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The OpenELEC team are getting closer to the finished version of OpenELEC 2.0 with the issue of Release Candidate 2 of the embedded Linux based XBMC platform. This build fixes problems with the auto-updator, fixe Airplay and CES issues. OpenELEC 2.0 includes lots of new features since 1.0 like PVR support, CES support and the latest version of XBMC.

You can read the details and get the download from the OpenELEC site.

The OpenELEC team is proud to release the second release candidate of OpenELEC 2.0!

Internally this is known by the less-catchy name OpenELEC 1.99.2 🙂 and we really hope again its one of the latest prereleases before our OpenELEC 2.0 final.

Our first Release Candidate showed us an issue with our Autoupdater which should be solved now. This new Release Candidate also fixes issues with Airplay support, RTMP support, CEC support and updates and fixes VDPAU and XVBA support.

Starting with RC1 we switched to PVR builds. Users who are switching from a older non PVR build to our new builds must start with a fresh XBMC config. You can do this via ssh (putty).
To backup your old config:
cp -R /storage/.xbmc /storage/.xbmc.bk
To remove the old config (XBMC must be configured from scratch, including any addons/databases)
rm -rf /storage/.xbmc
Because we have included the AMD legacy driver in our Generic builds with Beta 6 its needed for all users of this builds to check the partition size of the first partition. This builds are now around 165MB. You can do this via ssh (putty):
df -h /flash
Starting with Beta 4 we also checked for corrupt update files before upgrading commences. On very rare occasions the download of our updates were incomplete and caused the system to fail after reboot. As our user base grows, rarer problems such as this one will emerge and be dealt with in a similar manner. This change will reduce the number of upgrades problems.

To manually update the procedure is the same as before however you must also copy KERNEL.md5 and SYSTEM.md5 to the update folder/share together with KERNEL and SYSTEM.

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