Software Update: XBMC Media Center 12.0 RC3

The third release candidate of version 12.0 of XBMC Media Center has become available. This cross platform media center software is developed for Windows, OS X, Linux, iOS, AppleTV2, the Raspberry Pi and Android. The port for the original Xbox will be not anymore maintained by this team. Version 12.0, codenamed Frodo, contains a large number of changes. For example, there is support for HD audio, TV can be watched and recorded and there is now also a 64bit build for OS X. No new options will be added in the release candidates, but the developers will only focus on the solving problems.

XBMC 12 Frodo – Release Candidate 3

We would quickly like to take this time to announce the third release candidate for XBMC 12. Features for XBMC 12 include:

• HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine
• Live TV and PVR support
• h.264 10bit (aka Hi10P) video software decoding for anime
• 64bit support in OSX to match the 64bit support in Linux
• Improved image support, allowing the database to accommodate numerous additional image types
• Support for the Raspberry PI
• Initial support for the Android platform
• Improved Airplay support across all platforms
• Improved controller support in Windows and Linux
• Advanced Filtering in the library
• Advanced UPnP sharing
• translations now powered by Transifex.

At this point, XBMC 12 is entirely feature complete. All changes from this point forward will exclusively include fixes for replicable bugs necessary to reach final release.

Fixes between RC2 and RC3 are entirely stability fixes. For the full list, visit our Github milestones for RC3. As always, please do not report bugs or other issues in Github. If you need to report a verified bug, feel free to use track.

A quick note for Linux users, PVR addons have now been made a separate install from XBMC and can be found in the same PPA as XBMC. Each addon will be labeled “xbmc-pvr-[plugin-name].”