Is Pi-Star dead? No releases for 12 months

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Is Pi-Star dead? No releases for 12 months

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Is Pi-Star no longer in active development?

4.3 beta was released 12 months ago, but there have been no further updates of anything since then.
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What do you want to see added?

The base vers. of software/ modes thats used in pistar hasnt been changed much for months.

The overnight updates bring you host changes and background tweaks to keep relevant, so agn ill ask what do you want to see added??

Adding stuff, just for the sake of adding stuff adds little value to something that was designed as a setup/ config interface for mmdvmhost.


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Not looking for specific fucntionality, just that 4.1 and 4.2 are now on versions of Pi OS that are EOL (the Pi updater needs to be manually changed to pint to an archive to even run).

4.3 was being rebased onto Bookworm, but that was 12 months ago with no releases since.

What background tweaks? Nothing in any logs I can see, that last changelog entry was 16-Feb-2024.
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Allowing Bookworm OS updates breaks things fairly well, I was wondering if this could be looked at but I appreciate that the devs are busy people.
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G1HUL wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 7:52 am Not looking for specific fucntionality, just that 4.1 and 4.2 are now on versions of Pi OS that are EOL (the Pi updater needs to be manually changed to pint to an archive to even run).

4.3 was being rebased onto Bookworm, but that was 12 months ago with no releases since.

What background tweaks? Nothing in any logs I can see, that last changelog entry was 16-Feb-2024.
Just for the sake of security, the publicly released version should be running the current (or at least recent) base OS version. Having pi-stars sitting on people's home networks with a ton of vulnerabilities is not good. Especially when the built-in update button isn't able to effectively patch the base OS. The average pi-star user is not a Linux expert, so very few are going to adjust apt config files to fix broken URLs.
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G8SEZ wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 5:58 pm Allowing Bookworm OS updates breaks things fairly well, I was wondering if this could be looked at but I appreciate that the devs are busy people.
I can agree with that. The beta image (4.3.0) works pretty well before you do any OS updates. Afterwards, in my case, the hat board I am using no longer is recognized by PiStar. Going back to the 4.2.1 image fixes that. I also agree that the bullseye release is getting stale, but at least it's possible to still get some updates. Such is the nature of FOSS.

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