![]() ![]() Past March we announced that we had replaced the aging Confluence skin which did it’s job since 2009 as default skin. Should you which to see the full and extensive code change you can see them here and here. Instead we’ll just list the most important or at least understandable changes for non developers. ![]() As you imagine we can’t possible list all changes, improvements and whatever more we have done during the past months. Since Kodi v16 there were 1179 pull-request (code change requests) which hold 3735 commits (code chunk changes) spread over 6679 files done by 39 different developers. ![]() Sure we have an awesome new default skin however the vast improvements are deep in the bowels of Kodi core code. The expression don’t judge the book by it’s cover is certainly something that holds to this release. Certain parts of our code underwent a complete overhaul or in some cases even went through a blender to be almost rebuild from the ground up. Several years ago we set a path that we wanted to improve our code base instead of just slapping on new features and this release will certainly be no exception to that goal. As you may have noticed it took quite some time before we came out with our first Kodi v17 alpha 2 (sorry that we skipped alpha 1) and we have some very good reasons for that. ![]() Looking back so far at what our small team of developers has done to the code, the name Krypton certainly gives a certain emphasis to it that fits. For our v17 release we actually let the public chose the name and with an overwhelming majority they chose the name “Krypton”. Who are we to break this tradition and as such we follow in their steps with a theme that started out with mythical places or names. Google does so for Android, Intel and NVIDIA also names their chips. Giving each development iteration a code name in a certain category is kind of a tradition that is not only applicable for software but also for hardware. Since the dawn of time, or at least since 2008 each released version has received a code name next to the version number. ![]()
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