0.5.0

The main purpose of this release is improved wifi hotspot stability.

Changes:

• Update underlying OS to Raspberry Pi OS Lite from July 4, 2024 based on Debian version: 12 (bookworm), see release notes. Among many other changes, this moves the Wifi hotspot tooling from hostapd to NetworkManager. Note: The OS update required building the .img file using the feature/network-manager-fix branch of CustomPiOS as shown here: guysoft/CustomPiOS#227
• Update from raspistill tooling to rpicam-still (documentation)
• Build using Golang 1.23.2 instead of 1.16 (release notes)

Please note:

• Please consider this a pre-release. Use it at your own risk.
• Do not use this release, this disk image, or the software it includes without experience with it.
• When copying this disk image on an SD card, triple check you are not erasing any important data. If you are not sure, find another SD card and back up your data just in case.

For a more detailed list of changes, checkout the diff between 0.4.0 and 0.5.0: 0.4.0...0.5.0