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Revision as of 12:10, 20 December 2012
Template:Frodo Frodo is the code name for the next version of XBMC, v12 (Frodo). These development builds, often called "pre-Frodo" or "pre-release" builds, are what will eventually lead to the final Frodo version. In contrast to the stable builds (v11, Eden) you don't have to wait for the release in order to benefit from new features or fixes that made it into XBMC.
THESE BUILDS OFTEN DO NOT WORK and are only for the brave users that do not fear bugs or crashes. They are mostly used for development. If you want a stable HTPC, this is not the place for you!
Nightly build
Nightly Builds are made on a daily basis and contain the most recent changes. They are also the most unstable of the development builds (until "feature freeze" where only bug fixes are made).
ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR USERDATA FOLDER WHEN USING NIGHTLY BUILDS
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/nightlies/
- Nightly Builds for Windows
- Nightly Builds for Mac OS X
- Nightly Builds for Ubuntu
- Nightly Builds for iOS - iPad, iPhone, iPod touch
- Nightly Builds for iOS - Apple TV 2 (black)
Also you can compile these builds yourself. See the appropriate Wiki article or Read Me for doing this:
Monthly build
Monthly builds are semi-stable nightly snapshots of pre-release builds.
XBMC developers have a merge cycle every month for new features and major changes. For ten days they add new features, then for the rest of the month they fix things. The monthly is then taken from a nightly just before they start adding features again.
ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR USERDATA FOLDER WHEN USING MONTHLY BUILDS
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/snapshots/
| Cycle | Month | Notes | Download links | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highlights | Milestones | Android | iOS: iDevice/ATV2 | Ubuntu | Mac OS X | Windows | ||||
| Alpha 1 | April '12 | XBMC blog post | changes | n/a | n/a | n/a | dl | dl | ||
| Alpha 2 | May '12 | XBMC blog post | changes | n/a | n/a | n/a | dl | dl | ||
| Alpha 3 | June '12 | XBMC blog post | changes | n/a | iDevice | ATV2 | n/a | normal | 64 bit | dl |
| Alpha 4 | July '12 | XBMC blog post | changes | n/a | iDevice | ATV2 | n/a | normal | 64 bit | dl |
| Alpha 5 | August '12 | XBMC blog post | changes | n/a | iDevice | ATV2 | n/a | normal | 64 bit | dl |
| Alpha 6 | September '12 | XBMC blog post | changes | n/a | iDevice | ATV2 | n/a | normal | 64 bit | dl |
| Alpha 7 | October '12 | XBMC blog post | changes | n/a | iDevice | ATV2 | n/a | normal | 64 bit | dl |
Betas and release candidates
When XBMC gets close to a stable release, public betas will be released. These are similar to nightlies and monthlies in that they still contain bugs, but are more stable and are encouraged to be tried out. At the point where XBMC reaches beta, most known bugs have been fixed, and developers are now looking for bugs they might not know about.
When XBMC beta gets to a point where it seems ready for a final release a "Release Candidate", or "RC", is released to flesh out any final bugs. Depending on any issues found, there may be multiple release candidates.
After release candidates comes a final stable build that becomes XBMC v12, aka Frodo.
ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR USERDATA FOLDER WHEN USING BETAS
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/releases/
| Build | Notes | Download links | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highlights | Milestones | Android | iOS: iDevice/ATV2 | Mac OS X | Ubuntu | Windows | XBMCbuntu | ||||
| Beta 1 | XBMC blog post | changes | n/a | iDevice | ATV2 | normal | 64 bit | PPA | dl | dl (ISO) | |
| Beta 2 | XBMC blog post | changes | dl | iDevice | ATV2 | normal | 64 bit | PPA | dl | AMD GPU | Nvidia GPU |
| Beta 3 | XBMC blog post | changes | dl | iDevice | ATV2 | normal | 64 bit | PPA | dl | AMD GPU | Nvidia GPU |
| Release Candidate 1 | XBMC blog post | n/a | dl | iDevice | ATV2 | normal | 64 bit | PPA | dl | AMD GPU | Nvidia GPU |
| Release Candidate 2 | coming soon | n/a | dl | iDevice | ATV2 | normal | 64 bit | PPA | dl | coming soon | |
Special notes about development builds
- Bugs
- As development builds are bleeding edge code you might find a bug here and there. In order to get rid of this bugs, it's important that these will be reported: HOW-TO:Submit a proper bug report.
- Feature requests
- If you have a feature that you think should be added to appear in the next stable version of XBMC, you can make a feature request: HOW-TO:Submit an official feature request.
Buildbot
Billy the buildbot. He makes the nightly and monthly builds of XBMC from git.