LibreELEC (Krypton) 8.2.0 RELEASE
LibreELEC 8.2.0 provides a mid-year bump to improve hardware support on Intel and Raspberry Pi hardware. It also resolves minor support issues on a range of devices and fixes a number of important security issues affecting the core OS reported in recent months. Kodi is bumped to 17.5, and Samba bumps to 4.6 which brings support for SMB2/3 to LibreELEC for the first time. PLEASE READ THE RELEASE NOTES below before posting an issue in the forums as there are disruptive changes to Samba, Lirc and Tvheadend.
Changes since LibreELEC 8.0.2 include:
Fix boot-time overwrite of samba.conf.sample to ensure v4 template exists
Fix Samba startup failures by detecting/disabling old (v3) samba.conf files
Fix NAND install on WeTek Hub/Play 2 after Android Marshmallow updates
Fix VMware OVF template, drop OVA .img suffix and force â€ËÅ“installer’ mode
Fix an issue in the embedded getedid script
Fix Kodi to support 352KHz and 384KHz audio over S/PDIF
Fix clearing of core files from /storage/.cache during Kodi startup
Fix vulnerability (CVE-2017-1000250 aka Blueborne pt.1) in BlueZ
Fix vulnerability (CVE-2017-1000251 aka Blueborne pt.2) in all kernels except Amlogic 3.10
Fix a Python /dev/random issue that caused some Python crypto functions to error
Fix to prevent boot-loops when a failed update leaves valid files in /storage/.update
Update Amlogic 3.14 kernel to use kernel wireless-regdb on all reference devices
Update RPi firmware to solve minor CEC button press issues
Update RPi wifi firmware to resolve CVE-2017-9417 (Broadpwn)
Update wpa_supplicant to resolve multiple CVE’s (KRACK)
Update linux-firmware and misc-firmware packages
Update nvidia-legacy driver to 340.104
Update nvidia main driver to 384.90
Update RTL8192EU driver
Update RTL8188EU driver
Update RPi kernel to 4.9.43
Update Generic kernel to 4.11.8
Update from LibreSSL to OpenSSL
Update Samba to 4.6.8
Update to lirc 0.9.4d
Update Kodi to 17.5.1
Update kernel to enable SMB2 support (default) and where possible SMB3
Update LibreELEC settings add-on to expose more Samba config options
Revert Hauppauge DualHD tuner support (back to single-tuner, which works)
Add Slice and Slice3 projects
Add (merge) Virtual project into Generic
Add buildsystem changes to make backports from master easier
Add support for the Xiaomi Mi Box Bluetooth remote
Add support for Xbox ONE (DVB-C/T/T2) USB tuner
Add alsa configuration for the IQAudIO Digi+ on Raspberry Pi devices
Add dummy Tvheadend 4.0 add-on to ensure 4.0 is disabled on upgrade
New installation using 3rd party USB or SD writer apps (.img.gz)
LibreELEC-WeTek_Core.arm-8.2.0.img.gz
New Install to WeTek internal NAND (.zip)
LibreELEC-WeTek_Core.arm-8.2.0.zip
Manual Update from LibreELEC 7.0, 8.0, or OpenELEC (.tar)
LibreELEC-WeTek_Core.arm-8.2.0.tar