Raspberry Pi OS 2025-11-24 Brings HiDPI Improvements, Wayland Enhancements
Following the early October update to Raspberry Pi OS that rebased the OS against Debian 13 "Trixie", there is another update out today that incorporates various desktop/app improvements and other refinements.
The Raspberry Pi OS 2025-11-24 update improves HiDPI display support with adding a HiDPI scaling option to the "Screens" control panel. There are also now HiDPI icons added to the panel, file manager, and various applications.
The new Raspberry Pi OS release also improves Wayland support with upgrading to the labwc 0.9.4 Wayland compositor and adding icons now to the the Wayland task switcher. The Openbox window appearance has also been changed to match labwc.
Raspberry Pi OS 2025-11-24 also drops PulseAudio now from the OS image in favor of PipeWire being in good shape, support for themeing Qt6 applications, and app updates like Chromium 142 and Firefox 145. Linux 6.12 LTS continues powering Raspberry Pi OS.
"2025-11-24:
* Upgrade to version 0.9.4 of labwc
* Support for setting HiDPI scaling added to Screens control panel
* Support for HiDPI icons added to panel, file manager and various applications
* Alacarte menu editor reinstated in image
* Pulseaudio removed from image
* Icons added to Wayland task switcher
* Openbox window appearance changed to match labwc
* Volume sliders and calendar popups close when icon clicked
* Support for themeing Qt6 applications added
* Font selection for Qt5 applications corrected
* Control Centre plugin dialogs hidden from taskbar
* Correct icons used for external drives
* Portuguese translations updated
* Chromium updated to version 142.0.7444.162
* Firefox updated to version 145.0
* Raspberry Pi firmware 676efed1194de38975889a34276091da1f5aadd3
* Linux kernel 6.12.47 - 359f37f0faefb712add32a39f98751aea67d5c1f"
Raspberry Pi OS 2025-11-24 can be downloaded from RaspberryPi.com.
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