Team Kodi recently announced the 18.3 point release of Kodi Leia. We have now prepared this for all supported OSMC devices and added some improvements and fixes. Here's what's new:

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue which could cause dropouts when watching Live TV using TVHeadend on Vero 4K / 4K +
  • Fixed an issue which would cause some games under Kodi's retrogaming platform to not work correctly on Vero 4K / 4K +
  • Fixed an issue where some videos with a negative presentation timestamp would not play correctly on Vero 4K / 4K +
  • Fixed an issue which could cause poor performance when using Hyperion when watching 4K content on Vero 4K / 4K +
  • Fixed an issue parsing supported 3D modes by a display on Vero 4K / 4K +

Improving the user experience

  • Prefer higher resolutions when using Kodi's whitelisting mode
  • Added support for improved IPTables support on Vero 4K / 4K +
  • Added support for watching TV/DVD streams in their native resolutions on Vero 4K / 4K +
  • Made installation of OSMC on Vero 4K / 4K + a simpler and easier process when using the Windows or macOS installers
  • Improved XPad compatibility for retrogaming on Vero 4K / 4K +
  • Improved OSMC DVB-T2/T/C tuner compatibility
  • Added new multi image (folder) background option to the OSMC skin
  • Added new individual background option for home menu entries to the OSMC skin
  • Added new adjust representation of video duration setting to the OSMC skin
  • Added new wall info view (based on wall view) to the OSMC skin
  • Added new second video info dialog screen (with extended rating, audio and subtitle information and bigger plot text box) to the OSMC skin
  • Added new video player OSD settings (show OSD after beginning of playback and before end of playback) to the OSMC skin

Miscellaneous

  • Added an additional 64MB to /boot images for installation media
  • Fixed an issue which could result in a corrupt installation of OSMC
  • Mitigate CVE-2019-11477, CVE-2019-11478, CVE-2019-11479 security vulnerabilities which could result in systems with publicly forwarded ports to become vulnerable to denial of service attacks
  • Updated to Kodi v18.3 final

Wrap up

To get the latest and greatest version of OSMC, simply head to My OSMC -> Updater and check for updates manually on your exising OSMC set up. Of course — if you have updates scheduled automatically you should receive an update notification shortly.

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