Raspberry Pi gets the biggest update in years: Raspbian Stretch

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Time does not forgive anyone, not even free software. It's been almost two years since the launch of Raspbian Jessie, and now the Raspberry Pi operating system - let's remember that it's based on Debian Linux - has just begun to receive the one that's here for at least the next two years Will be the most recent (and stable) version of this platform: Raspbian Stretch.

First it was Jessie, and now it's Stretch's turn: if both have in common both denominations is that the developers that work with the operating system of the Raspberry Pi they have customary to use names of personages of Toy Story to present in society Versions of his system, and Stretch is none other than the violet octopus that was seen in Toy Story 3. Raspbian Stretch is therefore the name that receives the latest update that is already available for download among users Of the Raspberry. Of course, no one expected big changes.

As developer Simon Long explains in an entry posted on the blog page of Raspberry Pi, the most important differences between Raspbian Stretch and Jessie's previous version are "under the hood", which means that the main novelties Are integrated in the form of improvements to the operation of the operating system. These include, among others, the abandonment of PulseAudio support for Bluetooth sound management, better user name management, or a solution to a vulnerability affecting the BCM43xx component of Raspberry Pi 3 and Pi Zero W.

In any case, all this does not mean that anyone who updates their Raspberry to this latest version will not find themselves with some other visual change. The Chromium browser is now upgraded to the v60 version, which in addition to improvements in performance also includes small tweaks in the interface. The program Sonic Pi, for its part, is updated to version 3.0.1 with some changes that can be consulted in detail following