Changelog¶

Note: If a new sub-version is released this does not necessarily mean all boards receive a new version number since most of the time these fixes are targeting a specific board or board family only.

v24.2.5 (2024-4-2)¶

recreated images for Rpi5 due to a bug

v24.2.4 (2024-3-12)¶

added KDE Neon 6 desktop images for generic UEFI targets, Orangepi 5 / 5+ (with new vendor kernel 6.1.y) and Odroid M1

v24.2.3 (2024-2-26)¶

recreated images for Bigtreetech CB1

v24.2.1 (2024-02-18)¶

Closed projects¶

AR-1657 Address DNS resolve with Debian Bookworm
AR-1797 Auto-testing: install all kernels that are defined
AR-1888 fix sluggish hdmi console for vim1s and vim4
AR-1988 Resolve Rockchip patch maintenance nightmare
AR-2061 Add Orangepi Zero3
AR-2062 Mixtile Blade 3 refactor / rockchip-rk3588 edge 6.7
AR-2063 Add new board of ASUS Tinker-Edge-R
AR-2064 Khadas VIM1S & VIM4 - 5.15 kernel bump
AR-2065 Add Xiaomi Mi10(umi) support
AR-2066 aml-s9xx-box: Update u-boot-s905x2-s922 to u-boot version 2024.01

Closed Tasks¶

AR-1879 JetHome: update u-boot to 2023.10
AR-1985 Generate new function to display download links
AR-1990 Move forgotten overlays from Odroid M1
AR-2033 revert JetHub H1/D1 wifi driver from rtw88 to vendor
AR-1552 Rework support for jethub devices
AR-1696 Khadas Edge (RK3399) has wrong name and picture
AR-1737 Merge Odroid M1 into rockchip64 family
AR-1870 Git workaround failure
AR-1925 Move wifi-4003-uwe5622-adjust-for-rockchip to the wireless section
AR-1984 Move live patch to extension
AR-2000 Several small maintainace tasks
AR-2004 Add Ubuntu Noble to the build framework
AR-2005 Bump all current kernels to 6.6 LTS
AR-2012 Please set dpkg vendor to Armbian in all images
AR-2016 Patchset for Rockchip (32b) needs to be ported to 6.7
AR-2017 Patchset for Rockchip 64b needs to be ported to 6.7
AR-2021 Add Home assistant extensions
AR-2032 LVM support, CRYPTROOT and current implementation.
AR-2035 Cloud-Init Supprot and Armbian First
AR-2050 Add support for Radxa Rock S 0

Solved Bugs¶

AR-1704 Bookworm Gnome lacks wallpaper withing lightdm
AR-1735 Command docker-shell seems to be broken
AR-1813 Orangepi One + fails to bring up NIC
AR-1861 Hashing on wireless patches seems to not work
AR-1908 Khadas VIM3 problem with high res displays
AR-1915 Extlinux / Khadas Edge 2 install to eMMC fails
AR-1933 Fix GitHub labeling anomaly
AR-1981 Edge Kernel (6.6.x) breaks WiFi and Bluetooth support for RockPI-S
AR-1987 Error when removing BSP package
AR-2003 None of the builds of Raspberry Pi 5 goes into desktop
AR-2007 Fix armbian.list.disabled exists
AR-2009 Extensions from USERPATCHES_PATH are not supported
AR-2010 Remove broken symlink
AR-2020 RK35xx is seeking for rk35xx config
AR-2027 Compressed images failed to upload to GitHub releases
AR-2034 RockPI-S does WiFi broken on kernels >6.5
AR-2038 KHADAS_OOWOW_BOARD_ID is not set, can’t use image-output-oowow
AR-2051 All installed systemd units are forcefully enabled on first boot
AR-2052 Cinnamon desktop doesn’t work on vim4
AR-2053 Desktop environment takes a long time to load on vim4
AR-2054 Image takes a lot of time to load on vim1s/vim4 bookworm image

v23.11.3 (2023-12-20)¶

Bugfix: some desktop images on Raspberry Pi 5 didn’t load desktop.

v23.11.2 (2023-12-18)¶

added standard support images for Raspberry Pi 5, Odroid N2/N2+, Odroid M1 due to the boards support status change
recreated images for Raspberry Pi 4, Nanopi R4S, Orangepi Zero2 due to several bug fixes (check commit log / newsletter for details)

v23.11.1 (2023-11-30)¶

Closed projects¶

AR-1702 Switch default login manager
AR-1886 Enable artifacts creation at pull request
AR-1924 Add support for Hikey 960
AR-1928 K3: Update edge kernel to v6.5
AR-1929 New Armbian Wallpapers
AR-1930 Add orangepi3b build config
AR-1940 Add edge kernel support for NanoPi R6S/R6C
AR-1941 Rework ac200 patches and config for current and edge kernel.
AR-1943 Add initial support for TI SK-TDA4VM board
AR-1951 add new device xiaomi-elish
AR-1957 Improve labeling system - refactor labeling logic
AR-1958 rk3588: configure UEFI_EDK2_BOARD_ID for all UEFI-supported boards
AR-1959 use GHPROXY_ADDRESS to customize ghproxy url

Closed Tasks¶

AR-1784 Remove FriendlyElec vendor “driver” patch in mainline
AR-1907 Add latest patch for eeprom support in JetHub D1+
AR-1811 Drop host OS-es that can’t compile Crust
AR-1882 Clean remaining legacy Rockchip kernels
AR-1897 KDE build seems to be missing features
AR-1913 Remove midstream kernel
AR-1919 Change support status to multiple selection
AR-1942 Add board config for Tanix TX6 tvbox
AR-1944 Add support for Inovato Quadra
AR-1945 hinlink-h28k [new board]: support new SoC Rockchip rk3528
AR-1946 rockchip64/edge 6.6.y: update overlay configfs patch from rpi
AR-1947 meson-s4t7: Add option to force 16x9 display resolution
AR-1948 meson-s4t7: add systemd service to enable fan in automatic mode
AR-1949 mekotronics-r58x-pro.wip: add new board Mekotronics R58X-Pro
AR-1950 mixtile-blade3: enable pci3x4 nvme boot (requires u.2 -> m.2 adapter from blade3 case kit)
AR-1952 Update Rock CM5 I/O board config (#5866)
AR-1953 Add settings & updater for KDE
AR-1954 add board ArmSoM-w3; with uboot-patch and updated blobs
AR-1956 Rockchip64: Clean up archive of all EOL kernels
AR-1960 VIM1S/VIM4: Add bluetooth support
AR-1969 BPI-CM4: Add support for the waveshare cm4-io-base-b
AR-1970 BPI-CM4: Enable usb support on waveshare baseboards via overlay
AR-1971 BPI-SM1: Removed UART_B overlay.
AR-1972 BPI-SM1: Add UART_A “pin-ctrl: cts rts”
AR-1973 Aligning display manager with the desktops
AR-1974 Add Ubuntu Mantic build target
AR-1979 Update kernel configs for Waydroid and Redroid support
AR-1980 xiaomi-elish: bump to kernel 6.7-rc2
AR-1983 xiaomi-elish: add typec pd support

Solved Bugs¶

AR-1641 simpledrm module prevents Mali G-31 hardware acceleration
AR-1832 x13s errors with bash: line 1: add-apt-repository: command not found
AR-1866 UWE5622 driver is broken on 6.5.y
AR-1876 Shallow clones CI is getting disabled due to inactivity
AR-1911 Raspberry Pi, upgrade fails
AR-1923 Rockchip kernels compilation breaking
AR-1932 Update firmware for Orangepi R1+ LTS
AR-1936 Khadas Vim1s: Fix display output
AR-1938 xradio: fix compilation for 6.1+
AR-1961 rangepi3lts: load wifi module via systemd service otherwise it crash
AR-1962 Restore LED triggers for each ATA port indicating disk activity in mvebu-edge
AR-1963 Fix broken HDMI output on rk3328
AR-1964 Orange Pi 3 LTS: Fix ethernet broken for some users on 6.x kernel
AR-1965 Fix LicheePi 4A audio problem
AR-1966 Khadas Vim1s: Fix monitor not detected after its turned off and on again
AR-1967 xiaomi-elish: update config for 6.6, and fix one bluetooth pairing issue
AR-1968 bootscript: meson-s4t7: fix booting on ubuntu
AR-1976 VIM1S: emmc 23.8.4 install fails to boot after running upgrade using beta repository
AR-1977 Default renderer for NetPlan is not set on Debian variants
AR-1982 rockpi-s still using ifconfig to set wlan MAC address

v23.08.5 (2023-10-11)¶

Recreated images for Khadas VIM4

Solved Bugs¶

AR-1887 Add fan support (fan.service) for VIM4.
AR-1893 Fix wifi not working on VIM4N.

v23.08.4 (2023-10-09)¶

Recreated images for Khadas VIM1S, Khadas VIM4

Solved Bugs¶

AR-1894 HDMI not working in Armbian Image on VIM1S and VIM4. Its fixed and works on most monitor now in Debian based images, Ubuntu images will also be fixed soon.
AR-1895 Fix HDMI monitor does not work after its turned off and on again on VIM1S

v23.08.3 (2023-09-20)¶

Recreated images for NanoPi Duo, Orange Pi Zero, Orange Pi Zero 2, Orange Pi 3 LTS

Closed Tasks¶

AR-1506 Reworked AC200 support for Allwinner current and edge kernels

Solved Bugs¶

AR-1280 Xradio xr819 wireless driver not available in Allwinner current and edge kernels
AR-1833 Slow network speed reported by iperf3 and nuttcp on Allwinner boards with Gigabit NIC
AR-1866 Unisoc UWE5622 wireless driver not available in Allwinner legacy, current and edge kernels

v23.08.2 (2023-09-11)¶

Recreated images for Orangepi 5 Plus, Bananapi M1

v23.08.1 (2023-09-01)¶

Closed projects¶

AR-1690 Add Crust to Allwinner boards to enable power management functions
AR-1700 Add support for most recent memory chips on BPi M5
AR-1723 Backport Bananapi CM4 to kernel 6.1 LTS
AR-1744 Provide official distro upgrades
AR-1838 Adding armbian-gaming as extension
AR-1841 Introduce grub-with-dtb extension
AR-1842 Add Lenovo X13S as WIP board
AR-1843 Khadas VIM3/VIM3L u-boot 23.07-rc4 + SPI-NOR/MTD booting support
AR-1850 Odroid M1 de-infest Petitboot & use Kwiboo’s 2023.10-rc2+gmac u-boot

Closed Tasks¶

AR-1647 Enable missing modules in sunxi64
AR-1718 Optimise images download build lists
AR-1719 Add and test 4G PCI modem on Bananapi CM4
AR-1722 Adjust Bananapi WiKi Pages
AR-1725 Update CM4 download pages
AR-1726 Add CM4 to auto-testing facility
AR-1728 Check if appropriate build targets has been generating
AR-1730 Make a hires photo of CM4 with modules placed on
AR-1780 Adjust u-boot patches to apply correctly
AR-1803 Enable wireless driver for MT7921U on all kernels
AR-1806 Generate all images that are declared in targets.yaml for single device
AR-1807 Test data visualisation JSON / PHP / HTML
AR-1824 Move Debian riscv64 from ports as its not 1st class citizen
AR-1826 Timezone select is too closed on status of the countries
AR-1834 Add gnome-calculator back to the default package base
AR-1836 Add SPI boot support for Rock5A
AR-1837 Add Orange Pi Plus
AR-1839 Introduce PASTE_URL to make easy to change paste service used
AR-1840 Add pwm-fan support to Nanopi R4S
AR-1844 NanoPi Duo2: enable powerbutton and ethernet
AR-1845 Add bluetooth-hciattach extension to Orange Pi 5
AR-1846 Add Collabora rockchip-rk3588 mainline based branch
AR-1847 Add Radxa CM5 with I/O board
AR-1848 Fix thermal monitoring in 6.1 kernel
AR-1849 NanoPC-T6 Collabora: add PCIe 3
AR-1851 Add Debian Trixie host and target support

Solved Bugs¶

AR-1539 XFCE image Rpi is missing from web download
AR-1570 Incomplete information in /etc/armbian-(image)-release
AR-1684 Synaptic search is super slow
AR-1707 Nightly images are not build with beta repository
AR-1724 CM4: Onboard WiFi and Bluetooth does not work
AR-1729 Userpatches support for series.conf seems broken
AR-1764 Some Allwinner 32bit boards hangs at boot
AR-1765 Recreate images that are missing in 23.05 release
AR-1771 Rockpi4c+ link on download page broken
AR-1772 RockPI-S serial console drops keystrokes
AR-1787 Installing Khadas Vim3 image directly to eMMC fails
AR-1798 Orangepi 3 / LTS and Nanopi Black 5 does not boot
AR-1802 Possible bug in image assembly process
AR-1814 Installing M2PRO to eMMC fails to boot from eMMC
AR-1817 Enable wireless driver for MT7915E on all kernels
AR-1835 mkfs.vfat command is missing in minimal images

v23.05.24 (2023-08-02)¶

Recreated images for: Banana M2S, Odroid C2, Khadas VIM3

v23.05.2 (2023-06-06)¶

AR-1765 Recreate images that are broken/missing in 23.05 release

v23.05.1 (2023-05-31)¶

Closed projects¶

AR-1516 Clean base desktops
AR-1536 Cleanup CLI packages list
AR-1543 Update RK35xx legacy kernel to 5.10
AR-1546 Merge all RK3588 under one kernel
AR-1549 Unify architecture definitions
AR-1557 Cleaning and adjusting CLI packages base
AR-1567 Generating JSON matrix
AR-1625 Extending JSON generation to support build matrix(es)
AR-1639 Enable armbian-config ORAS cache
AR-1693 Test as many images for upcoming 23.05 release as possible
AR-1700 Add support for most recent memory chips on BPi M5
AR-1748 Generate a sticky topic with instructions how to upgrade to Bookworm

Closed Task¶

AR-241 Remove NAND hacks from packaging
AR-345 Label trigger/workflow issue to jira
AR-773 Add support and bug report URL to /etc/os-release
AR-1512 Switch Docker pull to armbian/cache repository
AR-1526 UWE5622 driver consolidation for rockchip64
AR-1542 Add architecture property for distributions
AR-1573 Move UEFI kernels to 6.2, move current to legacy
AR-1574 Move Rpi kernels to 6.2, move current to legacy
AR-1575 Move Odroid M1 to 6.2.y
AR-1577 Move mvebu edge kernels to 6.2, current to 6.1, current to legacy
AR-1590 Add another package to minimal images
AR-1591 Armbian buster xfce image build fails at installing package numix-icon-theme-circle
AR-1593 Add & adjust (c) in files
AR-1598 Minimal builds are missing apt-utils package
AR-1601 Add sudo, wget and htop to minimal packages
AR-1602 add `fonts-noto-color-emoji` for terminal Emoji support
AR-1620 Effectively remove Ubuntu PRO ads
AR-1627 Automatically clean docker images
AR-1642 Could not create a username containing a number
AR-1645 Installer should handle input in the same way everywhere
AR-1651 Change Debian Bookworm into supported target
AR-1655 Enable CONFIG_EXFAT_FS on remaining kernels
AR-1656 Execute build train if kernel config changes
AR-1660 Enable OrangePi Zero (LTS) TV output
AR-1663 Add NanoPi R6S / R6C
AR-1664 Rebuild board selection for generating official images
AR-1669 Optimise PNG images we are using
AR-1674 Bump rockchip 32 bit edge to kernel 6.3
AR-1679 Drop kernel-jetson-nano-legacy
AR-1680 Drop kernel-rockchip-legacy
AR-1681 Drop kernel-rk3399-legacy
AR-1682 Drop kernel-rockchip64-legacy
AR-1683 Enable H616 CPU freq scaling
AR-1695 Bump rockchip64 current to 6.1.y
AR-1697 Add support for FriendlyElec NanoPi R4SE
AR-1698 Add NILFS2 fs support
AR-1699 Improve SD card compatibility on Radxa E25
AR-1706 Disable SKEL update mechanism from postinst
AR-1708 Improve i3-wm support
AR-1713 Introduce armbian-base-files artefact
AR-1717 Disable debug for postinst
AR-1747 Orangepi-r1plus-lts Network Interface logical names have changed and broken networking
AR-1760 Move Khadas Edge 2 to supported build targets
AR-1586 Consolidate RTL8723CS driver for all families

Solved Bug¶

AR-1443 NanoPi R4S patch overwriting mainline base DTS, needs refactored
AR-1474 Emoji not shown
AR-1523 UEFI install seems to be broken to some degree
AR-1528 Nanopi Neo stuck in boot loop
AR-1537 Missing man-db in images
AR-1541 UEFI swap problem and missing UUID for EFI partition
AR-1545 Update jethub prepackages python modules to install via apt
AR-1547 Jetson Nano legacy fails do build kernel
AR-1548 Odroid XU4 kernel compilation is failing current / edge
AR-1556 “No space left on device” while rsync root files to image
AR-1569 APT cache needs to be cleaned before closing image
AR-1578 Missing blobs for Riscv
AR-1588 Linter checking for bash shebang is incorrect
AR-1589 Kernel analysis is checking too many files
AR-1603 Broken wireless driver 8821cu-20210118
AR-1611 Armbian install broken when installing to USB
AR-1615 Bad links Orangepizero2
AR-1621 Raspberry Pi does not build
AR-1623 Armbian install fails to start on minimal images
AR-1628 Orange Pi Zero 2 doesn’t work
AR-1644 armbian-audio-config fails in minimal images; alsa-utils missing
AR-1648 Debian SID also split non-free firmware packages
AR-1650 Remote Desktop doesn’t work on desktop images
AR-1653 Both Firefox and Chromium are not installing from our repo
AR-1658 Wrong artefacts creation
AR-1666 File with unexpected execution rights
AR-1667 RockPI-S audio support is gone
AR-1671 Packages are being downgraded to their repo versions
AR-1673 uboot v2018.05-sun50iw9 compile error
AR-1675 Nezha has wrong manufactur attached
AR-1676 Can’t build linux-u-boot-radxa-e25-legacy and edge
AR-1677 Fix building rk322x with vendor 4.4 kernel
AR-1678 Can’t build Macchiatobin-doubleshot
AR-1685 Rock 3A is missing current kernel def
AR-1692 Raspberry Pi does not boot
AR-1705 Jethome repository missing Lunar and Bookworm index
AR-1714 Our packages md hash files contains temporally path
AR-1715 Permission problem when building with GHA
AR-1733 Base files does not work for riscv64 due to anomaly
AR-1750 Missing information in BSP about repository and build FW commit
AR-1751 Ubuntu Advantage is not completely removed

v23.02.1 (2023-02-25)¶

Closed projects¶

AR-1281 Armbian community automated build
AR-1360 Bump Rockchip64 u-boot to 2022.07
AR-1408 Enable EDGE branch on RK3588
AR-1424 Refactor release index generation
AR-1432 Adjust 3rd party drivers for kernel 6.1
AR-1435 Generate CODEOWNER on GitHub
AR-1444 Move repo management from the build system
AR-1449 Adjust action scripts to adjusted logic
AR-1457 Create kernel config security analysis
AR-1458 Enable AUFS on 6.1.y
AR-1460 Address corner case when looking for default route
AR-1461 Move hostapd from packages list
AR-1470 Improve new issue / request handling
AR-1484 Move meson64 CURRENT to 6.1.y
AR-1531 Add support for various HID game controllers and Waydroid
AR-1532 Split Bananapi M2PRO from M5

Closed Task¶

AR-1313 Mvebu EDGE needs to be bumped to 6.1.y
AR-1507 Move UWE5622 from kernel patches to misc
AR-1379 Add support for minimal images build in CI
AR-1412 Move btrfs-progs to the minimal images
AR-1413 Port meson sm1 emmc related patches from edge to current
AR-1414 Move Bananapi M5 to the previous u-boot version
AR-1417 Add gnome-disk-utility to the desktops
AR-1418 Replace nand-sata-install with symlink to armbian-install
AR-1419 Limit automated swap creation to 16Gb
AR-1421 Add nfs-common package too all except minimal
AR-1429 Switch to better 882xbu wireless driver
AR-1431 Improve audio config script
AR-1433 Change error reporting when linting scripts
AR-1434 Bump EDGE kernels to 6.1.y
AR-1448 Update u-boot patches for JetHub D1/D1+
AR-1495 Change old not supported releases to EOS
AR-1509 Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS add 2 device tree overlays for rk3328 uart1 and i2C0. Network and LED’s enhancements.
AR-1521 Add next Debian Bookworm
AR-1533 Disable event debugging
AR-1534 Add wpasupplicant to bookworm

Solved Bugs¶

AR-1367 PCIe is stuck at Gen1 speed even tho overlay pcie-gen2 is specificed
AR-1416 Missing font in Bullseye desktop cause strange fonts in Terminator
AR-1437 Change to GitHub workflow badge routes
AR-1438 rockPi-S patchset overwriting mainline device tree
AR-1439 Rockchip64 NanoPi patches overwriting mainline DTS
AR-1450 MOTD shows error on some devices
AR-1463 Remove code was added to the sources, which creates a mess in rk3399-rock-pi-4.dts
AR-1467 Raspberry Pi 3 is unbootable, 4 boots
AR-1476 Missing firmware on Nanopi R2S
AR-1482 Do not generate swap larger the 16Gb
AR-1522 Fix SDIO port irq level bug found in 6.0+ kernel
AR-1524 Cracklib check library must be present in all
AR-1527 Update patches for RTL8822CS

v22.11.4 (2023-01-23)¶

Added image for Bananapi R2 PRO
kernel(s) update

v22.11.3 (2022-12-31)¶

v22.11.2 (2022-12-09)¶

Re-added image for Nanopi Duo
Regenerated images Rock 5b (updated kernel)

v22.11.1 (2022-12-03)¶

Closed projects¶

AR-1278 Implement plymouth for kernel > 5.19.y
AR-1319 Upgrade Allwinner boot loader to 2022.08
AR-1335 Add gpiod library to armhf and arm64 server + desktop images
AR-1346 Grub optimisations
AR-1355 Add support for UEFI install to the nand-sata-install
AR-1362 Add Bananapi M5 to the build system
AR-1389 Refactor u-boot patches
AR-1390 Add Riscv64 support
AR-1399 Enable BASH linter at PR on changed files
AR-1402 Enable ES8316 audio properly on Radxa Rock Pi 4

Closed Task¶

AR-668 Using extlinux.conf instead of the legacy set of boot.scr + text files.
AR-949 Initial board setup
AR-977 Add package version number to the rootfs cache
AR-1034 Add missing Docker dependencies
AR-1112 Add ZFS repository
AR-1301 Add Rockpi 4C plus
AR-1312 Clean bootlogo patches
AR-1317 Remove nfs-kernel-server from default install
AR-1325 Deploy Chromium repo and keys to CLI images too
AR-1326 Add SKEL distribution to all existing users to the postinst script
AR-1336 Fix wallpaper not showing correct in virtual desktop
AR-1337 Re-enable Thunderbird email client for Debian Sid
AR-1338 Add Codium to Debian builds
AR-1342 Switch Codium with Code on x86
AR-1343 Update UEFI configs with latest Ubuntu desktop 22.04
AR-1349 Add Intel sound firmware to the desktops
AR-1350 Deprecating Buster and Focal
AR-1351 Adjust desktop support status
AR-1352 Add initial configuration for Terminator
AR-1353 Define panel shortcuts for Gnome x64 per appgroup
AR-1373 Port legacy kernel Rockchip Hardware Random Number Generator forward into Edge
AR-1376 Replace Ubuntu PRO advertisement
AR-1377 Add plymouth package to base images except minimal
AR-1388 Change purge releases action
AR-1404 Updated box86 and box64

Solved Bugs¶

AR-577 Fix USB port on Rockpi S
AR-1060 Freshly build image doesn’t have BRANCH info in /etc/armbian-release
AR-1186 Screen power savings does not work
AR-1265 Rock PI-S images will not boot from internal EMMC (SDNAND)
AR-1268 RockPI-S WiFi throughput only 300K bytes/second
AR-1269 RockPI WiFi assigned different MAC address on each boot
AR-1305 CI build wrong images in cron
AR-1309 Some images doesn’t want to be built, some are corrupted
AR-1310 Update JetHub D1 (j100) u-boot patchset
AR-1318 Replace expired GPG key for Github CLI
AR-1330 CLI images can ran out of space
AR-1332 Missing dependency in Docker images
AR-1334 Nanopi Neo3 does not have DT file in EDGE
AR-1340 Disable event debugging on UEFI builds
AR-1341 Missing wallpaper in XFCE login screen Armbian Sid
AR-1344 Wrong location of package uninstall
AR-1345 Thunderbird 32b is no more, refactoring - provide it only for 64b
AR-1348 Pine64H b and NPI R1 does not build u-boot
AR-1363 Kernel freezing in armbian-kernel might not work correctly
AR-1374 Hostapd needs to be workarounded
AR-1381 XU4: On a fresh install, after moving root to f2fs eMMC, it fails to boot
AR-1384 Fix RTL8822CS driver. Update build config
AR-1385 Ambian’s password rules are annoying
AR-1391 MOTD is not displaying messages correctly
AR-1392 Error triggered when changing BSP package
AR-1393 Converting to u-boot fails on riscv
AR-1394 Update kernel meson mmc driver to set phase clock from dts
AR-1395 Don’t add PPA’s to the CLI images
AR-1398 nand-sata-install must fail with a proper error message if the chosen mkfs.xyz is not installed
AR-1400 Raspberry Pi is unbootable
AR-1403 Wrong post install handling on install
AR-1405 When using PPA sources we need to run install_ppa_prerequisites

v22.08.8 (2022-10-29)¶

added test images for Odroid M1
update rockchip64 kernels
Regenerated images for Rockpro64, Rock64, Nanopi M4, Nanopi M4V2, Bananapi, Bananapi PRO, Bananapi M2Plus

v22.08.7 (2022-10-20)¶

Regenerated images for Rockpi S, Bananapi M1, PRO, M2+, M5, M64, UEFI, RPi4, ClockworkPi, Nanopi Neo3, Pinebook PRO, Renegade, Tinkerboard, OrangePi Zero, OrangePi Zero 2, OrangePi Zero plus
AR-1269 RockPI WiFi assigned different MAC address on each boot
AR-1268 RockPI-S WiFi throughput only 300K bytes/second
AR-1265 Rock PI-S images will not boot from internal EMMC (SDNAND)

v22.08.5 (2022-10-14)¶

Regenerated images for arm64 and x86 UEFI with improved installer

v22.08 (2022-08-30)¶

Solved Bugs¶

AR-1304 Boot splash is broken due to changes in kernel source
AR-1299 Debian throws out locale garbage at 1st login
AR-1296 JetHub D1 u-boot 2022.07+ bug
AR-1295 Switch KDE plasma to Wayland
AR-1294 Remove broken packages from Debian SID
AR-1291 Several wireless drivers break down starting with 5.19.2
AR-1287 Debian SID package deprecation
AR-1285 Primary interface problem
AR-1282 Upstream wireless driver is broken
AR-1270 RockPi cannot host a desktop because it outputs no video
AR-1266 Media EDGE and media CURRENT are not compiling
AR-1263 Fix armbian-led-state-save.sh wrong behavior on boards without gpio leds.
AR-1235 Fix NanoPi (rk3399) boards missing correct device tree files in rk3399-legacy
AR-1224 AUFS breaks on 5.15.y
AR-1206 Firefox from Mozilla team is n/a on Focal
AR-1203 Rock3a only has one recommended target
AR-1202 Tinkerboard has only one recommended image on the download page
AR-1092 Docker is not working on some 5.15.y. / 5.16.y
AR-1037 Missing some repository install options
AR-1025 Samba timeouts and throws out error
AR-982 Broken / invisible fonts on KDE plasma
AR-932 HDMI rules could make troubles on some boards

Story¶

AR-1303 Merging download target
AR-1288 Move DUT ip addresses to the database
AR-1284 Improve GitHub UX
AR-1277 Refactor rootfs cache system
AR-1248 Add support for month offset when creating cache
AR-1239 Wrong board status report at first login
AR-1238 Github Actions fine tuning
AR-1236 Add images integrity checking script
AR-1230 Refactor rootfs cache system
AR-1229 Enable code security analysis
AR-1220 Create nightly images directly on Github
AR-1130 Improve Pull request review culture and participation
AR-1081 Setup own mirror for kernel.org git
AR-580 Generate CONTRIBUTION.md at build script repository

Closed Sub-task¶

AR-1231 update meson64 edge kernel to 5.19
AR-686 Migrate beta.armiban.com to redirect

Closed Task¶

AR-1300 Add patches to support PiKVM
AR-1292 Conduct forum upgrade to latest version
AR-1279 Upgrade Rockchip (32 bit) edge kernel to v5.19
AR-1272 Move CSC targets that doesn’t build to EOS
AR-1251 When generating rootfs cache also store package versions
AR-1249 Enable Debian Sid Gnome, Budgie and Cinnamon to some powerful boards
AR-1237 Add a small tool to help with unifying kernel configs
AR-1232 JetHome: add JetHub D1p support
AR-1223 Desktops are missing calculator
AR-1211 add rock-3a emmc support
AR-1210 add spi boot support for rock-3a
AR-1182 Orange Pi 4 LTS support
AR-1132 Update meson64 edge&current kernels
AR-1127 Change build train runners to use our runners
AR-1073 Remove /lib/build-all.sh
AR-1042 Sum important information in CONTRIBUTION.md
AR-1028 Add support for rootfs / toolchain bind mount
AR-984 Integrate Khadas boards related fixes
AR-668 Using extlinux.conf instead of the legacy set of boot.scr + text files.

v22.05.4 (2022-07-14)¶

Added more desktop flavors for boards which are capable (Budgie, Gnome, KDE Plasma, Xfce and Cinnamon)

v22.05.3 (2022-06-23)¶

All board images have been rebuilt due to corruption found in certain images
Fixed Orange Pi 3 LTS bluetooth support
AR-1182 - Added board images for Orange Pi 4 LTS
AR-1228 - Upgraded bootloader to 22.04 for Rockchip family boards

v22.05 (2022-05-28)¶

Solved Bugs¶

AR-1204 - Orangepi R1plus-lts - USB3 Ethernet not working
AR-1202 - Tinkerboard has only one recommended image on the download page
AR-1199 - Orangepizero2 legacy images doesn’t boot
AR-1197 - Support status shows unsupported even distro variant is supported (random Focal image)
AR-1196 - Mainline Kernel patch breaks spidev in 5.15+
AR-1195 - Odroid N2 legacy kernel image does not build on Jammy
AR-1194 - Legacy kernels doesn’t want to be added to repository
AR-1193 - Images without device tree blobs fails to build via CI
AR-1192 - Allwinner H5 boards fails on ATF compilation
AR-1190 - Docker image creation fails on Jammy host
AR-1189 - U-boot xt-q8l-v10 legacy fails to build at CI
AR-1185 - Remmina is missing RDP and VNC options
AR-1178 - Docker images creation is broken
AR-1173 - Github action for generating desktops does not start
AR-1172 - Load induced RX bug in the r8152 driver on 5.15 and 5.17
AR-1171 - Budgie desktop fails to build on Jammy
AR-1170 - Switching to beta repository at images sometimes failed
AR-1169 - Chromium does not install on Jammy desktops
AR-1167 - Update config to support Linux 5.15.36
AR-1160 - When seeking changed kernels two are always marked as changed
AR-1151 - Kernel 5.10.y need patch adjustment for boot splash
AR-1149 - Current build failure due to packages
AR-1148 - radxa zero 512MB (no eMMC) does not load img from SD
AR-1141 - Ubuntu Budgie on Focal Jammy / Focal fails
AR-1135 - fix armbian ramlog instability
AR-1129 - Gnome desktop on Jammy fails to start
AR-1115 - Package discrepancy in Jammy
AR-1102 - Missing wallpapers in desktop packages
AR-1097 - net: stmmac: dwmac-meson8b: interface sometimes does not come up at boot.
AR-1091 - Wireless driver for 8822bs is not compatible with 5.15.y and up
AR-1061 - udev HDMI rules are causing flickering
AR-1033 - U-boot packages doesn’t want to be assembled with Docker
AR-1015 - Toolchain download only from a single source
AR-712 - Broken framebuffer on A20
AR-583 - RK3328 DMC driver needs small (hopefully) update for kernel 5.10
AR-191 - SATA doesn’t show up on Banana

Story¶

AR-988 - Add support for running x86_64 applications
AR-775 - Bring Marvell A3700-utils-marvell and mv-ddr-marvell.git to follow master
AR-273 - Improve CI autotests facility

Closed tasks¶

AR-1180 - Merge rk35xx-edge into rockchip64-edge
AR-1177 - Update only supported repositories
AR-1175 - Temperature monitoring for Jetson nano
AR-1166 - Add box86 package from 3rd party repository
AR-1165 - Update JetHub D1 u-boot patches
AR-1164 - Upgrade mvebu64 kernel to 5.17.y
AR-1159 - Upgrade UEFI EDGE kernels to 5.17.y
AR-1150 - Adjust hash calculating method
AR-1132 - Update meson64 edge&current kernels
AR-1128 - Add Nvidia driver to the x86 desktop images
AR-1126 - Enable desktop compilation at merge request
AR-1120 - Sync beta repository in the CI process
AR-1108 - Missing images in download section for following boards
AR-1076 - Add support for Orangepi 3 LTS
AR-1057 - Advertise recommended targets at download pages
AR-1008 - Update vars in amlogic u-boot script to match names of default u-boot vars
AR-959 - Unifying TAGS as much as possible - as universal as possible
AR-628 - Bump Meson64 u-boot
AR-296 - Remove compressed indexes for apt?

v22.02 (2022-02-28)¶

Solved Bugs¶

AR-1101 - DRM patch is failing on Rockchip
AR-1079 - Ubuntu archive redirector is not providing best service
AR-1077 - Fix RPi4 userland audio
AR-1069 - First login doesn’t pick up correct shell
AR-1065 - Twitter forum registration is not working
AR-1063 - X86 desktop images are not enabled in CI
AR-1062 - When selecting repository install u-boot might not be flashed
AR-1055 - Aptly repository seems to be out of business
AR-1048 - Rpi kernel image is not updated on upgrade
AR-1043 - linux-firmware repository change branch from “master” to “main”
AR-973 - boot building is failing after update to 2021.10
AR-871 - Debian SID broken wallpaper

Story¶

AR-1074 - Switch all CURRENT to 5.15.y and EDGE to 5.16.y
AR-1009 - Armbian Framework extensions and UEFI support

Closed tasks¶

AR-1100 - Support for Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS
AR-1084 - 3D support on Debian desktop
AR-1078 - Add additional forum plugins and adjust settings
AR-1068 - Add gnome-system-monitor to Focal and Jammy
AR-1049 - Add ZFS that supports kernel 5.15.y
AR-1044 - Improve Raspberry Pi support
AR-1041 - JetHome: fix brcm (AP6255) firmware links
AR-1040 - Refactor armbian-bsp-cli package creation
AR-931 - Using Docker image for building kernels
AR-893 - Cleanup rockchip64 u-boot scenarios
AR-757 - Adding Raspberry Pi
AR-586 - Implement fan controller for Nanopi M4V2

v21.08 (2021-08-31)¶

Solved Bugs¶

AR-886 - u-boot package naming
AR-885 - Odroid C4 / HC4 boot failure
AR-881 - First login shows “degraded”
AR-879 - RK3328 5.10 + GPU failure
AR-875 - Homepage fix
AR-874 - Add SATA fix for eBin
AR-873 - khadas vim3 no sound
AR-872 - When reverting u-boot to last known, some boards are broken
AR-867 - H6 Freezing
AR-863 - Unstable u-boot also noticed on H3 based boards
AR-862 - normalize RK3399 xorg configs
AR-857 - Qemu custom hook executing on non-targeted images
AR-854 - Pinebook PRO desktop doesn’t build in CI
AR-853 - Missing folder when making BSP file
AR-852 - Error when placing wallpaper
AR-850 - Disable XFWM compositor on XFCE4 desktop to make it run smoother
AR-844 - CI is picking up wrong kernel
AR-835 - Amlogic GLX desktop fails
AR-834 - edge v network weirdness
AR-833 - Khadas Edge V no HDMI audio
AR-830 - CI needs to rsync cache before start to building new images.
AR-829 - CI pipeline could not find some files when signing rootfs cache
AR-825 - Fixing I2S related errors on RK3399
AR-824 - Broken wifi on Station boards and kernel 5.12.y
AR-823 - Pine H64 doesn’t boot kernel 5.12.y
AR-822 - Motd false reporting of unsupported
AR-821 - Docker creation failed to load repository keys
AR-820 - Broken Odroid C2 audio patch
AR-819 - Wireguard repo errors
AR-818 - When building selected images via CI, status is changed to user-built
AR-816 - ZRAM is missing in Jeston Nano legacy
AR-780 - Nanopi R4S USB broken
AR-779 - New bsp package is common. Per branch changes doesn’t work anymore
AR-777 - Docker doesn’t install on Hirsute host
AR-776 - Tinkerboard legacy have some troubles booting
AR-774 - Orangepi Lite 2 EDGE is failing
AR-770 - U-boot fails to install when switching kernel to EDGE
AR-764 - Htop configuration exploit / vulnerability
AR-749 - Allwinner A20 bootloops on 5.12.y / 2021.04
AR-748 - Headers install broken
AR-747 - Deeping Desktop doesn’t want to reboot / poweroff
AR-744 - Nanopi K2 S905 network is broken
AR-741 - Pinebook pro desktop missing tweaks
AR-740 - Vnstat throws out garbage
AR-737 - Jetson nano throws out some error on boot loader compilation
AR-736 - Rockpi S u-boot doesn’t build on GCC.-10
AR-713 - Board specific desktop things are going into common desktop package
AR-593 - Rockpi S doesn’t boot mainline based kernel

Epic¶

AR-788 - Add Official Support for Some Khadas devices

Story¶

AR-877 - build_all needs separate logs per image
AR-847 - Tinkerboard 2 Support
AR-746 - Upgrade EDGE to 5.12.y
AR-734 - CSC Support for Avnet MicroZed
AR-214 - CI improvements
AR-202 - Drop packaging patches and introduce own packaging
AR-42 - Merge packaging patches

Closed tasks¶

AR-892 - Promoting Bullseye to supported
AR-890 - Desktop analysis with 3D enabled
AR-887 - Re-enable Debian Stretch repository update
AR-882 - Optimise image compression
AR-876 - Make package lists in one row
AR-869 - Upgrade ZFS on Linux to v2.1.0 (Focal / Bionic only)
AR-865 - Updating driver for 2.5G NIC on Helios64
AR-864 - Upgrading EDGE to K5.13.y
AR-859 - set - apt.armbian.com - redirect default to http instead of https
AR-856 - Basic RC Branch build support
AR-846 - Add Ubuntu 21.10 Impish
AR-794 - Khadas Edge-V support
AR-793 - Khadas VIM3L support
AR-792 - Preliminary Khadas VIM3 support
AR-791 - Khadas VIM2 support
AR-790 - Preliminary Khadas VIM1 support
AR-785 - Move mainline boot console to UART0 on Rockpi S
AR-784 - Add Nvidia Jetson Nano legacy kernel
AR-782 - Provides NFS mount functionality out of the box on CLI images
AR-778 - Do not pre-install obsolete apt-transport-https
AR-768 - Move Odroid XU4 EDGE to mainline source
AR-745 - chroot packaging: build script as separate function
AR-743 - Delay first-run autologin
AR-732 - Unlock Ubuntu Hirsute as supported target
AR-714 - Adjusting support status
AR-665 - rk3399 patch failure
AR-649 - Adding Rockchip VPU support for 5.11.y
AR-635 - Add legacy kernel for Zero2
AR-537 - Create Armbian “virtual” build target to run as VM
AR-519 - Odroid N2 Mainline u-boot for edge kernel
AR-315 - Add support for GPT table inside armbian-install

v21.05.6 (2021-06-21)¶

Solved Bugs

Updated images for Orangepi Zero

AR-593 - Rockpi S doesn’t boot mainline kernel

v21.05.3 (2021-05-24)¶

Solved Bugs

AR-780 - Nanopi R4S USB broken
AR-816 - ZRAM is missing in Jeston Nano legacy

v21.05.2 (2021-05-24)¶

Solved Bugs

AR-748 - Headers install broken
AR-740 - Vnstat throws out garbage
AR-764 - Fixing Htop security issue

Closed Tasks

ZFS updated to v2.0.4 (tested on 32bit Odroid HC1 and 64bit N2, Focal and Bionic userland) Added Hirsute CLI images with EDGE Linux 5.12.y for most of the boards

v21.05 (2021-05-09)¶

Solved Bugs

AR-730 - Duplicate packages error when updating repository

AR-729 - Fix Partition Alignment for resizes and armbian-install

AR-711 - Network troubles on Nanopi K2 / Odroids

AR-709 - Tinkerboard AP crash on client connect

AR-708 - Missing library for compiling u-boot

AR-707 - Wrong keyboard code detected

AR-705 - Compilation issues when building old u-boot

AR-698 - XU4 - current kernel oddness with docker

AR-697 - Fix Meson64 Default Governor

AR-688 - Firefly boot broken

AR-674 - Users can’t change desktop wallpaper on Gnome

AR-666 - ZSH is disabled on upgrade

AR-662 - Distribution support status is not written to the /etc/armbian-release

AR-659 - Rootfs image runs out of inodes during build

AR-653 - builder issue with gnome

AR-647 - Wireless driver 8811CU is broken on 5.11.y

AR-646 - Bootsplash breaks compilation on 5.11.y

AR-644 - Wireless driver 8188 EU broken and disabled since 5.9.y

AR-636 - Odroid N2+ lost additional freq values

AR-585 - HDMI-CEC not working on rockchip64 Legacy

AR-88 - Banana Pi M3 does not boot

Finished projects

AR-694 - Create Jira-based checklist for Desktop Testing

AR-457 - Enable native arm/arm64 building

AR-454 - Additional Desktop Configurations for use with new framework

AR-444 - Improving download infrastructure Phase 2

AR-200 - Improving Desktop images

Closed Tasks

AR-714 - Adjusting support status

AR-710 - Create imx edge branch

AR-706 - Bump Allwinner u-boot to 2021.04

AR-704 - Distinguish between edge and normal image in motd

AR-696 - Improve Nvidia Jetson Nano support

AR-673 - Add few missing packages

AR-670 - Add additonal mirros for linux-firmware beside kernel source

AR-667 - Move Meson64 DEV to 5.10.y

AR-657 - Add instructions how to manual flash boot loader

AR-656 - Implement timeout on cache download

AR-654 - Fix stability issues of NanoPi M4V2 in current and dev

AR-651 - NanoPC-T4 legacy: enable USB-C DisplayPort & eDP outs

AR-648 - Resolve GPIO & PWM patches on mvebu

AR-645 - Detach rtl8812au from fixed commit ID if it builds from master

AR-643 - Bump DEV kernels to 5.11.y

AR-634 - Add Orangepi R1 Plus

AR-633 - Enable hardware PRNG/TRNG/SHA on sun8i-ce platform

AR-613 - test/beta img auto builder

AR-612 - Update pine64 install instructions

AR-600 - RK3399’s: Add multimedia and OC overlays

AR-599 - Enable HDMI-CEC and ISP1 camera support for rk3399 and rockchip64 legacy

AR-369 - Check kernel config changes

v21.02.4 (2021-04-04)¶

Added Nvidia Jetson Nano (community supported target)

Rebuild images for Odroid N2, H4, HC4

v21.02.3 (2021-03-09)¶

All kernels received upstream updates

All images has been rebuilt

Fixed reboot troubles on meson64 family (Odroid N2, C2, H4, HC4)

ZSH upgrade fixed

Type-C DP support for the NanoPC T4

AR-654 - NanoPi M4V2 stability fix for current and dev

Allwinner a20 fail to init hdmi in many cases / fixed (all images need to be rebuilt)

AR-660 - Attempt to improve stability on Helios64

v21.02.2 (2021-02-16)¶

All kernels received upstream updates

AR-633 - Enable hardware PRNG/TRNG/SHA on sun8i-ce platform

AR-636 - Odroid N2+ lost additional freq values

v21.02.1 (2021-02-03)¶

Finished projects

AR-235 - Implement Device Tree Editor

AR-476 - Add sound to Odroid N2

AR-485 - Improve multicore compilation

AR-487 - Rework download pages

AR-508 - Add Odroid HC4

AR-546 - Added Pine64 Pinecube

AR-566 - Add Nanopi R4S

AR-568 - Add Orangepizero 2 WIP target

AR-571 - Move Meson64 DEV to 5.10.y

AR-589 - Add ZShell via armbian-zsh package

AR-590 - ZRAM Enhancements - decouple swap config from tmp

Solved bugs

AR-365 - 4k not detected properly on Amlogic, Rockchip devices

AR-440 - Errors shown at 1st login under certain conditions

AR-512 - Fix Ethernet for Opi3 and other devices with phymode for kernel 5.10

AR-514 - Download and verify not fully reliable

AR-547 - First login: adding a non-existing keyboard variant

AR-548 - mvebu DFS seems to cause system hang under high I/O

AR-557 - GCC compatibility issues

AR-559 - First login script - not all locales have UTF8 encoding

AR-565 - SATA on HC4 is not recognized

AR-570 - Improper order in getty override.conf

AR-584 - Nanopi M4V2 hangs on bluetooth loading

AR-595 - Rockpi 4B 1GB not booting

AR-605 - Booting troubles on Odroid C4 / HC4

AR-606 - Force boot script update throws out some error

AR-608 - Broken building out-of-tree modules

AR-610 - Nanopi Neo2 black sometimes nic doesn't init

AR-615 - Helios64 unstable 2.5Gbps Interface on LK5.x

AR-616 - Ubuntu Bionic ZSH / BASH changing issue

AR-617 - Locales detection doesn't work properly in some cases

AR-627 - Ubuntu update is overwriting our welcome screen

AR-629 - Odroid HC4 SATA failure

AR-631 - Orangepi Zero2 broken network

AR-632 - Desktop fails to load at second run

Closed task

AR-163 - Systematically cleanup distribution defaults

AR-206 - Improve memory performance on Renegade (roc-rk3328-cc) in current

AR-399 - Improve Pinebook PRO support

AR-467 - Enable AUFS support back

AR-472 - Added support for Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy

AR-517 - Mark Bionic builds host as deprecated

AR-520 - Move Rock64 to CSC in build script

AR-525 - Bump Rockchip 32bit to 5.9.y

AR-526 - Move mvebu-dev kernel to 5.9+

AR-551 - Update fan configuration, enable network LED and enable UPS timer

AR-552 - Re-enable UHS SDR104 mode for Helios64 and roc-rk3399-pc

AR-553 - Update builder to retrieve web seeds from mirrors api

AR-554 - OdroidN2 Ethernet Failure Pt2

AR-556 - Adding vnstat and ZFS support to MOTD

AR-558 - Switch mvebu current to K5.9

AR-563 - Improve headers compilation

AR-576 - Enabled debug on RockpiS

AR-579 - Improve (oh-my)ZSH loading speed

AR-587 - Fix kernel switching for rk3399 family

AR-594 - Upgrade Meson64 u-boot to 2020.10

AR-598 - Switch rockchip64 u-boot to 2020.10

AR-601 - Move sunxi-current to 5.10.y

AR-603 - Enable SPI boot option for roc-rk3399-pc

AR-607 - Move Meson64 Current to 5.10.y

AR-609 - Move Mvebu Current to 5.10.y

AR-611 - Switch rockchip64-current to 5.10.y

AR-614 - Upgrade ZFS packages

AR-618 - Upgrade mvebu64 current to 5.10.y

AR-619 - Bump rockchip current to 5.10.y

AR-620 - Enable network link leds for NanoPi R4S by default

AR-622 - Enable DMC for Station-M1 in current and dev

AR-623 - Enable RTC (hym8563) for Station P1 in dev and current

AR-624 - Provide an option to skip autodetection at first login

AR-628 - Bump Meson64 u-boot to 2021.01

AR-630 - Bump Odroid XU4 DEV to 5.10.y

v20.11.10 (2021-01-25)¶

All images rebuild due to torrent system corruption

v20.11.9 (2021-01-23)¶

Broken Nanopi Neo buster image rebuild, adding Station M1 and P1 legacy images, Odroid XU4 update

v20.11.8 (2021-01-17)¶

AR-614 - Upgrade ZFS on Focal and Buster (64bit only) to v2.0.1

v20.11.7 (2021-01-06)¶

AR-605 - Booting troubles on Odroid C4 / HC4

all images were rebuilt - we had a few corrupted ones in previous build

v20.11.6 (2021-01-03)¶

AR-601 - Move sunxi-current to 5.10.y

AR-235 - Implement Device Tree Editor in armbian-config

AR-589 - Add armbian-zsh package

AR-590 - ZRAM Enhancements - decouple swap config from tmp

AR-554 - Fix Odroid N2 Ethernet Failure

AR-556 - Adding vnstat and ZFS support to MOTD

AR-579 - Improve (oh-my)ZSH loading speed

AR-512 - Fix Ethernet for Opi3 and other devices with phymode for kernel 5.10

AR-547 - First login: adding a non-existing keyboard variant

AR-565 - Fix SATA on HC4 is not recognized

AR-595 - Fix Rockpi 4B 1GB not booting

v20.11.5 (2020-12-31)¶

AR-566 - Add Nanopi R4S preview images

v20.11.4 (2020-12-15)¶

Re-adding accidentally removed network driver on Helios64 added OpenHab 3 to the armbian-config software installer

AR-587 - Fix kernel switching for rk3399 family

v20.11.3 (2020-12-12)¶

Bugfix release

AR-559 - First login script - not all locales have UTF8 encoding
AR-163 - Systematically cleanup distribution defaults
AR-206 - Improve memory performance on Renegade (roc-rk3328-cc) in current
AR-472 - Added support for Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy
AR-476 - Add sound to Odroid N2
AR-485 - Improve multicore compilation
AR-487 - Rework download pages
AR-508 - Add Odroid HC4
AR-514 - Download and verify not fully reliable
AR-517 - Mark Bionic builds host as deprecated
AR-525 - Bump Rockchip 32bit to 5.9.y
AR-526 - Move mvebu-dev kernel to 5.9+
AR-546 - Added Pine64 Pinecube
AR-547 - First login: adding a non-existing keyboard variant
AR-548 - mvebu DFS seems to cause system hang under high I/O
AR-551 - Update fan configuration, enable network LED and enable UPS timer
AR-552 - Re-enable UHS SDR104 mode for Helios64 and roc-rk3399-pc
AR-553 - Update builder to retrieve web seeds from mirrors api
AR-556 - Adding vnstat and ZFS support to MOTD
AR-557 - GCC compatibility issues
AR-558 - Switch mvebu current to K5.9
AR-563 - Improve headers compilation
AR-565 - SATA on HC4 is not recognized
AR-568 - Add Orangepizero 2 WIP target
AR-570 - Improper order in getty override.conf
AR-571 - Move Meson64 DEV to 5.10.y

v20.11.1 (2020-12-04)¶

AR-551 - Update fan configuration, enable network LED and enable UPS timer
AR-565 - SATA on HC4 is not recognized Updated Odroid C4/HC4, Helios64, Rockpi 4* images and rockchip64 kernels

v20.11 (2020-11-24)¶

Finished projects

AR-2 - Improving download infrastructure Phase 1
AR-151 - Integrate JMCCs Multimedia script
AR-230 - Decide what to do with TVboxes
AR-412 - Update Odroid XU4 kernels
AR-424 - Improve HTOP config
AR-456 - Upgrading Allwinner u-boot to 2020.10
AR-476 - Add sound to Odroid N2
AR-485 - Improve multicore compilation
AR-508 - Add Odroid HC4
AR-509 - Upgrade meson64 to 5.9.y
AR-510 - Move meson (Odroid C1) to 5.9.y
AR-532 - Move Odroid C4 from legacy u-boot toward mainline

Solved bugs

AR-314 - Links to SHA files at download pages are wrong
AR-372 - Meson64 Reboot failure kernel 5.7
AR-373 - Rock64 no HDMI (must be unplugged)
AR-382 - Fix zram creation on bigger memory devices
AR-391 - Warning a reboot is needed doesn’t go away after reboot
AR-407 - Bug in first login script
AR-417 - HTOP in Bullseye needs higher package version
AR-420 - GPIO SPI patch is failing on Rockchip64
AR-422 - Improper version showing at upgrade
AR-425 - Resize is finished but message doesn’t disappear
AR-428 - Firefox initial config has different location then ESR variant
AR-436 - Rockpi S reports some error in postinst scripts
AR-437 - MOTD cosmetic issue
AR-439 - Automated rebuilds set image status to USER_BUILT
AR-441 - Odroid C4 legacy bootscript problem
AR-452 - Fix first boot locales selection and add desktop lang switching
AR-459 - Missing package libreoffice-style-tango from Bullseye desktop
AR-471 - Mitigate Git server failures
AR-482 - Htop doesn’t show CPU speed to normal user but shows properly to root
AR-484 - Odroid C4 refuse to boot
AR-491 - LEDs on Helios4 not working
AR-493 - Patches are not creating
AR-494 - Fix armbian-hardware-opitimization not being run
AR-505 - armbian-hardware-optimization: eth0 tweak applied before it is appear on /proc/interrupts
AR-527 - Rockchip 32bit sources were removed
AR-528 - Improve creating images from repository
AR-529 - Z28 PRO device tree doesn’t exists in mainline

Closed tasks

AR-284 - Discuss if there is a cleaner way to install Chromium
AR-350 - Switch rock64 to mainline u-boot
AR-351 - Switch rockpro64 to mainline u-boot
AR-363 - Switch mvebu current to K5.8.y
AR-380 - Revisit RTL8812AU driver
AR-387 - Switch from rk3399-bluetooth service to btbcm for loading firmware/patchram in dev/current
AR-388 - XU4 - Introduce new Mem freq scaling patch and re-enable
AR-390 - Add Radxa Rockpi 4C
AR-400 - Enable overlays in rockchip64-legacy
AR-401 - Enable creation of SPI flash u-boot image for ROCK Pi 4
AR-403 - Enable overlays in rk3399-legacy
AR-404 - Switch renegade to mainline u-boot
AR-409 - Move imx6 current kernels to 5.8.y
AR-413 - Improve reliability of Helios64’s eMMC module
AR-415 - Improve reboot reliability for Helios64
AR-416 - Move Rockchip 32bit to 5.8.y
AR-419 - Add dedicated DT for Nanopi Neo3
AR-445 - systemd-journal not rotated with armbian-ramlog
AR-458 - Update board support statuses
AR-461 - Add Armbian to Neofetch
AR-462 - Adapt helios64 device tree name to match upstream Linux
AR-464 - Move Libre Computer Renegade to mainline u-boot
AR-472 - Added support for Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy
AR-473 - Add interactive option to use precompiled packages from Armbian repository
AR-477 - Advanced recovery options for rockchip64 boards
AR-483 - Fix analog (3.5 jack) audio on ROCK Pi 4C
AR-490 - Enable RTC on Odroid N2
AR-495 - Allow building images with kernels 5.8.17+ and 5.9.2+
AR-499 - Enable Watchdog for G12/Odroidn2
AR-504 - Helios64: Switch fusb302 driver to mainline and enable DP over TypeC
AR-511 - Switch rockchip64-current to linux 5.9.y
AR-513 - Move Odroid XU4 kernels up
AR-515 - Upgrade imx6 to 5.9.y
AR-521 - Exchange mv with rsync
AR-522 - Allow setting MTU for Rockchip64’s dwmac interface
AR-523 - enable CONFIG_TARGET_CORE for iSCSI target support
AR-524 - Upgrade rockpis legacy kernel
AR-531 - Check why disabling one update-initramfs breaks Ubuntu initrd making on update

v20.08.22 (2020-11-8)¶

Added WIP images for Odroid HC4 Updated images for Odroid C4, N2, C2, Lafrite, Lepotato, KVIM1

v20.08.13 (2020-10-19)¶

AR-363 - Switch mvebu current to K5.8.y
AR-466 - Enable Recovery button on Helios64
AR-416 - Move Rockchip 32bit to 5.8.y
AR-476 - Add sound to Odroid N2 update all kernels Rebuild images for Helios4, Helios64 and Odroid N2

v20.08.11 (2020-10-16)¶

AR-465 - Helios64 cannot boot from eMMC enable Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy as a CSC build option (need build parameter EXPERT=”yes”) update u-boot loader to 2020.10 on Allwinner platform update all kernels update images for Helios 64 add option to build images from prebuild packages from repository which drastically improves build time in case you don’t need to rebuild kernel

v20.08.8 (2020-10-05)¶

AR-463 - Improve Helios64 Stability, updated images Adapt Helios64 devicetree name to match upstream Linux

v20.08.4 (2020-09-23)¶

AR-399 - Improve Pinebook PRO support, updated images Updated Helios64 images

v20.08.3 (2020-09-21)¶

updated mainline kernel based images to Linux 5.8.10
all other kernels updated to respective latest version
improved htop with showing network status dynamically, GPU temp, improved CPU speed display
fixed usbip for sharing usb over network
fixed Odroid C4 boot script bug; adding normal and higher CPU speeds
added many improvements for Helios64
enabled GPU temperatures in htop for XU4, meson64 (Odroid N2/N2+) and rockchip64/32
fixed initial configuration for Firefox
fixed tx offloading for Rockchip64 NIC’s
move rockchip 32bit to 5.8.y (Tinkerboard / MiQi)
improved RK3399 stability by mingling OPP
fixed a bunch of bugs related to encrypted root filesystem
enabled hardware watchdog support for mvebu64 / Espressobin
cosmetic fixes to motd
enabling I2S and spdif on Nanopi Neo3 by default
fixes wrong memory calculation on ZRAM display
fixing firstlogin bug preventing running xrdp
move Espressobin kernel to 5.8.y
adjust / fix Kali Linux wifi injections patches

Known bugs:

Some Rockpro64 boards have troubles with upgrade
Bananapi M3 eMMC can’t boot from eMMC (solution is available)
H6 stability issues on some boards
RockpiS shows some error on upgrade but upgrade suceeds
4K and audio on mainline based meson64 boards

v20.08 (2020-08-20)¶

Finished projects

AR-45 - Make first login more user friendly
AR-71 - Create a document: How we will use Jira
AR-182 - Unify / merge kernel configs
AR-201 - Introduce CI autotest facility
AR-227 - Move Espressobin current to K5.6
AR-313 - Ability to work in offline mode
AR-320 - Initial support for Rockpi E
AR-324 - Add Rockchip RK322X SoC support
AR-328 - Meson64 move current to 5.7.y
AR-329 - Switch sunxi dev target to kernel 5.7
AR-331 - Enable kernel boot splash as an option
AR-335 - Improve patch making
AR-392 - Add Odroid N2+
AR-402 - Add Helios64

Solved bugs

AR-282 - Rockpi 4B 1Gb doesn’t boot modern kernel / u-boot
AR-295 - Odroid C2: no more USB devices after upgrade
AR-298 - Missing default SElinux policy
AR-303 - Create a download page for BPI M2 zero
AR-305 - K-worker creates load on Allwinner devices
AR-319 - Armbian config failed to switch kernels
AR-330 - Shell check bugs
AR-332 - When making all kernels - building sometimes fails
AR-337 - Odroid XU4 Memcopy Slow on all Kernel 5.x 80MB/sec instead of 370+MB/sec
AR-338 - Bananapi R2 does not boot at all
AR-340 - Fix WiFi on Nanopi M4V2
AR-348 - Confirm RK3399 TcpOffloading bug
AR-352 - Fix Random MAC on H3 boards
AR-354 - Support User Provided EDID Firmware
AR-355 - backport Linux v5.8 fbtft/fb_st7789v invert colors, proper gamma
AR-356 - Building multiple u-boot targets breaks
AR-371 - CPU frequency scaling broken on H6
AR-378 - Increase address room for initial ramdisk
AR-381 - selinux-policy-default missing on Debian Bullseye
AR-393 - Ask for setting locale at first run

Closed tasks

AR-28 - Added new GCC compilers
AR-225 - Introduce PACKAGE_LIST for BOARD and FAMILY
AR-300 - Enable HDMI audio for OrangePi 4
AR-317 - Move Odroid XU4 dev to mainline + patches
AR-318 - Upgrade Odroid XU4 legacy kernel
AR-321 - Upgrade Meson (C1) current to 5.7.y
AR-323 - Allow install to SD NAND for Rockpi S
AR-326 - Make USB3 support of ROCK Pi E on par with other rk3328 boards
AR-327 - Bump imx6 current kernel to 5.7.y
AR-333 - Update Odroid XU4 kernels
AR-334 - Cleanup boot environment files
AR-336 - Add support for cheap 2.5GB USB network dongles
AR-341 - Follow-up N2 CPU Affinity
AR-349 - Update mainline u-boot to v2020.07 for rockchip64 and rk3399
AR-357 - IRQ affinity improvements for G12B
AR-358 - Added initial support for Neo 3
AR-361 - Update Odroid XU4 boot.ini
AR-362 - HDMI sound support for Allwinner A10, A20, A31
AR-364 - Change sunxi legacy to 5.4.y, current to 5.7.y
AR-366 - Move rockchip/64 current to 5.7.y
AR-383 - Upgrades for Tapatalk plugin
AR-389 - Add PACKAGE_LIST_BOARD_REMOVE option

v20.05.7 (2020-07-02)¶

AR-308 - Disable HDMI in u-boot for rk3399 boards
AR-338 - Bananapi R2 does not boot at all
AR-337 - Odroid XU4 Memcopy Slow on all Kernel 5.x 80MB/sec instead of 370+MB/sec Update images for: NanoPC T4, Nanopi M4,Nanopi M4v2, Nanopi Neo4, Orangepi 4, Firefly RK3399, Bananapi R2, Odroid XU4

v20.05.6 (2020-06-19)¶

AR-324 - Add Rockchip RK322X SoC support
AR-320 - Initial support for Rockpi E
AR-323 - Allow install to SD NAND for Rockpi S

v20.05.5¶

never released/skipped

v20.05.4 (2020-06-16)¶

AR-311 - Initrd on Focal can get corrupted followup fix

v20.05.3 (2020-06-10)¶

AR-300 - Enable HDMI audio for OrangePi 4
AR-305 - K-worker creates load on Allwinner devices
AR-282 - Rockpi 4B 1Gb doesn't boot modern kernel / u-boot

v20.05.2 (2020-06-05)¶

AR-294 - Initrd on Focal can get corrupted

v20.05.1 (2020-05-31)¶

Kagu

Finished projects

AR-108 - Upgrade remaining kernels to 5.4.y
AR-158 - Update 3rd party wireless drivers
AR-159 - Switch fake-hwclock to hardware RTC on mvebu family
AR-168 - Add NanoPi R2S board support
AR-180 - Update Wireguard drivers on kernels below 5.4.y
AR-184 - Improve slow booting on Rockchip RK3399 devices
AR-185 - Change download images compression format
AR-190 - Update wireless driver for RTL88x2BU
AR-196 - Upgrade u-boot to 2020.04 where possible
AR-201 - Introduce CI autotest facility
AR-207 - Merge rockpis-dev into rockchip64
AR-208 - Consolidate u-boot variants for mvebu family
AR-210 - Add support for more HDMI resolutions on Rockchip RK3288 devices
AR-215 - Move meson64 dev branch to 5.6.y
AR-221 - Upgrade imx6 current to 5.6.y
AR-222 - Port Docker image building to Ubuntu 20.04
AR-226 - Add Hardkernel Odroid C4 mainline u-boot / kernel
AR-236 - Attach Meson64 CURRENT to 5.6.y
AR-238 - Updating hostapd, PSD and theme package in repository
AR-247 - Revitalise Udoo board
AR-250 - Improve usage of external patches
AR-253 - Add prerm script for headers
AR-254 - Add Banana Pi M2 Zero
AR-257 - Bring Odroid C1 back from the EOL with latest upstream kernel
AR-260 - Add Nanopi A64 board support
AR-261 - Add Rockpi S mainline board support
AR-262 - Move Allwinner development branch to 5.6.y
AR-278 - Add snap free Chromium to Ubuntu Focal
AR-279 - Add Hardkernel Odroid C4 stock kernel

Solved bugs

AR-109 - Upgrade is not done properly on some boards
AR-165 - Instability with Rock64 and Rock PRO
AR-177 - No serial gadget console on Nanopi Neo2 black
AR-181 - Odroid N2 crashes during USB rsync backups
AR-198 - Olimex Lime 2 doesn’t boot from eMMC
AR-204 - CPUfreq defaults missing on update
AR-205 - No sound output with OrangePi 4 in dev and current
AR-211 - Chrony fails to start on Ubuntu Focal
AR-212 - Random MAC on Nanopi R2S
AR-220 - Disable 3D support in Bionic due to broken mesa packages
AR-231 - Unstable stmmac network driver on Meson64
AR-237 - Desktop install on Ubuntu Focal installs Gnome3 desktop
AR-239 - Chrony fails to start on Focal
AR-240 - Broken VFAT kernel upgrade
AR-244 - Thermal throttling on H5 doesn’t work properly
AR-245 - Hostapd doesn’t go up
AR-248 - Odroid C4 CPU speed is limited to 1.5Ghz
AR-249 - Problems with CI testings
AR-251 - Fix kernel 5.7.y packages patch
AR-255 - Fix Debian mirrors URL
AR-263 - Fix audio on Renegade
AR-269 - Add correct CPU regulator configuration for the NanoPI R1
AR-274 - Add missing iozone3 package to the minimal image
AR-277 - Distinguish nightly and stable images at the download pages
AR-286 - Armbian-resize-filesystem fails on first run due to missing fdisk in Bullseye
AR-287 - Make sure cryptsetup-initramfs is installed in any case

Closed tasks

AR-150 - Disable Stretch image creation for Helios4 and Clearfog
AR-157 - Add Ubuntu Focal 20.04 as a supported build host
AR-186 - Blacklist 3D engine on headless images
AR-189 - Move wireless driver for 8189ES from patch to git
AR-195 - Adding Ubuntu 20.04 to all builds
AR-209 - Disable CONFIG_VIDEO_DE2 in u-boot for Allwinner devices
AR-213 - Make manual for .xz images and check their authentication
AR-228 - Enable audio and USB on Nanopi A64
AR-229 - Bump with AUFS for DEV kernels
AR-232 - Switch Odroid XU4 DEV branch to Libreelec branch
AR-234 - Disable ZSH update prompt on every two weeks
AR-242 - Enable SELinux
AR-252 - Improve source code cleaning
AR-258 - Enables PCIE PHY with Mezzanine NVME
AR-259 - Add mp8859 regulator to current for RK3399-ROC-PC
AR-264 - Enable RTL8723DS WiFI driver
AR-265 - Remove Xenial from supported host OS
AR-266 - Fix dependency for native building on Linux Mint and Debian Buster
AR-267 - Enable Cedrus video acceleration on Allwinner kernels
AR-268 - Add higher clock for Allwinner H6
AR-270 - Add support for alternate console UARTs in Allwinner H3 u-boot
AR-271 - Lower DDR clock rate to 504MHz for H5 boards
AR-280 - Update CONF, CSC and WIP statuses according to support level
AR-285 - Improve thermal throttling on Allwinner H6
AR-288 - Add vendor name to the board config files

v20.02.12 (2020-04-27)¶

Added preview images for Odroid C4

v20.02.8 (2020-03-26)¶

update kernels with upstream versions, synchronise and test kernel sources download

v20.02.7 (2020-03-26)¶

Updated images for Rockpi S, Odroid XU4 and FriendlyARM Nanopc T3, T3+, M3, Fire3

v20.02.6 (2020-03-23)¶

Updated images for Rockpi S and Orangepi 4
Updated armbian-config (fixed OMV installer)

v20.02.5 (2020-03-19)¶

Updated images for Orangepi 4, Bananapi and Rockpi S

v20.02.4 (2020-03-18)¶

Added images for Nanopi R2S and Bananapi M2 Zero
Kernel update for Odroud XU4

v20.02.3 (2020-02-21)¶

Updating images for Le potato, Khadas Vim1,La Frite, Nanopik2 S905, Odroid N2/C2 - fixing audio
Updating images for Orangepi 4 - boot loader problem

v20.02.2 (2020-02-18)¶

Chiru

Tasks

AR-46 - Support for single function run
AR-47 - Adding Docker shell support
AR-49 - Move sunxi kernel to 5.4.y
AR-79 - Check and adjust AUFS patch for 5.4.y
AR-80 - Move imx6 to 5.4.y
AR-81 - Enable Meson64 DEV at 5.4.y
AR-82 - Move Mvebu64 / Espressobin dev kernel to 5.4.y
AR-84 - Move rockchip64 current to 5.4.y
AR-85 - Adjusted Sunvell R69
AR-90 - Add support for Nanopi M4 v2
AR-92 - Enable stable MAC address from cpuid on rk3399
AR-96 - Update Xradio wireless driver
AR-97 - Tag supported builds properly at download pages
AR-98 - Enable missing Kuberenetes kernel dependency
AR-100 - Add Debian Bullseye and Ubuntu Focal
AR-112 - Enabled internal WLAN on RockPi S
AR-113 - Install wireguard tools only when selected
AR-114 - Enable audio codec on Orangepi Win
AR-115 - Add drivers for Realtek RTL8811CU and RTL8821C chipsets
AR-116 - Remove annoying debug message filling logs on 8189es
AR-117 - Add Pine H64 model B
AR-124 - Enable wireless on Rockpi-S
AR-127 - Refactoring wifi patches
AR-128 - Adding WIP support for Pinebook PRO
AR-129 - Move NanopiM4 V2 and Pine H64 under supported
AR-134 - Update AUFS version on Odroid XU4 and Nanopi Fire3/T3/T3+
AR-138 - Update RK3399 legacy kernel (Nanopi M4, T4, Neo4) to latest upstream version
AR-139 - Nanpi R1 - move primary serial console to ttyS1 which is on the chassis
AR-143 - Create OpenHab installation instructions for their official documentation
AR-146 - Update rockchip-legacy to most recent upstream kernel version
AR-147 - Enable analogue audio on Allwinner H6
AR-148 - [ mvebu-current ] Fix cpufreq (dynamic frequency scaling)
AR-149 - [ mvebu-current ] Fix pcie issues
AR-153 - Enable USB3 for Rock64/Renegade with RK3328 on mainline kernel
AR-154 - Add analogue audio driver to Allwinner H6
AR-155 - Enable Cedrus video acceleration support on Allwinner boards
AR-167 - Add upstream patches for Odroid XU4
AR-172 - USB3 Support for Rockchip

Bugs

AR-74 - User patches directories not created
AR-76 - Rockchip64 missing CPU_MIN variable
AR-77 - Wrong board name variable for Orangepi RK 3399
AR-83 - Packaging patch broken for kernel 5.4.y
AR-86 - CPU freq scaling for H6 doesn't work in K5.4
AR-88 - Banana Pi M3 does not boot
AR-89 - Tinkerboard S doesn't start from eMMC
AR-91 - Broken Allwinner overlays
AR-94 - Espressobin v7 with 2gb of ram fail to boot
AR-102 - Missing packaging patch for Rockpis legacy kernel
AR-103 - PPA way of adding sources are failing on Ubuntu
AR-104 - 32bit rust compiler doesn't run new kernels
AR-105 - Orangepi Zero Plus 2 doesn't boot
AR-106 - Wireguard breaks building on 5.4.y
AR-107 - Improve compiler and rootfs download process
AR-110 - Missing Bionic image for Nanopi Neo Plus2
AR-111 - Some versions of Orangepi Win does not boot modern kernel
AR-118 - NanoPi M4V2 ethernet partialy broken in one side
AR-123 - OpenHAB2 installation is failing
AR-125 - Wireless driver for 8188EUS breaks on K4.14
AR-126 - Nanopi M3/Fire3/PC3 compilation breaks
AR-130 - Instability with various A64 boards
AR-131 - Add support for 3rd version of Pinebook A64 panel
AR-133 - Odroid XU4 legacy kernel images instability
AR-141 - Odroid XU4 current with kernel 5.4.y seems unstable
AR-142 - Cryptsetup disk encryption build feature broken
AR-144 - Tinkerboard break booting
AR-145 - Missing HDMI audio on H3 boards
AR-152 - Display issues with Bionic Mesa update
AR-164 - Htop package does not build in qemu under Ubuntu Focal 20.04
AR-166 - Rootfs cache number creates a window of 12h when users are forced to rebuild cache
AR-170 - Wireless not connecting for SBCs
AR-171 - Fix broken loading process on MiQi
AR-173 - Fix makefile of kernel headers 4.4.210 for rk3399
AR-174 - Teres Keyboard Not Working

Stories

AR-48 - Bump u-boot to 2020.01 on RK3399 boards
AR-156 - WIP orangepi 4 preliminary support

v19.11.3 (2019-11-20)¶

Tasks

AR-1 - Adding support category for distributions
AR-4 - Remove Allwinner legacy
AR-5 - Drop Udoo family and move Udoo board into newly created imx6 family
AR-9 - Rename sunxi-next to sunxi-legacy
AR-10 - Rename sunxi-dev to sunxi-current
AR-11 - Adding Radxa Rockpi S support
AR-13 - Rename rockchip64-default to rockchip64-legacy
AR-14 - Add rockchip64-current as mainline source
AR-15 - Drop Rockchip 4.19.y NEXT, current become 5.3.y
AR-16 - Rename RK3399 default to legacy
AR-17 - Rename Odroid XU4 next and default to legacy 4.14.y, add DEV 5.4.y
AR-18 - Add Odroid N2 current mainline
AR-19 - Move Odroid C1 to meson family
AR-20 - Rename mvebu64-default to mvebu64-legacy
AR-21 - Rename mvebu-default to mvebu-legacy
AR-22 - Rename mvebu-next to mvebu-current
AR-23 - Drop meson64 default and next, current becomes former DEV 5.3.y
AR-24 - Drop cubox family and move Cubox/Hummingboard boards under imx6
AR-26 - Adjust motd
AR-27 - Enabling distribution release status
AR-28 - Added new GCC compilers
AR-29 - Implementing Ubuntu Eoan
AR-30 - Add desktop packages per board or family
AR-31 - Remove (Ubuntu/Debian) distribution name from image filename
AR-32 - Move arch configs from configuration.sh to separate arm64 and armhf config files
AR-33 - Revision numbers for beta builds changed to day_in_the_year
AR-34 - Patches support linked patches
AR-35 - Break meson64 family into gxbb and gxl
AR-36 - Add Nanopineo2 Black
AR-38 - Upgrade option from old branches to new one via armbian-config
AR-41 - Show full timezone info
AR-43 - Merge Odroid N2 to meson64
AR-44 - Enable FORCE_BOOTSCRIPT_UPDATE for all builds
AR-57 - New kernel feature requested CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DRBD
AR-60 - Modified logrotate.service
AR-63 - Docker maintenance features

Bugs

AR-25 - Armbian resize stopped working in Ubuntu 19.10 or higher
AR-40 - When changing console layout it does not change
AR-51 - Prevent configuring locale
AR-52 - Broken desktop install
AR-54 - Upstream package name changed
AR-55 - Wireless driver remove patch for Odroid XU4 broke down
AR-56 - Missing CPU regulator
AR-58 - Troubles with wireless on Nanopi DUO & Opi Zero
AR-59 - Compressed files are getting back to /var/log
AR-62 - No HDMI sound on various meson64 boards
AR-64 - Docker require root
AR-68 - Broken Ethernet on Pine64+

Stories

AR-61 - Adding support for LOCAL_MIRROR
AR-65 - Moving configs under userpatches
AR-66 - Enable build system torrent download by default
AR-67 - Install Docker when we want to build under Docker
AR-69 - Use kernel command line instead of a patch
AR-70 - Enable Lima kernel driver on meson64
AR-73 - Enable PCI on Rockpi 4 and overlay for GEN2 speed

v5.98 (2019-10-09)¶

changed ntptime with chrony
fixed serial console on several hosts
added FriendlyARM ZeroPi
enabled gadgets on rockchip64
bumped RK3399 boards to latest kernel, recreate images and repository
merged odroidxu4 down to default since we only have one kernel
fixed Cubox images, move them to stock kernel
fixed low Synaptic search speed

Build script:

script configurations were migrated to userpatches
added option to create minimal images with around 500Mb in size BUILD_MINIMAL=”yes”
added initial support of MCIMX7SABRE board (CSC)
updates for xt-q8l-v10 (CSC)
Docker is installed automatically if one want use it (Debian based build host only)
refactor build all images scripting that images can be build in full parallel mode
added one file for storing which combinations shell be made for each board
replaced Etcher with dd + verify for directly burning images when done
cleaned initial config and remove confusing advanced options out

v5.92 (2019-08-02)¶

updated sunxi NEXT (4.19.63) and DEV (5.2.5) kernels
updated htop application to show cpu speed and temperature (buster / disco)

v5.91 (2019-07-31)¶

created new images for Helios4 and Clearfog Pro/Base
moved mvebu DEFAULT, NEXT and DEV branch to next kernel (LTS) and U-boot version
fixed armada_thermal sensor reading, adjusted Helios4 fancontrol configuration
fixed ODT on data signals of DDR RAM for Armada A388 SOMs
recreated Armbian Buster images due to a bug in Network manager which in some cases failed to initiate network connection

Armbian-config:

added Emby installation
updated Plex install to use official repo
added netmask-to-CIDR function for manual IP configuration

v5.90 (2019-07-07)¶

added Armbian Buster images for all boards
added Macchiatobin Doubleshot CSS target and images
added images with test kernel v5.1.y for: Orangepi3, Lite2, One+, PineH64, Odroid C1, Teres, Pinebook
added wireless drivers for 88x2bu
added eMMC support for Nanopi K2 (booting from doesn’t work yet)
added dual w1 overlay for meson64 family
updated wireless drivers for Realtek 8811, 8812, 8814 and 8821
updated wireless drivers for rtl8188eus & rtl8188eu & rtl8188etv
added latest Wireguard driver
enable eMMC on Orangepi Win Plus
enable Bluetooth on Tinkerboard, Nanopi4, Rockpi 4 CLI images
improved ALSA config on Tinkerboard
fixed Bluetooth on Nanopi M4/Neo4/T4 and Rockpi4
fixed wireless drivers on OPi3 & Lite2
fixed temperature readout on Allwinner H5 boards
fixed SPI related bug on Allwinner 5.1.y kernel
fixed HDMI output and bump kernel to 5.1.y on imx6 boards
fixed eMMC install, add rootdev= to armbianEnv if missing
fixed A10/A20 SATA write speed
set default build target from Debian Stretch to Buster for all boards
changed CPU clock back to 1.5/1.8Ghz defaults on boards with RK3399 to minimise thermal throttling
changed motd console welcome text to: “Welcome to Debian Stretch with Armbian Linux 5.1.6-sunxi”
changed display manager to lightdm by default and remove nodm completely
changed u-boot for A64 to upstream sources
changed RK3399 to U-boot 2019.04
added URL to the build script and commit hash to /etc/armbian-release file
added synaptic package manager and on-board keyboard to the desktop base
added “logout” to the panel/menu
added normal users to additional groups: disk tty users games
updated all kernels with upstream
updated ATF and bootloader on Espressobin, supporting all versions

Build script:

added mirrors for speed-up building in China mainland
added support for download compilers and rootfs cache via torrent network
added new output image compression option (xz)
enabled Debian Buster and Ubuntu Disco (unsupported) targets
few Docker building improvements, caching image
replace curl with aria2
Linaro compilers update to 2019.02

Armbian-config:

added Gimp installation
added enable/disable Avahi
updated OMV installer, OMV5 preparations
enable screen resolution changer for Odroid N2
enable CPU speed and governor adjustment

v5.87 (2019-05-26)¶

added support for Odroid N2, Nanopi R1, Nanopi Duo2
enabled nightly images for Orangepi3, One+, Lite2, PineH64, Rock64pro, RockPi4b
enabled nigtly Buster and Disco images for Le Potato
recompiled all images and pushed update where updates are known to work (sunxi, sunxi64, meson64, …)
improved SATA write speed on A20 chips for up to 300%
fixed thermal throtling for H5 devices
mainline u-boot moved 2019.04
most development kernels moved to 5.1.y
added separate DT for espressobinv7, updated boot loader
enable WoL for eth0 on Helios4

Build script:

added Debian Buster and Ubuntu Disco (WIP)
improved building under Docker. Source code is not copied to docker image, caching image
Linaro compilers update to 2019.02
fixed incomplete cleaning of the source code

Armbian-config:

fixed kernel changing
fixed sources download
fixed Hass.IO and TVheadend install
added menu driven CPU frequency/governor adjustement
improved two-factor authentication
added meson64 and rockchip to overlay/hardware configuration
improved hostapd management

Infrastructure:

main download server has been hooked to 10GbE connection.
added web/http seeds to torrent download. Torrent download could/should fully utilize your download capacity.
major forum upgrade (v4.4.3)
added another IPV6 capable EU mirror https://mirrors.dotsrc.org

v5.76 (2019-02-11)¶

remove Exagear Desktop

v5.75 (2019-02-10)¶

added updated driver for Realtek 8811, 8812, 8814 and 8821 chipsets
added Wireguard support to remaining kernels (except lower than 3.10)
images rebuild with latest upstream sources, mainline u-boot was bumped to 2018.11

v5.74 (2019-01-31)¶

fixing systemd related bug found in sunxi legacy 3.4.y kernels

v5.73 (2019-01-29)¶

much faster armbian-install operations. Thanks to @dedalodaelus
added support for @wireguard on all kernels higher than 3.10.y
fixed drivers for popular DVB tuner S960 (all kernels)
fixed bug in wireless drivers on Cubietruck, BananpiPRO, Bananapi+
fixed AP mode on Orangepi PC+, Prime, One, .. when using kernel 4.19.y
added prolific USB-to-USB bridges in mvebu-next/dev
added nftables masquerade in mvebu64-next
added MD raid support for SUNXI64
upgrade bugfix for Helios4
updated hostapd to 2.7
fixed 1512MHz OPP on Renegade
fixed DRM crashing for rockchip64
mainline u-boot bumped to 2018.11 (update goes manually from armbian-install utility)
added testing images for Orangepi RK3399 and Radxa Rockpi 4B

v5.72 (2019-01-16)¶

added additional repository mirror (updated armbian-config)
fixed Tinkerboard DTB in repository and images rebuild

v5.71 (2019-01-16)¶

updated images for Odroid C2, Lepotato and Nanopik2-S905 due to this bug

v5.70 (2019-01-12)¶

sunxi-next and sunxi64-next were moved from 4.14.y to 4.19.y (remake of all AW images)
better DVFS on H3/H5/A64, enabled higher cpu speed.
added overlay support for Tinkerboard/rockchip next and kernel upped to 4.19.y
updated next kernel for Odroid XU4 to 4.19.y
updated next kernel for Odroid C2, Lepotato and Nanopik2-S905 to 4.19.y with overlay support
fixed poweroff on H5
H5/A64 lost experimental status,
upgraded images and upstream/bugfix kernel upgrade for Rock64, Renegade,
u-boot update is moved from automated to manual (armbian-config) to minimize boot related troubles
added two repository mirrors: China and France (armbian-config -> Personal -> Mirror)
changed switching to alternative kernels from armbian-config. It is possible to select a direct version and it only replaces kernel (safer)
first official build for Olimex Teres
mainline kernel builds for: Pine64, Pine64so, Olinuxino A64, OrangepiWin
added more download variants for Rock64, Renegade, Tritium H3&H5
updated images for Z28PRO, Bananapi PRO, Espressobin, Olimex Micro, Lime, Udoo, Bananapi M2, Bananapi M2U,

v5.68 (2018-12-30)¶

updated Espressobin images, kernel updated to 4.19.y

v5.67 (2018-11-26)¶

updated Helios4 images
added experimental mainline kernel images for Pinebook and Pinebook 1080p

v5.67 (2018-11-12)¶

updated images for Bananapi R2 with eMMC install support.

v5.66 (2018-11-08)¶

added Mediatek MT7623 family.
added images for Bananapi R2 with kernel 4.19.y without official support.

v5.66 (2018-11-07)¶

removing Odroid C2 official support, drop its default 3.16.y kernel from build engine and merge with the meson64 family.
attach meson64 dev to 4.19.y
drop Udoo Neo completly, drop Udoo Quad default and dev kernel.
Odroid XU4: drop kernel 3.10.y, default branch is upgraded to offical 4.14.y, next becomes vanilla 4.19.y

v5.65 (2018-11-06)¶

Cubox-i/Hummigboard: drop kernel 3.14.y and move 4.14.y to default, next becomes 4.19.y, dev 4.19.y with a mainline u-boot

v5.64 (2018-10-09)¶

updated images and packages for Helios4.
added images for Nanopi Neo4.

v5.63 (2018-10-08)¶

updated images for Helios4 with SPI booting support.
updated armbian-config. Added advanced ZSH shell install with most used plugins and tmux.

v5.62 (2018-10-01)¶

updated armbian-config

v5.61 (2018-09-26)¶

updated armbian-config,
fixed Chromium on Debian builds with a workaround. We are overwriting package with last known working one. It will show some error on startup which is safe to ignore. This workaround will fade out with Chromium upstream update.

v5.60 (2018-09-19)¶

Changes overview:

General:

Ubuntu Xenial was replaced with Bionic unless kernel was too old for the change,
Debian Jessie becomes EOL and its building is not maintained anymore while you will still receive kernel updates,
Emergency swap file creation is disabled by default since we use compressed memory (ZRAM) as an alternative,
vm.swappiness has been changed from 0 to 100 (if you run databases on your board you might want to revert this change in /etc/sysctl.conf),
RAM logging also uses ZRAM now and rotates logs automagically,
all images were rebuilt, except boards for which support ended,
significantly lighter - browser only - desktop images (< 1.5G),
fixed hanging on headers installation,
install boot script (BSP package) if not present. This fixes upgrade or kernel switching problems,
Proper bind mount directory when installing to SATA/USB and booting from SD,
update for wireless drivers 8812/11/14AU, 8188EU and AUFS,
Bugfix when a temperature is not present or readings are invalid,
Also showing bridge IP addresses in MOTD,
storing package list compressed - saves 50-70Mb,
enlarging automated apt-get update and purge intervals,
smaller overhead for CLI images,
improved alternative kernel switching,
stop setting Google’s DNS server as default for privacy reasons.

Family:

sunxi and sunxi64, u-boot was bumped to 2018.05, NEXT branch was updated to the latest 4.14.y, DEV is attached to 4.18.y + fixed overlay support,
mvebu64, default BSP kernel was upgraded to 4.14.y, NEXT to 4.18.y,
odroidc1, experimental NEXT kernel branch was attached to 4.18.y,
odroidc2 kernel was merged with meson64 on the source level,
meson64 u-boot was pushed to 2018.05, a default was updated to the latest 4.14.y, NEXT to 4.18.y,
rk3288, u-boot was pushed to 2018.05, legacy kernel cleaned and fixed after upstream troubles, NEXT branch was updated to the latest 4.14.y,
rockchip64, rk3399 was split into rk3399 for Friendly ARM boards and rockchip64 for Rock64 and RockPro, Ayufan repository. Merging is postponed for the future,
s5p6818 family support added NEXT branch was updated to the latest 4.14.y,
mvebu, NEXT branch was updated to latest 4.14.y, DEV attached to 4.18.y,
fixed randomly failing X server on imx6 family,

Board:

added WIP support for Firefly RK3399, Lime A64, Renegade, Rockpro64, Olimex Teres
added experimental images for Bananapi M3 and Cubietruck+,
adeed support for: Tinkerboard S, Rock64, Orangepi Zero Plus, Nanopi Neo Core2, Nanopi M4,
added NEO 1.1 regulator overlay,
added Helios4 device tree with FAN control for modern kernel,
enabled SPI access on Espressobin,
updated SPI boot firmware on Espressobin (18.09.1) with many fixes and support for booting from USB, SATA, eMMC or SD,
added Tinkerboard S DC-IN voltage to armbianmonitor,
fixed network interface initialization,
fixed clock drift on Bananapi boards,
enabled concurrent AP/STA mode on Tinkerboard,
improved support for NanoPi Fire 3 (added SPU1705, DVFS, thermal tables, etc.),
fixed network crashing on high load. Affected: Odroid C1/C2, Le Potato kernel 4.18.y,
fixed wireless, eMMC and Bluetooth on (unsupported) Z28 PRO and changed boot order,
fixed eMMC install on NanoPC T3+ and Docker dependencies on Fire3, M3, NanoPC T3+,
added eMMC and DVFS support on Espressobin mainline kernel,
ported Tinkerboard UMS to modern u-boot,
enabled 1392 MHz cpufreq OPP on all RK3328 devices,
enabled 1992/1512MHz cpufreq OPP on all RK3399 devices,
added eMMC to OlinuXino A64 kernel and u-boot,
added Sunvell R69 CSC target,
OrangepiWin: fixed BT,
fixed ethernet on (unsupported) Bananapi M64.

Build script:

changed recommended build host to Bionic, Xenial still supported for everything except building Bionic images,
added support for burning image directly to SD card when your build is done by using Etcher for CLI,
added support for making LUKS encrypted root images, parameters: CRYPTROOT_ENABLE=yes, CRYPTROOT_PASSPHRASE=unlockpass,
fixed building under Docker, bumped to Bionic host,
added building Bionic and block building it for images with too old kernels,
added multibranch support (LIB_TAG).

Infrastructure:

build machine main SSD and memory upgrade, switched from bare metal Ubuntu Xenial to fully optimsed Debian KVM server, free build capacity is avaliable for any armbian related activity upon request,
download server drive capacity and download speed upgrade, IPV6,
geo load balancing for repository and download server is under testing,
improved repository management. Possibility to add packages via Github,
introducing new internal parameter, example: BUILD_ALL=”yes” REBUILD_IMAGES=”bananapi,udoo,rock64” to specify which images need rebuilding,
main torrent server cleanup, removed deprecated images,
creating report https://beta.armbian.com/buildlogs/report.html when building all kernels. Prepared to include simple per board testing report where exists https://github.com/armbian/testings.

Known bugs:

modern kernel support on A64 boards is mainly broken.

v5.59 (2018-08-18)¶

rebuilt images for Espressobin with kernel 4.18.y, Nanopc T4

v5.58 (2018-08-13)¶

rebuilt images for Bananapi, Bananapi Pro, Bananapi+, Odroid C2, Odroid XU4
updated repository for Odroid C2/XU4, changed NEXT from 4.9.y to 4.14.y

v5.58 (2018-08-13)¶

rebuilt images for Bananapi, Bananapi Pro, Bananapi+

v5.57 (2018-08-11)¶

added Bionic desktop and Stretch CLI images for RK3399 powered Nanopc T4

v5.56 (2018-08-10)¶

rebuilt images for Pinebook. Added Bionic build

v5.55 (2018-08-09)¶

rebuilt images for Orangepi One+, Orangepi Lite 2 and Pine H64. Enabled USB3, network, THS, DVFS, higher frequencies, HDMI on 4.18.y DEV branch images.

v5.55 (2018-08-03)¶

added Stretch and Bionic mainline kernel images for Odroid C1 (testing),
rebuilt images for Bananapi M3 (fixed ethernet)

v5.54 (2018-07-25)¶

updated images for Odroid C2, Nanopi M3, Nanopi Fire 3 and NanoPC T3+, Espressobin, Cubox-i/HB and Le potato
added preview images without end user support for Bananapi M3,Cubietruck+ and Bananapi M2 Berry.

v5.53 (2018-07-23)¶

Z28PRO images updated. Fixed wireless and Bluetooth
FriendlyARM Nanopi K2 S905 images updated. Fixed ethernet problems.
FriendlyARM Nanopi K1+ images updated. Fixed HDMI out and wireless

v5.51 (2018-07-04)¶

Helios4 Stretch and Bionic images update

v5.50 (2018-06-28)¶

Espressobin images rebuild and repository update, default 4.4.138, next 4.17.3, dev 4.18.RC, hardware crypto support in 4.17.y, zram and zswap
Odroid C2 bugfix update

v5.49 (2018-06-28)¶

Amlogic Meson64 family (Odroid C2, Lepotato and FriendlyARM K2 S905) were merged into one kernel. Default images comes with kernel 4.14.52, next with 4.17.3 and DEV with 4.18.RC, updated boot scripts, implemented latest kernel bug fixes
updated kernels, desktop packages and armbian config on the stable repository (apt update & upgrade)

v5.48 (2018-06-26)¶

added nightly images for Odroid C2 with 4.16.y (NEXT) and 4.18.y (DEV) and hopefully fixed ethernet driver

v5.47 (2018-06-22)¶

Odroid C2 images rebuild. Legacy kernel was upgraded to 3.16.57, next to 4.14.51, u-boot to 2018.05
Added Tritium H5

v5.46 (2018-06-20)¶

Added Olimex Teres nightly builds
Added FriendlyARM Nanopi K1 plus

v5.46 (2018-06-06)¶

Added Orange Pi Lite 2 and One plus nightly builds

v5.45 (2018-05-23)¶

Orangepi Zero+ images rebuild

v5.44 (2018-05-10)¶

Espressobin images were rebuilt and moved under stable. Kernel 4.14.40, Stretch, Xenial and Bionic. Fixed bootloader, ath10 wireless card support
added initial Bionic storage to the main apt repository
Cubox-i / Hummingboard bugfix update to 4.16.y and images rebuild
Odroid C2 images rebuild

v5.41 (2018-02-10)¶

fixed LED driver on Helios4
bugfix update on sunxi/sunxi64 kernel. Updated to 4.14.18
kernel update for MVEBU next (4.14.18 and default 4.4.115) for Clearfog and Helios4. Upstream fixes,AUFS and Realtek 881yAU drivers update

v5.40 (2018-02-05)¶

fixed eMMC support on Odroid C2 NEXT, kernel 4.14.y
updated PWM driver on Helios4
kernel update for MVEBU next (Clearfog, Helios4)

v5.38 (2018-01-29)¶

updated all images
added H3/H5 testing images with kernel 4.14.y
added Nanopi M3/T3+/Fire testing image
fixed Bluetooth on Orangepi Win
main repository update with recent kernel on all NEXT builds

v5.37 (2018-01-23)¶

bugfix release
armbianmonitor -u fix
setting cronjob permissions
replace broken u-boot packages on A20 boards
updated utilities: hostapd, sunxi-tools, armbian-config
updated images: Bananapi, PRO, M2, BeelinkX2, Clearfog,Cubieboard2, Cubietruck, Cubox-i/HB, Espressobin, Helios4

v5.36 (2017-12-03)¶

bugfix release

v5.35 (2017-11-25)¶

mainline kernel updated to 4.13.y
mainline u-boot updated to v2017.09
added new sunxi Device Tree overlays, fixed and improved old overlays
Micro-USB g_serial console is enabled by default on most small Allwiner based boards
Olimex Lime2 and Micro: merging eMMC and normal versions
Odroid C2: next and dev branches migrated to mainline u-boot
Odroid XU4: added dev branch, next branch migrated to mainline u-boot
Clearfog: added dev branch with mainline u-boot
added supports for 7” RPi display to Tinkerboard with legacy kernel
All mainline kernels: added Realtek 8811AU/8812AU/8814AU USB wireless driver with monitor mode and frame injection
All boards: added kernel source packages to the repository (Package names linux-source-${BRANCH}-${LINUXFAMILY}, i.e. linux-source-sunxi-next)
Kernel headers are no longer installed by default to new images
Additional out of tree drivers and USB Redirector are no longer installed by default to new images
Switching from emergency swap to zram on new Ubuntu Xenial images
New hardware support (stable/supported images): NanoPi Duo, Orange Pi R1, Pinebook
New hardware support (experimental): Le Potato, NanoPi NEO 2, Orange Pi Zero Plus, Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 (H5)
sunxi mainline u-boot: reenabled USB keyboard support and disabled stopping the boot sequence with any key - autoboot now can be aborted with

Desktop images:

xterm was replaced with full featured xfce terminal,
added memory profile caching for Chromium,
added OpenVPN connector,
shortcuts to armbian-config, support and donate were moved to menu,
default icon theme was changed to lighter one (Numix),
fixed login greeter theme,
changed wallpaper.
changed CMA handling on Allwinner legacy kernels

armbian-config:

was splitted from board support packages to a new package armbian-config
managing board hardware configurations, hotspot, Bluetooth, SSH server
freezing/unfreezing kernel upgrade
switching between stable and beta builds,
switching between alternative kernels,
installing/uninstalling kernel headers,
changing timezone, locales, hostname,
running diagnostic tools,
enabling/disabling RDP server,
3rd party software installer: Samba, OMV, Pi hole, Transmission, …

Build script:

added Debian Stretch
most tweaks moved from inline files to separate files in board support package
firmware blobs moved to a separate repository
disabled distcc in extra software compilation process due to toolchain compatibility issues

Known problems

Allwinner A20/sun7i legacy boards. Changed CMA settings prevents playing video. You need to add cma=96M to kernel command line

v5.34 (2017-10-18)¶

bugfix Odroid XU4/HC1 image rebuild due to broken USB install on kernel 4.9.x
added Le Potato and Orange Pi Zero testing image (mainline kernel)
Tinkerboard, MiQi and Pinebook images rebuilt

v5.33 (2017-09-24)¶

Odroid XU4/HC1 images were rebuilt.

v5.33 (2017-09-21)¶

Tinkerboard and MiQi images were rebuilt. Rockchip legacy kernel was updated to 4.4.88 and mainline (NEXT) to 4.13.3.

v5.32 (2017-06-23)¶

bugfix release due to broken crypto functions on kernel 4.11.x

v5.31 (2017-06-15)¶

bugfix release due to network failure on some A10 / A20 boards

End of support notice

Following boards are no longer receiving support and updates since this version:

Cubieboard (Allwinner A10) - not enough hardware samples to maintain support
Lamobo R1 (Allwinner A20) - hardware design flaws, poor software support for the onboard switch
Olimex Lime A10

v5.30 (2017-06-14)¶

mainline kernel updated to 4.11
mainline u-boot updated to v2017.05
Firefox was replaced with Chromium (desktop images)
sunxi mainline configuration: added Device Tree overlays support (new images only)
sunxi mainline configuration: added armbian-add-overlay helper for compiling and activating DT overlays (new images only)
log2ram: fixed saving /var/log contents on shutdown
new hardware support (stable/supported images): Xunlong Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 (H3), ASUS TinkerBoard, MiQi
reworked package updates MOTD script to speed up the login process
added config file /etc/default/armbian-motd for disabling MOTD components
added armbian-config dialog-based configuration program (WIP)
Banana Pi M2: fixed HDMI video output
Clearfog: adjusted temperature readout
i.MX6 mainline: enabled support for HDMI audio and PCIe bus

End of support notice

Following boards are no longer receiving support and updates since this version:

Orange Pi (Allwinner A20) - no hardware samples, out of stock
Orange Pi Mini (Allwinner A20) - no hardware samples, out of stock
LeMaker Guitar (Actions S500)
Roseapple Pi (Actions S500)

v5.26, v5.27 (2017-02-24)¶

security update for most kernels (packages only)
fixes for hostapd configuration

v5.25 (2017-02-02)¶

armbian-install expanded functionality: you can partition destination and choose file-system type: ext2, ext3, ext4 and BTRFS (BTRFS requires kernel 4.4+)
added new boards: Clearfog Base, Lime2 eMMC, Lime A33, NanoPi M1+, OrangePi Zero, OrangePi PC2 (mainline only, experimental)
new default kernel for Clearfog(s), changed kernel family to “mvebu” to avoid conflicts
disabled wireless power management by default to improve performance with certain drivers
added wireless drivers to mainline kernels: OrangePi Zero, Neo Air
implemented initrd loading support for all boards
moved all images to single ext4 partition scheme
changed default wallpaper, startup icon, shadows to windows on desktop builds
Firefox web cache moved to memory
added g_serial driver to boards without a network connector, working on both kernel (Opi Zero,Opi Lite,FA Neo Air)
added “Software boutique” application installer on desktop builds (currently not working properly on arm64)
added per board patching option
added u-boot video driver and boot logo to H3 based boards
added simplefb video driver (HDMI only) to mainline H3 kernel
updated MALI driver on H3 platform, fixed problems on 2GB boards
changed Ethernet switch driver on Lamobo R1 to DSA based one (mainline kernel)
fixed soft cursor (CLI) for H3 legacy and Odroid C2
expand and adjust multiple kernel configurations based on user requests
adjusted sunxi boot script to support booting in SPI flash + USB storage scenario (w/o the SD card)
dropped support for Debian Wheezy and Ubuntu Trusty releases
sunxi mainline kernel was updated to 4.9.x, some dev kernels to 4.10
added log2ram (Ramlog alternative) to default installation
changed first run logic, disabled forced automatic reboot
changed new user account creation logic, disabled forced reboot on user creation failure

v5.24¶

this version is not released, it was used for the nightly or user-built images

v5.23 (2016-10-23)¶

fixed bug in armbian-install
fixed u-boot update bug on Allwinner platform

Known problems:

Lamobo R1 fails to boot upon upgrade

v5.22 (2016-10-22)¶

fixed eMMC install on Odroid C2
firmware package was splitted into minimal (default) and full versions
patched Dirty COW exploit on all kernels
added Odroid XU4 mainline kernel image
added Olimex A33 mainline kernel image
added Overlay FS for Cubox, Udoo and Udoo Neo
booting problems fixed on more boards
updated wireless driver on M2+ (dhd)
updated driver for OV5640 on sun8i default kernel
sunxi-next kernel version updated to 4.8.4
BananaPi M1+ now uses upstream DTB file sun7i-a20-bananapi-m1-plus.dtb, boot script adjusting may be required for existing images

Desktop images:

prebuilt mpv and FFmpeg were removed in favor of providing only configuration files
fixed an issue with video brightness on A10/A20 based boards

Build script:

DEBUG_MODE was renamed to CREATE_PATCHES
GLshim was moved to a private directory, it can be activated for selected applications by changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Known problems:

eMMC install fails (will be fixed in bugfix update)
H3 development kernel (4.8.4) update fails to boot
C2 upgrade hangs on compiling headers (Jessie)

v5.20 (2016-09-16)¶

added FriendlyARM Neo legacy and mainline images (experimental)
added Orange Pi PC+ mainline kernel (experimental)
added Pine64 / Pine64+ images with legacy kernel
added UUID support for NAND/SATA/USB installer
added desktop images for Cubox(s) / Hummingboard(s) with mainline kernel
enabled MIDI sequencer and snd-rawmidi-seq in H3 legacy kernel
added H3 consumption tool to control board consumtion level on legacy kernel
fixed and enabled Bluetooth on Cubietruck and Cubox(s) / Hummigboard(s) desktop, both kernels
masked p2p0 wifi direct device on Bluetooth legacy kernel
Odroid C1/C2 upgrade fail fixed
wireless enabled by default on Banana Pi PRO
added new screen resolutions to H3 boards with legacy kernel
DeviceTree Overlay ConfigFS interface for H3 mainline kernel
update of mainline u-boot to 2016.09 should fix boot failures on H3 boards with eMMC
disabled USB keyboard support in mainline u-boot should fix boot failures with connected USB devices

Desktop images:

WICD was replaced with NetworkManager
ALSA was replaced with PulseAudio
sunxi boards: GLshim was added to desktop images with Mali support (except for Orange Pi Plus and Orange Pi Plus 2e)
sunxi boards: prebuilt mpv now supports OSD and subtitles, activated by setting environment variable VDPAU_OSD=1

Build script:

complete desktop building rework - now packages are built from sources
added Lime 2 eMMC as build target (WIP)
added Pine64 / Pine64+ mainline (dev) target (experimental)
added FriendlyArm Neo as build target
fixed MT7601 wifi driver building
github download rework
external toolchain rework

Added additional packages, not installed by default:

hostapd-realtek: replacement for hostapd with support for several Realtek Wi-Fi adapters
fswebcam-gc2035: replacement for fswebcam with support for GC2035 camera driver for H3 based boards
guvcview: replacement for stock guvcview with support for H3-based Orange Pi CMOS cameras

Known problems:

Mali OpenGL ES does not work on H3 boards with 2GB RAM (Orange Pi Plus 2, Orange Pi Plus 2e)
Hardware video decoding on A10/A20 based boards produces dark video
Some applications that depend on livav libraries (i.e. minidlna) may not work on Jessie images

v5.17 (2016-07-07)¶

bugfix release on some boards.

v5.16 (2016-07-05)¶

bugfix release. In 5.15 we accidentaly overwrote default network settings. Check /etc/network/interfaces if you use advanced network settings or fixed ip.
small changes.

v5.15 (2016-07-01)¶

Added improved camera driver for Xunlong’s cheap 2MP GC2035 camera
Improved throttling/DRAM settings for the new 3 overheating H3 devices (BPi M2+, NanoPi M1, Beelink X2)
Added official support for Beelink X2, NanoPi M1, Banana Pi M2+
Improved console output (serial + display)
Finally got rid of (broken) board auto detection. We do not ship any more one image for several devices that tries to detect/fix things on 1st boot but provide one dedicated image per board (Plus and Plus 2 and both NanoPi M1 variants being handled as the same device since only size of DRAM/eMMC differs)
Tried to improve user experience with better/unified led handling (light directly after boot, communicate booting states through blinking)
Improve partitioning and filesystem resize on 1st boot making it easier to clone every installation media afterwards
fully support installation on eMMC on all H3 devices (u-boot and armbian-install.sh fixes)
Improved performance/thermal/throttling behaviour on all H3 boards (especially newer Oranges)
Prevent HDMI screen artefacts (disabling interfering TV Out by default)
Enhanced 8189ETV driver for older Oranges
Added support for OPi Lite, PC Plus and Plus 2E including new 8189FTV Wi-Fi (client, AP and monitoring mode, added fix for random MAC address)
Added in-kernel corekeeper patch (bringing back killed CPU cores after heavy overheating situations when thermal situation is ok again)
Added TV Out patch for Orange Pi PC
Further improve driver compilation due to improved kernel headers scripts compilation
Initrd support
increased kernel version to 3.4.112
Exchanged whole kernel source tree to newer BSP variant, cleaned up sources, rebased all +100 patches (fixed display issues and kswapd bug, new and more performant GPU driver, increase Mali400MP2 clock to 600MHz)
Added RTL2832U drivers to kernel (DVB-T)
Fixed Docker on Odroid XU4
Added overlay fs to Clearfog and Odroid XU4
Many minor fixes

v5.14 (2016-06-14)¶

all images rebuilt, most of them were manually tested
added Beelink X2 image
Cubox / Hummingboard kernel upgrade to 3.14.72 and 4.6.2
Trusty was replaced with Xenial

v5.12 (2016-05-31)¶

updated C1 images
added wifi driver for new Oranges (modprobe 8189fs)
added Orange Pi Lite, PC Plus and Plus 2E images

v5.11 (2016-05-24)¶

Various bug fixes
new working images for Actions Semi S500 boards

v5.10 (2016-05-01)¶

Images:

all 3.10+ kernels are Docker ready
all A10/A20/H3 comes with HW accelerated video playback in desktop build
fixed root exploit on H3 boards
fixed kswapd 100% bug on H3 boards
fixed SPDIF / I2S audio driver in legacy kernel
fixed Udoo Neo wireless
fixed slow SD cards boot
fixed Allwinner SS driver
fixed bluetooth on Cubietruck, both kernels
fixed wireless driver on H3 boards
fixed R1 switch driver
kernel for Allwinner boards was upgraded to 3.4.112 & 4.5.2
kernel for iMx6 boards was upgraded to 3.14.67 & 4.5.2
kernel for Armada (Clearfog) was upgraded to 3.10.101 & 4.5.2
kernel for Udoo boards was updated to 3.14.67 & 4.4.8
kernel for Guitar (Lemaker) was upgraded to 3.10.101
kernel for H3/sun8i legacy come from new Allwinner updated source (friendlyarm)
added support for Olimex Lime2 eMMC
increased MALI clockspeed on sun8i/legacy
added Armbianmonitor
added Odroid C1, C2(arm64), Nanopi M1, Banana M2+, Pcduino 2 and Pcduino 3. CLI and desktop
added wifi radar to desktop
added preview mainline kernel images for H3 boards (4.6.RC1)
added initrd creation on all Allwinner images
added Hummigboard 2 with working PCI and onboard wireless with legacy kernel 3.14.65
added eMMC installer for H3
added support for IFB and net scheduling for sun7i-legacy
added ax88179_178a USB 3.0 Ethernet driver for sun7i-legacy
hostapd comes as separate package (armbian-hostapd)
changed first boot procedure and force user creation
verbose / no verbose boot works almost on all boards
enabled I2S on sun8i
removed Debian Wheezy from auto build
installing headers autocompile scripts
all images come compressed with 7zip

Build script:

GCC 5 support for mainline and allwinner legacy
RAW images are not compressed by default
added arm64 building support
added docker as host
Added Belink X2 (H3 based media player), and Roseapple (S500) as WIP target
introducted CLI_TARGET per board
prepared Xenial target
fixed USB redirector building on all kernels
support for Xenial as a build host is 95% ready.
implemented automatic toolchain selection
come cleanup, configurations are subfoldered
extended_deboostrap becomes default

Known bugs:

Udoo Neo reboots takes a while, 1min+
headers within sun8i needs some fixing
H3 board autodetection fail under certain conditions

v5.06 (2016-03-18)¶

increase kernel version to 3.4.111
headers auto creation while install (eases kernel/driver compilation)
improved SD card partitioning to help old/slow cards with wear leveling and garbage collection
Possible to use Ubuntu Xenial Xerus as target
changed behaviour of board leds (green == power, red == warning)
speed improvements for 1st automated reboot
Integrates OverlayFS backport

v5.05 (2016-03-08)¶

Auto detection for the Orange Pi 2 does work now
Mali acceleration works for all users not only root
verbose boot logging on 1st boot and after crashes (you can toggle verbose logging using sudo armbianmonitor -b)
more WiFi dongles supported due to backported firmware loader patch
all 3 USB ports on Orange Pi One (Lite) available (2 of them need soldering)
I2S possible on all Orange Pis (compare with the mini tutorial since you need to tweak script.bin)
default display resolution set to 720p60 to fix possible overscan issues on 1st boot
HW accelerated video decoding works for most formats
Booting from eMMC on OPi Plus now possible
Udoo quad images upgraded to 4.4.4

v5.04 (2016-03-01)¶

HDMI/DVI works (bug in boot.cmd settings)
Reboot issues fixed (bug in fex settings)
1-Wire useable (we chose to stay compatible to loboris’ images so the data pin is 37 by default. You’re able to change this in the fex file)
changing display resolution and choosing between HDMI and DVI is now possible with the included h3disp tool (should also work in the stand-alone version with Debian based OS images from loboris/Xunlong). Use sudo h3disp in a terminal to get the idea.
Ethernet issues fixed (combination of kernel and fex fixes)
USB-to-SATA bridge on the Orange Pi Plus works
stability problems on Orange Pi One fixed (due to undervoltage based on wrong fex settings)
problems with 2 USB ports on the PC fixed (wrong kernel config)
Mali400MP acceleration (EGL/GLES) works now
suspend to RAM and resume by power button works now (consumption less than 0.4W without peripherals)
Enforce user account creation before starting the GUI
USB and Ethernet IRQs distributed nicely accross CPU cores
Full HDMI colour-range adjustable/accessible through h3disp utility
already useable as stable headless/server board
rebuilt Cubieboard 1 & 2 with 3.4.110 and 4.4.3
fixed Bluetooth on Cubietruck + rebuild with 3.4.110 and 4.4.3
all new images has no login policy: forced user generation

v5.03 (2016-02-20)¶

H3 images rebuilt

v5.02 (2016-02-18)¶

H3 images rebuilt

v5.01 (2016-02-17)¶

Bugfix update for Allwinner boards
Update for H3 based boards

v5.00 (2016-02-12)¶

mainline kernel for Allwinner based boards upgraded to 4.4.1
Allwinner audio driver playback and capture on kernel 4.4.1, UAS, USB OTG, battery readings,
added Marvel Armada kernel 3.10.96, 4.4.1 and patches for changing mPCI to SATA
added Cubox / Hummingboard kernel 4.4.1 (serial console only)
firstrun does autoreboot only if needed: wheezy and some legacy kernels.
added motd to /etc/updated.motd … redesign, added battery info for Allwinner boards, bugfix, coloring
fixed temperature reading on Cubox / Hummingboard legacy kernel
fixed FB turbo building on Allwinner
fixed NAND install on A10 boards (Legacy kernel only)
fixed USB boot, added PWM on mainline
fixed Banana PRO/+ onboard wireless on mainline kernel - running with normal Banana DT.
readded USB sound
added A13 Olimex SOM
added LIRC GPIO receive and send driver for legacy Allwinner
added LED MMC activity to mainline kernels for Cubietruck and Cubieboard A10
build script: option to build images with F2FS root filesystem for Allwinner boards
build script: added alternative kernel for Lemaker Guitar (NEXT), Cubox (DEV)

v4.81 (2015-12-28)¶

complete build script rework
new development kernel package linux-image-dev-sunxi (4.4RC6) for Allwinner boards
added Lemaker Guitar, kernel 3.10.55
added Odroid XU3/4, kernel 3.10.94 and mainline 4.2.8
mainline kernel for Allwinner based boards upgraded to 4.3.3
Udoo mainline upgraded to 4.2.8, legacy to 3.14.58
cubox / hummingboard upgraded to 3.14.58, added mainline kernel 4.4
fixed Jessie RTC bug, systemd default on Jessie images

v4.70 (2015-11-30)¶

Bugfix update(apt-get update && apt-get upgrade)
small changes and fixes

v4.6 (2015-11-24)¶

Update only (apt-get update && apt-get upgrade)
mainline kernel for Allwinner based boards upgraded to 4.2.6
Legacy kernel for Allwinner based boards upgraded to 3.4.110
added new board: Udoo Neo
added USB printer, CAN, CMA, ZSWAP, USB video class, CDROM fs, sensor classs, … to Allwinner mainline kernel
armbian-install scripts rewrite. Now it’s possible to install to any partition.
fixed nand install for Allwinner A10 based boards: Cubieboard 1 / Lime A10
universal upgrade script bugfix / rewrite.
8 channel HDMI support for legacy Allwinner kernel
unattended upgrade fixed
sunxi tools fixed
added two new options to build script: keep kernel config and use_ccache
added kernel version to motd

v4.5 (2015-10-14)¶

mainline kernel upgraded to 4.2.3 for Allwinner based boards
legacy kernel for Allwinner compiled from new sources (linux-sunxi)
udoo mainline upgraded to 4.2.3
cubox / hummingboard upgraded to 3.14.54
changed kernel naming: A10 = linux-image-sun4i, A20 = linux-image-sun7i
new boards: Banana M2, Orange+(A31S), Cubieboard 1, Cubieboard 2 Dual SD, Lime A10
fixed Udoo legacy wireless problems
fixed Jessie boot problems by disabling systemd. It’s possible to re-enable within boot scripts
added ramlog to Jessie because we don’t have systemd anymore
changed wireless driver for Cubietruck and Banana PRO (now it’s ap6210)
added ZRAM to mainline kernel
fixed dvbsky modules

and a bunch of small fixes.

v4.4 (2015-10-01)¶

Images:

mainline kernel upgrade to 4.2.2 (Allwinner, Udoo Quad),
legacy kernel upgraded to 3.4.109 (Allwinner),
added I2C support and bunch of multimedia modules (DVB) (mainline Allwinner),
Udoo quad images with fixed legacy kernel 3.14.28,
Cubox and Hummingboard kernel upgrade to 3.14.53,
brcmfmac driver fixes for mainline kernel (Banana PRO / Cubietruck)
performance tweak: choosing a closest Debian mirror (Debian images)
added Astrometa DVB firmware and dvb-tools
added Nikkov SPDIF / I2S recent patch (legacy Allwinner)
added patch for rtl8192cu: Add missing case in rtl92cu_get_hw_reg (Lamobo R1)
bigger NAND boot partition on install
install script bug fixes

Script:

force apt-get update on older rootfs cache,
image harden manipulation security,
packages NAND/FAT/same version install faling fixed,
image shrinking function rework,
better packages installation install checking,
added Debian keys to suppress warnings in debootstrap process,
added fancy progress bars,
added whiptail downloading prior to usage (bugfix).

v4.3 (2015-09-17)¶

kernel 4.2 for Allwinner based boards
kernel 4.2 for Udoo Quad
walk-around if ethernet is not detected on some boards due to RTC not set(?)
update is done (semi) automatic if you are using Armbian 4.2. You only need to issue command: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. If you are coming from older system, check Documentation
U-boot on R1 is now updated to latest stable version (2015.07)
Fixed AW SOM. Working with latest u-boot but you need to build image by yourself.
Enabled whole USB net and HID section in kernel for Allwinner boards v4.2
Fixed upgrade script – only some minor bugs remains.
Fixes to build script that it’s working under Ubuntu 15.04
Adding Bananapi Wireless driver (ap6210) back to legacy kernel
Udoo official kernel (3.14.28) not updated due too many troubles.

v4.2 (2015-09-01)¶

Images:

Upgraded NAND / SATA installer. Possible to install to SATA/NAND boot in one step.
Easy kernel switching between old 3.4 and 4.x
Automatic kernel updating (to disable comment armbian repo /etc/apt/sources.list)
Allwinner boards share one 4.x kernel and two 3.4
All boards share the same revision number
One minimal Ubuntu Desktop per board (Wicd, Firefox, Word)
u-boot v2015.07 for most boards
Aufs file system support
kernel 4.1.6 and 3.4.108
Added Orangepi Mini, Cubieboard 1 (4.x only), Udoo with official kernel
Repository for Wheezy, Jessie and Trusty
enabled USB audio in kernel 4.x
kernel headers fixed. No need to rebuild when you update the kernel.
fixed boot scripts that can load from FAT partition too
removed Cubox binnary repository because of troubles
Docker support (kernel 4.x). Already here for a while / forget to mention.
nodm change default login

Build script:

changed structure: sources now in folder sources, output is what we produce, deb in one folder
expanded desktop part
possible to build all images at once, create package repository
SD card initial size is 4Gb, variable transfered into configuration.sh
Avaliable board list is now created from file configuration.sh
Fixed image shrinking problem
Patching part rework
Using first FAT boot partition now fixes boot scripts
Uboot TAG moved to configuration.sh and differs for some boards
new variables for source branches. Only too remove errors when checking out

v4.1 (2015-08-05)¶

Added desktop image
U-Boot 2015.07 with many new features
Added auto system update via repository apt.armbian.com
Root password change is initialized at first boot.
3.4.108 kernel fixes, 4.1.4 Allwinner Security System

v4.0 (2015-07-12)¶

Fixed stability issues, temperature display in 4.x
Kernel upgrades to 3.4.108 and 4.1.2

v3.9 (2015-06-11)¶

Bugfix release
Kernel 4.0.5 traffic control support
SATA / USB install fixed on kernel 4.x
Added 256Mb emergency swap area, created automatically @first boot

v3.8 (2015-05-21)¶

Bugfix release: Cubietruck images successfully booted on Cubietruck. I waited for automatic reboot than tested remote login.
Kernel 4.0.4 added support for power on/off button
Both: Jessie fixed, Ethernet init fixed (uboot)
armbian.com introduction

v3.7 (2015-05-14)¶

Kernel 4.0.3 some new functionality
Kernel 3.4.107 added sunxi display manager to change FB on demand
Both: Ubuntu and jessie install errors fixed, removed busybox-syslogd and changed to default logger due to problems in Jessie and Ubuntu, apt-get upgrade fixed, documentations update, Uboot fixed to 2015.4 – no more from dev branch
Build script rework - image size shrink to actual size, possible to have fat boot partition on SD card, several script bug fixes

v3.6 (2015-04-29)¶

Kernel 3.19.6
Kernel 3.4.107 with better BT loading solution

v3.5 (2015-04-18)¶

Kernel 3.19.4: fixed AP mode, fixed USB, added 8192CU module
Common: apt-get upgrade ready but not enabled yet, serial console fixed, fixed hostapd under jessie, easy kernel switching, latest patched hostapd for best performance – normal and for realtek adaptors, auto IO scheduler script
Build script: everything packed as DEB

v3.4 (2015-03-28)¶

Kernel 3.19.3: docker support, apple hid, pmp, nfsd, sata peformance fix
Kernel 3.4.106: pmp, a20_tp - soc temp sensor
Common: console setup fixed, headers bugfix, nand install fix
Build script: kernel build only, custom packets install, hardware accelerated desktop build as option

v3.3 (2015-02-28)¶

Kernel 3.19.0: many new functionality and fixes.
Bugfixes: CT wireless works in all kernels

v3.2 (2015-01-24)¶

Possible to compile external modules on both kernels
Kernel 3.19.0 RC5
Bugfixes: install script, headers, bashrc, spi

v3.1 (2015-01-16)¶

Kernel 3.19.0 RC4
Added Cubieboard 1 images
Dualboot for CB2 and CT dropped due to u-boot change. Now separate images.
New user friendly SATA + USB installer, also on mainline

v3.0 (2014-12-29)¶

Kernel 3.18.1 for mainline image
Added Ubuntu Trusty (14.04 LTS) image
Bugfixes: auto packages update

v2.9 (2014-12-03)¶

Kernel 3.4.105 with new MALI driver and other fixes
Added: Jessie image
Major build script rewrite - much faster image building
Fixed: failed MIN/MAX settings

v2.8 (2014-10-17)¶

Added: ondemand governor, fhandle, squashfs and btrfs
Removed: bootsplash, lvm, version numbering in issue
Fixed: custom scripts, Jessie upgrade
Disabled: BT firmware loading, enable back with: insserv brcm40183-patch
Added working driver for RT 8188C, 8192C

v2.7 (2014-10-01)¶

Kernel 3.4.104
Automatic Debian system updates
VGA output is now default but if HDMI is attached at first boot than it switch to HDMI for good. After first restart!
Fixed NAND install script. /boot is mounted by default. Kernel upgrade is now the same as on SD systems.
Cubieboard2 - disabled Cubietruck dedicated scripts (BT firmware, LED disable)
Added network bonding and configuration for “notebook” mode (/etc/network/interfaces.bonding)
IR receiver is preconfigured with default driver and LG remote (/etc/lirc/lircd.conf), advanced driver is present but disabled
Added SPI and LVM functionality
Added Debian logo boot splash image
Added build essentials package

v2.6 (2014-08-22)¶

Kernel 3.4.103 and 3.17.0-RC1
Added GPIO patch (only for 3.4.103)

v2.5 (2014-08-02)¶

Kernel 3.4.101 and 3.16.0-RC4
major build script rewrite

v2.4 (2014-07-11)¶

Kernel 3.4.98
default root password (1234) expires at first login
build script rewrite, now 100% non-interactive process, time zone as config option
bug fixes: removed non-existing links in /lib/modules

v2.3 (2014-07-02)¶

Kernel 3.4.96
cpuinfo serial number added
bug fixes: stability issues - downclocked to factory defaults, root SSH login enabled in Jessie, dedicated core for eth0 fix
disp_vsync kernel patch

v2.2 (2014-06-26)¶

Kernel 3.4.94
Added Jessie distro image
Updated hostapd, bashrc, build script
bug fixes: disabled upgrade and best mirror search @firstboot, bluetooth enabler fix
MD5 hash image protection

v2.1 (2014-06-13)¶

Kernel 3.4.93
Onboard Bluetooth finally works
Small performance fix
Allwinner Security System cryptographic accelerator

v2.0 (2014-06-02)¶

Kernel 3.4.91 with many fixes
Cubieboard 2 stability issues fix
eth0 interrupts are using dedicated core
Global bashrc /etc/bash.bashrc
Verbose output and package upgrade @ first run

v1.9 (2014-04-27)¶

Kernel headers included
Clustering support
Advanced IR driver with RAW RX and TX
Bluetooth ready (working only with supported USB devices)
Bugfixes: VLAN, login script, build script
New packages: lirc, bluetooth

v1.8 (2014-03-27)¶

Kernel 3.4.79
Alsa I2S patch + basic ALSA utils
Performance tweaks: CPU O.C. to 1.2Ghz, IO scheduler NOOP for SD, CFQ for sda, journal data writeback enabled
Avaliable memory = 2000MB
Minimized console output at boot
MAC address from chip ID, manual optional
Latest (Access point) hostapd, 2.1 final release
Login script shows current CPU temp, hard drive temp & actual free memory
Fastest Debian mirror auto selection @first boot
New packages: alsa-utils netselect-apt sysfsutils hddtemp bc

v1.7 (2014-02-26)¶

Flash media performance tweaks, reduced writings, tmp & logging to RAM with ramlog app – sync logs on shutdown
SATA install script
Dynamic MOTD: Cubieboard / Cubietruck
Disabled Debian logo at startup
New packages: figlet toilet screen hdparm libfuse2 ntfs-3g bash-completion

v1.6 (2014-02-09)¶

Added support for Cubieboard 2
Build script creates separate images for VGA and HDMI
NAND install script added support for Cubieboard 2

v1.52 (2014-02-07)¶

Various kernel tweaks, more modules enabled
Root filesystem can be moved to USB drive
Bugfixes: NAND install script

v1.5 (2014-01-22)¶

Hotspot Wifi Access Point / Hostapd 2.1
Bugfixes: MAC creation script, SSH keys creation, removed double packages, …
Graphics desktop environment upgrade ready

v1.4 (2014-01-12)¶

Patwood’s kernel 3.4.75+ with many features
Optimized CPU frequency scaling 480-1010Mhz with interactive governor
NAND install script included
Cubietruck MOTD
USB redirector – for sharing USB over TCP/IP

v1.3 (2014-01-03)¶

CPU frequency scaling 30-1000Mhz
Patch for gpio

v1.23 (2014-01-01)¶

added HDMI version
added sunxi-tools
build.sh transfered to Github repository
disabled LED blinking

v1.2 (2013-12-26)¶

changed kernel and hardware config repository
kernel 3.4.61+
wi-fi working
updated manual how-to

v1.0 (2013-12-24)¶

total memory available is 2G (disabled memory for GPU by default)
gigabit ethernet is fully operational
sata driver enabled
root filesystem autoresize
MAC address fixed at first boot
Kernel 3.4.75
root password=1234
Bugs: wifi and BT not working