Pages

Thursday, November 19, 2015

OpenELEC 5.0 Beta 3 released with Updated Kernel & Support for Kodi

OpenELEC 5.0 Beta 3 released with Updated Kernel & Switches XBMC to Kodi

OpenELEC development team officially announces the release of OpenELEC 5.0 Beta 3 which is the third maintenance release under 5.x series. This release is also known as OpenELEC 4.95.3 as you know that OpenELEC 4.95 branch act as test releases for upcoming stable OpenELEC 5.0 version.

According to official announcement, OpenELEC 5.0 Beta 3 comes with updated core components like updated kodi 14, kmod 19, bcm2835 driver, bcm2835 bootloader and kodi pvr addons. This release also includes updated Linux Kernel 3.17.3 and updated dbus 1.8.10.

The main highlighted feature of OpenELEC 5.0 Beta 3 release is switching from XBMC to Kodi brand. Both project teams worked on it simultaneously, so that the functionality and interface of this release will remain same and user might not confuse about XBMC and Kodi media center. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

Among other changes, this release includes updated Linux Kernel version from 3.16 to 3.17 along with switching from OpenSSL to LibreSSL because LibreSSL package includes better licensing and allows OpenELEC to be simplified by removing support for other cryptographic libraries such as GnuTLS. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

Keep reading and stay tuned with us to get latest software updates. Don't forget to subscribe us and share your reviews about this post among other readers via comments.

No comments:

Post a Comment