I've just released version 1.19 of the Bubbagen live-USB image for B3 on GitHub.
What is new?
There have been some upstream rebrands. In fact `forked-daapd` had become `Owntone` several years ago, but I had previously not been able to adopt to it. The second package rebrand is `Logitech Media Server`, which actually has been open source for over ten years as Logitech had retired the product line, but they had kept on to the name until just last year. The new name is `Lyrion Music Server` and as the name implies it no longer supports serving media in general but restricts to being a streaming music server only.
All packages have been brought up to date as of January 6, 2026.
Privacy notification
Lyrion Music Server has a Report Analytics Data plugin that is activated by default. Should you object to any information about your LMS setup to be shared, you can disable this plugin in the LMS server settings.
Existing users
If you're running regular Gentoo updates, then your system should automatically switch to the new version on the next update. It is recommended that you use `genup` for running those updates, as this will update the main `bubbagen` package first and apply vital changes to the environment to ensure system stability.
Key features:
- Kernel version 6.12.38
- Familiar GUI for basic management (users, network, firewall, predefined services)
- Lyrion Music Server version 9.0.2
- Wireguard VPN prepared (works with e.g. an Android phone)
- The Onion Router (TOR), get access to sites that are blocked by some geographic location rule
- Out of the box Windows and Mac compatible file sharing service (NAS)
- Will connect to any existing network (with a DHCP server) or create one itself (when connecting you will receive an IP in the range 192.168.10.x)
Known issues:
- When changing the time zone the web interface may show you an incorrect time on some pages (the extensible clock on the right is actually javascript and thus should show your client's time rather than the B3's). To align them all you should restart the B3 (or at least apache2 and bubba-adminphp services).
- Changing the network profile may completely destroy networking on the B3 if you have wifi enabled or added custom interfaces and/or bridges. If you need to change the profile please do so before making any changes to the default network setup and then never touch it again.
- When switching to systemd you will no longer be able to view system messages through the web based GUI. The associated links are hardcoded to show the OpenRC messages file. Messages from services that write their own log files, e.g. Apache webserver, Samba (windows compatible) file sharing, Lyrion Music Server, can be viewed as normal.
Further information and details may be found here
As always, enjoy,
Gordon
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