Archive:XBMC v11 (Eden) changelog

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