admin Posted May 9 Posted May 9 Dear Armbian Community, At Armbian, we’re committed to providing stability without compromising on cutting-edge features. With that in mind, we deliver four point releases per year alongside our daily rolling releases, ensuring you have access to the best of both worlds. We’re gearing up to roll out new point release images featuring the latest kernel and packages by the end of May! Focus on Testing and Bug Hunting It’s time that we all shift our focus towards testing and bug hunting. Let’s prioritize closing any pending issues that require minimal effort, reserving the rest for post-June 1st. Notable Changes in the Pipeline Enabling Ubuntu Noble builds while keep providing highly stabilised and optimised Jammy based userspace On Debian side, we are keeping Bookworm We keep well maintained and proven desktops: XFCE, GNOME, and Jammy based KDE Neon Most popular Rokchip SoC is getting vendor kernel upgrade to 6.1.y with a focus on delivering a fully functional desktop experience. We will refresh well maintained Home Assistant, OpenHab and Kali images for various boards. Addressing all known issues in our sources. Get Involved! We encourage everyone in the community to actively participate: Check open Jira tickets on our participation page, Report or browse open issues on our GitHub repository, Review, close, or tag your pull requests here, Propose new images for dedicated applications, If maintaining contributions becomes overwhelming, consider this alternative. Someone else may pick it up for the next release. Spread the word about our latest release on various forums. What Else Are We Missing? Your input matters! You are welcome to share any additional suggestions or ideas you believe could enhance our community. Thank you for your continued support and dedication to the Armbian project. Warm regards, The Armbian Team View the full article
Igor Posted May 9 Posted May 9 Actions: updating template for building standard support images. Keeping Jammy CLI and Jammy XFCE desktop, upgrade other Jammy to Noble. Keeping old stable user-land with more recent kernel is actually a perfect combination. download pages were adjusted to current status. branching to 24.5 freezing sources merging all board status changes making RC builds updating application builds lists updating 3rd party packages import regenerating repository with Ubuntu oracular switching nightly build targets to Ubuntu oracular generating RC images for application deployments returning armhf to Noble / Trixie RC0 RC1 (is in making) for testing: HomeAssistant, OpenHab, Security (Kali) https://github.com/armbian/distribution/releases/tag/24.5.RC0 Nightly images https://github.com/armbian/os/releases/tag/24.5.0-trunk.580 Stable builds (RC) https://k-space.ee.armbian.com/incoming/ https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/incoming/ Automated testings https://github.com/armbian/os?tab=readme-ov-file#latest-smoke-tests-results Report: - problems Suggest: - images that needs to be added, changed status @Contributor/Maintainer 3
Igor Posted May 11 Posted May 11 Which SoCs and on which branch can have extensions enabled? 4l2loopback-dkms mesa-oibaf here: https://github.com/armbian/os/blob/main/userpatches/targets-release-standard-support.yaml#L40-L95 Mapping config: https://github.com/armbian/os/blob/main/userpatches/targets-extensions.map
Igor Posted May 13 Posted May 13 Testing ... 3588 vendor 6.1: Do we have a working? 3D hw support via panfork wiringpi support? npu? 4k youtube video playback under Chromium? 4k under MPV video player? https://github.com/armbian/os/blob/main/userpatches/targets-release-standard-support.yaml other rockchips. Enabling extensions? - v4l2loopback-dkms,mesa-oibaf What about amlogic, allwinnner? - v4l2loopback-dkms,mesa-oibaf Nice to have: rock-5-itx edge kernel Manually tested: - Bananapi M2PRO Gnome desktop with 4l2loopback-dkms and mesa-oibaf
going Posted May 13 Posted May 13 5 часов назад, Igor сказал: allwinnner? I tested the 6.6.30 kernel without changing anything. The assembly was done locally on the main branch. I noticed that the temperature for A64 A83T is calculated incorrectly. DMESG does not report errors. Device loading is a bit weird with freezes. U-boot has not checked yet. The first step is to re-release the patches. I've already done that for the core. I'll fix the temperature and make a pull request. 1
jock Posted May 13 Posted May 13 Tested Noble XFCE on Orange Pi 4 LTS - RK3399: System boots HDMI ok eMMC ok Sdcard ok USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ok Ethernet ok, throughtput ok (> 900mbps) Wireless ok, throughput ok (~80 mbps on 2.4ghz 802.11n network) Bluetooth ok, streamed some music from smartphone Analog Audio codec is fine dmesg is clean with no particular errors 1
jock Posted May 13 Posted May 13 Tested Noble XFCE on ASUS Tinkerboard S - RK3288: System boots HDMI ok eMMC ok sdcard ok USB2.0 ok Ethernet ok, throughput ok (> 900mbps) Wireless ok (rtl8723bs), throughput ok (~70 mbps on 2.4ghz 802.11n network) Bluetooth ok, streamed same music from same smartphone as opi4 lts; some occasional hiccups but link is stable Analog audio codec ok dmesg is lamenting: ff540000.usb device "Waiting for Host Mode timed out", USB 2.0 host ports yet works fine ff580000.usb softreset failed, but USB OTG port is occupied by PSU SPI device is not found (there is no SPI device on my tinkerboard) mmc1 (wifi) incurs in an issue on first initialization, but succeeds on next attempt and wifi/bt seems to work pretty fine
jock Posted May 14 Posted May 14 Tested Debian Bookworm on Radxa Rockpi-E - RK3328: Systems boots HDMI N/A eMMC N/A sdcard ok USB 3.0 ok Gigabit Ethernet ok, throughput ok (> 900mbps) Fast Ethernet ok, throughput ok (> 90mbps) Wireless ok (rtl8821), throughtput satisfying but not at best (~30 mbps on 2.4ghz 802.11n network) Bluetooth untested Analog audio codec ok dmesg is clean
Igor Posted May 18 Posted May 18 Two desktops needs additional testing: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6626 https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6625 ... we are high on closing existing tasks and very low on time dealing with this. There are several other bugs that needs attention: https://www.armbian.com/participate/
Igor Posted May 20 Posted May 20 Planned point release and images rebuild date is upcoming Saturday, 25th. There are three problems, that would be nice to fix before. People working on are very busy and might not be able to deal with, so help is needed here: Debian bookworm XFCE lacks wallpaper and lockscreen Compile from sources and pack Chromium for aarch64 on PPA Resolving Noble incompatibility with amazingfated-rk3588 extension Thank you all that participated in this release!
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