The OpenELEC team have released the 3rd beta of OpenELEC which is an embedded version of Kodi (XBMC). The biggest change to this release is the inclusion of Kodi 15.0 Isengard Release Candidate 2 (see this post about the RC2 build).

Other changes include the latest ffmpeg (2.6), Mesa (10.6), Xorg-1.17, libva-1.6, Kernel 4.1 (except iMX6 / WeTek_Play platform), systemd (219), Binutils (2.25), Glibc (2.21), libressl (2.1.7) and LLVM-3.6.

You get download the new version from openelec.tv and here are the full list of changes since beta 3:

Updated core Components (summary) since OpenELEC 5.95.2 (6.0 beta 2)

update to dvb-firmware-0.0.48

update to kodi-15.0-rc2-0aa930b

update to bcm2835-bootloader-47d51d6

update to bcm2835-driver-47d51d6

update to mesa-10.6.2

update to gettext-0.19.5

update to linux-4.1.2

update to nano-2.4.2

update to libevdev-1.4.3

update to libshairplay-0f41ade

update to libinput-0.19.0

update to xproto-7.0.28

update to openssh-6.9p1

update to xproto-7.0.28

update to openssh-6.9p1

update to libva-1.6.0

update to libva-intel-driver-1.6.0

update to platform-1.0.10

update to libdrm-2.4.62

update to gcc-4.9.3

update to curl-7.43.0

update to mpfr-3.1.3

update to xorg-server-1.17.2

update to xf86-video-nvidia-352.21

update to RTL8812AU-3f015f0

projects/RPi*/linux: enable CONFIG_BCM_VC_SM, needed to show HW Cursor

projects/RPi2/patches/linux: update RPi support patches

projects/RPi2/patches/kodi: update RPi support patches

projects/imx6/linux: enable CONFIG_SND_SOC_IMX_AC97_VT1613

Fix 16bpp patch which doesn’t use stride consistently – see #4221

kodi: enhance english kb layout a bit.

linux: add patch for Hauppauge HVR-2205/2215/2255 support

linux: fix TechnoTrend S2-4600 DVB-S received

Configure RPi/RPi2 platform with optimal CPU and IO settings

projects/WeTek_Play/initramfs: Init framebuffer according to HDMI resolution from kernel command line

projects/WeTek_Play/patches/kodi: Make ugly IEC958 workaround less ulgy

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