NextPi - Release Notes for https://zx.xalior.com/NextPi/

Burn to 1Gb or larger SD card (rest of space will remain unused) as you would with any normal Raspberry Pi Linux Distro.

Use included pi.bas to route your UART to the Pi, and open .uart (by Tim, on the distro) or the new and pretty awesome Terminext by David Saphier - included in the NextCommands dir.

Connect at 115,200 - this speed is planned to increase. Terminext is hardcoded to 115,000. More client tools are in development currently.

If you were quick enough you should see the pi booting, if not hit enter a few times. Does it say "SUP> "?

Example test data can be found in /NextPi/tests, /NextPi/tests/victims/* are placeholder files required for future upgrades between now and the final 1.00 release.

Look in /opt/nextpi/bin for other fun CLIs to kill your Pi with - you can find the source to these scripts in this distro too.

Feeling brave, try running nextpi-admin_enable
   Did it change to "SUP# "?

If so, run nextpi-admin_disable    Quickly, before you break something :) you just disabled all checking and preped the pi for an upgrade :)

Examples PlusPacks are also available at https://zx.xalior.com/NextPi/PlusPacks/

Short Changelog:
 * Added MD5 sums to builds assets for SMS validation
 * Disable DietPi account -- use root account, password is still "dietpi"
 * Fixed bug in df-h generation that was accidentally logging size of currently attached PlusPacks and mounted memory
 * Removed private test files, ready for GM - these will now live in the Media PlusPack
 * nextpi-admin_clean now defaults to RAM cleaner, all other options behind flags
 * nextpi-play_silence for when you kill a player, and want to send NULL to the DAC (this is a hack. to be patched post GM)
 * NextPi now writes the "last known localtime" to /boot on shutdown, allowing you to set the clock at startup by editing this file, or store the last "known time" or network time if Ethernet found
 * Removed Terminex.nex, to prevent confusion
 * Updated Terminex.snx, now handles "much bigger files", and uses nextpi-file_stream system method to base64 decode the results. Thanks David Saphier/emook!
 * PlusPack builder now does nexted zips in nexted zips, so you need less diskspace to extract and select pluspacks
 * Docs and labeling tweaks, reading for GM
 * Added nextpi-plus_activate, nextpi-plus_list, nextpi_plus-unlock and nextpi-plus_lock
 * nextpi-plus_list called upon SUPervisor startup
 * Added 'pv' cli for rate limiting output over SUPervisor
 * Dongle Plus Packs support - first experimental build
 * Added pasmo
 * Changed startup scripts to use nextpi-admin_clean not inline hacks
 * Added support for autoexec.sh in "nextpi" folder on all persistant and Plus Pack storage areas
 * Added ntpdate (not ntpd)
    _IF_ you have an Ethernet dongle on your PiZero NextPi will try to update the softclock on "Last known good time" GMT
 * Added /opt/nextpi/EDITION for reporting size, and other features of active image (eg 1RO, 1GB, Read Only ROOT)
 * renamed docs/custom-packages to docs/custom-packages.txt
 * added individual filelist for custom packages to generators :-o
 * Fixed issue generator. Again.
 * Added automatic release note generator to CI

-Xalior, 29 Sept 2019