16.2.0

• Add voice recognition to soft keyboard (cf. faq )
• Add Thumbnails cleanup (cf. faq )
• [Shield] fallback to s/w for 3D (still issues with HTAB/HSBS)
• (re-)Add reboot & shutdown on rooted devices
• Add support for AudioFormat::ENCODING_IEC61937 (Android N IEC passthrough)
• Expand recommendations and voice search to tv shows and music albums
• Fix IEC passthrough volume issue
• TrueHD PT buffer tweaks
• Backport "disable PT when sync to display is enabled"

16.1.2

• Fix execution on Android < 4.4
• Fix voice search (+ enable Web server by default)
• Add spmc_env.properties support; fallback on xbmc_env.properties
• Add possibility to choose IEC or RAW passthrough (via passthrough device)
• Fix low sample rates audio
• Revert to using xbmclogs.com

16.1.1

Changelog:

16.1.1 (2016/03/13):

• Fix DTS issue
• Fix Mediacodec surface in 4K GUI
• "Back" = Stop in fullscreen video

16.1.0

After a long sleep, SPMC is back following (another) Team Kodi internal fighting ;)
As far as I'm concerned, Nvidia Shield has basically cornered the market, so is my main development device.
More generally, Android TV devices, amlogic devices and Amazon FireTV might be getting some love ;)

Changelog:

16.1.0 (2016/03/13):

• Based on Kodi 16.1
• HD Audio passthrough (Shield + some aml, Minix U1 & Wetek Core at least)
• Autostart at boot (xbmc.autostart=true in xbmc_env.properties)
• GUI size setting (Allow 4k gui on Shield)
• Only give codec priority to Mediacodec(Surface) for 4K
• Only stop video on minimize for Mediacodec(Surface)
• "System" screensaver to enable daydream; all other screensavers disable daydream
• Get removable storage names from system
• Basic Bluray 3D iso playback (experimental; amlogic)
• Android TV recommendations and voice search (experimental)
• SSL enabled MySql
• Stop video playback when screen goes off
• Setting to force SMB v1 (might solve windows connection issues)
• The ever good ol' "Import All" option

15.0.0

By popular demand...
Most of SPMC is merged in Kodi besides the rockchip specifics.

14.2.0

• Rebased on last Kodi Helix (14.2)
• Backport of Incremental seeking
• Use the device volume controls (if any)
• Use in virtual keyboard to toggle use of left/right/enter the keyboard way
• Generate minidumps in case of crashes (no more logcats :) )
• Use Samba 3.6 (gplv3)
• Release build :D

14.1.0

• Rebased on Kodi Helix 14.1
• Added BOB de-interlacing
• Fixed Video settings availability
• Removed hardcoded 250ms audio delay on AML
• Auto-3D switching on AFTV
• Add "uhd" (4K) to codec selection in Advanced Settings

13.4.0

• Improved Rockchip support
  • overlay, hevc + true 4K on rk3288
• Auto-framerate switching for Amlogic
  • (Needs 666 on /sys/class/display/mode)
• Auto-framerate switching for Rockchip
  • (Needs 666 on /sys/class/display/display0.HDMI/mode)
• Allow forcing passthrough hack on Rockchip via AS ()
• Better Android apps icons
• Add direct access to common Android settings
• Android TV banner
• Fix Nexus 9
• Bump libbluray & ffmpeg
• Fix amlogic black screen on recent SDK
• ... and the usual bunch of bugfixes ;)

13.3.3

• Preliminary support for h265 (including RK3288)
• Preliminary support for Android TV
• Allow sleep and Daydream to kick in (e.g. on Amazon Fire TV)
• Add setting to scrape all videos, even if they failed
• Add "sd" & "hd" to the advancedsettings of libstagefright (and mediacodec) for fine tuning
• Allow fullscreen on JB
• Hide irrelevant video & audio settings
• Another possible fix for start crash
• Make the "no launcher" version default

13.3.2

• Backport ffmpeg 2.3
• Fix suspend
• Fix SPMC closing when adding/removing a keyboard with touchpad
• Possible fix for hiccups after pausing for a long time on amlogic
• Fix passthrough not working on Rockchip (with media hack): remove minix check
• Do not pause music when going to background
• Allow multi-threaded in fallback s/w decoding
• Add option to wait for network (via xbmc_env.properties)
• Possible fix for crash on startup (previous one didn't solve it)
• disable libstagefright on Nvidia Shield (crash)
• Fix Python PIL