Download Kodi 18.1 RC1

The final release of Kodi version 18.0 has only recently appeared and a development version of the first successor can already be picked up. This cross platform media center software is developed for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. In version 18.0, codenamed Leia, the entire source code has been reviewed, among other things, with the aim of improving stability. Furthermore, several improvements have been made to the music library and watching live television, there is a full 64bit version from Kodi and is now also available through the Windows Store. Finally, the media player has been improved, which means that fewer stuttering should occur, and it can also handle 4k and 8k resolutions, HDR, DRM and the latest codecs. Version 18.1 also brings a collection of minor improvements and bug fixes.

Kodi v18.1 Leia RC1

Two weeks have past since the official release of v18.0, and hopefully you all like it as much as we do. A final release always comes with some unexpected bugs or improvements that needed a bit more time. In the months to come we will bring you regular v18 updates that included bug fixes and improvements. In this 18.1 Release Candidate we have included the following changes:

• Speed ​​up Player and Playlists operations with JSON-RPC
• Define a senseful default value for advanced settings ‘updateemptytagsinterval’
• Revert edge case crash fix that caused DVDs to be not recognized on Mac OS
• Remove “dxvaallowhqscaling” advanced setting to prepare for DXVA improvements in v18.2 for Windows
• Linux X11: fix usage of required configuration values
• Add date to the log records
• Don’t react on DPI change event on Win10 >= FCU
• Fix Android MediaCodec freeze when early disposing stream
• Flush stream players if abort is requested which solves waiting too long. Skippingskip DVD screens for example
• Fix ListitemAbsolute and ListItemPosition in GUI engine
• Ignore very first “server not reachable” notification for PVR servers
• Use extended result codes for SQLite
• Fix invalid PTS decoder value which should inprove MPEG2 playback on Android devices
• update SSL CA trust store
• Handle empty vertex buffers in GUIFontTTFGL which caused a hard crash
• Reintroduce setting “Close channel OSD after switching channels” for PVR
• Fix thread logging on Android which cause issues like gettings frozen on DVD/Bluray playback
• Avoid attempt to load music info for smartplaylists
• Fix Top 100 Albums regression
• RenderCapture: Only query Occlusion if GL lower 1.5
• Check current mode if whitelist doesn’t match and take correct action
• Check if app intent is valid on Android. This fixes a hard crash when trying to open Kodi again
• Fix PVR input stream creation for pvr file items only containing a path and no recording/channel tag.
• Fix playing VP9 streams using inputstream addon. It failed because codec extradata is not existant for this stream codec.
• Catch an exception while reading or writing a file
• Fix logical “or” operation in GUI engine
• Check the system capabilities to support sleep states S1/S2/S3/S4 before reporing them as available
• Fix crash in PCSX ReARMed with BIOS
• Several Estuary cosmetic fixes

The full v18.1 RC1 changelog can be found in our Github milstone†