I was about to wait out on the new Pi 5, but it’s being delayed again and again.
There’s plenty of stuff all over the place and I didn’t want to wait any longer.
The good news is that a lot of the Pi5 preparation work is done, so when I actually get one pushing out a release can go rather quick.
Anyways, here’s the changelog:
ENHANCEMENT: update Linux kernel
ENHANCEMENT: update Plexamp component
ENHANCEMENT: update Airplay component
ENHANCEMENT: update UPnP player component
ENHANCEMENT: update UPnP bridge component
ENHANCEMENT: tone down a bit the display update message
ENHANCEMENT: native DSD support for Astell&Kern PEE51
FIX: handle single quotes (') in display zone names
This is a staggered release. Which means it can take up until 2 days before it shows up on your unit.
One final note about XL vs ‘regular’:
In the (near) future only one single release will exist: RoPieeeXL. Slowly but steadily you can see the result of that over the last couple of releases. That means that, for example, only XL images can be downloaded. It also means that existing RoPieee units will be migrated to XL, but that will take a few more releases. With every RoPieee update some ‘under the surface’ changes are being rolled out, so eventually your RoPieee unit will automagically becomes a RoPieeeXL. I suspect that will happen at the beginning of next year. When that’s all done, and we live in a ‘RoPieeeXL universe’ only, the RoPieeeXL branding will be gone and everything will be branded RoPieee again.
I hope this clarifies a bit where we’re going; admittely I haven’t been entirely clear about this.
Low latency. The maintenance burden of a RT kernel as long as it’s out of tree is just too high (for me). Looking forward to it being up streamed next year!
