admin Posted yesterday at 01:00 PM Posted yesterday at 01:00 PM Armbian Weekly Leaflet First week of April , 2025 This week’s Armbian update delivers a solid mix of wireless driver enhancements, board refinements, and quality-of-life improvements across the build system. Notably, rtw88 and rtw89 drivers are now enabled for kernel 6.12+, and Radxa Zero 3 receives mainline U-Boot and WiFi upgrades. Rock 3A sees multiple U-Boot tweaks, while NanoPi R3S and Odroid M2 benefit from version bumps and cleanup. Whether you’re maintaining a fleet or tweaking a personal project, there’s plenty in here to streamline your next build. Kernel & Driver Enhancements rtw88 & rtw89 wireless drivers are now enabled for kernel 6.12+ configs. By Igor Pecovnik RTL8812AU driver updated for kernel 6.14.y thanks to upstream merge. By Ricardo Pardini Reverted hacky RTL8812AU workaround now that upstream is in. Board Support Updates Radxa Zero 3 WiFi extension now enabled by default. Upgraded to mainline U-Boot v2025.01. NanoPi R3S U-Boot bumped to v2025.01 for current. Board config cleanup. Rock 3A U-Boot .itb build fixed. Back-and-forth on code duplication optimizations… but it’s finally clean now. Final Fix Odroid M2 U-Boot patches updated to v2025.04-rc5. Cleaned up patch naming and rewrote without functional changes. Infrastructure & System Improvements Cloud QCOW2 images now auto-resize filesystem to include 16GB of free space on boot. By Igor Pecovnik NETKIT support added to all kernel builds 6.7+. Docstrings added to netkit for clarity. By CodeRabbit AI Automatic board status synchronization occurred twice this week. #1 | #2 Miscellaneous armbian-leds.conf added for Radxa E20C Examples removed from hooks for leaner builds Vendor colors now included in BSP & artifact hashing Stay tuned for next week’s highlights! We’re always looking for more contributors and supporters—whether you’re a developer, tester, or fan. This is the final week to donate to our crowdfunding campaign aimed at boosting tech support and growing the team. Let’s build something great together!The post Armbian Weekly Highlights first appeared on Armbian.View the full article
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