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Kodi v18.1 Leia RC1

Feb 11, 2019
Martijn Kaijser
Upcoming bug fix release... Two weeks have passed since the official release of v18.0 - hopefully, you all like it as much as we do. A final release always comes with some unexpected bugs, however, so the months to come will bring regular v18 updates with further fixes...
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FOSDEM 2019 Logo - with added Kodi

FOSDEM 2019 report

Feb 11, 2019
yol
At the beginning of the month seven Team Kodi members attended FOSDEM, Europe's largest meeting of Free and Open Source Software developers that takes place over two days each year in Brussels, Belgium. FOSDEM is a great opportunity to meet up amongst ourselves, and...
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Kodi v18 "Leia" robot

Kodi 18.0

Jan 29, 2019
Prof Yaffle
Kodi 18 is here! < drum roll > ... after another long gestation... the Kodi team is very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Kodi 18.0 "Leia" for all supported platforms (UWP for Windows Store and Xbox is working its way through the system as I type...
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FOSDEM 2019 Logo - with added Kodi

FOSDEM 2019: Brussels, 2/3 February

Jan 24, 2019
Prof Yaffle
Belgium, here we come! Team Kodi will be at FOSDEM in Brussels next week. If you live anywhere near, if you're attending, if you can make the detour - please, come along and meet some of the team. FOSDEM is an annual, volunteer, non-commercial event that focuses on...
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Kodi v18 Leia RC5

Jan 12, 2019
Martijn Kaijser
As mentioned in the RC4 release article, a final release was close on the horizon. To that end we hereby present you the last Release Candate (RC5) before we call it a wrap on v18.0. It will not be absolutely perfect but we have to go forward at some point. Don't worry...
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Kodi v18 Leia RC4 - A new hope

Dec 29, 2018
Martijn Kaijser
It's the days between Christmas and New Years eve, and some of our developers found the time do squash down some know issues. We hereby present you v18 RC4 that include several fixes we did past two weeks. There's not really anything more to say than wish you all a...
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Car wing mirror. Photo by Devon Janse van Rensburg on Unsplash

2018 - Looking Back...

Dec 12, 2018
Prof Yaffle
So, the sun starts to set on 2018, and another year draws to a close. At the same time, we stand ready to launch Kodi 18 "Leia" in the very near future, which opens a new chapter in how Kodi is structured, how it functions, how it's used. It seems like an appropriate...
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Kodi v18 Leia RC2 - A new hope

Dec 4, 2018
Martijn Kaijser
After two years of hard work by all volunteers, either part of the team or of our great community we can finally say the last steps towards Kodi v18 are being made. In past years many things have changed, either visually or code wise and to be honest i can't even...
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Kodi Edition Raspberry Pi Case Version 2 - May The (Open) Source Be With You!

Nov 23, 2018
Jason
Two years ago, we surprised everyone by taking our first step into hardware by announcing the 'Kodi Edition' Raspberry Pi case. For the past year, we’ve been working with Flirc on an exciting and ambitious newly-designed case to follow that one. Using the second-...
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Kodi v18 Leia RC1 - A new hope

Nov 23, 2018
Martijn Kaijser
After two years of hard work by all volunteers, either part of the team or of our great community we can finally say the last steps towards Kodi v18 are being made. In past years many things have changed, either visually or code wise and to be honest i can't even...
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Kodi v18 Leia - Beta 5

Nov 4, 2018
Martijn Kaijser
We hereby present you the fifth and last Beta build of Kodi v18 as we are heading towards the final release. Next step will be Release candidates where our focus will be on solving bugs and possible usability problems. So far it has been proven to be quite solid to use...
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Kodi v18 Leia - Beta 4

Oct 23, 2018
Martijn Kaijser
We hereby present you the fourth Beta build of Kodi v18 as we are heading towards the final release. Since we are now in Beta stage our focus will be on solving bugs and possible usability problems. So far it has been proven to be quite solid to use as a daily driver...
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Kodi v18 - Binary add-ons repository

Oct 22, 2018
Martijn Kaijser
The problem For many years our developers have been working getting the Kodi code in component specific parts. In that effort some components have been split off in such a way they are actually separate from Kodi itself, and can be installed at any point in time. We...
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Kodi 19 M***** - Code name suggestion

Oct 13, 2018
Martijn Kaijser
Since the dawn of time, or at least since 2008 each released version has received a code name next to the version number. Giving each development iteration a code name in a certain category is kind of a tradition that is not only applicable for software but also for...
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Kodi v18 Leia - Beta 3

Oct 3, 2018
Martijn Kaijser
We hereby present you the third Beta build of Kodi v18 as we are heading towards the final release. Since we are now in Beta stage our focus will be on solving bugs and possible usability problems. So far it has been proven to be quite solid to use as a daily driver...
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Devcon 2018 - Sofia - Part III

Sep 30, 2018
Prof Yaffle
One more day, with enough content to warrant a separate blog post - partly because people are still here for the most part, partly because of new stuff that's been added to the agenda as we've gone along, and partly because of the topics that, despite our best efforts...
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Devcon 2018 - Sofia - Part II

Sep 29, 2018
Prof Yaffle
Good morning/afternoon/evening/night (delete as appropriate - we're a global community). The world has turned once more, the sun has crawled into the sky, and we're back in the room. Nate began the day with an update on the Foundation's financial status : income,...
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St. Alexander Nevski Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria

Devcon 2018 - Sofia - Part I

Sep 28, 2018
Prof Yaffle
<blinks in the light> What, a year already? Yup, twelve months have passed, we're all a year older, the world is still mad, and we're once again sitting in an overly-warm, windowless, anonymous conference room, discussing everyone's favourite media software while...
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Attending VDD 2018 - The 10th VideoLAN developer days

Sep 24, 2018
Martijn Kaijser
Since the open source community is open as the name implies we as Team Kodi at times also attend other conferences. One of those is VDD which is hosted by the VideoLAN team which you might know from the VLC player. During the conference many developers related to their...
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Kodi v18 Leia - Beta 2

Sep 11, 2018
Martijn Kaijser
We hereby present you the second Beta build of Kodi v18 as we are heading towards the final release. Since we are now in Beta stage our focus will be on solving bugs and possible usability problems. So far it has been proven to be quite solid to use as a daily driver...
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