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.[2][3][4][5]This is a conservative fork of the OpenELEC project with a stronger focus on pre-release testing and post-release change management.[5]
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 LibreELEC settings Add-On in KODI | |
| Developer | LibreELEC Team |
|---|---|
| OS family | Linux (Unix-like) |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Open source |
| Initial release | 4 April 2016 |
| Latest release | 11.0.6[1]  / 26 January 2024 |
| Repository | |
| Update method | Automatic |
| Platforms | AMD64; ARMhf, ARMv7, ARM64 |
| Kernel type | Linux |
| Default user interface | Kodi |
| License | GPLv2 |
| Official website | libreelec |
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.