14 DAY TRIAL // The developers of the popular OpenELEC Linux kernel-based operating system for embedded devices have announced the immediate availability for download and testing of the forth Beta build of the upcoming OpenELEC 6.0 OS.
According to the release notes, OpenELEC 6.0 Beta 4 is now based on the recently released Kodi 15.1 (Isengard) media center software, which means that it inherits all of its awesome new features, which we've detailed for your reading pleasure on a separate article. Additionally, the fourth Beta build of OpenELEC 6.0 officially supports the WeTek's WeTek_Play device, and adds support for all Solidrun Hummingboard, Solidrun CuBox-i/TV devices, as well as the OSMC Vero on the iMX6 build.
"The OpenELEC team is proud to announce the fourth beta of OpenELEC 6.0 (v5.95.4). The most visible change is Kodi 15.1 (Isengard). Beginning with Kodi 15.0 most audio encoder, audio decoder, PVR and visualization add-ons are no longer pre-bundled into OpenELEC but can be downloaded from the Kodi addon repo if required. PVR backends such as VDR and TVHeadend will install needed dependencies automatically," reads the announcement.
Numerous core components have been updated
Under the hood, OpenELEC 6.0 Beta 4 contains numerous updated components, among which we can mention FFMpeg 2.6, X.Org Server 1.17, Mesa 3D Graphics Library 10.6.5, Portable OpenSSH 7.1p1, systemd 219, Glibc 2.21, LLVM 3.6, cURL 7.44.0, libva 1.6, libressl 2.1.7, Binutils 2.25, and Linux kernel 4.1.6 LTS. The new Beta build also includes support for the brand-new X.Org input driver system that relies on the libinput library.
OpenELEC 6.0 Beta 4 is available for download right now via Softpedia, where it is distributed as generic 64-bit builds for personal computers, or directly from the project's website, where you'll find builds for all supported devices. However, please try to keep in mind the fact that this is a pre-release version, which contains unknown issues. Thus, we don't recommended it for production use.