Software Update: Kodi 18.0 RC5

The development of Kodi version 18.0 is coming to an end and has now arrived at the fifth and final release candidate. 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 stutters should occur, and it can also handle 4k and 8k resolutions, HDR, DRM and the latest codecs.

Changes in RC5

Most notable changes to mention in this Release Candidate:

• Correctly edited user/password in certain cases
• Fix window transparency on Android that might cause gray bars on HDR playback
• Prevent crash when resuming audiobook when there’s no chapter present
• Fix crash&burn by ensuring that Abort of ScriptObserver waits for thread exit
• Fix regression from RC4 regarding “don’t disable gui rendering when losing focus” on OSX
• Workaround double switching of refreshrate because we currently cannot reliably distinguish between 25p and 50i or 29.97p and 60i on playback start
• Fix missing All Albums item from music library
• Revert change that cause sorting of ANSII characters in library (proper fix will have to be done in v19)
• Fix crash on certain language characters when using PVR add-ons
• Fix crash on Windows with DVD playback after change in ffmpeg
• Fix compatibility with older MySQL databases

Of course there are several more changes which are listed on our github repository found here: RC5 changes.