16.8-181, 3 Nov 2016: Based off OSMC commit (b9120ae19) and newclock5 (3a433a85)
XBMC:
ListItem.Year - prefer to use the year value from the firstaired date (PR:10770, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
[python] add xbmcgui.ListItem.setCast() (PR:10619, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
[python] add xbmcgui.Dialog().videoinfo() and .musicinfo() (PR:10616, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
[python] fix pydocs after Commit:a2f675e (PR:10833, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
[PVR] Fix local art lookup log spam. pvr recordings never have local art. (PR:10832, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
[xbmc][fix] Don’t try to index outside our lookup table and crash (PR:10831, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
Subtitles: allow self-closing br and html escape characters (PR:10813, 2 commits, 1 file changed)
slideshow: only stop video player, keep background music playing (PR:10835, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
Fixed OnPlayBackResumed not getting fired anymore. (PR:10739, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
DVDDemuxFFmpeg: Fix whitespace (PR:10821, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
VideoPlayer: hls, select best resolution closest to desired bandwidth (PR:10801, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
VideoPlayer: add user name and password back to url after testing for… (PR:10799, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
fix streaminfo set by python (PR:10824, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
[cmake] add our own FindLibXml2.cmake, needed for static libs (PR:10829, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
pvr.vbox:
Genre mapping for programs, using mapping XML (PR:146, 8 commits, 7 files changed)
Added version check for VBox databases (channels & EPG) before fetch (a34454c4)
Added version check for VBox databases (channels & EPG) before fetch (8e496578)
newclock5:
Commits no longer in build:
VideoPlayer: cleanup VideoCodec interface, SetDropState (fac2d4f4)
MMAL: Update to new dropping scheme (181f3058)
VideoPlayer: hls, select best resolution closest to desired bandwidth (c57fdc4d)