CoreELEC 22.0-Piers_alpha2 is now available. We have made significant progress toward the first alpha release of Kodi Piers, with substantial changes in CoreELEC. It is based on Kodi Piers v22.0 Alpha 2.

CoreELEC 22 is now the active development branch, building on CoreELEC 21. Devices using Amlogic SoC S905X (GXL) or older will no longer be supported by CoreELEC 22.0-Piers. CoreELEC 22 includes the latest codebase kernel 5.15.170, thereby providing support for the latest Amlogic devices available on the market.

 * Updated vendor kernel to 5.15.170
 * Add support of Amlogic SoC S905X5
 * Add support of VVC/H266 hardware decoder
 * Add Wifi driver for Amlogic W2 chip
 * Add support for Bluetooth with Amlogic W1 and Amlogic W2 chip
 * Add internal DVB tunner support on various devices by @mczerski
 * Update libMali to r44 for all SoCs
 * Add support for Broadcom Wifi chips with provider id 0x43**
 * Add Wifi driver for EA6X21QX

CoreELEC 21.3-Omega is now available and it is based upon Kodi Omega v21.3.

Changes Since 21.2-Omega

 * MT7668: added BLE support
 * RTL8761B: updated firmware

CoreELEC 22.0-Piers_alpha1 is now available. We have made significant progress toward the first alpha release of Kodi Piers, with substantial changes in CoreELEC. It is based on Kodi Piers v22.0 Alpha 1.

CoreELEC 22 is now the active development branch, building on CoreELEC 21. Devices using Amlogic SoC S905X (GXL) or older will no longer be supported by CoreELEC 22.0-Piers. CoreELEC 22 includes the latest codebase kernel 5.15.153, thereby providing support for the latest Amlogic devices available on the market.

CoreELEC 21.2-Omega is now available and it is based upon Kodi Omega v21.2.

Changes Since 21.1.1-Omega

 * Amlogic-ng: add support of SC2, S905X4
 * Amlogic-ng: add support of Motorcomm YT8531
 * Fixed seek of BluRay ISO
 * Added Wifi module support for RTL8851BU
 * Amlogic-ne: add support of Minix U8K-Ultra
 * Amlogic-ne: add support of AP6276S Bluetooth

Full Changelog: 21.1.1-Omega...21.2-Omega

CoreELEC 21.1.1-Omega is now available and it is based upon Kodi Omega v21.1.

Changes Since 21.1-Omega

 * Amlogic-ne: fix missing set frac rate

Full Changelog: 21.1-Omega...21.1.1-Omega

CoreELEC 21.1-Omega is now available and it is based upon Kodi Omega v21.1.

Changes Since 21.0-Omega

 * Added support for PCIE Wifi
 * Added Wifi module support for AP6275P
 * Added Wifi module support for RTL8852BE
 * Added Wifi module support for RTL8761BU
 * Added JLSemi gigabit driver
 * Added support for S928X, S5 Amlogic SoC
 * Amlogic-ne: add support of Ugoos AM8 (Pro)
 * Amlogic-ne: add support of Ugoos SK1
 * Amlogic-ne: add support of Tencent Aurora 5X
 * Amlogic-ne: add support of X96 X10
 * Amlogic-ne: add support of Kinhank/Orbsmart G1
 * Added support for 3D playback, MVC frame packaging, (F)TAB, (F)SBS (limited to devices using hdmitx20 driver)
 * Added Amlogic IR transmitter support

Full Changelog: 21.0-Omega...21.1-Omega

CoreELEC 21.0-Omega is now available. We have come a long way to the first stable Kodi Omega release, and there have been big changes in CoreELEC. It is based upon Kodi Omega v21.0.

CoreELEC 21 becomes the active development branch and it is based on CoreELEC 20.

Dolby Vision will be supported on Amlogic-ne and Amlogic-ng with Kodi Omega on certain Amlogic devices like Homatics/Dune R 4K Plus, RockTek G2 or Nokia 8010. Other devices on Amlogic-ng like Ugoos AM6+ or Minix NEO U22-XJ (Max) equiped with S922X-J will support Dolby Vision with profile 7 FEL as well.

CoreELEC 21.0-Omega_rc2 is now available. It was a rather short development cycle this time around, which saw the CoreELEC developers focusing on fixing the most common issues reported with the 21.0-Omega_rc1 release.

Changes Since 21.0-Omega_rc1

 * Dropped project Amlogic-ng-dv
 * Worked on Dolby Vision playback

Full Changelog: 21.0-Omega_rc1...21.0-Omega_rc2

CoreELEC 21.0-Omega_rc1 is now available. It was a rather short development cycle this time around, which saw the CoreELEC developers focusing on fixing the most common issues reported with the 21.0-Omega_beta3 release.

Changes Since 21.0-Omega_beta3

 * Fixed W1-AML Wifi driver
 * Fixed Dolby Vision on Amlogic-ng
 * Added Wifi module support for AIC8800-SDIO 

Full Changelog: 21.0-Omega_beta3...21.0-Omega_rc1

CoreELEC 20.5-Nexus is now available. It was a rather short development cycle this time around, which saw the CoreELEC developers focusing on fixing the most common issues reported with the 20.4-Nexus release.

Changes Since 20.4-Nexus

 * Fixed W1-AML Wifi driver
 * Fixed Dolby Vision on Amlogic-ng
 * Added Wifi module support for AIC8800-SDIO 

Full Changelog: 20.4-Nexus...20.5-Nexus