Development builds

Gotham is the code name for the next version of XBMC, v13. These development builds, often called "pre-Gotham" or "pre-release" builds, are what will eventually lead to the final Gotham version. In contrast to the stable builds (v12 Frodo) you don't have to wait for the release in order to benefit from new features or fixes that made it into XBMC.

THESE BUILDS MAY BE LESS STABLE and are only for users that do not fear bugs or occasional crashes. They are mostly used for development. If you want a stable HTPC, this is not the place for you! They do help us in testing for the upcoming releases.

Nightly build
Nightly Builds are made on a daily basis and contain the most recent changes. They are also the most unstable of the development builds, until "feature freeze" where only bug fixes are made.

ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR USERDATA FOLDER WHEN USING NIGHTLY BUILDS

http://mirrors.xbmc.org/nightlies/


 * Nightly builds for Android (ARM, most users)
 * Nightly builds for Android (x86)
 * Nightly builds for Windows
 * If you are using a Windows nightly build please also download the .pdb file with the same version from our mirrors, rename it to xbmc.pdb and place it alongside the XBMC.exe inside the installation folder. Re-download the correct file each time you are installing another nightly build. This helps us to identify possible crashes.
 * Nightly builds for Mac OS X
 * Nightly builds for Ubuntu
 * Nightly builds for iOS - iPad, iPhone, iPod touch
 * Nightly builds for iOS - Apple TV 2 (black)

Monthly build
Monthly builds are semi-stable nightly snapshots of the current development version. They are a step between (often) unstable nightly builds and stable release builds, though they can sometimes still be very unstable depending on various factors.

XBMC developers have a merge cycle every month for new features and major changes. For ten days they add new features, then for the rest of the month they fix things. The monthly is then taken from a nightly just before they start adding features again. For this reason, they are often more stable than the average nightly build.

ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR USERDATA FOLDER WHEN USING MONTHLY BUILDS

http://mirrors.xbmc.org/snapshots/

Betas and release candidates
When XBMC gets close to a stable release, public betas will be released. These are similar to nightlies and monthlies in that they still contain bugs, but are more stable and are encouraged to be tried out. At the point where XBMC reaches beta, most known bugs have been fixed, and developers are now looking for bugs they might not know about.

When XBMC beta gets to a point where it seems ready for a final release a "Release Candidate", or "RC", is released to flesh out any final bugs. Depending on any issues found, there may be multiple release candidates.

After release candidates comes a final stable build that becomes XBMC v13, aka Gotham.

ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR USERDATA FOLDER WHEN USING BETAS

http://mirrors.xbmc.org/releases/

OS X audio improvements
Help test new code for audio improvements in XBMC for Mac OS X

For builds, reporting, and more info: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=185454

iOS 7 AirPlay fix
Help us solve the AirPlay issue when using iOS7 devices. Most of iOS7 users are aware of the problem that XBMC only shows up as audio device in the iOS7 Airplay-Selection. This leads to the problem that videos and pictures can't be airplayed to XBMC anymore when using iOS7 on the source device. This thread should help us tracking down the correct (or at least best matching) fix for this problem.

For builds, reporting, and more info: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=179961

Special notes about development builds

 * Bugs
 * As development builds are bleeding edge code you might find a bug here and there. In order to get rid of this bugs, it's important that these will be reported: HOW-TO:Submit a proper bug report.


 * Feature requests
 * If you have a feature that you think should be added to appear in the next stable version of XBMC, you can make a feature request: HOW-TO:Submit an official feature request.