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XBMC Wiki copy of the XBMC v11 (Eden) changelog. | XBMC Wiki copy of the XBMC v11 (Eden) changelog. | ||
==Changelog== | == Changelog == | ||
=== Add-ons Framework, API, and Manager === | |||
* Added ability for all add-ons to provide their own '''web interface (and handling of multiple web interfaces)''' | |||
* Added support for add-ons to save their setting values to their own settings.xml file before quitting | |||
* Added support for multi-file selections in the (python) file browser dialog | |||
* Extended Add-ons API to support adding extension points for '''Service Add-ons''' (xbmc.service) | |||
* Added support for '''Add-on Rollbacks''', enabling users to choose previously installed addons over more recent revisions | |||
* Added the ability to search Add-ons in the '''Add-ons Manager''' | |||
=== | === GUI Engine === | ||
* | * Improve XBMC's '''GUI Engine / Skinning Framework''' making it even more flexible and powerful | ||
*Added | * Added commands for xbmc.Player().getAvailableAudioStreams() and xbmc.Player().setAudioStream() | ||
*Added support | * Added support to identify DTS-HD (DTS-HD MA and DTS-HD HRA) profiles in audio stream list | ||
* | * Add ability for skinners to show buffering progress for streamed/cached files (similar to YouTube) | ||
* | * Improved mouse support, add better control for dragging of seek / slide / scroll bars, and click handling | ||
*Added the | * Improve touch interface API and gesture support for XBMC's GUI Engine for all platforms | ||
* Added '''[[HOW-TO:Modify_dirty_regions|Dirty Regions]]''' support to reduce CPU usage | |||
* Added a custom JPEG decoder, at least 2x faster than the previous implementation (cximage) | |||
=== | === Playback === | ||
* | * Added UDF 2.5 filesystem reading support to XBMC's VFS (Virtual File System) | ||
*Added | * Added support for direct playback of ISO image files for Blu-ray Disc as well as video library integration | ||
*Added support | * Added an option for vertical shift of video image with slider setting | ||
* | * Added support for color and font styles tag in MPL2 (MicroDVD) subtitles | ||
* | * Added support for SSA/ASS subtitle tags; italics, bold, and color for SubRip (.srt) subtitles | ||
* | * Added support for MP4 embedded subtitles | ||
*Added ''' | * Added support delay tag in vobsub subtitles | ||
*Added | * Gave external subtitles preference over internal subtitles | ||
* Added support for a new extended version of MPlayer's '''EDL (Edit Decision List)''' format | |||
* Added PlayerControl built in function to allow jumping to a percentage offset from a key mapping | |||
* Added support for '''Slingbox''' | |||
* Upgrade FFmpeg (libavformat and libavcodec) audio/video codec and demux library | |||
* Improved Blu-ray Disc and harddrive playback support of unencrypted bdmv and mpls files without menus | |||
* Removed subtitle caching (as it was only needed on Xbox because of the severe memory restrictions) | |||
* Removed all dependencies of libmms libraries from XBMC's code in favour of FFmpeg native MMS support | |||
* Remove all dependencies of liba52, libdts, and faac libraries from XBMC's code in favour of FFmpeg native | |||
* Added support for '''NFS''' virtual file server (vfs) (all platforms) | |||
* Added support for '''AFP''' (vfs) (all platforms aside from Windows) | |||
* Added '''Airplay''' support for Videos/Pictures (all platforms) | |||
* Added '''Airplay''' support for Music (all platforms aside from Windows) | |||
* Added Audio/L16 support for better '''DLNA UPnP''' client compliance | |||
* Improved UPnP Renderer | |||
* Added a slider for '''volume amplification and dynamic range compression''' during video playback | |||
* Added an option to pause video playback during refreshrate changes | |||
* Extended '''Path substitution''' from playlists to all files for users of shared MySQL Databases | |||
* Added the ability to adjust the display's refresh rate to match the video's frame rate in OSX (Feature already available in Windows and Linux) | |||
* Improvements made to the adjust refresh rate feature to pick the "best" rate, rather than the closest multiple | |||
* Added DXVA Deinterlacing support | |||
=== | === Library === | ||
* | * Combined '''Files and Library mode''' for videos | ||
*Added support for | * Add asynchronous threaded background loading of metadata to XBMC's VFS (Virtual File System) | ||
* Added support for cleaning the music library via CleanLibrary(music) command | |||
* Added a '''"Play from here"''' context menu button for TV Shows Episodes in the video library | |||
* Added the option to specify the default select (Play, Resume, Show information, Choose) action on videos | |||
* Changed "Set Content" to "Edit Content Settings"''' after being set | |||
* Added '''disc stub''' support for cataloging DVDs, BluRays, etc. | |||
* Added support for scraping Movie Collections, along with the ability to toggle collections on and off | |||
*Added | |||
* | |||
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*Added ''' | |||
*Added | |||
=== | === Scrapers === | ||
* | * Improve '''Add-on:The_Movie_Database''' movie scraper by adding themoviedb.org posters scraping | ||
* Added '''movie set''' scraping | |||
* Improve '''Add-on:The_TVDB''' (Multi-Lingual) TV Shows and Episode scraper | |||
* Improve '''Freebase''' (English) music scraper | |||
*Added | |||
* | |||
* | |||
=== | === Skins === | ||
* | * '''[[Add-on:Confluence|Confluence]]''': Home screen switched to horizontal layout | ||
* | * '''[[Add-on:Confluence|Confluence]]''': Greatly simplified the way FanArt works throughout the skin and the settings for it | ||
* | * '''[[Add-on:Confluence|Confluence]]''': Added ability for users to easily add / remove Add-ons as items on the home screen menu | ||
* | * '''[[Add-on:Confluence|Confluence]]''': Added codec flagging images for DTS-HD Master Audio and DTS-HD High Resolution Audio | ||
* '''Touched''': New default touch screen skin for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. | |||
=== | === Other === | ||
*''' | * Added ability to handle and allow access to multiple web interfaces at once | ||
*''' | * Added option setting to play videos within picture slideshows | ||
*''' | * Added dimming setting to the built-in picture slideshow screensaver | ||
*'''[[ | * Added support for sorting depending on current locale | ||
* Added advancedsettings.xml option to disable the display of startup splash image (enabled by default) | |||
* Added support for batch requests to the '''JSON-RPC API''' | |||
* Added support for requests by notification to the JSON-RPC API | |||
* Make '''JSON-RPC API''' compliant with JSON-RPC 2.0 specification ( details) | |||
* Cleanup and improve '''JSON-RPC API''' | |||
* Added advancedsettings.xml option to configure the TCP port used by '''JSON-RPC''' (default is 9090) | |||
* Improve the features of the '''default web interface''' | |||
* Removed '''[[Weather]]''' from XBMC core and switched to '''Weather Underground''' as the default weather provider addon | |||
* Added weather lookup by IP | |||
=== | === Linux Specific === | ||
* | * Add support for Texas Instruments OMAP4 (OMAP4430 and OMAP4440 with video decoding on IVA 3) | ||
*Added | * Added dynamic runtime detection of CPU features (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, etc.) implementation for Linux | ||
* Added proper timezone support for systems based on Slackware Linux | |||
*Added support for | * Added altname (alternative name) support to LIRC mapping for linux-input-layer devices | ||
*Added | * Added lircmap for Conexant's CX23885 IR (infrared) recievers | ||
*Added | * Added lircmap to switch between subtitles with iMON Pad remote control | ||
*Added | * Improved ARM processor architecture support for embedded devices and embedded system platforms | ||
* Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support for embedded devices and embedded system platforms | |||
* | * Improved OpenMAX Video Decoding Acceleration support | ||
* | * Provide '''JSON-RPC_API''' server over Bluetooth | ||
* | |||
* | |||
=== | === iOS Specific === | ||
* | * Ported XBMC to iOS 4.x (adding '''"XBMC for iOS"''' to XBMC's existing list of supported operating-systems) | ||
*Added | * Added support for Apple A4 and Apple A5 (ARM) devices, including: '''[[Archive:Apple_TV_(iOS)]]''' (black), iPad 1, iPad 2, iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, iPod touch 3rd gen (16 and 36 GB versions only), iPod touch 4th gen, and effectively all jailbreakable iOS products. | ||
*Added | * Added hardware accelerated video decoding support for H.264 decode on iOS via Apple's VideoToolBox API | ||
*Added | * Added support for OpenGL ES hardware accelerated rendering of XBMC's graphical user interface on iOS | ||
* Added retina support | |||
*Added | * Added initial iOS Touch / Gesture / Inertial Scrolling support for XBMC interface on iOS touch devices | ||
* | * Added an APT repository for apt-get, NitoTV, and Cydia: http://mirrors.kodi.tv/apt/ | ||
* | |||
=== | === Mac OS X Specific === | ||
* | * Added dynamic runtime detection of CPU features (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, etc.) implementation for Mac OS X | ||
* Improve Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support (requires Snow Leopard and NVIDIA 9400 or later) | |||
* | * Improve XBMC's build system to make compiling XBMC much easier | ||
* | |||
=== | === Windows Specific === | ||
*Added dynamic runtime detection of CPU features (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, etc.) implementation for | * Added support for NV12, UVYV, UYVY, and YUV2 rendering (software and ps) | ||
* | * Added dynamic runtime detection of CPU features (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, etc.) implementation for Windows | ||
*Improve XBMC's build system to make compiling XBMC much easier | * Added DXVA video rendering option | ||
* Improve XBMC's build system to make compiling XBMC much easier | |||
[[Category: | [[Category:Releases|Eden]] |
Latest revision as of 20:53, 25 August 2020
XBMC Wiki copy of the XBMC v11 (Eden) changelog.
Changelog
Add-ons Framework, API, and Manager
- Added ability for all add-ons to provide their own web interface (and handling of multiple web interfaces)
- Added support for add-ons to save their setting values to their own settings.xml file before quitting
- Added support for multi-file selections in the (python) file browser dialog
- Extended Add-ons API to support adding extension points for Service Add-ons (xbmc.service)
- Added support for Add-on Rollbacks, enabling users to choose previously installed addons over more recent revisions
- Added the ability to search Add-ons in the Add-ons Manager
GUI Engine
- Improve XBMC's GUI Engine / Skinning Framework making it even more flexible and powerful
- Added commands for xbmc.Player().getAvailableAudioStreams() and xbmc.Player().setAudioStream()
- Added support to identify DTS-HD (DTS-HD MA and DTS-HD HRA) profiles in audio stream list
- Add ability for skinners to show buffering progress for streamed/cached files (similar to YouTube)
- Improved mouse support, add better control for dragging of seek / slide / scroll bars, and click handling
- Improve touch interface API and gesture support for XBMC's GUI Engine for all platforms
- Added Dirty Regions support to reduce CPU usage
- Added a custom JPEG decoder, at least 2x faster than the previous implementation (cximage)
Playback
- Added UDF 2.5 filesystem reading support to XBMC's VFS (Virtual File System)
- Added support for direct playback of ISO image files for Blu-ray Disc as well as video library integration
- Added an option for vertical shift of video image with slider setting
- Added support for color and font styles tag in MPL2 (MicroDVD) subtitles
- Added support for SSA/ASS subtitle tags; italics, bold, and color for SubRip (.srt) subtitles
- Added support for MP4 embedded subtitles
- Added support delay tag in vobsub subtitles
- Gave external subtitles preference over internal subtitles
- Added support for a new extended version of MPlayer's EDL (Edit Decision List) format
- Added PlayerControl built in function to allow jumping to a percentage offset from a key mapping
- Added support for Slingbox
- Upgrade FFmpeg (libavformat and libavcodec) audio/video codec and demux library
- Improved Blu-ray Disc and harddrive playback support of unencrypted bdmv and mpls files without menus
- Removed subtitle caching (as it was only needed on Xbox because of the severe memory restrictions)
- Removed all dependencies of libmms libraries from XBMC's code in favour of FFmpeg native MMS support
- Remove all dependencies of liba52, libdts, and faac libraries from XBMC's code in favour of FFmpeg native
- Added support for NFS virtual file server (vfs) (all platforms)
- Added support for AFP (vfs) (all platforms aside from Windows)
- Added Airplay support for Videos/Pictures (all platforms)
- Added Airplay support for Music (all platforms aside from Windows)
- Added Audio/L16 support for better DLNA UPnP client compliance
- Improved UPnP Renderer
- Added a slider for volume amplification and dynamic range compression during video playback
- Added an option to pause video playback during refreshrate changes
- Extended Path substitution from playlists to all files for users of shared MySQL Databases
- Added the ability to adjust the display's refresh rate to match the video's frame rate in OSX (Feature already available in Windows and Linux)
- Improvements made to the adjust refresh rate feature to pick the "best" rate, rather than the closest multiple
- Added DXVA Deinterlacing support
Library
- Combined Files and Library mode for videos
- Add asynchronous threaded background loading of metadata to XBMC's VFS (Virtual File System)
- Added support for cleaning the music library via CleanLibrary(music) command
- Added a "Play from here" context menu button for TV Shows Episodes in the video library
- Added the option to specify the default select (Play, Resume, Show information, Choose) action on videos
- Changed "Set Content" to "Edit Content Settings" after being set
- Added disc stub support for cataloging DVDs, BluRays, etc.
- Added support for scraping Movie Collections, along with the ability to toggle collections on and off
Scrapers
- Improve Add-on:The_Movie_Database movie scraper by adding themoviedb.org posters scraping
- Added movie set scraping
- Improve Add-on:The_TVDB (Multi-Lingual) TV Shows and Episode scraper
- Improve Freebase (English) music scraper
Skins
- Confluence: Home screen switched to horizontal layout
- Confluence: Greatly simplified the way FanArt works throughout the skin and the settings for it
- Confluence: Added ability for users to easily add / remove Add-ons as items on the home screen menu
- Confluence: Added codec flagging images for DTS-HD Master Audio and DTS-HD High Resolution Audio
- Touched: New default touch screen skin for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.
Other
- Added ability to handle and allow access to multiple web interfaces at once
- Added option setting to play videos within picture slideshows
- Added dimming setting to the built-in picture slideshow screensaver
- Added support for sorting depending on current locale
- Added advancedsettings.xml option to disable the display of startup splash image (enabled by default)
- Added support for batch requests to the JSON-RPC API
- Added support for requests by notification to the JSON-RPC API
- Make JSON-RPC API compliant with JSON-RPC 2.0 specification ( details)
- Cleanup and improve JSON-RPC API
- Added advancedsettings.xml option to configure the TCP port used by JSON-RPC (default is 9090)
- Improve the features of the default web interface
- Removed Weather from XBMC core and switched to Weather Underground as the default weather provider addon
- Added weather lookup by IP
Linux Specific
- Add support for Texas Instruments OMAP4 (OMAP4430 and OMAP4440 with video decoding on IVA 3)
- Added dynamic runtime detection of CPU features (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, etc.) implementation for Linux
- Added proper timezone support for systems based on Slackware Linux
- Added altname (alternative name) support to LIRC mapping for linux-input-layer devices
- Added lircmap for Conexant's CX23885 IR (infrared) recievers
- Added lircmap to switch between subtitles with iMON Pad remote control
- Improved ARM processor architecture support for embedded devices and embedded system platforms
- Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support for embedded devices and embedded system platforms
- Improved OpenMAX Video Decoding Acceleration support
- Provide JSON-RPC_API server over Bluetooth
iOS Specific
- Ported XBMC to iOS 4.x (adding "XBMC for iOS" to XBMC's existing list of supported operating-systems)
- Added support for Apple A4 and Apple A5 (ARM) devices, including: Archive:Apple_TV_(iOS) (black), iPad 1, iPad 2, iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, iPod touch 3rd gen (16 and 36 GB versions only), iPod touch 4th gen, and effectively all jailbreakable iOS products.
- Added hardware accelerated video decoding support for H.264 decode on iOS via Apple's VideoToolBox API
- Added support for OpenGL ES hardware accelerated rendering of XBMC's graphical user interface on iOS
- Added retina support
- Added initial iOS Touch / Gesture / Inertial Scrolling support for XBMC interface on iOS touch devices
- Added an APT repository for apt-get, NitoTV, and Cydia: http://mirrors.kodi.tv/apt/
Mac OS X Specific
- Added dynamic runtime detection of CPU features (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, etc.) implementation for Mac OS X
- Improve Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support (requires Snow Leopard and NVIDIA 9400 or later)
- Improve XBMC's build system to make compiling XBMC much easier
Windows Specific
- Added support for NV12, UVYV, UYVY, and YUV2 rendering (software and ps)
- Added dynamic runtime detection of CPU features (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, etc.) implementation for Windows
- Added DXVA video rendering option
- Improve XBMC's build system to make compiling XBMC much easier