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"content_text": " * Default \"pi\" user has been removed; the first-boot wizard enforces the creation of a new user account\n * rename-user script added to allow existing users to be renamed by temporarily rebooting to cut-down first-boot wizard\n * Overscan now managed by xrandr under KMS, can be set independently for both monitors, and takes effect on the fly rather than requiring reboot\n * GTK3 switch control now used in place of paired radio buttons throughout\n * piwiz - first-boot wizard now runs in a separate session as a different user with different graphics\n * piwiz - first-boot wizard now has automatic pairing for discoverable Bluetooth mice and keyboards\n * lxinput - keyboard delay and repeat settings now persist across reboots under mutter\n * raspi-config / rc_gui - removed pixel doubling option when KMS driver in use\n * raspi-config - removed composition manager option when legacy driver in use\n * arandr - restored support for interlaced displays\n * mutter - implemented more intuitive window and application cycling behaviour\n * pi-greeter - rebuilt for GTK3\n * Bug fix - graphical corruption in system tray icons\n * Bug fix - desktop items vanishing when dragged\n * Bug fix - terminal windows not focussed correctly when launched\n * Bug fix - crash after multiple update checks in updater plugin\n * Bug fix - Raspberry Pi keyboard auto-detect by wizard was broken in previous release\n * Bug fix - spurious \"connected\" dialog box shown when reconnecting to Bluetooth LE devices on boot\n * Support for experimental Wayland backend added - can be enabled as an advanced option in raspi-config\n * Various small bug fixes and graphical tweaks\n * Chromium upgraded to version 98.0.4758.106\n * FFmpeg HW acceleration improved\n * OpenJDK 17 now defaults to 'client' JVM for ARMv6 compatibility\n * Raspberry Pi firmware 69277bc713133a54a1d20554d79544da1ae2b6ca\n * Linux kernel 5.15.30",
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\n * GTK3 switch control now used in place of paired radio buttons throughout
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\n * Bug fix - terminal windows not focussed correctly when launched
\n * Bug fix - crash after multiple update checks in updater plugin
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\n * OpenJDK 17 now defaults to 'client' JVM for ARMv6 compatibility
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"content_text": " * Policykit CVE-2021-4034 fix\n * rc_gui - add combo box to allow resolution to be set for VNC connections\n * rc_gui - camera interface switch removed\n * lxpanel - remove appearance settings from preferences dialog; instead add menu option to open general Appearance Settings application\n * lxpanel - add ellipses to menu items which open dialogs\n * lxinput - read current mouse acceleration directly from xinput\n * lxinput - use device IDs rather than names to cope with devices changing when powered-down\n * lxinput - remove redundant changes to openbox config file\n * plymouth - set KillMode to mixed to suppress warning message\n * raspi-config - add option to switch composite video\n * raspi-config - add option to switch to legacy camera mode\n * raspi-config - add option to set resolution for headless connections\n * raspberrypi-ui-mods - disable mutter when VNC server is running and fall back to openbox\n * pipanel - add command-line option to open on arbitrary tab\n * lxplug-network - suppress \u00e2\u0080\u0099scan received\u00e2\u0080\u0099 logging message\n * raspberrypi-ui-mods - set hover colour for taskbar items based on taskbar colour, not system highlight colour\n * Legacy camera applications and libraries reinstalled (32-bit only)\n * Bug fix - lxinput - lxsession config file not being written on first attempt\n * Bug fix - lxinput - set timer for file write to prevent slider slowing down\n * Bug fix - lxinput - write values to gsettings as well as xinput and xsettings to take effect within mutter\n * Bug fix - lxinput - fix failure to parse and write non-English numeric formats\n * Bug fix - arandr - various fixes to parsing of non-standard EDID blocks to enable model and serial to be correctly extracted\n * Bug fix - arandr - refresh rate calculated to 3 decimal places for monitors which require it\n * Bug fix - arandr - enable setting of left and right orientation\n * Bug fix - arandr - add compatibility with new touchscreen driver\n * Bug fix - arandr - apply settings correctly to DSI and composite displays\n * Bug fix - lxplug-magnifier - fix crash when opening preferences without required magnifier package installed\n * Bug fix - piwiz - launch screen reader install prompt as a new process to prevent audio lockups crashing wizard\n * Bug fix - lxpanel - not loading some plugins (cpufreq, minimise all windows) due to icon loading code not compatible with GTK+3\n * Bug fix - gtk+3 - disabled new GDK touch events to enable double-clicks to be detected on touchscreen\n * Bug fix - xrdp - included backports from bookworm version of xrdp and xorgxrdp to restore window frames with mutter over xrdp connections\n * Update various translations\n * udisks2 added to lite image\n * mkvtoolnix added to lite image\n * 7z and zip support added to lite image\n * gnome-keyring added to desktop images\n * Raspberry Pi firmware c6d56567ff6ef17fd85159770f22abcf2c5953ed\n * Linux kernel 5.10.92",
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\n * lxpanel - add ellipses to menu items which open dialogs
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\n * raspi-config - add option to set resolution for headless connections
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\n * Bug fix - lxinput - write values to gsettings as well as xinput and xsettings to take effect within mutter
\n * Bug fix - lxinput - fix failure to parse and write non-English numeric formats
\n * Bug fix - arandr - various fixes to parsing of non-standard EDID blocks to enable model and serial to be correctly extracted
\n * Bug fix - arandr - refresh rate calculated to 3 decimal places for monitors which require it
\n * Bug fix - arandr - enable setting of left and right orientation
\n * Bug fix - arandr - add compatibility with new touchscreen driver
\n * Bug fix - arandr - apply settings correctly to DSI and composite displays
\n * Bug fix - lxplug-magnifier - fix crash when opening preferences without required magnifier package installed
\n * Bug fix - piwiz - launch screen reader install prompt as a new process to prevent audio lockups crashing wizard
\n * Bug fix - lxpanel - not loading some plugins (cpufreq, minimise all windows) due to icon loading code not compatible with GTK+3
\n * Bug fix - gtk+3 - disabled new GDK touch events to enable double-clicks to be detected on touchscreen
\n * Bug fix - xrdp - included backports from bookworm version of xrdp and xorgxrdp to restore window frames with mutter over xrdp connections
\n * Update various translations
\n * udisks2 added to lite image
\n * mkvtoolnix added to lite image
\n * 7z and zip support added to lite image
\n * gnome-keyring added to desktop images
\n * Raspberry Pi firmware c6d56567ff6ef17fd85159770f22abcf2c5953ed
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"url": "https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_lite_armhf/#2021-10-30",
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"content_text": " * Based on Debian version 11 (bullseye)\n * Desktop components (lxpanel and all plugins, libfm, pcmanfm) now built against GTK+3\n * Applications (piwiz, pipanel, rc_gui, lxinput) now built against GTK+3\n * PiXflat GTK+3 theme updated with numerous changes to support the above\n * GTK+3 : toolbar icon size setting added\n * GTK+3 : ability to request client-side decoration on windows added\n * GTK+3 : setting for indent for frame labels in custom style added\n * mutter window manager used instead of openbox on devices with 2GB or more of RAM\n * mutter : title bar icon behaviour and appearance modified to match openbox\n * mutter : additional keyboard shortcuts added\n * mutter : various performance enhancements\n * mutter compatibility added to screen magnifier\n * Numerous changes to Appearance Settings application to support GTK+3 and mutter\n * Updater plugin added to lxpanel to detect and install software updates\n * File manager view options simplified to either list or icons, with separate menu option for thumbnails\n * New file manager toolbar icons\n * KMS used as default display driver\n * Modifications to HDMI audio output selection to support the above\n * xcompmgr enabled when openbox is running under KMS\n * New default camera subsystem based on libcamera\n * New camera demo applications (libcamera-still and libcamera-vid) have replaced raspistill and raspivid\n * Legacy camera subsystem removed from 64-bit RPi OS (still available on 32-bit)\n * Chromium upgraded to version 92.0.4515.98\n * VLC media player upgraded to version 3.0.16\n * Spurious drive removal warning after use of SD card copier removed\n * Bookshelf application now includes Custom PC magazine\n * Various translation updates - Italian, Korean, Polish, German, Armenian\n * Startup wizard now installs Japanese fonts if needed\n * Progress and information dialog boxes for lxpanel plugins now common to lxpanel, rather than in individual plugins\n * Icon handling code for lxpanel plugins now common to lxpanel\n * Package with 4K version of Raspberry Pi wallpaper added to Recommended Software\n * Python Games and Minecraft removed from Recommended Software - neither is compatible with bullseye\n * Bluetooth pairing and connection dialogs updated for compatibility with more devices\n * Bluetooth devices always disconnected before removal to speed up removal process\n * Bluetooth pairing dialog now only shows devices which offer services which are usable by Pi\n * Separate Bluetooth unpair dialog removed - unpair now an option for each individual device\n * Bug fix - mutter : header bar colours not updating when theme is changed\n * Bug fix - GTK+3 : tooltips being displayed incorrectly at bottom of screen\n * Bug fix - lxpanel : crash when using keyboard shortcut to enable magnifier when magnifier not installed\n * Bug fix - lxpanel : lockup in Bluetooth plugin when connecting to certain devices\n * Bug fix - lxpanel : discoverable mode icon could get out of sync with underlying Bluetooth system state\n * Bug fix - piwiz : missing cities in timezone list\n * Bug fix - piwiz : country-specific language packages not being installed\n * Bug fix - bookshelf : now waits for longer between packets before timing out\n * Bug fix - accented characters now displayed correctly in localisation dialogs\n * Raspberry Pi firmware e2bab29767e51c683a312df20014e3277275b8a6\n * Linux kernel 5.10.63",
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\n * GTK+3 : toolbar icon size setting added
\n * GTK+3 : ability to request client-side decoration on windows added
\n * GTK+3 : setting for indent for frame labels in custom style added
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\n * New file manager toolbar icons
\n * KMS used as default display driver
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\n * xcompmgr enabled when openbox is running under KMS
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\n * New camera demo applications (libcamera-still and libcamera-vid) have replaced raspistill and raspivid
\n * Legacy camera subsystem removed from 64-bit RPi OS (still available on 32-bit)
\n * Chromium upgraded to version 92.0.4515.98
\n * VLC media player upgraded to version 3.0.16
\n * Spurious drive removal warning after use of SD card copier removed
\n * Bookshelf application now includes Custom PC magazine
\n * Various translation updates - Italian, Korean, Polish, German, Armenian
\n * Startup wizard now installs Japanese fonts if needed
\n * Progress and information dialog boxes for lxpanel plugins now common to lxpanel, rather than in individual plugins
\n * Icon handling code for lxpanel plugins now common to lxpanel
\n * Package with 4K version of Raspberry Pi wallpaper added to Recommended Software
\n * Python Games and Minecraft removed from Recommended Software - neither is compatible with bullseye
\n * Bluetooth pairing and connection dialogs updated for compatibility with more devices
\n * Bluetooth devices always disconnected before removal to speed up removal process
\n * Bluetooth pairing dialog now only shows devices which offer services which are usable by Pi
\n * Separate Bluetooth unpair dialog removed - unpair now an option for each individual device
\n * Bug fix - mutter : header bar colours not updating when theme is changed
\n * Bug fix - GTK+3 : tooltips being displayed incorrectly at bottom of screen
\n * Bug fix - lxpanel : crash when using keyboard shortcut to enable magnifier when magnifier not installed
\n * Bug fix - lxpanel : lockup in Bluetooth plugin when connecting to certain devices
\n * Bug fix - lxpanel : discoverable mode icon could get out of sync with underlying Bluetooth system state
\n * Bug fix - piwiz : missing cities in timezone list
\n * Bug fix - piwiz : country-specific language packages not being installed
\n * Bug fix - bookshelf : now waits for longer between packets before timing out
\n * Bug fix - accented characters now displayed correctly in localisation dialogs
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"content_text": " * Chromium upgraded to version 88.0.4324.187\n * NuScratch upgraded to version 20210507\n * Node-RED upgraded to version 1.3.4\n * pigpio upgraded to version 1.79\n * Thonny upgraded to version 3.3.6\n * Icelandic and Italian translations updated for several packages\n * piclone: Remove hiding of application in other desktops\n * agnostics: Remove hiding of app in other desktops\n * rp-bookshelf:\n - Remove hiding of app in other desktops\n - GTK+3 version\n * lxplug-bluetooth:\n - Fix some memory leaks\n - Add authorisation dialog required by some BT-LE pairings\n * alsa-utils: Add custom init files for bcm2835 on Raspberry Pi to set volume correctly\n * rp-prefapps: Remove hiding of app in other desktops\n * OpenSSH and OpenSSL speed improvements\n * Install gpiozero in lite images\n * Raspberry Pi firmware 518ee7c871aaa9aaa88116953d57e73787ee6e43\n * Linux kernel 5.10.17",
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\n * Icelandic and Italian translations updated for several packages
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\n * rp-prefapps: Remove hiding of app in other desktops
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"url": "https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_lite_armhf/#2021-03-04",
"id": "2021-03-04",
"date_published": "2021-03-04T00:00:00Z",
"content_text": " * Thonny upgraded to version 3.3.5\n * SD Card Copier made compatible with NVMe devices; now built against GTK+3 toolkit\n * Composite video options removed from Raspberry Pi 4 in Raspberry Pi Configuration\n * Boot order options in raspi-config adjusted for more flexibility\n * Recommended Software now built against GTK+3 toolkit\n * Fix for crash in volume plugin when using keyboard could push value out of range\n * Fix for focus changing between windows in file manager when using keyboard to navigate directory view\n * Fix for Raspberry Pi 400 keyboard country not being read correctly in startup wizard\n * Armenian and Japanese translations added to several packages\n * Automatically load aes-neon-bs on ARM64 to speed up OpenSSL\n * Raspberry Pi firmware fcf8d2f7639ad8d0330db9c8db9b71bd33eaaa28\n * Linux kernel 5.10.17",
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\n * Composite video options removed from Raspberry Pi 4 in Raspberry Pi Configuration
\n * Boot order options in raspi-config adjusted for more flexibility
\n * Recommended Software now built against GTK+3 toolkit
\n * Fix for crash in volume plugin when using keyboard could push value out of range
\n * Fix for focus changing between windows in file manager when using keyboard to navigate directory view
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\n * Armenian and Japanese translations added to several packages
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"url": "https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_lite_armhf/#2021-01-11",
"id": "2021-01-11",
"date_published": "2021-01-11T00:00:00Z",
"content_text": " * Chromium version 86.0.4240.197 included\n * Screen reader support enabled in Chromium\n * Adobe have end-of-lifed Flash Player, so it has been removed\n * Scratch 2 required Flash, so it has been removed\n * Added Epson printer drivers\n * Added timeout to hide messages from USB device monitor after 5 seconds\n * Bug fix - PulseAudio output was in mono\n * Bug fix - brief audio interruptions at start of playback in VLC\n * Bug fix - old ALSA output settings being used instead of PulseAudio settings by some applications\n * Bug fix - crash in PulseAudio volume controller when used on multichannel devices\n * Bug fix - battery monitor failing to load on x86 platforms\n * Bug fix - setting of password in startup wizard failed if language was changed\n * Bug fix - Chromium video playback lockup on small number of devices\n * Bug fix - Chromium Google Maps 3D view artefacts\n * Slovak, Italian and Norwegian translations updated\n * Added Epson printer drivers\n * Raspberry Pi firmware 70f1581eec2c036b7e9309f1af41c651fb125447\n * Linux kernel 5.4.83",
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\n * Bug fix - PulseAudio output was in mono
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\n * Bug fix - battery monitor failing to load on x86 platforms
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\n * Bug fix - Chromium video playback lockup on small number of devices
\n * Bug fix - Chromium Google Maps 3D view artefacts
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\n * Added Epson printer drivers
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"url": "https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_lite_armhf/#2020-12-02",
"id": "2020-12-02",
"date_published": "2020-12-02T00:00:00Z",
"content_text": " * PulseAudio now included and running by default\n * Bluealsa Bluetooth interface removed - Bluetooth audio is now handled by PulseAudio\n * LXPanel volume control plugin replaced with PulseAudio version\n * Version 84.0.4147.105 of Chromium web browser included\n * Version 3.3.0 of Thonny included\n * Version 32.0.0.453 of Flash player included - note that this will be the final release of Flash, as it is end-of-lifed at the end of 2020\n * CUPS printer system included, along with system-config-printer CUPS GUI and HP printer drivers\n * raspi-config menu structure rearranged to match Raspberry Pi Configuration tabs\n * Control for GPIO-connected fans added to raspi-config and Raspberry Pi Configuration\n * Control for power / activity LED on Pi 400 and Pi Zero added to raspi-config and Raspberry Pi Configuration\n * Improved screen reader voice prompts in several applications\n * Added ctrl-alt-space shortcut to install Orca screen reader at any point\n * Low voltage warnings added to battery monitor plugin\n * Magnifier plugin zoom can now be changed with scroll wheel when pointer is over icon\n * Change to notification popups - now will only close when clicked on directly, not by clicking anywhere\n * Bookshelf now made compatible with translated versions of books and magazines, and will offer translated versions where available, based on system language setting\n * Bug fix - crash in CPU temperature plugin when throttling detection fails\n * Bug fix - if Orca is running, shutdown commands and shutdown dialog will force kill it to prevent it locking up the reboot or shutdown process\n * Various additional language translations added\n * Various minor bug fixes and UI tweaks\n * Raspberry Pi firmware b324aea801f669b6ab18441f970e74a5a7346684\n * Linux kernel 5.4.79",
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\n * Bluealsa Bluetooth interface removed - Bluetooth audio is now handled by PulseAudio
\n * LXPanel volume control plugin replaced with PulseAudio version
\n * Version 84.0.4147.105 of Chromium web browser included
\n * Version 3.3.0 of Thonny included
\n * Version 32.0.0.453 of Flash player included - note that this will be the final release of Flash, as it is end-of-lifed at the end of 2020
\n * CUPS printer system included, along with system-config-printer CUPS GUI and HP printer drivers
\n * raspi-config menu structure rearranged to match Raspberry Pi Configuration tabs
\n * Control for GPIO-connected fans added to raspi-config and Raspberry Pi Configuration
\n * Control for power / activity LED on Pi 400 and Pi Zero added to raspi-config and Raspberry Pi Configuration
\n * Improved screen reader voice prompts in several applications
\n * Added ctrl-alt-space shortcut to install Orca screen reader at any point
\n * Low voltage warnings added to battery monitor plugin
\n * Magnifier plugin zoom can now be changed with scroll wheel when pointer is over icon
\n * Change to notification popups - now will only close when clicked on directly, not by clicking anywhere
\n * Bookshelf now made compatible with translated versions of books and magazines, and will offer translated versions where available, based on system language setting
\n * Bug fix - crash in CPU temperature plugin when throttling detection fails
\n * Bug fix - if Orca is running, shutdown commands and shutdown dialog will force kill it to prevent it locking up the reboot or shutdown process
\n * Various additional language translations added
\n * Various minor bug fixes and UI tweaks
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"url": "https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_lite_armhf/#2020-08-20",
"id": "2020-08-20",
"date_published": "2020-08-20T00:00:00Z",
"content_text": " * raspi-config - added selection of boot device order\n * raspi-config - added selection of boot EEPROM version\n * SD Card Copier - copy is now immediately aborted if drives are connected or disconnected while copying\n * Version 32.0.0.414 of Flash player included\n * User feedback survey removed from first run of Chromium\n * Recommended Software - now allows multiple install and reinstall operations without having to close between each one\n * Bug fix - misleading file browser from panel menu icon selection dialog - icons must now be in icon theme rather than arbitrary files\n * Bug fix - items in main menu not being translated\n * Bug fix - raspi-config not detecting audio devices in non-English locales\n * Bug fix - Bookshelf claiming no disk space in non-English locales\n * Bug fix - failed installation of both 32 and 64 bit versions of packages by Recommended Software on 64-bit images\n * Italian translations added (thanks to Emanuele Goldoni and the Italian translation team)\n * Raspberry Pi firmware ef72c17bcaaeb89093d87bcf71f3228e1b5e1fff\n * Linux kernel 5.4.51",
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\n * Version 32.0.0.414 of Flash player included
\n * User feedback survey removed from first run of Chromium
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\n * Bug fix - items in main menu not being translated
\n * Bug fix - raspi-config not detecting audio devices in non-English locales
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