Kodi 17.6 now available for download on Linux, Mac, Windows

Nov 15, 2017 15:37 GMT  ·  By

With the development of the upcoming Kodi 18 "Leia" series of the open-source media center gaining more ground, the development team announced today the last update to the Kodi 17 "Krypton" branch.

Kodi 17.6 has been released today as the last minor bugfix update to the Krypton series, bringing a fix for a crash that could occur in the Controller dialog, updates the standard scrapers to their lastest versions available at the moment of writing, as well as a fix for some connection issues that could occur with the internal web server.

It also fixes a crash when the peripheral joystick add-on is disabled, and probably other minor issues that haven't been added to today's release notes, which mention the fact that from now on the upcoming Kodi 18 "Leia" series will be put in the spotlight and will receive more honorable mentions during its development cycle.

"For about a year already our developers have been working on the upcoming v18 release and have been backporting all fixes we deemed safe enough to v17 series," said the devs. "We are certainly excited about our upcoming v18 on which we will start reporting at regular basis quite soon but until that time here's the v17.6 "Krypton" version for daily use."

All Kodi 17 "Krypton" users urged to update to version 17.6

While Kodi 17.6 is not a major milestone, the Kodi development team urges all users of the Kodi 17 "Krypton" series to update to this release as soon as it's available for their platform. Kodi 17 is currently supported on GNU/Linux, BSD, macOS, Microsoft Windows, Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi, Amazon Fire TV, Cubox-i, Google Nexus Player, Nvidia SHIELD TV, WeTek Play, Chromebox, and Razor Forge TV.

Kodi 17.6 being the last maintenance update means that the Kodi 17 "Krypton" series has reached end of life, so we're now looking forward to upgrading our media centers to the Kodi 18 "Leia" major release, which is expected to launch sometime next year with numerous new features and dozens of improvements all over the place. Until then, you can download Kodi 17.6 right now from our website and update your installations.