Display MoreAlpha builds are an important part of our long-term test strategy. Our developers do high quality testing but we are small in number, don’t have every device to test with, and often sidestep problems without realising. The project needs a community of regular testers with a larger selection of hardware and more ‘human’ behaviour to find problems we miss.
Thorough testing will be particularly important for LibreELEC 9.0 as Kodi v18 brings major video changes and introduces new retro gaming capabilities.At this stage it’s too early to talk about release dates but we do want to talk about LibreELEC releasing 9.0 shortly after Kodi push their v18.0 release. It would be awesome if the time gap is small, but our priority is a stable release not fast release.
If there are outstanding issues when Kodi v18.0 ships we may hold LibreELEC 9.0 back until v18.1 or needed patches become available.TEST NOTES
The current focus for Alpha testing is the OS core. Right now we’re more interested in hardware/driver things that don’t work than Kodi issues. LibreELEC v8.90.003 is only available for Generic x86_64 and Raspberry Pi devices.
Amlogic (KVIM, Odroid C2, WeTek Play1&2/Core/Hub) and Rockchip are “work in progress” but we have visibility on developer progress and hope to start Alpha builds for them in the near future.
If you have found a problem please report them to the Forum or to our Bugtracker (forum account required).
RPi users with IR remotes may have a look at our Wikipage – dtoverlay=lirc-rpi is now deprecated.
** CAUTION **
Alpha builds exist for hands-on testing not a hands-off experience. If you run Alpha builds you must be willing to report issues via the forums and engage the LibreELEC and Kodi developers in hunting bugs. If you have no idea what a debug log is or “wife acceptance factor” is critical, these builds are not for you.
If you want to run Alpha builds please make a backup and store it somewhere safe (off-box) first. Your failure to make a backup is not our problem.
Enjoy 🙂
LibreELEC LE9 Alpha 003 (Kodi 18 Alpha 3)
RPi 2/3 LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-8.90.003.img.gz (info)
RPi 0/1 LibreELEC-RPi.arm-8.90.003.img.gz (info)
Generic LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.90.003.img.gz (info)You can also download it with our USB-SD Creator tool.
LibreELEC (Leia) v8.90.003 ALPHA
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Hello
Great news but I'm so disappointed
since I'm using a SolidRun boxI cannot see in Kodi 18 changelog that there's no more support for Freescale i.MX6 (for the moment) as readed in your announcement. I found this instead, so I'm a bit confused. Can you confirm ?
Thanks in advance
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The iMX code path in Kodi was broken for approximately ~6 months before [linux] remove imx platform by lrusak · Pull Request #12990 · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub was submitted and merged to remove it and clean things up. In the longer-term iMX6 will be supportable using a mainline kernel and the next-generation Linux video pipeline in Kodi and we already have a prototype image in the 'nxp' branch in GitHub. Early testing revealed some missing capabilities in the vivante open-source driver; notably the ability to switch refresh rate. Once upstream developers extend functions in the driver we'll be able to run public testing and think about releasing images again. As we currently have no real-world influence over those developers or visibility on timescales there are no plans for 9.0 releases.
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Great !!!
Just as I feared, there might be a lot of people complaining why their device is not in the list, like geogiraux and I understand them.
I know it's frustrating but those are ALPHA builds intended for debugging so of course the most used devices will be provided first.
Keep up with the good work guys !!!
I'll do some testing on my RPi3 (only supported device of mine for now) and give feedback
As soon as the list expends (to the devices already supported by the installer) I'll test other devices
Thanks guys !!!!!
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Is the retrogaming thing available on x64 as well and good as it is for RaspberryPi's?
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Is the retrogaming thing available on x64 as well
yes
good as it is for RaspberryPi's?
even better because x86_64 is much more powerful then an RPi
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Hello
Great news but I'm so disappointed
since I'm using a SolidRun boxI too have a Cubox-i which has now been re-tasked to other duties. However the 8.90.003 NXP does compile but as chewitt mentioned there are problems with the video drivers. It boots and works well apart from not displaying anything for more than a couple of seconds - so not a lot of use. Once the drivers have been sorted out, it's possible a community build could be available before LE10 but I wouldn't hold your breath.;
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On my Intel NUC5CPYH, everything's running fine except Chrome addon that don't open at all.
If required, i could post log. (don't know if it's a known problem..)
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Hi All,
Does this alpha build support blu ray menu and also java BD menu?
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Currently I'm using build from March which works very good. So I decided to test latest kodi achievements. And I was really disappointed. I'm very basic user but iptv with pvr iptv simple client is very important for me. And in this area kodi got really worse because switching time increased for my HLS streams. Hope I will see improvement back in next months. If not I will just stay on old build forever
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Thanks for all your explainations.
I didn't intend to complain, sorry if my post made you feel that way. I'll stay on LibreELEC 8, without holding my breath
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So if I want Blu Ray menu stick to match build?
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k3nnis As my crystal ball is currently in for it's 100,000 useless answers service, you'll need to tell us what platform you are using.
If you want "Blu Ray menu" try LE9 and if works, then great, if not, then file a bug report. - We can only test certain parts of LE9, we do not have a warehouse full of every USB device available to mankind, nor an infinite amount of monkeys banging away at keyboards to find faults.
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Does anyone have problems playing/stream video_ts files (DVD rips from NAS). They will not play. Where do I have to look in settings? I do not think ist a bug...
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This build does not play DVDs (VIDEO_TS folders).
I came across this issue when building my own RPi2 images from current LE master. I used Ubuntu 16.04 as a build host.
There are 2 ways to fix this:
- do not enable LTO for building Kodi
or
- build in Ubuntu 17.10 or 18.04.
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This build does not play DVDs (VIDEO_TS folders).
I came across this issue when building my own RPi2 images from current LE master. I used Ubuntu 16.04 as a build host.
There are 2 ways to fix this:
- do not enable LTO for building Kodi
or
- build in Ubuntu 17.10 or 18.04.
Nice, is this going to get fixed in future builds? I miss my Godfather Collection...
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Nice, is this going to get fixed in future builds? I miss my Godfather Collection...
Use Milhouse builds for now. There is no such issue in his builds.
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k3nnis As my crystal ball is currently in for it's 100,000 useless answers service, you'll need to tell us what platform you are using.
If you want "Blu Ray menu" try LE9 and if works, then great, if not, then file a bug report. - We can only test certain parts of LE9, we do not have a warehouse full of every USB device available to mankind, nor an infinite amount of monkeys banging away at keyboards to find faults.
hi,
Sorry I should have been more specific. This is got the generic build for intel i3 nuc.
Thanks,
K.
