Tag: buster
Debian Buster EOL
Debian Buster was released on 6 July 2019, and it's been supported by the Debian team for over five years. On 30 June 2024 it reached its long term support end of life. Therefore we have stopped building new package releases on Buster, for the cp37m ABI. We will not delete existing cp37m wheels,...
Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit (aarch64)
Today, Raspberry Pi announced the launch of a new 64-bit version of their operating system, which is now named "Raspberry Pi OS" rather than "Raspbian". Currently, piwheels does not support the 64-bit image, as we do not currently build or host aarch64 wheels. However, pip will still work without...
Raspbian Buster builds complete
An update on our last post, we have now completed a run of builds for Python 3.7 wheels for Raspbian Buster. Now, when you pip install something on Raspbian Buster, you'll generally get a wheel for it, to the same extent you do for Jessie and Stretch. We now host 40k Python 3.4 wheels (Jessie), 46k...
Raspbian Buster builds in progress
A while ago we had to stop building packages when we discovered an issue with our use of the cbor2 library. When packages were built by a builder Pi, we'd serialise the build info and send it in a message to the piwheels master, which would then send a message to the database. After suffering what...
Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspbian Buster
Big news today: the Raspberry Pi 4 is out — and slightly ahead of the official release of Debian Buster, Raspbian Buster is released too. So what does this mean for piwheels? Raspberry Pi 4 The Raspberry Pi 4 is a huge step forward in performance. It's a much faster computer. However, it's not a...