Download Kodi 16.1 RC 2

The second release candidate of Kodi version 16.1 has been released and the first successor is already ready. This cross platform media center software is developed for Windows, OS X, Linux, Android and iOS. In version 16.0, among other things, the switch from DirectX 9 to 11 has been made, support for 4:3 Non-linear Stretch has been added so that old TV series are also properly displayed and settings of the appearance of Kodi are now stored separately and no longer along with other system settings. Furthermore, functions can now also be assigned to remotes when a button is long-pressed and improvements have been made to the add-on manager. Version 16.1 also includes a modest collection of bug fixes.

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 addon is present
• EventServer security fix by only allowing localhost