Kodi 20.3 “Nexus” Released

An assortment of bug fixes, some backports, no real new features. Full changelog since 20.2 on Github, as usual.

Estuary

• An assortment of fixes for Estuary, including home categories’ focus position, alignment of counter labels and Shift view for collections.
• Fixes to the weather layout when busy.

Game/Retroplayer

• Fixed controllers not assigned to game ports correctly on Android.
• Fixed blue/pink washed out colours on Windows with 10-bit displays.
• Fixed possible crash in Port dialogue box.
• Fixed typo for the mouse middle button in Controller dialogue box.

General

• A DVD playback fix that resolves unmounted drives not being playable.
• A fix for infinite loops in CPluginFile that occurred when using scrapers.
• A fix for a crash that occurred due to Addon settings being destructed in an incorrect order.
• Redact some information from Toast notifications (user/passwords incorrectly being shown).
• A memory leak in context menus was resolved.
• Image cache handling was fixed to correctly regenerate when cached files for JSON API consumers.

Music

• Music Library: now able to automatically recover if library cleaning was interrupted previously for some reason.

Platform Specific

• Android
  • Fixed (workaround implemented) possible audio out-of-sync in recent AMLogic BSP devices: FireTV Cube 3rd Gen, Homatics Box R 4K Plus, …
• Linux
  • VP9 Profile 2 playback failure was fixed.
  • A fix for a leak of EGLFences in the DRM Prime renderer.
• macOS/iOS
  • Fix a crash on Apple Silicon based Macs when pressing the Caps Lock key.
• tvOS
  • Fixed: Not persistent binary addons (PVR) settings.
• Windows
  • Fixed: 24 Hz refresh rate related to HDR in specific use cases only (when Windows HDR auto-switch is not used).
  • Fixed: audio device “WASAPI:default” was listed multiple times in audio device list.
  • Fixed: fractional refresh rates 119.88 Hz and higher they were not displayed correctly.

Pictures

• An exif parsing regression from v19 was resolved.

PVR

• Fix TV channel subtitles not displayed on playback start, even when activated in subtitle settings.
• Fix recordings with a path containing a colon (‘:’) not being displayed in recordings window.

UPNP

• A fix for a crash that occurred when a user added a UPNP source without having UPNP enabled.
• Playback from remote sources (ftp, http, etc.) has been fixed.

Video

• A fix to the default Select action on certain movie-related windows.