Kodi 16.1 – Jarvis – Mark XVI

Once a ‘final’ version is released some new bugs and/or problems usually appear out of nowhere, and this release is no exception. Even though tens of thousands of users were already testing the 16.0 version before release and we as team trying very hard to prevent any problems, as soon as millions start using the released version some problems we either did not think of or which we did not notice before pop up. To counter some of these new issues, we’re bringing you this maintenance release called 16.1 which has some additional fixes on top of the 16.0

It should be ok to just install this on top of your current Kodi 16.0 version without uninstalling previous 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 16.1

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
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
Fix song reported on playback of songs from cuesheet

This is the official release of Kodi 16.1 "Jarvis"
For more information visit our website kodi.tv

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