The Kodi application development team he said the availability of the first alpha versionto him Kodi 19 "Matrix".
The new update comes with a long list of changes and improvements, such as decoding for AV1, music Matrix-inspired visualization, subtitle visual improvements, GUI improvements for managing notches on iOS devices, and more.
This software it's still in alpha, and the developers of the Kodi app warn that you'll likely run into bugs. Before it is finally available to the general public, it will have to go through alpha, beta phases and will submit test versions (release candidate) to fix bugs.
If you are using extensions of Kodi, you could also run into issues as support for Python 2 ended with this version. Extensions should be written in Python 3 to work properly. According to the new release announcement, when developers update their add-ons to Python 3, they will be re-enabled in Kodi 19. The available add-ons are said to be increasing every week, but not all are ready yet.
We do not know at this time when the stable version of Kodi 19 will be released, but the development team is fully focused on version 19, now that Kodi 18 released its final version.
