The OpenELEC team is proud to announce OpenELEC 5.0.6.
OpenELEC-5.0 is the next stable release, which is a feature release and the successor of OpenELEC-4.2.
The headline change is the update from XBMC 13 (Gotham) to Kodi 14.2 (Helix) and the big switch from XBMC to Kodi branding. Both project teams have conducted a major find/replace but if you spot residual mentions of XBMC anywhere please let us know. 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. For information on Kodi 14 you can find on http://kodi.tv/kodi-14-0-helix-unwinds/.
Due to the potential for typo-bugs and breakage from Kodi renaming YOU ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO MAKE A FULL BACKUP before performing a manual update and perform a “Reset System Settings to defaults (Soft Reset)” after the update if you update directly from OpenELEC-4.x or earlier.
Please note many addons and skins remain to be ported by their developers. This is out with our control an until this happens they will either not work or be marked as broken by Kodi. If an addon or skin is essential to you please confirm with its developer prior to upgrade if it is compatible with Kodi (Helix).
Other notable “under the hood” changes include a version bump from v3.16 to v3.17 Linux kernel, and a switch from OpenSSL to LibreSSL following the heartbleed disclosure. TheLibreSSL package includes better licensing and allows OpenELEC to be simplified by removing support for other cryptographic libraries such as GnuTLS.
Updated core Components (summary) since OpenELEC 5.0.5
- update to kodi-14-e7ba06f
- update to bcm2835-driver-f1b6b1c
- update to bcm2835-bootloader-f1b6b1c
- update to linux-3.18.9 for RPi2
- update to kmod-20
- update to libvorbis-1.3.5
- update to xz-5.2.1
- update to sqlite-autoconf-3080803
- update to libgcrypt-1.6.3
- update to alsa-utils-1.0.29
- update to alsa-lib-1.0.29
- projects/RPi*/patches/kodi: update RPi support patch
- projects/RPi2/patches/linux: update RPi2 support patch
- linux: Enable all buttons on the TiVo Slide Pro remote.
- linux: Use legacy turbo (fixes BYT full freeze)
- projects/imx6/linux: Changed the kernel of the project IMX6 to include PCI and IWLWIFI support. Additionally added the iwlwifi-firmware to the options of the project IMX6.
- libva: x11: dri2: fix double Unlocks/SyncHandle
- linux: fix CT2-4400v2 clock
- RPi2: add CONFIG_DVB_SP2
For a full changelog on what's new, follow the link below:
https://github.com/OpenELEC/Op….tv/compare/5.0.5...5.0.6
