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== Release history ==
== Release history ==


This is a release history with condensed changelogs for the most important added or removed notable new features, functions, and changed in each stable version of {{kodi}}.
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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! Version
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! XBMC Live based on
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| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 1.0.0
! style="background: skyblue;" | [[Kodi v19 (Matrix) FAQ|Matrix]]
| 29 June 2004
| style="background: skyblue;" | 19.0
| {{n/a}}
| style="background: skyblue;" | TBA
|
| {{main|Kodi v19 (Matrix) changelog|Matrix API changes}}
* Total rewrite of the source code from [[Xbox Media Player|XBMP (Xbox Media Player)]]
| N/A
|{{n/a}}
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! rowspan="4" style="background: #a0e75a;" | [[Kodi v18 (Leia) FAQ|Leia]]
| style="background: #a0e75a;" | 18.3
| style="background: #a0e75a;" | [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-leia-183-release 27 June 2019]
| rowspan="4" | {{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="4" | N/A
|-
| 18.2
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-leia-182-release 22 April 2019]
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| 18.1
| 17 February 2019
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| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 1.1.0
| 18.0
| 18 October 2004
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-180 29 January 2019]
| {{n/a}}
|
* 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="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 2.0.0
! rowspan="7" style="background: salmon;" | [[Kodi v17 (Krypton) FAQ|Krypton]]
| {{nowrap|29 September 2006}}
| 17.6
| {{n/a}}
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v176-final-very-last 15 November 2017]
|
| rowspan="7" | {{main|Kodi v17 (Krypton) changelog|Krypton API changes}}
* Reworked skinning engine.
| rowspan="7" | N/A
* 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="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 8.10
| 17.5
| 15 November 2008
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v175-final-another-bunch-fixes 24 October 2017]
| Atlantis
|
* Cross platform support adding support for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows
* Brand new High Definition skin “PM3.HD”
* "XBMC Live" bootable CD with unified hard disk/USB flash disk installer
* The XBMC profile
* Integration of iTunes and iPhoto media (OS X  exclusive).
| Ubuntu 8.10
|-
|-
| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 9.04
| 17.4
| 6 May 2009
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v174-final-just-bunch-fixes 22 August 2017]
| Babylon
|
* 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
| Ubuntu 9.04
|-
|-
| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 9.11
| 17.3
| 24 December 2009
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v173-minor-bug-fix-and-security-release 25 May 2017]
| Camelot
|
* 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
* 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
|-
|-
| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 10.0<br />10.1
| 17.2
| 18 December 2010<br />10 March 2011
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v172-minor-bug-fix-and-security-release 21 May 2017]
| Dharma
|
* 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
| Ubuntu 10.04
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| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 11.0
| 17.1
| 24 March 2012
| [https://kodi.tv/kodi-v17-1-krypton 23 March 2017]
| Eden
|
{{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
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| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 12.0<br />12.1<br />12.2<br />12.3
| 17.0
| 29 January 2013<br />18 March 2013<br />3 May 2013<br />{{nowrap|24 December 2013}}
| [https://kodi.tv/kodi17 5 February 2017]
| Frodo
|
{{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
| Lubuntu 12.10
|-
|-
| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 13.0<br />13.1<br />13.2
! rowspan="2" style="background: salmon;" | [[Kodi v16 (Jarvis) FAQ|Jarvis]]
| 4 May 2014<br />5 June 2014<br />17 August 2014
| 16.1
| Gotham
| [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}}
{{main|XBMC v13 (Gotham) changelog|Gotham API changes}}
* Added FM Radio receiver based upon RTL-SDR as PVR Addon backend client
* Added much improved PVR / EPG and Live TV interface in XBMC's GUI skinning engine (already in use in Confluence)
* Added support to PVR API for Scheduling Recordings of TV Shows (EPG based DVR Timers for "Series Recording")
* Added improved PVR / DVR timeshift support to pause Live TV (note that each PVR backend still need to support timeshifting)
* Added 'Play recording' context menu option if an EPG entry has an associated (PVR) recording
* Added much improved PVR / EPG extensions and notifications support over the JSON-RPC API
* Added, updated, and improved PVR backend clients addons for all popular third-party external [[PVR backend]] platforms:
* Improved PVR front-end with Live TV and EPG specific windows, plus PVR stuff in OSD and GUI settings in Confluence skin
** [[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, updated, and improved PVR backend clients addons for many popular third-party external [[PVR backend]] platforms:
* Added automatic dependency handling for binary addons
** [[PVR/Testing|PVR Demo Client]] dummy addon with fake backend from Team-XBMC for skin development and regression testing
* 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
** [[PVR/Backend/IPTV|IPTV (IPTV Simple Client)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
* Changed saving of skin settings which are now stored as separate files
** [[PVR/Backend/Tvheadend|Tvheadend]] PVR Addon backend clients maintained and available from XBMC's community
* Added support for Animated GIF images to loadable for any kind of textures, e.g. Posters and FanArt
** [[PVR/Backend/NextPVR|NextPVR (former GB-PVR)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
* 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
** [[PVR/Backend/Njoy|Njoy Digital (N7)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
* Added new infolabels that can display audio/subtitle properties for all available streams
** [[PVR/Backend/MediaPortal|MediaPortal]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
* Added support for sortby and sortorder attributes to the <content> element
** [[PVR/Backend/MythTV|MythTV]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from the XBMC's community
* Improved touch and gesture support for all platforms, and overhauled [[Add-on:Re-Touched|Re-Touched]], the default touch screen skin
** [[PVR/Backend/VDR|VDR (Video Disk Recorder)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
* Added support for lossless software decode of DTS-HD tracks/streams in videos using libdcadec
** [[PVR/Backend/VUPlus|Vu+ / Enigma2 / Dreambox]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
* Improved and enhanced Blu-ray support (including updated libbluray dependecies)
** [[PVR/Backend/ForTheRecord|Argus TV / ForTheRecord]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
* 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]
** [[Add-on:PVR.WMC|WMC (Windows Media Center)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
* Removed certain audio codecs from core and made them into audio decoder and audio encoder add-ons
** [[DVBLink]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
* Unified the music library and files view (similar to video library structure)
** [[PVR/Backend/DVBViewer|DVBViewer]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
* Added option for for user ratings of video items and editing user ratings from the GUI frontend
* Added option for allowing skins to query directories (e.g. plugins) to fill static content
* Added support to sort by top albums by play count in the music library
* Added a Monitor class to receive JSON-RPC notifications directly through the Python bindings
* Updated movie, TV show, music and music video scrapers
* Added announce function and register addon for announcements to the Add-ons API
* Improved ALSA, PulseAudio and OSS sinks for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Linux desktops/embedded systems
* Added new Built-In function to control state of attached HDMI CEC device via Add-ons API
* Improved Pi Audio sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for [[Raspberry Pi]]
* Added support for XBMC's Python interface to use native keyboard if possible (currently only iOS)  
* Improved DirectSound and WASAPI sinks for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Windows
* Added support for addon binary reading and writing via a "buffer" class usable from addons
* Improved CoreAudio and Darwin sinks for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for (Mac) OS X and iOS
* Added WOL (Wake-on-LAN) with send magic packet function to the Add-ons API
* Added ability to open and edit playlists from within Kodi
* Improved the 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]
* Added "long-press" support to extend the functionality of a single button on a remote control
* Improved Addons API for homebrew DIY RGB LED [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambilight Ambilight] clone client software such as [[Add-on:XBMC Boblight|Boblight]]
* Improved code stability and performance as well as general code clean-up in many core areas
* Added support for customizable menu structure for home and beyond
* Improved the the integrated UPnP / DNLA Media Server and Client
* Added Stereoscopic 3D rendering support (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, and Anaglyph) to XBMC's GUI skinning engine
* Improved AirPlay compatibility support for iOS 8 (via updated libshairplay) and added initial support for AirPlay from iOS 9 devices
* Added Stereoscopic 3D rendering support (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, and Anaglyph) for Subtitles when in 3D mode
* Improved [[CEC|HDMI CEC (Consumer Electronics Control)]] support for [http://libcec.pulse-eight.com/ Pulse-Eight's LibCEC]
* Added a simple Movie Set management to GUI for Edit/Clear Set and Add/Remove Set members
* Removed karaoke features due to lack of maintainer
* Added option support for both banner and poster music art types simultaneously
* Added proper implementation of handling MEDIA keys support on Android
* Added picture tags metadata info accessible for skins or addons developers
* Improved support for UltraHD decoding / 4K resolution output when HW supports it
* Added further optimizations to XBMC's GUI engine for faster rendering on low resource embedded devices
* Improved display of other Android apps while browsing these under Kodi as application launcher
* Improved touch and gesture support for all platforms, and also improved the default touch screen skin ([[Touched]])
* Improved touch-screen keymapping for Android based platforms for better gesture support
* Added [http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/2040 ImageFactory implementation] with factory to abstract different image libraries and hardware acceleration
* 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 [[Dirty regions|Dirty Regions]] rendering on all 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)
* Refactored settings system to consist of XML files containing descriptions of every setting
* Improved automatic refresh rate switching support for video playback
* Added support for H.264 (including [[Hi10P]]) multi-threaded video decoding when software decoder on CPU is used
* Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support on ARM processor architecture (using [[WeTek Play]] and [[Raspberry Pi]] as reference devices)
* Added support for Forced Subtitles ("forced flag") in external subtitle files
* Added support for video playback of SageTV recordings
* 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)]
* 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
* Improved and extended [[Smart playlists|Smart Playlists]] functionality
* Added support for scanning videos SFTP and SSH sources so can scrape metadata
* Added support for write-enabled WebDAV (delete/rename/write files and directories)
* Added "Add art" button to video artwork selection dialog
* Added support for "last played" sort option to the TV Show GUI
* Added support for OGG cover art extraction to TagLib
* Added option support for exporting music art as JPEG or PNG rather than TBN file extension
* Improved performance for SQL database queries for faster browsing
* Added theaudiodb.com music video scraper as new default for music videos
* Added new cross-platform event driven active state machine pattern [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] sink as the default for XBMC's [[AudioEngine]]
* Added ALSA sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Linux Desktop and generic Linux based Embedded Systems
* Added PulseAudio sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Linux Desktop
* Added OSS (Open Sound System) sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for BSD, like FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and similar Unix based systems
* Added AUDIOTRACK sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for [[Amlogic]]
* Added Pi Audio sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for [[Raspberry Pi]]
* Added DirectSound sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Windows
* Added WASAPI sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Windows
* Added Darwin sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Mac OS X and iOS
* Added support for CoreAudio AudioEngine to OS notifications for device changes on Mac OS X and iOS
* Added support for "Play to" and controlling remote XBMC / DLNA instance over UPnP
* Added new "Fishbmc" audio visualization addon (only OpenGL versions for Linux and Mac OS X for now)
* Added GUI settings levels for Basic, Standard, Advanced, Expert (defaults to "Standard")
* Added support and GUI settings for SOCKS 4/4a/5 proxy types and remote DNS
* Added possibility to define help descriptions ("I" key) for every setting in GUI settings
* Added option to set auto login of a specific user profile via the GUI
* Added CPU / GPU frequency and temperature for all supported Linux platforms
* Added support to allow key IDs in keyboard.xml to be in hexadecimal format
* Upgraded DVD-Video navigation and playback libraries (libdvdnav, libdvdread, and libdvdcss)
* Upgraded SAMBA client to version 3.6.x adding full support for SMB 2.0 and SMB 2.1 protocols
* Added initial support for running libxbmc.so headless (without GUI) as a background service / deamon
* Added a generic and user-mappable cross-platform touch input system
* Improved [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#CEC|HDMI CEC (Consumer Electronics Control)] support for [http://libcec.pulse-eight.com/ Pulse-Eight's LibCEC]
* Moved subtitle addon core handling to core and added native support for subtitle plugin services
* Updated community maintained translations to over 60+ languages to date for XBMC via [[Translation System|Transifex Translation System]]
* Added first full (and stable) XBMC for [[Android]] port with multi-architecture platform support (supports ARM, MIPS, and x86)
* Added built-in command for addons and skins to execute Android apps with optional params via applicationmanager
* Added support to allow landscape and reverse landscape orientation of XBMC GUI on Android
* Added MediaCodec API (Android 4.1 API level 16) software rendering implementation support to XBMC's DVDPlayer
* Added StageFright API (Android 4.0 API level 14) hardware rendering implementation support to XBMC
* Added OpenMAX Video Acceleration API support for OpenMAX AL API on Android via StageFright and MediaCodec
* Improved the dedicated AMLPlayer video player for hardware accelerated video decoding on [[AMLogic devices|Amlogic]]
* Added external player (external player launcher) support on Android
* Added native volume control for Android from within XBMC
* Improved [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Advanced_SIMD_.28NEON.29 NEON (Advanced SIMD instruction set)] CPU acceleration support for ARM architecture
* Improved XBMC support for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution BSD (operating system)] on FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and other similar BSD platforms
* Improved VDPAU (NVIDIA) Hardware Acceleration Video Decoding support on BSD
* Improved VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) Hardware Acceleration Video Decoding support on BSD
* Added VA-API (libva) support for decoding videos with larger resolutions than 1080p (such as 4K resolution)
* 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)
* Improved VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) support (requires VAAPI compatible hardware and drivers)
* Improved VDPAU (NVIDIA) Hardware Video Acceleration and its upscaling/deinterlacing capabilities
* Improved OpenMAX Video Acceleration API support for Linux (using Raspberry Pi as reference hardware)
* Improved OpenMAX Video Acceleration API support for Linux (using Raspberry Pi as reference hardware)
* Added RenderCapture implementation to Linux for Raspberry Pi for Ambilight addons
* Improved touch and gesture support for iOS based iDevice platforms (iPad, iPod, and iPhone)
* Added support for OpenMAX pipeline to handle JPEG decode/resize/convert/encode to texture on Raspberry Pi
* Removed support for Apple TV 2
* Added support for hardware assisted video decoding of MJPEG, VP6, VP8 and Ogg Theora on Raspberry Pi
* Removed support for iOS 5.1 devices (e.g. iPad 1)
* Added support for Fast Forward and Rewind video up 4x to OpenMAX (OMXPlayer) on Linux for Raspberry Pi
* Updated the whole rendering system on Microsoft Windows platforms to DirectX 11 and Direct3D 11 native support
* Added support multi-channel PCM audio output over HDMI to OpenMAX (OMXPlayer) on Linux for Raspberry Pi
* Improved DXVA/DXVA2 rendering and decoding on Windows (when using DirectX 11 device drivers)
* Added screenshot implementation to Linux for Raspberry Pi that includes the video layer
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* Added hot-plug support for Linux input devices, such as Bluetooth remotes and keyboards
* Improved AMD/Intel x86-64 64-bit (AMD64 / IA-64t CPU architectures) support under Linux
* Removed dependencies of SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) for windowing and event handling on X11
* Added support for native media control bar and play background music on iOS
* Added adaptions for developing XBMC on non-jailbroken iSO devices (for development only, not to release on App Store)
* Improved XBMC support for OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
* Added support for copy and paste to and from clipboard with command key
* Added support for Pixel Shader based HQ (High Quality) scalers for DXVA renderer on Windows
* 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)
| Lubuntu 14.04
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| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 14.0<br />14.1<br />14.2
| 16.0
| 23 December 2014<br />1 February 2015<br />28 March 2015
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-160-jarvis-mark-xvi 21 February 2016]
| Helix
|
{{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
* 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
* Argus TV / ForTheRecord PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
* 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
 
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|-
| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 15.0<br />15.1<br />15.2
! rowspan="3" style="white-space: nowrap; background: salmon;" | [[Kodi v15 (Isengard) FAQ|Isengard]]
| 21 July 2015<br />16 August 2015<br />19 October 2015
| 15.2
| Isengard
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-152-isengard-final-chapter 19 October 2015]
|
| rowspan="3" | {{main|Kodi v15 (Isengard) changelog|Isengard API changes}}
{{main| Kodi v15 (Isengard) changelog |Isengard API changes}}
* Added possibility to use multiple PVR clients for different PVR backends at the same time
* 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
* Improved PVR, EPG, and OSD frontend GUI in Kodi and extended the PVR API to support more features and functions
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* Improved DXVA/DXVA2 (DirectX Video Acceleration) support (requires DXVA/DXVA2 compatible hardware and drivers)
* 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
* Added support for HEVC hardware video decoding via DXVA on Windows when hardware and driver supports exist
* ?
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|  
| 15.1
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-151-isengard-maintenance-release 16 August 2015]
|-
| 15.0
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-150-isengard-one-release-rule-them-all 21 July 2015]
|-
|-
| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 16.0<br />16.1
! rowspan="3" style="background: salmon;" | [[Kodi v14 (Helix) FAQ|Helix]]
| 20 February 2016<br />24 April 2016
| 14.2
| Jarvis
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-142-helix-final-translation 28 March 2015]
|
| rowspan="3" | {{main| Kodi v14 (Helix) changelog |Helix API changes}}
{{main| Kodi v16 (Jarvis) changelog |Jarvis 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
* Added support for handling RDS Radio signals via PVR and EPG frontend
* Improved PVR / EPG and Live TV interface in Kodi's GUI skinning engine (already in use in Confluence)
* Added support for PVR addons to handle RDS radio signals in UECP and Rass formats
* Improved PVR / DVR timeshift support to pause Live TV (note that each PVR backend still need to support timeshifting)
* Added FM Radio receiver based upon RTL-SDR as PVR Addon backend client
* Improved PVR / EPG extensions and notifications support over the JSON-RPC API
* Added support to PVR API for Scheduling Recordings of TV Shows (EPG based DVR Timers for "Series Recording")
* Updated and improved PVR backend clients addons for many popular third-party external PVR backend platforms:
* Added option for PVR clients and backends to add timeshift indicator to the Video OSD for Live TV
* PVR Demo Client dummy addon with fake (method stub) backend for skin development and regression testing
* Added support to show channels without EPG data in PVR guide window
* IPTV (IPTV Simple Client) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
* Added 'Play recording' context menu option if an EPG entry has an associated (PVR) recording
* Tvheadend PVR Addon backend clients maintained and available from Kodi's community
* Added enhancement and impovements to the PVR API (example series/episode metadata, timer and recording status)
* NextPVR (former GB-PVR) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
* Updated Kodi's PVR Addon API version to 4.0.0 for Kodi v16 (Jarvis)
* Njoy Digital (N7) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
* Improved EPG association by broadcast ID
* MediaPortal PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
* Improved speedup reading EPG from database
* MythTV PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from the Kodi's community
* Changed activations of PVR windows so they are only available if PVR is enabled
* VDR (Video Disk Recorder) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
* Changed "Add timer" as renamed to "Record", and renamed "Add custom timer" to just "Add timer"
* Enigma2 / Vu+ / Dreambox PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
* Added, updated, and improved PVR backend clients addons for all popular third-party external [[PVR backend]] platforms:
* Argus TV / ForTheRecord PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
** [[Add-on:PVR Demo Client|PVR Demo Client]] dummy addon with fake (method stub) [[PVR backend]] for [[PVR]] skinning and regression testing
* WMC (Windows Media Center) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
** [[Add-on:IPTV Simple Client|IPTV Simple Client]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
* DVBLink 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
* DVBViewer 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
* Added framework support for binary addons (inc. closed source proprietary addons) for audio encoder codecs
** [[Add-on:HDHomeRun PVR|HDHomeRun]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
* Added support for audio encoder codecs via a binary addons and move Vorbis, LAME, Flac and WAV audio encoders to addons
** [[Add-on:VU+ / Enigma2 Client|Enigma2 (Dreambox / Vu+ / DBox2)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
* Added capability for Text-to-Speech screen readers addons for visual impaired
** [[Add-on:VBox TV Gateway PVR Client|VBox TV Gateway]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
* Improved the ability to extend Kodi's native Python API by writing C++ code generated via Groovy and SWIG
** [[Add-on:Njoy N7 PVR Client|Njoy Digital (N7)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
* Improved Addons API for homebrew DIY RGB LED Ambilight clone client software such as Boblight
** [[Add-on:PCTV Systems Client|PCTV Systems (Broadway)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
* Improved Stereoscopic 3D rendering support (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, and Anaglyph) to Kodi's GUI skinning engine
** [[Add-on:Tvheadend HTSP Client|Tvheadend HTSP Client]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
* Improved Stereoscopic 3D rendering support (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, and Anaglyph) for Subtitles when in 3D mode
** [[Add-on:VDR VNSI Client|VDR VNSI Client]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
* Added support for HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) a.k.a. H.265 software video decoding
** [[Add-on:MythTV PVR Client|MythTV PVR Client]] Addon backend client maintained and available from the Kodi's community
* Improved support for H.264 (including Hi10P) multi-threaded video decoding when software decoder on CPU is used
** [[Add-on:NextPVR PVR Client|NextPVR (former GB-PVR)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
* Upgraded FFmpeg (libavcodec and libavformat) audio/video codec libraries to release version FFmpeg 2.2)
** [[Add-on:Argus TV Client|Argus TV (former ForTheRecord)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
* Removed FFmpeg from from the Kodi code tree, making it easier to compile/build separately
** [[Add-on:DVBLink PVR Client|DVBLink PVR Client]] Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
* Improved network and file system reading when scanning files and searching for subtitles
** [[Add-on:DVBViewer Client|DVBViewer Client]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
* Improved MusicBrainz tags support to the Music Library and Database
** [[Add-on:MediaPortal PVR Client|MediaPortal PVR Client]] Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
* Improved and extended Smart Playlists functionality
** [[Add-on:PVR.WMC|WMC (Windows Media Center)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
* Improved performance for SQL database queries for faster library browsing
* Added support for allowing skins and resource addons to be activated via info dialog
* Updated music, movies, tv shows, and music video scrapers for Kodi from the community
* Added support for disabling auto-updates per addon from the info panel dialog
* Added support for Planar Formats and PTS audio synchronization from player in ActiveAE
* Added automatic dependency handling for binary addons
* Improved the default cross-platform event driven active state machine pattern ActiveAE (Kodi's AudioEngine)
* Improved add-on update and rollback support by adding ability to choose only a specific repo
* Improved ALSA sink for ActiveAE for Linux Desktop and generic Linux based Embedded Systems
* Improved capabilities for downgrading of addons by supporting multiple versions in same repository
* Improved PulseAudio sink for ActiveAE for Linux Desktop
* Improved bootstrap buildsystem for binary addons to support arbitrary meta repositories
* Improved OSS (Open Sound System) sink for ActiveAE for BSD, like FreeBSD and similar BSD Unix based systems
* 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 AUDIOTRACK sink for ActiveAE for Amlogic
* Updated the Groovy (code generator) library to 2.4.4
* Improved Pi Audio sink for ActiveAE for Raspberry Pi
* Moved some binary (RSXS) Screensavers and Audio Visualizations (Vis) to addons
* Improved DirectSound sink for ActiveAE for Windows
* Moved the addon rollback feature to the update dialog and list all available versions there
* Improved WASAPI sink for ActiveAE for Windows
* Updated GUI ABI version 15 as minimum setting any skin before Kodi 15.0 (Isengard) as incompatible
* Improved CoreAudio sink for ActiveAE for Mac OS X and iOS
* Update guilib ABI (for libgui) to version 5.10.0
* Improved Darwin sink for ActiveAE for Mac OS X and iOS
* Changed saving of skin settings which are now stored as separate files
* Improved CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) support for Pulse-Eight's LibCEC
* Added support for Animated GIF images to loadable for any kind of textures, e.g. Posters and FanArt
* Upgraded DVD-Video navigation and playback libraries (libdvdnav, libdvdread, and libdvdcss)
* Added support for image resource addons (as example weather icons, weather fanart, studio logos, and genre icons)
* Upgraded SAMBA client to version 3.6.x for improved support for SMB and CIFS protocols
* Added support for sound resource addons (skin effect sounds for button clicks, transitions, etc.)
* Updated community maintained translations to over 60+ languages to date for Kodi via Transifex Translation System
* Added new dialogs for managning and settings for digital sound processing addons (Audio DSP plugins)
* Improved MediaCodec API video decoding implementations support for Android 4.1 (API level 16) and later
* Added new dialog to display RDS Radio information under PVR windows
* Improved StageFright API video decoding implementations support for Android 4.0 (API level 14)
* Added option for skinners to add a timeshift indicator to the Video OSD for Live TV
* Improved the dedicated AMLCodec hardware accelerated video decoding support for AMLogic devices
* Added skinning support to enable editing of user-ratings from skins frontend
* Improved NEON (Advanced SIMD instruction set) CPU acceleration support for ARM architecture
* Added support of <depth> tag for stereoscopic (3D) effect for controls to GUI engine for skins
* Improved Kodi support for BSD (operating system) on FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and other similar BSD platforms
* Added stereoscopic (3D) depth support for the Confluence skin
* Added initial optional X11 support on EGL (EGL-X11) based systems on Linux, full-screen mode only
* Added the use of image resource addons for updating weather fanart images in Confluence
* Added native XvBA accelerated video decoding for AMD/ATI GPUs on Linux
* Added 'Events' to the Confluence homescreen 'System' submenu
* Improved ARM processor architecture (using WeTek Play and Raspberry Pi as reference devices)
* Added EPG to search results window (add to PVR search results window in Confluence)
* Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support (using WeTek Play and Raspberry Pi as reference devices)
* Added new infolabel that can be used to display fanart for moviesets inside a movie set
* Added new infolabels that can display audio/subtitle properties for all available streams
* Added new infolabels for displaying user ratings
* Added support for skins to use a lightweight font
* Added toggle switch to visually mark dirty regions to help skinners optimize and troubleshoot skins
* Added support for sortby and sortorder attributes to the <content> element
* Added ability in guilib to visualize control hitrects when tagged
* Added option to conditionally include files to allow skinners to conditionally include a file
* Added option for skins to show separate icons for empty and full DVD-ROM drives
* Added support for specifying the image scaling algorithm for image resizing/caching
* Added new on-screen keyboard layouts for; Chinese, Korean, English QWERTZ, Czech QWERTZ and QWERTY
* Updated keyboard layout for some languages and added a new keyboard layouts for a few languages
* Improved default quality setting of image scaling algorithm for image resizing/caching
* Improved skinning PVR section by reduceing amount of dialogs and simplify skinning Live TV and EPG windows
* Improved skin reloading in case theme/color/font is not default
* Improved touch and gesture support for all platforms, and also improved the default touch screen skin ([[Add-on:Re-Touched|Re-Touched]])
* Removed skin XML files for Karaoke support as the feature has been removed from Kodi's core
* Removed native TvTunes support from Confluence since they changed into a paid-only service
* Added support for lossless software decode of DTS-HD tracks/streams in videos using libdcadec
* Added support to utilize pixel aspect ratio from SAR (Storage Aspect Ratio) tags in MKV containers
* Improved Stereoscopic 3D playback with video playlist switching when playlists have 2D and 3D videos
* 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 how its done in video library already)
* Added option for for user ratings of video items and editing userratings from the GUI frontend
* Added support for set overview (plot) in movie sets in the video library
* Added setting for to not group movies into a movie set in the video library if it contains a single item
* Added event logging which among others shows which files did not get added to library
* Added genre to television series episode view in the video library
* Added support for Audio and Subtitle Track Count to Smart Playlist selections in the video library
* Added support to sort by top albums by play count in the music library
* Added support for sorting dynamic directory listings from content
* Added a FFmpeg tag loader that can read additional metadata from more media containers
* Added support to use the new FFmpeg tag loader for reading tags from .DSP files
* Added support to use the new FFmpeg tag loader for reading tags from .MKA files
* Added support for the MusicBrainz "ARTISTS" tag in id3v2, ape, xiph for music files
* Added ability to fetch season year from video database based on first aired episode
* Updated music, movies, tv shows, and music video scrapers for Kodi
* Added initial support for [http://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=235 Audio DSP] (Digital Signal Processing) plugins and addons for Kodi's [[AudioEngine]]
* 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 initial support for AirPlay from iOS 9 music streaming capability
* Added own lists for audio, subtitle and sub download languages
* Added ability to open the SmartPlayListEditor for a given playlist
* 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 suppor for iOS 8 (via updated libshairplay)
* Improved Kodi's JSON-RPC API
* Improved [[CEC|HDMI CEC (Consumer Electronics Control)]] support for [http://libcec.pulse-eight.com/ Pulse-Eight's LibCEC]
* Updated community maintained translations to over 60+ languages to date for Kodi via [[Translation System|Transifex Translation System]]
* Updated critical dependency libraries such as openssl, gnutls, and CMake (used to compile binary addons)
* Removed support for the current karaoke implmenetation from the core as it was not being maintained
* Added experimental pass-through support for Dolby Digital (AC3) audio
* Added experimental pass-through support for Dolby TrueHD audio (if supported by underlying hardware & firmware)
* Added experimental pass-through support for DTS audio
* Added experimental pass-through support for DTS-HD Master Audio (if supported by underlying hardware & firmware)
* Added software decode support of Dolby Digital Plus (DD+/E-AC3/EC-3) to PCM audio output
* Added proper implementation of Surface Rendering going thru EGL for video decoded with Android's MediaCodec API
* Added proper implementation of handling MEDIA keys support on Android
* Improved MediaCodec API video decoding implementations support for Android 4.2 (API level 17) and later
* Improved automatic refresh rate switching support for video playback on Android 5.0 and later (>= API 21), inc. Android TV
* Improved support for UltraHD decoding / 4K resolution output when HW supports it
* Improved playback of HEVC, VC-1 / WMV 9, and VP9 hardware video decoding when using Android's MediaCodec API
* Improved display of other Android apps while browsing these under Kodi as application launcher
* Improved audio output by decouple Kodi and system volume which removes double audio volume slider
* Improved touch-screen keymapping for Android based platforms for better gesture support
* Improved [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Advanced_SIMD_.28NEON.29 NEON (Advanced SIMD instruction set)] CPU acceleration support for ARM architecture
* Removed support for hardware video decoding via Android StageFright library (libstagefright)
* 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) support (requires VAAPI compatible hardware and drivers)
* 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 VDPAU (NVIDIA) Hardware Video Acceleration (requires VDPAU compatible hardware and drivers)
* Added multi-touch support, and  improved touch and gesture support on Linux
* Added support for HEVC hardware video decoding via [[wikipedia:VAAPI|VAAPI]] API when the VPU and drivers supports it
* Added support for HEVC hardware video decoding via [[wikipedia:VDPAU|VDPAU]] API when the VPU and drivers supports
* Improved rendering GUI (including OSD) at a different resolution than video playback plane
* Improved automatic refresh rate switching support for video playback
* Improved EGL rendering on Amlogic by implement 480cvbs/i/p and 576cvbs/i/p modes
* Improved SQLite file access performance on Raspberry Pi using MMAP acceleration
* Improved support for UltraHD decoding / 4K resolution output when hardware supports it
* 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 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 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
* Improved AMD/Intel x86-64 64-bit (AMD64 / IA-64t CPU architectures) support under Linux
* Added support for iOS 9.0 by adding support for compiling Kodi with Xcode 7 IDE and iOS SDK 9.0
* Upgraded SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) from version 1.2 to 2.0 for improved input-support on Linux
* Moved to iOS 8.4 SDK and Xcode 6.4 IDE as default which added support for iOS 8.4
* 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 iOS (on iPad, iPhone, and iPod iDevices)
* Improved touch and gesture support for iOS based iDevice platforms (iPad, iPod, and iPhone)
* Removed support for compiling Apple TV 2 builds
* Removed iOS 5.1 (iPad 1) compatiibility as it was required to add iOS 9
* Improved Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support for (Mac) OS X
* Improved Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support for (Mac) OS X
* Added support for compiling Kodi with Xcode 7 IDE and OS X 10.11 SDK
* Improved DXVA (DirectX Video Acceleration) support (requires DXVA compatible hardware and drivers)
* Updated the whole rendering system on Microsoft Windows platforms to DirectX 11 and Direct3D 11 native support
* Upgraded Kodi for Windows and binary addons to compile with Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 by default
* Added support for caching font vertices on GPU side (requires Windows 8 and DirectX 11 device drivers)
| rowspan="3" | N/A
* Added support for hardware based Stereoscopic 3D (requires Windows 8 and DirectX 11 device drivers)
|-
* Added support for interleaved Stereoscopic 3D mode on Windows platforms (requires DirectX 11 device drivers)
| 14.1
* Added support for checkerboard Stereoscopic 3D mode on Windows platforms (requires DirectX 11 device drivers)
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-141-helix-bugfix-release 2 February 2015]
* Improved DXVA/DXVA2 rendering and decoding on Windows (when using DirectX 11 device drivers)
|-
* Improved support for HEVC hardware video decoding via DXVA on Windows when hardware and driver supports exist
| 14.0
* ?
| [https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-140-helix-unwinds 23 December 2014]
|-
| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 13.0<br />13.1<br />13.2
| 4 May 2014<br />5 June 2014<br />17 August 2014
| Gotham
|
{{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 improved PVR / DVR timeshift support to pause Live TV (note that each PVR backend still need to support timeshifting)
* Added much improved PVR / EPG extensions and notifications support over the JSON-RPC API
* Improved PVR front-end with Live TV and EPG specific windows, plus PVR stuff in OSD and GUI settings in Confluence skin
* Added, updated, and improved PVR backend clients addons for many popular third-party external [[PVR backend]] platforms:
** [[PVR/Testing|PVR Demo Client]] dummy addon with fake backend from Team-XBMC for skin development and regression testing
** [[PVR/Backend/IPTV|IPTV (IPTV Simple Client)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
** [[PVR/Backend/Tvheadend|Tvheadend]] PVR Addon backend clients maintained and available from XBMC's community
** [[PVR/Backend/NextPVR|NextPVR (former GB-PVR)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
** [[PVR/Backend/Njoy|Njoy Digital (N7)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
** [[PVR/Backend/MediaPortal|MediaPortal]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
** [[PVR/Backend/MythTV|MythTV]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from the XBMC's community
** [[PVR/Backend/VDR|VDR (Video Disk Recorder)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
** [[PVR/Backend/VUPlus|Vu+ / Enigma2 / Dreambox]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
** [[PVR/Backend/ForTheRecord|Argus TV / ForTheRecord]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
** [[Add-on:PVR.WMC|WMC (Windows Media Center)]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
** [[DVBLink]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
** [[PVR/Backend/DVBViewer|DVBViewer]] PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
* Added option for allowing skins to query directories (e.g. plugins) to fill static content
* Added a Monitor class to receive JSON-RPC notifications directly through the Python bindings
* Added announce function and register addon for announcements to the Add-ons API
* Added new Built-In function to control state of attached HDMI CEC device via Add-ons API
* Added support for XBMC's Python interface to use native keyboard if possible (currently only iOS)
* Added support for addon binary reading and writing via a "buffer" class usable from addons
* Added WOL (Wake-on-LAN) with send magic packet function to the Add-ons API
* Improved the 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]
* Improved Addons API for homebrew DIY RGB LED [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambilight Ambilight] clone client software such as [[Add-on:XBMC Boblight|Boblight]]
* Added support for customizable menu structure for home and beyond
* Added Stereoscopic 3D rendering support (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, and Anaglyph) to XBMC's GUI skinning engine
* Added Stereoscopic 3D rendering support (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, and Anaglyph) for Subtitles when in 3D mode
* Added a simple Movie Set management to GUI for Edit/Clear Set and Add/Remove Set members
* Added option support for both banner and poster music art types simultaneously
* Added picture tags metadata info accessible for skins or addons developers
* Added further optimizations to XBMC's GUI engine for faster rendering on low resource embedded devices
* Improved touch and gesture support for all platforms, and also improved the default touch screen skin ([[Touched]])
* Added [http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/2040 ImageFactory implementation] with factory to abstract different image libraries and hardware acceleration
* Improved [[Dirty regions|Dirty Regions]] rendering on all platforms
* Refactored settings system to consist of XML files containing descriptions of every setting
* Added support for H.264 (including [[Hi10P]]) multi-threaded video decoding when software decoder on CPU is used
* Added support for Forced Subtitles ("forced flag") in external subtitle files
* Added support for video playback of SageTV recordings
* 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)]
* 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
* Improved and extended [[Smart playlists|Smart Playlists]] functionality
* Added support for scanning videos SFTP and SSH sources so can scrape metadata
* Added support for write-enabled WebDAV (delete/rename/write files and directories)
* Added "Add art" button to video artwork selection dialog
* Added support for "last played" sort option to the TV Show GUI
* Added support for OGG cover art extraction to TagLib
* Added option support for exporting music art as JPEG or PNG rather than TBN file extension
* Improved performance for SQL database queries for faster browsing
* Added theaudiodb.com music video scraper as new default for music videos
* Added new cross-platform event driven active state machine pattern [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] sink as the default for XBMC's [[AudioEngine]]
* Added ALSA sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Linux Desktop and generic Linux based Embedded Systems
* Added PulseAudio sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Linux Desktop
* Added OSS (Open Sound System) sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for BSD, like FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and similar Unix based systems
* Added AUDIOTRACK sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for [[Amlogic]]
* Added Pi Audio sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for [[Raspberry Pi]]
* Added DirectSound sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Windows
* Added WASAPI sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Windows
* Added Darwin sink for [[AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Mac OS X and iOS
* Added support for CoreAudio AudioEngine to OS notifications for device changes on Mac OS X and iOS
* Added support for "Play to" and controlling remote XBMC / DLNA instance over UPnP
* Added new "Fishbmc" audio visualization addon (only OpenGL versions for Linux and Mac OS X for now)
* Added GUI settings levels for Basic, Standard, Advanced, Expert (defaults to "Standard")
* Added support and GUI settings for SOCKS 4/4a/5 proxy types and remote DNS
* Added possibility to define help descriptions ("I" key) for every setting in GUI settings
* Added option to set auto login of a specific user profile via the GUI
* Added CPU / GPU frequency and temperature for all supported Linux platforms
* Added support to allow key IDs in keyboard.xml to be in hexadecimal format
* Upgraded DVD-Video navigation and playback libraries (libdvdnav, libdvdread, and libdvdcss)
* Upgraded SAMBA client to version 3.6.x adding full support for SMB 2.0 and SMB 2.1 protocols
* Added initial support for running libxbmc.so headless (without GUI) as a background service / deamon
* Added a generic and user-mappable cross-platform touch input system
* Improved [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#CEC|HDMI CEC (Consumer Electronics Control)] support for [http://libcec.pulse-eight.com/ Pulse-Eight's LibCEC]
* Moved subtitle addon core handling to core and added native support for subtitle plugin services
* Updated community maintained translations to over 60+ languages to date for XBMC via [[Translation System|Transifex Translation System]]
* Added first full (and stable) XBMC for [[Android]] port with multi-architecture platform support (supports ARM, MIPS, and x86)
* Added built-in command for addons and skins to execute Android apps with optional params via applicationmanager
* Added support to allow landscape and reverse landscape orientation of XBMC GUI on Android
* Added MediaCodec API (Android 4.1 API level 16) software rendering implementation support to XBMC's DVDPlayer
* Added StageFright API (Android 4.0 API level 14) hardware rendering implementation support to XBMC
* Added OpenMAX Video Acceleration API support for OpenMAX AL API on Android via StageFright and MediaCodec
* Improved the dedicated AMLPlayer video player for hardware accelerated video decoding on [[AMLogic devices|Amlogic]]
* Added external player (external player launcher) support on Android
* Added native volume control for Android from within XBMC
* Improved [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Advanced_SIMD_.28NEON.29 NEON (Advanced SIMD instruction set)] CPU acceleration support for ARM architecture
* Improved XBMC support for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution BSD (operating system)] on FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and other similar BSD platforms
* Improved VDPAU (NVIDIA) Hardware Acceleration Video Decoding support on BSD
* Improved VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) Hardware Acceleration Video Decoding support on BSD
* Added VA-API (libva) support for decoding videos with larger resolutions than 1080p (such as 4K resolution)
* 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)
* Improved VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) support (requires VAAPI compatible hardware and drivers)
* Improved VDPAU (NVIDIA) Hardware Video Acceleration and its upscaling/deinterlacing capabilities
* Improved OpenMAX Video Acceleration API support for Linux (using Raspberry Pi as reference hardware)
* Added RenderCapture implementation to Linux for Raspberry Pi for Ambilight addons
* Added support for OpenMAX pipeline to handle JPEG decode/resize/convert/encode to texture on Raspberry Pi
* Added support for hardware assisted video decoding of MJPEG, VP6, VP8 and Ogg Theora on Raspberry Pi
* Added support for Fast Forward and Rewind video up 4x to OpenMAX (OMXPlayer) on Linux for Raspberry Pi
* Added support multi-channel PCM audio output over HDMI to OpenMAX (OMXPlayer) on Linux for Raspberry Pi
* Added screenshot implementation to Linux for Raspberry Pi that includes the video layer
* Added hot-plug support for Linux input devices, such as Bluetooth remotes and keyboards
* Improved AMD/Intel x86-64 64-bit (AMD64 / IA-64t CPU architectures) support under Linux
* Removed dependencies of SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) for windowing and event handling on X11
* Added support for native media control bar and play background music on iOS
* Added adaptions for developing XBMC on non-jailbroken iSO devices (for development only, not to release on App Store)
* Improved XBMC support for OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
* Added support for copy and paste to and from clipboard with command key
* Added support for Pixel Shader based HQ (High Quality) scalers for DXVA renderer on Windows
* 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)
| Lubuntu 14.04
|-
| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 12.0<br />12.1<br />12.2<br />12.3
| 29 January 2013<br />18 March 2013<br />3 May 2013<br />{{nowrap|24 December 2013}}
| Frodo
|
{{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
| Lubuntu 12.10
|-
| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 11.0
| 24 March 2012
| Eden
|
{{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
|-
| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 10.0<br />10.1
| 18 December 2010<br />10 March 2011
| Dharma
|
* 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
| Ubuntu 10.04
|-
| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 9.11
| 24 December 2009
| Camelot
|
|
|  
* 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
* 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
|-
|-
| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 17.0<br />17.1<br />17.2<br />17.3<br />17.4<br />17.5<br />17.6
| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 9.04
| 5 February 2017<br />23 March 2017<br />21 May 2017<br />24 May 2017<br />22 August 2017<br />24 October 2017<br />15 November 2017
| 6 May 2009
| Krypton
| Babylon
|
|
{{main| Kodi v17 (Krypton) changelog |Krypton API changes}}
* 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
| Ubuntu 9.04
|-
| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 9.04
| 6 May 2009
| Babylon
|
|
* 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
| Ubuntu 9.04
|-
|-
| style="white-space:nowrap; background:#a0e75a;"| 18.0<br />18.1<br />18.2
| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 2.0.0
| 29 January 2019<br />11 February 2019<br />22 April 2019
| {{nowrap|29 September 2006}}
| Leia
| {{n/a}}
 
|
|
{{main| Kodi v18 (Leia) changelog |Leia API changes}}
* Reworked skinning engine.
29 December 2017 - XBox One v18 Alpha released to Windows Store
* DVD-Video menu/navigation support (with ISO/IMG image parsing) through internally developed core
 
* RAR/ZIP archive parsing
* Retroplayer gaming and associated game control support
* New audio/music-player (PAPlayer) with crossfade, gapless playback and ReplayGain support
* Digital Rights Management decryption support
* Karaoke CDG-file display
* Music Library – new ways to explore and enjoy your music collection
* Xored Trainer Engine (gaming-cheats) (not ported from Xbox)
* Live TV improvements, including support for new back-ends
* XLink Kai (online-gaming) front-end (depreciated)
* Binary addon support and the binary addon repository
* Added iTunes 6.x DAAP and UPnP-client
* Android Leanback and voice control
* Read-only support for FAT12/16/32 formatted USB Mass Storage Devices up to 4GB in size
* Playback improvements (audio and video), including improved Blu-ray support
* Brand new "skinnable" 3D visualizer.
| {{n/a}}
|-
| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 1.1.0
| 18 October 2004
| {{n/a}}
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* 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
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| style="white-space:nowrap; background:salmon;"| 1.0.0
| TBA
| 29 June 2004
| Matrix
| {{n/a}}
| {{main| Kodi v19 (Matrix) changelog |Matrix API changes}}
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* Total rewrite of the source code from [[Xbox Media Player|XBMP (Xbox Media Player)]]
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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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Blue Future releases
Red Old releases
Codename Version Release date Significant changes XBMC Live based on
Matrix 19.0 TBA N/A
Leia 18.3 27 June 2019
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
N/A
18.2 22 April 2019
18.1 17 February 2019
18.0 29 January 2019
Krypton 17.6 15 November 2017 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
  • 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:
  • 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 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 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 ActiveAE for Linux desktops/embedded systems
  • Improved Pi Audio sink for ActiveAE for Raspberry Pi
  • Improved DirectSound and WASAPI sinks for ActiveAE for Windows
  • Improved CoreAudio and Darwin sinks for 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 HDMI CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) support for 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 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)
N/A
16.0 21 February 2016
Isengard 15.2 19 October 2015
  • 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
  • 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 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
    • FilmOn PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
    • PCTV Systems (Broadway) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
    • Stalker Middleware PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
    • VBox TV Gateway PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
    • Tvheadend PVR Addon backend client 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
    • 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 (Dreambox / Vu+ / DBox2) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
    • Argus TV / ForTheRecord PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
    • 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
  • 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 extend Kodi's native Python API by writing C++ code generated via Groovy and SWIG
  • Improved Addons API for homebrew DIY RGB LED Ambient lighting (Ambilight clone) client software such as 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 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 (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 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 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 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 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
  • 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 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 HDMI CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) support for Pulse-Eight's LibCEC
  • Upgraded HDMI-CEC libraries code from Pulse-Eight to 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 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[1]
  • 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 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 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 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
N/A
15.1 16 August 2015
15.0 21 July 2015
Helix 14.2 28 March 2015
  • 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
  • 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
  • Argus TV / ForTheRecord PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
  • 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
N/A
14.1 2 February 2015
14.0 23 December 2014
13.0
13.1
13.2
4 May 2014
5 June 2014
17 August 2014
Gotham
  • 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 much improved PVR / EPG extensions and notifications support over the JSON-RPC API
  • Improved PVR front-end with Live TV and EPG specific windows, plus PVR stuff in OSD and GUI settings in Confluence skin
  • Added, updated, and improved PVR backend clients addons for many popular third-party external PVR backend platforms:
    • PVR Demo Client dummy addon with fake backend from Team-XBMC for skin development and regression testing
    • IPTV (IPTV Simple Client) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
    • Tvheadend PVR Addon backend clients maintained and available from XBMC's community
    • NextPVR (former GB-PVR) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
    • Njoy Digital (N7) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
    • MediaPortal PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
    • MythTV PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from the XBMC's community
    • VDR (Video Disk Recorder) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
    • Vu+ / Enigma2 / Dreambox PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
    • Argus TV / ForTheRecord PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
    • WMC (Windows Media Center) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
    • DVBLink PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
    • DVBViewer PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
  • Added option for allowing skins to query directories (e.g. plugins) to fill static content
  • Added a Monitor class to receive JSON-RPC notifications directly through the Python bindings
  • Added announce function and register addon for announcements to the Add-ons API
  • Added new Built-In function to control state of attached HDMI CEC device via Add-ons API
  • Added support for XBMC's Python interface to use native keyboard if possible (currently only iOS)
  • Added support for addon binary reading and writing via a "buffer" class usable from addons
  • Added WOL (Wake-on-LAN) with send magic packet function to the Add-ons API
  • Improved the ability to extend XBMC'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
  • Added support for customizable menu structure for home and beyond
  • Added Stereoscopic 3D rendering support (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, and Anaglyph) to XBMC's GUI skinning engine
  • Added Stereoscopic 3D rendering support (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, and Anaglyph) for Subtitles when in 3D mode
  • Added a simple Movie Set management to GUI for Edit/Clear Set and Add/Remove Set members
  • Added option support for both banner and poster music art types simultaneously
  • Added picture tags metadata info accessible for skins or addons developers
  • Added further optimizations to XBMC's GUI engine for faster rendering on low resource embedded devices
  • Improved touch and gesture support for all platforms, and also improved the default touch screen skin (Touched)
  • Added ImageFactory implementation with factory to abstract different image libraries and hardware acceleration
  • Improved Dirty Regions rendering on all platforms
  • Refactored settings system to consist of XML files containing descriptions of every setting
  • Added support for H.264 (including Hi10P) multi-threaded video decoding when software decoder on CPU is used
  • Added support for Forced Subtitles ("forced flag") in external subtitle files
  • Added support for video playback of SageTV recordings
  • 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 FFmpeg 1.2 (rev e820e3a)
  • 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
  • Improved and extended Smart Playlists functionality
  • Added support for scanning videos SFTP and SSH sources so can scrape metadata
  • Added support for write-enabled WebDAV (delete/rename/write files and directories)
  • Added "Add art" button to video artwork selection dialog
  • Added support for "last played" sort option to the TV Show GUI
  • Added support for OGG cover art extraction to TagLib
  • Added option support for exporting music art as JPEG or PNG rather than TBN file extension
  • Improved performance for SQL database queries for faster browsing
  • Added theaudiodb.com music video scraper as new default for music videos
  • Added new cross-platform event driven active state machine pattern ActiveAE sink as the default for XBMC's AudioEngine
  • Added ALSA sink for ActiveAE for Linux Desktop and generic Linux based Embedded Systems
  • Added PulseAudio sink for ActiveAE for Linux Desktop
  • Added OSS (Open Sound System) sink for ActiveAE for BSD, like FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and similar Unix based systems
  • Added AUDIOTRACK sink for ActiveAE for Amlogic
  • Added Pi Audio sink for ActiveAE for Raspberry Pi
  • Added DirectSound sink for ActiveAE for Windows
  • Added WASAPI sink for ActiveAE for Windows
  • Added Darwin sink for ActiveAE for Mac OS X and iOS
  • Added support for CoreAudio AudioEngine to OS notifications for device changes on Mac OS X and iOS
  • Added support for "Play to" and controlling remote XBMC / DLNA instance over UPnP
  • Added new "Fishbmc" audio visualization addon (only OpenGL versions for Linux and Mac OS X for now)
  • Added GUI settings levels for Basic, Standard, Advanced, Expert (defaults to "Standard")
  • Added support and GUI settings for SOCKS 4/4a/5 proxy types and remote DNS
  • Added possibility to define help descriptions ("I" key) for every setting in GUI settings
  • Added option to set auto login of a specific user profile via the GUI
  • Added CPU / GPU frequency and temperature for all supported Linux platforms
  • Added support to allow key IDs in keyboard.xml to be in hexadecimal format
  • Upgraded DVD-Video navigation and playback libraries (libdvdnav, libdvdread, and libdvdcss)
  • Upgraded SAMBA client to version 3.6.x adding full support for SMB 2.0 and SMB 2.1 protocols
  • Added initial support for running libxbmc.so headless (without GUI) as a background service / deamon
  • Added a generic and user-mappable cross-platform touch input system
  • Improved CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) support for Pulse-Eight's LibCEC
  • Moved subtitle addon core handling to core and added native support for subtitle plugin services
  • Updated community maintained translations to over 60+ languages to date for XBMC via Transifex Translation System
  • Added first full (and stable) XBMC for Android port with multi-architecture platform support (supports ARM, MIPS, and x86)
  • Added built-in command for addons and skins to execute Android apps with optional params via applicationmanager
  • Added support to allow landscape and reverse landscape orientation of XBMC GUI on Android
  • Added MediaCodec API (Android 4.1 API level 16) software rendering implementation support to XBMC's DVDPlayer
  • Added StageFright API (Android 4.0 API level 14) hardware rendering implementation support to XBMC
  • Added OpenMAX Video Acceleration API support for OpenMAX AL API on Android via StageFright and MediaCodec
  • Improved the dedicated AMLPlayer video player for hardware accelerated video decoding on Amlogic
  • Added external player (external player launcher) support on Android
  • Added native volume control for Android from within XBMC
  • Improved NEON (Advanced SIMD instruction set) CPU acceleration support for ARM architecture
  • Improved XBMC support for BSD (operating system) on FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and other similar BSD platforms
  • Improved VDPAU (NVIDIA) Hardware Acceleration Video Decoding support on BSD
  • Improved VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) Hardware Acceleration Video Decoding support on BSD
  • Added VA-API (libva) support for decoding videos with larger resolutions than 1080p (such as 4K resolution)
  • Improved ARM processor architecture (Pivos XIOS DS and Raspberry Pi as reference devices)
  • Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support (Pivos XIOS DS and Raspberry Pi as reference devices)
  • Improved VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) support (requires VAAPI compatible hardware and drivers)
  • Improved VDPAU (NVIDIA) Hardware Video Acceleration and its upscaling/deinterlacing capabilities
  • Improved OpenMAX Video Acceleration API support for Linux (using Raspberry Pi as reference hardware)
  • Added RenderCapture implementation to Linux for Raspberry Pi for Ambilight addons
  • Added support for OpenMAX pipeline to handle JPEG decode/resize/convert/encode to texture on Raspberry Pi
  • Added support for hardware assisted video decoding of MJPEG, VP6, VP8 and Ogg Theora on Raspberry Pi
  • Added support for Fast Forward and Rewind video up 4x to OpenMAX (OMXPlayer) on Linux for Raspberry Pi
  • Added support multi-channel PCM audio output over HDMI to OpenMAX (OMXPlayer) on Linux for Raspberry Pi
  • Added screenshot implementation to Linux for Raspberry Pi that includes the video layer
  • Added hot-plug support for Linux input devices, such as Bluetooth remotes and keyboards
  • Improved AMD/Intel x86-64 64-bit (AMD64 / IA-64t CPU architectures) support under Linux
  • Removed dependencies of SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) for windowing and event handling on X11
  • Added support for native media control bar and play background music on iOS
  • Added adaptions for developing XBMC on non-jailbroken iSO devices (for development only, not to release on App Store)
  • Improved XBMC support for OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
  • Added support for copy and paste to and from clipboard with command key
  • Added support for Pixel Shader based HQ (High Quality) scalers for DXVA renderer on Windows
  • 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)
Lubuntu 14.04
12.0
12.1
12.2
12.3
29 January 2013
18 March 2013
3 May 2013
24 December 2013
Frodo
  • Added unified 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 software from third-parties
  • Initial Android (operating system) port with multi-architecture platform support
  • Initial 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
  • Added dedicated OMXPlayer video player for hardware accelerated video decoding via OpenMAX IL API
  • NEON (Advanced SIMD instruction set) CPU acceleration support for the ARM architecture
  • Improved ARM processor architecture (Pivos XIOS DS and Raspberry Pi as reference devices)
  • Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support (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[1]
  • Enabled Dirty Regions rendering to redraw whole screen on single dirty region by default on all platforms[2][3]
  • Added 64-bit build support Mac OS X to match the existing 64-bit support for Linux
  • Improved CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) support for 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 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[4]
  • 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 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[5]
  • 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[6]
  • Added support for screensavers written in Python programming language
  • Added ability to extend XBMC's native Python API by writing C++ code generated via Groovy and SWIG
  • Blu-ray Disc HDMV menu support (but not BD-J / BD-Live menus)[7]
  • 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[8]
  • Added a Test Suite based on Google C++ Testing Framework to make regression testing easier
  • Added support controlling external XBMC and third-party UPnP/DLNA instances over UPnP
  • Upgraded Plutinosoft's Platinum (libplatinum) UPnP and DNLA libraries
  • Upgraded FFmpeg's libavcodec and libavformat audio/video cedec and demuxer libraries
  • Removed the old HTTP API in favour of the new JSON-RPC API
Lubuntu 12.10
11.0 24 March 2012 Eden
  • 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/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
10.0
10.1
18 December 2010
10 March 2011
Dharma
  • 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
Ubuntu 10.04
9.11 24 December 2009 Camelot
  • 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
  • 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
9.04 6 May 2009 Babylon
  • 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
Ubuntu 9.04
9.04 6 May 2009 Babylon
  • 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
Ubuntu 9.04
2.0.0 29 September 2006 N/A
  • 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
1.1.0 18 October 2004 N/A
  • 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
1.0.0 29 June 2004 N/A N/A

Codename history

See: Codename history

References