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Armbian 26.8 Released with Linux 7.1, Revamped Installer, and UEFI ISO Images
Coming almost three months after Armbian 26.5, the Armbian 26.8 release adds support for new ARM boards and chips, including Anbernic RG DS and RG Vita Pro, Radxa Cubie A7Z and Dragon Q6A/Q8B, Seeed reComputer RK3576 and RK3588 DevKits, as well as TI BeagleBadge and TMDS64EVM.
The list of newly supported boards continues with Orange Pi 4 Pro and Zero 3W, Sovol Zero and SV08, Walnut Pi Box and 1B, EmbedFire LubanCat 5IO, LuckFox Nova, SpacemiT K3 Pico-ITX, Milk-V DuoS, Avnet MaaXBoard 8ULP, NanoPi NEO3 Plus, KICKPI K3B, Graperain G3568 v2, EASY EAI Nano, Mellow Fly C5, CIX P1, and Xiaomi Pad 6S Pro and Tanix TX6S.
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Armbian 26.8 released
Version 26.8 of the Armbian distribution for Arm hardware has been released.
Most releases are a long list of small improvements. This one had three larger pieces landing at roughly the same time, and all three touch parts of Armbian that people use directly rather than parts they only read about in changelogs.
The installer was rewritten. Armbian Imager reached 2.0. And our CI moved out of the repository it had outgrown into one built for the job. None of these were planned to coincide; they simply reached the point where postponing them again would have cost more than doing them.
The installer rewrite is the one I expect people to notice first. It now ships as an armbian-config module, which means it is unit-tested, the same way the rest of armbian-config is tested, rather than living as a script that everyone was slightly afraid to touch. It can target SPI and MTD, treats eMMC and NVMe as separate flows instead of pretending they are the same thing, can flash a bootloader on its own, and — this one is overdue — reports when a bootloader write fails instead of printing "Done." and leaving you to find out at the next boot.
See the release notes for a full list of changes.