{"id":45157,"date":"2024-01-11T11:48:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T11:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=45157"},"modified":"2024-01-11T11:48:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T11:48:16","slug":"kodi-20-3-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2024\/01\/kodi-20-3-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodi 20.3 Released as Last Update for the &#8220;Nexus&#8221; series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/kodi-icon-feature.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-34893\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/kodi-icon-feature-250x250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/kodi-icon-feature-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/kodi-icon-feature-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/kodi-icon-feature-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/kodi-icon-feature-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/kodi-icon-feature.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kodi, formerly XBMC media center, released version 20.3 this Wednesday!<\/p>\n<p>According to the announcements, this is the last release of the 20.x &#8220;Nexus&#8221; series. While Kodi 21 &#8220;Omega&#8221; now is in Beta 2 stage.<\/p>\n<p>The release mainly includes bug-fixes and some backports. They include an assortment of fixes for Estuary, including home categories&#8217; focus position, alignment of counter labels and Shift view for collections.<\/p>\n<p>For gaming, the release fixed controllers not assigned to game ports correctly on Android, blue\/pink washed out colours on Windows with 10-bit displays, and possible crash in Port dialogue box.<\/p>\n<p>For Linux, it includes fixes for VP9 Profile 2 playback failure, and a leak of <code>EGLFences<\/code> in the DRM Prime renderer.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Other changes in <a href=\"https:\/\/kodi.tv\/article\/kodi-20-3-nexus-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kodi 20.3<\/a> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed playback from remote sources (ftp, http, etc.) through upnp.<\/li>\n<li>DVD playback fix that resolves unmounted drives not being playable.<\/li>\n<li>fix for infinite loops in CPluginFile that occurred when using scrapers.<\/li>\n<li>Fix memory leak in context menus<\/li>\n<li>Fix image cache handling and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kodi20.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43585\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kodi20-600x337.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kodi20-600x337.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kodi20-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kodi20-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kodi20-1320x742.webp 1320w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kodi20.webp 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>How to Get Kodi in Ubuntu<\/h3>\n<p>Kodi provides binary packages for all supported platforms for downloading at the link below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/kodi.tv\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download Kodi<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ubuntu users can choose either Flatpak package or the official PPA. Checks the links below, both are not updated at the moment of writing.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ubuntu PPA<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~team-xbmc\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ppa\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official PPA<\/a> so far supports Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 23.04. Ubuntu 23.10 should be also supported once the new package is uploaded.<\/p>\n<p>To add the PPA, refresh cache and install kodi, run the commands (<i>press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal<\/i>) below one by one:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc\/ppa<\/pre>\n<pre>sudo apt update<\/pre>\n<pre>sudo apt install kodi<\/pre>\n<p>Or replace the last command with <code>sudo apt upgrade<\/code> in case of missing package updates.<\/p>\n<p><b>Flatpak package<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Kodi is also available to install as <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/tv.kodi.Kodi\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flatpak package<\/a>. It runs in sandbox, however, support ARM64 (Apple Silicon, Raspberry Pi, etc.) devices.<\/p>\n<p>Linux Mint 21 and higher, can directly search for and install Kodi as Flatpak package from Software Manager.<\/p>\n<p>While, Ubuntu user can run the 2 commands below one by one in terminal to get the Flatpak package:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install flatpak<\/pre>\n<pre>flatpak install https:\/\/dl.flathub.org\/repo\/appstream\/tv.kodi.Kodi.flatpakref<\/pre>\n<h3>Uninstall Kodi<\/h3>\n<p>For Kodi installed from Ubuntu PPA, press <code>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/code> on keyboard to open terminal, and run command to remove it:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt remove --autoremove kodi kodi-bin<\/pre>\n<p>Also remove the PPA repository by running command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:team-xbmc\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p>If you installed the Flatpak package, then uninstall it by command:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak uninstall --delete-data tv.kodi.Kodi<\/pre>\n<p>Also run <code>flatpak uninstall --unused<\/code> to remove useless runtime libraries that can free up some disk spaces.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kodi, formerly XBMC media center, released version 20.3 this Wednesday! According to the announcements, this is the last release of the 20.x &#8220;Nexus&#8221; series. While Kodi 21 &#8220;Omega&#8221; now is in Beta 2 stage. The release mainly includes bug-fixes and some backports. They include an assortment of fixes for Estuary, including home categories&#8217; focus position, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1196,929],"class_list":["post-45157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kodi","tag-xbmc-media-center"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}