Converted Kodi to an Desktop Bridge UWP (Universal Windows Platform) compatible app for Windows 10 (x86 only).
Added “Copy to Kodi” functionality on iOS (for “Open In” Kodi feature in iOS).Added new CMake based build system of Kodi and binary addons for OSX (as well as for Linux, BSD, and Windows).Improved touch and gesture support for iOS based iDevice platforms (iPad, iPod, and iPhone).Improved Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support for iOS (on iPad, iPhone, and iPod iDevices).Added support to build iOS for ARM64 (64-bit iOS).
Added support for HEVC Main 10 profile (10-bit) hardware video decoding via VAAPI if hardware support it.Added multi-architecture/distribution support to Kodi's CMake build system for Linux.Added new CMake based build system of Kodi and binary addons for Linux (as well as for BSD, OSX, and Windows).Improved VDPAU (NVIDIA) Hardware Video Acceleration (requires VDPAU compatible hardware and drivers).Improved VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) support (requires VAAPI compatible hardware and drivers).Improved Kodi support for BSD (operating system) on FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and other similar BSD platforms.Added new CMake based build system of Kodi and binary addons for BSD (as well as for Linux, OSX, and Windows).
Removed AMLCodec hardware accelerated video decoding support for Android on Amlogic devices.Improved playback of HEVC, VC-1 / WMV 9, and VP9 hardware video decoding when using Android's MediaCodec API.Improved support for UltraHD decoding / 4K resolution output when HW supports it.