KICK.com v2.6.12

2.6.12

• fix: settings section/category/group structure — settings dialog now shows correctly
• fix: lang spinner uses numeric string IDs (#30060-30100) — no crash on Kodi 21
• fix: option values as element text content, not value= attribute
• fix: missing blank lines in all 32 PO files — translations #30047+ now work
• fix: "Followed channels" and other new strings now translate correctly
• fix: lang setting read on every /live call — change takes effect immediately
• feat: All languages option added (default), quality toggle

2.6.11

• fix: settings now visible - proper section/category/group structure required by Kodi 19+
• feat: language filter has "All languages" option (default), shows all streams
• feat: stream quality changed from dropdown to toggle (off=automatic, on=ask every time)
• strings #30054 updated, #30057 (All languages) added to all 32 language files

2.6.10

• fix: xbmc.python dependency corrected to 3.0.0 (3.1.0 does not exist, caused install failure)

2.6.9

• fix: settings visible (flat XML, no category/group wrappers)
• feat: stream quality setting - Automatic or Ask every time
• chore: Kodi 19+ (xbmc.python 3.0.0)
• strings #30054-30056 added to all 32 language files

2.6.8

• fix: settings items now visible in basic view (level=0)
• fix: search results show LIVE badge, profile pic and follow/unfollow context menu
• feat: followed channels list shows LIVE badge (one API call for all slugs)

2.6.7

• feat: followed channels - new home menu item "Followed channels"
• feat: long press (context menu) on live channel to follow/unfollow
• stored in addon profile as followed.json, persists across sessions
• strings #30048-30053 added to all 32 language files

2.6.6

• feat: translations added for 29 languages (de, fr, es, it, pt_pt, pt_br, nl, ru, tr, ja, ko,
  zh_cn, ar, hu, ro, sk, bg, uk, sv, fi, el, id, vi, th, he, fa, hi, sr, ca)

2.6.5

• feat: language picker moved to addon Settings (Content tab)
• settings.xml upgraded to Kodi 19 format (version="2")
• removed /language route and main menu language picker item
• added string #30047 (Content) for settings category label

2.6.4

• fix: call _end_dir() before return when channel not found (prevents Kodi loading freeze)
• fix: localize InputStream Helper not installed message (#30046)

2.6.3

• fix: all notification messages localized via strings.po (no hardcoded Czech strings)
• added strings #30042-30045 for cs_cz, en_gb, pl_pl

2.6.2

• fix: show error notification when channel slug not found
• fix: show info notification when VODs list is empty
• fix: show info notification when clips list is empty
• fix: show error notification when stream is unavailable (offline / API error)

2.6.1

• fix: VOD playback broken - proxy returns 'source' field, not 'url'

2.6.0

• fix: live streams limit increased to 100 (API maximum, no cursor pagination)
• fix: duplicate colon in language label ("Jazyk: : english" → "Jazyk: english")

2.5.9

• polish: strip whitespace from search query input
• polish: rename internal variable for clarity

2.5.8

• fix: xbmcgui.Window instead of xbmc.Window (crash on startup)

2.5.7

• fix: clean_title uses comprehensive regex instead of fragmented unicodedata checks
• fix: live() cursor pagination uses parse_qs/urlencode (consistent with subcategories)
• fix: list_vods uses path param /vods/ (consistent with list_clips)
• fix: remove deprecated inputstream.adaptive.manifest_update_parameter
• fix: traceback import moved to top-level imports

2.5.6

• fix: replace deprecated setInfo() with Kodi 19+ getVideoInfoTag() API
• fix: remove dead /categories back-compat route

2.5.5

• fix: token cached in Kodi Window property (persists across plugin invocations)
• fix: LIVE badge uses clean separator instead of whitespace padding
• fix: profile picture shown as icon in live list
• fix: _resolve_stream uses WORKER_BASE constant instead of hardcoded string

2.5.4

• refactor: move imports to top, rename session variable
• fix: app token auto-refresh on 401 (no more Kodi restart needed)
• fix: askqual setting read at runtime instead of import time
• fix: profile picture used for VODs/Clips items
• fix: subcategories URL parsing via urllib instead of string split
• fix: avoid double HTTP call in stream resolver

2.5.3

• fix: routing strip trailing slash (favourites from Kodi broke with /channel/slug/)
• fix: remove custom add_favourite, rely on Kodi built-in (no more duplicates)

2.5.2

• fix: hide Kodi duplicate add-to-favourites (replaceItems=True)

2.5.1

• fix: favourites use channel slug as stable title instead of live stream title

2.5.0

• refactor: remove OAuth PKCE auth server from worker.js (login not used)
• refactor: remove dead constants (API_BASE/V1/V2), unused functions (title_with_viewers, add_header), unused params (fanart, contextmenu)

2.4.4

• chore: remove fanart background image
• chore: fix log prefix KICKCOMMB -> KICK
• chore: update addon.xml metadata, README, remove dead strings from all locales

2.4.3

• fix: remove duplicate 'add to favourites' — rely on Kodi built-in, removed custom implementation

2.4.2

• fix: favourites type changed from media to window so channel folders open correctly in Kodi

2.4.1

• refactor: remove dead auth/login/follow code (~378 lines), fix VOD proxy URL, clean imports

2.4.0

• fix: live channels and search broken by Kick WAF blocking direct HTTP requests
• added Cloudflare Worker proxy (kodi.zales.dev) to bypass WAF
• migrated to public API (api.kick.com/public/v1+v2) with client_credentials token

2.3.3

• remove login from settings UI (not needed, was causing confusion)

2.3.2

• add to Kodi favourites context menu on channels and live streams
• login removed from main menu (not needed for browsing)
• fixed followed channels showing own channel instead of subscriptions

2.3.1

• fixed followed channels not loading with Kick OAuth token
• handle both internal and developer API response formats

2.3.0

• Google login replaced with native Kick OAuth 2.1 PKCE flow
• no more bookmarklet or script paste — standard Kick login page
• Kodi repository directory listing fixed (was showing blank page)

2.2.1

• split javascript: prefix — user types it manually to bypass browser security

2.0.0

• new Kick.com logo icon
• Kodi 21 repository support with schema
• HTTP Range request support for proper zip install
• expanded language list from 16 to 41 (matches current kick.com UI)
• fixed BBCode tag ordering in LIVE badge
• fixed apply_auth() returning True on JSON parse failure
• fixed _fetch_xsrf() missing timeout and error handling
• fixed category URL encoding with quote_plus
• fixed cloudscraper UA being overwritten
• removed unused Host header and urlparse import

1.7

• expanded language list from 16 to 41 (matches current kick.com UI)

• fixed BBCode tag ordering in LIVE badge

• fixed apply_auth() returning True on JSON parse failure

• fixed _fetch_xsrf() missing timeout and error handling

• fixed category/subcategory slug missing URL encoding

• fixed cloudscraper UA being overwritten by okhttp UA

• removed Host header from HLS manifest headers (CDN compatibility)

• extracted stream User-Agent to UA_STREAM constant

• removed unused urlparse import

• bundled cloudscraper to bypass Cloudflare bot protection

1.5

• fixed channel VODs crashing (was passing 100KB URL parameter, now re-fetches by slug)
• removed unnecessary XSRF fetch from search

1.4

• replaced cloudscraper with standard requests (kick.com API does not require bypass)
• removed all bundled libraries, plugin now only depends on Kodi system modules

1.3

• code refactoring and cleanup
• removed bundled requests/urllib3 (now uses Kodi system requests)
• renamed all identifiers to English
• added Czech language translation
• fixed several bugs (empty search directory, login XSRF handling, follow notification)
• removed unused imports and dead code

1.2

• select streams quality

1.1

• select streams language

1.0

• initial version