If you’re a Kodi fan, this news should make you happy. The Kodi team has released a new stable version of Kodi for download, namely Kodi 20.1 “Nexus”. Two months ago, version of Kodi 20 “Nexus” arrived, bringing with it a wealth of new features to the hugely popular home theater software, including support for multiple instances of binary add-ons, support for AV1 video decoding, and a massive overhaul of the subtitle system. Kodi 20.1 has received an assortment of bug fixes, some backports, and most importantly, it is available for download. More below.
Kodi 20.1 “Nexus” Release notes
The new Kodi 20.1 “Nexus” first of all received a lot of bug fixes, and some backports. Kodi team says no real new features. The most important fixes concern:
- Audio
- DVD
- Playback of DVD folder structures over network sources (e.g. SMB/NFS/HTTP, etc.) has been fixed.
- Filesystems
- A fix in Samba was made that “corrected” a long-standing assumption – it turns out that documentation doesn’t always match code implementation. We now handle both the old Samba implementation and the new “correct” implementation.
- Further improvements to the new NFS4 implementation. This fixes stalls/errors and brings some performance improvements to our NFS implementation.
- Game/Retroplayer
- General
- Platform Specific
- Android
- Fix packaging regression that affected some parts of the Python
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- Fix packaging regression that affected some parts of the Python
- Windows
- A fix was made to address an issue where some less-than-usual dimension videos were causing AMD systems to fallback to software decoding instead of using DXVA.
- A packaging issues on Windows platforms meant that Chorus was unable to be used.
- Android
- PVR
- A fix to resolve PVR Channel Groups to correctly show channels ordered as provided by a PVR backend.
- Python
- Subtitles
- UPnP
A list of all changes for Kodi 20.1 “Nexus” version can be found at GitHub. The latest release is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS.
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