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Devcon 2017 - Day One

May 6, 2017
Prof Yaffle
Welcome to DevCon 2017! Unlike previous years, where we've tried to give a live blog of what's happening (much harder than it might seem!), this year, we're aiming to simply summarise the event for you all in a series of posts. So: DevCon 2017. Thirty-two of the finest...
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Selling Pirate Boxes Now Illegal in the EU - Dev Journal

May 5, 2017
Nathan Betzen
We wanted to address the recent judgment by the EU Court of Justice regarding so-called piracy boxes. We should start by saying that none of us are lawyers in the EU, so consider anything we say to be opinions and not facts. If you want facts, ask actual lawyers. The...
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Kodi v18: Android Leanback suggestions, search and voice typing

Apr 29, 2017
Martijn Kaijser
Although we released Kodi v17 not long ago our developers never stop and already work hard towards the next version. Version 18 will have the codename Leia as announced in this article . Different from past years where we combined several new features in one article we...
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Kodi DRM

Dev Journal: Kodi and DRM

Apr 24, 2017
h.udo
For any of you that might have been living on Planet Mars the last few years and are not familiar with all the talk surrounding DRM, here is the digest version: Digital Rights Management (DRM) refers to a broad range of technologies, techniques, and standards, many of...
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Porto, Portugal

Kodi's 2017 Developers' Conference

Apr 6, 2017
h.udo
We're excited to announce that the 2017 Kodi's Developers' Conference will be from the 5th through the 7th of May in Porto, Portugal!
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We Have a New Website

Apr 2, 2017
Nathan Betzen
We're excited to announce that the Kodi.tv website has been fully updated!
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Construction site, Credit: Alissa Eady

And.....we're baaaaack!

Apr 1, 2017
Prof Yaffle
Happy April, everyone. Did you miss us? :) Apologies if we scared you, but you'll have noticed that we've redecorated while you were looking the other way . Some might even suggest that taking the website and forum down for a couple of days was all part of the plan.....
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Kodi Krypton

Kodi v17.1 “Krypton”

Mar 23, 2017
Martijn Kaijser
This is the bugfix release for v17.1 “Krypton” which contains our continuous effort to further improve the v17 release. Our team tried to tackle as much of the reported problems as possible with the limited resources we have. We do want to note that since we are just a...
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Summer of code

We are a Google Summer of Code 2017 Organization!

Mar 1, 2017
Nathan Betzen
We are excited to announce that Kodi has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2017 project ! Students, as of the time of this publication, you have about 2 or 3 weeks to start thinking about project ideas. If you are a student interested in applying, please head...
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Kodi v17.1 “Krypton” Release Candidate 1

Feb 23, 2017
Martijn Kaijser
This is the Release Candidate for our upcoming bugfix release v17.1 “Krypton” which contains our continuous effort to further improve the v17 release. Our team will certainly try to tackle as much of the reported problems as possible with the limited resources we have...
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Kodi 17.0

Feb 5, 2017
Kib
Team Kodi are very happy to announce the immediate availability of Kodi 17.0 (Krypton) for Windows, Android, MacOS and iOS. Krypton brings updated default user interfaces, better organisation of settings, and many under-the-hood changes on VideoPlayer, Music Library,...
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Kodi v17.0 “Krypton” Release Candidate 4

Jan 27, 2017
Martijn Kaijser
This is the fourth Release Candidate for our upcoming v17.0 “Krypton” which contains our continuous effort to further improve v17.0 before we make it final. Our team will certainly try to tackle as much of the reported problems as possible with the limited resources we...
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Kodi v17.0 “Krypton” Release Candidate 3

Jan 12, 2017
Martijn Kaijser
Just before New Years’s day we released our first official Release Candidate which marks the final step towards the final release of v17.0. These Release Candidate builds are dedicated to gain further feedback from users who are willing to take the jump towards v17 and...
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Kodi 18 - "Leia"

Jan 9, 2017
Nathan Betzen
When deciding on a code name for the release of Kodi 18, we determined to do things just a little differently this time around. Normally, when we pick a new code name, we go through the suggestion threads, gather together the top 5 or top 10 suggestions, and vote on...
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Kodi v17.0 "Krypton" Release Candidate

Dec 29, 2016
Martijn Kaijser
UPDATE : Due to some packaging problems for Android and initial response we had to do quick bump to RC2 to solve this. If you had downloaded and installed RC1 before 31 December (available from system information) please upgrade to the newer version. We want to close...
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Kodi v17 “Krypton” The last Beta 7

Dec 19, 2016
Martijn Kaijser
It’s almost Christmas and as such we wanted to bring you the last Beta version of Kodi 17. This means we have good hopes we have squashed the biggest and known issues and up next we will go to Release Candidates which in the end will result in the final release...
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Plex Add-on for Kodi

Dec 14, 2016
Keith Herrington
By now, you’ve probably heard that Plex has brought their experience to the Kodi platform, and now it’s finally in the repo! In case you didn’t know, Plex is a great way to organize and consume media on nearly any smart device you already have. Plex Media Server walks...
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Kodi 18 Code name suggestions: Submission has closed

Dec 6, 2016
Martijn Kaijser
UPDATE: 24 December 2016 ..and with those wise words, it’s time to bring our search to a closure. over the course of the upcoming days, our team members will spend some time going through the list of all suggested names, we’ll be counting, re-counting, checking and...
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A new webinterface called Chorus2

Dec 4, 2016
Martijn Kaijser
Kodi has many hidden secrets and even team members don’t know the full potential it packs. One of those features you might not know is that Kodi also has a web-interface from which you can browse your library and start playback directly on your Kodi device. It’s...
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Kodi v17 "Krypton" Beta 6

Nov 30, 2016
Martijn Kaijser
Kodi 17 features a huge amount of work in areas like video playback, live TV and PVR/DVR, the music library, skinning and more. It features a new default skin, as well as a new default touchscreen skin, named Estuary and Estouchy, respectively. With all this work done...
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