 14.2 | |||
| | | [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-142-helix-final-translation 28 March 2015] | ||
| rowspan="3" | {{main| Kodi v14 (Helix) changelog |Helix API changes}} | |||
* | * Renamed and rebranded to Kodi Media Center (from XBMC Media Center) | ||
* | * Improved PVR, EPG, and OSD frontend GUI in Kodi and extended the PVR API to support more features and functions | ||
* | * Improved PVR / EPG and Live TV interface in Kodi's GUI skinning engine (already in use in Confluence) | ||
* | * Improved PVR / DVR timeshift support to pause Live TV (note that each PVR backend still need to support timeshifting) | ||
* | * Improved PVR / EPG extensions and notifications support over the JSON-RPC API | ||
* | * Updated and improved PVR backend clients addons for many popular third-party external PVR backend platforms: | ||
* | * PVR Demo Client dummy addon with fake (method stub) backend for skin development and regression testing | ||
* | * IPTV (IPTV Simple Client) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | ||
* | * Tvheadend PVR Addon backend clients maintained and available from Kodi's community | ||
* | * NextPVR (former GB-PVR) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | ||
* | * Njoy Digital (N7) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | ||
* WASAPI | * MediaPortal PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | ||
* | * MythTV PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from the Kodi's community | ||
* | * VDR (Video Disk Recorder) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | ||
* | * Enigma2 / Vu+ / Dreambox PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | ||
* ARM processor architecture ( | * Argus TV / ForTheRecord PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | ||
* VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) support ( | * WMC (Windows Media Center) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | ||
* | * DVBLink PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | ||
* | * DVBViewer PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community | ||
* | * Added framework support for binary addons (inc. closed source proprietary addons) for audio encoder codecs | ||
* | * Added support for audio encoder codecs via a binary addons and move Vorbis, LAME, Flac and WAV audio encoders to addons | ||
* | * Added capability for Text-to-Speech screen readers addons for visual impaired | ||
* | * Improved the ability to extend Kodi's native Python API by writing C++ code generated via Groovy and SWIG | ||
* | * Improved Addons API for homebrew DIY RGB LED Ambilight clone client software such as Boblight | ||
* | * Improved Stereoscopic 3D rendering support (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, and Anaglyph) to Kodi's GUI skinning engine | ||
* | * Improved Stereoscopic 3D rendering support (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, and Anaglyph) for Subtitles when in 3D mode | ||
| | * Added support for HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) a.k.a. H.265 software video decoding | ||
* Improved support for H.264 (including Hi10P) multi-threaded video decoding when software decoder on CPU is used | |||
* Upgraded FFmpeg (libavcodec and libavformat) audio/video codec libraries to release version FFmpeg 2.2) | |||
* Removed FFmpeg from from the Kodi code tree, making it easier to compile/build separately | |||
* Improved network and file system reading when scanning files and searching for subtitles | |||
* Improved MusicBrainz tags support to the Music Library and Database | |||
* Improved and extended Smart Playlists functionality | |||
* Improved performance for SQL database queries for faster library browsing | |||
* Updated music, movies, tv shows, and music video scrapers for Kodi from the community | |||
* Added support for Planar Formats and PTS audio synchronization from player in ActiveAE | |||
* 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 | |||
* Improved CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) support for Pulse-Eight's LibCEC | |||
* Upgraded DVD-Video navigation and playback libraries (libdvdnav, libdvdread, and libdvdcss) | |||
* Upgraded SAMBA client to version 3.6.x for improved support for SMB and CIFS protocols | |||
* Updated community maintained translations to over 60+ languages to date for Kodi via Transifex Translation System | |||
* Improved MediaCodec API video decoding implementations support for Android 4.1 (API level 16) and later | |||
* Improved StageFright API video decoding implementations support for Android 4.0 (API level 14) | |||
* Improved the dedicated AMLCodec hardware accelerated video decoding support for AMLogic devices | |||
* Improved NEON (Advanced SIMD instruction set) CPU acceleration support for ARM architecture | |||
* Improved Kodi support for BSD (operating system) on FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and other similar BSD platforms | |||
* Added initial optional X11 support on EGL (EGL-X11) based systems on Linux, full-screen mode only | |||
* Added native XvBA accelerated video decoding for AMD/ATI GPUs on Linux | |||
* Improved ARM processor architecture (using WeTek Play and Raspberry Pi as reference devices) | |||
* Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support (using WeTek Play and Raspberry Pi as reference devices) | |||
* 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 OpenMAX Video Acceleration API support for Linux (using Raspberry Pi as reference hardware) | |||
* Improved dedicated AMLCodec hardware accelerated video decoding support for Linux on AMLogic devices | |||
* Improved AMD/Intel x86-64 64-bit (AMD64 / IA-64t CPU architectures) support under Linux | |||
* Upgraded SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) from version 1.2 to 2.0 for improved input-support on Linux | |||
* Removed dependencies of SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) for windowing and event handling on X11 | |||
* Improved Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support for iOS (on iPad, iPhone, and iPod iDevices) | |||
* Improved Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support for (Mac) OS X | |||
* Improved DXVA (DirectX Video Acceleration) support (requires DXVA compatible hardware and drivers) | |||
* Upgraded Kodi for Windows and binary addons to compile with Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 by default | |||
| rowspan="3" | N/A | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style=" | | style="text-align: right;" | 14.1 | ||
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-141-helix-bugfix-release 2 February 2015] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style=" | | style="text-align: right;" | 14.0 | ||
| | | [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-140-helix-unwinds 23 December 2014] | ||
|- | |- | ||
| style=" | ! rowspan="3" style="background: salmon;" | Gotham | ||
| style="text-align: right;" | 13.2 | |||
| | | [https://kodi.tv/article/xbmc-132-gotham-final-release 18 August 2014] | ||
| | | rowspan="3" | {{main|XBMC v13 (Gotham) changelog|Gotham API changes}} | ||
{{main|XBMC v13 (Gotham) changelog|Gotham API changes}} | |||
* Added much improved PVR / EPG and Live TV interface in XBMC's GUI skinning engine (already in use in Confluence) | * Added much improved PVR / EPG and Live TV interface in XBMC's GUI skinning engine (already in use in Confluence) | ||
* Added improved PVR / DVR timeshift support to pause Live TV (note that each PVR backend still need to support timeshifting) | * Added improved PVR / DVR timeshift support to pause Live TV (note that each PVR backend still need to support timeshifting) | ||
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* Added unified buffering capability to video and overlay renderers for all internal players | * Added unified buffering capability to video and overlay renderers for all internal players | ||
* Upgraded FFmpeg (libavcodec and libavformat) audio/video codec and demuxer libraries to [http://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html#release_1.2 FFmpeg 1.2 (rev e820e3a)] | * Upgraded FFmpeg (libavcodec and libavformat) audio/video codec and demuxer libraries to [http://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html#release_1.2 FFmpeg 1.2 (rev e820e3a)] | ||
* Added extensive | * Added extensive MusicBrainz tags support to the Music Library and Database | ||
* Added ability to queue list of items / add items to a playlist without playing them | * Added ability to queue list of items / add items to a playlist without playing them | ||
* Improved and extended [[Smart playlists|Smart Playlists]] functionality | * Improved and extended [[Smart playlists|Smart Playlists]] functionality | ||
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* Added hybrid shutdown option on Windows 8 (which in turn enables quick boot) | * Added hybrid shutdown option on Windows 8 (which in turn enables quick boot) | ||
* Removed Windows XP support (as from now XBMC for Windows requires at least Vista or later) | * Removed Windows XP support (as from now XBMC for Windows requires at least Vista or later) | ||
| Lubuntu 14.04 | | rowspan="3" | Lubuntu 14.04<br />"Trusty Tahr" | ||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 13.1 | |||
| [https://kodi.tv/article/xbmc-131-gotham-returns 5 June 2014] | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 13.0 | |||
| [https://kodi.tv/article/xbmc-130-gotham-rises 4 May 2014] | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan="4" style="background: salmon;" | Frodo | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 12.3 | |||
| [https://kodi.tv/article/xbmc-123-frodo-fixes 24 December 2013] | |||
| rowspan="4" | {{main|XBMC v12 (Frodo) changelog|Frodo API changes}} | |||
* Added unified [[PVR|Live TV and PVR frontend]] with a common EPG and DVR (Digital Video Recording) client GUI | |||
* Added unified PVR backend framework and API for multiple [[PVR/Backend|PVR backend software]] from third-parties | |||
* Initial [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29 Android (operating system)] port with multi-architecture platform support | |||
* Initial [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution BSD (operating system)] port for FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and other similar BSD platforms | |||
* Added unified "[[AudioEngine]]" audio abstraction framework with an API and platform sinks | |||
* Added dedicated AMLPlayer video player for hardware accelerated video decoding on [[AMLogic devices|Amlogic]] | |||
* Added dedicated OMXPlayer video player for hardware accelerated video decoding via OpenMAX IL API | |||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Advanced_SIMD_.28NEON.29 NEON (Advanced SIMD instruction set)] CPU acceleration support for the ARM architecture | |||
* Improved ARM processor architecture ([http://www.pivosgroup.com/xios.html Pivos XIOS DS] and [[Raspberry Pi]] as reference devices) | |||
* Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support ([http://www.pivosgroup.com/xios.html Pivos XIOS DS] and [[Raspberry Pi]] as reference devices) | |||
* Added ability to run a split display resolution for GUI and video playback on embedded platforms[http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/1467] | |||
* Enabled [[Dirty regions|Dirty Regions]] rendering to redraw whole screen on single dirty region by default on all platforms[http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/1426][http://xbmc.org/theuni/2011/06/19/working-with-dirty-regions/] | |||
* Added 64-bit build support Mac OS X to match the existing 64-bit support for Linux | |||
* Improved [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#CEC|HDMI CEC (Consumer Electronics Control)] support for [http://libcec.pulse-eight.com/ Pulse-Eight's LibCEC] | |||
* Library customization that allows for custom video nodes | |||
* Added [[Advanced Library Filtering]] for Movies, TV Shows, Music Videos, and Music views | |||
* Improved [[Smart playlists|Smart Playlist]] for Advanced Library Filtering | |||
* Added custom [[video library tags]] for Movies, TV Shows and Music Videos to simplify sets with scraping | |||
* Added support for both banner and poster video art types simultaneously[http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/1575] | |||
* Added storing of "Episode ID" for First Aired, DVD Episode Number, and Absolute Number sort order | |||
* Added support for exporting video art as JPG or PNG rather than TBN file extension | |||
* Switched to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TagLib TagLib] for reading metadata embedded into audio files | |||
* Better library database handling for faster browsing | |||
* Improved image and texture caching for GUI speedup | |||
* Improved Touch / Gesture API support for touchscreen interfaces | |||
* Added HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) and M3U8 (Extended M3U) playlist support | |||
* Added WebSocket support for JSON-RPC and to Addons API[http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/511] | |||
* Added image transformation handler for resizing images on-the-fly over JSON-RPC and WebServer API | |||
* Added basic support for PVR / EPG extensions and notifications over the JSON-RPC API | |||
* Added SmartPlaylist Extensions and Extended Filtering in JSON-RPC[http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/1258] | |||
* Added support for screensavers written in Python programming language | |||
* Added ability to [http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/901 extend XBMC's native Python API by writing C++ code generated] via [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy_%28programming_language%29 Groovy] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy_%28programming_language%29 SWIG] | |||
* Blu-ray Disc HDMV menu support (but not BD-J / BD-Live menus)[http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/464] | |||
* Improved deinterlacing "Weave" method for playback of interlaced video when upscaling | |||
* Improved performance of the default Web Interface (complete rewrite of JavaScript loading) | |||
* Improved AirPlay / AirTunes target support | |||
* Improved the Audio-CD ripper that now works as a background task job | |||
* Improved international language file translations system that are powered by Transifex[http://xbmc.org/blittan/2012/10/30/dear-addon-and-skin-developers/] | |||
* Added a Test Suite based on [http://code.google.com/p/googletest/ Google C++ Testing Framework] to make regression testing easier | |||
* Added support controlling external XBMC and third-party UPnP/DLNA instances over UPnP | |||
* Upgraded [http://www.plutinosoft.com/platinum Plutinosoft's Platinum (libplatinum)] UPnP and DNLA libraries | |||
* Upgraded [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg FFmpeg's libavcodec and libavformat] audio/video cedec and demuxer libraries | |||
* Removed the old HTTP API in favour of the new JSON-RPC API | |||
| rowspan="4" | Lubuntu 12.10<br />"Quantal Quetzal" | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 12.2 | |||
| [https://kodi.tv/article/xbmc-122-even-more-frodo 3 May 2013] | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 12.1 | |||
| [https://kodi.tv/article/xbmc-121-now-even-better 18 March 2013] | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 12.0 | |||
| [https://kodi.tv/article/xbmc-120-frodo 29 January 2013] | |||
|- | |||
! style="background: salmon;" | Eden | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 11.0 | |||
| [https://kodi.tv/article/xbmc-110-eden 24 March 2012] | |||
| {{main|XBMC v11 (Eden) changelog|Eden API changes}} | |||
* iOS port for Apple TV 2G, iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad | |||
* [[Dirty regions]] rendering for texture support to skinning engine | |||
* Efficiency improvements to reduce high cpu/gpu usage | |||
* Default skin changed to a horizontal home layout | |||
* New RenderCapture type to the Python script framework | |||
* Combined Files and Library mode for videos | |||
* Playback of ISO image files for Blu-ray Disc support | |||
* Slingbox playback over the network support | |||
* Peripheral manager controller under settings | |||
* Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) support for HDMI | |||
* Improved Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support | |||
* Improved Touch / Gesture API and Mouse support | |||
* Improved ARM processor architecture support | |||
* Improved OpenMAX Video Decoding Acceleration support | |||
* Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support | |||
* Improved JSON-RPC API compliant with JSON-RPC 2.0 specs | |||
* Improved VDPAU performance | |||
* VDPAU HQ Upscaling support (require NVIDIA's capable GPU) | |||
* H.264 accelerated video decoding via Apple's VideoToolBox API | |||
* JPEG accelerated video decoding via Apple's VideoToolBox API | |||
* Added basic DRC (Dynamic Range Compression) volume limiter | |||
* [[AirPlay|AirPlay/AirTunes]] target support | |||
* Extended Addons API adding extension points for Service Addons | |||
* Ability for all addons to provide their own web interface | |||
* Removed native weather forecast scraper, use weather add-ons instead | |||
* Added support for multiple simultaneous HID device mappings | |||
* FFmpeg upgraded (libavformat and libavcodec) | |||
| Lubuntu 11.10<br />"Oneiric Ocelot" | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style=" | ! rowspan="2" style="background: salmon;" | Dharma | ||
| | | style="text-align: right;" | 10.1 | ||
| | | [https://kodi.tv/article/bug-fix-release-101 10 March 2011] | ||
| rowspan="2" | | |||
* Unified Addon framework | |||
* Addon Browser GUI for installation and management of third-party addons, skin, and scripts | |||
* Team XBMC's official Addons Repository with Addon FanArt support | |||
* Update Notifications | |||
* Movie Sets (option to group movie collections) | |||
* WebM/VP8 codec | |||
* Gesture support to XBMC's GUI Engine | |||
* Unencrypted Blu-ray Disc support | |||
* Broadcom Crystal HD video acceleration support (All Platforms) | |||
* Windows Touch API support (Windows 7 touch features and functions) | |||
* DXVA 2.0 (DirectX Video Acceleration) (Windows Vista/7 exclusive) | |||
* WASAPI (Windows Audio Session API) for raw bitstream output (Windows Vista/7 exclusive) | |||
* High-Quality Bicubic and Lanczos Upscalers (Video Resamplers) as Direct3D HLSL (Windows Vista/7 exclusive) and OpenGL GLSL Shaders | |||
* Direct3D port of the OpenGL Spectrum 3D Audio Visualization for DirectX (Windows Vista/7 exclusive) | |||
* AVisual Studio 2010 Express edition and Visual Studio 2010 non-Express edition support (Windows Vista/7 exclusive) | |||
* ARM processor architecture (Linux exclusive) | |||
* VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) support (Linux exclusive) | |||
* OpenMAX Video Acceleration support (Linux exclusive) | |||
* NEON (ARM) Video Acceleration support (Linux exclusive) | |||
* Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support (OS X exclusive requires Snow Leopard and NVIDIA 9400 or later) | |||
* OpenGL ES 2.0 compliance | |||
* JSON-RPC, JSON API | |||
* RTMPE and RTMPTE | |||
* Microhttpd Web Server replaces old GoAhead and Spyce code | |||
* SSH file transfer protocol (sftp) via libssh | |||
* MySQL database backend | |||
| rowspan="2" | Ubuntu 10.04<br />"Lucid Lynx" | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 10.0 | |||
| [https://kodi.tv/article/xbmc-100 18 December 2010] | |||
|- | |||
! style="background: salmon;" | Camelot | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 9.11 | |||
| [https://kodi.tv/article/xbmc-911-camelot 24 December 2009] | |||
| | | | ||
* Revamped user interface via the new default skin “Confluence“ | |||
* DirectX support by default for the Windows platform | |||
* | * A complete reorganization of the settings menus uniformed across skins | ||
* | * Automatic video information extraction | ||
* | * Out of the box support for new remotes | ||
* updated | * Smoother video playback performance | ||
* | * All scrapers updated | ||
* | * Increased subtitle and Karaoke lyric support | ||
* Support for CoreAudio API (OS X exclusive) | |||
* | * AC3 and DTS digital audio pass-through to SP/DIF on Apple TV (thanks to CoreAudio) | ||
* | | Ubuntu 9.10<br />"Karmic Koala" | ||
* | |- | ||
! rowspan="2" style="background: salmon;" | Babylon | |||
| | | style="text-align: right;" | 9.04.1 | ||
| [https://kodi.tv/article/xbmc-9041-released 27 May 2009] | |||
| rowspan="2" | | |||
* PPC (PowerPC) support for Mac OS X (PowerPC G4 or later) | |||
* VDPAU (Nvidia's Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) | |||
* New Karaoke features | |||
* Officially dropped support for Xbox | |||
* Updated codecs and major bug-fixes for DVD-Video playback core | |||
* More Media Info Scrapers | |||
* Improved FanArt support | |||
* Revamped skinning engine | |||
| rowspan="2" | Ubuntu 9.04<br />"Jaunty Jackalope" | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 9.04 | |||
| 6 May 2009 | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style=" | ! style="background: salmon;" | N/A | ||
| | | style="text-align: right;" | 2.0.0 | ||
| 29 September 2006 | |||
| | | | ||
* Reworked skinning engine. | |||
* DVD-Video menu/navigation support (with ISO/IMG image parsing) through internally developed core | |||
* | * RAR/ZIP archive parsing | ||
* | * New audio/music-player (PAPlayer) with crossfade, gapless playback and ReplayGain support | ||
* Karaoke CDG-file display | |||
* Xored Trainer Engine (gaming-cheats) (not ported from Xbox) | |||
* XLink Kai (online-gaming) front-end (depreciated) | |||
* Added iTunes 6.x DAAP and UPnP-client | |||
* Read-only support for FAT12/16/32 formatted USB Mass Storage Devices up to 4GB in size | |||
* Brand new "skinnable" 3D visualizer. | |||
| N/A | |||
|- | |||
! style="background: salmon;" | N/A | |||
| style="text-align: right;" | 1.1.0 | |||
| 18 October 2004 | |||
| | | | ||
| | * ITU H.261, creative labs yuv (cyuv), supermac cinepak (cvid), quicktime, on2 vp4, 3ivx d4 / 3vi1 mpeg-4 video support | ||
* Container support for nsa, raw audio in .mov, .ac3, .dts and dts-wav | |||
* Zoom/stretch options: zoom, stretch 4x3 or 14x9 or 16x9, original size, custom | |||
* Volume control | |||
* Tags parsing and display for wma, m4a, mp4 and aac (mpeg-4 audio) audio-files | |||
* International-language fonts for subtitles via ttf-fonts | |||
* Audio CD Ripper, backup cdda's to hdd in wav, ogg or mp3 (lame) format | |||
* Karaoke cdg-file and audio cue sheets (.cue) support | |||
* iIunes music shares via DAAP (network stream from Apple iTunes) | |||
* XBMC's xbmsp-client code updated to support "auto-discovery of xbmsp servers" | |||
* Auto-temperature and fan-speed control options | |||
* Network-configuration and setup via GUI | |||
* Emergency recovery console (enables the ftp-server during fatal errors) | |||
* Profiles for settings | |||
* Mouse support and virtual-keyboard | |||
* LCD-display output extended to also support xaddons lcd-mods and xecuter3 lcd | |||
| N/A | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style=" | ! style="background: salmon;" | N/A | ||
| | | style="text-align: right;" | 1.0.0 | ||
| 29 June 2004 | |||
| | | | ||
| | * Total rewrite of the source code from [[Xbox Media Player|XBMP (Xbox Media Player)]] | ||
| N/A | |||
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== Codename history == | |||
{{see|Codename history}} | |||
== References == | == References == |
Revision as of 19:16, 17 November 2019
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See also: Changelogs
Release history
This is the Kodi release history with condensed summaries of the changes present between each release and the one prior to it; only the most important or notable new features, functions, and changes in each stable version of Kodi are shown here. A link to the unabridged changelog for any version can be found on that release's announcement post on the Kodi Blog.
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Matrix | 19.0 | TBA | Main pages: Kodi v19 (Matrix) changelog and Matrix API changes
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Leia | 18.5 | 17 Nov 2019 | Main pages: Kodi v18 (Leia) changelog and Leia API changes 29 December 2017 - XBox One v18 Alpha released to Windows Store
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18.4 | 1 Sept 2019 | |||
18.3 | 27 June 2019 | |||
18.2 | 22 April 2019 | |||
18.1 | 17 February 2019 | |||
18.0 | 29 January 2019 | |||
Krypton | 17.6 | 15 November 2017 | Main pages: Kodi v17 (Krypton) changelog and Krypton API changes
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N/A |
17.5 | 24 October 2017 | |||
17.4 | 22 August 2017 | |||
17.3 | 25 May 2017 | |||
17.2 | 21 May 2017 | |||
17.1 | 23 March 2017 | |||
17.0 | 5 February 2017 | |||
Jarvis | 16.1 | 24 April 2016 | Main pages: Kodi v16 (Jarvis) changelog and Jarvis API changes
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N/A |
16.0 | 21 February 2016 | |||
Isengard | 15.2 | 19 October 2015 | Main pages: Kodi v15 (Isengard) changelog and Isengard API changes
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N/A |
15.1 | 16 August 2015 | |||
15.0 | 21 July 2015 | |||
Helix | 14.2 | 28 March 2015 | Main pages: Kodi v14 (Helix) changelog and Helix API changes
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N/A |
14.1 | 2 February 2015 | |||
14.0 | 23 December 2014 | |||
Gotham | 13.2 | 18 August 2014 | Main pages: XBMC v13 (Gotham) changelog and Gotham API changes
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Lubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" |
13.1 | 5 June 2014 | |||
13.0 | 4 May 2014 | |||
Frodo | 12.3 | 24 December 2013 | Main pages: XBMC v12 (Frodo) changelog and Frodo API changes
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Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" |
12.2 | 3 May 2013 | |||
12.1 | 18 March 2013 | |||
12.0 | 29 January 2013 | |||
Eden | 11.0 | 24 March 2012 | Main pages: XBMC v11 (Eden) changelog and Eden API changes
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Lubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" |
Dharma | 10.1 | 10 March 2011 |
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Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" |
10.0 | 18 December 2010 | |||
Camelot | 9.11 | 24 December 2009 |
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Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" |
Babylon | 9.04.1 | 27 May 2009 |
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Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" |
9.04 | 6 May 2009 | |||
N/A | 2.0.0 | 29 September 2006 |
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N/A |
N/A | 1.1.0 | 18 October 2004 |
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N/A |
N/A | 1.0.0 | 29 June 2004 |
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N/A |
Codename history
- See: Codename history
References
- ↑ http://github.com/anssih/xbmc/commits/android/refreshrate_wip WIP refreshrate