# LibreELEC

LibreELEC (short for Libre Embedded Linux Entertainment Center) is a non-profit fork of OpenELEC as an open source software appliance, a Linux-based Just enough operating system for the Kodi media player. This fork of OpenELEC announced in March 2016 as a split from the OpenELEC team after "creative differences", taking most of its active developers at the time to join the new LibreELEC project. This is a conservative fork of the OpenELEC project with a stronger focus on pre-release testing and post-release change management.

## History

Because of the end of Python 2 support in 2020, LibreElec version 10 with Kodi 19 switches to Python 3. Therefore, addons created for prior versions with python 2 need to be updated by developers for Kodi 19 because python code is not backward compatible.
| LibreELEC version | Release date | Kodi version | Kodi version | Kernel | Announcement |
| 7.0.0 | 4 April 2016 | 16.1 | Jarvis | | LibreELEC (Jarvis) v7.0.0 RELEASE Archived 2021-04-15 at the Wayback Machine |
| 8.0.0 | 22 February 2017 | 17.0 | Krypton | | LibreELEC (Krypton) v8.0.0 RELEASE Archived 2021-04-15 at the Wayback Machine |
| 8.0.1 | 24 March 2017 | 17.1 | Krypton | | LibreELEC (Krypton) v8.0.1 MR Archived 2021-04-15 at the Wayback Machine |
| 8.0.2 | 26 May 2017 | 17.3 | Krypton | | LibreELEC (Krypton) v8.0.2 MR Archived 2021-04-15 at the Wayback Machine |
| 8.2.0 | 28 October 2017 | 17.5 | Krypton | 4.11.8 | LibreELEC (Krypton) v8.2.0 RELEASE Archived 2021-01-22 at the Wayback Machine |
| 8.2.1 | 21 November 2017 | 17.6 | Krypton | | LibreELEC (Krypton) v8.2.1 MR Archived 2021-04-15 at the Wayback Machine |
| 8.2.2 | 23 December 2017 | 17.6 | Krypton | | LibreELEC (Krypton) 8.2.2 MR Archived 2021-04-15 at the Wayback Machine |
| 8.2.3 | 21 January 2018 | 17.6 | Krypton | | LibreELEC (Krypton) 8.2.3 MR Archived 2021-04-15 at the Wayback Machine |
| 8.2.4 | 14 March 2018 | 17.6 | Krypton | 4.9.59 | LibreELEC (Krypton) 8.2.4 MR Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine |
| 8.2.5 | 14 April 2018 | 17.6 | Krypton | 4.9.80 | LibreELEC (Krypton) 8.2.5 MR Archived 2021-04-15 at the Wayback Machine |
| 9.0.0 | 2 February 2019 | 18.0 | Leia | | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.0.0 RELEASE |
| 9.0.1 | 26 February 2019 | 18.1 | Leia | 4.19.23 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.0.1 MR |
| 9.0.2 | 11 May 2019 | 18.2 | Leia | 4.19.36 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.0.2 MR |
| 9.2 | 22 November 2019 | 18.5 | Leia | 4.19.83 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2 |
| 9.2.1 | 10 March 2020 | 18.6 | Leia | 4.19/5.1 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.1 |
| 9.2.2 | 28 March 2020 | 18.6 | Leia | | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.2 Hotfix |
| 9.2.3 | 4 June 2020 | 18.7.1 | Leia | 4.19/5.1 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.3 |
| 9.2.4 | 12 August 2020 | 18.8 | Leia | | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.4 |
| 9.2.5 | 24 August 2020 | 18.8 | Leia | | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.5 |
| 9.2.6 | 2 November 2020 | 18.9 | Leia | | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.6 |
| 10.0.0 | 26 August 2021 | 19.1 | Matrix | 5.4 | LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.0 |
| 10.0.1 | 3 November 2021 | 19.3 | Matrix | 5.10 | LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.1 |
| 10.0.2 | 9 March 2022 | 19.4 | Matrix | | LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.2 |
| 10.0.3 | 17 October 2022 | 19.4 | Matrix | | LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.3 |
| 10.0.4 | 15 January 2023 | 19.5 | Matrix | | LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.4 |
| 11.0 | 6 March 2023 | 20.0 | Nexus | | LibreELEC (Nexus) 11.0 |
| 11.0.1 | 24 March 2023 | 20.1 | Nexus | 6.1.19 | LibreELEC (Nexus) 11.0.1 |
| 11.0.3 | 20 July 2023 | 20.2 | Nexus | 6.1.38 | LibreELEC (Nexus) 11.0.3 |
| 11.0.4 | 23 December 2023 | 20.2 | Nexus | 6.1.68 | LibreELEC (Nexus) 11.0.4 |
| 12.0 | 01 May 2024 | 21.0 | Omega | 6.6.28 | LibreELEC (Omega) 12.0 |
| 12.0.1 | 26 August 2024 | 21.1 | Omega | 6.6.46 | LibreELEC (Omega) 12.1 |
| 12.0.2 | 22 January 2025 | 21.2 | Omega | 6.6.71 | LibreELEC (Omega) 12.2 |