Raspbian 10.4 is out aka Raspberry Pi OS

[philrandal]

Hi folks,

Raspbian 10.4 (now known as Raspberry Pi OS) is now out:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

Running

Code:

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade

happily updated my MoOde 6.5.2 without problems.

Enjoy,

Phil

[Tim Curtis]

Nice :-)

[TheOldPresbyope]

I just skimmed through the release notes. Most of the fixes/upgrades appear to apply to the desktop apps but a few things popped up as possibly relevant even to us.

 * Internal audio outputs enabled as separate ALSA devices
 * Disk ID is now regenerated on first boot
 * Updated udev rules
   - Remove unused argon rule
   - Add vcsm-cma to video group
   - Add pwm to gpio group
 * i2cprobe: More flexible I2C/SPI alias mapping
 * Raspberry Pi firmware 21e1fe3477ffb708a5736ed61a924fd650031136
 * Linux kernel 4.19.118


As John and Paul put it

"I've got to admit it's getting better (Better)
A little better all the time (It can't get no worse)"

Regards,
Kent

Added Postscript: If anyone is thinking about using the Raspberry Pi OS (64 bit) beta, be sure to note the caveats.

[TheOldPresbyope]

To hang a little more meat on this bone,

I've used the update/full-upgrade process with moOde 6.5.2 on four different model RPIs: ZeroW, 3A+, 3B+, and 4B. Expect it to take a while, especially with the single-core ZeroW.

I won't claim to have tested exhaustively but so far no anomalies have popped up as a result of this upgrade. Before the upgrade, the 4B was running on the 64-bit kernel while the others were on the default 32-bit kernel, so I know the kernels are handled.

Two sample moodeutl outputs:

Code:

The ZeroW
20200529 225832 worker: -- System
20200529 225838 worker: Host     (moode0w)
20200529 225838 worker: moOde    (6.5.2 2020-05-03
20200529 225838 worker: Raspbian (10.4)
20200529 225838 worker: Kernel   (4.19.118+ #1311)
20200529 225838 worker: Platform (Pi-Zero W 512MB v1.1)
20200529 225838 worker: ARM arch (armv6l, 32-bit kernel)

---------------

The 4B
20200529 164307 worker: -- System
20200529 164308 worker: Host     (moodelr)
20200529 164308 worker: moOde    (6.5.2 2020-05-03)
20200529 164308 worker: Raspbian (10.4)
20200529 164308 worker: Kernel   (4.19.118-v8+ #1311)
20200529 164308 worker: Platform (Pi-4B 2GB v1.1)
20200529 164308 worker: ARM arch (aarch64, 64-bit kernel)

One bug already announced in the usual channels: this 10.4 upgrade breaks the beta USB boot code for the RPi4B. A workaround has been published.

My RPi3B+ under test was already configured to boot from a USB thumbdrive without a uSD card present and that still works after the upgrade.

Regards,
Kent