14 DAY TRIAL // The day of October 5, 2016, brought us a new Beta of the upcoming Kodi 17 "Krypton" open-source and cross-platform media center software, the third and most probably last for this development cycle.
As we told you in the report about the second Beta of Kodi 17, the final release of the popular media center is launching later this fall with numerous new features and improvements in areas like skinning, video playback, PVR/DVR, live TV, music library, etc. Beta 3 comes three weeks after the release of the second Beta milestone, and it includes a bunch of fixes for various issues reported by users since then.
"The changes for this third 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. and any outside. We sure would like to thank every one involved with either development, testing or simply helping out others with question. Below is a condensed list of fixes and changes done in this beta 3 release," says Martijn Kaijser in today's announcement.
Kodi 17 now supports the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus devices
There are 28 changes included in the Kodi 17 "Krypton" Beta 3 pre-release snapshot, which you can view in detail via the full changelog attached at the end of the article. Most of them are bug fixes, but we can't help but notice that there's now proper screen scale for the latest iOS devices, such as iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, the implementation of a "Time" button on the PVR information dialog, and amlogic passthrough support on Android 5-powered devices.
Moreover, there are now some extra music roles in the Music sections, the ability to exclude singles in recently played albums, support for displaying text during various migration tasks, such as add-on or database upgrades, along with the ability to fetch information from both .nfo and scraper files.
Kodi 17 "Krypton" Beta 3 is available for download right now via our website for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Android, and iOS operating systems. However, please try to keep in mind that this is a pre-release version, not suitable for daily use.