
The Inputstream API has been updated to support AV1 and this allows add-ons using inputsream.adaptive to play AV1 streams. Several Kodi platforms now allow hardware decoding of AV1 media. was the developer behind a lot of this, with support from Your favourite binary add-on may not support this capability yet, but we hope add-on developers introduce this into their projects soon. For example: TVHeadend users can now run more than one instance of the add-on to connect to multiple back-end TVHeadend servers, with individual settings like channel groups and hidden channels maintained per add-on instance. This allows Kodi to load multiple instances of a binary add-on. Let's review some of the changes you can expect: We appreciate your contribution to making Kodi better.


Thanks go out to our team members, and everyone in our community who sent a pull request, tested and gave feedback, or provided support to users on the forum.

With over 4,600 commits since v19 "Matrix" was released on February 19th, 2021, this has been a huge effort. It's Time! We are pleased to present the latest release of Kodi, v20 "Nexus".
