Raspberry Pi OS • Re: RPi5 seems to be stuck on older firmware.

My Pi5 Bookworm has

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rpi-eeprom-updateBOOTLOADER: up to date   CURRENT: Wed 27 Aug 19:01:47 UTC 2025 (1756321307)    LATEST: Wed 27 Aug 19:01:47 UTC 2025 (1756321307)   RELEASE: latest (/usr/lib/firmware/raspberrypi/bootloader-2712/latest)            Use raspi-config to change the release.

My Pi5 8GB was exactly the same as yours and didn't seem to want to auto-update.fixed it.

I've been doing a lot of x264 video encoding lately using ffmpeg and that sped up by nearly 12% as a consequence which was an unexpected surprise.

A friend is running the identical Bash script to me for video conversion on a hexcore AMD Ryzen 5 5600X running Kubuntu. I run my Pi5 at 2.75GHz and it's now exactly 1/4 of the speed he gets when encoding the same source. I think that's pretty darned impressive, especially considering that my Pi5 is only drawing 12 Watts while doing it.

Statistics: Posted by Steve Learner — Sat Oct 25, 2025 1:36 am

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