The 2nd release candidate of Kodi 16.1 (code named Jarvis) has been made available. This release of the media centre system has fixes for DirectX issues, performance gains when opening the EPG and fixes for crashing problems.

Full release notes and the download at kodi.tv

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 add-on is present

• EventServer security fix by only allowing localhost

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