Download Kodi 15.0

The final release of Kodi version 15.0 has been released. Formerly marketed as XBMC, Kodi is cross-platform media center software developed for Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, and the Raspberry Pi. New in version 15.0, which has been codenamed Isengard, includes adaptive seeking, which means that audio and video files can be jumped with larger or smaller steps. Furthermore, there is a visual way to jump to chapters, there is support for hevc h265 under Android on certain chipsets and a switch to C++11 for the code. however, all this beauty means that the minimum specifications have been increased. For example, at least OS X 10.7, iOS 5.1 or Android 4.2 is now required. The changelog for version 15.0 looks like this:

Kodi 15.0 Features
Across platforms, Kodi itself has gained quite a lot of features. Some notable examples include:

• A new chapter selector window – Allows you to visually browse and select chapters from mkvs and other containers that support chapters.
• Adaptive seeking (aka Skip Steps) – The more times you press a button to seek in a period of time, the larger the jump forward or backward will be.
• Audio and Subtitle Lists – For content that includes multiple audio and subtitle choices, you can select from a full list of choices, rather than manually searching through a spinner.
• Language Add-ons and Expanded International Preferences – Now language translations aren’t dependent upon release, but get regularly updated to all users as the add-ons themselves update. Additionally, you now have total control over date, time, temperature and more displayed formats.
• Improved Add-on Manager – The add-on manager has now been reworked to help make finding the add-ons you are looking for easier.

Other improvements include:

• ffmpeg 2.6.3 update
• Improved Closed Captioning support in Live TV
• Fixed music video queuing
• Allow scanning of new sources and marking as watched during other library operations such as “update library”
• Windows DXVA HEVC hardware decoding support if driver and hardware support exist
• And more. See release notes for RC2, RC1, beta2 and beta1 for a full list.

Changes from 14.2 to 15.0 include:

• Minimal 10.7 Lion 64-bit required on Mac OSX
• Minimal iOS 5.1 required and ATV2 support discontinued
• Minimum Android 4.2 Jelly Bean MR1 required on Android
• Ubuntu 12.04 support dropped in PPA
• On Android the system now handles the volume instead of Kodi
• Removed the need for root/SU on Android. Some hardware/firmware might not like that. Please contact your hardware supplier
• Removal of Tuxbox support. Users of Enigma2 boxes can use the VUPlus PVR add-on
• Removal of AFP filesystem support
• Remove legacy code pre-Frodo 11.0
• Vast amount of possible memory leaks, segfaults, crashes and minor issues have been fixed
• General improvements regarding code stability and performance in all areas
• General code clean-up in all areas to simplify adding future features
• And more. See release notes forRC2,RC1,beta2andbeta1for a full list.