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Railster OS 7.0 release notes

Release notes for the Railster operating system

Updated over a month ago

Here are the release notes for the Railster operating system:

RailsterOS 7.0.4 (06/05/2025)

New features

  • Add a local caching subsystem for the LuaCEP

  • Update the FPGA images to include differential channels on Railster 2U ADC

Bugfixes and Improvements

  • Fix link advertising speeds for Ethernet interfaces on production images

  • Fix update daemon not always reporting the GPS firmware version at boot

RailsterOS 7.0.3 (24/03/2025)

Bugfixes and Improvements

  • Change service dependencies to ensure all hardware info are collected

  • Change service start order to ensure the "state" is present in the first message

RailsterOS 7.0.2 (17/03/2025)

Bugfixes and improvements

  • Adjust a systemd timer and service to enhance the time syncing feature between Linux and the Platform Manager

Railster OS 7.0.1 (10/03/2025)

Bugfixes and Improvements

  • Fix production system regression creating no-comm situation in certain cases

RailsterOS 7.0.0 (03/03/2025)

Security

All third-party applications and libraries have been updated to their latest LTS releases.

Fixed CVEs: 0
New CVEs: 0


New features


Systemd for production RailsterOS

  • Add core daemons systemd services.

  • Add systemd boot services.

  • Configure ethernet in systemd.

  • Add systemd services for fpgaload (loads the FPGA image) and uipd (controls the UIP ports).

  • Migrate the metrics daemon to use systemd.

  • Add platform manager systemd services.

  • Add seedrng.service.

  • Make the OTA update daemon compatible with systemd.

  • Switch the init system from BusyBox init to SystemD on production RailsterOS.

Safety critical

  • enhance XT75 test suite to include long running test for output stability

Bugfixes and Improvements

  • Fix the battery validity status when the battery memory is not readable.

  • Migrate to pydantic v2 & update our custom python library

  • Increase the coverage and ruggedness of the QoS daemon.

  • Add QoS rules for supercaps and battery safety status.

  • Add a check that enforces that our base OS is never downgraded into master.

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