LibreELEC
LibreELEC (short for Libre Embedded Linux Entertainment Center) is an up-to-date non-profit and fully open-source fork of the (now discontinued) OpenELEC as an up-to-date Just enough operating system. It acts as a Linux-based all-in-one Home theater PC (HTPC) distribution for the Kodi media center application software appliance and entertainment system.
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| LibreELEC |
|---|
| LibreELEC settings Add-On in KODI |
| LibreELEC Team |
| Linux (Unix-like) |
| Current |
| Open source |
| 4 April 2016 (2016-04-04) |
| 12.2 / 15 August 2025 (15 August 2025) |
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| Automatic |
| AMD64; ARMhf, ARMv7, ARM64 |
| Linux |
| Kodi |
| GPLv2 |
| libreelec.tv |
LibreELEC (short for Libre Embedded Linux Entertainment Center) is an up-to-date non-profit and fully open-source fork of the (now discontinued) OpenELEC as an up-to-date Just enough operating system. It acts as a Linux-based all-in-one Home theater PC (HTPC) distribution for the Kodi media center application software appliance and entertainment system.
The initial fork of OpenELEC was first 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 for a more stable setup and environment.
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 | Kernel | Announcement |
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| 4 April 2016 | 16.1 | Jarvis | LibreELEC (Jarvis) v7.0.0 RELEASE Archived 2021-04-15 at the Wayback Machine | |
| 22 February 2017 | 17.0 | Krypton | LibreELEC (Krypton) v8.0.0 RELEASE Archived 2021-04-15 at the Wayback Machine | |
| 24 March 2017 | 17.1 | LibreELEC (Krypton) v8.0.1 MR Archived 2021-04-15 at the Wayback Machine | ||
| 26 May 2017 | 17.3 | LibreELEC (Krypton) v8.0.2 MR Archived 2021-04-15 at the Wayback Machine | ||
| 28 October 2017 | 17.5 | 4.11.8 | LibreELEC (Krypton) v8.2.0 RELEASE Archived 2021-01-22 at the Wayback Machine | |
| 21 November 2017 | 17.6 | LibreELEC (Krypton) v8.2.1 MR Archived 2021-04-15 at the Wayback Machine | ||
| 23 December 2017 | LibreELEC (Krypton) 8.2.2 MR Archived 2021-04-15 at the Wayback Machine | |||
| 21 January 2018 | LibreELEC (Krypton) 8.2.3 MR Archived 2021-04-15 at the Wayback Machine | |||
| 14 March 2018 | 4.9.59 | LibreELEC (Krypton) 8.2.4 MR Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine | ||
| 14 April 2018 | 4.9.80 | LibreELEC (Krypton) 8.2.5 MR Archived 2021-04-15 at the Wayback Machine | ||
| 2 February 2019 | 18.0 | Leia | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.0.0 RELEASE | |
| 26 February 2019 | 18.1 | 4.19.23 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.0.1 MR | |
| 11 May 2019 | 18.2 | 4.19.36 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.0.2 MR | |
| 22 November 2019 | 18.5 | 4.19.83 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2 | |
| 10 March 2020 | 18.6 | 4.19/5.1 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.1 | |
| 28 March 2020 | 18.6 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.2 Hotfix | ||
| 4 June 2020 | 18.7.1 | 4.19/5.1 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.3 | |
| 12 August 2020 | 18.8 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.4 | ||
| 24 August 2020 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.5 | |||
| 2 November 2020 | 18.9 | LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.6 | ||
| 26 August 2021 | 19.1 | Matrix | 5.4 | LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.0 |
| 3 November 2021 | 19.3 | 5.10 | LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.1 | |
| 9 March 2022 | 19.4 | LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.2 | ||
| 17 October 2022 | LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.3 | |||
| 15 January 2023 | 19.5 | LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.4 | ||
| 6 March 2023 | 20.0 | Nexus | LibreELEC (Nexus) 11.0 | |
| 24 March 2023 | 20.1 | 6.1.19 | LibreELEC (Nexus) 11.0.1 | |
| 20 July 2023 | 20.2 | 6.1.38 | LibreELEC (Nexus) 11.0.3 | |
| 23 December 2023 | 6.1.68 | LibreELEC (Nexus) 11.0.4 | ||
| 01 May 2024 | 21.0 | Omega | 6.6.28 | LibreELEC (Omega) 12.0 |
| 26 August 2024 | 21.1 | 6.6.46 | LibreELEC (Omega) 12.0.1 | |
| 22 January 2025 | 21.2 | 6.6.71 | LibreELEC (Omega) 12.0.2 | |
| 15 August 2025 | 21.2+ | 6.16.12 (RPi2-5 6.12.56) | LibreELEC (Omega) 12.2 | |
| 03 November 2025 | 21.3 | 6.16.12 (RPi2-5 6.12.56) | LibreELEC (Omega) 12.2.1 |
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