Missing kernel updates

[mybob96]

Hi,

 

I have been running armbian with the minmal debian trixie image on a odroid M1 for a few month now and I noticed that since I installed the image there has not been a single kernel upgrade.
the kernel is still at 6.18.10 despite current debian install image for this board being shipped with 6.18.28 so I am assuming I am doing something wrong.
The apt update and apt dist-upgrade logs show clearly all current package information are being downloaded from both debian and the armbian mirrors, and both armbian-config updates and upstream debian packages have been upgraded whenever I run the  apt dist-upgrade commands, but the kernel is still the same old version from several month ago.

Any clue what I should look at to find the issue?
Thanks
 

[Werner]

We're in the middle of the May release, so new packages should eventually hit repo in a few days/weeks.

[SteeMan]

The longer answer is that for standard releases, updates only occur with each release cycle (i.e. every three months in Feb, May, Aug, and Nov each year.  So you will get new kernel release on that schedule.

 

Armbian also has rolling release repositories and these put out new versions on a frequent basis.  And you should be able to switch between stable releases and rolling release apt repositories using armbian-config.

 

Note that rolling releases don't get any testing (other than automated builds) and therefore may not be suitable for many users needs.  But those are your two options.