[justin150]

Almost certainly the new release will have caused total chaos for a lot of users.

As I discovered this morning, having not thought about the settings for the Windows Store and Google Play ever (yes I know, stupid me), all my Kodi builds (3 laptops, 1 HTPC and a tablet) have been updated to Kodi 18 and are now broken because the skins are not compatible.  This is a shambles and I will need several hours of work to make as many of the skins compatible as possible.  

I am not blaming the Kodi team too much for this - they are not responsible for the skins nor for me leaving auto-update on but it is absolutely the case that the Kodi team should (assuming this was technically possible) have ensured that no updating happened without the user confirming he/she wanted an update even when auto-update was set in Google Play or Windows Store.

I normally take the view that my Kodi builds will not be updated until at least XX.2 release as I do not want to be a bug tester, but here the new version has some genuinely useful features that mean I will probably update my Tablet and possible the TV build immediately.  However, I suspect a lot of less skilled users may simple abandon Kodi for a while