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OpenELEC development team finally announces the release stable OpenELEC 4.2.0 with new features. Well this is the next stable release after previous OpenELEC 4.0 series. After releasing lot of beta releases, finally OpenELEC 4.2.0 is available for download with new features. As you all know that OpenELEC is another distro which is specifically designed for home theater PCs and based on XBMC media player.

According to official announcement, OpenELEC 4.2.0 is based on Linux Kernel 3.16, Mesa 10.3, llvm 3.5 and Xorg 1.16. The developers alsos updated the NVIDIA Graphics drivers in the 64-bit image to 340.x along with systemd to systemd 216, connectionmanager to connman 1.25 and XBMC ro XBMC 13.2 "Gotham". They switched their libc from eglibc to glibc and also upgraded to glibc 2.20 and binutils 2.24. You can also download the OpenELEC 4.2.0 for your machine.

The OpenELEC 4.2.0 provides support for nss-mdns, support to perform filesystem checks on every boot for our both default system partitions and ffmpeg 2.4 to their corresponding x86 builds. By switching FFmpeg 2.4 to x86 builds, this release now provides support for H.265 and Dolby Atmos formats. It uses PSTATE CPU scaling driver for Intel Systems and includes drivers for more hardware like DVB devices and WLAN adapters. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

This release also includes new MMC/SDCard driver for Raspberry Pi which now act as default sdcard driver. This driver avoid some of the issues of the old driver such as polling with interrupts disabled and could improve performance and avoid interfering with other drivers. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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OpenELEC development team officially announces the release of third release candidate of OpenELEC 5.0 with minor updates and fixes. As you know that this is the maintenance release, also known as OpenELEC 4.97.3 which is the base for the upcoming OpenELEC 5.0 stable release.

According to official announcement, OpenELEC 5.0 RC3 comes with updated core components including updated OpenELEC settings 0.5.7, kodi 14-8, vdpauinfo 0.9, boost 1_57_0, libvdpau 0.9, xorg-server 1.16.3, ethtool 3.18, rpcbind 0.2.2, dbus 1.8.12, dosfstools 3.0.27, linux kernel 3.17.7, connman 1.27, and kodi-pvr-addons.

From previous version, OpenELEC 5.0 already renamed its brand from XBMC to Kodi brand. The renaming of XBMC brand to Kodi brand affects more than the GUI where as all references in code have been changed and in the OpenELEC filesystem /storage/.xbmc will be recreated as a symlink to /storage/.kodi to ensure hardcoded paths in addons or scripts continue to work. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

Apart from package updates, this release also includes patch in kodi to disable unsupported powerfunctions for iMX6 builds, fixup reboot issue in imx6, port fixes for gpu hang to 3.17 in Kernel, util-linux now specify more configure options, build with losetup and libsmartcol support. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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OpenELEC development team officially announces the release of OpenELEC 5.0 Beta 3 which is the third maintenance release under 5.x series. This release is also known as OpenELEC 4.95.3 as you know that OpenELEC 4.95 branch act as test releases for upcoming stable OpenELEC 5.0 version.

According to official announcement, OpenELEC 5.0 Beta 3 comes with updated core components like updated kodi 14, kmod 19, bcm2835 driver, bcm2835 bootloader and kodi pvr addons. This release also includes updated Linux Kernel 3.17.3 and updated dbus 1.8.10.

The main highlighted feature of OpenELEC 5.0 Beta 3 release is switching from XBMC to Kodi brand. Both project teams worked on it simultaneously, so that the functionality and interface of this release will remain same and user might not confuse about XBMC and Kodi media center. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

Among other changes, this release includes updated Linux Kernel version from 3.16 to 3.17 along with switching from OpenSSL to LibreSSL because LibreSSL package includes better licensing and allows OpenELEC to be simplified by removing support for other cryptographic libraries such as GnuTLS. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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OpenELEC development team officially announces the release of OpenELEC 5.0 RC2 which is the second release candidate for upcoming stable OpenELEC 5.0. Well as you know that OpenELEC 5.0 is based on OpenELEC 4.97.2 which is also known as test release for upcoming stable one.

According to official announcement, OpenELEC 5.0 RC2 comes with updated packages like kodi 14, kodi pvr addons, sqlite-autoconf, wlan-firmware 0.0.27, linux 3.17.6, freetype 2.5.4, dvd-firmware 0.0.47, misc-firmware 0.0.13, Mesa 10.3.5, libtool 2.4.4, ffmpeg 2.4.4, kodi-audioencoder-vorbis and also adds PR5805, new package 'keyutils' and new package 'iwlwifi-firmware'. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

Every update of OpenELEC 5.0 comes with updated Kernel version and Kodi version. We all know that OpenELEC is based on XBMC Media Center is specifically designed as an entertainment distro. According to announcement, this might be the last last release candidate before the final release of OpenELEC 5.0. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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OpenELEC development team officially announces the release of OpenELEC 4.2 Beta 3 with new features and minor bug fixes. As you can see that this is a beta release which contains bug fixes and is available for testing purposes only. The OpenELEC 4.2 will be the next stable release which will be the successor of OpenELEC 4.0 distro.

According to official announcement, OpenELEC 4.2 Beta 3 comes with bug fixes, security fixes and improvements since OpenELEC 4.1.2 release. This release includes several bug fixes which were reported since OpenELEC 4.1.2 release and also includes updated packages like XBMC Gotham 13.2 beta 3, FFmpeg 2.3.1, Linux Kernel 3.16 and Mesa 10.2.5. The team has also updated the Raspberry Pi firmware to include last fixes and new features. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

OpenELEC 4.1 and 4.2 is now based on Linux Kernel 3.16, Mesa 10.2 and Xorg 1.16. Other updates applications of OpenELEC 4.2 Beta 2 includes updated NVIDIA 340.x, systemd-215, connman-1.24 and XBMC Gotham 13.2. The team also switched their libc from eglibc to glibc. They have also provided support for nss-mdns, support to perform filesystem checks on every boot for our both default system partitions. The FFmpeg 2.3 now supports H.265 format. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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OpenELEC and XBMC development team officially announces the release of OpenELEC 5.0 Beta 1 with new features under 5.0 series. This release also known as OpenELEC 4.95.1 which comes under OpenELEC 4.95 release series which is specifically designed as test releases for upcoming OpenELEC 5.0 release.

According to official announcement, OpenELEC 5.0 Beta 1 comes with updated Linux Kernel 3.17 series, switch from OpenSSL to LibreSSL following the heartbleed disclosure. The LibreSSL package includes better licensing and allows OpenELEC to be simplified by removing support for other cryptographic libraries such as GnuTLS. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

The main highlighted feature of OpenELEC 5.0 Beta 1 is the big switch from XBMC to Kodi branding. Well both project teams already conducted a major find/replace trial which illustrated newly added or removed features from this release. The name change affects more than the GUI; all references in code have been changed and in the OpenELEC filesystem /storage/.xbmc will be recreated as a symlink to /storage/.kodi to ensure hardcoded paths in addons or scripts continue to work. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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XBMC and OpenELEC development team officially announces the release of OpenELEC 4.1.6 which is also known as OpenELEC 4.2 Beta 6 with new improvements and fixes. As you know that OpenELEC 4.1 series is bascially a test series for upcoming OpenELEC 4.2 stable distro after release of previous stable OpenELEC 4.0 version.

According to official announcement, OpenELEC 4.2 Beta 6 comes with few bug fixes, security fixes and minor improvements since the release of last OpenELEC 4.2 Beta 5 version. Apart from fixes, this beta release includes updated Mesa 10.3-rc3, llvm 3.5.0 and Linux Kernel 3.16.2. The team also fixes a crash in OpenELEC installer when pairing a PS3 remote.

This release also updates the RaspberryPi firmware which includes last fixes and new features. It also includes addition of STK1160 framegrabber, CH341 USB-serial support along with PSTATE CPU scaling driver for Intel Systems. For RaspberryPi users, this beta release comes with new MMC/SDCard driver which is running as default from this release on wards. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

The MMC/SDCard Driver is acting like default sdcard driver. It should avoid some of the issues of the old driver like polling with intrrupts disabled and could improve performance and avoid interfering with other drivers. You can easily disable this new driver by adding bcm2708.bcm2835_mmc=0 to cmdline.txt file. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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