1.9.0

New features

• The on-screen keyboard has been redesigned and now supports easy hiding.

Bugfixes

• Clean up temporary files if there's a failure during the update or install process.

Improvements

• The update process is 45% faster than 2.5.4 and writes 48% less to the disk.

1.8.3

New features

• Add a help menu.

Bugfixes

• Release modifier keys when switching windows (e.g., Alt+Tab).
• Fix a blank screen bug that affected Mac OS Ventura 13.3 systems.

Improvements

• Support a wider range of display resolutions and refresh rates from target systems.
• Add support for INTL_RO and INTL_YEN keycodes for Japanese systems.
• Provide a more helpful error message if a software update fails.
• Update to uStreamer v5.38.

1.8.2

New features

• Stream audio from the target computer in H.264 video mode.
  • Requires HDMI capture that includes audio support, such as a Voyager 2a or later.
  • Requires Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) Bullseye as the base OS.

Improvements

• Add ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 to supported SSL ciphers.

Bugfixes

• Prevent flicker when video stream loads in H.264 mode.

Notes

• TinyPilot support for Raspberry Pi OS Lite (Raspbian) Buster will soon be ending.
  • TinyPilot is working on a Buster to Bullseye migration path, but we recommend new installations use Bullseye systems.

1.8.1

New features

• H.264 video encoding is available to provide lower-bandwidth, low-latency streaming.

Improvements

• Changes to video settings apply 90% faster.
• Respect OS dark-mode preference for background color.
• Add command-line scripts to manage static IP addresses.
• Various improvements speed up the install/upgrade process.
• Prevent an ineffectual upgrade when the read-only filesystem is enabled.
• Prevent an install on incompatible hardware.
• Capture more OS version information in debug logs (thanks to @raphaelts3).
• Capture hardware revision in debug logs.
• Make better use of Python f-strings (thanks to @jmunoz94).

Bugfixes

• Video settings dialog spins infinitely on error.

1.8.0

New features

• Add an About page.

Improvements

• Install TinyPilot via Debian package instead of a git repository.
• Check for updates using the TinyPilot update web service instead of a git server.
• Allow remote screen to occupy full width of browser window.
• Enabling experimental support for H264 is now much faster as we use a pre-compiled binary.
• Skip pip upgrade unless it's necessary.

1.7.1

New features

• Experimental opt-in support for H264 video over WebRTC. #875

Improvements

• Disable spellcheck and auto-complete on non-prose text inputs. #972

Bugfixes

• Remove noise from debug logs. tiny-pilot/ansible-role-tinypilot#194
• Prevent update from timing out on slow connections #949

New Contributors

• @berlin4apk made their first contribution in #966

Full Changelog: 1.7.0...1.7.1

1.7.0

Bugfixes

• Automatically repair Flask's secret key if it becomes corrupted.
• Prevent shutdown dialog from closing after shutdown is complete.
• Prevent TinyPilot from incorrectly sending the Ctrl key modifier in certain situations.
• Prevent uStreamer compilation failure.

1.6.2

New features

• Redact sensitive information from diagnostic logs (#813)

Improvements

• Add TinyPilot's new logo (#857)
• Resize the remote screen when the browser window is shorter to prevent vertical clipping (#878)

Bugfixes

• Make fullscreen feature work with more browsers (#874)

Acknowledgements

Thanks to @djclueless for his work on this release!

1.6.1

Improvements

• Improve keyboard compatibility with systems that have buggy HID implementations in pre-boot, including Mac hardware.
• Improve performance for mouse movement and reduce the network bandwidth it consumes.
• Hide X ("close") button on dialogs that cannot be closed.
• Support Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye release (2021-10-30)

Bugfixes

• Prevent CSRF token from expiring on system restart.
• Make Ctrl+Alt+Del shortcut show a clearer keystroke history and more accurately mimic a user manually pushing that key sequence.
• Prevent nginx from buffering the video stream, which could sometimes prevent the last frame from appearing with low-framerate settings.

1.6.0

New features

• View detailed progress logs during version-to-version updates
• Add shortcut for Ctrl+Alt+Del

Improvements

• Speed up JavaScript loading
• Add consistent close buttons to dialog boxes
• Remove extraneous scrollbars when dialog boxes are showing

Bugfixes

• Automatically retry requests when they fail due to expired CSRF tokens
• Detect more keyboard forwarding failures
• Fix Meta+V pasting on OS X