Download Kodi 15.1

Version 15.1 of Kodi has been released. 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 – Maintenance Release

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 called 15.1 which has some additional fixes on top of the 15.0 release.To be safe just backup your user data (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. For additional information about version 15 or upgrading you can visit our Frequently Asked Questionspage.

Fixes done in this 15.1 version

• Flush render buffers when flushing video player
• Fix broken network.bandwidth setting
• Fix stuttering in PVR windows
• Fix holding lock while querying PVR backend
• Unsigned apps are not working on jailbroken iOS 5.1 devices
• Add installed languages ​​to the list of possible stream languages
• Ensure that file descriptor for logfile is NULL’ed
• Fixes a crash when trying to do delete a file in filemanager
• Reimplement Cocoa_GetVolumeNameFromMountPoint for OSX
• Update label color for sliderex controls
• CProgressJob: fix crash in DoModal
• Fix missing return in CGUIWindowPVRBase::OnBack
• FFmpeg: Bump to 2.6.4
• Handle startup splash as regular window
• Fix linkage for VTB framework for iOS < 6 – fixes VTB on iOS
• Fix broken native keyboard on iOS 5.1.1 devices
• Fix wrong navigation in SmartPlaylistEditor.xml
• Make some virtual filesystems available when no network is available yet
• Fix formatting on mysql queries that could cause crash on update
• Only set mouse wheel control spin and slider controls when they are actually focuses
• Respect view mode changes of EPG when controlling number of EPG updates
• Handle startup splash as regular window which prevents problems if PVR or masterlock is used as startup window
• Fix watched flag not displaying if item is also resume-able
• Remove some logging on exiting that could crash on exit in some cases
• Fix overlapping subtitles in some cases