You can test drive it on Linux, macOS, Windows, and Android

Dec 19, 2016 23:03 GMT  ·  By

Today, December 19, 2017, Martijn Kaijser of the Kodi development team had the great pleasure of announcing the release of the seventh and last Beta build of the upcoming Kodi 17 "Krypton" media center.

The road to the open-source and cross-platform Kodi 17 "Krypton" media center appears to be very long, and we might be able to get our hands on the final release sometime in spring 2017 if we're lucky. Until then, the Kodi 17 Beta 7 release is here to address even more of the bugs reported by users since the Beta 6 milestone, as well as to update the Estouchy and Estuary skins and add various improvements.

"It’s almost Christmas, and, as such, we wanted to bring you the last Beta version of Kodi 17. This means we have good hopes we have squashed the biggest and known issues and up next we will go to Release Candidates which in the end will result in the final release. However let’s not get ahead of ourselves and first gather some more feedback on testing this Beta 7 version," reads today's announcement.

IEC61937 audio passthrough support now enabled on Android

Besides various interesting bug fixes, such as for a possible crash in PVR EPG, an issue with the wrong window size of Kodi on Mac OS X, duplicate context menu entries for PVR recordings, support for selecting multiple items in the file browser, or a problem on Windows platforms that would not allow the currently used skins to be updated, Kodi 17 Beta 7 enables IEC61937 audio passthrough support on Android.

The Android IEC61937 audio passthrough is now available for Dolby ATMOS, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD, and DTS:X audio codecs if they are supported in the Android version you're using on the device where Kodi is installed. Other than that, Kodi 17 Beta 7 fixes PVR channel OSD display conditions and improves the CMake build system. You can download Kodi 17 Beta 7 right now from our website.

Kodi 17 Beta 7 Changelog