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+# Raspberry Pi5 bootloader EEPROM release notes
+
+2023-09-13: Initial release
+
+* Initial manufacturing software
+* Network Install is not available in this version
+* rpi-eeprom-update uses self-update on Pi5 rather than recovery.bin.
+  so that the update mechanism is the same on all boot-modes and the
+  boot file-system is never modified by the firmware/recovery.bin.
+  recovery.bin is still used by RPi Imager - bootloader update SD card images.
+* Pi4 and Pi4 bootloader images and recovery.bin are not compatible.
+  The 2711/2712 boot ROM ignores incompatible recovery.bin files.
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