Release 2.7.0

[AlvinSchiller]

[!CAUTION] Do NOT use the latest RaspberryPi OS Bookworm release (also don't upgrade via apt) with the new kernel 6.6, if you need to use GPIO components . There have been incompatible changes for the RPi.GPIO library, so Buttons, Shims and Rfid Reader usage can be broken (#2295). Using RaspberryPi OS Bullseye is the current recommendation as it does not use the new kernel.

Summary

Features

• Support for Spotify again!
  • a prerelease of mopidy-spotify is used to bring back the spotify integration. Please see Spotify-FAQ for further information
  • this includes startup speed improvements for mopidy due to playlists refresh optimization in the prerelease
• Raspberry Pi OS Buster and Python < 3.9 will not be supported/tested anymore with this release.
  • official Buster support is running out by June 30th, 2024
  • mopidy-spotify minimum support is Bullseye

Improvements

• some refactorings of the installation script
• better installation logging
• documentation updates
• version updates for github actions

Fixes

• fix for special characters entered during setup (spotify credentials, wifi, ...)
• fix for function calls from RotaryEncoder
• update defaults and fixed handling for some yes/no questions
• improved startup time for wifi in combination with the autohotspot feature

Note

Version 3 is becoming mature and will soon be the new default of Phoniebox. Therefore Version 2 is slowly going into a maintenance mode and no new features will be added to this version.

[AlvinSchiller]

Would like to also integrate https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID/pull/2357