[News from Armbian] - Armbian 2025: by the numbers

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Open hardware is growing faster than ever and breaking in new ways.

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2025 has been a productive year for the Armbian project. As the Single Board Computer ecosystem continues to fragment and expand, Armbian has consolidated its position as the universal glue holding the open-source hardware world together. Our mission remains clear: providing a consistent, reliable build framework that generates operating system for an increasingly diverse hardware landscape.

Hardware diversity and development velocity

The most visible metric of our growth is hardware support. This year, the team successfully integrated 61 new boards into the ecosystem. This represents thausands of engineering hours dedicated to debugging, kernel patching, and testing to ensure a stable experience for the end user, regardless of the underlying silicon.

The heartbeat of this activity remains our build Framework, which saw 1,946 commits this year. This framework is the engine that allows Armbian to scale across architectures. Our specialized repositories also saw significant contributions: 795 commits to Rockchip Linux, 304 commits to Armbian Config, and 88 commits to the Armbian Imager.

Repository	2025 Commits	Primary Role
Build Framework	1,946	Core image generation engine
Rockchip Linux	795	Kernel support for Rockchip SoCs
Armbian Config	304	System management and TUI
Armbian Imager	88	Cross-platform flashing utility

The CI/CD powerhouse: 9.2 years of compute!

To maintain quality across hundreds of supported boards, our automated workflows are essential. In 2025, Armbian’s infrastructure ran for a total of 4,885,668 minutes. To put that in perspective, our servers performed the equivalent of 9.2 years of continuous compute time in a single calendar year.

This massive undertaking involved 1,510,771 individual job runs, ensuring that every code contribution was properly assembled and tested and every image was built to specification before reaching your SD card.

Community: more than just code

Armbian is a community-first project that thrives on shared expertise. While code is our foundation, documentation and education are what empower our users. Newsletter team is seeking contributors to create technical documentation, share practical experience, and write clear instructions and tutorials. If you have a unique project, a "how-to" guide, or an interesting Armbian use case, we encourage you to share your knowledge with the community via the Armbian Forum.

Support the Mission

Maintaining the infrastructure required for millions of job runs is a significant financial undertaking. If Armbian provides value to your business, research, or hobby, please consider supporting us.

• Contribute Expertise: Visit our Get Involved Guide to help with development or testing.
• Financial Support: You can donate via PayPal, Liberapay, or BTC or become a GitHub Sponsor.

Every contribution directly funds build infrastructure, CI runners, mirrors, development tools, and hardware enablement, ensuring Armbian remains reliable and up to date.

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