New plugin-based Control Centre application

2025-10-01

• Based on Debian Trixie release
• New plugin-based Control Centre application
• Plugins for same built from existing Raspberry Pi Configuration, Appearance
  Settings, Mouse and Keyboard Settings, Screen Configuration and Printer
  Settings applications; code and functionality identical
• New icon theme, PiXtrix
• New GTK themes, PiXtrix (standard) and PiXonyx (dark)
• New desktop wallpapers
• New system font, Nunito Sans Light
• lxpanel replaced with forked lxpanel-pi; unsupported plugins removed
• lxpanelctl replaced with lxpanelctl-pi command-line application
• New System Monitor plugin added to taskbar for power and other warnings
• New shared Clock plugin added for wf-panel-pi and lxpanel-pi taskbars
• Main menu shortcuts to Raspberry Pi website removed and replaced with
  pre-loaded bookmarks in Chromium and Firefox
• Main menu shortcut to Raspberry Pi Beginner's Guide added
• Bookshelf application now displays contributor-only titles and includes
  option to contribute to unlock them
• SenseHAT Emulator reinstated in Recommended Software
• labwc updated to version 0.8.4
• General keyboard control improvements in GTK applications
• International translations of user guides installed by startup wizard as
  appropriate
• raspberrypi-ui-mods package removed - replaced with structured metapackage,
  rpd-metas
• Shutdown helper does not offer lock screen option when invoked by a user
  who has no password set
• Chromium updated to version 140.0.7339.185
• Firefox updated to version 142.0.1
• Debian Reference no longer included
• Alacarte menu editor no longer included
• Remote GPIO option removed from Control Centre
• Added rpi-keyboard-config and rpi-keyboard-fw-update
• Raspberry Pi firmware 676efed1194de38975889a34276091da1f5aadd3
• Linux kernel 6.12.47 - 359f37f0faefb712add32a39f98751aea67d5c1f