
All in all this release is looking like it’s quite solid so far. Since we only have a small team and we can’t test it all we must rely on users reporting potential problems on our forum and we try to fix them within our limited spare time. With this second release candidate we added a small number of fixes that users brought to our attention.

Getting the first release candidate ready took a bit longer than we anticipated due to some problems along the way though they should be under control now.

It’s time for the second Release Candidate for Kodi v16. The complete technical list can be found on our Github milestones. Fix possible crashes when using VAAPI and DXVA video rendering.Fix crash one OSX 10.7 when trying to resolve HDD names.Fix problem in ZeroConfBrowser that could cause problems on exit.
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It should be ok to just install this on top of your current Kodi 16.0 version. To be safe just backup your userdata (online manual) first.

This is still a release candidate once enough users have verified that these improvements work out well, and we did not introduce any major regressions, we’ll be releasing it as final 16.1 version. To counter some of these new issues, we’re bringing you this maintenance release candidate called 16.1 RC1 which has some additional fixes on top of the 16.0 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. Once a ‘final’ version is released some new bugs and/or problems usually appear out of nowhere, and this release is no exception.
