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OpenELEC development team officially announces the release of third release candidate of OpenELEC 5.0 with minor updates and fixes. As you know that this is the maintenance release, also known as OpenELEC 4.97.3 which is the base for the upcoming OpenELEC 5.0 stable release.

According to official announcement, OpenELEC 5.0 RC3 comes with updated core components including updated OpenELEC settings 0.5.7, kodi 14-8, vdpauinfo 0.9, boost 1_57_0, libvdpau 0.9, xorg-server 1.16.3, ethtool 3.18, rpcbind 0.2.2, dbus 1.8.12, dosfstools 3.0.27, linux kernel 3.17.7, connman 1.27, and kodi-pvr-addons.

From previous version, OpenELEC 5.0 already renamed its brand from XBMC to Kodi brand. The renaming of XBMC brand to Kodi brand affects more than the GUI where as all references in code have been changed and in the OpenELEC filesystem /storage/.xbmc will be recreated as a symlink to /storage/.kodi to ensure hardcoded paths in addons or scripts continue to work. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

Apart from package updates, this release also includes patch in kodi to disable unsupported powerfunctions for iMX6 builds, fixup reboot issue in imx6, port fixes for gpu hang to 3.17 in Kernel, util-linux now specify more configure options, build with losetup and libsmartcol support. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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