XBMC 11.0 - Eden
It’s been over a year in the works and today we are excited to announce that XBMC 11.0 is finally ready and available for download. You can find XBMC 11.0 here.
XBMC 11.0 Milestones include Addon Rollbacks, vast improvements in Confluence (the default skin), massive speed increases via features like Dirty-region rendering and the new JPEG decoder, a simpler, better library, movie set scraping, additional protocol handling, better networking support, better handling of unencrypted BluRay content and structures, adjustable display refresh rate in OSX (to match the already available feature in Windows and Linux), AirPlay support, an upgraded weather service with geoip lookup, and much, much more. Check out the highlights in the summarized changelog.
The new Confluence
In addition to our many software improvements, we’ve increased our reach in the realm of hardware support since Dharma was released. Eden marks the first in-sync stable release for the Apple TV2, iPad, and other iOS devices. We’ve vastly improved the method by which we handle input, including heavily upgrading JSON-RPC support, making remote control support much, MUCH simpler in Windows, and enabling unique methods of device communication with hardware. And now even AMD devices are supported for GPU video decoding in Linux to some extent, thanks to the inclusion of VAAPI.
Beyond XBMC 11 for Windows, Linux, OSX, and iOS, we are also happy to announce XBMCbuntu Final.
XBMCbuntu is very similar to past versions of XBMC Live. By default, the user boots directly into XBMC, and if he/she chooses, he or she will never see the underlying OS. However, unlike Live, XBMCbuntu is now built upon a full LXDE desktop environment, which has a web browser (Chromium) with a fully updated (and updatable) version of Flash built-in and a GUI package manager ready to install and update all of the normal Ubuntu programs a typical Linux user might use. The user may now toggle between XBMC, which auto-starts, and a normal desktop if he or she chooses. And, perhaps most exciting for many users, XBMC will now be upgradeable, both from command line and from the GUI package manager, without fear of crashing the XBMC experience.
Naturally, those users who do not want to see the desktop will never need to. When you boot your computer, you will be booted directly into the XBMC homescreen, just as you are right now. The only clear difference is the new power underneath the hood. Those users who have already installed the Beta version of XBMCbuntu can upgrade to final using the apt-get upgrade commands.
There are truly an incredible number of updates and improvements between Dharma and Eden. But don’t take our word for it. Download XBMC 11.0 Eden now.
Great work!
You are a gem in the film world
Great job!
nice, congrats on the release guys
All of you are huge dudes. Thank you guys. The best MC software for my HTPC!
Thank you very much for the great work you are doing.
Awesome! Been waiting for the XBMCbuntu build for ages!
Great work guys! It´s time for me to upgrade now, I have been waiting for the final release for some time now.
Great news. Congrats to all involved.
Works DTS hd?
Woohoo! Congrats to all the devs. XBMC has come so so far since the xbox. We love it.
Congratulations! This is a wonderful piece of software. I will download and install it immediately. Thanks.
This is both excellent, and annoying.
Excellent, because it’s been released. Awesome work!
Annoying, because I was literally 10 minutes from finishing the RC3 XBMCbuntu iso. :-) Good timing!
Congratulations! Thanks for XBMC. It’s the best out there!
HD sound has not been included.
Yeah!!!!!! Nice job! Congratulations! thank you very much to all involved for your time and efforts!
Hmm, I get a write error when I try and update – no space left on device. Any ideas?
Congrats! Very excited up upgrade all of my xbmc boxes!
Thank you very very much, i’ve been waiting for a while and now it’s finally here. Keep up the good work :-) :-) :-)
what am still missing is the minimize option in the shutdown menu. was very useful to me untill it was removed. Partneships with hardware manufactures for small footprint hardware disigned for xbmc? Otherwise this is the greatest version ever from the greatest media centre
Even more than I wish you congratulations, I want to thank you.
It’s just absurd this is all done by volunteers, this is the finest example of a successful open source project, as it is the best in what it does. Without xbmc, home cinema would never be as good as it is today.
So this thing should be EVEN MORE SOLID than the beta 1 I’m running?
Thanks Guys! (but the beta was already to goooooooood).
Massive thanks…. appreciation to everyone who puts work into this.
Excellent…..just need PVR and xbmc will be the all encompassing, dominant media centre. Well done guys!!
Awesome!!!
Good work everyone involved! Upgraded and running!
I really love using xbmc and the new version is so good.
Thanks a lot!
YOU GUYS ARE MY FUCKING HEROES!!
Awesome…. now all that is needed is a way to get it onto an Apple TV3
Looking forward to this. But please provide checksums so that we may confirm that the ISO and other files downloaded without error.
Wow! Thnx for all your hard work team xbmc! This was worth waiting for :-)
Three minutes after the install was done, I was playing the first video, everything working just fine as far as I can tell (XBMCbuntu).
Just had to switch audio settings and add folders. I’m impressed. :)
Awesome. I am waiting for so long! It’s gonna be a long night :)
Nice job!
Great job, congrats guys!
Great job! Thanks!! :)
Anyway this version will run bluray isos? I like running the iso’s and have temporarily switched over to WMC and I hate it!!
@flyingV
Using Apple TV 2? Solution is in the FAQ: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBMC_for_iOS_specific_FAQ
Great work!
Great Job guys! Thanks to everyone on the development team and those to took part in QA testing. This will be a grand day indeed!
DDDamian – where’s my HD Audio version? ;-)
xbmc is getting better and better and better.
Thank you for all the hardwork.
Great!
Exciting. So what’s the process for updating?
Epic. Great Job guys!
@Will
Just replace the old copy of XBMC with the new copy. Userdata is stored elsewhere, so it won’t be erased. If you use MySQL DB sharing then you should see this page: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Sync_multiple_libraries/Upgrading_XBMC_from_v10_to_v11
Congrats guys! Thanks!
yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa thanks!!
I’m using Windows Media Center now and would like to replace it with XBMC. But IIRC XBMC doesn’t have DVR/TV tuner capabilities. Any chance this has been added in this new build? Thanks all the same!
@Oyjord
Will hopefully be apart of the next release. Check out the XBMC forums for unofficial builds that have PVR/DVR support in them from the PVR branch.
Congratulations on another milestone folks!
Thanks, nedscott, will do!
How about fixing some of the many bugs reported already before a proper release?
@Frank Costanza
Because there were no outstanding major issues, some bugs are too rare to justify further delay, and some things can only be fixed via work that wasn’t ready for v11 (for example, a lot of audio features will be improved with Audio Engine, but it wasn’t ready in time for v11). Some bugs are apart of libraries that we don’t have direct control over and must be updated elsewhere on the food chain. Some bugs come from “moving targets” such as RTMP (getting flash streams to work in add-ons). The list goes on. It’s literally impossible to wait until we’re “bug free”, because in that time some standard or website or something will change and make something else break.
We also can’t fix bugs we don’t know about. Bug reports need to be made on Trac and/or the forums, and with the necessary info for our devs to be able to work on them.