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!
Memento photo used under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 license