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OpenELEC development team finally announces the release stable OpenELEC 4.2.0 with new features. Well this is the next stable release after previous OpenELEC 4.0 series. After releasing lot of beta releases, finally OpenELEC 4.2.0 is available for download with new features. As you all know that OpenELEC is another distro which is specifically designed for home theater PCs and based on XBMC media player.

According to official announcement, OpenELEC 4.2.0 is based on Linux Kernel 3.16, Mesa 10.3, llvm 3.5 and Xorg 1.16. The developers alsos updated the NVIDIA Graphics drivers in the 64-bit image to 340.x along with systemd to systemd 216, connectionmanager to connman 1.25 and XBMC ro XBMC 13.2 "Gotham". They switched their libc from eglibc to glibc and also upgraded to glibc 2.20 and binutils 2.24. You can also download the OpenELEC 4.2.0 for your machine.

The OpenELEC 4.2.0 provides support for nss-mdns, support to perform filesystem checks on every boot for our both default system partitions and ffmpeg 2.4 to their corresponding x86 builds. By switching FFmpeg 2.4 to x86 builds, this release now provides support for H.265 and Dolby Atmos formats. It uses PSTATE CPU scaling driver for Intel Systems and includes drivers for more hardware like DVB devices and WLAN adapters. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

This release also includes new MMC/SDCard driver for Raspberry Pi which now act as default sdcard driver. This driver avoid some of the issues of the old driver such as polling with interrupts disabled and could improve performance and avoid interfering with other drivers. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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