[Carpenter1]

Kodi 17 takes much longer to load links as before with Kodi 16
Kodi 16 took the most 30 seconds and Kodi 17 takes up to 60 seconds
I also noticed when opening addons it takes longer to load on 17 where on 16 it was instant
I also noticed a lot more freezing on Kodi 17

Will there be a fix to this issue or do I have to wait for Kodi 18 for Android Box?

[Gracus]

No debug log (wiki), no issue

[DarrenHill]

Thread moved to Android.

[Carpenter1]

No debug issues just saying it's much slower then the previous release

[JxPx]

Will there be a fix to this issue or do I have to wait for Kodi 18 for Android Box?

As Gracus stated above, you need to post a log file when looking for a fix action. If you don't provide a log file, then devs cannot diagnose your problem.