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What’s new for this mid-life update release

1. Linux make v6.12.63 LTS the default kernel, upgrade U-Boot to v2024.10 We also provide v6.6.0 (testing) and v6.1.54-rt15 (LTS PREEMPT_RT kernel) for development purposes.
2. Update to Yocto Scarthgap 5.0.14 LTS.
3. Select libgpiod v2.1.2 and fixed dependents. Note: this is a backwards incompatible change (scarthgap does support v1.6.4).
4. We have jobserver support! This will make sure that no matter how many compile jobs are started by bitbake either via make or ninja the total number will not exceed the number of cores. This roughly limits RAM memory use to 1GB x #cores.
5. We have aptitude. Aptitude is a front end to apt and works as a TUI (via a terminal or ssh) to find and select packages, investigate and resolve broken dependencies.
6. Add support for lxc and docker. This allows you to install pre-built containerized images (see https://images.linuxcontainers.org/ for lxc containers). With this added, we are dropping support for generating our own cooked debian images.
7. Add support for ‘snapd’. In many cases people do not want to build Yocto to install just a single application. Let alone write a recipe to build application (when none exists on https://layers.openembedded.org). With snaps they can install pre-built packaged app from the Snapcraft app store.
8. battery-voltage now uses libiio.
9. Switched geolocation provider to ip-api.com.`
10. We make building nodejs optional, as not many seem to be using that these days and it takes half the build time. However, for now the binary images will be built with nodejs included.
11. We are dropping support for ext4 images. flashall will make btrfs the default. The btrfs image will also work if loaded from the sdhc.
12. When calling make recover Yocto will build the xfstk-native recipe then call flashall.sh --recovery --native. This ensures xfstk is available on your platform automatically.
13. We added MCU support back to the LTS kernel, see MCU Support