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A new hope dawns and it is finally time to start heading towards a final release. Today we are happy to announce that we are bringing you the first official pre-release Alpha build to a galaxy near you. Around November 2016 the team decided that v17 Krypton was mature...

We have been accepted to GSOC 2018!

Feb 13, 2018

Community Updates

We are excited to announce that Kodi has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2018 project ! Students, as of the time of this publication, you have about 2 weeks to start thinking about project ideas. If you are a student interested in applying, please head over to...

Kodi v18 Leia - The story so far

Feb 11, 2018

Around November 2016 the team decided that v17 Krypton was mature enough to start with the release steps and as such it was branched off from our main development tree. This basically means it received its own place in our development repository and would only receive...

FOSDEM 3 & 4 February 2018 - Brussels

Feb 2, 2018

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. No registration necessary. FOSDEM 2018 - Presentations...

Attention to Addon Developers: Migration to Python 3!

Jan 26, 2018

Roman Miroshnychenko

Currently, Kodi includes the Python 2.7 interpreter to run addons written in Python programming language. However, Python 3 was released almost 10 years ago and the matter of implementing the Python 3 interpreter in Kodi has been brought up on the Kodi forum several...

Kodi for the Xbox One

Dec 29, 2017

Let us end the year 2017 with a blast including a nostalgic reference to the past. It has long been asked for by so many and now it finally happened. Kodi for Xbox One is available worldwide through Windows and Xbox Store and will only be released from Kodi v18 and...

Keep Kodi and the installed add-ons updated

Dec 10, 2017

These days keeping your software updated is becoming more and more important because of possible security risks. Although we will never claim Kodi will become risk free when you are using it, we will certainly try to improve security and reduce possible risks in each...

Beware Killer Kodi Boxes!

Nov 28, 2017

According to recent press, "Kodi boxes" can KILL . Okay, to be specific (and perhaps a touch less alarmist), the power supplies on cheap, untested devices are often a bit on the dreadful side, and that's where a risk of things bursting into flames resides. Beyond that...

Kodi v17.6 final: The very last

Nov 15, 2017

We are happy and sad at same time to announce that this will be the last v17.x release. When we say very last this, of course, only means for the v17 "Krypton" series as we are steadily heading towards the new v18 series called "Leia". For about a year already our...

Devcon 2017 Part II - Day Three

Oct 28, 2017

DevCon

The final day of Devcon - still lots to get through, although, for the sake of some team members, we might need to speak slowly and quietly... We started the day with a Foundation financial overview from natethomas . Even as a non-profit, volunteer-run organisation,...

Devcon 2017 Part II - Day Two

Oct 28, 2017

DevCon

Day Two dawns... most people are bright-eyed and ready for another day, although, if I'm honest, some people may be here more in body than in spirit... First on today, chewitt from LibreELEC gave us an update: the installed base continues to grow, with the Raspberry Pi...

Devcon 2017 Part II - Day One

Oct 27, 2017

DevCon

Well, 2017 has turned out to be unusual, and we're not just talking world politics. This year, we've managed to bring the newly-extended team together for a second time; it's something we'd like to do more often, although it's unlikely that we'll be able to do it every...

Kodi v17.5 final: Another bunch of fixes

Oct 24, 2017

IMPORTANT: If you are having issues with Android v17.5 update please redownload the "v17.5.1" version. It has been a while since we released 17.4 release which fixed several issues. Now the time has come to do another named 17.5 where we tackled several more issues...

Kodi Trademark Trolls - The Hidden Battle

Sep 8, 2017

Many users are aware of the tug of war being played between piracy add-on writers on one side and legitimate services on the other that are using Kodi as a platform. Far fewer are aware of the other battle the Kodi project is dealing with on a regular basis. For some...

Kodi v17.4 final: Just a bunch of fixes

Aug 22, 2017

It has been a while since we released 17.3 release which fixed several issues. Now the time has come to do another named 17.4 where we tackled several more issues that were identified. Although we already moved on with development towards v18 we do take the time to fix...

GSOC 2017 Update - Wayland Support

Aug 14, 2017

Finally, we turn to Philipp, who is working to upgrade the Kodi windowing system in Linux from X11 to Wayland. As a PR is already posted, we are extremely excited about this project! Wayland Support - yol My main goal was quite simply to get Kodi to natively support...

Kodi v17.4 RC1: Just a bunch of fixes

Aug 11, 2017

It has been a while since we released 17.3 release where we fixed several issues. Now the time has come to do another where we tackled several more issues that were identified. Although we already moved on with development towards v18 we do take the time to fix issues...

GSOC 2017 Update - Python3 Update

Aug 2, 2017

Next we have Arpit's work upgrading Kodi's add-on backend from Python2 to Python3 Python3 Support - arpitn30 My initial proposal was to support both Python2 and Python3 in Kodi by maintaining two versions of the same libraries and calling the required one depending...

GSOC 2017 Update - Shader Support

Jul 31, 2017