OpenELEC - Media Center Operating System

The OpenELEC team is proud to announce OpenELEC 4.1.3. The OpenELEC 4.1 release series are test releases (beta) for OpenELEC-4.2.OpenELEC-4.2 will be the next stable release, which is a feature release and the successor of OpenELEC-4.0. This ... [More] release includes some bugfixes, security fixes and improvements since OpenELEC-4.1.2. Besides the usual bugfixes and package updates we updated XBMC to XBMC Gotham 13.2 beta 3, FFmpeg to ffmpeg-2.3.1, kernel to linux-3.16 and Mesa to Mesa 10.2.5 . We updated the RaspberryPi firmware to include the last fixes and features. Since OpenELEC 4.0 we have some parts of the underlying OS reworked. OpenELEC 4.1/4.2 is now based on Kernel linux-3.16, Mesa-10.2 and Xorg-1.16. We updated the Nvidia Graphic drivers in the 64-bit image to 340.x (32-bit remains on 304.123), Systemd to systemd-215, our Connectionmanager to connman-1.24 and XBMC to XBMC Gotham 13.2. We switched our libc from eglibc to glibc. We added support for nss-mdns, support to perform filesystem checks on every boot for our both default system partitions and ffmpeg-2.3 to our x86 builds. With switching to ffmpeg-2.3 on our x86 builds we now support h265(HEVC).  You should only upgrade from OpenELEC-4.0 to OpenELEC 4.1.1 for testing purposes. If you are going to update to one of our beta releases, we STRONGLY advise that you make a backup of your XBMC data. [Less]

The OpenELEC team is proud to announce OpenELEC 4.1.2. The OpenELEC 4.1 release series are test releases (beta) for OpenELEC-4.2.OpenELEC-4.2 will be the next stable release, which is a feature release and the successor of OpenELEC-4.0. This ... [More] release includes some bugfixes, security fixes and improvements since OpenELEC-4.1.1. Besides the usual bugfixes and package updates we updated XBMC to XBMC Gotham 13.2 beta 2, FFmpeg to ffmpeg-2.3, kernel to linux-3.15.6, Mesa to Mesa 10.2.4 and Xorg to the final version of xorg-server-1.16.0. We updated the RaspberryPi firmware to include the last fixes and features and fixed some issues with not starting XBMC/Xorg on some AMD hardware. Since OpenELEC 4.0 we have some parts of the underlying OS reworked. OpenELEC 4.1/4.2 is now based on Kernel linux-3.15, Mesa-10.2 and Xorg-1.16. We updated the Nvidia Graphic drivers in the 64-bit image to 340.x (32-bit remains on 304.123), Systemd to systemd-215, our Connectionmanager to connman-1.24 and XBMC to XBMC Gotham 13.2. We switched our libc from eglibc to glibc. We added support for nss-mdns, support to perform filesystem checks on every boot for our both default system partitions and ffmpeg-2.3 to our x86 builds. With switching to ffmpeg-2.3 on our x86 builds we now support h265(HEVC).  You should only upgrade from OpenELEC-4.0 to OpenELEC 4.1.1 for testing purposes. If you are going to update to one of our beta releases, we STRONGLY advise that you make a backup of your XBMC data. [Less]

The OpenELEC team is proud to announce OpenELEC 4.1.1. The OpenELEC 4.1 release series are test releases (beta) for OpenELEC-4.2.OpenELEC-4.2 will be the next stable release, which is a feature release and the successor of OpenELEC-4.0. Since ... [More] OpenELEC 4.0 we have some parts of the underlying OS reworked. OpenELEC 4.1/4.2 is now based on Kernel linux-3.15, Mesa-10.2 and Xorg-1.16. We updated the Nvidia Graphic drivers to 340.x, Systemd to systemd-215, our Connectionmanager to connman-1.24 and XBMC to XBMC Gotham 13.2 (beta1). We switched our libc from eglibc to glibc. We added support for nss-mdns, support to perform filesystem checks on every boot for our both default system partitions and ffmpeg-2.2 to our x86 builds. With switching to ffmpeg-2.2 on our x86 builds we now support h265(HEVC).  You should only upgrade from OpenELEC-4.0 to OpenELEC 4.1.1 for testing purposes. If you are going to update to one of our beta releases, we STRONGLY advise that you make a backup of your XBMC data. [Less]

The OpenELEC team is proud to announce OpenELEC 4.0.7. This release includes some bugfixes, security fixes and improvements since OpenELEC-4.0.6 . Besides the usual bugfixes and package updates we fixed some security issues found the last ... [More] days/weeks, fixed the issue with low volume on some systems after the alsa update in 4.0.6, updated Kernel to 3.14.11 and updated the RaspberryPi firmware to include the last fixes and features.OpenELEC-4.0.7 is now the next stable release, which is a bugfix and securityfix release of the OpenELEC-4.0 series. [Less]

The OpenELEC team is proud to announce OpenELEC 4.0.6. This release includes some bugfixes, security fixes and improvements since OpenELEC-4.0.5 . Besides the usual bugfixes and package updates we fixed boot issues on some AMD mainboards, added ... [More] support for some more Intel, AR3k and ATH6k Bluetooth and WLAN devices, updated Kernel to 3.14.8 and updated the RaspberryPi firmware to include the last fixes and features.OpenELEC-4.0.6 is now the next stable release, which is a bugfix and securityfix release of the OpenELEC-4.0 series. [Less]

The OpenELEC team is proud to announce OpenELEC 4.0.5. This release includes some bugfixes, security fixes and improvements since OpenELEC-4.0.4 . Besides the usual bugfixes and package updates we updated OpenSSL to fix some security issues, updated ... [More] Kernel to 3.14.7, added support for some more WLAN chipsets and updated the RaspberryPi firmware to include the last fixes and features.OpenELEC-4.0.5 is now the next stable release, which is a bugfix and securityfix release of the OpenELEC-4.0 series. [Less]

The OpenELEC team is proud to announce OpenELEC 4.0.4. This release includes some bugfixes, security fixes and improvements since OpenELEC-4.0.3 . Besides the usual bugfixes and package updates we updated XBMC with the last fixes to XBMC 13.1 ... [More] (final) which contains a lot of fixes for issues found after the XBMC-13.0 release (some of them we already shipped with OpenELEC-4.0.0).We found and fixed with the help of 'popcornmix' some RaspberryPi related issues in kernel, firmware and XBMC code. Many thanks to him for the help!OpenELEC-4.0.4 is now the next stable release, which is a bugfix and securityfix release of the OpenELEC-4.0 series. [Less]

The OpenELEC team is proud to announce OpenELEC 4.0.3. This release includes some bugfixes, security fixes and improvements since OpenELEC-4.0.2 . Besides the usual bugfixes and package updates we updated XBMC with the last fixes to XBMC 13.1 RC1 ... [More] which contains a lot of fixes for issues found after the XBMC-13.0 release (some of them we already shipped with OpenELEC-4.0.0).We fixed some (but not all) suspend/wakeup issues, esp. if you run hardware with Intel e1000e Network chips, improved our soundconfig module to autodetect all installed and supported sounddevices and configure them (instead configuring only the first and second sound devices).We also added support for the XBOX-One Remote. OpenELEC-4.0.3 is now the next stable release, which is a bugfix and securityfix release of the OpenELEC-4.0 series. [Less]

The OpenELEC team is proud to announce OpenELEC 4.0.2. This release includes some bugfixes, security fixes and improvements since OpenELEC-4.0.1 . Besides the usual bugfixes and package updates we updated XBMC with the last fixes to XBMC 13.1 beta2 ... [More] which contains a lot of fixes for issues found after the XBMC-13.0 release (some of them we already shipped with OpenELEC-4.0.0).We readded support for older (legacy) Nvidia GPUs to our Generic-i386 build, and removed old GPU drivers to our Generic-x86_64 build. If you use newer 64bit capable hardware you must switch to our Generic-x86-64 builds now and our Generic-i386 builds will support legacy Hardware only in the future.We added (e-)MMC support to our Generic kernels and our installer so we now support the installation on devices with included eMMC flash storage like Intel NUC DE3815TYKHE and DE3815TYBE. OpenELEC-4.0.2 is now the next stable release, which is a bugfix and securityfix release of the OpenELEC-4.0 series. [Less]

The OpenELEC team is proud to announce OpenELEC 4.0.1. This release includes some bugfixes, security fixes and improvements since OpenELEC-4.0.0 . Besides the usual bugfixes and package updates we updated XBMC with the last fixes to XBMC 13.1 beta1 ... [More] which contains a lot of fixes for issues found after the XBMC-13.0 release (some of them we already shipped with OpenELEC-4.0.0). We included fixes for reported issues like crashing or freeze issues on RaspberryPi and non working calibration setup on RaspberryPi. OpenELEC-4.0.1 is now the next stable release, which is a bugfix and securityfix release of the OpenELEC-4.0 series. [Less]