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New versions of Kodi and LibreELEC are out, but only for Raspberry Pi 4 users (for now)…
L ibreELEC was forked from OpenELEC, which began life in 2009 as a minimal Linux flavour for running
XBMC.
This also found its way to the Pi very soon after the latter’s inception.
In 2017, though, the project was abandoned and most of the developers joined the LibreELEC project. LibreELEC describes itself as Just Enough OS (JEOS) to run Kodi and strategically times its releases to coincide with those of the latter. Kodi 19, codenamed Matrix, was a big release and in late August 2021 this was incorporated into LibreELEC 10.0.0. Since then there have been a few point revisions of both. When we wrote this feature, we used LibreELEC 10.0.1 with Kodi 19.3. By the time you read it, it’s likely that newer editions will be available.