As most of you will have noticed, the last few months have been a little tough on the OpenELEC.tv site. In particular, towards the end of December we were seeing outages several times a day.
This was incredibly frustrating for us, and not the kind
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of user experience we aim to provide. So, sorry for any frustration and inconvenience this may have caused you all.
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The OpenELEC Team want to wish all of our users, Team XBMC, supporting manufacturers and developers a warm, lovely, healthy and joyful Christmas and that you will enjoy OpenELEC in the most useful way these days.
We would like to thank our users
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, project team and partners for their efforts in testing, reporting and fixing issues, adding features, creating how-to documents, and donations of hardware and funds to the project. We hugely appreciate your continued support!
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OpenELEC 3.2.4 is a bugfix and maintenance release for our OpenELEC 3.2 series and is recommended for all new installations or as an update for all previous versions. Systems running OpenELEC 3.1.x and 3.2.x will automatically update to 3.2.4 if
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auto-update is enabled. Users who are still running OpenELEC 1.0-3.0 are encouraged to manually update to enjoy the many new features. We would like to thank our users, project team and partners for their efforts in testing, reporting and fixing issues, adding features, creating how-to documents, and donations of hardware and funds to the project. We hugely appreciate your continued support!
This release contains our usual updates, bugfixes and improvenments.
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OpenELEC 3.2.3 is a bugfix and maintenance release for our OpenELEC 3.2 series and is recommended for all new installations or as an update for all previous versions. Systems running OpenELEC 3.1.x and 3.2.x will automatically update to 3.2.3 if
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auto-update is enabled. Users who are still running OpenELEC 1.0-3.0 are encouraged to manually update to enjoy the many new features. We would like to thank our users, project team and partners for their efforts in testing, reporting and fixing issues, adding features, creating how-to documents, and donations of hardware and funds to the project. We hugely appreciate your continued support!
With this release we added PS3 remote suspend support, fixing some PS3 remote keymappings, adding initial HD Audio support for AMD GPUs, various RPi improvenments and fixes, adding support for some more WLAN USB devices and Sound Cards and our usual updates, bugfixes and improvenments.
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OpenELEC 3.2.2 is a bugfix and maintenance release for our OpenELEC 3.2 series and is recommended for all new installations or as an update for all previous versions. Systems running OpenELEC 3.1.x and 3.2.x will automatically update to 3.2.2 if
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auto-update is enabled. Users who are still running OpenELEC 1.0-3.0 are encouraged to manually update to enjoy the many new features. We would like to thank our users, project team and partners for their efforts in testing, reporting and fixing issues, adding features, creating how-to documents, and donations of hardware and funds to the project. We hugely appreciate your continued support!
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OpenELEC 3.2.1 is the first bugfix and maintenance release for OpenELEC 3.2.0 and is recommended for all new installations or as an update for all previous versions. Systems running OpenELEC 3.1.x and 3.2.0 will automatically update to 3.2.1 if
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auto-update is enabled. Users who are still running OpenELEC 1.0-3.0 are encouraged to manually update to enjoy the many new features. We would like to thank our users, project team and partners for their efforts in testing, reporting and fixing issues, adding features, creating how-to documents, and donations of hardware and funds to the project. We hugely appreciate your continued support!
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OpenELEC 3.2 is the first stable release following OpenELEC 3.0 and is recommended for all new installations. Systems running OpenELEC 3.0 and 3.1 will automatically update to 3.2 if auto-update is enabled. Users who are still running OpenELEC 1.0 or
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2.0 are encouraged to manually update to enjoy the many new features. We would like to thank our users, project team and partners for their efforts in testing, reporting and fixing issues, adding features, creating how-to documents, and donations of hardware and funds to the project. We hugely appreciate your continued support!
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Whats new in OpenELEC 3.2?
Like OpenELEC 3.0, the 3.2 release is based upon XBMC Frodo (12.x) but “under the hood” it includes many notable changes:
Many feature enhancements and bugfixes to XBMC Frodo; including a number of backports from Gotham and speed improvements for RaspberryPi users
Linux kernel 3.10, bringing many new and updated drivers and improvements
Mesa-9.2
ALSA 1.0.27 (thanks to Anssi Hannula for various fixes and improvements)
Updated graphic drivers from AMD, Intel and nVidia
Updated and improved pi firmware (thanks to Dom Cobley)
Updated drivers and driver firmware
Updated XVBA, VDPAU and VAAPI libraries
Intel VPP (Video Post Processing API) support by Timo Rothenpieler (thanks also to various Intel developers like Haihao Xiang)
Support for many more remotes and keymaps
Initial PPTP and OpenVPN support (via connman)
Wireless tethering support (on WLAN cards that support it)
Completely reworked networking
Completely reworked bluetooth with support for more remotes
Added support for bluetooth keyboards and file transfers
Boot speed improvements for all platforms (particularly Raspberry pi)
Many bugfixes and package updates
OpenELEC has been working closely with several AMD engineers and our special thanks go out to Jamy and Sabre for their constant support and attentive listening. You may have spotted this on the changelog for the 13.6 fglrx driver:
[377379] Fix the regression of performance drop with XBMC for UVD playback, which was the direct outcome of their constructive work. Thanks also to Peter Frühberger (fritsch) and Rainer Hochecker (FernetMenta) for their work.
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Did we mention our new settings addon?
The most visible change in OpenELEC 3.2 is our new settings addon. It’s a huge improvement where changes are effected immediately without needing a reboot, and short descriptions of each and every function to make it easier to comprehend. Thanks to lufie, seo, chewitt and vpeter from the project team, and the many others who helped with developing, translating and testing the addon. We also send a special ‘thank you’ to the connman developers for their patient help and guidance during its creation.The new addon does not migrate settings from OpenELEC 3.0 or older installs so the first time you boot OpenELEC 3.2 a first-run wizard will ensure you configure essentials like keyboard language, hostname, networking, and startup of SSH and samba services.NB: OpenELEC is used by people from around the world so the new settings addon needs to be translated into as many languages as possible. If your native language is not currently supported it would be awesome if you can help us out with the words. To contribute a new translation or corrections to an existing one; please use this link to visit the transifex site and get started.
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New and dropped builds:
To simplify the number of OpenELEC 3.2 builds available we have discontinuted the ION 32-bit, Intel 32-bit, and ‘Ultra’ builds for Xtreamer users. If you are using one of these builds the correct migration path to follow is:
ION i386 (with 32-bit capable hardware) => Generic i386
ION i386 (with 64-bit capable hardware) => ION x86_64
Intel i386 (with 32-bit capable hardware) => Generic i386
Intel i386 (with 64-bit capable hardware) => Intel x86_64
Xtreamer Ultra 1 / Xtreamer Ultra 2 => ION x86_64
Starting with OpenELEC 3.2 we have added a Generic 64-bit release as a “catch-all” for recent 64-bit hardware. You can find all OpenELEC 3.2 releases on the downloads page. Please ask any questions in our forums! [Less]
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The OpenELEC team is proud to release OpenELEC 3.1.7The OpenELEC 3.1 release series are test releases (beta) for OpenELEC-3.2.OpenELEC-3.2 will be the next stable release, which is a feature release and the successor of OpenELEC-3.0.
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includes some bugfixes and improvements. Besides the usual bugfixes and package updates we also added some more backports from XBMC Gotham for RaspberryPi (again many thanks to 'Popcornmix for the help and support here) as well as "Dual Audio output" for RaspberryPi.
We also fixed the broken Installer, heating issues on some Intel based systems, harddisk and optical disk detection and mount (which should solve issues with mounting/using Bluray disks too) .
You should only upgrade from OpenELEC-3.0 to OpenELEC 3.1.7 for testing purposes.
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The OpenELEC team is proud to release OpenELEC 3.1.6The OpenELEC 3.1 release series are test releases (beta) for OpenELEC-3.2.OpenELEC-3.2 will be the next stable release, which is a feature release and the successor of OpenELEC-3.0.
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has some bugfixes and speed improvements. Besides the usual bugfixes and package updates we also added some more backports from XBMC Gotham for RaspberryPi (again many thanks to 'Popcornmix for the help and support here).
We found two issues which has slowed down our boot time drastically in the last few years and fixed this. RaspberryPi Users and users with slow systems should especially notice a speedup on boot (up to 15-20sec on RPi!).
We also included patches for
Speedup fanart and thumbnails loading
Network caching
GUI optimizations (on RPi showing the Systeminfo output should have much lower CPU usage now)
Avahi/Zeroconf bugfixes and improvements
Samba bugfixes and improvements
As a little bonus we added OBEX support in our builds (which can be enabled in our settings addon under "services" which provides filetransfer via bluetooth from any smartphone/bluetooth device to your OpenELEC box.
You should only upgrade from OpenELEC-3.0 to OpenELEC 3.1.6 for testing purposes.
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The OpenELEC team is proud to release OpenELEC 3.1.5The OpenELEC 3.1 release series are test releases (beta) for OpenELEC-3.2.OpenELEC-3.2 will be the next stable release, which is a feature release and the successor of OpenELEC-3.0.
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fixes a serious issue introduced in OpenELEC-3.1.4 where SQL and library mode operations was broken.
You should only upgrade from OpenELEC-3.0 to OpenELEC 3.1.5 for testing purposes.
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