Fix crash if an incompatible VFS addon is present.Fix for proxy empty fields (proxy, username, password).Improvements around handling of proxy credentials.Fix EPG corruption when new channels are added during startup.Library updates – bump gnutls (3.6.11.1) and nettle(3.5.1).Fix downloading dependencies from mirrors (Windows).

Ensure album artist isn’t blanked out when scraping.

Fixes around library handling of “isalbumartist” field.

Fixed behaviour when accessing locked media sources.

Improvements around dialog/toast handling.

Apply safe area insets to Kodi GUI (iOS).

Fix navigation in skinsettings (Estuary).

Fix for watch icons not showing when content type is not set (Estouchy).

Fixes around realtime handling of TS streams.

Further work on maximum width and height/vertical-shift (Android).

Use JNI instead of NDK for MediaCodec (Android).

Improved library handing for plugins if media source is removed.

Fix playback of bus-encrypted bluray discs.

Fixes to Bluray subtitle language recognition.

Fixes around multi-channel audio track support.

Fix to not reset user-set volume (Android).

This is another bug fixes focusing mostly on behind the scenes updates. On May 21st, 2020, v18.7 of Kodi was released.

If you want to backup your Kodi setup before updating, we have a handy Kodi backup guide that may be of use.

Your operating system should work its magic in the background.

You are free to install Kodi 18 right over top of Kodi 17.

Some of the skins that have been upgraded to support Kodi 18 include: Revert back to Estuary before upgrading to ensure that you will at least see everything after you upgrade. Due to backend Kodi changes, all skins need to be updated for Kodi 18.

It is a good idea to switch back to the default Estuary skin before updating.

If you are looking to upgrade to Kodi 18, here are some helpful hints to get you started:

A lot of free time developing and testing these changes.

More than 3000 pull-requests (collection of commits that were included in one go).

More than 9386 commits (code chunks changed).

The official Kodi 18 download is now out! Install the latest version of Kodi so that you have the latest dependencies, addons, and modules loaded.ĭevelopment on the newest version of Kodi took place over more than.a year. Overall, the Kodi 18 download, Leia, has the following technical changes completed:

Kodi 17.6 download and build