The Kodi team have released the 3rd beta of Kodi 16.0 Jarvis. It is just under a month since the beta 2 as the development team are moving to a rapid release cycle so there isn’t a massive long list of changes. There are improvements to the music features with an improved UI for music management and there are a long list of features since beta 2:

• Fixed: non-working touch input in file manager

• Fixed: workaround for MySQL 5.7.x query optimizer changes

• Fixed: remove broken musicvideo scraper

• Fixed: don’t show “sync playback to display” option on Android as it’s not supported

• Fixed: fix codepage for Korean language input

• Fixed: added workaround for triggering repository updates during playback

• Fixed: fix crash in PVR calling the context menu

• Fixed: show OK dialog instead of empty list clicking on the update button in add-on information panel

• Fixed: several coverity and cppcheck code analysis problems

• Fixed: time sometimes jumped backwards on playing bluray m2ts files and fixes stutter on switching files

• Fixed: several issues regarding music library

• Fixed: timer and EPG handling in PVR

• Fixed: crashing on cleaning up events

• Fixed: don’t show brightness/contrast controls when using Android MediaCodec (Surface)

• Fixed: dont invalidate art for addons that are new or not updated since last fetch

• Fixed: Android stylus devices don’t respond on input

• Fixed: segfault when ADSP is enabled in settings

• Fixed: missing art when playing something from a music add-on

• Fixed: variety of cleanups and problems for AMLogic chips

• Fixed: fixed possible directory traversal bug due to insufficient url checking

• Fixed: handling of media key on Android

• Changed: add support for pre-gzipped addons.xml in repositories which should considerably reduce repository traffic

• Changed: remove “add source”from Programs section

You can find the new build and the full release notes over on kodi.tv

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