LibreELEC explained

LibreELEC
Developer:LibreELEC Team
Family:Linux (Unix-like)
Working State:Current
Source Model:Open source
Update Model:Automatic
Supported Platforms:AMD64
ARMhf, ARMv7, ARM64
Kernel Type:Linux
Ui:Kodi
License:GPLv2

LibreELEC (short for Libre Embedded Linux Entertainment Center) is a non-profit fork of OpenELEC as an open source software appliance, a Linux-based Just enough operating system for the Kodi media player. This fork of OpenELEC announced in March 2016 as a split from the OpenELEC team after "creative differences", taking most of its active developers at the time to join the new LibreELEC project.[1] [2] [3] [4] This is a conservative fork of the OpenELEC project with a stronger focus on pre-release testing and post-release change management.[4]

History

Because of the end of Python 2 support in 2020, LibreElec version 10 with Kodi 19 switches to Python 3. Therefore, addons created for prior versions with python 2 need to be updated by developers for Kodi 19 because python code is not backward compatible.

width=150 scope=col LibreELEC versionwidth=190 Release dateKodi versionwidth=100 Kernelwidth=300 Announcement
7.0.0align=center 4 April 2016align=center 16.1align=center JarvisLibreELEC (Jarvis) v7.0.0 RELEASE
8.0.0align=center 22 February 2017align=center 17.0KryptonLibreELEC (Krypton) v8.0.0 RELEASE
8.0.1align=center 24 March 2017align=center 17.1LibreELEC (Krypton) v8.0.1 MR
8.0.2align=center 26 May 2017align=center 17.3LibreELEC (Krypton) v8.0.2 MR
8.2.0align=center 28 October 2017align=center 17.54.11.8LibreELEC (Krypton) v8.2.0 RELEASE
8.2.1align=center 21 November 201717.6LibreELEC (Krypton) v8.2.1 MR
8.2.2align=center 23 December 2017LibreELEC (Krypton) 8.2.2 MR
8.2.3align=center 21 January 2018LibreELEC (Krypton) 8.2.3 MR
8.2.4align=center 14 March 20184.9.59LibreELEC (Krypton) 8.2.4 MR
8.2.5align=center 14 April 20184.9.80LibreELEC (Krypton) 8.2.5 MR
9.0.0align=center 2 February 2019align=center 18.0LeiaLibreELEC (Leia) 9.0.0 RELEASE
9.0.1align=center 26 February 2019align=center 18.14.19.23LibreELEC (Leia) 9.0.1 MR
9.0.2align=center 11 May 2019align=center 18.24.19.36LibreELEC (Leia) 9.0.2 MR
9.2align=center 22 November 2019align=center 18.54.19.83LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2
9.2.1align=center 10 March 2020align=center 18.6LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.1
9.2.2align=center 28 March 2020align=center 18.6LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.2 Hotfix
9.2.3align=center 4 June 2020align=center 18.7.1LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.3
9.2.4align=center 12 August 202018.8LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.4
9.2.5align=center 24 August 2020LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.5
9.2.6align=center 2 November 2020align=center 18.9LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.6
10.0.0align=center 26 August 2021align=center 19.1Matrix5.4LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.0
10.0.1align=center 3 November 2021align=center 19.35.10LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.1
10.0.2align=center 9 March 202219.4LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.2
10.0.3align=center 17 October 2022LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.3
10.0.4align=center 15 January 2023align=center 19.5LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.4
11.0align=center 6 March 2023align=center 20.0NexusLibreELEC (Nexus) 11.0
11.0.1align=center 24 March 2023align=center 20.1LibreELEC (Nexus) 11.0.1
11.0.3align=center 20 July 202320.2LibreELEC (Nexus) 11.0.3
11.0.4align=center 23 December 2023LibreELEC (Nexus) 11.0.4
12.001 May 202421.0OmegaLibreELEC (Omega) 12.0
12.0.126 August 202421.1LibreELEC (Omega) 12.1

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Let's rock this gig! . Chewitt . libreelec.tv . 24 March 2016 . 4 March 2023.
  2. Web site: Hello World! . Chewitt . libreelec.tv . 20 March 2016 . 4 March 2023.
  3. Web site: About LibreELEC.tv . libreelec.tv . 2016 . 12 May 2016.
  4. Web site: LibreELEC.tv . GitHub . 12 May 2016.

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