Minecraft PE Keeps crashing on startup after most recent update

Since the last update, Minecraft crashes on startup. It sometimes gives the error "Global resources reset, a crash was detected". Other times it can't even get that far. Have tried clearing cache and restarting, but nothing works. Lots of other people are reporting the same problem in online forums (see link below). It won't run on my son's iPad either. Worked fine prior to the update.

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