release Armbian 19.11.y release notes

[Igor]

Release details

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

 

Upgrading your Armbian to v19.11.y

 

This upgrade is changing kernel branch names and first upgrade is not done via regular apt-upgrade process, but you have to login as root or get super user privileges with sudo su. Than do the following:

apt update
apt upgrade
armbian-config

-> system -> Other -> select either legacy or current with v19.11.3

 

Spoiler

 

Choose latest version of 19.11.x and select upgrade according to this scheme:

Odroid XU4 default, next or dev -> legacy (stock 4.14.y)
Allwinner default, next, dev -> legacy (4.19.y), current (5.3.y)
Odroid C2 and other meson64 boards -> current (5.3.y)
Odroid N2 -> legacy (4.4.y), current (5.3.y)
Tinkerboard and other rockchip boards -> legacy (4.4.y), current (5.3.y)
Cubox and Udoo -> imx6 current (5.3.y)
Helios 4 and Clearfog -> mvebu legacy (4.14.y), current (4.19.y)
Espressobin -> mvebu64 legacy (4.14.y), current (4.19.y)

Those upgrades were tested manually:
 

Spoiler

 Odroid XU4 5.58 NEXT -> LEGACY
 Orangepi 2E 5.91 NEXT and LEGACY 5.59 -> CURRENT
 Lime A64 on eMMC 5.91 NEXT -> CURRENT
 Cubox-i desktop bionic 5.98 NEXT -> CURRENT
 Nanopi K2 S905 5.95 NEXT -> CURRENT
 Odroid C2 5.59 NEXT (odroidc2 family) -> CURRENT (meson64 family)
 Odroid N2 5.95 DEFAULT -> LEGACY
 Nanopi Fire 3 5.95 minimal DEFAULT -> LEGACY
 Nanopi Neo2 5.91 NEXT -> CURRENT
 Nanopi M4 5.98 default -> LEGACY
 Pinebook NEXT -> CURRENT
 Tinkerboard 5.98 legacy -> CURRENT
 Teres DEV -> DEV,CURRENT
 Pinebook 5.69 legacy -> CURRENT
 Rock64 5.91 DEFAULT -> CURRENT
 Rock64pro 5.91 DEFAULT -> LEGACY and CURRENT
 Rockpi 4b 5.98 DEFAULT -> LEGACY
 Rockpi 4b 5.98 DEFAULT -> CURRENT
 Odroid N2 5.95 DEFAULT -> CURRENT
 Helios4 Debian Buster 5.91 NEXT -> CURRENT
 Helios4 Debian Buster 5.91 NEXT -> LEGACY
 Helios4 Debian Stretch 5.91 DEFAULT -> CURRENT
 Helios4 Debian Stretch 5.91 DEFAULT -> LEGACY
 Helios4 Debian Stretch 5.75 NEXT -> CURRENT
 Helios4 Debian Stretch 5.75 NEXT -> LEGACY
 Helios4 Ubuntu Bionic 5.91 NEXT -> CURRENT
 Helios4 Ubuntu Bionic 5.91 NEXT -> LEGACY
 Clearfog Pro Debian Buster 5.91 NEXT -> CURRENT
 Clearfog Pro Debian Buster 5.91 NEXT -> LEGACY
 Clearfog Pro Debian Stretch 5.91 DEFAULT -> CURRENT
 Clearfog Pro Debian Stretch 5.91 DEFAULT -> LEGACY
 Clearfog Pro Ubuntu Bionic 5.91 NEXT -> CURRENT
 Clearfog Pro Ubuntu Bionic 5.91 NEXT -> LEGACY
 Clearfog Base Debian Buster 5.91 NEXT -> CURRENT
 Clearfog Base Debian Buster 5.91 NEXT -> LEGACY
 Clearfog Base Debian Stretch 5.91 DEFAULT -> CURRENT
 Clearfog Base Debian Stretch 5.91 DEFAULT -> LEGACY
 Clearfog Base Ubuntu Bionic 5.91 NEXT -> CURRENT
 Clearfog Base Ubuntu Bionic 5.91 NEXT -> LEGACY

 

Note: upgrade will replace your boot script. In case you made changes, you can find a backup in /usr/share/armbian

Main build system changes

Due to changes in branch names and removal of all legacy kernels < 4 your predefined automatic scripts might need updating. Temporally quick fix is to add

LIB_TAG="v19.08"

to your build config file which by default is:

userpatches/config-default.conf

Then run your script as you did before.

 

Thanks to all who are contributing their time to Armbian in various forms and especially developers who contributed to this release. Also thanks to the greater kernel developers community which are playing great role in this.

In case you want to participate, you are more then welcome. Step up and start making changes! In case you run into the troubles or find a bug, forum is the place for talking about while fixes you are welcome to prepare and send here.

Note: some images will be missing today and tomorrow from the download section. Missing one are being created and uploaded but this takes time ... Most of the images were manually tested for booting, upgrades as stated above, but we can't afford to make stability, functional or just boot auto tests on industrial scale. Not with our ultra tiny resources. Perhaps in the future if "you" will support that.

 

Enjoy!