And.... here we are again. The latest Kodi release in the 18.x "Leia" cycle, with more (count them!) and better (measure them!) bug fixes for your various delight, delectation, and delirious... discussion?
18.6 is here. More nasty (and not-so-nasty) problems fixed, more bugs squashed, more happiness and love for all. This release is all about backports: where practical, we've brought bug fixes forwards from the forthcoming 19.x release, so you get the benefit sooner rather than later.
As usual, you can find full details of closed pull requests on GitHub, so explore that if you want the details, but the summary would be...
Audio
Fixes around visualisations
Fixes around pause/resume
Fixes around TrueHD crashes
Workaround firmware bug (AMLogic v23) (sidenote: there are many more Android audio fixes that can't be merged into 18.x "Leia" because of old AMLogic workarounds)
Fix to correctly resume audio-only MPEG-TS streams
Correct headphone enumeration (Android)
Build System
Updates for missing includes
Updates for Cmake (Windows)
Updates for device handling and packaging (macOS)
Games
Fixes for launching disc images and .zip files
Fixes for black screen for RGB emulators (Rpi)
Interface/Look-and-feel
Fixes around TextureCache
Fixes for windowing, refresh rate, mode change and others (Android)
Fixes for floating/split keyboard (iOS)
Fix for artist slideshow (Estuary)
Fix media view from addon given content
Playback/Display
Fixed race condition for OnPlaybackStarted
Fixes for MIME type (Android)
Support for DolbyVision streams via addons
Fixes for maximum width and height/vertical-shift (Android)
Fix for scanning in sub-directories
Fix size of EAGL layer on external screen (iOS)
Fix for glTexImage3D (Linux)
Fix for seeking issues
Reset playlist on new file playback
PVR
Fix for multiline episode names
Other/General
Fixed incorrectly formatted region time
Pass JSON serialised path settings to python scrapers
Fix file access on auto-mounted sources
Fix seeking with FileCache lockup
Fix passthrough on USB devices (Android)
Fix crash if profile.xml gets broken
Fix cache forward size on EOF
The nature of point releases is that most of these changes won't be visible to most people unless they address a specific problem you've stumbled across. That said, they're all real bugs, and real fixes, so thanks as always to all who found a bug, took the time to report it and, in some cases, provided a fix.
18.6 is here. More nasty (and not-so-nasty) problems fixed, more bugs squashed, more happiness and love for all. This release is all about backports: where practical, we've brought bug fixes forwards from the forthcoming 19.x release, so you get the benefit sooner rather than later.
As usual, you can find full details of closed pull requests on GitHub, so explore that if you want the details, but the summary would be...
Audio
Fixes around visualisations
Fixes around pause/resume
Fixes around TrueHD crashes
Workaround firmware bug (AMLogic v23) (sidenote: there are many more Android audio fixes that can't be merged into 18.x "Leia" because of old AMLogic workarounds)
Fix to correctly resume audio-only MPEG-TS streams
Correct headphone enumeration (Android)
Build System
Updates for missing includes
Updates for Cmake (Windows)
Updates for device handling and packaging (macOS)
Games
Fixes for launching disc images and .zip files
Fixes for black screen for RGB emulators (Rpi)
Interface/Look-and-feel
Fixes around TextureCache
Fixes for windowing, refresh rate, mode change and others (Android)
Fixes for floating/split keyboard (iOS)
Fix for artist slideshow (Estuary)
Fix media view from addon given content
Playback/Display
Fixed race condition for OnPlaybackStarted
Fixes for MIME type (Android)
Support for DolbyVision streams via addons
Fixes for maximum width and height/vertical-shift (Android)
Fix for scanning in sub-directories
Fix size of EAGL layer on external screen (iOS)
Fix for glTexImage3D (Linux)
Fix for seeking issues
Reset playlist on new file playback
PVR
Fix for multiline episode names
Other/General
Fixed incorrectly formatted region time
Pass JSON serialised path settings to python scrapers
Fix file access on auto-mounted sources
Fix seeking with FileCache lockup
Fix passthrough on USB devices (Android)
Fix crash if profile.xml gets broken
Fix cache forward size on EOF
The nature of point releases is that most of these changes won't be visible to most people unless they address a specific problem you've stumbled across. That said, they're all real bugs, and real fixes, so thanks as always to all who found a bug, took the time to report it and, in some cases, provided a fix.
