v19.4 [Mar 6, 2022]
Estuary
- Fix: Home screen context menu fix for when there are more than 10 items in menu.
- Fix: Seekbar wouldn't disappear after 5 sec when using remote app e.g. Kore or JSON to pause Kodi.
Input
- Fix: English keyboard missing semi-colon.
- Fix: Chinese keyboard character now displaying correctly.
Music
- Fix: Artist discography export to NFO.
PVR
- New: Sort method for recordings based on season and episode.
- Fix: Crash when navigating an empty guide.
- Fix: Hiding/deleting channel group now working correctly.
UI
- Fix: Any Favourites for a restricted/locked media source are now hidden.
- Fix: Blu-ray ISO title and watched status now displayed correctly.
- Fix: Wrong language identified from subtitle name corrected.
Video
- Fix: EDL mute now working.
- Fix: ASS subtitles display now working correctly.
Android specifics
- Fix: Audio buffers adjusted.
- Fix: Various TrueHD stutter/dropout issues corrected.
Linux specifics
- Fix: Automatic play of DVDs.
MacOS specifics
- Fix: Mouse cursor positioning in full-screen.
Windows specifics
- Fix: Flickering with interlaced H.264 SD on AMD GPUs.
- Fix: Crash on unexpected network configuration (e.g. no MAC address obtained).
Xbox specifics
- New: Passthrough audio via WASAPI.
- Fix: Permission error preventing installation of Python add-ons.
v19.3 [Oct 26, 2021]
- We've had some challenges getting the Xbox version released because of some specific platform requirements needed for 4k/HEVC playback. With the help of @CelesAtXbox (thanks so much!) we think we've now genuinely got those covered to Microsoft's satisfaction, and can finally get this into the Windows Store.
- There's also an issue with an expired certificate for 18.9 on Xbox, which effectively takes that version off that platform for new installations, so timing is opportune to fix that.
- There's been a long-standing Atmos audio issue on all platforms that support TrueHD passthrough - we know that this this has been irritating people for some time, and we've now been able to fix this.
- We unintentionally introduced a bug in 19.2 that broke Airplay, so we've fixed that one.
- A couple of gaming-related fixes, notably a controller fix and some shader issues on Retroplayer.
- We've fixed a bug that affected thumbnails for watched episodes when hiding episode spoilers.
- We've much improved the metadata shown in Linux app stores.
v19.1 [May 9, 2021]
Video
- Fixed: HDR metadata is now detected in VP9 profile 2 streams and can be used on platforms that support HDR passthrough or tone mapped when playing this kind of videos.
Discs
- Fixed: playback of optical DVDs in Linux
- Fixed: BD-J Blu-ray chapter skipping via remotes/keyboard
PVR
- Fixed: context menu not accessible in PVR Guide window when using very basic remote to control Kodi
- Fixed: client channel name and number not persisted when changed
- Fixed: play count and resume position of recordings lost after Kodi restart
- Fixed: crash while browsing the EPG when MySQL is used as EPG database
- Fixed: next recording on ... label time is not localized in Estuary Timer/Timer rules window
- Fixed: channel manager does not rename backend channel
- Fixed: playing archived programme not selected when opening the Guide window
- Fixed: GUI not updated on removal/insert/hide/unhide of channel groups
- Updated: improved look of PVR windows in Estuary
Music Library
- Fixed: issue with music from cuesheets where only the first track was being added to the library on rescanning, with the rest being deleted
JSON-RPC
- Fixed: PVR - Reintroduced broadcast properties 'hastimer', 'hastimerrule', 'hasrecording', 'recording'
- Fixed: PVR - Reintroduced channel property 'isrecording'
Subtitles
- Fixed: detection of system fonts (directwrite) on windows for ASS subtitles
- Fixed: detection of user fonts (in userdata/fonts) for ASS subtitles
- Fixed: rendering of semi-transparent ASS subtitles on Wayland
GUI/Interface
- Fixed: media flagging for DVD/BluRay
Web Interface
- Updated: Chorus2 based on community contributions
Filesystem
- Updated: enable filecaching by default for network filesystems
- Updated: improve filecache error handling
Network
- Updated: improved reliability for HTTP and NFS network filesystems
Windows specifics
- Added: support for WS-Discovery protocol that enables locating SMB servers and browsing shared folders using SMBv3.
- Added: debug Info OSD Video. Extends current Debug Info Player (Ctrl Shift O) with new video-only info (Alt O)
- Fixed: with some unusual streams, incorrect HDR metadata could be passed (HDR10 passthrough).
- Fixed: green screen on systems with old HW (DX feature level 9.1) playing 10-bit videos.
- Fixed: black screen with Software render method and with DXVA2 hardware acceleration disabled.
- Fixed: green screen when playing the menu of some DVDs (MPEG2 SD only).
- Fixed: credentials being requested for anonymous SMB shares
- Updated: VC runtimes included in the installer to add compatibility with VS2019 and VS2017 at the same time.
Android specifics
- Fixed: SMB shares mounted on system level not visible in Kodi
- Fixed: SMB shares labelled with cryptic numbers (UUID) instead of actual disk name
Xbox specifics
- This version also brings 19.1 to the Xbox - while 19.0 has been in the Microsoft Store since launch, this was Windows-only while we found a way to adequately test the new release on Xbox. We've fixed that now, so Xbox users will automatically upgrade from 18.9 to 19.1 if you've got auto-update enabled. It's worth mentioning that there's a known memory limitation - present in 18.x as well - that causes Xbox application crashes with 4k content, so please be aware.
v19.0 [Apr 25, 2019]
Playback:
- For audio and music lovers, there are significant improvements across the board to metadata handling: library improvements, new tags, new displays, improvements to how Kodi handles release dates, album durations, multi-disc sets, and more. There's a new, Matrix-inspired visualisation, there are improvements to display when fetching files from a web server, and several changes to how audio decoder addons can pass information through to the Kodi player.
- For video, most of the changes are more technical, and may depend on your hardware: AV1 software decoding, HLG HDR and static HDR10 playback on Windows 10, static HDR10 and dynamic Dolby Vision HDR support on Android, and more OpenGL bicubic scalers.
- For those who combine the two, and have libraries of music videos, you get some goodies as well: database and metadata display improvements mean that Kodi will now fetch and display related album and artist information from the music library, where appropriate. There are also new features around grouping videos by artist (not just album), support for .NFO files that list all performers instead of just the main artist, plus better search links to return related albums and videos by the same director director.
- And, finally, if your definition of "play" is more game-related, we've implemented integer scaling to improve the viewing quality of Pixel Art games across the board, while iOS get support for Xbox, PlayStation and other supported Bluetooth game controllers.
Skin/Look-and-Feel:
- For many people, the interface is Kodi - it's how you find your way around, it's how you interact with the application and your media. As such, it's always getting some attention, and this release is no different: screen redesign, especially for music; new metadata displays; changes to playlist views; a new "now playing" view; artwork and image file improvements; both new and updated GUI controls. Some changes may be subtle, but all are designed to improve your experience.
Subtitles:
- An often-overlooked feature, but immensely useful to so many people, subtitles get some attention in this release: timestamp overlays get fixed, plus you can now select a dark grey colour and set an opacity for the captions (particularly useful in HDR - protect your eyes, kids, you'll miss them when they're gone).
Addons and Scrapers:
- Python comes in for some major changes in Kodi 19. Because the old Python 2.7 has gone out of support, we've finally made the wholesale move to Python 3 and ported our addons across. Much of the community has come with us, so, hopefully, your favourite addons will still function, but we're at the mercy of third-party contributors to update their work.
- Kodi 19 replaces the old XML metadata scrapers with new default Python for movies and TV shows; there are also new Python scrapers for music, Generic Album Scraper and Generic Artist Scraper. Binary addons in general get improvements to system documentation, cleaned up settings dialogs, and better help text.
PVR and Live Television:
- Another significant part of Kodi that's had a lot of attention in this release. Most new features here revolve around usability: PVR reminders, home screen widgets, group/channel manager enhancements, navigation and dialog controls, context menus, New/Live/Finale/Premiere tags, channel numbering and sorting, performance improvements, API improvements.
Security:
- There are a few new security features implemented now in Kodi, to help keep you safe from intentional or unintentional problems. Kodi will now enforce the origin of installed addons and their dependencies, which prevents third-party repositories from overwriting code of unrelated add-ons; broken or deprecated add-ons are now highlighted in the add-on list, so you have to actively agree to activate one; the binary addon system now has higher security around data exchange between Kodi and an addons. In addition, we've added a default requirement to password-protect Kodi's web interface, plus give better information around the security implications of enabling external interfaces if you do choose to enable them.
Platform Specifics:
- As a cross-platform application, we try our very best to keep all platforms feature equivalent where we can. However, there are inevitably platform differences, and we also have to make room by dropping old platforms as technology moves on.
- The big platform change with this release is new support for tvOS, but this means waving goodbye to iOS 32-bit. Beyond that, there are specific tweaks such as specific TopShelf support and fixes on AppleTV, better logging and notch support on iOS, and a move to a single Linux binary for multiple windowing systems (X11, Wayland, and GBM) versus the previous three. That last one will make a big difference to both users and package maintainers, since you'll no longer have to select a different binary based on the target environment.
v18.9 [Mar 18, 2020]
- Work around third-party changes to HTTP2 and SSL/encryption that impacted internet access from Kodi by scrapers, streaming addons, etc.
- Fix memory leaks in TexturePacker.
- Fix event server unable to send raw key strikes.
- Fix issues around directory navigation and incorrectly-set start directories.
- Fix MediaCodec OES/EGL rendering.
v18.7 [May 20, 2020]
Audio.
- Fix to not reset user-set volume (Android).
- Fixes around multi-channel audio track support.
Playback/Display.
- Fixes to Bluray subtitle language recognition.
- Fix playback of bus-encrypted bluray discs.
- Improved library handing for plugins if media source is removed.
- Use JNI instead of NDK for MediaCodec (Android).
- Further work on maximum width and height/vertical-shift (Android).
- Fixes around realtime handling of TS streams.
Interface/Look-and-feel.
- Fix for watch icons not showing when content type is not set (Estouchy).
- Fix navigation in skinsettings (Estuary).
- Fix crash in favourites dialog.
- Apply safe area insets to Kodi GUI (iOS).
- Fixes around focus after touch action.
- Improvements around dialog/toast handling.
- Fixed behaviour when accessing locked media sources.
Music.
- Fixes around library handling of "isalbumartist" field.
- Fixes around expansion of .ISO images to avoid GUI freezes.
- Ensure album artist isn't blanked out when scraping.
Build System.
- Fix downloading dependencies from mirrors (Windows).
- Library updates - bump gnutls (3.6.11.1) and nettle(3.5.1).
PVR.
- Fix EPG corruption when new channels are added during startup.
Network.
- Improvements around handling of proxy credentials.
- Fix for proxy empty fields (proxy, username, password).
Addons.
- Fix crash if an incompatible VFS addon is present.
- Fix display of title for compressed package directories.
- Fixes around addon settings folder naming.
Subtitles.
- Fixes around decoding of HTML escape characters.
- Fix around SMI (SAMI) subtitles and quoted start tags.
Profiles.
- Fixes for issues related to switching profile.
- Fixes to saving of lock preferences (master lock, lock video windows, etc.).
Other/General.
- Add "Swiss German" and "Portuguese (Brazil)" to language codes.
- Fix to guard against assert in tinyxml.
- Fix stack overflow when trying to find NFO files in a RAR file.
- Implement range checking in URIUtils::resolvePath.
- Implement support for extended local headers in ZIP files used by some scrapers.
v18.6 [Mar 3, 2020]
Audio:
- Fixes around visualisations.
- Fixes around pause/resume.
- Fixes around TrueHD crashes.
- Workaround firmware bug (AMLogic v23) (sidenote: there are many more Android audio fixes that can't be merged into 18.x "Leia" because of old AMLogic workarounds)
Fix to correctly resume audio-only MPEG-TS streams.
- Correct headphone enumeration (Android).
Build System:
- Updates for missing includes.
- Updates for Cmake (Windows).
- Updates for device handling and packaging (macOS).
Games:
- Fixes for launching disc images and.zip files.
- Fixes for black screen for RGB emulators (Rpi).
Interface/Look-and-feel:
- Fixes around TextureCache.
- Fixes for windowing, refresh rate, mode change and others (Android).
- Fixes for floating/split keyboard (iOS).
- Fix for artist slideshow (Estuary).
- Fix media view from addon given content.
Playback/Display:
- Fixed race condition for OnPlaybackStarted.
- Fixes for MIME type (Android).
- Support for DolbyVision streams via addons.
- Fixes for maximum width and height/vertical-shift (Android).
- Fix for scanning in sub-directories.
- Fix size of EAGL layer on external screen (iOS).
- Fix for glTexImage3D (Linux).
- Fix for seeking issues.
- Reset playlist on new file playback.
PVR:
- Fix for multiline episode names.
Other/General:
- Fixed incorrectly formatted region time.
- Pass JSON serialised path settings to python scrapers.
- Fix file access on auto-mounted sources.
- Fix seeking with FileCache lockup.
- Fix passthrough on USB devices (Android).
- Fix crash if profile.xml gets broken.
- Fix cache forward size on EOF.
v18.5 [Nov 17, 2019]
Interface/Look-and-Feel:
- Estuary and GUI info fixes, including scrollbar behaviour, icon names, label changes.
- Add dual support for Artist Slideshow 2.x and 3.x.
- Fix to always allow 'Black' screen saver.
- Fix wrong sort order list for music playlists node.
Playback/Display:
- Fixes to external subtitle playback.
- Fixes to support for archives over UPnP.
- Fixes to "queue item" and "play next" for STRM files with Plugin URL.
- Fixes to "hide watched" status for videos.
- Fixes to resume handling when marking a file as unwatched.
PVR:
- Fixes to EPG database storage, start/stop of PVR service.
- Fix handling of open modal dialogs.
- Fixes to commercial skip (EDL) processing .
Other/General Fixes:
- Multiple Android changes around windowing, secure decoder and SDK versions.
- Multiple iOS changes, including support for iPhone 11 and 7th generation iPad, plus fixes for touch input, overlapping drawing surfaces, sandbox checks, notch support..
- MacOS fixes around windowing, where only a portion of the screen was correctly rendered.
- Log files improvements around verbosity and security.
- Shoutcast improvements.
- Various fixes and improvements to add-on settings, package build documentation, build system, advancedsettings.xml, skin/profile changes and many other subsystems.
v18.4 [Sep 1, 2019]
Interface:
- Fix Missing text when sorting from inside addon.
- Clear/save focus-history when leaving window with focus on parent folder item.
- Picture slideshow fixes (Estuary).
- Subscribe to controller install events (games).
- Fix radio button text length (Estuary).
- Fix season/episode formatting for video addons (video).
- Don't consider display mode ids constant (Android).
Playback/Display:
- Fix PlayMedia builtin for playlists (.strm) and "artists" smart playlists (music).
- Fix PlayMedia builtin for smart playlists and playlists (music).
- FFmpeg: Bump to 4.0.4-Leia-18.4.
- Load program from stream property without using streaminfo (video).
- Fix initialization of AVD3D11VAContext structure (video, Windows).
- Fix TS resume point, related to PR16314 (video).
- Fixed memory leak, fixed segfault (video, Linux).
- Fix PAPlayer to handle passthrough for TrueHD (audio).
PVR:
- Fix component dependencies.
- PVRRecordings: Prevent concurrent calls to video database.
Other/General fixes:
- Use first protocol from add-on in add network dialog.
- Use exact matching for protocol in file+dir factories.
- Use of absolute paths in combination with hosts in URLs.
- Fix file times for vfs addons.
- Fix + sign HTTP folder.
- Corrections to filesystem CircularCache initialization and termination.
- Controller fixes.
- Delete stream details when video info is refreshed.
- Do not attempt to further resolve plugin paths for failing entries.
- Revert "fixed: We should always update stream details from player...".
v18.3 [Jun 28, 2019]
- 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.
v18.2 [Mar 7, 2019]
In keeping with the 18.x maintenance release cycle, this is a bug fix release, with no real new functionality. What's worth noting, however, is how we've identified and managed the bugs this time. We've always valued high-quality bug reports, and, for this reason, for 18.x we implemented an issue template and an automated verification system in the GitHub issue tracker. This makes the bug reports more complete, and gives the Kodi developers a better chance to pinpoint problems more accurately and fix them more quickly. The aim is to solve the problem of waiting for proper full debug logs, samples and suchlike, hopefully saving a lot of time and getting issues resolved more quickly. Hopefully, you can see the results of this new process in the 18.x bug fix releases.
For this 18.2 release we are also grateful to have received many code contributions from outside Team Kodi. With this help we were able to fix performance and dependency regressions in our GLES rendering path. Similar fixes were contributed for the AML platform, which really hasn't received much love over the past years.
VAAPI on Intel has gained some corrections for interlaced content that toggled interlaced flags during playback, and therefore caused stutter by reconfiguring the decoder.
Amongst other things, work has continued on Kodi's music experience: database access speed has been optimised as well as improved import functionality. Similarly, there have been fixes and improvements across all aspects of PVR, with a couple of particularly nasty bugs sent on their way.
You can also find a huge number of improvements for the Android platform. Because of the automated Google tests done in the Play store, we were able to track down and resolve a lot of issues revealed by those "drunken monkey" tests.
Beside all the fixes, we have introduced a Codec Factory (Android only) where power users can configure HW-Decoder usage in a fine-grained way. Most box sellers only provide usable codecs for formats which they use to sell content. Other format support tends to be poor, and therefore a configurable heuristic-based codec and video dimensions was added. The settings can be configured by the user in human-readable and writable XML format. More information can be found in the related pull request.
v17.6 [Oct 29, 2017]
- Added enhancement/improvements to PVR addon API (connection state change handling, asynchronous updates & more).
- Added support for navigation controls between EDL (commercial skipping) during PVR recodings playback.
- Added support for sorting channels by 'last played' in the Channels window.
- Added support to changing of timer type for existing timers to ex. change a episode timer to a series timer.
- Added support to echo up important Status info to Timer Rules in the Timer rules window.
- Added option to hide disabled timers in the Timer window.
- Added support for 'Edit timer' & 'Delete timer' rules to context menu in the EPG & Search windows.
- Added support to allow timer creation for EPG in recent past in the EPG window.
- Added support to use timer logos depending on its state in the EPG window.
- Added "ShowTimerRule" builtin to allow key mapping for "add timer" dialog pre-filled for epg-based timer rule.
- Added 'recent recordings' widget (core support and Estuary PVR home screen).
- Added vertical scrollbar to Guide window to allow channel navigation using the mouse (core support and Estuary change).
- Added support for JSON-RPC API sync PVR types fields with current implementation.
- Improveed playback of live streams as PVR Live TV streams can now be identified as "live".
- Improved Kodi's Eventlog with extentions to PVR events for 'create/delete timers, timer rules', 'start/stop recordings'.
- Improved PVR Guide window performance, especially on first open.
- Changes to have separate windows for 'Timer Rules' from 'Timers'.
- Changes to separate TV and Radio recordings in the Recordings window.
- Changes to make 'group items' setting be persistent in the Recordings window.
- Changes to recordings window which now respects "default select action" settings value.
- Changes to instant recording behavior to make it configurable (fixed-time vs. current show vs. interactive).
- Refactoring of the PVR Manager (PVRManager) so addons are now owned by Kodi's addon system.
- Added, updated, and improved PVR backend clients addons for all popular third-party external PVR backend platforms.
- Added a new API level system to binary addons, refactoring the binary addon library interface for Kodi.
- Added a new input system with an API for keyboard and game controllers as "Peripheral Addons".
- Added API support for "Peripheral Addons" for updatable configuration of input devices.
- Added support for game controller peripheral addons to system addons.
- Added a user-mappable Joystick (Peripheral) Addon for joysticks and gamepad abstraction APIs.
- Added "Peripheral Addons" for game controllers, gamepads, joysticks, and input peripherals.
- Added support for method to get our useragent string.
- Added support for Addons to include screenshots to be visible in Kodi's Addons Manager.
- Added support for skins to display 'recently installed' or 'recently updated' addon list in Addon Manager.
- Added setting for enabling/disabling ZIP installation of addons from unknown sources (disbaled by default).
- Added a lot of Doxygen related Addons documentation regarding builtin commands to Documentation.
- Added a new default skin called Estuary, with themes & colors, (moving Confluence to addon repo).
- Added a new default touch-screen enabled skin called Estouchy (moving Re-Touched to addon repo).
- Added a new Color Manager to handle loading of madVR 3D LUT ICC profiles for color correction.
- Added a new FFmpeg based image loader to guilib for loading pictures.
- Added a new FFmpeg based image thumbnails implementation.
- Added experimental limited support to guilib for animated APNG images in skin textures and backgrounds/posters.
- Added experimental limited support to guilib for animated GIF images in skin textures and backgrounds/posters.
- Added support for commercial skipping notifications and toggle action.
- Added support for defaultcontrol to grouplists to allow skins to define defaults.
- Added support for 'InstallAddon' builtin to allow skins to install addons on demand.
- Added Skin.SelectBool builtin support for skinning.
- Added support for multi-touch to display adjustment for touch panel calibration.
- Improved skinning PVR section by unifying and/or seperating different PVR related windows.
- Update guilib ABI (for libgui) to version 5.11.0.
- Updated keyboard layout for some languages and added new keyboard layout for French AZERTY & Italian QWERTY.
- Changed context menus by refactoring to a global item based system to unify them.
- Changed GetThumbSize() to m_imageResso so bookmark/chapter images are same resolution as posters.
- Changed background loading of thumbnails so that it is enabled by default.
- Changed default icons with updated versions.
- Major refactoring of Kodi's built-in video player core (which also been renamed from "DVDPlayer" to "VideoPlayer").
- Added support for "InputStream" binary addon extension point that can serve as input stream for VideoPlayer.
v17.4 [Jun 9, 2017]
Fixes done in this release:
Potentially fix crashing on Windows due to an issue in Python
Potentially fix crashing on Windows when enabling zeroconf
Fix sporadic crash on Windows when installing or updating add-ons
Fix issue for users with reverse proxies attempting to forward websockets.
Fix possible issue if Linux distro uses system ffmpeg and cause black screen with 10-bit H.265
Properly throttle scraping music information online to prevent overloading the provider
Fix native keyboard on iOS 11
Fix potential crash on Android O loading App icons
Fix non showing Kodi banner on Android O
Fix potential crash on Android with certain keymaps
Fix wrong detection of VP6 and VP8 videocodec on Android
Update FFmpeg to 3.1.9
Set hard requirement to use FFmpeg 3.1.x only
Fix for Hangup when viewing recording and pressing next/previous
Fix merged scraped album type and label correctly with that derived from tags from music files
Fix possible crash on Linux when using ALSA
Save skin settings immediatly after they have changed instead of only on shutdown
v17.3 [May 25, 2017]
Fixed missing binary add-ons on release time
Fixed crash on older distros like Ubuntu 14.04 with GCC 4.8 compiler
v17.1 [Mar 7, 2017]
1.1 Live TV and PVR (Personal Video Recorder)
Added enhancement/improvements to PVR addon API (connection state change handling, asynchronous updates & more)[1] [2][3]
Added support for navigation controls between EDL (commercial skipping) during PVR recodings playback[4]
Added support for sorting channels by 'last played' in the Channels window[5]
Added support to changing of timer type for existing timers to ex. change a episode timer to a series timer[6]
Added support to echo up important Status info to Timer Rules in the Timer rules window[7]
Added option to hide disabled timers in the Timer window[8]
Added support for 'Edit timer' & 'Delete timer' rules to context menu in the EPG & Search windows[9][10]
Added support to allow timer creation for EPG in recent past in the EPG window[11]
Added support to use timer logos depending on its state in the EPG window[12][13][14]
Added "ShowTimerRule" builtin to allow key mapping for "add timer" dialog pre-filled for epg-based timer rule[15]
Added 'recent recordings' widget (core support and Estuary PVR home screen)[16]
Added vertical scrollbar to Guide window to allow channel navigation using the mouse (core support and Estuary change)[17]
Added support for JSON-RPC API sync PVR types fields with current implementation[18]
Improveed playback of live streams as PVR Live TV streams can now be identified as "live"
Improved Kodi's Eventlog with extentions to PVR events for 'create/delete timers, timer rules', 'start/stop recordings'[19]
Improved PVR Guide window performance, especially on first open[20][21]
Changes to have separate windows for 'Timer Rules' from 'Timers'[22]
Changes to separate TV and Radio recordings in the Recordings window[23]
Changes to make 'group items' setting be persistent in the Recordings window[24]
Changes to recordings window which now respects "default select action" settings value[25]
Changes to instant recording behavior to make it configurable (fixed-time vs. current show vs. interactive)[26]
Refactoring of the PVR Manager (PVRManager) so addons are now owned by Kodi's addon system[27]
Added, updated, and improved PVR backend clients addons for all popular third-party external PVR backend platforms:
New: Digital Devices Octopus NET Client PVR Addon backend client maintained and made available by Digital Devices
VDR VNSI Client PVR Addon backend client maintained and made available by Team Kodi
Tvheadend HTSP Client PVR Addon backend client maintained and made available by Team Kodi
FilmOn PVR Addon backend client maintained and made available by Kodi's community
Stalker Middleware PVR Addon backend client maintained and made available by Kodi's community
HDHomeRun PVR Addon backend client maintained and made available by Kodi's community
Enigma2 (Dreambox / Vu / DBox2) PVR Addon backend client maintained and made available by Kodi's community
VBox TV Gateway PVR Addon backend client maintained and made available by Kodi's community
Njoy Digital (N7) PVR Addon backend client maintained and made available by Kodi's community
PCTV Systems (Broadway) PVR Addon backend client maintained and made available by PCTV Systems
MythTV PVR Client Addon backend client maintained and made available by Kodi's community
NextPVR (former GB-PVR) PVR Addon backend client maintained and made available by Kodi's community
Argus TV (former ForTheRecord) PVR Addon backend client maintained and made available by Kodi's community
DVBLink PVR Client Addon backend client maintained and made available by DVBLogic
DVBViewer Client PVR Addon backend client maintained and made available by Kodi's community
MediaPortal PVR Client Addon backend client maintained and made available by Kodi's community
WMC (Windows Media Center) PVR Addon backend client maintained and made available by Kodi's community
IPTV Simple Client PVR Addon backend client maintained and made available by Kodi's community
RTL-SDR FM Radio Client PVR Addon backend client maintained and made available by Kodi's community
PVR Demo Client dummy addon with fake (method stub) PVR backend for PVR skinning and regression testing
v16.1 [Mar 6, 2016]
May include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
v16.0 [Jul 23, 2015]
May include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
v15.1 [Aug 8, 2015]
Fixes done in this 15.1 version
• Flush renderbuffers when flushing video player
• Fix broken network.bandwidth setting
• Fix stuttering in PVR windows
• Fix holding lock while querying PVR backend
• Unsigned apps are not working on jailbroken iOS 5.1 devices
• Add installed languages to the list of possible stream languages
• Ensure that file descriptor for logfile is NULL’ed
• Fixes a crash when trying do delete a file in filemanager
• Reimplement Cocoa_GetVolumeNameFromMountPoint for OSX
• Update label color for sliderex controls
• CProgressJob: fix crash in DoModal
• Fix missing return in CGUIWindowPVRBase::OnBack
• FFmpeg: Bump to 2.6.4
• Handle startup splash as regular window
• Fix linkage for VTB framework for iOS < 6 – fixes VTB on iOS
• Fix broken native keyboard on iOS 5.1.1 devices
• Fix wrong navigation in SmartPlaylistEditor.xml
• Make some virtual filesystems available when no network is available yet
• Fix formatting on mysql queries that could cause crash on update
• Only set mouse wheel control spin and slider controls when they are actually focusses
• Respect view mode changes of EPG when controlling number of EPG updates
• Handle startup splash as regular window which prevent problems if PVR or masterlock is used as startup window
• Fix watched flag not displaying if item is also resume-able
• Remove some logging on exiting that could crash on exit in some cases
• Fix overlapping subtitles in some cases
