Revision as of 15:35, 27 April 2013 by >NedBot
This is a release history with condensed changelogs for the most important added or removed notable new features, functions, and changed in each stable version of XBMC.
Legend
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Red
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Old releases
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Green
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Current release
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Blue
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Future releases
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Version
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Release date
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Codename
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Significant changes
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XBMC Live based on
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1.0.0
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29 June 2004
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N/A
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N/A
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1.1.0
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18 October 2004
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N/A
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- ITU H.261, creative labs yuv (cyuv), supermac cinepak (cvid), quicktime, on2 vp4, 3ivx d4 / 3vi1 mpeg-4 video support
- Container support for nsa, raw audio in .mov, .ac3, .dts and dts-wav
- Zoom/stretch options: zoom, stretch 4x3 or 14x9 or 16x9, original size, custom
- Volume control
- Tags parsing and display for wma, m4a, mp4 and aac (mpeg-4 audio) audio-files
- International-language fonts for subtitles via ttf-fonts
- Audio CD Ripper, backup cdda's to hdd in wav, ogg or mp3 (lame) format
- Karaoke cdg-file and audio cue sheets (.cue) support
- iIunes music shares via DAAP (network stream from Apple iTunes)
- XBMC's xbmsp-client code updated to support "auto-discovery of xbmsp servers"
- Auto-temperature and fan-speed control options
- Network-configuration and setup via GUI
- Emergency recovery console (enables the ftp-server during fatal errors)
- Profiles for settings
- Mouse support and virtual-keyboard
- LCD-display output extended to also support xaddons lcd-mods and xecuter3 lcd
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N/A
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2.0.0
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29 September 2006
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N/A
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- Reworked skinning engine.
- DVD-Video menu/navigation support (with ISO/IMG image parsing) through internally developed core
- 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) (not ported from Xbox)
- XLink Kai (online-gaming) front-end (depreciated)
- Added iTunes 6.x DAAP and UPnP-client
- Read-only support for FAT12/16/32 formatted USB Mass Storage Devices up to 4GB in size
- Brand new "skinnable" 3D visualizer.
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N/A
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8.10
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15 November 2008
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Atlantis
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- Cross platform support adding support for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows
- Brand new High Definition skin “PM3.HD”
- "XBMC Live" bootable CD with unified hard disk/USB flash disk installer
- The XBMC profile
- Integration of iTunes and iPhoto media (OS X exclusive).
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Ubuntu 8.10
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9.04
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6 May 2009
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Babylon
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- PPC (PowerPC) support for Mac OS X (PowerPC G4 or later)
- VDPAU (Nvidia's Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix)
- New Karaoke features
- Officially dropped support for Xbox
- Updated codecs and major bug-fixes for DVD-Video playback core
- More Media Info Scrapers
- Improved FanArt support
- Revamped skinning engine
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Ubuntu 9.04
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9.11
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24 December 2009
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Camelot
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- Revamped user interface via the new default skin “Confluence“
- DirectX support by default for the Windows platform
- A complete reorganization of the settings menus uniformed across skins
- Automatic video information extraction
- Out of the box support for new remotes
- Smoother video playback performance
- All scrapers updated
- Increased subtitle and Karaoke lyric support
- Support for CoreAudio API (OS X exclusive)
- AC3 and DTS digital audio pass-through to SP/DIF on Apple TV (thanks to CoreAudio)
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Ubuntu 9.10
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10.0 10.1
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18 December 2010
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Dharma
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- Unified Addon framework
- Addon Browser GUI for installation and management of third-party addons, skin, and scripts
- Team XBMC's official Addons Repository with Addon FanArt support
- Update Notifications
- Movie Sets (option to group movie collections)
- WebM/VP8 codec
- Gesture support to XBMC's GUI Engine
- Unencrypted Blu-ray Disc support
- Broadcom Crystal HD video acceleration support (All Platforms)
- Windows Touch API support (Windows 7 touch features and functions)
- DXVA 2.0 (DirectX Video Acceleration) (Windows Vista/7 exclusive)
- WASAPI (Windows Audio Session API) for raw bitstream output (Windows Vista/7 exclusive)
- High-Quality Bicubic and Lanczos Upscalers (Video Resamplers) as Direct3D HLSL (Windows Vista/7 exclusive) and OpenGL GLSL Shaders
- Direct3D port of the OpenGL Spectrum 3D Audio Visualization for DirectX (Windows Vista/7 exclusive)
- AVisual Studio 2010 Express edition and Visual Studio 2010 non-Express edition support (Windows Vista/7 exclusive)
- ARM processor architecture (Linux exclusive)
- VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) support (Linux exclusive)
- OpenMAX Video Acceleration support (Linux exclusive)
- NEON (ARM) Video Acceleration support (Linux exclusive)
- Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support (OS X exclusive requires Snow Leopard and NVIDIA 9400 or later)
- OpenGL ES 2.0 compliance
- JSON-RPC, JSON API
- RTMPE and RTMPTE
- Microhttpd Web Server replaces old GoAhead and Spyce code
- SSH file transfer protocol (sftp) via libssh
- MySQL database backend
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Ubuntu 10.04
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11.0
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24 March 2012
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Eden
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- iOS port for Apple TV 2G, iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad
- Dirty regions rendering for texture support to skinning engine
- Efficiency improvements to reduce high cpu/gpu usage
- Default skin changed to a horizontal home layout
- New RenderCapture type to the Python script framework
- Combined Files and Library mode for videos
- Playback of ISO image files for Blu-ray Disc support
- Slingbox playback over the network support
- Peripheral manager controller under settings
- Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) support for HDMI
- Improved Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support
- Improved Touch / Gesture API and Mouse support
- Improved ARM processor architecture support
- Improved OpenMAX Video Decoding Acceleration support
- Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support
- Improved JSON-RPC API compliant with JSON-RPC 2.0 specs
- Improved VDPAU performance
- VDPAU HQ Upscaling support (require NVIDIA's capable GPU)
- H.264 accelerated video decoding via Apple's VideoToolBox API
- JPEG accelerated video decoding via Apple's VideoToolBox API
- Added basic DRC (Dynamic Range Compression) volume limiter
- AirPlay/AirTunes target support
- Extended Addons API adding extension points for Service Addons
- Ability for all addons to provide their own web interface
- Removed native weather forecast scraper, use weather add-ons instead
- Added support for multiple simultaneous HID device mappings
- FFmpeg upgraded (libavformat and libavcodec)
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Lubuntu 11.10
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12.0 12.1
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29 January 2013
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Frodo
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- Added unified Live TV and PVR frontend with a common EPG and DVR (Digital Video Recording) client GUI
- Added unified PVR backend framework and API for multiple PVR backend software from third-parties
- Initial Android (operating system) port with multi-architecture platform support
- Initial BSD (operating system) port for FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and other similar BSD platforms
- Added unified "AudioEngine" audio abstraction framework with an API and platform sinks
- Added dedicated AMLPlayer video player for hardware accelerated video decoding on Amlogic
- Added dedicated OMXPlayer video player for hardware accelerated video decoding via OpenMAX IL API
- NEON (Advanced SIMD instruction set) CPU acceleration support for the ARM architecture
- Improved ARM processor architecture (Pivos XIOS DS and Raspberry Pi as reference devices)
- Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support (Pivos XIOS DS and Raspberry Pi as reference devices)
- Added ability to run a split display resolution for GUI and video playback on embedded platforms[1]
- Enabled Dirty Regions rendering to redraw whole screen on single dirty region by default on all platforms[2][3]
- Added 64-bit build support Mac OS X to match the existing 64-bit support for Linux
- Improved CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) support for Pulse-Eight's LibCEC
- Library customization that allows for custom video nodes
- Added Advanced Library Filtering for Movies, TV Shows, Music Videos, and Music views
- Improved Smart Playlist for Advanced Library Filtering
- Added custom video library tags for Movies, TV Shows and Music Videos to simplify sets with scraping
- Added support for both banner and poster video art types simultaneously[4]
- Added storing of "Episode ID" for First Aired, DVD Episode Number, and Absolute Number sort order
- Added support for exporting video art as JPG or PNG rather than TBN file extension
- Switched to TagLib for reading metadata embedded into audio files
- Better library database handling for faster browsing
- Improved image and texture caching for GUI speedup
- Improved Touch / Gesture API support for touchscreen interfaces
- Added HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) and M3U8 (Extended M3U) playlist support
- Added WebSocket support for JSON-RPC and to Addons API[5]
- Added image transformation handler for resizing images on-the-fly over JSON-RPC and WebServer API
- Added basic support for PVR / EPG extensions and notifications over the JSON-RPC API
- Added SmartPlaylist Extensions and Extended Filtering in JSON-RPC[6]
- Added support for screensavers written in Python programming language
- Added ability to extend XBMC's native Python API by writing C++ code generated via Groovy and SWIG
- Blu-ray Disc HDMV menu support (but not BD-J / BD-Live menus)[7]
- Improved deinterlacing "Weave" method for playback of interlaced video when upscaling
- Improved performance of the default Web Interface (complete rewrite of JavaScript loading)
- Improved AirPlay / AirTunes target support
- Improved the Audio-CD ripper that now works as a background task job
- Improved international language file translations system that are powered by Transifex[8]
- Added a Test Suite based on Google C++ Testing Framework to make regression testing easier
- Added support controlling external XBMC and third-party UPnP/DLNA instances over UPnP
- Upgraded Plutinosoft's Platinum (libplatinum) UPnP and DNLA libraries
- Upgraded FFmpeg's libavcodec and libavformat audio/video cedec and demuxer libraries
- Removed the old HTTP API in favour of the new JSON-RPC API
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Lubuntu 12.10
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13.0
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2013?
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Gotham
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?
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