Kodi 17 Krypton Open-Source Media Center Officially Released, Here's What's New

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The Kodi team proudly announced today, February 5, 2017, the general availability of the final release of the Kodi 17 “Krypton” open-source media center for Linux, Android, macOS, iOS, and Windows.

Kodi 17 “Krypton” is a major release with numerous improvements across many of its components, including PVR, VideoPlayer, and Music Library, better organization of settings, better audio support on Android, as well as an updated user interface with new default skin called Estuary.

“The new default skin Estuary has been specially designed as a 10-foot interface, while touchscreen devices have a new touch-enabled skin called Estouchy. To complete the overhaul we are now shipping Chorus2 as the default web interface,” explained the Kodi developers in today’s announcement.

Here’s what’s new in Kodi 17

Prominent features of Kodi 17 “Krypton” include support for artist role tags, performance improvements to tag scraping… (read more)

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