This week's work centers on board portfolio expansion, kernel and U-Boot version bumps, and CI and infrastructure hardening across the build and documentation pipelines.
Board support saw notable growth with the introduction of the SpacemiT K3 Pico-ITX and Luckfox Nova (RK3308B), alongside a new generic uefi-arm64-dt family and board intended to standardize UEFI device-tree targets. Qualcomm enablement advanced through Radxa Dragon Q6A and Q8B work, including UFS provisioning for Kodiak, EDL-based UFS flashing in the imager, and audioreach topology firmware for sc8280xp. Catalog assets were extended for the MaaXBoard 8ULP, Mellow Fly C5, Xiaomi Sheng, and the new Radxa and SpacemiT boards.
On the kernel and bootloader front, rockchip64, meson64, and rpi4b edge branches were promoted to the stable 7.1 series, with the rtl8192eu driver rebuilt and re-enabled against the new tree. U-Boot was refreshed on cm3588-nas, nanopik2-s905, and the Luckfox Nova, while updated DDR, BL31, and BL32 blobs landed for RK3528 and new SPL loaders were published for RV1103, RV1106, and RK3506. Targeted kernel-config work restored md/RAID modules on sunxi, enabled MIPI DBI panels on sunxi64, and added CPUFreq support for the SpacemiT K1.
Infrastructure changes focused on resilience and resource control. The git-trees workflow gained bounded retries, escalating timeouts, and Google mirror fallbacks; Docker base-image pulls now retry transient GHCR failures and split host dependencies into per-group apt layers. Image compression caps xz memory and thread usage, the info-gatherer no longer exhausts file descriptors, and a new CI policy enforces transparent backgrounds and object-size limits for board and vendor logos, with offending assets re-cropped.
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Changes
- Actions: Disable debugsym builds. by @vidplace7 in armbian/MorseMicro-DKMS#7
- Add Board & Vendor logo for the Mellow Fly C5. by @deece in armbian/armbian.github.io#324
- Add board SpacemiT K3 Pico-ITX. by @pyavitz in armbian/build#10001
- Add board: Luckfox Nova (RK3308B). by @crackerjacques in armbian/build#9985
- Add K3 Pico ITX. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#341
- Add Luckfox Nova board image. by @crackerjacques in armbian/armbian.github.io#332
- Add MaaXBoard 8ULP board image and Avnet vendor logo. by @govindsi in armbian/armbian.github.io#340
- Add Radxa Dragon Q8B board image. by @SuperKali in armbian/armbian.github.io#342
- Add spl_loader bins for RV1103, RV1106, RK3506. by @vidplace7 in armbian/rkbin#46
- Add Xiaomi Sheng board image. by @code002-2 in armbian/armbian.github.io#337
- armbian-install: fix boot on UEFI systems. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9945
- armbian-upgrade: use apt-get to silence apt CLI-warning noise. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9998
- artifact-uboot: opt-in cache-bust via UBOOT_HASH_EXTRA for prebuilt blobs. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9995
- board assets: fix 10 board-image dimensions + square the Huawei logo. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#334
- ci: board-asset validation — transparent background + object-size + full monthly scan. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#333
- ci: bound each retry attempt with a 10-minute timeout. by @rpardini in armbian/shallow#8
- ci: double retry timeout each attempt; fetch from Google mirrors. by @rpardini in armbian/shallow#9
- ci: enforce MAX_OBJECT_PCT=50 + re-crop the two over-limit board images. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#335
- ci: make git-trees workflow resilient to network failures. by @rpardini in armbian/shallow#7
- ci: push image-info data branch direct to github (bypass git cache proxy). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#338
- ci: vendor logos must be transparent + ≤80% object fill (+ fix the 6 opaque ones). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#336
- cm3588-nas: u-boot: bump to v2026.07-rc3. by @rpardini in armbian/build#9975
- docker: retry transient ghcr base-image pulls; guard the auto-pull cronjob. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10006
- docker: split host deps into per-group apt layers in generated Dockerfile. by @rpardini in armbian/build#9999
- Feature/sunxi mainline stmmac ac300. by @deece in armbian/build#9952
- fix(images): hide UFS images from the catalog. by @SuperKali in armbian/imager#157
- fix(profiles): keep the flash profile picker in sync with Settings. by @SuperKali in armbian/imager#156
- Flash UFS images to Qualcomm boards over EDL. by @SuperKali in armbian/imager#158
- image: cap xz compression memory and lower the thread cap. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10005
- info-gatherer: fix 'Too many open files' from cpu*4 parallel workers. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10014
- introduce new family uefidt and new board uefi-arm64-dt. by @amazingfate in armbian/build#9923
- Kodiak: add Radxa Dragon Q6A UFS provisioning XML. by @SuperKali in armbian/qcombin#2
- luckfox-rk3308b-nova: bump U-Boot to v2026.07-rc4. by @crackerjacques in armbian/build#10010
- meson64: bleedingedge: enable CONFIG_GPIO_CDEV_V1. by @adeepn in armbian/build#9979
- nanopik2-s905: bump u-boot to v2026.04. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9989
- PocketBeagle 2 - Fix NCM Networking w/ACM for Serial. by @Grippy98 in armbian/build#10007
- qcom/qcs6490: replace Radxa Dragon Q6A adsp/cdsp with linux-firmware. by @SuperKali in armbian/firmware#129
- qcom/sc8280xp: add Radxa Dragon Q8B audioreach topology. by @SuperKali in armbian/firmware#128
- radxa-cubie-a5e: tidy BOARD_NAME to "Cubie A5E". by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9990
- remove bleedingedge from all boards. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10016
- rk3528: updated rkbins ddr/bl31/bl32 for rk3528. by @rpardini in armbian/rkbin#47
- rockchip64 & meson64: bump edge to stable 7.1. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9980
- rpi4b: bump edge to 7.1.y. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9982
- rtl8192eu: fix build against 7.1 and re-enable. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10009
- SpacemiT K1: Update CPUFreq support
EDGE. by @pyavitz in armbian/build#9981 - sunxi64: Enable CONFIG_DRM_PANEL_MIPI_DBI=m for current and edge configs. by @d93921012 in armbian/build#9984
- sunxi: restore md modules (software raid modules). by @k-popov in armbian/build#9992
- Update MorseMicro suite to 1.17.9. by @vidplace7 in armbian/MorseMicro-DKMS#8
- Update odroidxu4-current to 6.6.143. by @belegdol in armbian/build#10018