The Kodi Foundation is dedicated to enhancing the home theater experience with its popular software, and while their focus is on developing the upcoming Kodi 21 ‘Omega’, they haven’t forgotten about the current generation called ‘Nexus’. In line with this, they have recently released Kodi 20.2 “Nexus”, a version that may not introduce new features but is still worth installing.
Kodi 20.2 “Nexus” is available now for download and install
The latest iteration, Kodi 20.2 “Nexus,” brings several improvements and bug fixes compared to its predecessor. Notably, Nexus now supports the AV1 codec/video decoding on Android, Linux, and for streaming purposes. This addition enhances compatibility and ensures smoother playback across various platforms. Moreover, users can access different versions tailored to their specific devices, such as Windows (32 and 64-bit) and Android (ARM V7A for wider compatibility and ARM V8A for devices like Shield TV).
As the Kodi team works diligently on Kodi 21 ‘Omega’, they have released Kodi 20.2 “Nexus” to address issues and enhance performance for current users. Although it may not introduce groundbreaking features, it is a valuable update that improves the overall user experience.
See also: Kodi 20.1 “Nexus” Release – Stable version available for download
Release Note
This new release has a good assortment of bug fixes and backports. The release note highlights are:
Audio
- An assortment of E-AC3 related fixes were backported.
Estuary
- A fix to the Music Viz screen has been made by @enen92 in an endeavor to chase that elusive target of perfection
- Fixes to the seekbar timer when seeking.
Game/Retroplayer
- A fix to a crash by memory exhaustion when some emulators are used.
General
- A whole assortment of fixes were made to fix building Kodi with GCC13.
Platform Specific
- Android
- A fix for a crash that occurred when >100 jobs where scheduled for the Android TV recommendation channels.
- For some old Android devices that had both MediaTek and Google decoders for some media, a preference to using the Google decoder was put in as the MediaTek decoders fail to play back audio in encrypted streams.
- Linux
- A PR was reverted that fixes some Linux setups to use the more generic library (GL) rather than the specific GLX library.
- macOS/iOS
- Fix speech recognition not working (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23341).
- Windows
- Fixes to HDR playback when windows was already in HDR mode.
- A backported fix for a potential deadlock for Xbox users when using pixel shaders and SW decoding.
PVR
- Fix crash on saved search (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23195).
- Fix last opened group not always restored on Kodi startup (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23165).
Python
- @garbear has backported a fix for setting Picture and Game info via infotags.
- GameInfo has been added to the Player class to allow get/set GameInfoTag data.
- A fix was backported that mainly affected Linux platforms: the path used when searching for modules was appending Kodi script paths at the end of the list, and therefore could potentially find system Python scripts/modules instead of Kodi-specific scripts/modules
Video
- Fix watched/unwatched status not taken into account for items not added to video library when creating playlists (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23398).
- Fix missing watched/unwatched status in Playlist window (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23013).
Download Kodi 20.2 “Nexus”
Installing this latest version, Kodi 20.2 Nexus, should be a straightforward process that can be done right over your existing Kodi 20.x installation. In fact, it may even install automatically without any additional steps.
To get the new build, you can conveniently download it directly from the provided link. Simply select the platform that suits your needs, and you’re good to go.
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