Kodi 16.1 RC announcements

[dara]

Wow, it only seemed like a week ago when 16.0 stable was released.

Go to kodi.tv/download to get it
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c/p
Fixes done in this RC 1 version

• Fix possible lockup when entering EPG grid
• Fix possible problems with rendering on Windows
• Fix possible non working key presses after a key long press
• Don’t do a video chapter skip if there’s only one chapter
• Fix possible lock up by increasing timeout to let screensavers properly exit
• Fix render capture (bookmark images) on certain hardware with DXVA on Windows
• Fix problem in ZeroConfBrowser that could cause problems on exit
• Fix crash one OSX 10.7 when trying to resolve HDD names
• Fix possible crashes when using VAAPI and DXVA video rendering

[dara]

RC 2 published on kodi.tv

Fixes done in this RC 2 version

• Never cache addons directories
• Fix typo when calculating forced ratio size
• AndroidStorageProvider: Ignore /mnt/runtime and don’t call Exists all the way every some 500 ms as this will affect performance
• Set of fixes for DirectX rendering
• Fixed crash under JSON-RPC on iOS/OSX
• 20% performance gain on opening EPG guide window
• Add missing libgif.so to the Android package
• Fix Kodi freezing if no ADSP add-on is present
• EventServer security fix by only allowing localhost

[Marley]

yea they said rc1 had lots bugs

[tuxen]

less than 16.0 though as seen in the release notes lol.

[Kimbo]

Thank you Dara!!