So, here we are, back in the roo atm after a day of sidebar meetings, coding, hacking, experimenting, and general conferencing. Time for some more structured sessions, starting with some of our partner projects.
Chewitt started us off with an overview of LibreELEC: hardware updates and changes, new chip set support, some challenges with older SoCs, plans for standardising e.g. kernel trees more, and so on. He also covered topics such as the challenges around supporting set-top box DVB tuners, p
Announcing the release of Kodi 22 “Piers” Alpha 3!
Usual words - the step from 21 to 22 is a major release, but it’s also an Alpha at this stage, so you’re going to get some bugs as well as funky new features. That is, of course, a major part of the point of early release software: please raise Github issues with full debug logs to help us resolve any regressions you wonderful testers come across.
Okay, what’s new in this version?
Changelog
Release highlights
Video
Audio
Subtitles
Library
Games
Streaming and network
Stacks and compressed archives
Profiles
Platforms
Android
webOS Video
webOS Audio
Windows
Linux
FreeBSD
A little love for developers and security researchers
Known Issues
Builds
If cutting-edge software is your thing, you can get Alpha 3 from here. Select your platform of choice, and look in the “Prerelease” section. Again, though, please: expect some breakage, don’t use this as your daily installation unless you know how to get things working again, and please share your experiences back with us so we can really get going on those bugs. And take a backup first!
As usual, in the full spirit of open source, you can see what’s changed since Alpha 2 here and from v21.3 here.
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