100 Releases of LaraPaper

LaraPaper 100 releases

Since the one-year post in March, the project has grown to 700 commits, 340k+ downloads from the container registry, and 370+ GitHub stars. LaraPaper 0.40 marks the 100th release and is the biggest release since the project’s initial launch.

What’s new in 0.40

TRMNL X

Added support for TRMNL X OTA firmware updates, plus compatibility with touchbar history so recent screens stay browsable.

Experimental features with “Lab”

Lab is a unified Settings view for alpha experiments before they are generally available. The first experiment is MCP Server: an opt-in Model Context Protocol endpoint so AI tools can list, create, update, and render recipes with an MCP token. Learn more in the docs.

Docs page

Documentation now lives at https://usetrmnl.github.io/larapaper. I’ll gradually move more content out of the README and into the docs, making it easier to find, navigate, and keep up to date.

Smarter image pipeline

The image pipeline now reuses the existing PNG when the SHA-256 hash matches, which avoids unnecessary downloads from the device.

TRMNL Framework 3.2

The recipe renderer is bumped to TRMNL Framework 3.2 with loads of new features. (Release Notes)

Holiday mode

Devices can now be paused for a set duration or until a chosen date and time. While holiday mode is on, the device only pings once every 24 hours to update battery status.

Recipes

You can install from the catalog without closing the modal, and there is added compatibility for the lat_lon config field type.

Home Assistant

Extra device attributes for battery plugins improve compatibility with homeassistant-trmnl-battery.

Calendars

The iCal parser now keeps multi-day events that overlap the visible window, whether they start inside it, end inside it, or span across it.

Polish

A fix for device preview rotation, a new app logo, and some developer-focused improvements: an upgrade to Pest 5, resolved PHPStan warnings, and the Pint Blade formatter applied across the codebase.

What the community builds with LaraPaper

Akshath turned a dusty iPad 3 into a dashboard by pointing Safari at /mirror and adding a custom Device Model for the larger screen. Andrew Marder and g7kse both revived old Kindles: Andrew wrote ktrm, a sleep-until-you-press-the-button client so a Voyage can show Umami analytics for hundreds of refreshes on one charge, while g7kse ran LaraPaper on a Raspberry Pi and landed on the KOReader.

Jared runs two Seeed DIY kits in 3D-printed housings, with custom recipes for today’s Asana tasks and Actual Budget. Brett flashed various devices and published a LaraPaper catalog of weather and AQI history, Home Assistant calendars, comics, Wikipedia, and GitHub graphs. And at Hasso-Plattner-Institut in Germany, the Spark Community hosted a Hackathon and used LaraPaper as the event server; participants shipped various plugins (bus departures, mensa menus, Moodle).

What are you building with LaraPaper? Tell us about it in the community survey: https://github.com/usetrmnl/larapaper/issues/47

Thanks

Thank you to everyone supporting LaraPaper through contributions, feedback, bug reports and ideas.

Special thanks to supporters via the Creators Fund, the referral program, GitHub Sponsors, and Buy Me a Coffee.

Outlook

For the next phase, the focus is on:

  • A transform layer: The goal is a BYOS equivalent of Core’s “Serverless” scripts. Some initial work has been done by a contributor (https://github.com/spark-hpi/larapaper-serverless-runner)
  • A reimplementation of the trmnl-liquid parser, replacing the current Liquid parser with one that matches Core Liquid more closely, to improve compatibility with TRMNL recipe catalog.

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