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The OpenELEC team is proud to release the 4th beta of OpenELEC 2.0!

Internally this is known by the less-catchy name OpenELEC 1.95.4 :)

After the release of OpenELEC Beta 3 we received many new bug reports. One of the most reported issues is specific to XBMC-Eden where XBMC restarts when browsing folders, accessing a library with videos of a specific type or trying to watch these videos directly.

As this is a known bug in XBMC-Eden, to fix this we have replaced XBMC's internal ffmpeg with the version which is part of XBMC (frodo) master branch. Together with this we updated our XVBA patches with the latest work from Fernetmenta's stable XBMC-Eden solution, which contains a rework of the VDPAU support to. As these are significant changes we have decided to release Beta 4. Additionaly and as a "bonus" it adds 10bit video support :-).

Starting with Beta 4 we also check for corrupt update files before upgrading commences. On very rare occasions the download of our updates were incomplete and caused the system to fail after reboot. As our user base grows, rarer problems such as this one will emerge and be dealt with in a similar manner. This change will reduce the number of upgrades problems.

To manually update the procedure is the same as before however you must also copy KERNEL.md5 and SYSTEM.md5 to the update folder/share together with KERNEL and SYSTEM.

There are 270 changes by 9 authors and 85 closed issues since Beta 3 (1.95.3). The most important changes are: