Raspbian 2018-11-13 is now available for download

Nov 19, 2018 21:00 GMT  ·  By

The Raspberry Pi Foundation released a new version of its Debian-based Raspbian Linux operating system for Raspberry Pi devices, a release that adds new features, updates, and many other interesting things.

Raspbian 2018-11-13 is now the latest version of the Linux and Debian-based operating system for the tiny single-board computers called Raspberry Pi, introducing a new default media player, namely VLC Media Player, with fully hardware-accelerated support through VideoCore’s video engine for H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2 formats.

"After a lot of work (by people far cleverer than me), we are now able to announce that Raspbian includes a fully hardware-accelerated version of VLC. It plays most audio file formats; it uses software codecs for many video formats," Raspberry Pi Foundation's Senior Principal Software Engineer Simon Long wrote in a recent blog post.

Here's what's new in Raspbian 2018-11-13

Besides the implementation of VLC as default media player, which is a huge step in the evolution of Raspberry Pi Foundation's Rasbian operating system for Raspberry Pi devices, the Raspbian 2018-11-13 release also updates the user-friendly Thonny IDE to version 3.0.5, which brings numerous new debugging features like breakpoints.

Thonny's user interface was updated as well by making it simpler to switch between the regular and simple modes. As such, the cut-down "simple" mode is now enabled by default, and you'll be able to activate the more complex "regular" mode by clicking a link in the top right-hand corner of Thonny's main interface.

The Appearance Settings application has also been updated in Raspbian 2018-11-13 to read global configuration files correctly, so it won't delete your custom configuration files anymore. Other than that, the installation image was split in two to make it easier to download Raspbian on slow Internet connections.

While the "base" image has no extra packages included, the "full" image comes with Claws Mail, LibreOffice, Thonny 3, Scratch, Scratch 2, Sonic Pi, SenseHAT Emulator, Minecraft, VNC Viewer, SmartSim, Mathematica, BlueJ, Greenfoot, Node-RED, and Python Games.

Under the hood, Raspbian 2018-11-13 runs Linux kernel 4.14.79 LTS and all the latest security and bugfix updates from the upstream Debian Stable repositories. You can download Raspbian 2018-11-13 right now through our Linux software portal if you want to deploy the Linux OS on your Raspberry Pi device.

VLC Media Player running on Rasbian
VLC Media Player running on Rasbian
Thonny 3
Thonny 3
Updated Appearance Settings app
Updated Appearance Settings app

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