If you like to have all your multimedia content (photos, music, series, movies, etc.) perfectly ordered and organized, kodi is a program that should not be missing from your PC. This is the most widely used and well-known multimedia center on the entire Internet, and not only for its legal controversies, but also for its features and benefits, as well as for the infinite possibilities that this software offers us thanks to the use of plugins.
The Kodi Foundation works very hard to offer users a multimedia center that is as complete and stable as possible. A few days ago we told you about the launch of the first Alpha version of what will be the next major Kodi update, 21. Although there is still a lot of development before this version reaches all users as a recommended version.
However, today we have to talk about a new version of the current version of Kodi, the 20. And that is, those responsible for the maintenance of this multimedia center have just launched a new version of it that comes full of changes, improvements and corrections. to continue offering users the best experience as a multimedia center.
What’s new in Kodi 20.2
This new version of the program is nothing more than a minor update, a maintenance patch that, far from bringing major changes or news, focuses, above all, on correcting some errors. Big changes and new features will arrive ahead of version 21, which should be ready by the end of summer.
In this way, the novelties that we find in this new version of the program are:
- Various fixes related to the E-AC3.
- Music Viz screen changes to pursue perfection.
- Fixed search bar timer when searching.
- Fixed a bug that used up all the PC’s RAM memory when using certain emulators.
- Various internal changes to improve program compilation when using GCC13.
- Various fixes related to the Python programming language.
- Fixed several issues that caused the “seen/unseen” indicator to not work correctly.
- Android: fixed a crash when scheduling more than 100 tasks on Android TV and use of the default Google decoder when the devices have MediaTek and Google.
- Linux: Fixed some Linux configurations to use a more generic library (GL) instead of GLX.
- macOS: Speech recognition works again.
- Windows: Fixed an issue with HDR content and fixed a crash when using pixel shaders and software decoding, especially on Xbox.
As we can see, there are not many errors, and they are not critical failures either. But Kodi 20.2 Yes, it will improve the overall performance of the program.
Download the new version
Windows, macOS, and Linux users can already download the new version from the main Kodi website. Just download it, install it on top and that’s it, we can start enjoying the improvements and corrections of this program, without losing the configuration we had in the program or the plugins.
Android and iOS users may have to wait a bit before receiving the new version of the program as it has to pass the validations of the respective app stores.