OpenELEC 5.0 / Beta 4 released

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OpenELEC 5.0 Beta 4 released
November 24, 2014 - News by Ian Dixon

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