Important
Complete all steps of the Setup Wizard to apply appropriate plugin settings and minimise avoidable operational issues.
v7.0.9 for Kodi v19+ (Matrix/Nexus/Omega/Piers)
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Official version:
plugin.video.youtube-7.0.9.zip -
Unofficial version:
plugin.video.youtube-7.0.9+unofficial.1.zip
v7.0.9 for Kodi v18 (Leia)
Important
The Kodi v18 releases are offered as-is, and no support will be provided for them, except at the discretion of the maintainers
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Official version:
plugin.video.youtube-7.0.9+leia.1.zip -
Unofficial version:
plugin.video.youtube-7.0.9+leia.unofficial.1.zip
What are the unofficial versions?
- Refer to the FAQ in the Wiki.
Which file to use and how to install manually?
- Refer to the manual installation guide in the Wiki.
Fixed
- Fix renaming playlists
- Improve http server wakeup #746 #801
- Fix ask for video quality setting being inconsistently applied
- Fix http server not sleeping after initial start of service #746 #801
- Fix not reloading WL playlist if open after playback of video in WL
- Fix navigating to search page after playback and prompt re-opening
- Fix issues with next page and jump to page in related video listings
- Attempt to workaround issue with getting system idle time on Xbox #839
- Better handle unknown errors in player request responses #845
- Fix double playback due to busy dialog crash workaround
- Fix disabling certification verification #841
- Fix not using player request fallbacks #845
- Fix incorrectly identifying VP9 streams #833
- Fix videos not able to be re-opened from Kodi playlist #810
- Fix http server not working in Kodi 18
- Fix issues with http server wakeup and sleep on initial start/restart
- Fix API requests failing if not logged in
- Fix multi-audio streams failing to play
- Fix not properly defining default audio role #861
- Don't retry player requests for offline live streams
- Fix incorrectly updating playing live stream details
- Fix typo causing http server to restart when checking status
Changed
- Make live query parameter optional when playing channel live stream
- Allow for removal of custom watch later and history playlists from settings #818
- Use default value of "HL" for history or "WL" for watch later as reset value
- This will then clear the setting and clear value from access_manager.json
- Old values will be stored as a backup, just in case
- Update cached data when playlists are modified (removed/renamed)
- Changed bandwidth attribute of subtitles in MPEG-DASH manifest to 0
- Rename My Subscriptions plugin url
- From:
- plugin://plugin.video.youtube/special/new_uploaded_videos_tv
- plugin://plugin.video.youtube/special/new_uploaded_videos_tv_filtered
- To:
- plugin://plugin.video.youtube/special/my_subscriptions
- plugin://plugin.video.youtube/special/my_subscriptions_filtered
- Old url retained for backwards compatibility, to be removed with Kodi v22
- From:
- Disable OPUS audio again by default #537
- Respect disable certificate verification setting with cURL in ISA #841
- Update bookmarks when listing rather than only using item snapshot
- Player requests no longer use configured plugin language
- Alternate client selections removed
New
- Add notifications for creating/removing/clearing bookmarks #720
- Add support for channel handles
- Enable loop to first page on last page of manually paginated listings (My Subscriptions)
- Improve use of progressive streams
- Improve stream selection for HLS stream in InputStream.Adaptive
- Add script action to refresh settings
- Settings > Maintenance > Refresh settings.xml
- Will remove unused settings from settings.xml to stop log spam
- Add context menu item to play live stream from start #320
Changelog for this release: v7.0.9+beta.10...v7.0.9
Full changelog since last release: v7.0.8...v7.0.9