RELEASE NOTES

[Stable] OpenELEC 8.0.3 released
 
 Published: Sunday, 30 April 2017 10:39

OpenELEC 8.0.3 release has been published. Users running OpenELEC 8.0.0 or later with auto-update enabled will be prompted on-screen to reboot and apply the update once it has been downloaded and enabled in some hours. Users running older OpenELEC releases or with auto-update disabled will need to manually update. If you would like to update from an older OpenELEC release please read update instructions/advice on the Wiki before updating. Manual update files can be obtained from the downloads page.

Kodi 17 (Krypton) support

OpenELEC 8.0 release contain a Kodi major version bump. If you are updating from OpenELEC 7.0 or earlier we strongly recommend you perform a full backup before performing a manual update. If you experience issues please perform a soft-reset to clear OpenELEC and Kodi settings.

OpenELEC 8.0.3 is a maintenance release for OpenELEC-8.0 series. The main fixes are:

fix crash in Kodi while playing streams.
fix some non working screensavers, this only works if the non working screensavers are installed the first time.
disable CONFIG_USB_UAS to fix issues with some external Harddrives on RPi builds.
some fixes in the installer.
update libcec to fix some upstream problems.
update to mesa-17.0.5, linux-4.9.25 (Generic/RPi*), mariadb-10.1.22, samba-4.6.3, connman-1.34, libsndfile-1.0.28.