After almost 5 months of development the developers behind the Raspberry Pi project have released a new version of update of the official distribution of the Raspberry Pi "Raspbian" with which comes a handful of updates to the applications of the distribution.
In this new Raspbian release 2019-04-08 Three versions have been prepared for download: which one of them It is the classic version without graphic environment (Raspbian Stretch Lite) which is (352 MB) for server systems and versions with graphical environment supplied with the PIXEL user environment (an LXDE branch) one of them is (Raspbian Stretch with desktop) of (1.1 GB) and finally one that is the full version that has several applications already pre-installed, weighing 1.9 GB.
For those who do not know about Raspbian I can tell you that this is the official system for the Raspberry Pi, this is a Debian-based system built especially for this little pocket computer.
Technically the operating system it is an unofficial port of Debian armhf for the Raspberry Pi processor (CPU), with optimized support.
The distribution use LXDE as desktop and Chromium as web browser. In addition, it contains development tools such as IDLE for the Python or Scratch programming language, and different examples of games using the Pygame modules.
About 35 thousand packages are available for installation from repositories.
Raspbian Main Release New Features 2019-04-08
With the new release of this Raspbian release version 2019-04-08 we found that the packages that make up the distribution have been updated to the latest branch of Debian Stretch andAmong them the Linux Kernel that was updated to version 4.14.98
Packages of which we find for example web browser update Chromium to version 72, as well as that of VLC media player which was updated to version 3.0.6 and RealVNC Server which was updated to version 6.4.0.
It can also be noted that Flash player was updated to version 32.0.0.156.
On the other hand, we have the performance improvements to the system, of which we can highlight the de the SDL library and also performance improvements to the pixman library.
In addition to this we can also find a new option to configure the sub-scan display added to the startup wizard.
Another important point of this new Raspbian release 2019-04-08, is that mounted external drives now show on desktop by default (With this, users will avoid this process every time the device is restarted).
other developments
Finally of the novelties that can be highlighted in this new version, is that developers added PINN restore support with which in case of any problem we will have this support and they also added the ethtool tool to the system.
Of the other news that we can find in this release of Raspbian 2019-04-08 the following can be highlighted:
- Modified network plugin to improve compatibility with wpa_passphrase
- SD Card Copier adjusts to reduce copy failures
- Various minor bug fixes and appearance tweaks
- Added tools-rng
Download Raspbian 2019-04-08
If you are not a user of the distribution and you want to use it on your device. You can get the system image, You only have to go to the official website of the project where you can download the image in its download section.
At the end of your download you can use Etcher to save the image to a pendrive and thus boot your system from your SDCard.
O alternatively you can support yourself with the use of NOOBS or PINN.
On the other hand, if you already have the system installed and want to update and receive the news of this new release of the system, you just have to execute the update commands in your terminal.
What you are going to execute in terminal is the following:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
As we can see, this new version has several package updates, which is a package update and correction version.