Download Kodi 15.1 RC 1

An update for Kodi version 15.0 has been released, which is currently offered as beta. Kodi is a cross platform media center software developed for Windows, OS X, Linux, Android and iOS.

New in version 15.0, which has been codenamed Isengard, includes adaptive seeking, which means that audio and video files can be jumped with larger or smaller steps. Furthermore, there is a visual way to jump to chapters, there is support for hevc h265 under Android on certain chipsets and a switch to C++11 for the code. However, all this beauty means that the minimum specifications have been increased. For example, at least OS X 10.7, iOS 5.1 or Android 4.2 is now required. Version 15.1 is a so-called maintenance release and should fix some errors.

Kodi 15.1 Isengard – Release Candidate
Once a ‘final’ version is released some new bugs and/or problems usually appear out of nowhere, and last release was no exception. Even though tens of thousands of users were already testing the 15.0 version before release, as soon as million started using it, some problems we either did not think of or which we did not notice popped up. To counter some of these new issues, we’re bringing you this maintenance release candidate called 15.1 RC1 which has some additional fixes on top of the 15.0 release.

This is still a release candidate; once enough users have verified that these improvements work out well, and we did not introduce any major regressions, we’ll be releasing it as final 15.1 version. To be safe just backup your userdata (online manual) first.

It should be ok to just install this on top of your current Kodi 15.0 version. For the MySQL users out there; we never bump the database versions in our bugfix or maintenance releases – you can safely keep using it within your network.

Fixes done in this RC 1 version

• Flush render buffers when flushing video player
• Fix broken network.bandwidth setting
• [pvr] fix stuttering introduced
• Unsigned apps are not working on jailbroken iOS5.1 devices
• Add installed languages ​​to the list of possible stream languages
• Ensure that file descriptor for logfile is NULL’ed
• [pvr] fix holding lock while querying backend
• Fixes a crash when trying to do delete a file in filemanager
• Reimplement Cocoa_GetVolumeNameFromMountPoint
• [guilib] update label color for sliderex controls
• CProgressJob: fix crash in DoModal
• [pvr] fix missing return in CGUIWindowPVRBase::OnBack
• FFmpeg: Bump to 2.6.4
• Handle startup splash as regular window
• [ios] – fix linkage for VTB framework for ios < 6 – fixes vtb on ios
• [ios] – fix broken native keyboard on ios 5.1.1 devices
• fix wrong navigation in SmartPlaylistEditor.xml