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UNRELEASED:
  * Version 3.2.6 of Thonny included - significant improvements in speed, particularly when debugging
  * Version 1.0.4 of Scratch 3 included - adds new "display stage" and "display sprite" blocks to SenseHAT extension, and loading of files from command line
  * Version 32.0.0.314 of Flash player included
  * Version 1.0.3 of NodeRED included
  * Version 6.6.0 of RealVNC Server and version 6.19.923 of RealVNC Viewer included - adds support for audio
  * Version 78.0.3904.108 of Chromium included
  * Mesa updated to 19.3.2 for OpenGL ES 3.1 conformance
  * Orca screen reader added to Recommended Software
  * Code The Classics Python games added to Recommended Software
  * File manager - new "places" pane added at top of sidebar to show mounted drives in simplified view; "new folder" icon added to taskbar; expanders in directory browser now correctly show state of subfolders
  * Multiple monitor support improved - alignment of icons on second desktop corrected, Appearance Settings opens on correct tab when launched from context menu
  * Raspberry Pi Touchscreen correctly aligned with display
  * System clock synchronised before installing new packages in startup wizard and Recommended Software
  * Mixer dialogs added to taskbar volume plugin; separate Audio Preferences application removed
  * Raspberry Pi Configuration - separate tab added for display options; screen blanking control added
  * Volume taskbar plugin and raspi-config modified to support separate ALSA devices for internal audio outputs (analogue and HDMI 1 and 2)
  * Robustness improvements in volume, ejecter and battery taskbar plugins
  * Movement of mouse pointer to menu button on startup now controlled by point_at_menu parameter in Global section of lxpanel configuration file
  * Ctrl-Alt-Del and Ctrl-Alt-End shortcuts added to open shutdown options box
  * Ctrl-Shift-Esc shortcut added to open task manager
  * Linux kernel 4.19.93
  * Raspberry Pi firmware 67392a7a32bddad7f571047fccafca9eeb65d29c
2019-09-26:
  * rpi-eeprom included
    - This will automatically update the SPI EEPROM on the Raspberry Pi 4 to the latest stable version.
       See https://rpf.io/eeprom for more information.
  * New icon theme for file manager icons
  * Appearance Settings - option for identical desktop on both monitors
  * Appearance Settings - option to show different desktop icons on both monitors
  * Taskbar automatically moved to monitor 0 if monitor 1 not found at boot
  * Switching of audio output between two HDMI devices added to volume plugin
  * Switching of audio input devices added to volume plugin
  * .asoundrc (ALSA config file) now uses 'plug' values to support more devices
  * Audio Settings tool modified to integrate more closely with volume plugin to reduce duplicated code
  * Screen Configuration tool now shows separate menus for resolution and refresh rate
  * Primary and active monitor settings removed from Screen Configuration tool
  * Overscan support added for FKMS driver
  * New keyboard shortcuts added - Ctrl-Alt-End brings up shutdown menu; Ctrl-Alt-M moves taskbar between monitors
  * Latest changes to Bluez ALSA interface integrated to improve connection to Bluetooth audio devices
  * Mousepad used as simple text editor instead of leafpad
  * Version 3.2 of Thonny added
  * Version 74 of Chromium added
  * Version 3.0.8 of VLC added
  * Version 32.0.0.255 of Flash player added
  * Version 6.5.0 of RealVNC Server added
  * Version 6.19.715 of RealVNC Viewer added (full image only)
  * Version 12.0.1 of Mathematica added (full image only)
  * Version 0.20.8 of NodeRED added (full image only)
  * Version 3.1.0 of Sonic Pi added (full image only)
  * Scratch 3 added (full image only)
  * Bug fix - URL handling in Terminal
  * Bug fix - octal values in SSIDs in network plugin
  * Bug fix - remaining value in progress bar when transferring files
  * Bug fix - integration of xarchiver tool with file manager
  * Bug fix - start menu opening on incorrect monitor
  * Bug fix - minimised applications wrongly displayed on taskbar on second monitor
  * Bug fix - Bluetooth icon disappearing on x86 platforms when Bluetooth turned off
  * Bug fix - Screen Configuration tool not shown on x86 platforms and settings not being saved
  * Various translation updates
  * Various minor bug fixes
  * Epiphany/Web removed
  * ntfs-3g included
  * pciutils added
  * Linux kernel 4.19.75
  * Raspberry Pi firmware 01508e81ec1e918448227ca864616d56c430b46d
2019-07-10:
  * Clearer options for switching of Pi 4 video output in Raspberry Pi Configuration
  * Option added to Appearance Settings to move taskbar to second monitor
  * Option added to Recommended Software to restrict package installs by architecture
  * New version of Adobe Flash player (32.0.0.223)
  * Selection of screen refresh rates added to Screen Configuration
  * Fix for missing text insertion cursor in LibreOffice on Pi 4
  * Fix for Wi-fi interruption when Wi-fi icon on taskbar is clicked
  * FIx for incorrect desktop background behind desktop login prompt
  * Fix for segmentation faults when launching obconf and lxapperarance
  * Fix for unclosed file pointer in Screen Configuration
  * Fix for Bluetooth plugin freeze when large numbers of devices detected
  * Fix for opening URLs not working in lxterminal
  * Fix for start menu opening on incorrect monitor when launched from keyboard
  * Fix for taskbar item not having [] removed when un-minimising on second monitor
  * Fix for Chromium video playback and WebGL performance on Pi 4
  * Remove 4kp60 option from Raspberry Pi Configuration
  * Rename hdmi_enable_4k to hdmi_enable_4kp60 in /boot/config.txt and raspi-config
  * Linux kernel 4.19.57
  * Raspberry Pi firmware 356f5c2880a3c7e8774025aa6fc934a617553e7b
2019-06-20:
  * Based on Debian Buster
  * Support for Raspberry Pi 4 hardware
  * FKMS OpenGL desktop graphics driver and xcompmgr compositing window manager used when running on Raspberry Pi 4
  * Screen Configuration application added for use with FKMS driver
  * Raspberry Pi 4 video output options added to Raspberry Pi Configuration
  * Uses new PiXflat UI theme for GTK and Openbox
  * CPU activity gauge plugin no longer shown on taskbar by default
  * CPU temperature gauge plugin added (not shown by default)
  * USB ejecter and Bluetooth taskbar icons hidden when not appropriate
  * Version 74.0.3729.157 of Chromium web browser included
  * Version 32.0.0.207 of Flash player included
  * IDLE Python IDE removed
  * Wolfram Mathematica removed temporarily due to incompatibility with Buster
  * Display of package sizes removed from Recommended Software
  * Appearance Settings modified to support independent settings for two monitors
  * Oracle Java 7 and 8 replaced with OpenJDK 11
  * Miscellaneous small bug fixes
  * On-board 5GHz WiFi blocked by rfkill by default
    The block is removed when taking one of the following actions:
    - Selecting a locale in the first run wizard
    - Setting the WiFi country in the Raspberry Pi Configuration tool or the Network Settings applet
    - Setting the WiFi country in raspi-config
    - Providing a wpa_supplicant.conf file through the boot partition
    - Running 'rfkill unblock wifi'
  * Boot partition size set to 256M
  * Linux kernel 4.19.50
  * Raspberry Pi firmware 88ca9081f5e51cdedd16d5dbc85ed12a25123201
2019-04-08:
  * Chromium browser updated to version 72
  * VLC media player updated to version 3.0.6
  * RealVNC Server updated to version 6.4.0
  * Flash player updated to version 32.0.0.156
  * Performance improvements to SDL library
  * Performance improvements to pixman library
  * Option to set display underscan added to startup wizard
  * Mounted external drives now displayed on desktop by default
  * Network plugin modified for improved compatibility with wpa_passphrase
  * SD Card Copier tweaks to reduce copy failures
  * Various minor bug fixes and appearance tweaks
  * Added ethtool
  * Added rng-tools
  * Add PINN restore support
  * Linux kernel 4.14.98
  * Raspberry Pi firmware f8939644f7bd3065068787f1f92b3f3c79cf3de9
2018-11-13:
  * Two versions of image created - "base" image has no optional software packages included; "full" image has all optional packages
    - Removed from "base" image - LibreOffice, Thonny, Scratch, Scratch 2, Sonic Pi, Minecraft, Python Games, SmartSim, SenseHAT Emulator
    - Added to "full" image - Mathematica, BlueJ, Greenfoot, Node-RED, Claws Mail, VNC Viewer
  * Python Games and SmartSim added to Recommended Software
  * VLC media player with VideoCore hardware acceleration included in image
  * Version 3.0.5 of Thonny included
  * Modifications to LXDE components to enable local configuration to override global configuration correctly
  * Modifications to Appearance Settings to support above configuration changes
  * Modifications to various initial config defaults and relevant package to support above configuration changes
  * Selecting default option in Appearance Settings now deletes relevant local configuration files
  * PiX theme modified so that all changes made in Appearance Settings are in override files rather than in theme files
  * Design of scrollbar buttons changed
  * Image Viewer moved into Graphics category on main menu
  * Recommended Software now installs LibreOffice language support files if needed, and suggests reboot if needed
  * Latest version of Pepper Flash plugin included
  * Chromium h264ify plugin permissions set correctly by default
  * Corrections to various MIME types so that files open in sensible default applications
  * Set default timezone to 'Europe/London'
  * Linux kernel 4.14.79
  * Raspberry Pi firmware 12e0bf86e08d6067372bc0a45d7e8a10d3113210
2018-10-09:
  * Raspberry Pi 3A+ support
  * In startup wizard, assign keyboard to country as per Debian installer recommendations
  * In startup wizard, add option to use US keyboard in preference to country-specific option
  * In startup wizard, show IP address on first page
  * In startup wizard, check for existing wifi network connection and show it if there is one
  * In startup wizard, install language support packages for LibreOffice and other applications
  * In startup wizard, improve operation with keyboard only and no mouse
  * Password change in Raspberry Pi Configuration and startup wizard now works properly if passwords contain shell characters
  * Battery indicator plugin modified to cope with Pi-top hardware monitor crashing
  * Networking plugin hides wifi password characters by default
  * In Scratch 2 GPIO plugin, set pin from dropdown list rather than free text
  * In Scratch 2 SenseHAT plugin, swap x and y axis values for LED array
  * Include latest Adobe Flash player (31.0.0.108)
  * Include latest RealVNC Server (6.3.1)
  * Include libav-tools
  * Include ssh-import-id
  * Removed Mathematica
  * Merge in latest third-party code for Bluetooth ALSA interface
  * Add ability to prevent software update changing configuration files, by creating ~/.config/.lock file
  * Various other small bug fixes, tweaks and changes to text
  * Make dhcpcd work with 3G devices
  * Add hw acceleration to ffmpeg
  * Improved WiFi-BT coexistence parameters
  * Run fake-hwclock before systemd-fsck-root
  * Raspberry Pi PoE HAT support
  * Linux kernel 4.14.71
  * Raspberry Pi firmware 5b49caa17e91d0e64024380119ad739bb201c674
2018-06-27:
  * New first-boot configuration wizard added
  * Recommended Software installer added
  * Bluej, Greenfoot, NodeRED, Claws Mail, VNC Viewer removed from image - can now be installed from Recommended Applications
  * Qpdfview PDF viewer installed instead of Xpdf
  * Version 65.0 of Chromium browser included, with latest Flash player
  * Volume up / down keys now change by 5% increments and affect currently-selected output device rather than internal device only
  * Network plugin now remembers previously-entered WiFi network passwords when prompting for reconnection
  * Serial port and serial console can now be switched separately in Raspberry Pi Configuration
  * Lxkeymap keyboard language setting application removed - replaced with dialog within Raspberry Pi Configuration
  * Wifi country and keyboard language setting dialogs in Raspberry Pi Configuration now callable from other applications
  * New version of Piboto font included to render with correct weight under some rogue applications
  * Reconnection to Bluetooth audio devices on reboot improved
  * Disable click-to-rename behaviour in file manager if single-click selection enabled
  * Appearance Settings dialog makes config changes to some Qt files to match selected theme
  * MIME file type associations improved
  * Multiple desktop management options removed from mouse middle-click menu
  * Menu shortcuts to Raspberry Pi website amended
  * Python 2 IDLE menu link removed
  * Sample Magpi PDF installed in /home/pi/MagPi
  * Various minor tweaks, bug fixes and appearance changes
  * Bluetooth updates
    - Firmware with Bluetooth 4.2 features
    - SCO profile suppot added via bthelper.service
  * Linux kernel 4.14.50+
  * Raspberry Pi firmware 748fb17992426bb29d99224b93cb962fefbdc833
2018-04-18:
  * Fixed race between wifi-country.service and raspberrypi-net-mods.service
  * Linux kernel 4.14.34+
  * Raspberry Pi firmware 5db8e4e1c63178e200d6fbea23ed4a9bf4656658
2018-03-13:
  * Raspberry Pi 3 B+ support
  * WiFi is disabled until wireless regulatory domain is set (Pi 3 B+ only)
    - The domain can be done through 'Raspberry Pi Configuration' (rc_gui),
      'raspi-config' or by setting 'country=' to an appropriate ISO 3166
      alpha2 country code in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf.
  * Default wireless regulatory domain is now unset
  * Added support to desktop for different screen sizes and resolutions,
    including multiple preset options in Appearance Settings and pixel doubling
    option in Raspberry Pi Configuration
  * Version 2.1.16 of Thonny included
  * Version 29.0.0.113 of Adobe PepperFlash player included
  * Version 1.2.post1 of Pygame Zero included
  * Bluetooth plugin now supports connection to Bluetooth LE HID devices
  * Network plugin now indicates 5G-compatible APs
  * Latest changes to Bluez ALSA service merged
    - service now started on CLI boot as well as GUI boot
  * Latest changes to dhcpcd networking plugin merged
  * Improved support for running on pi-top devices
  * Small design changes to PiX theme and icons
  * Bug fix - hide spurious window resize handles
  * Bug fix - Scratch 2 remote GPIO state block now works correctly
  * Updated WiFi Firmware
    - brcmfmac43455-sdio 7.45.154
    - brcmfmac43430-sdio 7.45.98.38
  * New packages:
    - policykit-1
    - obconf
    - python-buttonshim python3-buttonshim
    - python-unicornhathd  python3-unicornhathd
    - python-pantilthat python3-pantilthat
  * Linux kernel 4.9.80+
  * Raspberry Pi firmware 3347884c7df574bbabeff6dca63caf686e629699
2017-11-29:
  * Added battery monitor plugin for taskbar - works on x86 images or first-generation Pi-Top
  * Added cutdown mode to PCManFM file manager to reduce complexity
  * Added ability to rename files in PCManFM by clicking name when selected
  * Bug fix in Bluetooth ALSA module to reduce truncation of audio at end of playback
  * Various small tweaks, bug fixes and theme modifications
  * New kernel and firmware
2017-09-07:
  * Disable predictable network interface names for Ethernet devices
  * Bug fix for keyboard settings dialog in Raspberry Pi Configuration
  * Bug fix for crash on some videos and animations in Chromium
  * Bug fix for taskbar crash when running RealVNC server
  * Bug fix for reloading projects with extensions in Scratch 2
  * Bug fix for MAC address problem in Bluetooth
  * Simple mode and new icons in Thonny
  * New Japanese translations in Raspberry Pi Configuration
  * Install fonts-droid-fallback for international fonts
2017-08-16:
  * Based on Raspbian Stretch (Debian version 9)
  * Version 60 of Chromium browser included
  * Version 3.0.1 of Sonic Pi included
  * Version 6.1.1 of RealVNC included
  * Version 0.17.4 of NodeRED included
  * Bluetooth audio routed via ALSA rather than Pulseaudio
  * SenseHAT extension added to Scratch 2
  * Various desktop applications modified to prompt for sudo password if needed
  * lxinput control options for mouse speed simplified
  * lxpanel plugins moved into separate packages
  * Wireless firmware for Pi 3 and Pi 0W modified to address Broadpwn exploit
  * Latest kernel and firmware
  * Various small tweaks, bug fixes and theme modifications
2017-07-05:
  * New kernel and firmware
  * Filesystem created without the metadata_csum feature
2017-06-21:
  * Scratch 2 application included
  * Thonny Python IDE included
  * New icons with thinner outlines
  * Volume control more linear in behaviour
  * Updated Flash player
  * Updated RealVNC server and viewer
  * Various tweaks and bugfixes
  * New kernel and firmware
2017-04-10:
  * Wolfram Mathematica updated to version 11.0.1
  * Adobe Flash Player updated to version 25.0.0.127
  * Use PARTUUID to support USB boot
2017-03-02:
  * Updated kernel and firmware (final Pi Zero W support)
  * Wolfram Mathematica updated to version 11
  * NOOBS installs now checks for presence of 'ssh' file on the NOOBS partition.
2017-02-16:
  * Chromium browser updated to version 56
  * Adobe Flash Player updated to version 24.0.0.221
  * RealVNC Server and Viewer updated to version 6.0.2 (RealVNC Connect)
  * Sonic Pi updated to version 2.11
  * Node-RED updated to version 0.15.3
  * Scratch updated to version 120117
  * Detection of SSH enabled with default password moved into PAM
  * Updated desktop GL driver to support use of fake KMS option
  * Raspberry Pi Configuration and raspi-config allow setting of fixed HDMI resolution
  * raspi-config allows enabling of serial hardware independent of serial terminal
  * Updates to kernel and firmware
  * Various minor bug fixes and usability and appearance tweaks
2017-01-11:
  * Re-release of the 2016-11-25 image with a FAT32-formatted boot partition
2016-11-25:
  * SSH disabled by default; can be enabled by creating a file with name "ssh" in boot partition
  * Prompt for password change at boot when SSH enabled with default password unchanged
  * Adobe Flash Player included
  * Updates to hardware video acceleration in Chromium browser
  * Greeter now uses background image from last set in Appearance Settings rather than pi user
  * Updated version of Scratch
  * Rastrack option removed from raspi-config and Raspberry Pi Configuration
  * Ability to disable graphical boot splash screen added to raspi-config and Raspberry Pi Configuration
  * Appearance Settings dialog made tabbed to work better on small screens
  * Raspberry Pi Configuration now requires current password to change password
  * Various small bug fixes
  * Updated firmware and kernel
2016-09-23:
  * New PIXEL desktop environment - new icon set, window design, desktop images, splash screen and greeter
  * Chromium web browser included
  * Infinality font rendering patches included
  * RealVNC server and viewer included
  * SenseHAT emulator included
  * Rfkill entries added to Wifi and Bluetooth panel plugins
  * Updates to various standard applications, including Scratch and NodeRED
  * Various bug fixes, tweaks and translation updates
  * Updated firmware and kernel (https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/commit/ad8608c08b122b2c228dba0ff5070d6e9519faf5)
2016-05-27:
  * Fixed crash of lxpanel when D-bus not accessible
  * Fixed permissions for D-bus Bluetooth access
  * Removed sudo from shutdown options
  * Appearance of tooltips updated in theme
  * Fixed ejecter plugin grabbing focus
  * raspi-config command line and GUI apps tidied; unnecessary reboots removed
  * More error detection in piclone; copying of volume names and IDs added
  * Updated translation files
2016-05-10:
  * New version of Scratch, which no longer requires sudo
  * New version of BlueJ
  * New version of NodeRED
  * New version of pypy
  * pigpio included
  * geany editor included
  * SD Card Copier added (can be used to duplicate or back up the Pi)
  * Bluetooth plugin added to taskbar
  * Volume control on taskbar now compatible with Bluetooth devices
  * New shutdown helper application
  * Mouse double-click speed setting added to mouse and keyboard preference application
  * Option to enable / disable 1-wire interface and remote access to pigpio added to Raspberry Pi config application
  * File system automatically expanded on first boot
  * Empty Wastebasket option added to right-click menu 
  * Ctrl-Alt-T can be used to open a terminal window
  * Various small bug fixes and appearance tweaks 
  * Updated firmware and kernel (https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/commit/cc6d7bf8b4c03a2a660ff9fdf4083fc165620866)
2016-03-18:
  * updated firmware and kernel (https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/commit/951799bbcd795ddf27769d14acf4813fdcbe53dc)
  * use serial0 in cmdline.txt
  * wpa_supplicant.conf country default to GB (allows use of channels 12 and 13)
2016-02-26:
  * Support added for Pi 3, including Wifi and Bluetooth
  * Option to set wifi country code added to raspi-config
2016-02-09:
  * dtb that uses mmc sdcard driver (fixes problems experienced with certain SD cards)
2016-02-03:
  * new version of Sonic Pi (2.9)
  * new version of Scratch (15/1/16)
  * new version of Node-Red (2.5)
  * new version of Wolfram (10.3)
  * optional experimental GL desktop driver (can be enabled using advanced options in command-line raspi-config)
  * new version of Java (1.8.0_65)
  * new version of WiringPi
  * raspi-gpio included
  * ping no longer requires sudo (except NOOBS installs)
  * support for more USB audio devices in lxpanel
  * bug fix for creation of new menus in Alacarte
  * various changes to raspi-config and GUI to tidy up board support and fix bugs, and updated translations
  * small tweaks to theme to support GL driver
2015-11-21:
  * Included IBM Node-RED IoT application
  * Included graphical package manager
  * Included accelerated pixman library
  * Updated Epiphany browser to improve video compatibility
  * Updated Scratch with performance improvements and bug fixes
  * Updated Raspberry Pi configuration to allow boot to pause while
    network is established
  * Various minor bug fixes
2015-09-25:
  * Based on Debian Jessie
  * Upgraded applications - Epiphany browser, Scratch and Sonic Pi
  * Included applications - LibreOffice, Claws Mail, Greenfoot, BlueJ
  * Included utilities - Alacarte menu editor, Lxkeymap, scrot, tree, pip
  * New GUI-based Raspberry Pi Configuration application
  * GPIO control now possible without need for sudo
  * Web link to Magpi magazine included
  * New taskbar plugin to eject mounted USB drives
  * Default boot is now to GUI not desktop
  * Look and feel now based on GTK+3 default theme
  * Print screen key launches scrot to produce screenshot
  * Common keyboards autodetected by GUI and drivers loaded accordingly
  * Numerous small tweaks and bugfixes
2015-05-05:
  * Updated UI changes
  * Updated firmware
  * Install raspberrypi-net-mods
  * Install avahi-daemon
  * Add user pi to new i2c and spi groups
  * Modified udev rules for i2c and spi devices
2015-02-16:
  * Newer firmware with various fixes
  * New Sonic Pi release
  * Pi2 compatible RPi.GPIO
  * Updated Wolfram Mathematica
2015-01-31:
  * Support for Pi2
  * Newer firmware
  * New Sonic Pi release
  * Updated Scratch
  * New Wolfram Mathematica release
  * Updated Epiphany
2014-12-24:
  * Fix regression with omission of python-pygame
2014-12-22:
  * New firmware with variosu fixes and improvements
  * New UI configuration for lxde
  * Various package updates
  * python3-pygame preinstalled
  * 'nuscratch', scratch running on the Cog StackVM
  * Misc other changes
2014-09-09:
  * New firmware with various fixes and improvements
  * Minecraft Pi pre-installed
  * Sonic Pi upgraded to 2.0
  * Include Epiphany browser work from Collabora
  * Switch to Java 8 from Java 7
  * Updated Mathematica
  * Misc minor configuration changes
2014-06-20:
  * New firmware with various fixes, and kernel bugfix
2014-06-02:
  * Many, many firmware updates with major USB improvements
  * pyserial installed by default
  * picamera installed by default
2014-01-07:
  * Firmware updated
  * Some space saved on the root filesystem
2013-12-20:
  * Firmware updated, includes V4L2 fixes
  * Update omxplayer
2013-12-18:
  * Firmware updated and now using kernel 3.10. Many, many improvements
  * fbturbo XOrg driver is now included and enabled by default. Thanks to 
    ssvb https://github.com/ssvb/xf86-video-fbturbo
  * Update Scratch image with further bug fixes
  * Include Wolfram Mathematica
  * Update to PyPy 2.2
  * Update omxplayer
  * Include v4l-utils for use with experimental V4L2 Raspberry Pi camera driver
  * Update squeak-vm to fix issues with loading JPEGs
2013-09-25:
  * Update Scratch image for further performance improvements
  * Include Oracle JDK
  * At least a 4GiB SD card is now required (see above)
  * Include PyPy 2.1
  * Include base piface packages
  * Update raspi-config to include bugfix for inheriting language settings
    from NOOBS
2013-09-10:
  * Updated to current top of tree firmware
  * Update squeak-vm, including fastblit optimised for the Raspbery Pi 
  * Include Sonic Pi and a fixed jackd2 package
  * Support boot to Scratch
  * Inherit keyboard and language settings from NOOBS