Raspbian Stretch was released publicly on the 17^th August 2017 by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and is based on Debian Stretch 9.1.

This article provides instructions on how to perform an in-place upgrade from Raspbian Jessie to Raspbian Stretch on the Raspberry Pi.

The entire process can be performed remotely using SSH.

As Raspbian Stretch is a major version upgrade, it is highly recommended you perform a clean installation whenever possible.

While upgrading from Raspbian Jessie to Raspbian Stretch is entirely possible, it is not guaranteed to work in every circumstance. Before performing any upgrade steps, take a backup of all important data first. No responsibility will be accepted for loss of data from a failed upgrade.

Raspbian specific enhancements to Debian Stretch:

• Chromium 60
• Sonic Pi 3.0.1
• RealVNC 6.1.1
• Node-RED 0.17.4
• Bluetooth Audio routed via ALSA rather than PulseAudio
• Scratch 2 with SenseHAT extension
• Various desktop applications modified to prompt for sudo password if needed
• Simplified control options for mouse speed (lxinput)
• lxpanel plugins moved into separate packages
• Fix for the Broadpwn exploit
• Latest kernel and firmware
• Various small tweaks, bug fixes and theme modifications

Contents

• Preparation
• Installation
  • Sources
  • Upgrade

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Chris