Download Raspberry Pi OS 2023-10-10

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released a new version of its operating system for the single-board computers of the same name. Raspberry Pi OS is based on Debian Linux and is available in three different versions: a version with a desktop environment and various applications, a version with only the desktop environment, and a version without a desktop environment. There are many more operating systems for the Raspberry Pi, including: Raspbian. This is seen by some as the precursor to Raspberry Pi OS, but it is two separate projects. The new version of Raspberry Pi OS is based on Debian version 12, with the most notable change being the use of Wayland instead of X11. Extensive release notes are available this page to find; this is the changelog:

Raspberry Pi OS 2023-10-10:

• Based on Debian bookworm release
• Support for Raspberry Pi 5
• Desktop now runs on the Wayfire Wayland compositing window manager on Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 platforms; on X11 using the openbox window manager on older platforms
• lxpanel replaced with new wf-panel-pi application when running Wayland; existing lxpanel plugins migrated; GPU performance and power plugins added
• pcmanfm modified to use Wayland backend when running on Wayland
• PipeWire used instead of PulseAudio as audio control subsystem; various changes made to volume control plugin to support this
• NetworkManager used instead of dhcpcd as networking interface; various changes made to networking plugin to support this
• Firefox browser added as alternative to Chromium; selection of default browser added to Raspberry Pi Configuration tool
• WayVNC VNC server used instead of RealVNC when running on Wayland
• All customization and configuration applications modified to customize Wayfire environment as appropriate
• grim used as screenshot tool instead of scrot when running on Wayland
• eom image viewer used instead of gpicview
• evince document viewer used instead of qpdfview
• Chromium web browser updated to version 116
• VLC media player updated to version 3.0.18
• Magnifier program not available when running Wayland; Wayfire includes screen zoom capabilities
• CustomPC and Wireframe removed from Bookshelf
• Numerous small changes and bug fixes
• Switched from raspberrypi-kernel to Debian-based kernel packaging (linux-image-rpi-*)
• Switched from raspberrypi-bootloader to Debian based firmware packaging (raspi-firmware)
• /boot mount point moved to /boot/firmware