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@sakaki- sakaki- released this 17 Jun 23:05
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This release is a straightforward update to v1.4.1.

If you would like to upgrade an existing, older version of this image to v1.4.2 (rather than just downloading and using the latest v1.4.2 image directly), please see below.

Changes in this release (see main project page for further details):

  • Kernel updated, to sys-kernel/bcmrpi3-kernel-bis-bin-4.19.49.20190611). Fixes some Bluetooth issues experienced with the prior 4.19 kernel, and adds POE fan and (built-in) btrfs support.

  • Per email request from @iugamarian, added the following applications to the image:

    • media-video/mpv
    • net-p2p/transmission
    • sys-fs/ncdu
    • app-misc/mc

  • Various minor ebuild tidy-ups.

  • All packages brought up-to-date against the Gentoo tree, as of UTC EOD 12 June 2019 (which means e.g., www-client/firefox-67.0, www-client/chromium-74.0.3729.169-r1, app-office/libreoffice-6.2.4.2 etc. are bundled; a full list of installed packages may be found here).

Upgrading from an Earlier Release of the Image

Users downloading this v1.4.2 image directly can of course omit the instructions below; as all settings have been correctly set up for you already.

Users on earlier releases who wish to manually upgrade should follow the manual upgrade instructions to v1.4.1 below; the final step genup therein will actually bring you to a baseline v1.4.2 now.

If you are already on v1.4.1, simply run sudo genup to reach a baseline v1.4.2. Then, continue reading as below.

You can easily check your current version at any time, by issuing:

demouser@pi64 ~ $ eix rpi3-64bit-meta

Once the baseline upgrade is done, at your option add in the newly supported applications, by issuing:

demouser@pi64 ~ $ sudo emerge -v media-video/mpv net-p2p/transmission sys-fs/ncdu app-misc/mc

Next, ensure that the hardware real-time-clock (RTC) service is disabled; the RPi3 does not have the corresponding hardware device, and although harmless, this service causes annoying error messages at boot. Issue:

demouser@pi64 ~ $ sudo rc-update del hwclock boot

Then, be sure that you merge all configuration file updates. To do so, issue:

demouser@pi64 ~ $ sudo dispatch-conf

and follow the prompts (if you haven't modified this particular file yourself, the changes will already have happened, but if you have changed it, dispatch-conf will ask you what to do - for further guidance, please see my notes here).

Finally, be sure to reboot once the above upgrade process is complete, as a new kernel is installed during the process.

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