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Time for another Alpha release for the upcoming Version 20 "Nexus" release of Kodi.
As always, thanks go out to all contributors for their work - not only those in Team Kodi, but also to all the third party users that choose to roll up their sleeves and fix an issue. Everyone appreciates you for making Kodi better!
Release notes
Addons
Some crashes in addon installation and repository checks have been corrected (ksooo, howie-f)
AlwinEsch has implemented a large feature to allow multiple instances of the same binary addon.
This allows, for example, two instances of a PVR addon (e.g. PVR.HTS) to run using different backend provider instances. The usage of this will require updates from the various binary addons that will start to happen, so if you are interested in helping your favourite PVR addon to implement this, check out the above PVR.HTS PR, as well as the following PVR.Demo PR
Database
DVD
Filesystem
Font/Glyh
Games
General
Input
Platform Specific
Linux GBM
MacOS
Windows
PVR
Skinning
Estuary
Subtitles
Video
Once again, consider this an alpha release. Backup your configs before testing, and please let us know of any regressions or issues
If you want to take the plunge, you can get Alpha 3 from here. Select your platform of choice, and look in the "Prerelease" section.
As usual - well, it is open source - you can see what's changed between v20 Alpha 2 and Alpha 3 here.
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