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@igorpecovnik igorpecovnik released this 20 Jul 09:32
v26.8.0-trunk.423
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This week's updates center on new hardware enablement, a broad U-Boot v2026.07 modernization, and build system hardening for toolchain and infrastructure changes.

Board support expanded across multiple SoC families, including the X88 PRO RK3566 TV box, Avnet MaaXBoard 8ULP (i.MX8ULP), EASY EAI Nano (RV1126), and the AYN Odin3. The Youyeetoo R1 v3 was promoted to standard support with named audio outputs, while the Radxa Dragon Q8B gained an edge kernel (7.1) target. Rockchip work included RK3588 CAN support for kernels 6.18/7.1/7.2, HDMI-RX fixes on the OrangePi 5 Ultra, and Mixtile Blade3 refinements on the 7.2 bleeding edge.

A coordinated U-Boot bump to v2026.07 landed across Helios4, Odroid HC4/M1, Turing RK1, Radxa E52C, Qidi X6, Mekotronics R58X-Pro, and the Espressobin/Macchiatobin (paired with TF-A 2.14.0). This surfaced toolchain issues on Trixie, addressed through SWIG 4.3 pylibfdt compatibility, demotion of gcc 14 int-conversion and implicit-declaration errors to warnings, and related pin cleanups.

Infrastructure work strengthened build reliability and CI. The rootfs stage gained DNS fallback and apt retry hardening for chroot operations, armbian-firstlogin received power-loss recovery with atomic writes, and armbian-install now reports bootloader write failures explicitly. Docker framework updates enable native riscv64 image generation on trixie and noble runners, while new extensions introduce sysrq serial trigger, kernel-debug tiers, ram-boot via rkusbboot, and generic SATA park-on-shutdown enabled by default on the Odroid HC4.

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@igorpecovnik igorpecovnik released this 13 Jul 09:43
v26.8.0-trunk.376
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This week's updates center on expanded board support, Rockchip and Qualcomm platform maturation, and build system refinements.

New hardware coverage grew across multiple SoC families, with the Lubancat 5IO (RK3588), KickPi K3B, Mellow Fly C5 3D printer board, and community support for the Orange Pi Zero 3W (Allwinner A733). The Arduino UNO Q advanced to mainline 7.1 on the edge kernel and gained desktop hardware acceleration via Mesa pinned to Trixie backports, while the BeagleY-AI received ISP, IMX219, and VPAC patches. Companion fixes addressed NVMe/SD boot conflicts on the NanoPi M6, Ethernet on the BigTreeTech CB1, and AIC8800 UART Bluetooth on Orange Pi A733 hardware.

Rockchip work concentrated on the YY3588 and CM3588-NAS platforms, with device tree cleanups, a corrected HDMI-RX detect GPIO, and quieter DRM logging for dw-hdmi-qp and dw-dp bridges. Newer bl31, bl32, and DDR blobs landed for RK3576, and stale U-Boot was refreshed fleet-wide to resolve a SWIG build break. On the Qualcomm side, SC8280XP was refactored from a board to a family configuration, and the Radxa Dragon Q8B gained UFS image provisioning, QDL flashing support via the imager, and a mainline 7.1 edge target for the Q6A variant.

Build and tooling improvements included a new show-extensions CLI command, a switch from the adduser suite to useradd/groupadd during first login, non-interactive Dpkg conffile handling in chroot, and clang compatibility fixes for carried Rockchip64 patches and SpacemiT RTL8852BS builds. The mainline kernel target advanced to 7.2-rc2, and MGLRU was enabled across sunxi, sunxi64, and sun60iw2 kernel configurations.

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@igorpecovnik igorpecovnik released this 07 Jul 03:39
v26.8.0-trunk.343
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This week's cycle emphasizes broad U-Boot modernization, new board and SoC enablement, and kernel and wireless driver consolidation.

A large-scale U-Boot bump moves sunxi 32-bit and 64-bit targets from v2024.01 to v2026.07-rc4, with follow-on updates for self-pinned H616/H618 boards (Zero2W, Zero3, Longan Pi 3H), Mixtile Edge2, NanoPi R5S (now patch-less), and the Youyeetoo YY3588 switching to mainline v2026.04. The imx6 line (UDOO, Cubox-i) was modernized to U-Boot v2026.07 with legacy 6.12, current 6.18, and edge 7.1 kernels. Related toolchain work fixes ODROID-C1, ODROID-XU4, Recore, and X96Q builds under Trixie's GCC 14, and resolves errexit failures on Rockchip SPI boards.

Platform expansion introduces community support for the Allwinner A733-based Radxa Cubie A7Z and Orange Pi Zero 3W, Rockchip Graperain G3568 v2, and Anbernic RG Vita Pro and Lubancat-5IO image entries. BeagleY-AI gained USB, PCIe, ISP + IMX219, and VPAC patches on the vendor kernel, alongside GPU acceleration fixes for TI K3 targets and TI Wave5 VPU firmware. Rockchip RV1106 support was split into distinct RV1103G and RV1103B families, and new SPI/NVMe boot and Maskrom recovery paths were added.

On the kernel and driver side, sunxi received an H3/H5 DVFS RCU-stall fix, MMC/I2C PM deadlock resolution, MGLRU enablement, and LTE modem USB serial support. Meson64 gained a GPIO pinctrl cansleep series and v7.2-rc1 via bleedingedge, while SpacemiT K1 was updated to linux-7.2.y. The RTL8189ES, RTL8189FS, and RTL8192EU wireless drivers were migrated to dedicated forks with 7.2 compatibility and patch cleanup, and an RTW88 SDIO interrupt storm was addressed. User-visible improvements include swapfile creation fixes, useradd-based first-login provisioning, and video-group access to Rockchip MPP codec devices.

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@igorpecovnik igorpecovnik released this 29 Jun 11:19
v26.8.0-trunk.277
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This week's work centers on a comprehensive CI pipeline overhaul, expanded board and SoC support, and notable U-Boot and kernel modernization across Rockchip platforms.

A substantial portion of the changes target CI infrastructure hardening in the new os-ci-test repository, including self-contained release handling, GHCR authentication via builtin tokens, watchdog-based auto-retry for stalled runs, proxy normalization, and sane build timeouts (60m packages, 30m/60m images). Related fixes in armbian/actions resolve datacenter runner proxy issues, while a rootfs change strips mmdebstrap's apt proxy from shipped images. Codeowners pruning of inactive maintainers and a Docker per-build image tag for parallel builds round out the developer-experience work.

On the platform side, new board and SoC enablement continues with cix-p1 support, Orange Pi 4 Pro (Allwinner A733) community files, and Radxa Dragon Q6A audio, Chromium, and libbpf fixes. RK3506 and RK3506B are now split with proper ROCKUSB_BLOB handling, and Helios4 gains dual-PWM fan control on 6.18. Kernel configurations enable ATH9K_HTC, NFS client across all three kernels, and REALTEK_PHY_HWMON on rockchip64, while an RK3588 I2S MCLK regression is corrected.

U-Boot modernization is broad: rk3308 boards (Rock Pi S, Rock S0) move from v2024.10 to v2026.07 with booti FDT fixes, Khadas VIM3 jumps to v2026.04, and VIM1/VIM2 receive khadas-uboot 0.17.3. The MediaTek Genio and NIO-12L platforms transition to pure mainline v7.1.y with loadaddr fixes for large kernels and initrds, and UEFI builds bump to v7.1 with Phytium dwmac rework.

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@igorpecovnik igorpecovnik released this 22 Jun 12:22
v26.8.0-trunk.216
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This week's work centers on board portfolio expansion, kernel and U-Boot version bumps, and CI and infrastructure hardening across the build and documentation pipelines.

Board support saw notable growth with the introduction of the SpacemiT K3 Pico-ITX and Luckfox Nova (RK3308B), alongside a new generic uefi-arm64-dt family and board intended to standardize UEFI device-tree targets. Qualcomm enablement advanced through Radxa Dragon Q6A and Q8B work, including UFS provisioning for Kodiak, EDL-based UFS flashing in the imager, and audioreach topology firmware for sc8280xp. Catalog assets were extended for the MaaXBoard 8ULP, Mellow Fly C5, Xiaomi Sheng, and the new Radxa and SpacemiT boards.

On the kernel and bootloader front, rockchip64, meson64, and rpi4b edge branches were promoted to the stable 7.1 series, with the rtl8192eu driver rebuilt and re-enabled against the new tree. U-Boot was refreshed on cm3588-nas, nanopik2-s905, and the Luckfox Nova, while updated DDR, BL31, and BL32 blobs landed for RK3528 and new SPL loaders were published for RV1103, RV1106, and RK3506. Targeted kernel-config work restored md/RAID modules on sunxi, enabled MIPI DBI panels on sunxi64, and added CPUFreq support for the SpacemiT K1.

Infrastructure changes focused on resilience and resource control. The git-trees workflow gained bounded retries, escalating timeouts, and Google mirror fallbacks; Docker base-image pulls now retry transient GHCR failures and split host dependencies into per-group apt layers. Image compression caps xz memory and thread usage, the info-gatherer no longer exhausts file descriptors, and a new CI policy enforces transparent backgrounds and object-size limits for board and vendor logos, with offending assets re-cropped.

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@igorpecovnik igorpecovnik released this 15 Jun 12:39
v26.8.0-trunk.180
10689b0

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This week's work centers on kernel and board enablement, CI infrastructure and caching, and user-facing tooling improvements across the imager and configuration utilities.

On the kernel and board front, Rockchip edge moved to 7.1 and mainline was bumped to 7.1-rc7, while the Raspberry Pi 4B legacy target was re-enabled after a brief revert of the BCM2711 kernel bumps. New board support landed for BeagleBadge and TMDS64EVM (AM64x) on the TI platform, the Anbernic RG DS RK3568 handheld as CSC, and the Youyeetoo YY3588 received a mainline DTS rework with ES8388 audio routing. Several long-standing fixes were merged, including a meson64 GPIO can_sleep regression breaking 1-Wire, JMicron JMB582/JMB585 32-bit DMA forcing, and QRB2210 U-Boot load address corrections.

A substantial CI and caching effort introduces a new git_cdn module providing a GitHub caching git+http proxy, an apt-cacher-ng configng module, and multi-arch Docker images for both. GitHub Actions runners now export per-runner apt, ghcr, ccache, and proxy environments from the NetBox registry, with added retry guards, SSH/rsync timeouts, and workspace ownership reconciliation between jobs. The rootfs builder now routes mmdebstrap through APT_PROXY_ADDR when configured.

User-facing changes focus on the Armbian Imager and first-run experience. The imager gained marquee scrolling for long board names, a "Create new profile" shortcut, accurate progress-phase reporting, and surfaced flash write failures in place of blank error screens. The first-login flow now runs automatically on freshly-flashed boards, and armbian-firstrun uses atomic writes for armbianEnv.txt MAC randomization to prevent corruption.

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@igorpecovnik igorpecovnik released this 08 Jun 11:15
v26.8.0-trunk.121
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This week's updates center on new board enablement, Rockchip platform refinements, and tooling and kernel maintenance.

Board support expanded across multiple silicon families, with the addition of Seeed Studio reComputer RK3576/RK3588 DevKits and the Anbernic RG DS handheld image. The EasePi A2/R2 received substantial revisions to its board configurations and device trees, alongside a vendor logo transition to Linkease. SpacemiT K1 boot support was updated, and per-SoC LINUXCONFIG separation was introduced for the TQ family to better isolate kernel configurations.

Rockchip received the bulk of low-level improvements. Notable changes include AUX recovery for USB-C DP Alt Mode in the dw-dp driver, device-tree-based LED configuration for the r8169/r8125 controllers, and an updated patch ensuring stable PCIe Ethernet MAC addresses across many boards. Additional fixes resolve slow WiFi on the NanoPi R76S via SDIO SDR104, enable Bluetooth on the Orange Pi 5 Ultra edge kernel, and restore the tm16xx driver on current kernels.

On the tooling and maintenance side, Armbian Imager 2.0 was released, the mainline kernel was bumped to 7.1-rc6, and the rtl8192eu driver was re-enabled following a cleanup of compilation warnings. A previously merged USB gadget NULL pointer fix was reverted pending further evaluation.

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@igorpecovnik igorpecovnik released this 01 Jun 11:53
v26.8.0-trunk.84
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This week's updates center on new board enablement, kernel and driver compatibility for Linux 7.1, and CI tooling and build infrastructure refinements.

Hardware support expanded with the addition of the EasePi A2 (RK3568) and EasePi R2 (RK3588) IoT gateway/NAS devices, including device tree integration and asset publication, alongside new board configurations for TQ-Systems TQMa8MPxS and TQMa93xxLA modules. The Qidi X-6 was migrated to mainline U-Boot, and targeted fixes addressed the NanoPi R76S SD boot path on eMMC-less units, the NanoPi M5 GMAC rgmii-id regression, and Radxa E54C netplan WAN configuration.

On the kernel side, several out-of-tree wireless drivers — rtl8189es, rtl8723ds, and uwe5622 — were repaired for Linux 7.1 compatibility, while the radxa-aic8800 extension was rebased and dropped from sunxi-7.0. Rockchip work included DSI fixes for RK3576 dual-display, a VPLL clock parent for DP 4K overlay, HDMI RX EDID handling for the OPi5U, and resolution of a USB gadget NULL pointer crash on 6.18 and 7.0. The H616/H618 HDMI audio clocking was also corrected on sunxi.

Build and CI work emphasized reproducibility and quality gates: shellcheck now runs per-file with explicit bash scoping, pinned CLI tool versions are tracked via Renovate, and workflows hard-fail on missing board assets while suppressing duplicate comments. The Imager application received a Tauri 2.11.2 security bump addressing IPC origin confusion and a fix preventing Windows crashes when enumerating multi-extent volumes. Proxy handling during builds and kernel header dependency resolution (accepting dwarves in place of pahole) round out the developer-facing improvements.

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@igorpecovnik igorpecovnik released this 29 May 22:41
v26.5.1
8de11a0

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This quarter's work centers on three priorities: kernel modernization across SoC families, a redesigned desktop subsystem driven by armbian-config, and substantial expansion of board and platform coverage.

Kernel and U-Boot modernization progressed across every major family. Mainline Linux 7.0 landed for sunxi, meson64, rockchip64, rpi4b, and uefi edge targets, with a new bleedingedge branch tracking 7.1-rc on rockchip64 and meson64. Patch sets were systematically rewritten against 6.18.18–6.18.21 across rockchip64, meson64, sunxi, and uefi-x86. U-Boot moved to v2026.04 on a broad range of Rockchip boards (NanoPC-T6, NanoPi M5/R76S, Rock 5 ITX, Rock 5B Plus, Helios4/64, odroidhc4/n2, xt-q8l-v10), with BTRFS zstd fixes and LWIP additions. SpacemiT received 7.0 mainline support and a 7.1 edge bump, while sm8550 stabilized on 6.18.y.

The desktop subsystem was rebuilt around a YAML-driven, tier-based architecture in armbian-config, replacing the legacy config/desktop/ tree. The migration introduced KDE Plasma, KDE Neon, MATE, and i3-wm support, extended XFCE/MATE/i3/Xmonad/Enlightenment/Cinnamon to armhf and riscv64, and added mode=build for chroot-time installs. Supporting changes include Vulkan and panthor GPU runtime at the mid tier, libcamera/v4l and alsa-ucm-conf at minimal, branded Chromium/Firefox first-run experiences, and an APT pinning mechanism routing browsers and VS Code through apt.armbian.com. New configng modules cover code-server, Dozzle, Wallos, ZFS pool management, device tree editing, and memory management.

Board and platform coverage expanded significantly. New mainline support arrived for Arduino UNO Q (QRB2210), Mekotronics R58S2, NanoPC-T6 LTS Plus, Ariaboard Photonicat 2, EByte ECB41-PGE, NORCO EMB-3531, Cainiao CNIoT-CORE, SpacemiT MUSE Book, EasePi A2/R2, TQ-Systems TQMa8MPxS/TQMa93xxLA, Seeed reComputer devkits, and multiple Qidi X-series boards. Infrastructure improvements include a REST v1 migration for the Imager with QDL flash support for Qualcomm EDL devices, automated Hetzner runner fallback scaling, multi-arch unit tests under qemu-user, ShellCheck inline PR feedback, and a board-config validation gate. Ubuntu 26.04 (resolute) was integrated across the build matrix, package coverage, and nightly targets.

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@igorpecovnik igorpecovnik released this 25 May 10:31
v26.8.0-trunk.53
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This week's work centers on board support expansion, kernel and U-Boot maintenance, and desktop and CI tooling refinements.

On the platform side, the Radxa Cubie A5E received Wi-Fi enablement and a kernel refresh as part of a broader update, while the youyeetoo YY3588 was promoted from CSC to standard support and the YY3568 gained PCIe NVMe functionality. The NanoPi R76S and Rock 5 ITX were both migrated to mainline U-Boot v2026.04, dropping vendor-branch gates, and the Vanxoak HD-RK3506-EVB was added with vendor and board imagery.

Kernel hygiene dominated the maintenance work: duplicate OPP labels on the Xiaoxin Pad Pro (sm8250) were corrected, broken UHS-I, xo-clock, SD, and DSI patches were removed from sm8550 trees for both 6.18 and 7.0, and a now-upstream r-spi backport was dropped from sunxi-6.18. The odroidxu4-current branch advanced to 6.6.141 across two successive bumps.

Desktop and infrastructure tooling saw layered improvements through configng: alsa-ucm-conf and libcamera/v4l userspace were added to the minimal tier, PackageKit and AppStream landed at the mid tier, and DE postinst scripts now execute in the build chroot to resolve missing wallpaper. UEFI x86 and arm64 desktop spins were switched to GNOME on the edge kernel, and build infrastructure gained inline ShellCheck PR feedback, scoped token permissions, fork-aware artifact gating, and event-driven runner cleanup via systemd hooks.

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