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Raspberry Pi OS Gets New Printers App, Linux 6.12 LTS, and Wayland Improvements

New Raspberry Pi OS

The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced today a new version of their Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS Linux distribution for Raspberry Pi computers that introduces some new features, better touchscreen handling, and various Wayland improvements.

The new Raspberry Pi OS release improves screen locking by adding a custom front end that gives them a bit more feedback as to what is happening, while allowing them to lock the screen by pressing Ctrl+Alt+L, or by via the 'Lock Screen' option in the ‘Shutdown…’ dialog.

There's also a new Printers app that lets you connect to and control printers, as a replacement for the system-config-printer application. Moreover, the new Raspberry Pi OS release promises better handling of touchscreens in a Wayland environment by allowing users to choose between mouse emulation or native touchscreen behaviour via Touchscreen > Mode in the Screen Configuration app.

“The main disadvantage of no longer using mouse emulation is that it isn’t possible to double-click by tapping the screen twice, and this makes navigation in the file manager rather difficult,” said Simon Long. “There are a couple of workarounds specific to the file manager: you can enable ‘Open files with single click’ in the file manager preferences, or use a tap-and-hold to open the context-sensitive menu and then choose ‘Open’.”

Moreover, touchscreen users will get an updated Squeekboard virtual keyboard that lets them choose the screen on which it is shown when using multiple monitor configurations via the Display tab on the Raspberry Pi Configuration app.

Among other noteworthy changes, the new Raspberry Pi OS release separates console (CLI) and desktop auto login options, allowing users to choose between them in the Raspberry Pi Configuration and raspi-config apps, updates the default Labwc window manager for Wayland to a newer release (v0.8.1), and bumps the kernel to the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS series.

This release also optimizes the startup of the wf-panel-pi application that's in charge of the taskbar in the Wayland session, which leads to faster boot times, and prevents the zenity tool from creating prompts and dialogs from the command line, which leads to faster startup times.

You can download the new Raspberry Pi OS release right now from the official website. Raspberry Pi OS supports all Raspberry Pi models, including Raspberry Pi 1A+, 1B+, 2B, 3B, 3B+, 3A+, 4B, 400, CM1, CM3, CM3+, CM4, CM4S, Zero, Zero W, and Zero 2 W.

Existing Raspberry Pi OS users need only to update their installations by running the sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade commands below in a terminal emulator or by using the built-in graphical package updater. If you're system is up-to-date, you're running the latest Raspberry Pi OS version (2025-05-06).

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