A new version of Kodi "Leia" 18.7 has been released. If you are on Android 5 or above you will be able to update or download from the Google Play Store, check our guide here if you have not used it before. Or download it direct from Kodi at https://kodi.tv/
Changelog
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
Changelog
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