We have good news for all fans of Kodi. The Kodi team prepared a new version of Kodi v17 codenamed – Krypton. Kodi v17 “Krypton” has a new look and many features compared to the last version of Kodi 16.1 Jarvis. Kodi v17 Krypton Alpha 2 is now available.
The home screen has been revamped and now utilises a smartplaylists implementation to automatically show you what probably interests you the most. Try and see for yourself. If you still prefer Confluence skin then you don’t need to worry as it’s still available from the official Kodi repository.
Here’s a quick look at a few other notable fixes and features:
- 10bit/HEVC hardware enabled playback on INtel or NVIDIA GPU that have the capabilities (see hardware specs)
- Refactor of scrapers
- Fix possible high CPU usage with GUI rendering
- Playback improvement on all platforms
- Support for multiple external ratings and userrating from GUI and smartplaylists
- Audio and subtitle filter added to smartplaylists
- Use ffmpeg for loading certain types of images and drop external libraries
- Added PVR to eventlog feature
- Various database optimisations
- Unify behaviour of context menu
- Improvements on binary add-on handling
- Rework of rendercapture which is used by boblight or ambilight implementations
- Removes SAP streams support
- Added MVC, framepack and 3D switching support on Raspberri-Pi
- Change certain settings from spinners to a list
- Further improvements on DirectX implementation
- Further unify certain skin windows to make it easier to make new skins without duplicating same code
- Music mood scanning
- Game controller add-ons
- Improved tag reading from music files
- Improvement on Kodi rendering system which should reduce CPU load and pave the way to headless some day
- Add InProgress node for TV Shows
- Fix CPU count on Android
- Various changes to Kodi python API. Please check documentation
- Save skin settings on early exit which should fix problems with loosing settings after restart
- Improved binary add-on API
- Improvements to internal webserver
- Use number separators from the selected GUI language (example 1.000,4 / 1,000.4) and also apply this to ratings
- Update to FFmpeg 3.0 which brings improved playback, stability and security fixes
- Security and stability improvement by updating to: Python 2.7.12 / mDNSResponder to 625.41.2 / libxslt 1.1.29 / libmicrohttpd to 0.9.50 / gettext 0.19.8 / libzip 1.1.2 / libjpeg-turbo 1.4.2 / libpng 1.6.21 / lzo 2.09 / sqlite 3120200 / openssl 1.0.2h / taglib 1.11
- Enable IPv6 for CURL
- Added CMake building on all platforms. Still work in progress
- Switch to Visual Studio 2015 building
- Remove boost, CXimage, jpgIO, libsquish dependencies as they are obsolete
- Auto create code documentation with Doxygen including a to-do list (link: https://codedocs.xyz/xbmc/xbmc/)
- Moved old PyDocs of the Kodi API to Doxygen
- Added skinning API to Doxygen
- Removed dead and obsolete core code
- Fixed memory leaks
- Fixed possible code deadlocks
- Fixed possible security flaws
- Fixed possible crashes
- Fixed code flaws found by various analyses tools
You can download Kodi 17.0 Krypton Alpha 2 from the Official Kodi 17.0 development downloads.
LibreELEC Raspberry Pi / x86 versions can be found here
Source: kodi.tv
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