diff --git a/releases.md b/releases.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8aca977 --- /dev/null +++ b/releases.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +# rpi-eeprom releases +This page provides links to the production and development release images for the Raspberry Pi 4 bootloader EEPROM. Normally, the +bootloader is automatically updated after an APT update via the [rpi-eeprom-update](https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/booteeprom.md) +utility. However, it's sometimes more convenient to use a recovery image to program the EEPROM with default settings for a given release than +updating via Linux. + +## Recovery Image +The latest production recovery image is [2020-04-16](https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/releases/tag/v2020.04.16-137ad). This +is the version selected by the [Raspberry Pi Imager](https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/) + +## USB MSD BETA +The latest USB mass storage boot **BETA** recovery image is [2020-05-28](https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/releases/tag/v2020.05.28-137ad) + +## Previous releases +All [previous releases](https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/releases) are available here. + +## Old EEPROM images +Recovery images are only created for production images or for major test releases e.g. USB MSD boot. Old bootloader images are periodically +removed from the APT package to reduce the disk space. The binaries can still be downloaded from Github [here](https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/tree/master/firmware/old) +but are not supported and may fail to boot on newer revisions of the hardware. +e.g. The Pi 4 8GB requries bootloader version 2020-04-16 or newer.