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News from the XBMC team is that the first beta of the next release of XBMC, called Dharma is released.

We just noticed XBMC 10.x will probably be going beta very soon. The versions have been bumbed in one of the latest XBMC changesets:

http://trac.xbmc.org/changeset/33300

There's not very much information that we can share at the moment, so stay tuned. We'll let you know when we have some more information/news on this item.

We are proud to let you know we have added an simple Installationmanager to our new images (r3375). This gives us basic functions to install OpenELEC.tv on HDDs/ SSDs/ USB Drives without many Linux knowlegdes. We can now create an Installation USB Stick and install OpenELEC.tv from this Stick to any other device.

Please take an look at our new Documentation section for an HowTo to create such Installation USB Stick from Windows.

WARNING: if you install OpenELEC.tv with this installer, be sure you have created an backup. This Installer deletes all your data and partitions from selected device!

If you have problems or questions use our Forum. Problems and Feature Requests please report to Trac.

We have just updated to the latest nVidia driver (version 236.35).

Read more for changes since 195.x:

• Fixed a regression in 256.29 where Performance Level clock frequencies were reported incorrectly in nvidia-settings.
• Fixed a 3D Vision Stereo bug that caused the stereo glasses to not toggle when the flat panel was not running at its native mode timings.
• Fixed a bug which prevented use of high performance PowerMizer levels on systems with certain ACPI configurations.
• Fixed a bug that caused non-primary Fermi GPUs to fail to initialize framebuffer memory. This caused a variety of symptoms, up to and including system hangs.
• Added unofficial GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX indirect rendering) for the following OpenGL extensions:
  • GL_ARB_blend_func_extended
  • GL_ARB_draw_buffers_blend
  • GL_ARB_sample_shading
  • GL_ARB_timer_query
  • GL_EXT_draw_buffers2
  • GL_EXT_separate_shader_objects
  • GL_NV_explici t_multisample
  • GL_NV_transform_feedback
• Improved Thermal Settings reporting in nvidia-settings to accurately reflect hardware configurations with multiple thermal sensors.
• Enhanced VDPAU to add basic support for Xinerama. VDPAU will now operate on a single physical X screen under Xinerama.
• Enhanced VDPAU's handling of corrupt clips of all formats on GPUs with VDPAU feature set C to be at least as good as on GPUs with VDPAU feature set B. This significantly improves various clips provided by nvnews.net user eamiller.
• Enhanced VDPAU to clear all VdpVideoSurfaces to black when allocated. This provides more consistent results when using a surface as a reference when no prior decode operation has written to that surface. In turn, this improves the results of decoding some corrupt streams, such as "p_only_no_play" from ffmpeg bug 1124.
• Implemented new APIs to allow sharing VDPAU surfaces with OpenGL and CUDA. The OpenGL extension is GL_NV_vdpau_interop. For CUDA, please see the documentation in the CUDA toolkit for details.
• Worked around a bug where the combination of a GPU with VDPAU feature set A together with specific motherboard chipsets could cause visible corruption when decoding some MPEG-2 streams
• Fixed a bug that prevented the VDPAU overlay-based presentation queue from being used more than a few hundred times per X server invocation.