Download XBMC Media Center 11.0 RC1

After three beta releases, it is now the turn of the first release candidate of version 11.0 of XBMC Media Center. This cross-platform media center software is developed for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and the first generation Apple TV. The port for the original Xbox will be not anymore maintained by this team. Version 11.0, codenamed Eden, contains a large number of changes. For example, plug-in installations can be rolled back, various improvements have been made to the Confluence skin, there are significant performance improvements and there is support for more protocols and hardware. The announcement of this release looks like this:

BMC 11 Eden: RC1

We are excited to announce Eden Release Candidate 1. It has been a productive few weeks since Beta 3, as we’ve ironed out numerous minor (and one or two major) bugs.

In particular, we’ve:

• Given preference to external subtitles over internal subtitles
• Updated a number of XBMC translations for final release
• Resolved a number of outstanding Airplay issues
• Allowed specified movie sets to be sorted by title, rather than year, without changing the default sort order on other sets.

We’ve also added the useful feature of IP weather look up. Now, on a clean install of XBMC, users will no longer need to manually enter their weather location. Instead, XBMC will simply check the IP location of your box and auto-set the weather.

For a complete rundown on changes made since February 9th, feel free to visit here†

One additional note: The new release of XBMCbuntu is currently delayed due to packaging issues. We will update this post with new info when it’s ready.