Display MoreLibreELEC 9.2.1 (Leia) the final version has arrived based upon Kodi v18.6, the 9.2.1 release contains many changes and refinements to user experience and a complete overhaul of the underlying OS core to improve stability and extend hardware support compared to the LE 9.0 release.
Changes since 9.2.0:
- WireGuard support added to settings
- improvements for the RPi4
- serveral minor updates
Change for Raspberry 4:
With LE 9.1.002 and later you need to add “hdmi_enable_4kp60=1“ to your config.txt if you want to use 4k output at the RPi4. Before you needed “hdmi_enable_4k=1“ that is now deprecated.
Raspberry 4:
It would be nice to have the 4B running the latest mainline kernel as other devices in LibreELEC 9.2, but adding support for an all-newSoC chipset is a huge effort and the Pi Foundation needed to align initial 4B software with the current Raspbian release to maximise compatibility with existing software and to keep the workload sensible. Generic x86/64 devices are running Linux 5.1, while Raspberry Pi devices (0/1/2/3/4) are using Linux 4.19 with some new/extra code.
In this initial release 1080p playback behaviour and performance on the 4B are broadly on-par with the previous 3B/3B+ model, except for HEVC media which is now hardware decoded and massively improved. New 4K video capabilities still have plenty of rough edges to be smoothed out, but the Pi Foundation developers have been pushing fixes to the test team at a phenomenal rate over the last month and that will continue as the userbase expands.
The 4B now uses SPI flash for the bootloader. Current firmware supports SD card boot only – Network and USB booting are still on the Pi Foundation to-do list. Also on the list is HBR audio (current audio capabilities are the same as the 3B) and 3D video. The 4B hardware is HDR capable, but software support has a dependency on the new Linux kernel frameworks merged by Intel developers (with help from Team LibreELEC/Kodi) in Linux 5.2 and a kernel bump will be needed to use them. Once the initial excitement and activity from the 4B launch calms down, serious work on HDR and transitioning Raspberry Pi over to the new GBM/V4L2 video pipeline can start.
Rockchip:
Our Rockchip releases remain in an state with limited support. The Kodi version is updated but there are no significant video/audio improvements to the Rockchip 4.4 kernel codebase – and none planned. Our work on Rockchip support has refocussed onto the Linux 5.x kernel to use the modern kernel frameworks needed for the next-generation Kodi video pipeline. This work is progressing nicely, but it means the 4.4 codebase “is what it is” until a future kernel bump.
Amlogic
Our original goal was to announce Allwinner and Amlogic images alongside Rockchip as part of the LibreELEC 9.2 release, but while overall readiness has greatly improved in recent months – each has specific technical challenges to overcome before they meet our basic critera for a public release. On the human side of the project several maintainers also have reduced availability for support due to work and family commitments. Combining these factors together, the team felt it was better to be patient and not rush releases.
So instead of releasing LibreELEC 9.2 stable images, we are announcing the start of official nightly images from our master development branch.If you experience problems, please open an thread at our forum. You can also open an ticket at our issue tracker.
Upgrading
On first boot the Kodi media database will be upgraded. Depending on your hardware and media collection size this could take several minutes. Please be patient.
Downloads

LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.1
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Nice work!
I notice the kernel version has remained at 5.1.16...
I had been secretly hoping a future version would bring this up to 5.3.0 or higher, as my J1900-based system is occasionally liable to crash as per 109051 – cstates: intel_idle.max_cstate=1 required to prevent crashes - Baytrail
I suppose this won't happen now until a Kodi-19 based release?
Thanks very much again for the great release!
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I suppose this won't happen now until a Kodi-19 based release?
Correct. LE master is already on 5.4 or 5.5.
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Nice work!
I notice the kernel version has remained at 5.1.16...
I had been secretly hoping a future version would bring this up to 5.3.0 or higher, as my J1900-based system is occasionally liable to crash as per 109051 – cstates: intel_idle.max_cstate=1 required to prevent crashes - Baytrail
I suppose this won't happen now until a Kodi-19 based release?
Thanks very much again for the great release!
There is a workaround for this if i remember well I used it on my ASRock j1900 and N3700 Boards.
I disabled High Precision timer and Steedstep (some mainboards don't have the "CPU C State Report" option for disabling only CStates), then, later I used a little script that disabled C6 and C7 state.
Regards
Nicolas
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Is there a reason it's not auto-updating?
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I'd guess our release manager forgot to enable auto-update.
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I'd guess our release manager forgot to enable auto-update.
due the issues with the Generic build we are likely need create a new version, not decided yet
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Be prepared for most of the addons to break. Seems that Python got upgraded AGAIN to something like 3.01 or something, so now Python 3.0 doesn't work. All of the recently updated to 3.0 addons are broken now (notably six is broken).
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i'm using Milhouse Intel nightly build 19 and for several plugin only need to edit addon xml if already ready for python 3
Amazon vod , audio script profiles, aeon nox kodi for example just need to edit addon.xml
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How come the Cast issue for TV Show episodes that was reported months ago has not been addressed as of yet?
Regards,
Shedrock
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I'm guessing that Issues that cannot be reproduced are hard to fix.
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I'm guessing that Issues that cannot be reproduced are hard to fix.
What is that suppose to mean? It is a FACT that it has not been working for the longest while. I have posted about it, and YOUR team member has recognized that it is an ongoing issue, so I am confused why you would reply without checking with your colleges first.
Plot & Cast not showing on LibreELEC
I posted a simple question about it a few months ago, and I got attitude for absolutely no reason whatsoever. I don't understand how, when why or who to ask. Am I asking in a way that is offensive? Why is this so difficult? I have been using LibreELEC for so long and never had issues with the CAST showing up in TV Show episodes while playing and pressing "I"nfo on my remote. It is a problem as DaVu noticed.
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Thank you,
Shedrock
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Be prepared for most of the addons to break. Seems that Python got upgraded AGAIN to something like 3.01 or something, so now Python 3.0 doesn't work. All of the recently updated to 3.0 addons are broken now (notably six is broken).
This is not relevant for LE 9.2.x releases which are entirely Python2 based. The Python3 changes only impact LE master (will be LE10 in the future).
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Well, I just re upgraded to 9.2.1 on my pi4, just to make sure. Almost every addon is "not compatible" and disabled. This includes multiple PVRs, YouTube, six, chardet, input stream, dateutils,
Milhouse says his releases for pi2-3 changed after 0229 with the same behavior, that was his explanation.
9.2.1 is completely useless as of the moment on pi4.
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If you had (temporarily) installed a Milhouse build you have to uninstall all addons as your addons have been upgraded to Python 3 / Kodi-Matrix only versions. Starting from scratch or restoring a backup may be an easier solution.
so long,
Hias
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Did that too. I will do it again, to be sure.
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Hi!
I just deployed this version and struggled for quite a while trying to install a specific game emulator. Eventually, I realized this was not possible because Libreelec is 32 bit.
Are there any plans for 64 bit?
Cheers!
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I just deployed this version and struggled for quite a while trying to install a specific game emulator.
we have all emulators bundled for every hardware platform we support, so likely you want to install an emulator that is not supported at Kodi/LE ?