Team Kodi Announces Kodi v17.1 "Bug Fixes Release": Download Now!

Short Bytes: Kodi 17.1 is the first release candidate of Kodi 17.0 Krypton series. It only includes various bug fixes for the popular open source media center software designed for Rpi’s, HTPCs, and other devices. Along with the nightly builds, the latest Kodi release is now available for download.

Kodi, the famous open source media center software for HTPCs, has received its latest point release in the name of Kodi v17.1, or as the developers call it, the “bug fixes release”. Because Kodi 17.1 “Krypton” only includes fixes to various components of the software.

If we talk about new features, Kodi 17.1 RC1 continues with what was offered by its predecessor Kodi 17.0 which was released last month. Coming to the bugfix story, the development team has listed the following bugs which been fixed in this point release.

Kodi 17.1 Bug Fixes

Update Estuary and Estouchy with some bugfixes and improvements
Fix EDL skipping
Fix slow song smartplaylist
Several PVR fixes
Update Chorus webinterface
Fix addons not being marked broken when they are updated with broken flag
Add limiter on random songs which should prevent large memory usage on big libraries
Improve keyboard mapping during button mapping
Improve analog stick handling
Improve plugin performance when building the content list
Include RTMP inputstream add-on for Windows
Don’t close subtitle stream when switching audio
Fix replaygain for music files
Fix controllers buttons on Android
Fix music cleanup hanging on large MySQL music database
Fix use of SMB on Android on new installs
Fix possible Kodi upgrade migration hang during add-on update process
Add check in Windows installer for Service Packs and updates that Kodi needs to operate
Don’t try to read tags from internet audio streams
Add setting to disable controller rumble on notifications

The team says that they’re small in size and it’s quite difficult to repair broken things quickly. They welcome contributing developers to submit any bug fixes to their code base for review.

You can download Kodi 17.1 Krypton using this link. Nightly build for Kodi 17.1 are also available under the Development Downloads header on the download page.

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