diff --git a/packages/mediacenter/kodi/package.mk b/packages/mediacenter/kodi/package.mk
index ab9e5c95b8..c7f589e2b5 100644
--- a/packages/mediacenter/kodi/package.mk
+++ b/packages/mediacenter/kodi/package.mk
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2017-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="kodi"
-PKG_VERSION="776b0aa053516ccedb56b14b922a337c42ad065a"
-PKG_SHA256="8fed4d9be3ce0dd243a7aefa8c5d22012a06392d71d13bfe0ab04901b189f985"
+PKG_VERSION="8a0d510be81c055b29b7006d7e123270e4a0a534"
+PKG_SHA256="5a269d52e1e99e8ff166b2d18d6b59d6b2b9ed6e3e34eab4b1b90a39bdde537f"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.kodi.tv"
 PKG_URL="https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/archive/${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/packages/mediacenter/kodi/patches/kodi-995.20-python-lib-dir.patch b/packages/mediacenter/kodi/patches/kodi-995.20-python-lib-dir.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 210cc96ba3..0000000000
--- a/packages/mediacenter/kodi/patches/kodi-995.20-python-lib-dir.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/cmake/scripts/linux/Install.cmake b/cmake/scripts/linux/Install.cmake
-index 90b50c48f649..58e40ed82987 100644
---- a/cmake/scripts/linux/Install.cmake
-+++ b/cmake/scripts/linux/Install.cmake
-@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ install(FILES ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/${CORE_BUILD_DIR}/scripts/${APP_NAME}Config.cm
- 
- if(ENABLE_EVENTCLIENTS)
-   find_package(PythonInterpreter REQUIRED)
--  execute_process(COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} -c "from sysconfig import get_path; print(get_path('platlib', scheme='posix_prefix'))"
-+  execute_process(COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} -c "from sysconfig import get_path; print(get_path('platlib', scheme='posix_prefix', vars={'platbase':'${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}'}))"
-                   OUTPUT_VARIABLE PYTHON_LIB_PATH OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
-   # Install kodi-eventclients-common BT python files
-   install(PROGRAMS ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/tools/EventClients/lib/python/bt/__init__.py