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RISC OS 5.28 now available

Posted by Steve Revill Sat, 24 Oct 2020 13:41:00 GMT

Slightly delayed from our original target in Spring, we’re pleased to announce RISC OS 5.28 is now available for all platforms that met or exceeded our stable release criteria.

What’s inside?

The extra few months has allowed us to pack in a fantastic 366 improvements to the ‘HardDisc4’ image and applications, and a similarly impressive 344 improvements to the main operating system.

Enjoy an overhauled Paint, up-to-date network security, system wide clipboard support, all running faster thanks to our community led bounty schemes.


CC-BY Marko Milivojevic

In addition, the following bugs were located and squashed: 136, 424, 445, 447, 448, 452, 455, 456, 458, 461, 462, 464, 465, 467, 470, 471, 472, 474, 475, 478, 489, 490, 491, 492.

Raspberry Pi 4 support

Sponsored in part by the generosity of everyone donating to our General Bounty and buying samples to test on, RISC OS Open can now officially support the Raspberry Pi 4 starting at RISC OS 5.28.

The full line up includes:

  • IOMD (more commonly known as the Acorn Risc PC/A7000/A7000+)
  • OMAP3 & OMAP4 (the Beagle and Panda boards)
  • Raspberry Pi (as mentioned above)
  • Titanium
  • Tungsten platform (used in the IYONIX pc)

The iMx6 and OMAP5 ports are still to resolve the issues identified in the original review back in February and remain classed as unstable this time round.

Special thanks

A stable release takes around nearly 100 hours for RISC OS Open to pull together, plus the team of testers’ time, plus all the time the programmers spent working on the source code. Although you can’t shake their hands right now the full list surely deserve a round of applause!

Pre-flight checks

Before you start, ensure:

  • If you use SparkFS, update it to version 1.46 or later
  • If you use ABC, update it to 4.23 or later

as these applications are known to be affected by other changes/fixes in RISC OS.

Is there any documentation I can read?

User Guide cover
Indeed there is! RISC OS 5.28 is accompanied by a new edition of the User Guide book, describing all of the new features and application suite changes. Available in print on 618 pages of FSC approved paper.

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    Gavin Smith (1413) said 30 minutes later:

    Congratulations on the big release and sincere thanks to every single person involved.

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    Steve Revill (20) said about 3 hours later:

    Thanks!

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    Alan Robertson (52) said about 22 hours later:

    Great to get a new release of RISC OS 5. Lots of fixes and improvements in this new version. Very stable and very fast when booting up.

    Thank you to everyone involved.

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    Andy S (2979) said 1 day later:

    Great news. Well done everyone.

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    Richard Walker (2090) said 1 day later:

    Brilliant stuff. Well done to all concerned.

    Here’s to 5.30 with a new network stack, eh?! :)

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    Phillip (5527) said 8 days later:

    5.28 looks great. Got it up and running on my Pi4, however, I have a question. How can I UPGRADE from 5.24 to 5.28 WITHOUT having to reconfigure everything? It would be a shame to lose my settings, preferences, bookmarks, everything. I have ePic, NutPi, the official book but, cannot find what must be a simple solution. I can usually solve my own problems but, finding help with RISCOS poses some real challenges when trying to ask a pointed question. If there is someone that can point me to a reference that addresses “upgrading the kernel”, I would be much obliged.

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    Jonathan S (8635) said 10 days later:

    Would RISC OS 5.28 work on the Raspberry Pi 400:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/raspberry-pi-400-the-under-100-desktop-pc-you-didnt-know-you-needed/ ?

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    James Williamson (8637) said 11 days later:

    Bundle RISC OS pre-installed and call it the R3020!

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    Bryan Hogan (339) said 13 days later:

    As mentioned in the forum, are you going to produce an updated release of 5.28 that works on the Raspberry Pi 400? This would also need to be in NOOBS.

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    Rebecca (1663) said 19 days later:

    I wanted to say thank you and show appreciation for everyone involved. I got my first Acorn Machine (A3010) in 1998, and we all know how that year went :( A couple of years later I got my Risc PC. Got a lot of stick over the years for using a “dead platform”. Now here in 2020 we have RISC OS Developments, the forks coming together and a new release of RISC OS. This will be a high point for many of us in an otherwise challenging year. Again many thanks to everyone who made this happen. I salute you one and all.

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    Chris Hall (132) said 24 days later:

    Daily development roms from 15 November now work on the Pi 400.

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    Bryan Hogan (339) said 30 days later:

    Great. Now those changes need to be put into the standard RISC OS Pi SD card image on the downloads page (and added to NOOBS). There are going to be lots of people getting Pi400’s in the run up to christmas, and RO needs to “just work” for them if we are to have any hope of catching some new users amongst them.

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