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Skärmavbild-2014-04-15-kl.-20.52.381

Conferences 

Meet us at LinuxTag 2014

Once again we will be exhibit between the 8th and 10th of May at LinuxTag in Berlin, Germany. This will be our sixth year attending. This year will be really different, new exhibition halls, new partners droidcon and re:publica. Of course we want you to join us at the booth, chat with us and let us…

Blittan

April 14, 2014·1 min read
hastalaxp

Community 

The end of Windows XP

As you may have read, the official Microsoft support for Windows XP will ended at April 8th, 2014. This means the end of life for this 13 years old operating system which has fulfilled it’s purpose. After this date there will be no more updates any more, plugging possible security leaks. At the…

Martijn Kaijser

April 06, 2014·4 min read

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April Fools 

April fools: Introducting XBMC 14 - The Hoff

Note: This was of course an April fools prank. The real codename for v14 has since been established as ‘Helix’. Amid all this news of the XBMC 13 release (Just now hitting Beta 3), we have some developers who are beginning to submit features for the upcoming XBMC 14, which, of course, means we…

Nathan Betzen

March 31, 2014·2 min read
gotham_splash_beta-600x336

Prerelease 

XBMC 13.0 Gotham - Beta 3 Returns

Once again with Beta 3 we are looking at almost entirely fixes rather than features. Still, many of those fixes are worth mentioning in an abbreviated change log, and at least one is worth bringing up by name. Ever since the release of iOS 7, Airplay support in XBMC has suffered. Fortunately,…

Nathan Betzen

March 31, 2014·2 min read
gotham_splash_beta

Prerelease 

XBMC 13.0 Gotham - The Beta 2 We Deserve

It’s been a mere 13 days since beta 1 came out, and already we’re ready for beta 2. This is almost entirely a “fix” beta release, meaning no new features, only a more rock solid foundation. Still, many of those fixes are worth mentioning in an abbreviated change log. For a more full rundown of the…

Nathan Betzen

March 16, 2014·3 min read

Community 

XBMC shirts and hoodies sale, now with new colors, but less than a week left

This is just a quick reminder for those of you not on the social networks that the XBMC Beta shirt and hoodie sale has less than a week to go, and after that we won’t be selling this particular design again, possibly forever. Also, since the beta 1 announcement, we’ve added a few more shirt colors…

Nathan Betzen

March 11, 2014·1 min read
gotham_splash_beta

Prerelease 

XBMC 13.0 Gotham - Beta1 rises!

We hope you are as excited about this as we are. After a year of hard work, improvements and testing since the release of version 12.0, we are delighted to announce the Beta release of the upcoming XBMC 13.0, codenamed “Gotham”. The past year we have kept you informed with our monthly blog posts of…

Martijn Kaijser

March 03, 2014·8 min read
scale_writeup

Conferences 

XBMC at SCALE 2014 (Plus Google On Air Hangout)

Greetings XBMC users in the southern California region! We’d like to take this time to formally invite you to come visit us at our booth at the Southern California Linux Expo this Saturday and Sunday (Feb. 22nd-23rd) at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel. Manning the booth this year are…

Nathan Betzen

February 17, 2014·1 min read
Celestium

Community 

Work in Progress Skins 2014

The XBMC skinning engine has matured over the years to allow lots of different kinds of styles such as horizontal, vertical, touchscreen menus, fanart, clearart and advanced animations. Many users are familiar with our popular skins but we also have a vibrant community of developers creating…

zag

February 12, 2014·1 min read
xbmc-gotham-teaser-purple

Community 

XBMC 13 Gotham - on its way to Beta status

In the last blog post we already told you we are working hard towards a Beta release. There are still some things that need to be improved before we are confident on releasing a Beta. We will of course keep you posted when that time comes. Work continues by the developers to iron out the know…

Martijn Kaijser

January 17, 2014·4 min read
xbmc-gotham-teaser

Prerelease 

XBMC 13 Gotham – November and December

With Feature Freeze now being in effect and the team is working towards a Beta release which we still have not set a release day for, the last two months have had tons of new additions and fixes to XBMC, both major and minor. A quick look at the change log shows well over 800 new commits (commits…

Martijn Kaijser

January 04, 2014·3 min read
12_3-Frodo

Release 

XBMC 12.3 - Frodo fixes!

First of all we want to wish happy holidays and a merry Christmas to all our users, developers, contributors and every one else. Thank you all for the support and help and for enjoying our software. Let’s hope the year 2014 will bring all of you health and happiness and of course make XBMC even…

Martijn Kaijser

December 23, 2013·4 min read
o-CAT-LAPTOP-facebook

Community, Developer 

Server Issues: Solved

We are pleased to announce that the XBMC download and addon servers are back up and running. We’ve switched over to some newer, faster hardware, and after a few hiccups, it appears the problems that have been hounding us for the past week or so have finally been resolved. The only remaining issue…

Nathan Betzen

December 15, 2013·1 min read
Servers-Server-Farm-Engine-Room

Community, Developer 

Server Issues

If you’ve tried to download XBMC, update an addon, or download a new addon over the past few days, you may have noticed that our servers have been behaving poorly. Let me begin by assuring you that we believe we have tracked down the issue to a malfunctioning piece of code on our primary mirror…

Nathan Betzen

December 11, 2013·2 min read
skins

Community 

Introducing the new Add-on Website

XBMC is a comprehensive piece of software in its own right, but what really gives it power, is the ability to extend the features beyond the normal application through 3rd party Add-ons. In the recent times we have encouraged more users to develop these Add-ons, with over 450 currently in the…

zag

November 22, 2013·1 min read
gotham_repo

Community 

XBMC 13 - Gotham: Note to Add-on developers

As we now have reached feature freeze as you have read here, it’s safe to say that there will be no more fundamental changes done that would greatly influence the work that developers need to do to get ready for Gotham. This doesn’t mean changes are excluded but they should be minimal. Skins Skins…

Martijn Kaijser

November 19, 2013·5 min read

Community, Developer 

Making Subtitle Search Better

We’d like to take a minute to quickly announce that we’ve dramatically changed the way subtitle search works under the hood in XBMC. In XBMC 12.2, all subtitle search services are part of a single piece of code that comes in the form of the XBMC Subtitles addon that is released by Team XBMC. This…

Nathan Betzen

November 14, 2013·2 min read
server_racks

Developer 

Jenkins, servers and mirrors

Usually we only post interesting facts about XBMC itself on our website like our monthly version or actual releases. Maybe it’s time to tell you a little about the infrastructure that goes behind all this. Without all this there wouldn’t really be much of a website, XBMC builds, add-on repo and the…

Martijn Kaijser

November 13, 2013·4 min read
xbmc-gotham-teaser2

Prerelease 

XBMC 13 Gotham – September and October

Because of our Devcon 2013 meeting we were to busy to put up a decent monthly blog post. So let’s sum up the changes done so far after the September cyle. September cycle ActiveAE – A Simpler Approach to Audio With the September month’s alpha, we are also excited to introduce ActiveAE, an engine…

Martijn Kaijser

November 03, 2013·3 min read
xbmc-gotham-teaser

Community 

Gotham 13.0 Feature freeze

As you may have already read in our XBMC Devcon 2013 liveblog, we have decided that it’s time to feature freeze XBMC 13 “Gotham” and get ready for a new major version release. This feature freeze date has been set around the 10th of November 2013 so this means we have less than two weeks for adding…

Martijn Kaijser

October 30, 2013·4 min read

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All News653Community Updates176Conferences56Deep Dive14DevCon33Developer Updates129Prerelease Announcements138Release Announcements66April Fools7

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Skärmavbild-2014-04-15-kl.-20.52.381

Conferences 

Meet us at LinuxTag 2014

Once again we will be exhibit between the 8th and 10th of May at LinuxTag in Berlin, Germany. This will be our sixth year attending. This year will be really different, new exhibition halls, new partners droidcon and re:publica. Of course we want you to join us at the booth, chat with us and let us…

Blittan

April 14, 2014·1 min read
hastalaxp

Community 

The end of Windows XP

As you may have read, the official Microsoft support for Windows XP will ended at April 8th, 2014. This means the end of life for this 13 years old operating system which has fulfilled it’s purpose. After this date there will be no more updates any more, plugging possible security leaks. At the…

Martijn Kaijser

April 06, 2014·4 min read
hasselhoff_crop2-600x336

April Fools 

April fools: Introducting XBMC 14 - The Hoff

Note: This was of course an April fools prank. The real codename for v14 has since been established as ‘Helix’. Amid all this news of the XBMC 13 release (Just now hitting Beta 3), we have some developers who are beginning to submit features for the upcoming XBMC 14, which, of course, means we…

Nathan Betzen

March 31, 2014·2 min read
gotham_splash_beta-600x336

Prerelease 

XBMC 13.0 Gotham - Beta 3 Returns

Once again with Beta 3 we are looking at almost entirely fixes rather than features. Still, many of those fixes are worth mentioning in an abbreviated change log, and at least one is worth bringing up by name. Ever since the release of iOS 7, Airplay support in XBMC has suffered. Fortunately,…

Nathan Betzen

March 31, 2014·2 min read
gotham_splash_beta

Prerelease 

XBMC 13.0 Gotham - The Beta 2 We Deserve

It’s been a mere 13 days since beta 1 came out, and already we’re ready for beta 2. This is almost entirely a “fix” beta release, meaning no new features, only a more rock solid foundation. Still, many of those fixes are worth mentioning in an abbreviated change log. For a more full rundown of the…

Nathan Betzen

March 16, 2014·3 min read

Community 

XBMC shirts and hoodies sale, now with new colors, but less than a week left

This is just a quick reminder for those of you not on the social networks that the XBMC Beta shirt and hoodie sale has less than a week to go, and after that we won’t be selling this particular design again, possibly forever. Also, since the beta 1 announcement, we’ve added a few more shirt colors…

Nathan Betzen

March 11, 2014·1 min read
gotham_splash_beta

Prerelease 

XBMC 13.0 Gotham - Beta1 rises!

We hope you are as excited about this as we are. After a year of hard work, improvements and testing since the release of version 12.0, we are delighted to announce the Beta release of the upcoming XBMC 13.0, codenamed “Gotham”. The past year we have kept you informed with our monthly blog posts of…

Martijn Kaijser

March 03, 2014·8 min read
scale_writeup

Conferences 

XBMC at SCALE 2014 (Plus Google On Air Hangout)

Greetings XBMC users in the southern California region! We’d like to take this time to formally invite you to come visit us at our booth at the Southern California Linux Expo this Saturday and Sunday (Feb. 22nd-23rd) at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel. Manning the booth this year are…

Nathan Betzen

February 17, 2014·1 min read
Celestium

Community 

Work in Progress Skins 2014

The XBMC skinning engine has matured over the years to allow lots of different kinds of styles such as horizontal, vertical, touchscreen menus, fanart, clearart and advanced animations. Many users are familiar with our popular skins but we also have a vibrant community of developers creating…

zag

February 12, 2014·1 min read
xbmc-gotham-teaser-purple

Community 

XBMC 13 Gotham - on its way to Beta status

In the last blog post we already told you we are working hard towards a Beta release. There are still some things that need to be improved before we are confident on releasing a Beta. We will of course keep you posted when that time comes. Work continues by the developers to iron out the know…

Martijn Kaijser

January 17, 2014·4 min read
xbmc-gotham-teaser

Prerelease 

XBMC 13 Gotham – November and December

With Feature Freeze now being in effect and the team is working towards a Beta release which we still have not set a release day for, the last two months have had tons of new additions and fixes to XBMC, both major and minor. A quick look at the change log shows well over 800 new commits (commits…

Martijn Kaijser

January 04, 2014·3 min read
12_3-Frodo

Release 

XBMC 12.3 - Frodo fixes!

First of all we want to wish happy holidays and a merry Christmas to all our users, developers, contributors and every one else. Thank you all for the support and help and for enjoying our software. Let’s hope the year 2014 will bring all of you health and happiness and of course make XBMC even…

Martijn Kaijser

December 23, 2013·4 min read
o-CAT-LAPTOP-facebook

Community, Developer 

Server Issues: Solved

We are pleased to announce that the XBMC download and addon servers are back up and running. We’ve switched over to some newer, faster hardware, and after a few hiccups, it appears the problems that have been hounding us for the past week or so have finally been resolved. The only remaining issue…

Nathan Betzen

December 15, 2013·1 min read
Servers-Server-Farm-Engine-Room

Community, Developer 

Server Issues

If you’ve tried to download XBMC, update an addon, or download a new addon over the past few days, you may have noticed that our servers have been behaving poorly. Let me begin by assuring you that we believe we have tracked down the issue to a malfunctioning piece of code on our primary mirror…

Nathan Betzen

December 11, 2013·2 min read
skins

Community 

Introducing the new Add-on Website

XBMC is a comprehensive piece of software in its own right, but what really gives it power, is the ability to extend the features beyond the normal application through 3rd party Add-ons. In the recent times we have encouraged more users to develop these Add-ons, with over 450 currently in the…

zag

November 22, 2013·1 min read
gotham_repo

Community 

XBMC 13 - Gotham: Note to Add-on developers

As we now have reached feature freeze as you have read here, it’s safe to say that there will be no more fundamental changes done that would greatly influence the work that developers need to do to get ready for Gotham. This doesn’t mean changes are excluded but they should be minimal. Skins Skins…

Martijn Kaijser

November 19, 2013·5 min read

Community, Developer 

Making Subtitle Search Better

We’d like to take a minute to quickly announce that we’ve dramatically changed the way subtitle search works under the hood in XBMC. In XBMC 12.2, all subtitle search services are part of a single piece of code that comes in the form of the XBMC Subtitles addon that is released by Team XBMC. This…

Nathan Betzen

November 14, 2013·2 min read
server_racks

Developer 

Jenkins, servers and mirrors

Usually we only post interesting facts about XBMC itself on our website like our monthly version or actual releases. Maybe it’s time to tell you a little about the infrastructure that goes behind all this. Without all this there wouldn’t really be much of a website, XBMC builds, add-on repo and the…

Martijn Kaijser

November 13, 2013·4 min read
xbmc-gotham-teaser2

Prerelease 

XBMC 13 Gotham – September and October

Because of our Devcon 2013 meeting we were to busy to put up a decent monthly blog post. So let’s sum up the changes done so far after the September cyle. September cycle ActiveAE – A Simpler Approach to Audio With the September month’s alpha, we are also excited to introduce ActiveAE, an engine…

Martijn Kaijser

November 03, 2013·3 min read
xbmc-gotham-teaser

Community 

Gotham 13.0 Feature freeze

As you may have already read in our XBMC Devcon 2013 liveblog, we have decided that it’s time to feature freeze XBMC 13 “Gotham” and get ready for a new major version release. This feature freeze date has been set around the 10th of November 2013 so this means we have less than two weeks for adding…

Martijn Kaijser

October 30, 2013·4 min read
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