OpenELEC 3.2 released
Whats new in OpenELEC 3.2?
Like OpenELEC 3.0, the 3.2 release is based upon XBMC Frodo (12.x) but “under the hood” it includes many notable changes:
Many feature enhancements and bugfixes to XBMC Frodo; including a number of backports from Gotham and speed improvements for RaspberryPi users
Linux kernel 3.10, bringing many new and updated drivers and improvements
Mesa-9.2
ALSA 1.0.27 (thanks to Anssi Hannula for various fixes and improvements)
Updated graphic drivers from AMD, Intel and nVidia
Updated and improved pi firmware (thanks to Dom Cobley)
Updated drivers and driver firmware
Updated XVBA, VDPAU and VAAPI libraries
Intel VPP (Video Post Processing API) support by Timo Rothenpieler (thanks also to various Intel developers like Haihao Xiang)
Support for many more remotes and keymaps
Initial PPTP and OpenVPN support (via connman)
Wireless tethering support (on WLAN cards that support it)
Completely reworked networking
Completely reworked bluetooth with support for more remotes
Added support for bluetooth keyboards and file transfers
Boot speed improvements for all platforms (particularly Raspberry pi)
Many bugfixes and package updates
OpenELEC has been working closely with several AMD engineers and our special thanks go out to Jamy and Sabre for their constant support and attentive listening. You may have spotted this on the changelog for the 13.6 fglrx driver:
[377379] Fix the regression of performance drop with XBMC for UVD playback, which was the direct outcome of their constructive work. Thanks also to Peter Frühberger (fritsch) and Rainer Hochecker (FernetMenta) for their work.