diff --git a/packages/mediacenter/kodi/package.mk b/packages/mediacenter/kodi/package.mk
index 4ed7b0c58b..710f0ed64b 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-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
     ;;
   *)
-    PKG_VERSION="18.0b5-Leia"
-    PKG_SHA256="7735bd346d3f1d62f8bd7a37cc5ad25b1fa16404c133e10e12995ac9d23d0161"
+    PKG_VERSION="18.0rc1-Leia"
+    PKG_SHA256="1d4e954b053478d4fc0e3cb370abd946bb24363e87eb446e292ce56665d48df7"
     PKG_URL="https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/archive/$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
     PKG_SOURCE_NAME="kodi-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
     ;;