[News from Armbian] - Github Highlights

This week’s Armbian development saw significant kernel upgrades across multiple platforms, including meson64, rockchip64, and UEFI, with several branches bumped to versions 6.18 and 6.19. Notable hardware support enhancements were introduced, such as SPI controller support for Allwinner A523, new board additions like mixtile-core3588e, and improved compatibility for devices including Radxa and Youyeetoo. The build system received stability and performance improvements, featuring parallel repository generation, refined CI scripts, and fixes for repository management in concurrent environments. Kernel configuration updates enabled additional filesystems and tickless idle for mvebu devices. Several patches addressed hardware initialization, network, and desktop issues, while deprecated packages were removed for a leaner build. Overall, the changelog reflects a strong focus on expanding hardware support, refining build infrastructure, and maintaining kernel currency.

• add allwinner: a523: Support SPI controllers patch series. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9124
• allow build on forky host. by @amazingfate in armbian/build#9153
• CI: add watchdog action script and adjust log cleaning parameter. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9147
• Fix repository management script for parallel execution. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9163
• fix: replace comm with grep to support uutils coreutils. by @cantalupo555 in armbian/build#9148
• kernel configs - enable EROFS as module, ditto overlayfs & F2FS. by @tabrisnet in armbian/build#9135
• kernel: mvebu: enable tickless idle. by @neheb in armbian/build#9139
• meson64-6.19: de-bork PCIe, again (missed a patch from 6.18). by @rpardini in armbian/build#9151
• meson64: bump edge to 6.19; current 6.12 -> 6.18. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9069
• meson64: bump edge to 6.19; current 6.12 -> 6.18 (nonsquash). by @rpardini in armbian/build#9146
• Missing variable in board config - address JSON matrix warnings. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9144
• mixtile-core3588e: add board with vendor and edge branches (Joshua Riek + fixes). by @rpardini in armbian/build#9119
• Modify radxa-e54c board config to fix leds, network and Gnome desktop init.. by @schwar3kat in armbian/build#9111
• radxa-cubie-a5e: maint and fixes. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9152
• Remove libfuse2t64 from package list. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9155
• Repo tools: add parallel repository generation support. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9150
• Revert few Rabbit's suggestions that broke repository management. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9156
• rockchip64-6.18: Enable HDMI1 and audio for HDMI0/1 on CM3588-NAS. by @rpardini in armbian/build#9138
• rockchip64: add edge kernel support for Youyeetoo YY3588. by @SuperKali in armbian/build#9137
• rockchip64: fix broken patch in 6.18.3, rewrite everything. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9157
• uefi-all: bump edge to 6.19 (except loong64); legacy 6.6 -> 6.12; current/cloud 6.12 -> 6.18. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9086
• uefi-loong64-edge: bump to 6.19. by @amazingfate in armbian/build#9149

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