These messages are from Esmos today:

1st will finish kodi realese end of august. After then will start blindscan develop.
Improvement Kodi + driver update scheduled for late August.
It may be possible now to have a DVB-S/S2 blindscan before 2018.
Requests for driver updates have also been sent. Will be interesting to see what updates the drivers get, or what updates the drivers have this time.