De mensen achter het Libre Embedded Linux Entertainment Center zijn bezig met de ontwikkeling van versie 8.0 van LibreELEC en hebben nu een vroege testversie uitgebracht. LibreELEC is ontstaan nadat een groot aantal ontwikkelaars bij OpenELEC wegens onenigheid vertrokken is en voor zichzelf zijn begonnen. Deze Linux-distributie is gebaseerd op Kodi en kan een computer tot een volwaardige htpc omtoveren. Versie 8.0 van LibreELEC gebruikt Kodi versie 17 als basis, die op dit moment zelf op bèta 6 zit. De release notes voor deze uitgave kunnen hieronder worden gevonden.
LibreELEC (Krypton) v7.90.009 ALPHA
LibreELEC (Krypton) 8.0 preview builds continue with v7.90.009 containing Kodi v17.0-beta6 with a major “look and feel” overhaul to Estuary, the new default Krypton skin. The revised version known as Estuary v2 has more visual depth (is not as flat in appearance) and should be less of a visual shock for users making the switch from Kodi Jarvis/Confluence. Favourites have now been promoted to a main menu item and fanart is more visible than Estuary v1 when browsing in library views. We think it looks great and offer our congratulations! to the Kodi skinning team. Kodi v17-beta6 also refreshes the Kodi web interface with the new Chorus 2 web skin (also a huge improvement) and includes a number of sync and timing enhancements for Amlogic devices that should provide more stable playback with interlaced and live-streamed media formats.
Changes in v7.90.009 include:View detailed changes on GitHub
- Fix tar unpack issues in busybox
- Fix WeTek Play 2 recovery image to resolve Android reinstall issues
- Fix memory leak issues with libass (update to 0.13.4)
- Fix alsa IEC958 (S/PDIF) presentation of Hifiberry Digi devices
- Fix temperature sensor support in WeTek Hub and WeTek Play 2
- Fix samba disk size/allocation reporting on Windows 8.x+
- Update to libCEC 4.0
- Update to LibreSSL v2.4.4
- Update Intel GPU driver to v1.7.8
- Update Intel iwlwifi-firmware drivers
- Update DVB drivers for WeTek Play 2
- Update to Linux 4.8.12 kernel for Generic and Raspberry Pi
- Update to Linux support patches for Raspberry Pi
- Updates to Linux 3.14 kernel for Amlogic aarch64 projects
- Update to LibreELEC settings 0.8.5
- Update to Kodi v17-beta6 including Estuary v2 and Chorus v2
- Change WeTek hub to use lirc instead of amremote
- Add additional devices ID’s to Realtek RTL8812AU driver
- Add kernel support for Docker on Amlogic aarch64 devices
