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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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XBMC and Kodi project developers officially announces that first beta version of Kodi 14.0 codenamed "Helix" soon going to available for download. Since the previous fourth alpha release of Kodi 14.0 "Helix" the developers consistently making some changes and improvements before the final beta released. The developers already freezes the features of beta release but they still find something important which they want to introduce in this release.

According to official announcement, the first beta release of Kodi 14.0 "Helix" comes with support for Localised keyboard along with faster channel switching for PVR. The Kodi 14.0 Beta for Windows also receives DXVA-HQ scaling for videos. Well this feature might cause some issues for certain video cards, so for better safety you could enable this via advancedsettings.xml file.

The Kodi 14.0 "Helix" beta release also includes addition of MMAL decoder and MMAL renderer for Raspberry Pi along with Raspberry Pi audio resampling which supports high quality re-sampling, format conversation and up/down mixing. Some of the improvements are made in file handling system which mainly done for better stability and possible error handling.

Among other features, this beta release of Kodi 14.0 also includes dolby atmos surround sound, extends JSON-RPC, update Windows power management functions and fixes iOS 8 runtime issues. This release also includes several bug fixes like fixed T9/SMS text input, fixed non loading of external subtitles for ISO files and BluRay directories and fix for importing some add-on modules that depended on other modules. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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XBMC developers officially announces the final release of XBMC 13.2 "Gotham" with new changes and several bug fixes which were reported in previous beta releases. According to development team, this is the last version under 13.2 "Gotham" and the team is planning to renaming the XBMC to "Kodi" codename. This final release of XBMC 13.2 "Gotham" comes after three beta and one release candidate and includes fixes of previous beta releases.

According to official announcement, XBMC 13.2 "Gotham" comes with fixed audio problems with pass-through on OS X and fixed crash in Android when entering programs menu in some skins. It includes bitstream conversion fix for some BD mkv iso rips and fixes some disappearing characters on Mac OS X. This release doesn't show show OSD menu DVD menu with mouse/touch and fixes FTP TLS which was not working. Also, Download XBMC 13.2 "Gotham" for your favorite Linux Distros.

Other major bug fixes which are included in XBMC 13.2 final release are fix wrong sample-rate selection on OS X, fix optical usb devices with > 2 channels on OS X, fix firewall popups in OS X on start up, fix overlapping subtitles, fix accented letters. Among other updates, it includes updated GUI translations and updated included add-ons. 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 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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The developers of Kodi project officially announces the release of fourth alpha release of Kodi 14.0 codenamed "Helix" with a focus on stability and user friendliness. Well according to changelog, around 117 changes are made in this alpha release. As you know that Kodi project is maintained by XBMC developers.

According to official announcement, Kodi 14.0 "Helix" Alpha 4 comes with two major new changes which includes replace Touch skin with re-Touched along with moving userdata for Windows users. The re-Touched skin only affects iOS and Android enabled devices. The re-Touched skin is slightly redesigned Touch skin with different home screen layout and various tweaks in few areas.

This alpha also includes some code changes because of name changes in some places. Due to this your personal userdata folder will be moved to a new location. This will either be done at install time or initial run. This just means the location of the files that hold your library and settings will be moved. No data will be lost during this transition. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

Among other changes, Kodi 14.0 "Helix" Alpha 4 includes support for sub-channels in PVR, update sqlite which brings some improved library speed, add support for DSD audio, add mouse support in Bluray menus, add support for EGL/GLESv2 when using x11, 4K playback on Android using AMLcodec and support for Freescale i.MX6 SystemOnChip. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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XBMC developers officially announces the release of XBMC 13.2 "Gotham" Beta 3 with new changes and minor bug fixes. Last month, XBMC already released stable XBMC 13.1 "Gotham" and now beta series of XBMC 13.2 is in development phase. This beta release primarily includes fixes which were reported since XBMC 13.1 stable release.

According to official announcement, XBMC 13.2 "Gotham" Beta 3 comes with fixed audio problems with pass-through on OS X. This release crashes on Android if an app is favourite, then uninstalled from system. It also includes bitstream conversation fix for some BD mkv iso rips and fixes the crash in Android when entering programs menu in some skins.

As you know that XBMC 13.2 Beta 2 also fixes such as fix FTP TLS not working, fix some disappearing characters on Mac OS X, fix labelcontrols with audiowidth set were always marked as dirty and update included PVR add-on. As this release only includes fixes then you can upgrade your existing 13.1 or 13.0 to this release because it won't effect your existing XBMC version. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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XBMC and Kodi developers officially announces the release of first release candidate of Kodi 14.0 Helix. As you now that this is a release candidate and only available for testing purposes. The team is also planning to changing the name of XBMC to Kodi soon. XBMC 13 was the last media center and Kodi will be the new incarnation of earlier XBMC with new features and advanced functionalities.

According to official announcement, Kodi 14.0 Media Center comes with updated FFmpeg 2.4.3 which allows its users to play H.265 and VP9 video codecs. The support for FFmpeg results in dramatically smaller video files sizes with exactly the same level of quality. This compression actually results in reducing the size in almost half its original size like 40GB file could be compressed to 20GB file.

The compression feature of Kodi 14.0 might entice to those who appreciate to reduce the file size in almost half of its original size. It also includes software support for VP9 video codecs. The library of Kodi is improved a bit both in and out. The inside library scanning receives massive speed boost which make the initial scan on Android and iOS devices quite a but more spiritedly.

The output side includes work on UPnP. This release is more compatible with servers like PlayOn and MediaBrowser. The communication between Kodi UPnP clients and UPnP servers is also enhanced with additional support for categories like date added, ratings, votes and artwork along with sorting option. You can also download Kodi 14.0 RC for your Linux Distros.

Kodi 14.0 release candidate also receives two new features which allows its users to have more grasp on its control. First one is that the users can now prevent add-ons from updating without a forced update and prevent add-on update notifications. Second one is that its now possible to change the layout to variety of other language options. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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