Kodi 20.3

Kodi

Kodi (formerly known as XBMC), is an award-winning free and open source cross-platform software media player and entertainment hub for digital media for HTPCs (Home theater PCs). Its graphical user interface (GUI) allows the user to easily browse and view videos, photos, podcasts, and music from a hard-drive, optical disc, local network, and the internet using only a few buttons.

Kodi can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available. Use your media as-is: Kodi can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive. Kodi will scan all of your media and create a personalized library complete with boxcovers, descriptions, and fanart. There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature and many audio visualizations. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox.

Release notes

Estuary

An assortment of fixes for Estuary, including home categories' focus position, alignment of counter labels and Shift view for collections.
Fixes to the weather layout when busy.

Game/Retroplayer

Fixed controllers not assigned to game ports correctly on Android.
Fixed blue/pink washed out colours on Windows with 10-bit displays.
Fixed possible crash in Port dialogue box.
Fixed typo for the mouse middle button in Controller dialogue box.

General

A DVD playback fix that resolves unmounted drives not being playable.
A fix for infinite loops in CPluginFile that occurred when using scrapers.
A fix for a crash that occurred due to Addon settings being destructed in an incorrect order.
Redact some information from Toast notifications (user/passwords incorrectly being shown).
A memory leak in context menus was resolved.
Image cache handling was fixed to correctly regenerate when cached files for JSON API consumers.

Music

Music Library: now able to automatically recover if library cleaning was interrupted previously for some reason.

Platform Specific

Android

Fixed (workaround implemented) possible audio out-of-sync in recent AMLogic BSP devices: FireTV Cube 3rd Gen, Homatics Box R 4K Plus, …

Linux

VP9 Profile 2 playback failure was fixed.
A fix for a leak of EGLFences in the DRM Prime renderer.

macOS/iOS

Fix a crash on Apple Silicon based Macs when pressing the Caps Lock key.

tvOS

Fixed: Not persistent binary addons (PVR) settings.

Windows

Fixed: 24 Hz refresh rate related to HDR in specific use cases only (when Windows HDR auto-switch is not used).
Fixed: audio device "WASAPI:default" was listed multiple times in audio device list.
Fixed: fractional refresh rates 119.88 Hz and higher they were not displayed correctly.

Pictures

An exif parsing regression from v19 was resolved.

PVR

Fix TV channel subtitles not displayed on playback start, even when activated in subtitle settings.
Fix recordings with a path containing a colon (':') not being displayed in recordings window.

UPNP

A fix for a crash that occurred when a user added a UPNP source without having UPNP enabled.
Playback from remote sources (ftp, http, etc.) has been fixed.

Video