Versie 3.1.6 van het Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center is uitgekomen, een testversie uit de 3.2-serie. Deze Linux-distributie is gebaseerd op XBMC Media Center en kan een computer tot een volwaardige htpc omtoveren. OpenELEC is eenvoudig te installeren, onderhouden en gebruiken, en is verder klein en razendsnel. Naast de standaarddownload zijn er speciale versies voor AMD's Fusion- en Nvidia's ION-platform, Apple TV, Xtreamer Ultra en Raspberry Pi. Het changelog voor versie 3.1.6 laat de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringenn zien:
The OpenELEC team is proud to release OpenELEC 3.1.6
This release 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: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.
- 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
