There's a more extended writeup of some of the major changes/features at <a href="http://kivy.org/planet/2015/04/kivy-1-9%C2%A0released/" rel="nofollow">http://kivy.org/planet/2015/04/kivy-1-9%C2%A0released/</a>
Congrats, Kivy team!<p>I'd love to see reviews or performance benchmarks from people who've built using Kivy, but I can't seem to find much recent information. Can anyone help out? Thanks!