As we are not deaf to these comments and try to create the best experience, our skin developer phil65 went back to the drawing board and rethought on how to incorporate this feedback into wat should become the final skin. Since more and more users also started to use these development builds we started to receive a lot of feedback, where most was positive there was also some negative or at least constructive comments.
During this period our developers kept improving on how it looked, behaved and made use of the latest features that got included from what is shaping up to be the final release of v17. Past March we announced that v17 would feature a brand new default skin called Estuary and since then it has been included in every build we have released. In general nothing really as this was just about bugfixing and further finalising our new buildsystem. Further improvement of cmake build systemĪ full list can be found here What’s new?.Fix problem on Windows that currently in use skins couldn’t be updated.Fix duplicate context menu for PVR recordings.Enable IEC61937 audio passthrough support on Android for DTS-HD, TrueHD, DTS:X and ATMOS in case the Android version supports this.Update Estuary and Estouchy skin with some bugfixes.We sure would like to thank every one involved with either development, testing or simply helping out others with question. However let’s not get ahead of ourselves and first gather some more feedback on testing this Beta 7 version. The changes for this seventh an last 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. 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. It’s almost Christmas and as such we wanted to bring you the last Beta version of Kodi 17.