diff --git a/packages/mediacenter/kodi/package.mk b/packages/mediacenter/kodi/package.mk
index 324cec64e3..6d61e9fa5b 100644
--- a/packages/mediacenter/kodi/package.mk
+++ b/packages/mediacenter/kodi/package.mk
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ case $KODI_VENDOR in
     PKG_SOURCE_NAME="kodi-$KODI_VENDOR-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
     ;;
   *)
-    PKG_VERSION="18.0rc3-Leia"
-    PKG_SHA256="72918ccc63a6bc387b4ebd8796be55f0962bce093e845cdee3aacc8e8649587b"
+    PKG_VERSION="18.0rc4-Leia"
+    PKG_SHA256="90f7a8c32e571654d2503a4e97e438b597ff19ae7876e926aaa06b8de516b72b"
     PKG_URL="https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/archive/$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
     PKG_SOURCE_NAME="kodi-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
     ;;
diff --git a/packages/mediacenter/kodi/patches/kodi-999.99.avoid-bogus-dependency-not-available-notification.patch b/packages/mediacenter/kodi/patches/kodi-999.99.avoid-bogus-dependency-not-available-notification.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index a43bf64e2d..0000000000
--- a/packages/mediacenter/kodi/patches/kodi-999.99.avoid-bogus-dependency-not-available-notification.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/xbmc/addons/AddonManager.cpp b/xbmc/addons/AddonManager.cpp
-index ef662d3..fe97b1f 100644
---- a/xbmc/addons/AddonManager.cpp
-+++ b/xbmc/addons/AddonManager.cpp
-@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
- #include "events/EventLog.h"
- #include "events/NotificationEvent.h"
- #include "filesystem/File.h"
-+#include "filesystem/Directory.h"
- #include "filesystem/SpecialProtocol.h"
- #include "utils/log.h"
- #include "utils/StringUtils.h"
-@@ -1259,7 +1260,8 @@ bool CAddonMgr::IsCompatible(const IAddon& addon)
-       // Intentionally only check the xbmc.* and kodi.* magic dependencies. Everything else will
-       // not be missing anyway, unless addon was installed in an unsupported way.
-       if (StringUtils::StartsWith(dependency.id, "xbmc.") ||
--          StringUtils::StartsWith(dependency.id, "kodi."))
-+          StringUtils::StartsWith(dependency.id, "kodi.") ||
-+          CDirectory::Exists("/usr/share/kodi/addons/" + dependency.id))
-       {
-         AddonPtr addon;
-         bool haveAddon = GetAddon(dependency.id, addon);
-@@ -1287,7 +1289,8 @@ std::vector<DependencyInfo> CAddonMgr::GetDepsRecursive(const std::string& id)
-     auto current_dep = *toProcess.begin();
-     toProcess.erase(toProcess.begin());
-     if (StringUtils::StartsWith(current_dep.id, "xbmc.") ||
--        StringUtils::StartsWith(current_dep.id, "kodi."))
-+        StringUtils::StartsWith(current_dep.id, "kodi.") ||
-+        CDirectory::Exists("/usr/share/kodi/addons/" + current_dep.id))
-       continue;
- 
-     auto added_it = std::find_if(added.begin(), added.end(), [&](const DependencyInfo& d){ return d.id == current_dep.id;});