Changelog

Changelog

One line per version, newest last. Each one was a pull request on GitHub.

• v0.1: display page, weather, rain, moon, calendar, holidays, ICS calendars
• v0.2: settings web page, Indonesian and French themes
• v0.3: 13 languages (incl. Arabic right to left), 8 themes, news headlines, step-by-step help
• v0.4: one-line installer (start at boot, full screen, update and reboot from the settings page, screen rotation and night hours, first-start QR code, beranda doctor); 48 languages, 243 countries, 140 news feeds; 15 themes
• v0.5: photo carousel from a local folder, filled with rclone or Syncthing — never a cloud photo account of its own
• v0.6: world radio (Radio Browser, ~50,000 free stations, played through mpv on the Pi itself)
• v0.7: TV prime time from the user's own XMLTV guide (read-only, never scraped or hosted by Beranda)
• v0.8: offline voice control (openWakeWord + Vosk + Piper), a separate opt-in service (install.sh --with-voice) for the weather, the time, a favourite station and the screen
• v0.9: country-specific historical events ("on this day", free lookup on Wikidata), woven into the news ticker
• v0.10: 9 more languages (Hausa, Yoruba, Zulu, Somali, Malagasy, Wolof, Tamil, Tahitian, Quechua), 57 in all
• v0.11: Wi-Fi setup with no keyboard (install.sh --with-wifi-setup: an open "Beranda setup" network and a one-page picker if the Pi boots with no network at all) and a pi-gen build definition + CI workflow for a ready-to-flash image with it already built in
• v0.12: what the first real test showed was confusing, fixed. Radio and voice now work in the page of the tablet that shows Beranda (sound and microphone are the tablet's, not the Pi's; mpv and the Pi voice service are gone); photos have their own folder, "Add photos" and Dropbox; TV prime time is fixed at 20:00 + 3 h and a guide is suggested for the country; "On this day" comes from Wikipedia in the user's language; the month grid is gone and the agenda looks further ahead
• v0.13: TV gets its own "Tonight on TV" box on the screen (one main programme per ticked channel, with a plain message when it is empty) and big guides are no longer cut off; the radio box gets a "previous station" button; long lists in the settings page can be folded away (radio results, TV channels with a search box); voice control gets more built-in phrases (next/previous station, volume, tonight's TV), your own phrases from the settings page, and a step-by-step guide (docs/VOICE.md)
• v0.13.1: TV fixes from the second real test: ticking more channels now shows them all (the cache ignored the ticked channels), big guides are unpacked as a stream and parsed off the main thread, the too-heavy xmltvfr.fr "complete" file is replaced by its TNT and France files, the TV box pages through more channels; news shows 3 headlines at once; clock and weather are a little smaller; photo and radio share their row 65/35
• v0.14: the empty middle of the screen is used: your photo and a 24-hour graph (temperature, rain, wind, nights) side by side, with air quality / UV / pollen below; clock and weather sit side by side on top. New optional extras (each one can be switched off in the settings page): official weather warnings for your area (MeteoAlarm), an ephemeris (name day, length of the day, local calendar of the country) and a small second clock. The settings page gets a ☰ menu to jump to a section, and "start again from zero" now needs the word yes (oui, ja, sí...) typed in the language of the page
• v0.14.1: fix - choosing a town in the settings page filled in coordinates the form then refused (too many decimals), so the page could not be saved
• v0.14.2: fix - choosing a new town in the settings page now also replaces the weather warnings area (it kept the old town's) and says that the region was reset
• v0.14.3: limits that fit the board. Beranda recognises the Raspberry Pi model and its memory (Pi 2, 3, 4, 5; 1 to 16 GB) and caps each list accordingly (calendars, news sources, TV channels, radio stations, key dates, photos, voice phrases): the settings page stops you with a plain sentence instead of slowing the Pi down, and a hand-edited file is trimmed to fit. The five profiles (light, standard, comfortable, comfortable +, maximum) are tabulated in the README and can be forced with [limits] profile or BERANDA_PROFILE. README rewritten around the reader
• v0.14.4: a new "Advanced user" box in the settings page: change the port 8080 (checked to be free, with every consequence spelled out, the screen on the Pi follows by itself, and Beranda falls back to 8080 if the new port cannot be used), and "start over from scratch" moves there. A "Buy me a coffee" button sits in the header and the menu. The usage guide lists all 15 boxes
• v0.14.5: "Start over and erase photos and data" next to "Start over from scratch": it also deletes the photos of Beranda's own photo frame and everything downloaded, and asks twice (the typed word, then a last reminder listing what will go)
• v0.15.0: three fixes and two tools. The warnings area is emptied when the town is changed by hand (name, coordinates or country); ticked TV channels keep their usual names instead of showing guide numbers; and in "Advanced user": an optional secure address (HTTPS, a certificate made by Beranda) so a computer's browser allows the microphone, and a diagnostic file to download for bug reports (no secret inside)
• v0.15.1: the two "start over" buttons say plainly what they erase; after starting over with a changed port, the settings page follows Beranda back to 8080 by itself; beranda doctor says when it needs sudo to read the settings and finds the server on another port; the installer shows the real port
• v0.15.2: the secure address is now simply the usual one with an "s": the same port answers http:// and https:// (no switch, no second port). The README gets a "settings page does not answer" rescue section with the few commands that always work
• v0.15.3: "Test the microphone on this device" in the Voice control box says in plain words what blocks it (blocked permission, no microphone, speech service unreachable...); the screen's message adds a short reason code
• v0.15.4: a warnings area saved for another town is spotted when the settings page opens ("does not match your town"), with a one-tap fix (found thanks to the diagnostic file)
• v0.15.5: the screen reports what goes wrong on its side (microphone result, page errors) and the diagnostic file shows it, with the browser of that screen
• v0.15.6: Google Chrome recommended for voice; the settings page warns Edge users that its speech service often fails ("network")
• v0.15.7: tidier on small SD cards: the installer and each update drop the downloaded packages, the pip cache and the old versions' files, and keep the system log under 50 MB; beranda doctor shows the free space
• v0.15.8: beranda-tidy, run by the installer and every update: package and pip caches, old versions, a 50 MB system log, and on cards under 32 GB with rpi-swap, swap in compressed memory only (the swap file as big as the memory goes away at the next reboot; a hand-made choice is kept)
• v0.15.9: the wiki (roadmap, status, changelog, user guide, developer documentation) lives in docs/wiki/ and is published automatically; the automatic checks pass again (a newer linter and a shell-script warning had turned them red since 0.14.0); fix - a first install on a new card stopped with an error at its very last step since 0.15.1 (updates were not affected)
• v0.15.10: wiki links fixed (they broke inside tables); the READMEs link to the wiki pages
• v0.16.0: a Wi-Fi box in the settings page: see the network, keep several, add one (never cuts the current one), use one now (goes back by itself if it fails), forget one. The "Beranda setup" safety net is on by default and watches all the time: with no known network for 2 minutes the Pi opens its own Wi-Fi so a phone can pick the right one; it closes again and retries the known networks by itself. Existing installs get it with the Update button
• v0.16.1: Wi-Fi fixes from the first real test: a failure now says why (wrong password, not in range, radio off, too slow) with the system's own message; a switched-off Wi-Fi radio can be turned on from the page (setting the Wi-Fi country from Beranda's country when none is set); browsers no longer keep last version's scripts after an update (an empty Wi-Fi box in Edge); the end of an update is run by the new version of the root helper, so new steps work at once
• v0.16.2: first real Wi-Fi change made from the settings page (Pi 4, cable to Wi-Fi). A request with no answer now says whether the Pi is busy (an update) or its helper is stuck, with the command to unblock it; Edge users see a gentle tip to use Google Chrome, now the recommended browser everywhere
• v0.16.3: the name day is back. The name-day service answers in a shape Beranda did not read, so the "Name day" line had never appeared on a real Pi: fixed, against the real answer. With the France theme it now shows in big at the top right (where the theme leaves room), in the countries that celebrate name days and with their own names; a new option in "Extras of the main screen" turns it off. The languages of those countries get their own word for it (Imieniny, Namnsdag, Svátek, Névnap...)
• v0.16.4: calmer with a failing source (found with a diagnostic file): "news about my town" (GDELT) was asked again every minute, twice, and kept refusing. Now a source that fails is left alone for a while (2 to 15 minutes) while its last good copy stays on screen, and two screens asking at once share one request. The "offline" badge only shows when the Pi cannot be reached or the weather or calendar are old copies; the log names the failing news source
• v0.16.5: security housekeeping. The linter's security rules are switched on (they were not), and where something looks risky but is deliberate - listening on the home network, naming a command rather than writing out its path - the reason is now written next to it. CodeQL reads the Python and the JavaScript on every pull request and once a week, Dependabot watches the libraries and the CI actions, the CI token can only read, and the root services set their own PATH. A SECURITY.md says how to report a problem privately. One real bug found on the way: unpacking a Dropbox folder of photos froze the screen and the settings page for as long as it took; it now runs out of the way
• v0.16.6: gitleaks joins the checks: it reads every commit ever made, looking for anything shaped like a password, a key or a token. GitHub's own scanner only knows the shapes of known providers and only looks at new commits. The whole history came back clean
• v0.16.7: every action used by CI is now named by the exact commit it is, instead of by a tag that its owner could move onto other code. Dependabot keeps them current
• v0.16.8: went through everything the new code scanner flagged. One shared check now decides whether an address Beranda is given is safe to download from (http or https only, a real site name, no hidden password), and calendar links go through it too - they were the one kind that was never checked. The Wi-Fi setup page now refuses a network name or a password that cannot be right instead of asking the radio to try it. Smaller ones: answer files are readable by their owner alone, nothing but the type of a problem is ever written to a log, and the few places that really do use a path or an address chosen by the owner now say in a sentence why that is safe.
• v0.16.9: Beranda now answers the home network only for everything - the screen, its data and the photos as much as the settings page - so a port opened on the router by mistake shows strangers nothing. Wrong PINs are counted, one phone or computer at a time: after 5, that device waits 1 minute, then twice as long each time (up to 1 hour), and the page says how long; the whole house gets at most 20 wrong PINs in any hour. A PIN with an unusual letter no longer makes the page fail
• v0.16.10: on a Raspberry Pi with no screen plugged in (used over SSH only), the diagnostic file and beranda doctor no longer show the full-screen display service as a fault: it has nothing to do there. If the Pi cannot tell, or the service runs anyway, nothing changes