Version 2.1

Major New Features/Functionality:

• Firefox VPU acceleration with v4l2-m2m support
• Move Pinix Testing Repo
• drop initramfs
• Disable Suspend/Hibernate (due to errata on JH7110 this wont ever work)
• add Plymouth Splash Screen at boot and drop psplash
• add plymouth-themes
• refactor rootfs-resize to be a proper systemd unit file
• move konqueror to kde-gear layer
• new upstream ffmpeg patches from starfive.

Upgrading from previous releases:

• Due to a packaging error, you need to upgrade with:
  apt dist-upgrade -o DPkg::options::="--force-overwrite"
• You should upgrade from a remote session, or text console, and not in the desktop (as the desktop will restart during the upgrade)

What's Changed

• SDDM: Maliit keyboard by @luigi311 in #16

New Contributors

• @luigi311 made their first contribution in #16

Full Changelog: v2.0...v2.1

Version 2.0

This release has PineTabV Image support in addition to Star64.

Major Changes:

Common:

• Introduce a pinix-testing repository for WIP testing of new packages/updates (install pinix-testing package to enable)
• Upgrade Kernel to 5.15.127
• Pull in Starfive 3.4.5 SDK
• EMMC Speed should be fast
• Downgrade Imagination Drivers to DDK 1.17 due to graphics corruption with DDK 1.19.
• Bump Poky and Meta-OE layers to latest kirkstone releases. (lots of package version bumps)
• libsdl2 - Disable OpenGL Support
• add in additional layers for webservers, filesystems and perl

PineTabV
changes compared to last pre-release image

• Sound Works - Please enable "built in audio" in system settings to enable output.

Development Roadmap:

• Use PT2 Panel Driver instead of factory driver (PT2 panel driver is planned to be upstreamed)
• Mainline (6.x) Testing Kernel for Star64 (not possible yet for PtV as we lack a mainline Mipi DSI driver)
• Test mainline kernel with Imagination GPU Drivers from 5.15.x branch
• Bump KDE/QT related package versions to fix various issues

Full Changelog: v1.3...v2.0

Version 1.3

Major Changes:

• kde-gear applications for the Plasma Images (over 300 applications/libraries)
• Kernel 5.15.115
• clang compiler
• rust upgraded to 1.68.2
• Firefox for plasma/weston images
• Lots of various build and application fixes
• All Images now include a the compiler suites so you can compile sources without installing additional packages

Known Issues:

• any KDE app that uses qtwebengine (basically anything that displays HTML content) is still crashing due to qtwebengine issues with riscv

Kernel Upgrades

Kernel Upgrade Fixes!

• Kernel is upgraded to 5.15.107
• Realtek Driver is upgraded to 1.15.11-36
• Install BlueTooth Firmware files and Bluez packages
• Kernel Modules not live in a single package rather than individual packages for each module.

If your upgrading from 1.1, please accept the changes to the fstab, and ignore all other changes.

New Images will be published in a few hours for those that are impatient!