The CircuitPython 9 Release Show

00:00 Welcome to The Bootloader

00:22 What are we excited about in CircuitPython 9?

00:56 jpegio and the Memento Camera

• AdaBox 21 Unboxing Video

2:12 The one downside of JPEG vs. BMP or PNG

3:03 How Adafruit is innovating around the hardware and software

3:57 bitmapfilter image effects

4:28 USB Host

5:07 Keyboards on USB Host

• Scott’s CircuitPython2024 blog post

7:12 MicroPython and merging its changes into CircuitPython

• Split heap memory management

9:55 paralleldisplaybus

• LilyGO microcontrollers
• 8x faster display using paralleldisplaybus for ESP32

12:13 CIRCUITPY on Android

13:28 ESP-IDF software development kit for Espressif microcontrollers

• CircuitPython 9.0 moves from IDF v4.x to IDF v5
• Potential for Bluetooth for ESP32-S3 chips

15:52 ConnectionManager and the CircuitPython community

18:04 Breaking changes in CircuitPython

• display.show() deprecated
• Mounting a filesystem requires an existing directory
• CircuitPython now requires explicit socket port re-use. Use socket.setsockopt(pool.SOL_SOCKET, pool.SO_REUSEADDR, 1), as in CPython.

20:10 Thank you to everyone in the CircuitPython community who contributed to CircuitPython 9.0

20:43 The CircuitPython Community Weekly Meeting every Monday at 2pm EST in the Adafruit Discord

21:33 Thanks for listening!

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