Run the Service Center or Native Access to download

This update does NOT fix the keyswitch key colors

Cheers, King L!

I wish they would bring back the "i" button for release news in Native Access as it was there in Service Centre (plus the option to keep the downladed installer!) 
 
Service Centre lists a couple of crash fixes but I can't copy and paste here (not going to type it, sorry)

"Improved text legibility on many UI areas based on user feedback"
 
Sounds good. Unfortunately, I am unable to install the update. When run from within Service Center, it yields an unhelpful "unknown error" dialog. However, when I run the setup manually, it fails with more - albeit equally unhelpful - information:
 
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Native Instruments Kontakt 5 Setup Error
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Installation is not possible since the full version of Kontakt 5 is found on this computer. The latest version of Kontakt 5 can load all Kontakt Player libraries. You can update your existing Kontakt 5 full installation by running the latest Kontakt 5 update installer!
 
Service Center identifies the file as "Kontakt 5.6.1 Update - Win", but the actual filename within the zip file is "Kontakt 5.5.6.1 Setup PC.exe". Note the discrepancy in the version numbers. I think NI is sending me the wrong update file.
 
NI Support says:

This means the full version of KONTAKT is already installed on your computer and that there is no need to install the free KONTAKT 5 PLAYER version.

I am not installing the Player. I have never had the Player installed on this machine. This further supports my hypothesis that NI has accidentally linked to the wrong file.

They've uploaded a "full install" file rather than a "update" one. It's 511MB instead of approx 160MB like the 5.6.0 one.
 
Here's the message I got

 
Hopefully, they'll fix this soon ;-)

Larry, have you actually installed this yet? Or is your "doesn't fix the key colors" comment based only on the release notes?
 
Yeh, John, I noticed the file size and thought half a gigabyte was a bit large for a minor dot-rev update, but just assumed there must have been some library files included. 
 
The file name explicitly says 5.5.6.1, but the internal version stamp says 5.6.1.48. The internal file description is "Kontakt 5 Setup" and was modified 9/29/16.

cclarry
This update does NOT fix the keyswitch key colors

Grrrrrrrr.

the update in Service Center and Native Access is different ... Native Access seems to have update, while Service Center shows a different (full?) package

Yes installed via Native Access without issue...