Kodi 18.6 arrives with fixes ranging from audio to user interface

After about three months in development, a few hours ago the stable version of Code 18.6 Leia. As a maintenance release, the new installment is here primarily to fix bugs ranging from audio to user interface. As we read in its release noteAnd if there are no surprises in the form of a setback that would force a change in plans, this is the latest release in this series.

Kodi 18.6 is the version that succeeds software v18.5 which was launched more than three months ago. Many of the fixes have been brought in from Kodi 19, the next major release of one of the most popular multimedia softwares on any operating system. Below you have the list of new features that have been included in this version.

Kodi 18.6 Leia highlights

• Audio:
  • Visualization related fixes.
  • Fixes related to pause / resume.
  • Firmware bug fix (AMLogic v23)
  • Fixes related to TrueHD crashes.
  • Patch to properly resume audio-only MPEG-TS streams.
  • Correct headphone enumeration (Android).
• Build system
  • Updates due to lack of inclusions.
  • Updates for Cmake (Windows).
  • Updates have been added for device packaging and management (macOS).
• Games:
  • Fixes for starting disk images and .zip files.
  • Fixes for black screen for RGB emulators (Rpi).
• Interface:
  • Fixed race condition for OnPlaybackStarted.
  • Fixes for MIME type (Android).
  • Support for DolbyVision streams via plug-ins.
  • Fixes for max width and height / vertical offset (Android).
  • Fix for scanning into subdirectories.
  • Fixed EAGL layer size on external display (iOS).
  • Fix for glTexImage3D (Linux).
  • Solution to look for problems.
  • Resets the playlist that plays a new file.
• RRP:
  • Fix for multi-line episode names.
• General:
  • Fixed incorrectly formatted region time.
  • Pass JSON serialized path configuration to python scrapers.
  • Fixed access to files in auto-mounted fonts.
  • Fixed search with FileCache crash.
  • Fixed passthrough on USB devices (Android).
  • Fixed crash if profile.xml breaks.
  • Fixed cache forwarding size in EOF.

Now available from your website, soon on Flatpak

Kodi 18.6 Leia is now available for download from your official website, but only for macOS and Windows. In the next few hours, Linux users will be able to install it from their flatpak package by Flathub. If you try the new version, do not hesitate to leave your experiences in the comments.