XBMC 8.10 'Atlantis' released

November 14th, 2008 Team XBMC

Team-XBMC is proud to announce the cross-platform release of XBMC Media Center version 8.10 for Linux, Mac OS X (Leopard, Tiger, and Apple TV), Windows, and Xbox, code named ‘Atlantis‘.

We have reached the end of over 3-months of bug bashing, and have closed 425 tickets for this Gold version release and, while there are still some bugs outstanding, we feel that ‘Atlantis’ is reasonably stable, and thus it is time to move on and get cracking on new features.  We have branched for release, and will maintain this branch with critical bug fixes while we move on and begin working on new features in the main linuxport SVN trunk.

Thanks goes to everyone in the XBMC community who have made this possible by reporting bugs and suggesting improvements.  In particular we’d like to recognise the sterling efforts of Sigurdur Olafsson (a.k.a. Sho) who has been acting release manager for ‘Atlantis’, diligently handling the tracking system on behalf of developers.  We would also like to thank Arnova, SandmanCL and ShortySco of our new Quality Assurance Team for their help verifying bug reports and making it easier for the developers to concentrate on fixing bugs.

Go grab XBMC ‘Atlantis’ and let us know how it goes!

Yours sincerely / Team-XBMC

  1. November 14th, 2008 at 21:48 | #1

    ’bout damn time…

  2. November 14th, 2008 at 21:57 | #2

    Can’t wait to get this stable relase a try! Thank you team XBMC.

  3. November 14th, 2008 at 21:59 | #3

    Whoa then no RC releases? Great! This means that XBMC has an incredible level of stability!

    I’ll upgrade my xbox asap, thankyou very much for the great work! :)

  4. November 14th, 2008 at 22:10 | #4

    err, final version? Why does the XBOX have the option to exit XBMC and to suspend? The exit option just closes to a black screen, while the suspend option does nothing.

    Clearly these aren’t dramatic bugs, but they’d have been picked up if you guys done a RC. Disappointing.

  5. November 14th, 2008 at 22:16 | #5

    oh, I should add, those problems I said above are seen with the PM.3 skin, not sure about the default PM3 one

  6. XBMC4Ever
    November 14th, 2008 at 22:26 | #6

    WOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !

  7. November 14th, 2008 at 22:38 | #7

    I can confirm the suspend/exit bug inside the shutdown menu only exists on PM.3 the only other bug I found is that tetris is knackered still, completely out of frame on all skins at 720p resolution

  8. YM
    November 14th, 2008 at 22:41 | #8

    Awesome work as always!

  9. theo
    November 14th, 2008 at 22:42 | #9

    Thanx for the update…

  10. americantabloid
    November 14th, 2008 at 22:55 | #10

    Big Thanks guys!

  11. November 14th, 2008 at 23:34 | #11

    Thank you guys for all your time, hard work and commitment. XBMC is a great product and the continuous effort put in is much appreciated !

  12. Slice
    November 14th, 2008 at 23:39 | #12

    Great news, and congratulations! All the hard work that the developers have put into this is very much appreciated. this is a new day for XBMC, i still use XBMC on my XBOX but i am glad that the team is moving forward. XBOX is an obsolete platform that needed to be put to rest as it was an unnecessary burden for the developers to have to worry about cross platform compatibility with legacy hardware was really holding us back.

    Now to look forward to the future: I look forward to seeing new and innovative features added to XBMC with out the restraints of the XBOX platform, and would hope that the XBMC LIVE be further developed into a full fledged embedded Linux distribution for installation on turn-key HTPC solutions. I feel it is important for the LIVE distribution to be an important focus. Creating an embedded Linux solution with XBMC as its only UI would most certainly do wonders as fare as making an simple Linux based media center accessible to the public. embedding as apposed to the simple try it from a thumb drive looks to be promising for the LIVE version of XBMC. features such as auto update from within the XBMC interface need to be added so to enable the updating of both the Linux base platform that runs XBMC and to update XBMC itself.

  13. Richard Ayotte
    November 14th, 2008 at 23:46 | #13

    Fantastic software! Thank you for all your work.

  14. Daniel
    November 15th, 2008 at 00:11 | #14

    Wow. Who would have believed that Xbmc Atlantis would be released on my birthday. This is the best birthday gift ever. Thank you so much dear community!!

    Daniel

  15. GBot
    November 15th, 2008 at 01:10 | #15

    A day… which will live in infamy!!!

  16. November 15th, 2008 at 01:12 | #16

    Congratulations XBMC team and contributors!

  17. Lumpsack
    November 15th, 2008 at 01:58 | #17

    Great work guys I’ll give this a shot tomorrow :)
    BTW tester – no need to be harsh, these guys do a hell of a lot of hard work for an industry leading product which you get for free and you lay into them!! Bad form…

  18. November 15th, 2008 at 03:45 | #18

    Daniel: Best birthday gift ever? You know I bought you a Cadillac. Twice.

  19. Roark
    November 15th, 2008 at 03:56 | #19

    You are all awesome! Thx for the hard work.

  20. ALcALoIDe
    November 15th, 2008 at 05:12 | #20

    Hi, guys. What can I say? GREAT, GREAT, GREAT!!!! Thanks so much for your hard effort. Surely it’s being appreciated all over the world. At least, here in Brazil, it is.

    Keep up the awesome work you have been doing and let’s make it better and better.

    Best regards for you all.

  21. Slice
    November 15th, 2008 at 08:28 | #21

    When will the updated version be up on the Ubuntu repository?

  22. Slice
    November 15th, 2008 at 08:32 | #22

    never mind, just rechecked and sure enough there they are, thanks again to everyone who has made this possible!

    Peace,

  23. November 15th, 2008 at 08:55 | #23

    Thanks to all involved.

  24. tommyhome
    November 15th, 2008 at 10:29 | #24

    Nice one, great work!
    I just wonder about the name of it 8.10, isnt november the 11:th month?

  25. Jeroen
    November 15th, 2008 at 10:37 | #25

    Thanks for all the hard work guys, you’re the best!

  26. Mart!
    November 15th, 2008 at 11:58 | #26

    What is it with the people complaining over this great FREE software created by people in their SPARE TIME? Yeezz… get a live…

    You guys did a great job and I’m sure you will iron out any problems coming to the surface in no time! Keep up the good work, I am confident that XBMC will become the best mediacenter available! (for me it is already)

  27. Spiderlane
    November 15th, 2008 at 12:24 | #27

    @Tester – I think the expression is “we look forward to your patches”.

  28. November 15th, 2008 at 13:21 | #28

    HOLY CRAP!!

    Im excited!

    Downloading now….

  29. xbox
    November 15th, 2008 at 15:47 | #29

    cant find xbox release anywhere :(

  30. Jeroen
    November 15th, 2008 at 17:03 | #30

    @xbox: google for “t3ch”

  31. woot!
    November 15th, 2008 at 17:21 | #31

    great release , thanx!!

  32. Anonymous
    November 15th, 2008 at 17:43 | #32

    Big Thanks to the great team-xbmc !

  33. A_Villa vinner jo kampen
    November 15th, 2008 at 17:44 | #33

    Holy Crap!!!!
    Can’t wait to test it.
    Thanks to all involved and thanx for keeping this free :)

  34. netwho
    November 15th, 2008 at 17:47 | #34

    XBMC Rocks!

    I’m actively promoting XBMX, just because I KNOW there’s nothing comparable our there.
    Thanks a lot – You can be proud of what you achived with Atlantis in such a short period.

    Lot’s of appreciateion, netwho

  35. Quovadis
    November 15th, 2008 at 19:59 | #35

    Tnx for the great release , just bought old XBOX and will install it on it.
    Hope that you will still develop for XBOX as well
    GREAT WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  36. Scaine
    November 15th, 2008 at 20:44 | #36

    Everyone involved with XBMC development – thank you. This software lacks for nothing – beats FrontRow, Windows Media Centre and even Fluendo’s upcoming Elisa easily. Beautiful work. You all need a lot more exposure for this software – it’s an unsung masterpiece.

    –Scaine.

  37. 4D
    November 15th, 2008 at 22:00 | #37

    Many thanks to all on the XBMC team!,

    I love your software soooooo much!, it has revolutionised how we use our media around my household.

    I Wouldn’t have it any other way now!. Please keep up the good work !!!

    :)

    Cheers

    4D

  38. November 15th, 2008 at 22:33 | #38

    Great news guys! XMBC is great software and makes it really easy for me to stay on the couch :)

  39. -=Ethan_Hunt=-
    November 16th, 2008 at 00:52 | #39

    Hay this version supports play movie dvd rip codec x264 and h264 ? Old version its difficulties in working play dvd rip h264 ac3 sound and x264 ac3 sound please tell me why

  40. November 16th, 2008 at 01:45 | #40

    wow… nice work guys… i will test the new version later on my rig…

  41. bobrooney
    November 16th, 2008 at 10:28 | #41

    best mediacenter ever!

    thanks a lot guys!

  42. wayland
    November 16th, 2008 at 14:38 | #42

    is the features page upto date? and could you publish more details about what is and is not supported for mkv (ordered chapters, are ass/ssa properly supported unlike the older builds where formatting was ignored).

  43. November 16th, 2008 at 19:36 | #43

    Using XBMC for years on Xbox, just to say a big THANK YOU and keep up the good job!!!

  44. K405
    November 17th, 2008 at 14:31 | #44

    I came in my pants! ~_^

    I love u guys!

    THANK YOU

  45. Emmanue
    November 17th, 2008 at 15:46 | #45

    Thanks very much … I’ll give a try asap! You guys are really AWESOME!

  46. Junta
    November 17th, 2008 at 17:48 | #46

    Thank you guys very much for all your work..
    this is one great piece of software.
    MS could learn a thing or thousand from you :D

  47. November 17th, 2008 at 21:01 | #47

    Hi will Try it and write a feedback on http://www.kde4.de in german. I have tested the last two versions and will give the release my try on ubuntu.

    Thanks alot and keep the media turning !

  48. November 18th, 2008 at 00:19 | #48

    Looks great, thanks a lot

  49. jan
    November 19th, 2008 at 08:40 | #49

    Fantastic Software – Thank you for the good work! It is stunning.

  50. rvmfr
    November 20th, 2008 at 11:15 | #50

    Hi,

    Don’t work on Vista.

    How to run it on safemode ?

    Herve

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