OSMC's April update is here
OSMC's slightly belated April update is here with a variety of improvements and fixes.
Here's what's new:
Bug fixes
- Fixed an issue preventing passthrough audio from working on HifiBerry DACs on Raspberry Pi 2/3
- Fix playback issue of Real Video encoded content on Raspberry Pi
- Fix additional scenarios which could cause Kodi to lose skin settings when rebooting
- Fixes for issues when using PVR and the EPG
- Fix for micro stutter when playing back VC1 encoded content on Vero 4K
- Fix an issue that could prevent DNS resolution from working on NFS-root based installations of OSMC
- Fix an issue with CEC which could cause an AVR to be repeatedly powered on
- Fix an issue with CEC which could cause a TV to be powered on spuriously
- Fix an issue preventing sharing automounted drives via Samba from working correctly
- Fix an issue preventing Substation Alpha subtitles from working correctly on new installations of OSMC
- Fix an issue preventing Zeroconf and auto-discovery of Kodi from working on Vero 4K
- Fix an issue where thumbnails may not display for some videos on Vero 4K
- Fix an issue where the check for
apt-get upgrade
may fail due to argument ordering - Fix an issue preventing add-on migration when updating from an older version of Kodi
Improving the user experience
- Added support for USB only (no SD card required) booting on Raspberry Pi when using NOOBS
- Added UUID support for NOOBS based OSMC installations
- Improved boot time for NOOBS based OSMC installations
- Improved user experience when installing OSMC via NOOBS
- The internal WiFi adapter on Apple TV should now work out of the box
- Improved HEVC playback performance on Raspberry Pi
- Added an option to reboot if NFS root is not available to give more time to wait for the network
- Allow passthrough of audio for Live TV on Vero 2
- Enable inputstream add-ons by default, which makes installing add-ons such as iPlayer easier
- BTRFS improvements for Vero 4K
- Added new icons to the OSMC skin
Miscellaneous
- Added further logging information to make debugging issues easier for other devices
- Use HTTPS for log uploading by default
- Add userspace cryptographic API for Raspberry Pi
- Add support for building ARMv6 and ARMv7 binaries on devices with an Aarch64 kernel, such as Vero 4K
- Update to ConnMan 1.34
Wrap up
To get the latest and greatest version of OSMC, simply head to My OSMC -> Updater and check for updates manually on your exising OSMC set up. Of course — if you have updates scheduled automatically you should receive an update notification shortly.
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