Info-beamer hosted OS 14 release thread

Announcements
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Released testing 241028-1f2fb2:

  • Updated Kernel to 6.6.58
  • Updated EEPROM to 2024-10-10: This together with the kernel includes performance enhancements on Pi4/5.
  • [Pi4/Pi5] Updated info-beamer to 2.0.0.d39bb7: This includes improvements to audio/video synchronization and streaming. By slightly adjusting audio playback speed if necessary, audio should no longer go out of sync.
22

Released testing 241119-0b8aee:

  • Updated kernel to 6.6.60
  • Update EEPROM to 2024-11-05
  • Added initial support for (unannounced?) Pi500 by including its overlay files
  • Updated Mesa to 24.2.4
  • Update info-beamer:
    • Fix DRM plane assignment sometimes reusing planes too seen when moving between displays
    • Optimized util.config_watch to also check __metadata.config_hash value
    • Added support for 7" Pi display through DRM mirroring
23

Released testing 241204-5d6fe1:

  • Added support for Compute Module 5
  • CPU governor now defaults to ‘ondemand’. This allows reducing CPU cycles if it’s not fully used.
  • Allow framebuffer snapshots for 32bit console output during the boot process. Previously only RGB564 was supported.
  • Updated kernel to 6.6.63.
  • Updated EEPROM to 2024-12-12
  • Updated info-beamer:
    • Fixed font rendering crashing for some TTF fonts if glyphs are missing
    • Improved 7" Pi display mirroring to do rotation fully hardware accelerated. See here.
    • Allow mip mapping for content process provided textures. This will soon allow the Web Browser package to provide lower resolution version of its output to info-beamer which can improve animation performance on the Pi3. The cube rotation animation now works with full 60fps even on a Pi3.
24

Released testing 241212-790789:

  • Updated kernel to 6.6.64
  • Updated EEPROM to 2024-12-07
  • Updated info-beamer:
    • Potentially fixed RTSP streaming hanging if initial packet has AV_NOPTS_VALUE timestamp.
  • The Pi4/5 release already detects disconnected displays and shows a maintenance notification in the dashboard. It now also detects if the display is connected again and removes the notification.
  • Everything should be ready for the Pi500 and CM5 lite.

Given the massive improvements compared to the current stable release, the current testing release branch will soon be merged into stable, so it is getting installed by default for all new devices and will be rolled out incrementally on existing devices. Stay tuned.