LibreELEC is an open-source embedded operating system based on the Linux kernel and built around the free, open-source and cross-platform Kodi media center. It is designed to be deployed on various popular singe-board computers (SBCs), including Raspberry Pi, Odroid C2, WeTek, Cubox, and others.
Your media at your fingertips, thanks to Kodi
The main design goal of LibreELEC is to help users transform their embedded device into a powerful HTPC (home theater PC) or media center computer for managing their huge collections of movies, TV shows, images, music, etc. LibreELEC follows the development of Kodi so you'll always have the latest and greatest media center infrastructure at your fingertips.
An evolution of OpenELEC
LibreELEC is to be considered an evolution of the OpenELEC project because the latter cannot be installed on all the single-board computers that the former supports. However, if you're moving from OpenELEC to LibreELEC, you'll notice many familiarities, but LibreELEC has its own development cycle offering users a stable and bleeding-edge distribution.
Supported platforms
Being a 100% free project, LibreELEC appears to supports a wide range of platforms, starting from generic 64-bit, AMD, Nvidia and Intel GPU HTPC systems and Amlogic HTPCs, and continuing with numerous ARM boards, including but not limited to Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi 2, Raspberry Pi 3, Raspberry Pi Zero, Raspberry Pi Zero W, WeTek Core, WeTek Hub, WeTek Play, WeTek Play 2, WeTek OpenELEC, Five Ninja's Slice, Odroid C2, CuBox i2, CuBox i4, and HummingBoard.
What is new in this release:
- Fix VMware OVF template, drop OVA .img suffix and force ‘installer' mode
- Update RPi kernel to 4.9.43
- Update RPi wifi firmware to resolve CVE-2017-9417 (Broadpwn)
- Update to Samba 4.6.7
- Update to Kodi 17.4 final
- Update nVidia main driver to 384.69
- Update LibreELEC settings add-on to expose more Samba config options
- Revert Hauppauge DualHD tuner support (back to single-tuner, which works)
- Add support for Xbox ONE (DVB-C/T/T2) USB tuner
What is new in version 8.0.2:
- Fix for zero byte AddonsXX.db files
- Fix for connman failing to enable ip_forwarding when using the hotspot feature
- Fix for minimum Audio Engine sample rate in Kodi (allows forced 48KHz)
- Fix for suspend issues with CX231xx DVB devices
- Fix for unreliable 1000-BaseT Ethernet on iMX6 (we default to 100-BaseT)
- Fix for 720p > 1080p resolution switching on Amlogic aarch64 devices
- Fix for audio pops on media playback start/stop on Amlogic devices
- Update timezone data files to 2017b
- Update to Kodi 17.3
- Update to Linux 4.9.29 on Generic and RPi/RPi2 builds
- Update to Linux 3.14 kernel used on Amlogic aarch64 projects
- Update to RPi backports and firmwares
- Update to WeTek DVB firmware on WP2
- Add support for multiple Intel WIFI and Bluetooth firmwares
- Add support for GPIO_SYSFS on RPi/RPi2
- Add support for CEC wakeup with LG Simplink devices on Odroid C2
- Add support for 050D:010d device to RTL8812AU driver
- Add lirc support for /dev/rc devices
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