Kodi 20.2 Nexus Release – New Features and How to Install

By iptv.legal , in Kodi News , at July 2, 2023

This IPTV Wire news report covers the official release of Kodi 20.2 Nexus.

Kodi is one of the most popular streaming apps and media centers used among cord-cutters from around the world.

This is due to the hundreds of 3rd party Kodi add-ons and builds that users can install for free movies, TV shows, IPTV, sports, and so much more.

According to the official Kodi development team, the 20.2 release of the Kodi 20 Nexus software is now complete.

The official press release from the Kodi website states the following on Kodi 20.2 Nexus:

“As is always inevitable in software, we are back with a new release of Kodi Nexus. An assortment of bug fixes, some backports, no real new features. Full changelog since 20.1 on Github, as usual.”

Kodi 20.2 Nexus is now the most stable version of the Kodi software. This has replaced the previous 20.1 version.

If you are currently using version 20.0 Nexus or any version of 19 Matrix and it’s working well for you, then we don’t suggest updating!

You can view our guide below for updating to this 20.2 Nexus version.

How to Update Kodi

Important Note: Most Kodi add-ons, repositories, builds, and other 3rd party options will work best on Kodi 20.2 Nexus since this is now the acting stable release of the software.

Below you will find the release notes of the 20.2 version of Kodi 20 Nexus. These were directly pulled from the official Kodi website.

Kodi 20.2 Nexus – Features & Details

20.2 Release Notes

The 20.2 release of Kodi 20 Nexus was posted on July 2, 2023.

Audio

An assortment of E-AC3 related fixes were backported.

Estuary

A fix to the Music Viz screen has been made by @enen92 in an endeavour to chase that elusive target of perfection
Fixes to the seekbar timer when seeking.

Game/Retroplayer

A fix to a crash by memory exhaustion when some emulators are used.

General

A whole assortment of fixes were made to fix building Kodi with GCC13.

Platform Specific

Android
- A fix for a crash that occurred when >100 jobs where scheduled for the Android TV recommendation channels.
- For some old Android devices that had both MediaTek and Google decoders for some media, a preference to using the Google decoder was put in as the MediaTek decoders fail to play back audio in encrypted streams.
Linux
- A PR was reverted that fixes some Linux setups to use the more generic library (GL) rather than the specific GLX library.
macOS/iOS
- Fix speech recognition not working (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23341).
Windows
- Fixes to HDR playback when windows was already in HDR mode.
- A backported fix for a potential deadlock for Xbox users when using pixel shaders and SW decoding.

PVR

Fix crash on saved search (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23195).
Fix last opened group not always restored on Kodi startup (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23165).

Python

@garbear has backported a fix for setting Picture and Game info via infotags.
GameInfo has been added to the Player class to allow get/set GameInfoTag data.
A fix was backported that mainly affected Linux platforms: the path used when searching for modules was appending Kodi script paths at the end of the list, and therefore could potentially find system Python scripts/modules instead of Kodi-specific scripts/modules

Video

Fix watched/unwatched status not taken into account for items not added to video library when creating playlists (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23398).
Fix missing watched/unwatched status in Playlist window (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23013).

Final Note from the Kodi Developers:

“Thanks, as always, to everyone who has helped us track down and fix any issues. We endeavour to minimise the issues everyone experiences, but with such a large project, and the fact everyone contributing to Kodi is a volunteer, issues and bugs are a part of life. if you happen to experience any bugs/issues, don’t hesitate to reach out on the forums, or raise an issue on Github.”