Generally speaking doing this regularly will keep your installation up to date for the particular major Raspberry Pi OS release you are using eg.

Rpi-update vs full-upgrade. Raspberry Pi firmware updater. If you are using a different distribution then check with the maintainers if using rpi-update is safe. The following are the steps to keep the Raspberry Pi devices up to date.

Install rpi-eeprom older versions of Raspberry Pi OS Raspbian Newer versions of Raspberry Pi OS come with this utility already but if you are upgrading have upgraded from an older version you may not have it in some cases. Sudo apt update sudo apt full-upgrade sudo rpi-update. Full-upgrade apt-get 8 performs the function of upgrade but will remove currently installed packages if this is needed to upgrade the system as a whole.

If that isnt good enough and you need to update to the latest available firmware for critical bug fixes for instance youll need to use the rpi-update tool instead. On Raspberry Pi the rpi-update will be the commandtool that we will use to check for firmware. But what is the difference between these two commands.

It waits in black screen. There are three ways to update Pi-Star. This downloads the most recent firmware and also updates kernel and its modules.

Ive checked around and cannot find the differences listed anywhere. This is only intended for use with Raspberry Pi OS. People are confused and theyre giving the wrong advice.

In October the Raspberry Pi Foundation released an updated bootloaderfirmware for the Raspberry Pi 4 which dramatically reduces power consumption and overall temperatures on the Pi 4 by setting the USB controller and CPU into a more power-friendly mode. In this tutorial we will look at this issue. After rpi-update raspberry pi 4 model B is not boot.