We ended the year of 2016 with the arrival of Kodi 17 as Release Candidate or also known as Krypton. The famous multimedia content player will have a new version in a matter of days and the new version is already being worked on, on Kodi 18.
At the end of December, a vote was held to know the nickname of Kodi 18, a vote that was affected by the tragic death of Carrie Fisher. Thus, almost unanimously, it was decided that the new version of Kodi was nicknamed Leia, as a small tribute to actress Carrie Fisher.
In addition, the developers want Kodi 18 to be the version of honor towards Star Wars and its saga, a saga that began 40 years ago. Therefore, possibly the development of this version is faster than normal since the team of developers are fans of the saga and They want to have the final version of Kodi 18 Leia ready for the birthday of the first movie that was released 40 years ago.
Kodi 18 will be a small tribute to Princess Leia and actress Carrie Fisher
And this is all we know of the new version of Kodi, at least for the moment. And it is not little since if you take the Star Wars saga as a reference, we can find new elements or extra content in relation to the first star wars movie or related to the new trilogies.
In any case, it is always nice that free software is used to honor a great actress, an actress who enchanted and marked an era with her character Leia and which we have tragically lost recently.
And if you can't wait for Kodi 18, always you can opt for the Kodi 17 Krypton RC, a version not yet final but stable enough to be used in our Gnu / Linux distributions.