XBMC media center -> Version History

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Index:

• Version Eden 11.0 Beta 3 (Feb 10, 2012)
• Version Eden 11.0 Beta 2 (Jan 21, 2012)
• Version Eden 11.0 Beta (Dec 25, 2011)
• Version Dharma 10.1 (Mar 10, 2011)
• Version Dharma 10.0 (Dec 20, 2010)
• Version Dharma 10.0 RC2 (Dec 3, 2010)
• Version Dharma 10.0 RC1 (Nov 19, 2010)
• Version Dharma 10.0 Beta4 (Oct 31, 2010)
• Version Dharma 10.0 Beta3 (Oct 17, 2010)
• Version Dharma 10.0 Beta2 (Sep 19, 2010)
• Version Camelot 9.11 Final (Dec 24, 2009)
• Version Camelot XBMC 9.11 RC1 (Dec 17, 2009)
• Version Camelot XBMC 9.11 Beta2 (Dec 10, 2009)
• Version Camelot XBMC 9.11 Beta1 (Nov 23, 2009)
• Version Camelot 9.11 Alpha2 (Nov 13, 2009)
• Version Camelot 9.11 Alpha1 (Nov 7, 2009)
• Version Babylon 9.04.1 (May 27, 2009)
• Version Babylon 9.04 (May 6, 2009)
• Version Babylon RC1 (Apr 30, 2009)
• Version Babylon Beta 1 (Apr 23, 2009)
• Version Babylon Alpha 1 (Apr 5, 2009)
• Version Atlantic 8.10 (Nov 11, 2008)
• Version Atlantis Beta 2 (Oct 7, 2008)
• Version Atlantis Beta 1 (Sep 19, 2008)
• Version Atlantis Alpha 4 (Aug 24, 2008)
• Version Atlantis Alpha 3 (Aug 13, 2008)
• Version Build 14676 (Aug 5, 2008)
• Version svn14125 (Jul 31, 2008)
• Version 2.0.0 (Jul 31, 2008)

• Release Date: Feb 10, 2012
• Bug fixes

• Release Date: Jan 21, 2012

• Release Date: Dec 25, 2011
• Please refer to http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2011/12/24/xbmc-11-0-eden-beta-available-now/ for more information on this release

• Release Date: Mar 10, 2011
• If an in-use skin was updated in Windows, XBMC would freeze
• Some RTMP streams in Windows did not play
• Included add-ons have been updated
• The correct referrer is now used for downloading add-ons, improving dependency statistics
• Crashes during playback on ATI hardware in some circumstances have been fixed
• Hardware decoding improvements for OSX
• Various small fixes

• Release Date: Dec 20, 2010
• Addons Manager
  • Added unified Addon framework that make it easy to distribute addons to XBMC (based on C-Pluff)
  • Addon Browser GUI that will allow for an easy way to find, install, and manage third-party addons
  • Added support for update notifications and options for manual or automatic updates of addons
  • Added Team XBMC's official Addons Repository for open source addons as the default Addon Repo
  • Added GUI option to install additional third-party Addons Repos from ZIP files (with addon.xml)
  • Added GUI option to install third-party addons from ZIP files without it being in an Addon Repo
  • Added support for scrapers (Web Scraper Metadata Aggregators) to the Addons API
  • Added support for skins extension point to the Addons API
  • Added support for visualizations extension point to the Addons API
  • Added support for screensavers extension point to the Addons API
  • Added support for python based plugins extension point to the Addons API
  • Added support for python based scripts extension point to the Addons API
  • Added support for web interfaces extension point to the Addons API
  • Added new default web interface as an addon to remote control XBMC via any web browser
  • Removed builtin SHOUTcast.com directory support and moved it to the official addons repo
  • Removed builtin visualizations and moved them to the official addons repo
  • Removed builtin screensavers and moved them to the official addons repo
  • Removed all Adult ('XXX' classified) scrapers into a new third-party managed addons repository
• GUI Engine:
  • Improved XBMC's GUI Engine / Skinning Framework making it even more flexible and powerful
  • Added option to choose "default select action" of the showing info screen for videos
  • Added FanArt support for Addons
  • Added initial gesture support to XBMC's GUI Engine (adding touch interface API support to guilib)
  • Added initial support for Windows Touch API (Windows 7 touch features and functions)
  • Added ability for Karaoke player to optionally show the next song that will be played
  • Added video information flagging for trailers
  • Improved mouse support, added better exclusive control support for dragging of sliders/scroll bars
  • Improved mouse click handling and added the possibility of long verses short clicks detection
  • Updated translations for most languages (thanks to all community members who contributed!)
  • Renamed "Plugins" in the Addons UI to "Media Sources" as that is what they are now
  • Removed AAC, MP1, MP2, and MP3 passthrough options settings from the GUI
  • Removed all Xbox only strings from the language files since the Xbox platform is no longer supported
• Playback:
  • Added Broadcom Crystal HD PCIe/Mini-PCIe hardware accelerated video decoders support
  • Added native support for unencrypted Blu-ray Disc playback without menus (via libbluray)
  • Added Blu-ray Disc detection for external players (map external player in playercorefactory.xml)
  • Added support for using libbluray to play bdmv files (index.bdmv or *.mpls) from local folders
  • Added raw bitstream pass-through support for MP1, MP2, MP3, and AAC encoded audio tracks
  • Added real-time ATSC A/52 encoder for on-the-fly Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC-3) transcoded output
  • Added support for 5.1 Multi-Channel Analog Output (discrete 6-channel PCM output)
  • Added post-processing support and options for videos in standard definition resolutions
  • Added High-Quality Lanczos Upscalers (Video Resamplers) as OpenGL GLSL Shaders
  • Added support for embedded Blu-ray/AVCHD PGS subtitles in MKV (Matroska) video containers
  • Added support to use MKV (Matroska) embedded descriptions for audio and subtitle tracks
  • Added support for DEFAULT/FORCED Matroska flags for subtitles
  • Added support for color text subtitles in MKV files
  • Added support for unsorted subtitles (ass/ssa, srt, smi)
  • Added support for multiple language SAMI subtitle
  • Added initial WebDAV (HTTP) media source support to XBMC's VFS (Virtual File System)
  • Added initial SFTP media source support to XBMC's VFS (Virtual File System)
  • Added support for WebM via libvpx
  • Added Zapstream support for Tuxbox (Dreambox/DBox2) client
  • Added RTMPE/RTMPTE and improved RTMP/RTMPT/RTMPS support via librtmp from RTMPDump
  • Added "Wide Zoom" video mode option, a combination zoom, cropping, and non-linear stretching
  • Added "Stretch 14x9" video mode option, a combination of zoom, cropping, and linear stretching
  • Added "Stretch 16x9" video mode option, a combination of zoom, cropping, and linear stretching
  • Added support to extract lyrics from Lyrics3v2 (Lyrics3 2.00) ID3 tags when available in music files
  • Added support to configured cache buffer size via advancedsettings.xml (rather than hardcoded)
  • Upgraded FFmpeg that significantly improves the decoding of all widespread mainstream codecs
  • Improved generalization of chapter support and SeekTime from the input stream interface
  • Improved Dream Multimedia Dreambox Enigma2 bouquets support in the TuxBox Client
  • Improved audio channel matrix mapping, audio channels downmixing, and upmixing support
  • Improved DVD-Video navigation in using Next and Prev
  • Improved timecode-based seeking in videos
• Library:
  • Added FanArt image cache height-value size option to advancedsettings.xml (defaults to 480)
  • Added initial support for MySQL as abstracted database backend for video and music libraries
  • Added improved portability of SQL statements used in the video and music libraries
  • Added ability to sort TV Shows folders by the date of the last recorded episode
  • Added support for Movie Sets (option to group movie collections into sets for customized sorting)
  • Added support to allow scrapers to use a normal settings.xml
  • Improved performance for SQL database queries ( expert help is always wanted in this area!)
  • Improved video scanner engine
  • Improved metadata scraper engine
• Scrapers:
  • Added hd-trailers.net movie trailers scraping to TheMovieDB.org and IMDb scrapers
  • Added new Rotten Tomatoes (English) movie scraper
  • Added new Freebase (English) music scraper
  • Added new 1ting (Chinese) music scraper
  • Added new 7176 (Chinese) movie scraper
  • Added new getlib (Chinese) movie scraper
  • Added new m1905 (Chinese) movie scraper
  • Added new daum (Korean) TV Shows scraper
  • Added new daum (Korean) music scraper
  • Added new filmbasen (Norwegian) movie scraper
  • Added new moviemeter (Dutch) movie scraper
  • Added new videobuster (German) movie scraper
  • Added new kino (German) movie scraper
  • Improved ofdb (German) movie scraper by adding themoviedb.org posters scraping
  • Improved TheTVDB (Multi-Lingual) TV Shows and Episode scraper
  • Removed Discogs (English) music scraper due to them blocking XBMC
  • Removed imdb-cn (Chinese) movie scraper due to website closed
• Skins:
  • Confluence: Addon Browser specific window and icon to get to it in the settings GUI
  • Confluence: Added border to the Addon icons in media info view for a uniformed look
  • Confluence: Added FanArt support for the Addon Browser
  • Confluence: Added buttons in the OSD's for Lyrics and Subtitle Addons
  • Confluence: Added browsing for subtitles in full screen video overlay
  • Confluence: Added browsing for lyrics in full screen video overlay
  • Confluence: Added "Recently Added" Movies and TV Shows script view in the home menu
  • Confluence: Improved file and folder path name reading for media flagging
  • Confluence: Removed script window completely (turns out you don't need one now)
• Other:
  • Added JSON-RPC and JSON API over HTTP and Sockets for bidirectional communication
  • Added microhttpd Web Server (and removed the old GoAhead and Spyce code) for HTTP API
  • Added HTTP authentication methods any, anysafe, digest, and ntlm (via cURL libcurl)
  • Added SSH file transfer protocol (sftp) via libssh
  • Added support for MD5 passwords in GUIEditControl
  • Added function / setting to enable DXTn texture compression (DDS) to all cached non-skin images
  • Added doxygen resources for generating source code documentation
  • Added ability to turn off LCD/VFD backlight while screensaving to advancedsettings.xml
  • Added builtin command for sending Wake-On-Lan (WOL) magic packets
  • Added builtin command irsend infra-red send commands using LIRC for IR blaster (lirc.send)
  • Added joystick deadzone and calibration support to advanced settings ( advancedsettings.xml)
  • Added power abstraction framework with a way to send OnWake and OnSuspend events
  • Improved XBMC's integrated DLNA / UPnP MediaServer and Client compatibility
  • Improved last.fm and libre.fm passwords storage with MD5, requires user to input password again
• Live Specific:
  • Optimized XBMC Live for the first and next-generation NVIDIA ION / ION 2 (as reference platforms)
  • Added Bootable Disk Wizard (BDW) addon to the Live CD that makes bootable flash disk easier for users
  • Added Plymouth Theme with XBMC logo typeface to replace the old USplash Splash Screen on Boot
  • Added support for GRUB 2 based images
  • Improved support for Wake-on-USB from ACPI S3 Standby with Remote/Keyboard/Mouse
  • Updated XBMC Live to to based on a stripped Ubuntu Desktop 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Linux Distribution
  • Updated NVIDIA and ATI proprietary binary graphics device drivers (restricted drivers)
• Linux Specific:
  • Optimized keymapping for navigation with MCE (Microsoft Windows Media Center) compatible remotes
  • Added PPA (Personal Package Archives) packages for Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Added support for ARM processor architecture (with TI OMAP3 and NVIDIA Tegra 2 as reference)
  • Added initial support OpenGL ES 2.0 compliance in the Linux renderer for embedded devices via EGL
  • Added Broadcom Crystal HD PCIe/Mini-PCIe Hardware Accelerated Video Decoder Support
  • Added VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) support (requires VAAPI compatible hardware and drivers)
  • Added OpenMAX Video Acceleration support (requires OpenMax IL compatible hardware, like Tegra2)
  • Added NEON (ARM) Video Acceleration support (requires NEON compatible hardware, like OMAP3)
  • Added initial implementation of the OnLowBattery signal in UPower
  • Added lircmap for linux-input-layer devices to allow for joystick and gamepad keymaps
  • Added lircmap for Alienware Alienware Dual Compatible Game Pad
  • Added lircmap for the Xbox 360 (wireless) controller
  • Added lircmap for Interact AxisPad
  • Added lircmap for MCE (Microsoft Windows Media Center) remotes via SoundGraph iMON IR-receivers
  • Added lircmap for Twinhan remotes
  • Added lircmap for Antec's VERIS family RM200 / Antec Fusion Remote Control
  • Improved VDPAU (NVIDIA) Hardware Video Acceleration and its upscaling/deinterlacing capabilities
  • Improved AMD/Intel x86-64 64-bit (AMD64 / IA-64t CPU architectures) support
• Windows Specific:
  • Added support for most MCE (Microsoft Windows Media Center) compatible remotes out-of-the-box
  • Added Broadcom Crystal HD PCIe/Mini-PCIe Hardware Accelerated Video Decoder Support
  • Added initial native DXVA 2 support for H.264, VC-1, and WMV9 (Windows Vista and 7 only)
  • Added support for WASAPI (Windows Audio Session API) for raw bitstream output
  • Added High-Quality Bicubic and Lanczos Upscalers (Video Resamplers) as Direct3D HLSL
  • Added Direct3D port of the OpenGL Spectrum 3D Audio Visualization for DirectX
  • Added support for Visual Studio 2010 Express edition and Visual Studio 2010 non-Express edition
  • Improved support for Microsoft's DirectX, Direct3D, and DirectSound APIs for Windows
• Mac OS X Specific:
  • Optimizated remote navigation and improved keymapping for both the old and the new Apple Remote
  • Added Apple VDADecoder Video Accelleration support (requires Snow Leopard and NVIDIA 9400 or later)
  • Added Broadcom Crystal HD PCIe/Mini-PCIe Hardware Accelerated Video Decoder Support
  • Added analog audio downmix to user-selected format
  • Added check for AC/Battery and Low Battery warning notifications (set to 10 percent)
  • Improved the PowerPC (PPC CPU architecture) support for Mac OS X 10.4
  • Removed PortAudio now that we only use Core Audio
• Apple TV Specific:
  • Added Broadcom Crystal HD PCIe/Mini-PCIe Hardware Accelerated Video Decoder Support
  • Added support for Apple TV OS 3.0.2

• Release Date: Dec 3, 2010
• Shoutcast support has been redone. Listening to your favorite online radio stations with the shoutcast plugin is now a much nicer experience.
• The add-ons moved out of the testing repository and into their permanent home. This means that everyone will need to upgrade in order to see future add-on updates. If you continue to use RC1 or previous, please don’t report a lack of updates.
• Automatic updates for add-ons are now enabled by default. Of course, you can still disable them via the add-on manager if you prefer.

• Release Date: Nov 19, 2010
• Bug fixes:
  • A fix for a problem when pausing/seeking. This was known to cause static or erratic behavior on some amplifiers.
  • Beta4 introduced a regression with Linux and Live users that led to broken or choppy playback. Please note that anyone upgrading to RC1 on these platforms is highly advised to remove ~/.asoundrc, and create a new one if you had done so previously.
  • The Bootable LiveCD script is now much more reliable. What a great way to install to a flash drive!
• New features:
  • After adding a source, you are now prompted to set content. This should be much more logical for new users.
  • New icons for the addon browser.

• Release Date: Oct 31, 2010
• Please refer to http://xbmc.org/theuni/2010/10/29/dharma-beta-4/ for more information on this release

• Release Date: Oct 17, 2010
• Please refer to http://xbmc.org/theuni/2010/10/13/dharma-beta-3/ for more information on this release

• Release Date: Sep 19, 2010
• Please refer to http://xbmc.org/theuni/2010/09/14/dharma-beta-2/ for more information on this release

• Release Date: Dec 24, 2009
• Please refer to this news post http://xbmc.org/team-xbmc/2009/12/24/xbmc-9-11-camelot/ for a list of what's new

• Release Date: Dec 17, 2009
• The testing process is winding down, and we are happy to present XBMC 9.11 Release Candidate 1. Assuming there are no major show-stoppers, we expect that this will be the last pre-release before final. That means that this is your last chance to report major bugs, or to help us reproduce or fix the ones that have been identified. If you have submitted a trac ticket and we’ve asked for further assistance, this is the time to help! For those not bold enough to try the pre-releases, watch this site in the coming days for a summary of the new features you can expect to see in Camelot.

• Release Date: Dec 10, 2009
• Development for Camelot is winding down, and we have a new beta for all brave users to try. We have closed just under 200 bugs since the last beta (to be fair, some of those were translations and other small patches). That is an impressive number, thanks to all who have reported their issues. As we are feature frozen, nothing new has been added this time around, we’re purely focusing on fixing bugs.
  
  As always, head on over to the download page for the latest and greatest. The Ubuntu PPAs will be updated soon. Give it a go, and be sure to submit quality bug reports if you have any issues. Also, please keep great the translations coming!

• Release Date: Nov 23, 2009

• Release Date: Nov 13, 2009
• The second testing release in the Camelot series has been tagged and is now available for general consumption. The first Alpha was a great success; all of the known issues listed in the previous announcement have been fixed, along with a slew of others. All of those who are currently using Alpha1 are strongly encouraged to update. Though the same warnings still apply: this should be treated as pre-release software and is only for those who don’t mind running into a few bugs.

• Release Date: Nov 7, 2009
• DirectX has replaced OpenGL for Windows
• Numerous skinning engine updates which allow for use of some fancy new skins
• Many improvements to the video player which allow for much smoother playback
• Switch to Core Audio on OSX
• Many VDPAU improvements under linux
• Many platform-specific customizations
• Much Much more. We will be showcasing the new features here on xbmc.org as the final release approaches.

• Release Date: May 27, 2009

• Release Date: May 6, 2009

• Release Date: Apr 30, 2009

• Release Date: Apr 23, 2009

• Release Date: Apr 5, 2009
• As predicted by many, the codename for this next release is Babylon.New in 9.04 is the VDPAU code (hardware decoding of h264 and VC1 on recent nvidia GPUs on Linux) worked on by motd2k, and the path cleanup work (XBMC will no longer steal all those drive letters on Windows), in addition to all the usual improvements that you’ve come accustomed to expecting.
  
  We’ll need help to get things nice and stable for release.This means taking time to test things thoroughly, helping developers reproduce problems, identifying any holes in the current documentation and so on.
  
  Let the bug-bashing begin!

• Release Date: Nov 11, 2008
• Please refer to this news posting for more information

• Release Date: Oct 7, 2008
• Please refer to this news posting for more information

• Release Date: Sep 19, 2008
• Please refer to this news posting for more information

• Release Date: Aug 24, 2008
• Please refer to this news posting for more information

• Release Date: Aug 13, 2008
• Please refer to this news posting for more information

• Release Date: Aug 5, 2008
• Click here to see the changelog

• Release Date: Jul 31, 2008
• Click here to see the changelog

• Release Date: Jul 31, 2008
• Enhanced GUI/skin-engine
• Project Mayhem III skin
• DVD-Video menu/navigation support (with ISO/IMG image parsing)
• RAR/ZIP archive parsing
• New audio/music-player (PAPlayer) with crossfade, gapless playback and ReplayGain support
• Karaoke CDG-file display
• Xored Trainer Engine (gaming-cheats)
• XLink Kai (online-gaming) front-end
• iTunes 6.x DAAP and UPnP-clients