Download OpenELEC 4.2 beta 4

Development of version 4.2 of the Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center has entered its fourth beta. This Linux distribution is based on XBMC Media Center and can turn a computer into a full-fledged HTPC. OpenELEC is easy to install, maintain and use, as well as being small and lightning fast. Version 4.2 runs on Linux kernel 3.15, Mesa-10.2, and Xorg-1.16, and includes newer Nvidia drivers. XBMC Gotham 13.2 RC 1 is used as a base. The main changes in this version, internally referred to as 4.1.4, are as follows:

OpenELEC 4.2 Beta 4 released

This release includes some bug fixes, security fixes and improvements since OpenELEC-4.1.3. Besides the usual bug fixes and package updates we updated XBMC to XBMC Gotham 13.2 RC1, FFmpeg to ffmpeg-2.3.2, kernel to linux-3.16.1 and OpenSSL to OpenSSL-1.0.1i. We fixed crashes with LiveTV introduced in 4.1.3, added fixes for iMON and Xpad Controllers and remotes, added support for DVBSky s950v3 and s952v3 DVB hardware and updated the RaspberryPi firmware to include the last fixes and features.

Updated core Components (summary)

• update to bcm2835-bootloader-43c5b2f
• update to bcm2835-driver-43c5b2f
• update to xbmc-13-f2ddaae
• update to linux-3.16.1
• update to ffmpeg-2.3.2
• update to ppp-2.4.7
• update to cmake-3.0.1
• update to openssl-1.0.1i
• xbmc: update FM support patch
• projects/RPi/patches/linux: update RPi support patch
• projects/RPi/linux: enable optional MMC_BCM2835 and MMC_BCM2835_DMA driver
• pciutils: update pci.ids
• usbutils: update usb.ids
• linux: Ignore diagonals for iMON PAD in keyboard mode
• linux: add support for dvbsky s950v3 / s952v3
• linux: Created a patch from the work Valve did on the xpad kernel driver.
• libva-intel-driver: add FD82466 patch
• hdparm: use hdparm to set speedcontrol

For a full changelog on what’s new, follow this link.