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First of all we want to wish happy holidays and a merry Christmas to all our users, developers, contributors and every one else. Thank you all for the support and help and for enjoying our software. Let’s hope the year 2014 will bring all of you health and happiness and of course make XBMC even more great than it already is.

Now for the important news and Christmas surprise. It has been around seven months after the release of XBMC 12.2 and we are happy to announce XBMC 12.3 with fixes for bugs found in the 12.2 release. The list of fixes contain several bug fixes that are back-ported from the ongoing development from our 13.0 Gotham release. The list only contains fixes that are deemed critical and are relatively easy to apply to the Frodo 12.2 release without risking stability regressions. This means we are aware of several shortcomings of Frodo and trying to fix those would be to intrusive or risky to apply. This also means that 12.3 will be the last of the Frodo line and all future, major improvements will only be included in Gotham 13.0

Without further ado here’s the list of fixes included:

• OSX 10.9 Maverick fixes that appeared when it was release
  
• update PVR addons
  
• several PVR related bugs
  
• memory leaks
  
• audio channel mapping
  
• possible crash on progress dialog
  
• and more
  

You can read the complete list of fixes here
Dealing with OSX 10.9

As many of you may have experienced, 10.9 has caused a number of issues for our current releases. In addition to forcing us to release a 12.3 version, we’ve learned that 10.9 appears to have reset security settings. Now to install XBMC, you need to right click the application after it’s been installed and select “Open” from the list (this need only be done once).

Alternatively, you can go to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> General. From there, unlock the lock at the bottom of the window and “Allow apps downloaded from: Anywhere.” This second method is the preferred method, as you will no longer be bothered for future XBMC updates.


Previous releases

As for the previous releases you can find the sum-up below.

Fixes from 12.2 included:

• Fixed infinite loop on addon dependencies, resolves crashing problem that arrose immediately post 12.1 launch
  
• Numerous UPnP fixes
  
• Memory leak fixed when XBMC is minimized
  
• Various Raspberry Pi playback fixes and software codec support
  
• Fixed OSX audio mixing
  
• Fixed some audio-related crashes in Linux builds
  
• AirPlay fixes
  
• Bluray folder resume-bookmarks now work
  
• Ability to scan for new content on file folders has been reimplemented
  
• Language updates from Transifex
  

Fixes from 12.1 included:

• XBMC now supports using OSX’s default output device for audio as well as hardware decoding with Intel GPUs in OSX
  
• XBMC no longer hogs audio for Linux and on resume audio will continue to work in Linux
  
• Full iPhone 5 resolution is now enabled
  
• Volume buttons on Android devices now control Android volume, rather than XBMC volume
  
• Volume buttons on OSX devices once again control OSX volume, rather than XBMC volume
  
• Player optimization on the Raspberry Pi, including more efficient playback, better subtitle support, and many crash fixes
  
• iOS 6 support on the AppleTV 2.
  
• XBMC does not crash when listed on the AppleTV top shelf
  
• Added support for additional Xbox 360 controller types
  
• Broader and more intelligent support for CEC devices
  
• Fixed problems with several addons due to broken binary read/write in our python interface
  
• Language fixes, including 7 new languages: Albanian, Burmese, Malay, Persian (Iran), Tamil (India), Uzbek, Vietnamese
  
• AirPlay fixes, including making discovery of XBMC more reliable on OSX
  
• Numerous crashing and stability fixes across all platforms
  

Updating

To update to XBMC 12.3, please visit our download page, which includes downloads for Windows, OSX, and Android, and instructions for Linux, iOS, the Apple TV, and the Raspberry Pi. XBMCbuntu users can see these instructions for upgrading to 12.3 using ppa:team-xbmc/ppa.

If you have any problems read the Frodo FAQ, the Raspberry Pi FAQ, or the Android FAQ, depending on your version.

Full blog post link: http://xbmc.org/xbmc-12-3-frodo-fixes/

Thank you! Merry Christmas!

Thanks for all of the hard work you do.

When I downloaded xbmc-12.3.exe Norton Internet Security said it detected "Cloud.7.EP" and deleted it. Any thoughts on this?

(2013-12-25, 20:40)HTPC Engineer Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks for all of the hard work you do.

When I downloaded xbmc-12.3.exe Norton Internet Security said it detected "Cloud.7.EP" and deleted it. Any thoughts on this?

False positive. Happened last time too, iirc. XBMC for Windows is virus free.

Gift from Santa i love that shall install this one later.

thanks for the hard work.

Neato! You guys are awesome.

Though it's not downloading or me... i suppose t server is getting battered.

Thanks Ned,

I'm still faced with the problem of Norton's false positive. I can disable it and install 12.3 but it will find the exe and quarantine it later. Can you suggest a work around?

(2013-12-26, 01:59)HTPC Engineer Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks Ned,

I'm still faced with the problem of Norton's false positive. I can disable it and install 12.3 but it will find the exe and quarantine it later. Can you suggest a work around?

add it as exception

I'm running xbmcbuntu that I've upgraded or 13.04.
Frodo 12.2 worked like a charm with the AE audioengine.
But with 12.3 I can't change the pass-through device any more and got no sound.
For xbmc decoding I've got "pulse audio server..." and that works.

My brother suggested to run alsactl init before starting xbmc as it works for him,he's running 13.0. But it didn't work on 12.3

Any suggestions or settings to force xbmc using the AE audioengine?

(2013-12-26, 01:59)HTPC Engineer Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks Ned,

I'm still faced with the problem of Norton's false positive. I can disable it and install 12.3 but it will find the exe and quarantine it later. Can you suggest a work around?

Use Linux

Artwork downloader seems to be stopped working after the update, I have at least tried it 20 times now, the process starts but never ends and does not update the new logo etc.

On v13.0 Gotham --- What is the wild guestimate release date, and/or the current official release date forecast?

(2013-12-29, 00:03)DaaBoss Wrote: [ -> ]On v13.0 Gotham --- What is the wild guestimate release date, and/or the current official release date forecast?

Thursday

I have downloaded the update and ran the installation but when I turn xbmc on I still have the 12.2 version. I did not uninstall the previous version. Any help pls

(2013-12-26, 20:38)3dfx Wrote: [ -> ]But with 12.3 I can't change the pass-through device any more and got no sound.
For xbmc decoding I've got "pulse audio server..." and that works.

My brother suggested to run alsactl init before starting xbmc as it works for him,he's running 13.0. But it didn't work on 12.3

Any suggestions or settings to force xbmc using the AE audioengine?

I got the same issue.