Chromium Upgrade Along With Feature Changes And Various Fixes

Improvements

• Default "pi" user has been removed; the first-boot wizard enforces the creation of a new user account

• rename-user added to allow existing users to be renamed by temporarily rebooting to cut-down first-boot wizard

• Overscan now managed by xrandr under KMS, can be set independently for both monitors, and takes effect on the fly rather than requiring reboot

• GTK3 switch control now used in place of paired radio buttons throughout

• piwiz - first-boot wizard now runs in a separate session as a different user with different graphics

• piwiz - first-boot wizard now has automatic pairing for discoverable Bluetooth mice and keyboards

• lxinput - keyboard delay and repeat settings now persist across reboots under mutter

• raspi-config / rc_gui - removed pixel doubling when KMS driver in use

• raspi-config - removed composition manager when legacy driver in use

• arandr - restored support for interlaced displays

• mutter - implemented more intuitive window and application cycling behaviour

• pi-greeter - rebuilt for GTK3
• Support for experimental Wayland backend added - can be enabled as an advanced in raspi-config

• Various small bug fixes and graphical tweaks

• Chromium upgraded to version 98.0.4758.106

• FFmpeg HW acceleration improved

• OpenJDK 17 now defaults to 'client' JVM for ARMv6 compatibility

Bug fixes

• Bug fix - graphical corruption in system tray icons

• Bug fix - desktop items vanishing when dragged

• Bug fix - terminal windows not focussed correctly when launched

• Bug fix - crash after multiple update checks in updater plugin

• Bug fix - Raspberry Pi keyboard auto-detect by wizard was broken in previous release

• Bug fix - spurious "connected" dialog box shown when reconnecting to Bluetooth LE devices on boot

Important notes

• Raspberry Pi firmware 69277bc713133a54a1d20554d79544da1ae2b6ca

• Linux kernel 5.15.30