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Originally Posted by greenapple
Anyway, functionally, v5.0.4 seems to be the same as v5.0.3. The only difference is the version number.  |
I unpacked and examined the update.
The main thing that changed was the linux kernel.
This update required two reboots. The second reboot showed an "updating" screen that included "2/2".
I also compared my main system partition image backup before and after the upgrade, by mounting the image files and comparing all the files inside them. The main difference between them was that they changed the list of search bar shortcut commands from a .js file to a .json file, and moved it up to its parent folder.
Although there was a "new" busybox in the update, after upgrading, my busybox was identical to the previous one. There were comments in an install script in the update package that these files were for kernel installation support.
Also, the diagnostics partition did not change.
As far as I can tell, it was mainly a linux kernel update. Perhaps they fixed a bug in a built-in kernel device driver or something. Will need to study the GPL source code changes to see what changed in the linux kernel...