Software update: OpenELEC 4.0.2

The second update of version 4.0 of the Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center has been released. This Linux distribution is based on XBMC Media Center and can turn a computer into a full-fledged HTPC. OpenELEC is easy to install, maintain and use, as well as being small and lightning fast. In version 4.0, which is based on XBMC version 13, fewer different versions are offered. Images are available for AppleTV, Raspberry Pi, and a generic build for i386 and x86_64 environments. The specific builds for AMD’s Fusion and Nvidia’s ION platform, among others, have disappeared. Version 4.0.2 is based on XBMC Media Center 13.1 beta 2, adds support for older Nvidia video cards and MultiMedia cards, among other things, and contains several bug fixes.

OpenELEC 4.0.2 released

This release includes some bug fixes, security fixes and improvements since OpenELEC-4.0.1. We readded support for older (legacy) Nvidia GPUs to our Generic-i386 build, and removed old GPU drivers to our Generic-x86_64 build. If you use newer 64bit capable hardware you must switch to our Generic-x86-64 builds now and our Generic-i386 builds will support legacy Hardware only in the future. We added (e-)MMC support to our Generic kernels and our installer so we now support the installation on devices with included eMMC flash storage like Intel NUC DE3815TYKHE and DE3815TYBE.

Updated and changed Components:

• Update to bcm2835-driver-97082b6
• Update to bcm2835-bootloader-97082b6
• Update to xbmc-13-a6a2713 (XBMC-13.1 beta 2)
• Update to libXfont-1.4.8
• Update sources to atv-client-50faf80
• Update to squashfs-4.3
• Update to openvpn-2.3.4
• projects/RPi/patches/linux: update RPi kernel patch
• xbmc: wait on udev-trigger service
• projects/Generic/options: install nvidia legacy driver on i386 builds, remove radeonsi driver from i386 builds, remove r200 driver on x86_64 builds
• projects/Generic/linux: buildin MMC to kernel
• installer: add MMC support
• suspend-modules: added brcmfmac, cant handle suspend right now

For a full changelog on what’s new, follow this link.