LibreELEC
LibreELEC (short for Libre Embedded Linux Entertainment Center) is a non-profit fork of OpenELEC as an open source software appliance, a just enough Linux distribution for Kodi. This fork of OpenELEC announced in March 2016 as a split from the OpenELEC team after "creative differences", taking most of its active developers at the time to join the new LibreELEC project.[2][3][4][5] This is a conservative fork of the OpenELEC project with a stronger focus on pre-release testing and post-release change management.[5]
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 LibreELEC settings Add-On in KODI | |
| Developer | LibreELEC Team |
|---|---|
| OS family | Unix-like |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Open source |
| Initial release | 4 April 2016 |
| Latest release | 9.2.6[1] / 2 November 2020 |
| Update method | Automatic |
| Platforms | AMD64; ARMhf, ARMv7, ARM64 |
| Kernel type | Linux |
| Default user interface | Kodi |
| License | GPLv2 |
| Official website | libreelec |
History
Because of the end of Python 2 support in 2020, LibreElec version 10 with Kodi 19 switches to Python 3. Therefore, addons created for prior versions with python 2 need to be updated by developers for Kodi 19 because python code is not backward compatible.
| LibreELEC version | Release date | Kodi version | Kernel | Announcement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0.0 | 4 April 2016 | 16.1 | Jarvis | LibreELEC (Jarvis) v7.0.0 RELEASE | |
| 8.0.0 | 22 February 2017 | 17.0 | Krypton | LibreELEC (Krypton) v8.0.0 RELEASE | |
| 8.0.1 | 24 March 2017 | 17.1 | LibreELEC (Krypton) v8.0.1 MR | ||
| 8.0.2 | 26 May 2017 | 17.3 | LibreELEC (Krypton) v8.0.2 MR | ||
| 8.2.0 | 28 October 2017 | 17.5 | 4.11.8 | LibreELEC (Krypton) v8.2.0 RELEASE | |
| 8.2.1 | 21 November 2017 | 17.6 | LibreELEC (Krypton) v8.2.1 MR | ||
| 8.2.2 | 23 December 2017 | LibreELEC (Krypton) 8.2.2 MR | |||
| 8.2.3 | 21 January 2018 | LibreELEC (Krypton) 8.2.3 MR | |||
| 8.2.4 | 14 March 2018 | 4.9.59 | LibreELEC (Krypton) 8.2.4 MR | ||
| 8.2.5 | 14 April 2018 | 4.9.80 | LibreELEC (Krypton) 8.2.5 MR | ||
| 9.0.0 | 2 February 2019 | 18.0 | Leia | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.0.0 RELEASE | |
| 9.0.1 | 26 February 2019 | 18.1 | 4.19.23 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.0.1 MR | |
| 9.0.2 | 11 May 2019 | 18.2 | 4.19.36 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.0.2 MR | |
| 9.2 | 22 November 2019 | 18.5 | 4.19.83 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2 | |
| 9.2.1 | 10 March 2020 | 18.6 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.1 | ||
| 9.2.2 | 28 March 2020 | 18.6 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.2 Hotfix | ||
| 9.2.3 | 4 June 2020 | 18.7.1 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.3 | ||
| 9.2.4 | 12 August 2020 | 18.8 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.4 | ||
| 9.2.5 | 24 August 2020 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.5 | |||
| 9.2.6 | 02 November 2020 | 18.9 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.6 | ||
| 10 | TBA | 19 | Matrix | 5.4 | |
References
- "LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.6". libreelec.tv. 2020-11-02. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
- Chewitt (24 March 2016). "Let's rock this gig!". libreelec.tv. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- Chewitt (20 March 2016). "Hello World!". libreelec.tv. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
- "About LibreELEC.tv". libreelec.tv. 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
- "LibreELEC.tv". GitHub. Retrieved 12 May 2016.