Kodi 21 (codenamed Omega) recently released its second Alpha version, which brings a lot of changes.
build/dependency
- Apple platforms are now all built with a newer version of Xcode (14.2) and the associated SDK.
- Builds on Windows now use the system's
curlexecutable instead of the (ancient)wgetone we used to bundle. - Improvements to dependency builds to make download/hash checks more robust
Estuary
- Improved the timeout of the search window so that it disappears more correctly after an appropriate timeout.
- Fixed visibility of "next recording" label
PVRTimersin
FFmpeg
- Made some cleanups to ffmpeg's data usage and fixed some crashes, along with other improvements to ffmpeg's API usage.
conventional
- Improved handling of movement keys (e.g. PageUp, Down, Home, End) in certain lists (e.g. Settings).
- Improved image cache handling for GUI items
advancedsettings.xmlConfigurations in Kodi 18Extraartwill no longer be migrated to the new GUI settings when upgrading- Extended the navigation history to track the line number of the selected item so that it can be restored if it disappears from the list
- For portrait images, thumbnail generation was fixed.
Android
- More cleanups and improvements to the Android codebase
Linux
- Added the ability to select an audio backend with a command line switch when starting Kodi
macOS
- The minimum OS required for Kodi on macOS is now Mojave (10.14). This is done so that projects continue to use more modern C++17 features.
Windows
- The minimum Windows supported version has been raised to Windows 8.1
- Implemented "Video Super Resolution" support for Nvidia (RTX) and Intel (ARC) compatible hardware.
More details can be found at: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-omega-alpha-2/