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| 2025 |
Kodi
Development of Games Manager and Game Launcher front-end GUI was in progress, with plans to integrate a Games Library and Game Console Emulator API into XBMC (Kodi's predecessor).
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| 2025 |
Kodi
RetroPlayer video game console emulator interface was under development, supporting libretro API and emulator cores from the RetroArch project.
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| February 19 2021 |
Kodi
Version 19 of Kodi released.
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| 2020 |
GOM Player
A new version of GOM Player for macOS was released.
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| 2020 |
GOM Player
GOM Player released a new app optimized specifically for iPhones.
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| 2019 |
GOM Player
GOM Player preferences were comprehensively reorganized and updated.
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| January 2019 |
GOM Player
A public report confirmed that GOM Player was installing third-party malware, substantiating user complaints from the previous year.
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| March 2018 |
Kodi
Google removed 'Kodi' from its autocomplete search query due to associations with copyright infringement, while leaving autocomplete terms for modified, piracy-focused Kodi versions.
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| January 2018 |
GOM Player
Users first reported issues with third-party malware installation in GOM Player.
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| 2017 |
Kodi
MacWorld UK published instructions on how to install Kodi on iOS devices before iOS 11 without jailbreaking.
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| December 29 2017 |
Kodi
Kodi developers officially announced the release of a Kodi app for the Xbox One, with the UWP version maintaining the software's characteristic appearance, though many core features were noted to be missing or non-functional.
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| April 1 2017 |
Kodi
Kodi developers conducted an April Fools' Day stunt by taking down their website and replacing it with a fake domain seizure notice, subsequently considering collaboration with legal third-party content providers.
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| June 2016 |
GOM Player
GOM Player mobile app began supporting 360 degree video playback.
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| May 2016 |
Alan E. Bell
Killed in a motorcycle accident while on vacation in Laos.
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| February 2016 |
Kodi
XBMC Foundation reiterated its stance against third-party Kodi products designed for streaming unlicensed content, warning about trademark enforcement.
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| December 2015 |
GOM Player
GOM Player became the first domestic video player to support 360 video (360VR) technology.
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| June 2015 |
Kodi
Amazon Appstore pulled Kodi app, claiming it could facilitate piracy or illegal content download, despite the software not being bundled with such content.
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| 2014 |
Kodi
Kodi won a Lifehacker Award for 'Best Media Player' in their entertainment selection, further cementing its reputation as a top-tier media solution.
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| August 1 2014 |
Kodi
Release 14 announced, with software renamed from XBMC to Kodi.
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| July 2014 |
Kodi
Project renamed from XBMC to Kodi with the release of Kodi 14, while maintaining the XBMC Foundation as its legal entity.
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| 2012 |
KMPlayer
Lifehacker listed KMPlayer as 'one of the best multimedia players in the world', recognizing its significant status in media player software.
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| June 13 2012 |
Kodi
Kodi for Android was first announced publicly, with its source code released. It was a full port of Kodi's C++ and C source code, compatible with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and later versions.
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| January 20 2011 |
Kodi
Kodi for iOS was publicly released, supporting hardware accelerated video decoding of H.264 videos on jailbroken iOS devices with Apple A4 or A5 processors.
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| January 2 2011 |
Kodi
XBMC moved source code repository from Subversion to Git, hosted on GitHub.
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| September 10 2010 |
Kodi
ZOTAC begins shipping its software bundle ZOTAC Boost XL with all new motherboards and Mini-PCs, which includes XBMC Media Center.
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| May 27 2010 |
Kodi
Team XBMC officially announced the dropping of support for the Xbox platform, leading to the creation of XBMC4Xbox as a separate fork to continue Xbox support.
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