TinyPilot Pro Change History

2.6.5

Published: 2024-10-16

New features

• Manage Wi-Fi connections in TinyPilot's web UI.
• Network status dialog allows you to view your device's network connections, IP address, and MAC address.
• Meta + Alt + Escape shortcut to open the "Force Quit" utility on macOS.
• Alt + Tab shortcut to switch to the next window on macOS, Windows, and more.
• Ctrl + Alt + Backspace shortcut to restart the desktop environment on some Linux distributions.
• Send mouse events using the Enterprise REST API.

Bugfixes

• Moving virtual media to an external disk no longer prevents TinyPilot's web UI from loading.
• Moving virtual media to an external disk now warns when existing files are too large for the external filesystem.
• Attempting to move virtual media to an external disk no longer fails when virtual media hasn't yet been used.

Improvements

• Added de-DE support when pasting text (thanks to @DustyDiamond).
• External virtual media now supports ext4-formatted drives for images over 4GiB.

Disk image checksums (SHA-256)

• Voyager: 1906b296e7cb191c81a4e0a4a13fc733a8fa6be69eb85c11ca63aaada5301c01
• Hobbyist: 3e32a59dc27fa67ae4d0934f7a86f793d1aff4c0857d92be935fc7e0c912e7bb

2.6.4

Published: 2024-06-20

New features

• Create virtual media disk images from files on your local computer.
• Support for using touchscreen input.
• The "Paste Text" dialog now supports masking text for privacy.

Improvements

• The "Manage Virtual Media" dialog displays how much free disk space is available.
• The disk image table shows the file size of individual disk images.

Notes

• Debug logs now include static IP address details.
• Manage a TinyPilot Wi-Fi access point using convienience scripts.

Disk image checksums (SHA-256)

• Voyager: 7ad262a0f196e32843d3ecbe7323eb10448e54d59515793b2b9a94e0f29fd89a
• Hobbyist: edab3cbc668cd1522bc1c1ae75e7383111e27440df34fa26efdf1e02217572d9

2.6.3

Published: 2024-02-29

New features

• Assign your device a static IP address in TinyPilot's web UI.

Bugfixes

• UI behavior is now consistent when re-uploading a disk image.
• Eliminated noise from the debug logs on TinyPilot systems that use USB-based HDMI capture.

Security

• Fixed privilege escalation through scripts.

Improvements

• Optimized timing on menus to make it harder to accidentally exit the menu too early.
• TinyPilot remembers your log-in details after you restart your browser.
• TinyPilot redirects you to your originally requested page after authentication.
• Improved guidance for enabling SSH access.
• Semantics for action buttons are now consistent across dialog windows.

Disk image checksums (SHA-256)

• Voyager: f29317229349573eea140aa65dacecaf573d5a08cc7eb459d07ada6a1ed0975c
• Hobbyist: 033bee160840bf7f9aea524381b517a837270eb87f12e149949eb4fb54288a5e

2.6.2

Published: 2023-11-09

New features

• STUN server configuration options are now available in H.264 video settings.
• Static IP dialog allows you to view your device's static IP address and your router's IP address.

Bugfixes

• Pasting large amounts of text now works reliably.
• The streaming indicator correctly reports the streaming mode when the remote display is off.

Improvements

• H.264 mode video performance is 9% faster than 2.6.1.
• First boot is now 20% faster.
• Virtual media dialog displays a warning if you try to mount too large an image in ISO mode.
• Detailed update logs now announce when the install is complete.
• Debug logs now provide information about the current and selected streaming modes.
• Update to uStreamer v5.43.

Notes

• The "Hostname" menu item has moved to System > Networking > Hostname.

2.6.1

Published: 2023-09-04

New features

• Dedicated Window view allows you to view your remote screen in a dedicated browser window without any menus or status bars.

Bugfixes

• Resizing the browser window vertically no longer creates sizing jumps at certain heights.

Improvements

• Actions > Paste now opens a standard dialog instead of a confusing overlay.
• Updates install 70% faster.
• The update process requires fewer downloads of external resources.
• Dialogs consistently allow you to submit by pressing Enter in input fields.
• HTTP 502 Bad Gateway errors result in clearer guidance about how to fix the issue.
• Debug logs have better information about temperature, network interfaces, CPU throttling, power, and hardware architecture.

Notes

• TinyPilot now manages the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pin 2 if you install from a disk image.

  • If you install from the command line, TinyPilot does not assume ownership of any GPIO pins.
• TinyPilot's localhost-only ports have changed from the 8000-8002 range to 48000-48002.

• It is no longer possible to make changes to TinyPilot's undocumented settings through the /home/tinypilot/settings.yml file.

  • The following settings are supported and remain configurable through settings.yml:

    • tinypilot_external_port
    • tinypilot_external_tls_port
    • tinypilot_manage_tls_keys
    • ustreamer_edid

  • The following settings are configurable through settings.yml, but we may remove configuration support for them in the future:

    • tinypilot_keyboard_interface
    • tinypilot_mouse_interface

2.6.0

Published: 2023-06-26

New features

• The on-screen keyboard has been redesigned and now supports easy hiding.

Bugfixes

• Clean up temporary files if there's a failure during the update or install process.

Improvements

• The update process is 45% faster than 2.5.4 and writes 48% less to the disk.

2.5.4

Published: 2023-04-27

New features

• Add support for exporting and importing TinyPilot settings.
• Add a help menu.

Bugfixes

• Release modifier keys when switching windows (e.g., Alt+Tab).
• Fix a blank screen bug that affected macOS Ventura 13.3 systems.

Improvements

• Support a wider range of display resolutions and refresh rates from target systems.
• Add support for INTL_RO and INTL_YEN keycodes for Japanese systems.
• Provide a more helpful error message if a software update fails.
• Update to uStreamer v5.38.
• Reduce log writes to disk.

Notes

• This release may cause target systems to forget TinyPilot's previously configured display settings.

  • This release updates TinyPilot's EDID, including revising the product ID field.
  • Some systems cache display settings such as Mirror vs. Extend based on the display device's EDID.
  • If you configured settings such as output resolution or display mode on your target system when you first set up TinyPilot, you may need to re-apply those settings after this update.

• This is the final update available for systems running Raspberry Pi OS Lite (Raspbian) Buster.

  • For affected systems, the update dialog will provide instructions on how to migrate to the latest base OS.
  • Users running Raspberry Pi OS Lite (Raspbian) Bullseye can continue updating normally.

2.5.3

Published: 2023-02-09

New features

• Stream audio from the target computer in H.264 video mode.

  • Requires Voyager 2a or later.
  • Requires Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) Bullseye as the base OS image, so users who upgrade from previous TinyPilot Pro images won't have access to this feature without a clean install with the latest pre-built microSD image.

Improvements

• Switch to Raspberry Pi OS Lite (Raspbian) Bullseye as base OS image.
• Add ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 to supported SSL ciphers.

Bugfixes

• Prevent flicker when video stream loads in H.264 mode.

Notes

• TinyPilot support for Raspberry Pi OS Lite (Raspbian) Buster will soon be ending.

  • TinyPilot is working on a Buster to Bullseye migration path, but we recommend new installations use Bullseye systems.

2.5.2

Published: 2023-01-17

New features

• H.264 video encoding is available to provide lower-bandwidth, low-latency streaming.

Improvements

• Changes to video settings apply 90% faster.
• Respect OS dark-mode preference for background color.
• Add command-line scripts to manage static IP addresses.
• Various improvements speed up the install/upgrade process.
• Prevent an ineffectual upgrade when the read-only filesystem is enabled.
• Prevent an install on incompatible hardware.
• Capture more OS version information in debug logs (thanks to @raphaelts3).
• Capture hardware revision in debug logs.
• Make better use of Python f-strings (thanks to @jmunoz94).

Bugfixes

• Video settings dialog spins infinitely on error.

2.5.0

Published: 2022-10-03

New features

• Add an About page.

Improvements

• Install TinyPilot via Debian package instead of a git repository.
• Check for updates using the TinyPilot update web service instead of a git server.
• Allow remote screen to occupy full width of browser window.
• Enabling experimental support for H.264 is now much faster as we use a pre-compiled binary.
• Skip pip upgrade unless it's necessary.

2.4.1

Published: 2022-05-12

New features

• Experimental opt-in support for H.264 video over WebRTC.

  • Instructions to enable H.264

Improvements

• Disable spellcheck and auto-complete on non-prose text inputs.

Bugfixes

• Remove noise from debug logs.
• Prevent update from timing out on slow network connections.

2.4.0

Published: 2022-03-24

New features

• Extend password authentication to allow multiple users with distinct credentials.

Improvements

• Present virtual storage to target computer only when a drive is mounted.

  • This improves compatibility with systems that don't recognize virtual storage devices.

Bugfixes

• (Security): Fix a vulnerability that allowed users to reuse previously valid session tokens.
• (Security): Strengthen validation for long-lived connections.
• Automatically repair Flask's secret key if it becomes corrupted.
• Prevent shutdown dialog from closing after shutdown is complete.
• Prevent TinyPilot from incorrectly sending the Ctrl key modifier in certain situations.
• Prevent uStreamer compilation failure.

Known issues

• If you have password authentication required when you upgrade your system to 2.4.0 or later, the update dialog will report that the update failed with "Error: Authentication required."

  • You can safely ignore this message. If you reload the page and log in, you will find that the update has completed successfully.

2.3.2

Published: 2022-01-10

New features

• Redact sensitive information from diagnostic logs

• Enable/disable SSH access from the web UI

  • SSH access is now disabled by default on fresh installations

Improvements

• Add TinyPilot's new logo
• Resize the remote screen when the browser window is shorter to prevent vertical clipping
• Add more logging for security-related events (login, add user)

Bugfixes

• Make fullscreen feature work with more browsers
• Fix a bug in "Download image from URL" feature when URL contained URL-encoded characters

2.3.1

Published: 2021-11-18

Improvements

• Improve keyboard compatibility with systems that have buggy HID implementations in pre-boot, including Mac hardware.
• Improve performance for mouse movement and reduce the network bandwidth it consumes.
• Present a warning in the Security dialog if device has default SSH credentials.
• On login failure, show password reset instructions.
• Hide X ("close") button on dialogs that cannot be closed.
• Relax checking for "download from URL" virtual media feature to allow URLs that don't end in .img or .iso.
• Add a configuration option to disable virtual media.
• Support Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye release (2021-10-30)

Bugfixes

• Prevent CSRF token from expiring on system restart.
• Make Ctrl+Alt+Del shortcut show a clearer keystroke history and more accurately mimic a user manually pushing that key sequence.
• Prevent nginx from buffering the video stream, which could sometimes prevent the last frame from appearing with low-framerate settings.

2.3.0

Published: 2021-09-20

New features

• Add support for Wake on LAN
• Allow mounting virtual media in CD-ROM mode
• View detailed progress logs during version-to-version updates
• Add shortcut for Ctrl+Alt+Del

Improvements

• Speed up JavaScript loading
• Add consistent close buttons to dialog boxes
• Remove extraneous scrollbars when dialog boxes are showing

Bugfixes

• Detect more keyboard forwarding failures
• Fix Meta+V pasting on macOS

2.2.5

Published: 2021-08-27

Bugfixes

• Applies a more robust fix to the failure in the apt-get command that was causing updates to fail.

2.2.4

Published: 2021-08-25

Bugfixes

• Fixes a failure in the apt-get command that was causing updates to fail.

2.2.3

Published: 2021-07-20

New features

• Add a REST API (Enterprise-only)
• Allow access over plaintext HTTP (disabled by default)

Improvements

• Add version change information to the update dialog
• Warn the user if they try to close the browser tab in the middle of a virtual image upload

Bugfixes

• Fix a bug that affects updates from <= 2.2.1 to later versions (#735)
• Fix space bar functionality on virtual keyboard (#736)
• Fix a bug that prevented TinyPilot from sending left and right modifiers simultaneously (#364)
• Prevent gateway timeout errors when uploading virtual storage images
• Fix a UI bug in the list of virtual storage images
• Fix CA certificate compatibility on macOS

2.2.2

Published: 2021-06-14

New features

• Upload virtual storage images from URL
• Add "reset to defaults" to video settings screen (#705)
• Support .local and .localdomain SANs

Improvements

• Make style choices consistent across the web app (#721, #703, #699, #698, #674)
• Improve robustness and error detection during updates (#702, #675)
• Switch to conventional HTTP status codes (#680)
• Improve mouse compatibility

Bugfixes

• Fix UI bugs in virtual storage feature
• Fix bug that prevented modifier keys from working during mouse clicks (#692)
• Eliminate a dependency on Internet connectivity for first boot
• Add temperature and throttling checks to diagnostic script

2.2.1

Published: 2021-05-05

Bugfixes

• Hotfix for an issue with the install process

2.2.0

Published: 2021-05-04

New features

• Mount virtual drives from disk images
• Tune the video stream from the web UI

Bugfixes

• Improved reliability of the update process