The Armbian community has reported to 9to5Linux.com today about the release of Armbian 24.5, codenamed Havier. This is the latest reliable version of the Debian/Ubuntu-based platform for ARM apparatuses.
The new version, Armbian 24.5, arrives nearly two months following the release of Armbian 24.2. It inaugurates support for novel devices such as Orange Pi 5 Pro, Radxa ROCK 5 ITX, Allwinner T527 Avaota-A1, Radxa ZERO 3E, Radxa ZERO 3W, FriendlyElec CM3588, 4G Phytium Pi, Sakura Pi RK3308B, SK-AM68, TQMa8MPxL, and CoolPi CM5 EVB.
This version provides enhanced assistance for devices previously supported, including Khadas VIM1S, Khadas VIM4, Khadas Edge 2, Radxa Rock S 0, Banana Pi BPI-M7, Radxa Zero 3, Odroid C1, Radxa ROCK 4C+, Banana Pi BPI-M4 Zero, AYN Odin 2, Orange Pi 5, Orange Pi 5 Plus, Radxa Rock 5c, ArmSoM Sige1, Rockchip Rock 5C, and ODROID-N2+.
In addition to the technical improvements, Armbian 24.5 also offers compatibility with the latest Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) OS series, introduces the KDE neon desktop to Armbian Jammy photos, and provides Mainline Panthor driver support to the Linux 6.1 kernel. It also supports Linux kernel 6.8 on select images, and facilitates EMMC and NVME/USB booting to Khadas VIM1S/VIM4 boards.
It also enables vendor kernel branch on the Khadas Edge 2 board, introduces the rewrite-uboot-patches, inventory-boards, and kernel-dtb CLI commands, enables NVMe-over-TCP for rk35xx/rk3588/Rockchip64/UEFI/WSL devices, adds a new board for a virtualized environment with serial console support, enables SSDM autologin, and adds a PPA for pathed AArch64 Chromium web browser.
Armbian 24.5 is available for download for a wide range of devices from the official website. For more technical details about the changes included in this update, with links to the closed tasks, check out the release changelog. The latest version at the moment of writing is Armbian 24.5.1.
Image credits: Armbian (edited by Marius Nestor)
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