Well, it’s partly correct as it says 18.0-ALPHA2, yet the important part is the information “Git:3a989ee” which relates to the latest commit included. So, in the case above with the following commit identifier Git:3a989ee, the CE build is built with a commit which is 29 days old. There are plenty of commits since the commit above as you see here: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commits/master. I’ts also important to mention that LE have made several commits lately which are of relevance regarding updated versions of packages etc.
Are you sharing your logs with the CE team as it might help them with debugging if you often have problems regarding freezing?
8.90.3 is planned for some time this week, there is always active development behind the scenes, the team speaks daily on Slack. Releases should be expected between 2-4 weeks.
The banding issue is still a problem but we are trying to solve it and working with Sam@OSMC on it as well.
We have become more cautious at releasing rapid updates so not to introduce bad builds to the community.
There is a couple of bugs that we are ironing out before doing a release, I know you are all eager but none of us want to give you a buggy release so just have some patience.
Will this release have resolution downscaling? I’ve been running my LibreELEC and now CoreELEC builds on 720p for native content like CBC but with 24fps it always jumps to 1080p/24hz even if the source is 720p.
Thanks to all the team for their efforts. As adamg says, none of us want a buggy release. The quality of coreelec seems really good to me. It’s all credit to the developers.
Many thanks adamg, and to all others involved in preparing this release. I note that this new release uses the OSMC Kernel, can I just confirm that the automatic update feature in coreelec will perform an update to the kernel such that there is no difference between an updated installation and a fresh installation?