What's new in Raspberry Digital Signage 12.0

Aug 19, 2019
  • This release is a Raspberry Pi 4 compatible build, rebuilt with a Raspbian Buster operating system as its foundation.
  • Some bugs have been fixed as well.

New in Raspberry Digital Signage 11.2 (Apr 13, 2018)

  • the underlying operating system has been updated to the latest Raspbian Stretch build, which assures the new Raspberry Pi 3b+ compatibility (raspberrypi-bootloader);
  • Chromium browser (the most important package for this browser-face operating system) has been updated to release 60 (armhf) and rpi-chromium-mods to version 20180409 (armhf);
  • a Systemd unit file now replaces the older SysV init-script for launching the digital signage stack (some code modified to comply with this new logic);
  • MAC address at URL’s end feature fixed;
  • Internal WordPress site viewability fixed.

New in Raspberry Digital Signage 10.0 (Nov 18, 2017)

  • the underlying operating system has been moved to Raspbian Stretch; the overall performance is sensibly better and HTML5 videos play a lot smoother;
  • some improvements on code and bug fixes (the most important ones concern WiFi networks’ discovery and local WordPress virtual host, which remains disabled if unused).

New in Raspberry Digital Signage 9.0 (May 9, 2017)

  • underlying operating system updated: raspberrypi-bootloader, apache, php, openssl and xorg packages have been updated, among many others;
  • Chromium browser is now at v.56, bundled with system’s new SSL certificates – needed after the infamous SHA1 collision event for browser’s correct behaviour with “https” sites;
  • Raspberry Pi Zero W compatibility;
  • digital signage page can be retrieved from the Internet, LAN or even from localhost (a www folder inside the Raspberry Pi’s SD card). To simplify the management of the internal site setup, RDS 9.0 comes with WordPress already installed;
  • a little more polished UI (official 7″ R-Pi touchscreen view is painless now);
  • more robust prevent-cache technique for Chromium when reloading-web-page hack is enabled (thanks to Marc Giavarra);
  • some minor improvements on code.

New in Raspberry Digital Signage 6.0 (Feb 21, 2015)

  • Raspberry 2 compatibility.

New in Raspberry Digital Signage 5.0 (Aug 14, 2014)

  • Raspberry B+ compatible version.

New in Raspberry Digital Signage 4.0 (Apr 14, 2014)

  • Bugfixing release. Most important bugs fixed:
  • now you can display images or videos from LAN without Internet access (web view worked well);
  • video sound not only to HDMI by default.
  • Raspbian backend updated as 2014-04-10.

New in Raspberry Digital Signage 3.0 (Nov 13, 2013)

  • Raspbian backend updated.
  • Better virtual keyboard, which now is displayed only when text input is needed (and feature enabled, of course). Thanks to Stephen Wille Padnos.
  • Network settings page is displayed only if network is unconfigured (unplug network cable/adapter and reboot to force showing it).
  • VNC server installed for the web view (see FAQ on how to change password; default is "rds").
  • Instructions adding for a pseudo-navigation panel, Chrome view (useful when managing popups in the digital signage kiosk view is needed). Thanks to marco-s_m.
  • Instructions added to site FAQ on how to remove cursor on screen (useful for touch screens). Thanks to Stephen Wille Padnos.