We hope you are as excited about this as we are. After a year of hard work, improvements and testing since the release of version 12.0, we are delighted to announce the first release candidate of the upcoming XBMC 13.0, codenamed “Gotham”. The past year we have kept you informed with our monthly blog posts of all the exciting new features added to this upcoming release. Now, let’s review a few of those features we’re particularly excited about.
The features
Android Hardware Decoding
Raspberry Pi and Android speed improvements
Stereoscopic 3D Rendering
Improved Touchscreen Support
Improved UPnP capabilities
Dramatic Audio Engine Improvements
Settings Improvements
Making Subtitle Search Better
An Extended Python and JSON-RPC API for developers
Yet More Features
Skins
For the downloads go to:
* Windows
* OSX and OSX-x86-64
* Android-ARM and Android-x86
* Apple TV and iOS installation instructions
* XBMCbuntu (with beta4 is available on download page. You will need to update it to current beta version)
* Ubuntu users, please point to the “unstable PPA” as described in the Linux instructions
* For OpenELEC releases visit their website