14 DAY TRIAL // The new Kodi 16.0 Beta 4 has been released today and is now ready for download and testing. It looks like the developers are putting the final touches, and we should see the first Release Candidates very soon.
Each new edition of Kodi seems to be better than the previous one, and new features land all the time, despite the fact that the media hub feels complete. The truth is that Kodi is a really complex piece of software, and there is always something that needs to be done or improved.
If you’re not familiar with the Kodi designation, you need to know that it’s actually the name of former XBMC. The team decided to do a rebranding a while back, and most of the community is on board, although you’ll find users that don’t know what’s with Kodi and why XBMC is no longer maintained.
Kodi 16.0 Beta 4 is all about the fixes
Upgrading from Kodi 15.x to Kodi 16.x is not ideal, especially when the latter is still under development. The first victims are the add-ons, which might not work with the newer version of the media hub.
"Why the rapid succession of these releases you might wonder? By doing more releases in the shorter period, we reduce the amount of changes that are included in each one. Instead of a huge list of changes it now only has several which gives a better overview. The advantage of that is possible regressions get picked up way faster and that you as user also get the benefit of not having to wait a long time to get these fixes," write the developers in the official announcement.
According to the changelog, several credentials leaking in the debuglog have been fixed, the enabled status for audio DSP add-ons has been fixed, the ghost timers in EPG window have been repaired, mouse handling regression on Android now works as intended, and a missing header label on the clean EPG progress dialog has been refined.
You can download Kodi 16.0 Beta 4 right now from Softpedia and give it a try, but please keep in mind that it should not be installed on production machines.
