Release Notes for Debian Image-202409 on VisionFive 2

Release Notes for Debian Image-202409 on VisionFive 2

What’s New

Supported SBC: VF2 v1.2A and v1.3B;

Based on Linux kernel 5.15 & 6.6 (VisionFive2 kernel tag: v5.13.1);

Support StarFive Debian official archive;

Support Debian snapshot 20230612T050707Z;

Add StarFive Debian Repository support to upgrade u-boot/kernel/application etc. via apt;

Support automatic disk expansion during system startup;

Support upgrade u-boot/spl into flash/SD/eMMC/NVMe storage via apt install vf2-spl-uboot;

Upgrade firefox to 119.0.1-1 version;

Upgrade libreoffice to 24.2.0-3 version;

Known Issues / Limitation

Chromium FFmpeg is not working;

NVME image occasionally has a slow boot time;

Qt modules qtwebengine failed to build;

NWjs Filesystem access APIs failed;

NWjs mp3 encoder failed to be detected;

Libcamera-raw and libcamera-vid saving 480P raw and mjpeg files will appear random stripes;

Libcamera has obvious noises on the full screen of the desktop;

Desktop UI is not very suitable for portrait screen;

Vulkan CTS;

Fixed Issues

Improve preview performance on gnome setting;

Install improved-osk-gnome extension by default;

What’s Next

Debian-Installer support - Could support both SD + eMMC boot in single image; Vulkan support;

History

v2.1

  1. Release Debian image 202409;

  2. Update new feature, known/fixed issues; v2.0

  3. Release Debian image 202405;

  4. Update new feature, known/fixed issues; V1.9:

  5. Release Debian image 202403;

  6. Update new feature, known/fixed issues; v1.8:

  7. Release Debian image 202311;

  8. Update new feature, known/fixed issues; v1.7:

  9. Release Debian image 202310;

  10. Update new feature, known/fixed issues; v1.6:

  11. Release Debian image 202308;

  12. Update new feature, known/fixed issues; v1.5:

  13. Release Debian image 202306;

  14. Update new feature, known/fixed issues; v1.4:

  15. Release Debian image 202303;

  16. Update new feature, known/fixed issues; v1.3:

  17. Release Debian image 202302;

  18. Update new feature, known/fixed issues; v1.2:

  19. Add one issue: accidental crash occureed on libreoffice v7.5;

v1.1:

  1. Release Debian image(starfive-jh7110-VF2-VF2_515_v2.5.0-69.img);

  2. Sync publish a minimal Debian image(starfive-jh7110-VF2_515_v2.5.0-69-minimal-desktop.img) and several deb packages;

  3. Update known&fixed issues; v1.0:

  4. Release Debian image(starfive-jh7110-VF2-VF2_515_v2.3.0-55.img) 2. Update known&fixed issues

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Support StarFive Debian official archive;

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