Release history
This is a summary of the Kodi release history with links to relevant changelog pages.
Version Milestones can be found here
| Legend
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| Blue
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Future release
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| Green
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Current release
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| Red
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Old releases
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| Codename history
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Version
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Release date
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Significant changes
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XBMC Live
development base
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| Omega
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21.0
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In Development
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N/A
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| Nexus
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20.1
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12 March 2023
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Kodi v20 (Nexus) changelog
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N/A
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| 20.0
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16 January 2023
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| Matrix
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19.5
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25 December 2022
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N/A
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| 19.4
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4 March 2022
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| 19.3
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28 October 2021
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| 19.2
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09 October 2021
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| 19.1
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10 May 2021
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| 19.0
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20 February 2021
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| Leia
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18.9
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24 October 2020
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29 December 2017 - XBox One v18 Alpha released to Windows Store
- ^v18.7.1- Special Android Release
- ^v18.7.2- Special Android Release
- ^v18.9- Special release due to Cloudflare http2 issue.
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N/A
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| ^18.8
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29 July 2020
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| ^18.7.2
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14 June 2020
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| ^18.7.1
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1 June 2020
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| 18.7
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21 May 2020
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| 18.6
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02 Mar 2020
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| 18.5
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17 Nov 2019
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| 18.4
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1 Sept 2019
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| 18.3
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27 June 2019
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| 18.2
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22 April 2019
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| 18.1
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17 February 2019
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| 18.0
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29 January 2019
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| Krypton
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17.6
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15 November 2017
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N/A
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| 17.5
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24 October 2017
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| 17.4
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22 August 2017
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| 17.3
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25 May 2017
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| 17.2
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21 May 2017
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| 17.1
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23 March 2017
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| 17.0
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5 February 2017
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| Jarvis
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16.1
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24 April 2016
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N/A
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| 16.0
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21 February 2016
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| Isengard
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15.2
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19 October 2015
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N/A
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| 15.1
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16 August 2015
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| 15.0
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21 July 2015
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| Helix
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14.2
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28 March 2015
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N/A
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| 14.1
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2 February 2015
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| 14.0
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23 December 2014
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| Gotham
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13.2
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18 August 2014
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Lubuntu 14.04
"Trusty Tahr"
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| 13.1
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5 June 2014
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| 13.0
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4 May 2014
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| Frodo
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12.3
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24 December 2013
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Lubuntu 12.10
"Quantal Quetzal"
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| 12.2
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3 May 2013
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| 12.1
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18 March 2013
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| 12.0
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29 January 2013
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| Eden
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11.0
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24 March 2012
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Lubuntu 11.10
"Oneiric Ocelot"
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| Dharma
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10.1
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10 March 2011
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- 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
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Ubuntu 10.04
"Lucid Lynx"
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| 10.0
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18 December 2010
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| Camelot
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9.11
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24 December 2009
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- 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)
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Ubuntu 9.10
"Karmic Koala"
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| Babylon
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9.04.1
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27 May 2009
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- 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
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Ubuntu 9.04
"Jaunty Jackalope"
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| 9.04
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6 May 2009
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| N/A
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2.0.0
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29 September 2006
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- 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.
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N/A
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| N/A
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1.1.0
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18 October 2004
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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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N/A
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| N/A
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1.0.0
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29 June 2004
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- Total rewrite of the source code
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N/A
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Codename history
- See: Codename history
References
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