Announcements

Hello Everyone! Recently @NicoD has been helping to release some videos on the Armbian community as well he usually keeps up with reviewing and documenting single board computers. This got me thinking it would probably be awesome to have a central place to document Armbian related videos and documentation that exists. I will try to post any good Armbian related channels or videos my self, but I would invite anyone else who would like to contribute to this thread as well! Are you a creator that loves Armbian and has made some videos about it?? Let us know and share here! To get things started I will include NicoD…

tl;dr: irc://irc.libera.chat/armbian Feel free to join us: Server: irc.libera.chat Ports: 6697 / non-SSL: 6667 Channels: #armbian, #armbian-commits, #armbian-rss There are even more channels available. Information about those and our services can be found in our documentation: https://docs.armbian.com/Community_IRC/ Registration with Nickserv is mandatory to join primary #armbian channel. Don't hesitate to get in touch with us

Released so far: https://www.armbian.com/newsflash/armbian-25-5/ https://github.armbian.com/documentation/751/Release_Changelog/#v2551-2025-5-26 2025-05-31 14:04:06 nanopi-r5s/ 2025-05-31 13:20:18 nanopct4/ 2025-05-28 14:45:54 orangepizero2w/ ###################################### added may 31th 2025-05-28 17:50:12 orangepizero3/ 2025-05-28 13:31:42 sweet-potato/ (untested) ###################################### added may 29th 2025-05-28 06:44:05 bananapim4berry/ 2025-05-28 01:38:54 rock-5b/ 2025-05-27 23:26:24 khadas-vim4/ 2025-05-27 21:53:19 orangepi5/ 2025-05-26 23:30:28 rpi4b/ 2025-05-26 15:30:09 bananapim7/ 2025-05-26 12:44:43 orangepi5…

You asked for it, here it is: The official Armbian SWAG store http://swag.armbian.com (small selection, there is more!) Earlier you could write Armbian to an SD card only, now you can even wear it. Awesome, right? Comes even with a free hug if I catch somebody wearing it (and the pandemic is over) . The best part: a small cut of every sale goes straight to Armbian and will be invested into infrastrucuture, testing equipment and of course new boards (if a parsimonious vendor does not want to provide free samples to the lap ). You can grab your favorite merchandise and support the project at the same time! …

Armbian Private Subscriber Forum It is a good way for our subscribers and partners to convey bugs, issues and concerns to the community. If you are someone who has an issue and you need information about how solveable the issue is in a reasonable amount of time, this forum would be for you. The forum does not promise or guarantee solutions, however, it does promise you will get a reply from one of our members or staff generally within 48 hours of your request letting you know the viability of your issue. If the community is able to help, they will be able to reply to the thread with suggested solutions, if not, Armbian staff will do its best to address it for …

Hey Everyone! Last week we tried out doing a community Discord get together on Friday night and it went really well! We are going to try and do the same thing again this week on July 1st, 2022 at 5:00 PM EST. Everyone is invited, just come to the Armbian Discord (You can click our invite link: here if you are not already part of our Discord) and on Friday evening at 5:00 PM EST we will open up the public voice chat for all who would like to participate. The meet-up will last 1 hour and there are no official topics set for the conversation, of course, if you have something fun to share that is always welcome! Hope to see you…

To secure top download speed around the globe, we need to have as many torrent seeders as possible. Currently we have dedicated seeders in: Estonia, Germany, Pakistan, Slovenia, Argentina, Singapore, USA, ... but we might be slower in China or Japan. Prerequisite: - Armbian or any Debian or Ubuntu based distribution (check instructions how to run armbian-config on a generic Debian/Ubuntu), - 1TB of free space. a) Installation with installing Transmission server login and obtain superuser rights, execute armbian-config, select Software -> Softy, install Transmission server. (use space to confirm and ente…

Recently we announced that we are going to drop support for bulk of boards to secure better quality for those that will remain. But which will remain? Those who will have at least one dedicated maintainer - anyone can become one. Check new "Armbian standard" support policy: Armbian team took over what was possible while the remaining boards, which won't get a maintainer by December 1st, will loose support status and will be removed from the download pages. https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/3148 Apply and help Apply for maintainership by contacting @yang or @Werner

Common issues and peer to peer support have been merged since they mostly cover the same Bugtracker forums for A64 & H5 has been merged with H6 since they share the same board family

We have nightly images built available for the boards below. Please help us test and report your experience via This Google Form. Images are available via our normal Armbian download page. Just scroll to the bottom to the "nightly build" section. Bananapi Bananapim2plus Bananapim2zero Bananapipro Clearfogbase Clearfogpro Cubietruck Espressobin Helios4 Lepotato Lime-a64 Nanopct4 Nanopiair Nanopim4 Nanopim4v2 Nanopi-r1 Nanopi-r2s Odroidc2 Odroidc4 Odroidn2 Odroidxu4 Orangepi3 Orangepi4 Orangepione …

added support for boards that export temperature elsewhere (for example meson64-next/dev)

Hey fellows, quite a while ago we started working on a better way to guide users through the way of properly reporting bugs at the correct places and help them avoid common issues the same time. We came up with a form that, depending on users input and conditional logic, leads to the correct place or a dead-end with explanation why specific bugs are not accepted. A link to this has been added to the documentation, the download page for each board and will pop up when creating a new topic in the bug tracker forums. We appreciate your feedback and bring issues with the form to our attention. We are also aware that using Google forms is ev…

What is ZSH, and Why Should You Use It Instead of Bash? ZSH, also called the Z shell, is an extended version of the BASH, with plenty of new features, and support for plugins and themes. Since it’s based on the same shell as Bash, ZSH has many of the same features, and switching over is a breeze. So Why Use It? ZSH has too many features to list here, some just minor improvements to Bash, but here are some of the major ones: Automatic cd: Just type the name of the directory Recursive path expansion: For example “/u/lo/b” expands to “/usr/local/bin” Spelling correction and approximate completion: If you make a mino…

After several months of development, we finally bring desktop development to the daily driver state. Our desktop builds follow KISS philosophy. They are build around proven technology, we are not touching things that are done well. Just fixing things here and there and removing most / hopefully all bloatware that is added upstream. We are preparing a wide selection of desktop variants while we will officially only support a few of them but anyone is welcome to join and tweak / support its desktop of choice. We will support you in best possible manner! And this way things starts the voyage to become officially supported one day. Only if you join. We…

v5.90 / 7.7.2019 All images were updated. It mainly goes for a bugfix update, cleanup, adding Debian Buster release. Beware that software maturity with Buster is not just there yet (even it was declared stable) and with some applications (like OMV) you will encounter problems. Kernel/BSP wise, Debian Buster is the same, uses Armbian kernel, as our other builds. Most of the builds were briefly tested, but bugs might be hiding somewhere. This is the best what is out there thanks to greater Debian community, those around boards and of course ours which pushes generic Debian/Linux to the sky . Enjoy the summer time. What's new? -> https://docs.armbian.com/…

Hello Armbian Community! We’re excited to announce the second edition Armbian Desktop Wallpaper Contest. This is a great opportunity for anyone passionate about design to have their work featured on Armbian. Prices You'll receive a reward if our judges decide your art is in the top 3. The rewards are as follows: No 1. Bananapi R3 No 2. Bananapi M2S No 3. Bananapi M2 zero *Prizes will be fulfilled and sent directly by SinoVoip once a winner is chosen and their address is received. Be sure you can receive parcels from China. Armbian and SinoVoip will not be re…

If you are running Armbian desktop and you like to use Visual Studio Code, open a terminal and run: sudo apt update sudo apt install code

We've added some enhancements to our mirror redirect tool the allow you to choose a region. UPDATE: See Friendlier Documentation Here The following regions are configured: NA - North America EU - Europe AS - Asia (currently only china) to use update the url in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list from apt.armbian.com to apt.armbian.com/region/REGIONCODE ex: # cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list deb http://apt.armbian.com/region/NA focal main focal-utils focal-desktop If you'd like to choose a specifc mirror you can query https://apt.armbian.com/mirrors and find a mirror

Forum is getting messy and I am getting more and more complains about. Traffic is going up and we / people are always prone to seek shortcuts. Its already enough that just a few people are posting wrong content at wrong location that forum gets a bad smell. Personally I and those few active moderators can't do more than we already do. We already use all possible technical equipment to limit the spam, but merging/moving wrongly posted topics can't be done by AI. At least not today. Please, take a look - all is written there - and apply: In case you truly want to contribute to this community as a moderator but you don't have enough days or posts require for nomin…

apt update && apt -y upgrade 1. armbian-config -> software -> softy Home Assistant smart home suite (https://www.home-assistant.io/hassio) OpenHAB2 smart home suite (https://www.openhab.org) Bug fixes: Syncthing ZSH Internet detection also works behind proxy Cosmetical fixes: UrBackup Transmission Removed: Exagear (EOL) 2. armbian-config -> personal -> mirror New mirror http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/armbian-apt/ & http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/armbian-dl/

Cosmetic issues may appear during the procedure and fixing them might take from hours to days. Starting early in the morning, backup late in the evening CET. Upgrade from v4.3.6 -> 4.4.3 What's new: https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/440-r81/ https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/441-r82/ https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/442-r83/ https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/443-r84/

- changing network component at main infrastructure - downtime 5-15 minutes - around 8PM CET

In celebration of Armbian's new Partnership program, we would like to welcome SinoVoip as Armbians first Platinum Partner! To celebrate our partnership, SinoVoip and Armbian are coming together to giveaway of two single board computers! A Banana Pi M5 and an BananaPi M2 Pro will be raffled off! We will have a giveaway for the Banana Pi M5 open to everyone! To enter you need to sign-up to the Armbian Forum and wait one day (24 hours) to pass the bot check and then you can enter the contest! Banana Pi M5 For our community members we will be giving away the Banana Pi M2 Pro, to enter the raffle all you ha…

+ updates to: rockpis, rockchip64 and odroidxu4 legacy kernel

next, default -> 4.14.127 dev -> 5.1.15 apt update & apt upgrade

For those who have missed it the forums offering various ways to display the contents, mentioning here especially the grid view: To get there simply select it by clicking on the middle button right next to the big red Start new topic: If you don't see pictures make sure you selected our default forums theme. As you will notice we partially have stock images only and some are even still missing. We would really love to see some nice and shiny artwork there as we might put the grid view as new default setting (no worries, the classic look'n'feel will be still availabe ). So if you have some gra…

- to build engine (EXPERT="yes") - repository update with the purpose for adding it (armbian-config and armbian-firmware update everywhere)

Most of the boards just got one freshly build test image - check bottom of download pages. - minimal image only - mainly kernel 5.6.y - Ubuntu Focal 20.04 based - u-boot 2020.04 - xz compressed - no end-user support

- enabled Bluetooth - align with latest upstream sources - tested on M4 and T4 http://ix.io/1MYD - updated repository - clocked back to normal CPU speed 1.5/1.8Ghz to minimise thermal throttling - added wireless drivers for 88x2bu - updated wireless drivers for Realtek 8811, 8812, 8814 and 8821 - updated wireless drivers for rtl8188eus & rtl8188eu & rtl8188etv - added latest Wireguard driver Download

Updated to 4.19.25 to fix broken headers compilation: https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/1330 apt update ; apt upgrade

Due to this bug: @TonyMac32

Main server will receive new IP(v6) address. Affected: dl.armbian.com www.armbian.com forum.armbian.com Some downtime is expected during the Monday morning. Apologize for the inconvenience.

Fixed issues with networking.

Legacy functionality -- bbcode support has been disabled. The current editor version has richer formatting support natively.. Disabling the bbcode formatting should improve editor performance.

Enabled kernel 5.4.y / on: - sunxi/sunxi64 dev (+ u-boot 2019.10) - imx6 current - mvebu64 dev - meson64 dev Will also available in 6 - 8h in beta repository if building on all targets succeeds. Only for experimenting - no end user support.

to WIP forums (RK3399 & H6) header to make it more clear about the support level.

I manage to refactor repository and package manipulation and a part of this is repo uploader. Welcome to test adding - currently only beta.armbian.com is adjusted: https://github.com/armbian/upload/tree/beta.armbian.com Please note if something is unclear to adjust "how-to". File size limitation still exists @ning @gprovost @chwe @TonyMac32

Quite a while ago developers decided to rename the dev branch to edge to reflect its purpose better: https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-233 This now finally happened. Our documentation has been adjusted as well. For details feel free to check these commits: https://github.com/armbian/documentation/commit/6c9985c9f5a0f593ab2593eb8054b6c658445d25 https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/0cdffb29b07305209efb12cf3b5ac6032d3a1153 For those who do automated and/or scripted building take note to adjust it accordingly.

We have a realtime status page for primary Armbian web resources available here: https://status.armbian.com

Invision Community version has been bumped to 4.5.3 Everything is still pretty rough, both at the frontend as well as the backend. Might probably take a few days until everything is in good shape. The good news is that for the most part the forums are usable

tl;dr: connect to irc.libera.chat and join #armbian --------------------------------------------------------------- Due to the weird stuff happening on Freenode we decided to move our channels to the recently founded Libera.chat network. The announcement thread in forums as well as our documentation have been updated accordingly. To make transition more comfortable a relay bot has been put in place to sync messages between the #armbian channel on both Freenode and Libera. For those who had project affiliation cloaks please drop me a message to get them reassigned. Be sure to have your nick registered with Nickserv beforehand. …

Kernel update to 4.14.116 wireguard fixed and enabled images and repository

https://www.armbian.com/newsflash/armbian-23-02/ Changelog: https://docs.armbian.com/Release_Changelog/

https://docs.armbian.com/Release_Changelog/

https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-r1/ https://dl.armbian.com/nanopiduo2/ (no dl page yet) Added to DEV and NEXT. Working fine except Bluetooth as on many other AP6212 boards.

Armbian have historically been much more geared towards "server/headless" usage, for many different reasons. It has taken a much longer time not only for upstream development of underlying graphical libraries / drivers to mature, but also for us (the Armbian project itself) to come up with a sensible implementation that would fit nicely into our existing build framework. However, this work has been going on in the background for quite some time already. Announcement Finally, the time is right to announce we are publishing our initial implementation of these "desktop" features! Warning! We are only announcing this her…

We are thrilled to launch this initiative to recognize and reward the incredible contributors who help keep Armbian running smoothly. All existing and new contributors will be entering the pool to win modern powerful and sleek Intel powered workstation: 1 x Khadas Mind Premium + dock and 1 x Khadas Mind Standard + dock Review: https://www.servethehome.com/khadas-mind-is-a-different-mini-pc-our-review-intel-1360p/ About: Spoiler Exceptional Performance: Khadas Mind Mini Computer is powered by the Newest 13th Gen Intel Core i7-1360P 12-core CPU (Intel Iris Xe Graphics eligible, gr…

Before you start getting crazy: Bionic on SBC is still supported A while ago with the release of Ubuntu Focal (and quite some testing beforehand) we decided push building to the new LTS release as main supported host OS. Bionic was marked as deprecated. Since we ran into first troubles on the old Ubuntu LTS the support to build Armbian on Ubuntu Bionic has now been dropped.

I had started to remove the automatic generation of PDF from documentation, but now I am starting to wonder if that was actually a good idea. In case you did not know, in addition to https://docs.armbian.com/ you can also download a PDF copy of same from here. Maybe this is helpful for people who are offline while working on their SBC? Anyway, please speak up if you are using this! Related Issue: 96 and PRs: 176, 177.

We are pleased to announce that the Wallpaper competition is over, and our judges choose the best wallpapers! The method used for checking which wallpaper was the best was Single-elimination tournament, and here are our lovely winners! First Place (№ 1) Congratulations to @vitors for their captivating creation! Second Place (№ 2) A round of applause for @Peregrint impressive entry! Third Place (№ 3) Kudos to @misteki for their visually striking masterpiece! Honorable Mention by the Judges We cannot let the Armbian Wallpaper Contest conclude without acknowledging another remarkable en…

C1 -> 5.1.y (serial console only) N2 -> latest upstream changes updated repository

@lanefu @TonyMac32 Any objections to switch from WIP to stable?

Media info: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/openzfs-2-0-release-unifies-linux-bsd-and-adds-tons-of-new-features/ Remarks: 32bit support is broken in Debian Stretch, no upgrade there. Also this upgrade is needed to bump kernel to 5.10.y

Armbian is an established Linux for single board computers that is used in enterprise, IOT micro services and various hobby deployments. Recent desktop improvements bring the platform on-par with key players in the Linux desktop arena while keeping the key advantage – you can easily build your own Linux distribution. Armbian provides stable releases every three months. They are driven by CURRENT LTS kernel. Adventurers which likes rolling releases, can check EDGE releases which are using latest daily kernel builds with fresh packages from sid, hirsute or impish userland. Armbian has powerful build system which can build a whole Li…

Besides the recommended images based on current kernel and stable userspaces we also provide cutting edge images for testing. Unfortunately due to that we notice and increasing amount of complains about such things won't work which is for some to be expected and for the other related to unstable userspace (like Debian sid). Dealing with such support requests causes time loss on our end and frustration on user's end since these issues most likely cannot even be solved by us. On our last Weekly Armbian Community Voice Chat on Discord we discussed this topic and came up with a few ideas how to deal with the situation. So what do you think …

Some users may experience issues when downloading new v23.11 images from our website or also sometimes with apt not having the new packages. The reason is that we had a (not so) small whoopsie at the very last minute and the infra is still recovering and syncing. Easiest workaround would be to simply try multiple times until the redirector hits a mirror that has the files you want to download. Alternatively go directly to https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/ which (seems to) have all the files atm. Will work with apt as well.

The first RC Images are out for Armbian 20.02. We need your help testing Supported Boards for this release. The download site is already configured for the RC1 images as the default download. (We intend to improve this process in future releases, and provide separate download links.) Here's how to help: download and configure our testing tool (currently in alpha state) identify supported boards you have on our test tracking google sheet Run testing tool Perform any additional independent testing that you can Update test tracking google sheet with your results Please share major issues on our Armbian 20.02 (Chi…

@lanefu will help around admin duties.

Hey All, Armbian has released version 22.11 over the weekend, the release announcement can be viewed: here Cheers!

Gonna patch and reboot forum server at 10PM my time. (US EAST) should be quick.. assuming no surprises

tl;dr. The 500€ subscription has been removed. No one took the generosity challenge As a replacement we added a 20€ monthly subscription to attract people who would like to give more than 5€ but 50€ would be too much. Existing Small business subscriptions have been "upgraded" to Angel color-wise.

Hey there, from time to time we have to decide on which boards we drop the maintained status and stop development in order to keep (or try at least) the workload for us at a controllable level. These boards are not necessarily end-of-life (EOL) but reached a decent enough state to let them go from active development. Though after today's developer meeting we are unsure how to name these boards. Therefore we ask our community what they think. Let us know by either voting or leaving a comment below. Thank you for your feedback!

- added support for V3 - included latest upstream changes - updated repository

Legacy and mainline kernel. https://www.armbian.com/rock-pi-4/

https://www.armbian.com/newsflash/code-freeze-and-moving-to-new-framework/

Good news @everyone! Armbian 24.5.1 Havier has been released 🥳 We prepared an official announcement with the huge changelog for you: ➡️ https://www.armbian.com/newsflash/armbian-24-5-1-havier/ You can grab the images as usual at our download page: ➡️ https://www.armbian.com/download/ We'd like to express our sincere gratitude to each and everyone that helped to make this release possible! Thank you! ❤️ Cheers 🍻

Changed posting permission - one need 10 5 posts to post in RK3399 or Allwinner H6 forums.

Affected: Clearfog and Helis4 @gprovost details regarding Helios4?

A bit late for announcement in forums but whatever, here it is

Bug fix release due to

Spoiler You want to join Armbian chat rooms, but hate Discord and would prefer something more modern than IRC? We got you! Join the closed beta of our own Matrix chat! With this test we want to get an idea about the public interest in this and also check the load on infra this generates so we can scale accordingly. Available (and bridged to IRC and Discord) channels: #armbian-announcements:matrix.armbian.com #armbian:matrix.armbian.com More channels will be added on demand. Invita…

We're working on it.

https://www.armbian.com/newsflash/armbian-22-02-pig-release-announcement/ Please promote, share, etc. on social media!

Armbian is evolving rapidly, now supporting an ever-growing list of single-board computers (SBCs) - each with unique hardware, kernels, and configurations. As the variety of supported boards expands, so does the complexity of troubleshooting and providing effective user assistance. To keep up with this demand, we’re raising 5,000 EUR to hire part-time support agents who can help manage this increasing workload and ensure high-quality support for the community. Read more: https://forum.armbian.com/crowdfunding/project/16-help-armbian-grow-support-join-our-team/

In case you experience instability, read at the download page what you have to do.

Forums, apt and downloads will be off-line for approximately 30 minutes for system maintenance. Thanks your understanding.

Anyone can add announcement, but moderators decide whether its worth to approve it. If there will be too much, this will be limited only to staff and developers.

Relocating server to new physical location - interruption & possible downtime until Tuesday, April 2nd. Automatic nightly building = manual until further notice.

Check community rolling releases of armhf arm64 riscv and x86 Armbian Linux images. Fresh from development for testings and meeting with the bleeding edge: https://github.com/armbian/community

Armbian Configurator Refactor Project This project will work to refactor and replace the currently existing ‘armbian-config’ command line tool. The main reason for refactoring this tool is to get rid of the ‘beta’ label. The current version of the tool was never properly designed and is potentially unsafe to use. We want to re-make it with appropriate coding standards, to enhance security and add better support for automation. Goals of the refactoring project: Cleaner and more secure code Unit testing of critical functions via Github CI Write in in a single / common language - Bash Use independant…

Little late but... oh well Anyway Release notes: https://www.armbian.com/newsflash/armbian-22-05/ Thanks to all contributors!

I moved outbound email to a new SMTP server. This should improve deliverability. My testing shows things being good. If you notice that you aren't receiving emails, or new spam flags just reply to this thread. Again, I just changed the server that the forum sends emails from, nothing else.

Our documentation got a new page answering the most common questions people have. Feel free to check it out: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_FAQ/ If you have ideas for other things that could/should be explained there let us know or send a pull request here: http://github.com/armbian/documentation

https://docs.armbian.com/Release_Changelog/#v21021-2021-02-03

Armbian 20.11.3 bugfix release is out! Detailed report - what has been fixed and what's new: https://www.armbian.com/newsflash/armbian-20-11-3-bugfix-update/

At August 6, 2021, 18:04 GMT -04:00 Our VPS provider had a massive data center outage impacting multiple carriers and power. We were offline for approximately 4.5 hours... our apt redirect service was moved to a temporary location around 3 hours into the outage. It's since moved back. FYI: https://status.armbian.com provides site status info. Prior to this our awesome VPS provider had given us 100% uptime for 13 months

If you have a bit of experience or interest in doing a simple mkdocs theme. Please let me know.. I'd really like to get our Doc Site to match the rest of Armbian.

added (tested) preview images for H6 boards based on our sunxi64-dev kernel (5.1.7) hdmi works, network works, dvfs works, ... not all board features works apt upgrades will not be tested bugs are expected. Help in finding and resolving is more then welcomed! https://www.armbian.com/download/?tx_soc=h6

- firmware to support Orangepi 3 https://github.com/armbian/firmware/commit/fe584970a1f8e718540a3cec4838e7a4cad5f263 - spelling and grammar in armbian-config https://github.com/armbian/config/commit/92ad8e77eec2e71429d677852654cfeb1a0ea3f0

We have moved the forums to a new host with higher availability. Caches may need to be cleared. Hopefully performance will be better as well. Please reply here to report any forum-related issues.

- default kernel -> stock 4.9.y - next kernel -> 5.2.y https://www.armbian.com/download/?tx_soc=nxp-freescale (except Udoo)

https://www.armbian.com/newsflash/armbian-needs-your-help/

What’s New: All board images have been rebuilt due to corruption found in certain images Fixed Orange Pi 3 LTS bluetooth support Added board images for Orange Pi 4 LTS Upgraded bootloader to 22.04 for Rockchip family boards How can you help? Time: For those who want to contribute time, please consider becoming a board Maintainer of one of the many boards that Armbian supports. Money: For those who can help monetarily, please consider making a donation. To see the full release changelog, please visit: Release Changelog The full release can be read: here

https://docs.armbian.com/Release_Changelog/#v2105-2021-05-09