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@MattBlack85 MattBlack85 released this 11 Jun 12:15
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Hello everyone!

We are happy to announce that a new version of AstroArch is available!

First and most important, there are no breaking changes which means you don't need to flash the 1.9 image, updating with update-astroarch willl bring you over to 1.9.

There are no big changes in this release, few pesky bugs have finally been fixed and more documentation has been added, additionally a new layer for tinkerers has been added which now allows some more customization for people who desire to run custom scripts or have the environment configured differently.

IMPORTANT: it seems discover is not officially supporting ArchLinuxARM anymore, I am unsure if this was intentional or not, flatpak may now be used with discover to install packages

KSTARS HORRIBLE LIGHT BLUE SKY: if you don't flash 1.9 but you just upgrade (1.9 has this configured already) you will notice at daytime the sky in Kstars will be light blue, if that is the case follow the instructions under this thread to fix it => https://indilib.org/forum/general/14737-upgraded-kstars-awful-colors-help-needed.html

Enjoy and clear skies to everyone!

Fixed

  • date time not updating via internet
  • not being able to set the system clock from plasma

New features

  • indi-pylibcamera is fully supported and fully working
  • plugins! AstroArch started to ship what we call plugins, plugins are very small scripts that will help you dealing with some packages faster
  • add plugin to enable/disable the gps daemon
  • add plugin to install and enable sftp server
  • add plugin to install and enable bluetooth
  • you can now add a new file under /home/astronaut/ called extra_zsh.sh and you can add there your own scripts to do stuff, those will be magically loaded and be available every time a new session (ssh/terminal) is started so you can tinker whatever you like still keeping everything synchronised with the main configuration

Documentation

  • documented how to setup your GPS and have it working
  • documented how to add more packages
  • documented how to install python packages
  • documented hot to add a password to novnc
  • documented how to use a vnc client and not a browser
  • documented how to use GUI installers (discover, pamac)

Deprecated

  • unfortuantely the raspberry Pi 3 is not more officially supported because of hardware constraints
  • pipewire-media-session is finally deprecated for good in favor of wireplumber

Full Changelog: v1.8...v1.9

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