Kodi Media Center 18.7 Leila veröffentlicht

Der freie und plattformübergreifende Mediaplayer, Kodi, wurde vor wenigen Tagen auf die Version 18.7 “Leila”, aktualisiert. Kodi läuft auf vielen Betriebssystemen, darunter: Linux, MacOS, Apple TV, Windows uvw.. Das Update ist ein Bugfix Release und bringt keine neuen Features oder Funktionen.

Kodi 18.7 Leila Release Notes

Audio

• Fix to not reset user-set volume (Android)
• Fixes around multi-channel audio track support

Playback/Display

• Fixes to Bluray subtitle language recognition
• Fix playback of bus-encrypted bluray discs
• Improved library handing for plugins if media source is removed
• Use JNI instead of NDK for MediaCodec (Android)
• Further work on maximum width and height/vertical-shift (Android)
• Fixes around realtime handling of TS streams

Interface/Look-and-feel

• Fix for watch icons not showing when content type is not set (Estouchy)
• Fix navigation in skinsettings (Estuary)
• Fix crash in favourites dialog
• Apply safe area insets to Kodi GUI (iOS)
• Fixes around focus after touch action
• Improvements around dialog/toast handling
• Fixed behaviour when accessing locked media sources

Music

• Fixes around library handling of “isalbumartist” field
• Fixes around expansion of .ISO images to avoid GUI freezes
• Ensure album artist isn’t blanked out when scraping

Build System

• Fix downloading dependencies from mirrors (Windows)
• Library updates – bump gnutls (3.6.11.1) and nettle(3.5.1)

PVR

• Fix EPG corruption when new channels are added during startup

Network

• Improvements around handling of proxy credentials
• Fix for proxy empty fields (proxy, username, password)

Addons-

• Fix crash if an incompatible VFS addon is present
• Fix display of title for compressed package directories
• Fixes around addon settings folder naming

Subtitles

• Fixes around decoding of HTML escape characters
• Fix around SMI (SAMI) subtitles and quoted start tags

Profiles

• Fixes for issues related to switching profile
• Fixes to saving of lock preferences (master lock, lock video windows, etc.)

Other/General

• Add “Swiss German” and “Portuguese (Brazil)” to language codes
• Fix to guard against assert in tinyxml
• Fix stack overflow when trying to find NFO files in a RAR file
• Implement range checking in URIUtils::resolvePath
• Implement support for extended local headers in ZIP files used by some scrapers

Quelle: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-leia-187-release