Kodi 20.3 has officially been released by the Kodi development team. It is now considered the stable version and marks the final release for Kodi 20, as the software will move to Kodi 21 Omega for its next stable release.

The following article details all of the new bug fixes, features, and changes to this software. The information has been pulled directly from the official Kodi website.

We also provide instructions to update Kodi on any device, including Firestick & Android TV Box.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Android users must sideload the latest version of Kodi as 20.3 is not available in the Google Play Store. We provide the fastest method for doing this below.

TROYPOINT has tested Kodi 20.3 with popular addons and builds, and these seem to be compatible with the latest release, which is great news.

Continue reading for the complete changelog, which includes all of the latest bug fixes and new features for Kodi 20.3

Kodi 20.3 – New Features, Fixes, & Improvements

Release notes

Estuary

• An assortment of fixes for Estuary, including home categories’ focus position, alignment of counter labels, and Shift view for collections.
• Fixes to the weather layout when busy.

Game/Retroplayer

• Fixed controllers not assigned to game ports correctly on Android.
• Fixed blue/pink washed out colors on Windows with 10-bit displays.
• Fixed possible crash in Port dialogue box.
• Fixed typo for the mouse middle button in Controller dialogue box.

General

• A DVD playback fix that resolves unmounted drives not being playable.
• A fix for infinite loops in CPluginFile that occurred when using scrapers.
• A fix for a crash that occurred due to Addon settings being destructed in an incorrect order.
• Redact some information from Toast notifications (user/passwords incorrectly being shown).
• A memory leak in context menus was resolved.
• Image cache handling was fixed to correctly regenerate when cached files for JSON API consumers.

Music

• Music Library: now able to automatically recover if library cleaning was interrupted previously for some reason.

Platform Specific

• Android
  • Fixed (workaround implemented) possible audio out-of-sync in recent AMLogic BSP devices: FireTV Cube 3rd Gen, Homatics Box R 4K Plus, …
• Linux
  • VP9 Profile 2 playback failure was fixed.
  • A fix for a leak of EGLFences in the DRM Prime renderer.
• macOS/iOS
  • Fix a crash on Apple Silicon based Macs when pressing the Caps Lock key.
• tvOS
  • Fixed: Not persistent binary addons (PVR) settings.
• Windows
  • Fixed: 24 Hz refresh rate related to HDR in specific use cases only (when Windows HDR auto-switch is not used).
  • Fixed: audio device “WASAPI:default” was listed multiple times in audio device list.
  • Fixed: fractional refresh rates 119.88 Hz and higher they were not displayed correctly.

Pictures

• An exif parsing regression from v19 was resolved.

PVR

• Fix TV channel subtitles not displayed on playback start, even when activated in subtitle settings.
• Fix recordings with a path containing a colon (‘:’) not being displayed in recordings window.

UPNP

• A fix for a crash that occurred when a user added a UPNP source without having UPNP enabled.
• Playback from remote sources (ftp, http, etc.) has been fixed.

Video

• A fix to the default Select action on certain movie-related windows.

Install Kodi 20.3 with the TROYPOINT Toolbox

If you wish to install or upgrade to Kodi 20.3 Nexus, you can easily do so through the free TROYPOINT Toolbox.

The free TROYPOINT Toolbox may be used on any Android-based device, including Fire TV Stick, Fire TV, Fire TV Cube, NVIDIA SHIELD, Android phones, and tablets.

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Kodi 20.3 Download Links

For Firestick and Fire TV Users, the following links will provide you with installation guides and updating guides for your preferred device:

When using the install methods linked below, you must choose Kodi 20.3 Nexus from the Toolbox.

Firestick/Fire TV/Fire TV Cube

Upgrade to Kodi 20.3 on Firestick Guide

Android/Android TV/Google TV

Upgrade to Kodi 20.3 on Android, Android TV, Google TV

Windows

64-Bit

32-Bit

MacOS

64-Bit

iOS (Must have jailbroken device)

ARM32 is no longer supported in Kodi 19 and beyond.

ARM64

Linux

Use the following commands in your Linux/Ubuntu terminal to install Kodi 20. Follow the prompts as you would with any other software installation.

sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:team-xbmc/xbmc-nightly
sudo apt install kodi

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