Is upgrading from Anthias 2026.07.4 really necessary for 130 Raspberry Pi devices?

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Hi, I finally started updating the approximately 130 Raspberry Pis in the facility I manage two weeks ago, using version 2026.07.4 really happy and satisfied to be able to solve the many problems encountered on the older versions of Anthias.

Now I saw that a new version, 2026.08.0, was released three days ago, with several bug fixes.

I need to figure out whether it’s worth redoing everything from scratch, or whether, for my business, version 2026.07.4 doesn’t impact the normal functioning of the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ integrated into the approximately 90 NEC V404s, plus about 30 external RPI 4 8GB. I’ve narrowed my concerns to five main changes you’ve made.

I’d like to talk to you to see if they’re really important in my case, or if I can just leave them alone.

  1. fix(processing): downscale large images on low-RAM boards before encode - #3235: Can this problem be bypassed if we convert the images to JPG with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 px during content preparation? Or do you have any other suggestions?

  2. fix: honor EXIF ​​orientation for uploaded images - #3233
    #3233: If we use images processed on the PC, and not directly from external devices such as smartphones, iPhones, or DSLRs, can we eliminate any EXIF ​​orientation problems in the images?

  3. fix(install): don’t stop getty@tty1 during a local-console install - #3241
    #3241: What do you mean by a console installation? An installation directly on a screen/TV with a USB keyboard connected? Can I avoid running into this problem if I always install Anthias remotely via SSH?

  4. fix(server): stop channel-layer redis read timeout on idle websockets (#3228) - #3229: Can you explain this fix to me better? I don’t understand. Is the problem simply because it generates a lot of logs? What impact could this have on PI3 B+ or Pi4 8Gb? Is it blocking?

  5. Proxy is not propagated to Ansible, Docker daemon, anthias-host-agent, or containers during installation behind an HTTP proxy #3239: I don’t have a proxy server installed in the VLNA of the Raspberry Pis in my facility; internet access is direct, so I shouldn’t worry about this, right?

Thanks! It’s important for me to understand what to do, because as you can imagine, any upgrade would be very time-consuming and resource-intensive.

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Hi, I finally started updating the approximately 130 Raspberry Pis in the facility I manage two weeks ago, using version 2026.07.4 really happy and satisfied to be able to solve the many problems encountered on the older versions of Anthias.

That’s super cool! Yeah let’s get them on the latest.

You might want to consider using the official disk image instead. That way you get OTA and will always be on the latest stable release rather than manually having to upgrade them.

Can this problem be bypassed if we convert the images to JPG with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 px during content preparation? Or do you have any other suggestions?

If you pre-process all assets, you can ignore this.

If we use images processed on the PC, and not directly from external devices such as smartphones, iPhones, or DSLRs, can we eliminate any EXIF ​​orientation problems in the images?

Same. If you pre-process images, this won’t really matter to you.

What do you mean by a console installation? An installation directly on a screen/TV with a USB keyboard connected? Can I avoid running into this problem if I always install Anthias remotely via SSH?

If you install via SSH, this is doesn’t impact you. It’s purely if you are not using SSH.

stop channel-layer redis read timeout on idle websockets (#3228) - #3229: Can you explain this fix to me better? I don’t understand. Is the problem simply because it generates a lot of logs? What impact could this have on PI3 B+ or Pi4 8Gb? Is it blocking?

It can generate a fair bit of logs indeed. Mostly noise and a bug. Won’t impact functionality (other than perhaps degraded websocket but that’s not a breaking feature).

I don’t have a proxy server installed in the VLNA of the Raspberry Pis in my facility; internet access is direct, so I shouldn’t worry about this, right?

If you are not using a proxy, then this won’t impact anything for you.

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@vpetersson : Thank you very much !