Is there a new Report Viewer Runtime for SQL 2016? - reporting-services

Is there a new Report Viewer runtime for SQL 2016? I get the new report viewer UI when I log into the SSRS Reports manager, but, if I embed those reports in a website, it requires the Report Viewer redistributable, and the most recent one I can find is from 2015, which I assume will not have the new UI.
Thanks!
Ryan

No, there isn't, at least not yet.
The ReportViewer installed by SQL-Server 2016 is v12, which is the 2015 Viewer.
Also, it seems SSRS 2016 uses a RS:ReportHost tag, wheras < 2016 used to use the rs:ReportViewer tag.
Edit:
But now you can download the preview here:
https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/package/Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportViewerControl.WebForms.Preview/130.1700.305
Rename
microsoft.reportingservices.reportviewercontrol
.webforms.preview.130.1700.305.nupkg
to
microsoft.reportingservices.reportviewercontrol
.webforms.preview.130.1700.305.nupkg.zip
and then unzip it.
It still is using .NET Framework 4.0.
I got it working, here:
https://github.com/ststeiger/ReportViewerWrapper/tree/master/Embedded2016
Just in the nick of time, had to fix a nasty bug with WordOpenXML export.
In versions of ReportViewer < 2016, you can't print a Word 2007+ (WordOpenXML) document when in landscape-format).
Switching to ReportViewer 2016 Preview solved this.
There appears to be a bug in ReportViewer, when you export to word.
Vertical alignment is not center by default, in Visual Studio it is (old bug).
And merging the last row of a table in a word-document will result in a garbage-layout - when pageformat = landscape (new bug).
If you put this formula into the footer
=System.Convert.ToString(Globals!PageNumber) + "/" + System.Convert.ToString(Globals!TotalPages)
you always get 1/1 in Word.
If you use
=Globals!PageNumber & "/" & Globals!TotalPages
then it works correctly... (old bug)

There is a latest nuget package of Report Viewer 2016 Preview: Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportViewerControl.WebForms.Preview (version 130.1700.305, published 2016-09-20).
And read carefully this page to setup it properly: https://github.com/Microsoft/Reporting-Services/blob/master/Docs/Get-Started-With-RVC.md#next-steps---read

The Nuget package is now no longer in Preview, so you can get Report Viewer 2016 as detailed here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/application-integration/integrating-reporting-services-using-reportviewer-controls-get-started
If required, SQL Server Data Tools will install the latest Report Viewer control:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssdt/download-sql-server-data-tools-ssdt

Have you looked inside
C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common\13.0.0.0__89845dcd8080cc91\ ?
When we upgraded our v12 to v13, that we had Power BI issues :
SQL Server 2016 CTRP3.2 Report Viewer is missing a JavaScript method
The drawback is Microsoft haven't exposed the ReporViewer controls as a redistributable runtime package (yet)

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E:
\Program Files
\Microsoft SQL Server
\MSRS10_50.MSSQLSERVER_RS
\Reporting Services
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