Armbian 26.8 released
Version 26.8 of the Armbian distribution for Arm hardware has been released. Most releases are a long list of small improvements. This one had three larger pieces landing at roughly the same time, and all three touch parts of Armbian that people use directly rather than parts they only read about in changelogs. The installer was rewritten. Armbian Imager reached 2.0. And our CI moved out of the…
Armbian 26.8 has been released for Arm hardware. This version includes a few significant enhancements. The installer has been rewritten, Armbian Imager has reached version 2.0, and the Continuous Integration (CI) setup has been moved to a dedicated repository. These changes were not planned to happen simultaneously, but their postponement would have been more costly.
The most noticeable update is the installer rewrite, which now functions as an armbian-config module, providing unit testing and separate treatment of eMMC and NVMe compared to NVMe. Additionally, the installer can now flash a bootloader independently and report when a bootloader write fails, preventing users from discovering issues at the next boot. The release notes provide a comprehensive list of changes.
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