This morning, Team Kodi annoucned the availablility of Kodi 15.0 Final. The latest version of our favorite frontend comes with a significant number of improvements:
- A new chapter selection window that allows you to visually browse chapters from sources that support them such as MKVs
- Skip Steps/Adaptive seeking, which allow larger time skips the more the button is pressed
- Audio and Subtitle Lists to make it faster to select the right audio and subtitle tracks
- Language Add-ons and Expanded International Preferences
- An Improved Add-on Manager
The post also provides a detailed changelog with more minor tweaks and fixes:
Other improvements include:
- ffmpeg 2.6.3 update
- Improved Closed Captioning support in Live TV
- Fixed music video queuing
- Allow scanning of new sources and marking as watched during other library operations such as “update library”
- Windows DXVA HEVC hardware decoding support if driver and hardware support exist
Changes from 14.2 to 15.0 include:
- Minimal 10.7 Lion 64-bit required on Mac OSX
- Minimal iOS 5.1 required and ATV2 support discontinued
- Minimum Android 4.2 Jelly Bean MR1 required on Android
- Ubuntu 12.04 support dropped in PPA
- On Android the system now handles the volume instead of Kodi
- Removed the need for root/SU on Android. Some hardware/firmware might not like that. Please contact your hardware supplier
- Removal of Tuxbox support. Users of Enigma2 boxes can use the VUPlus PVR add-on
- Removal of AFP filesystem support
- Remove legacy code pre-Frodo 11.0
- Vast amount of possible memory leaks, segfaults, crashes and minor issues have been fixed
- General improvements regarding code stability and performance in all areas
- General code clean-up in all areas to simplify adding future features
You can download Kodi 15.0 Final from the Kodi Downloads Page.
Have you installed Kodi 15.0 Final yet? What’s your experience been so far? Let us know in the comments below!
