RPI Image Beta Notes

This is the Raspberry Pi USB boot image beta notes thread.

As releases are published, their notes will be posted here. Follow along to see what has changed.

v2021.1008.0023

NEW: Support for Pi 400, CM4 and other Pi 4B variants
NEW: Turn on/off SSH access directly from the DVR web UI
FIXED: Some newer revision v1.4 boards were not booting the image
IMPROVED: Upgraded linux kernel from v4.19 to v5.10
IMPROVED: Security updates and bug fixes for Samba, systemd and other linux services

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v2021.1008.2151

FIXED: Issues with bonjour
IMPROVED: Updated exfat driver with minor fixes

v2021.1008.2228

Improved linux console experience over SSH and via HDMI

v2021.1008.2244

HDMI display will explain how to setup the DVR on boot

v2021.1009.0043

HDMI display will now show the IP address, or current status when network is inactive or NTP sync is still pending.

v2021.1011.2124

NEW: Added tailscale
IMPROVED: Updated exFAT driver with TRIM support for SSDs and SMR drives
IMPROVED: Support for linux perf counters for performance debugging

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v2021.1012.0015

NEW: High-performance NTFS3 driver

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v2021.1012.2129

FIXED: Tailscale connections were lost after reboot
IMPROVED: Added lsscsi and sg3-utils packages for TRIM debugging

2 Likes

v2021.1101.2046

Bump kernel to 5.10.64
Bump rpi firmware for latest transcoding improvements
Bump rpi eeprom for bootloader fixes

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v2021.1210.2352

Updated exfat driver with some bug fixes

v2022.0110.1819

• Updated to latest rpi kernel and firmware, including fixes to video hardware drivers.
• Includes better detection of USB attached SSD and SMR drives which require regular FSTRIM to ensure good I/O performance.

4 Likes

v2022.0131.0306

Fix for repairing NTFS drives

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v2022.0131.0323

Fix for repairing NTFS drives

v2022.0601.2221

Improved disk diagnostics
FSTRIM will run daily instead of weekly for better performance on SMR drives

3 Likes

v2023.0105.0106

  • Updated kernel from 5.10 to 5.15
  • Updated tailscale and other base OS packages
  • Updated exfat repair utilities to handle more corruption cases automatically
2 Likes

v2023.0108.2341

Downgraded RPI firmware to fix hardware encoding/scaling issue

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