{"id":21897,"date":"2011-12-28T17:17:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T15:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=21897"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:53:57","slug":"xbmc-11-beta-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/xbmc-11-beta-released\/","title":{"rendered":"XBMC 11 beta released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time in coming but the <a href=\"http:\/\/xbmc.org\/download\"><strong>beta version of XBMC 11<\/strong><\/a> has now been released. Version 11 &#8220;Eden&#8221; adds lots of new features and improvements to the open source home theater software for both Mac and Windows.<\/p>\n<p>The most notable changes are <a href=\"http:\/\/xbmc.org\/natethomas\/2011\/10\/20\/xbmc-addon-rollbacks\/\">Addon Rollbacks<\/a> and vast improvements to the <a href=\"http:\/\/xbmc.org\/natethomas\/2011\/10\/07\/xbmc-eden-skinning-changes\/\">default skin Confluence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21898\" title=\"XBMC\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/12\/XBMC.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/12\/XBMC.png 599w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/12\/XBMC-120x80.png 120w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/12\/XBMC-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are also significant speed increases thanks to what&#8217;s known as &#8220;Dirty-region rendering&#8221;, a new JPEG decoder, a simpler, better library, additional protocol handling, better networking support, better handling of unencrypted BluRay content and structures, adjustable display refresh rates in OSX (to match the already available feature in Windows and Linux), AirPlay support, an upgraded weather service, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>You can find details of all the new additions and changes to XBMC in the <a href=\"http:\/\/mirrors.xbmc.org\/releases\/11.0-Eden_beta1-changelog.txt\">changelog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although not finished yet, there are also important changes in progress to XBMC Live to make it more like a full \u201c*Buntu\u201d version of XBMC with major changes to the boot and install process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time in coming but the beta version of XBMC 11 has now been released. Version 11 &#8220;Eden&#8221; adds lots of new features and improvements to the open source home theater software for both Mac and Windows. The most notable changes are Addon Rollbacks and vast improvements to the default skin Confluence. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/xbmc-11-beta-released\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;XBMC 11 beta released&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2848],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-21897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionxbmc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333962,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21897\/revisions\/333962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21897"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=21897"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=21897"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=21897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}