Its 4.9.113 which is slightly older than our current 4.9.190 but it’s based on the very latest Amlogic src with the last commit being just over a week old vs the current which is based on code from April.
We wanted to remain as close to the stock Amlogic kernel without deviating from it and only applying code that is absolutely necessary for CoreELEC operation.
Our current kernel is based on the Hardkernel kernel and it is just as a mess, it’s difficult to update and it’s even more difficult for us to see the changes we have made due to constant kernel changes by the HK team.
With our new kernel we can keep it up to date with the latest Amlogic code easier than any other kernel that has been previously used (incl. 3.14).
We went back to the drawing board and started from scratch all over again and the new kernel is already proving to be much much better, there is now content that is playable that wasn’t playable before and the 4K GUI corruption is now gone.
The video decoding method has completely changed from using a single decoder to using a multi decoder for various formats.
It will arrive in nightlies after the next stable is out as we don’t want to mucky the stable release up with the experimental kernel.