Neun Monate nach der Umbenennung von XBMC in Kodi und der darauffolgenden Veröffentlichung von Kodi 14.0 ist Version 15.0 nun in einer ersten Beta-Version verfügbar.
Version 15.0 mit dem Codenamen „Isengard“, einem Ort aus Tolkiens Fantasy-Welt Mittelerde, bringt dabei eine ganze Menge Verbesserungen mit. Beispielsweise wurde der Add-on-Manager mit Hinsicht auf eine bessere Übersichtlichkeit optimiert, die Kapitelauswahl zeigt nun auch Thumbnails und überflüssige Code-Bestandteile aus älteren Versionen konnte entfernt werden.
Über eine neue Option kann man in der TV-Sektion außerdem direkt zur ersten, noch ungesehenen, Episode einer Serie springen. Unter Android wird die Lautstärke endlich über den Systemregler gesteuert und unter OS X stehen ab Version 15.0 nur noch 64-Bit-Versionen zum Download zur Verfügung.
Das komplette Changelog ist, wie gesagt, riesig. Bei Interesse könnt ihr es hinter dem Spoiler unten in kompletter Länge einsehen. Die Downloads der neuen Beta-Version findet ihr auf der offiziellen Kodi-Webseite, wo sie für Windows, Linux, OS X, Android, iOS sowie den Raspberry Pi zur Verfügung stehen.
- Reworked add-on manger that should give a better overview
- Chapter selection window that shows thumbs on where to skip to in the video
- Easier to navigate audio and subtitle selection list
- Addition of language add-ons which allow us to update the User-Interface text outside of regular releases
- Expansion of international options like time and date format, temperature and speed units.
- Skip steps (step forward & backwards) improvements.
- Tuxbox removal. Users of Enigma2 boxes can use the VUPlus PVR add-on
- Split PVR add-ons into separate projects which should allow updates through repo in the future
- Fix season art scraping on newly added seasons
- Immediately fetch updates from repository after Kodi version upgrade
- Improvement of installing new skins selection
- Remove legacy code pre-Frodo 11.0
- Add jump to first unwatched in TV section
- Remove certain codecs from our core code and made add-ons out of them. Audio encoders/decoders
- Removal of AFP filesystem support
- Windows DXVA HEVC hardware decoding support if driver and hardware support exist
- Added adaptive seeking through audio and video playback, also know as “skip steps”
- Android HEVC H.265 support for some chipsets
- Improve webserver caching control
- External subtitles over UPnP can be enabled through the settings section
- Allow scanning of new sources and marking as watched during other library operations such as “update library”
- Allow different sort orders for different sort methods
- Start of integration binary add-ons and changing the build system around it
- Improved CC (Closed Captions) support for Live TV
- ffmpeg 2.6.2 update
- Removal remaining SDL code which was used in some areas.
- Changed code to C++11
- Variety of memleaks, segfaults, crashes and minor issues fixed
- Rescrape season art for newly added seasons
- Upgrade included webserver which should fix issues with remotes loosing connections
- On Android the system now handles the volume
- General improvements regarding code stability and performance in all areas
- General code clean-up in all areas to simplify adding future features
Mac OSX
- Minimal 10.7 Lion required
- Only OSX 64-bit builds provided by us, so no more 32bit builds
- Minimal MacOSX 10.10 SDK
iOS
- Minimal iOS 5.1 required
- Minimal iOS 8.1 SDK
- No more ATV2 builds
Android
- Minimum Android 4.2 Jelly Bean MR1 required
- Android API 17 as minimum with SDK 14 and NDK 10e
- Removed the need for root/SU on Android. Some hardware/firmware might not like that. Please contact your hardware supplier
- Android PIL packaging fixed