14 DAY TRIAL // The development cycle of the upcoming Kodi 17 "Krypton" media center continues, and a new Beta release was announced on November 30, 2016, which attempts to address even more bugs and issues reported by users.
Arriving a month after the fifth Beta development release, Kodi 17 Beta 6 fixes a total of 20 problems, including a possible EPG lock up, a memory leak with ASS subtitles, as well as several regular ones across all supported platforms, multiple issues in the CMake build system, and a potential memory leak in the image handling functionality.
"The changes for this sixth beta are the result of the continuous effort from the developers, either from inside the team or outside to get v17 into final release shape. and any outside. We sure would like to thank every one involved with either development, testing or simply helping out others with question," said Martijn Kaijser.
Final Kodi 17 could be released in early 2017
Also fixed in the sixth Beta release of Kodi 17 "Krypton" is an issue that could occur when reading tags from music files, several bugs that should improve support for controllers, the conversion of POPM music tag values to the new 0 to 10 rating, as well as a video stall bug on Android platforms, and multiple Windows problems.
The full changelog is attached below if you're curious to know what exactly has been patched in Kodi 17 Beta 6, and in the meantime, you can download the binaries for GNU/Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, Android, and other supported platforms from the project's website.
Please try to keep in mind that this is still a pre-release version, and we don't recommend upgrading your stable Kodi 16 instance or deploying Kodi 17 on a production machine. The final Kodi 17 "Krypton" release should hit the streets in early 2017, so the wait is almost over. Happy testing!