OpenELEC is an embedded distribution of Kodi (XBMC) designed for home theatre PCs and they have just released the 4th beta OpenELEC 5.0. Kodi the new name for XBMC has a new official logo announced yesterday and we should see the logo in the new builds of the system soon.

OpenELEC Beta 4 includes the latest build of Kodi and the following changes:

Updated core Components (summary) since OpenELEC 4.95.3

update to kodi-14-23c389a

update to Mesa-10.3.4

update to linux-3.17.4

update to v4l-utils-1.6.2

update to bluez-5.25

update to OpenELEC-settings-0.5.4

update to sqlite-autoconf-3080702

projects/RPi/patches/kodi: update RPi support patch

projects/imx6/kodi: use default DR setup

projects/imx6/patches/linux: add upstream patches

linux: Fix kfree of unitialized ptr – thx to Adam Williamson

projects/imx6/linux: add coherent_pool to kernel config

projects/imx6/linux: Add coherent_pool=1M to boot options – fixes some dvb cards

kodi: remove patches no longer required

linux: add upstream patch to fix rc-core toggle behavior

projects/imx6/linux: fix #3628 with enabling CONFIG_REGULATOR_FIXED_VOLTAGE

For a full changelog on what’s new, follow the link below:
https://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv/compare/4.95.3…4.95.4

Via OpenELEC.tv

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