14 DAY TRIAL // The OpenELEC development team has announced today, March 29, the seventh maintenance release of the OpenELEC 5.0 Linux kernel-based operating system for embedded devices, such as Raspberry Pi or Apple TV, transforming them into portable media centers based on the popular Kodi software, formerly XBMC Media Center.
According to the changelog, OpenELEC 5.0.7 is based on the recently released Kodi 14.2 media center, uses the newly announced Linux 3.18.10 LTS kernel, which has been optimized for the Raspberry Pi 2 computer board, updates the Freescale iMX6 and Raspberry Pi patches for Kodi, and adds a patch for 352 Mhz for the iMX6 support.
Additionally, the gpu-viv-g2d package has been added, the Linux 3.14.36 LTS kernel was added for Freescale iMX6, advanced deinterlacing on IVB SNB BYT has been repaired on the Intel driver, the rtl8180 kernel driver has been added, neon-vfpv4 fpu is now used on Raspberry Pi 2, and the EDID overriding issue has been fixed for Intel drivers.
Last but not least, OpenELEC 5.0.7 now makes sure that the store buffer is allocated, some pieces of firmware have been added for Freescale iMX6, render capture (wolfgar) has been implemented, and numerous packages have been updated to their latest versions. Download OpenELEC 5.0.7 right now from Softpedia.