Github Highlights

Hello Armbian community!

The past few weeks brought significant updates, with a focus on new board and hardware support, crucial driver updates, and workflow improvements.

Key highlights

• New boards supported: Armbian support has been extended to the NanoPi R76S(support) [#8586], Radxa Rock 4D(csc) [#8570], and XpressReal T3(csc) [#8557].
• BeagleY-Ai Re-Enabled & Wi-Fi fixed: The BeagleY-Ai board is now fully supported again, with a critical fix for its Wi-Fi functionality [#8625].
• Streamlined PR review workflows: Significant enhancements to GitHub Actions have been implemented to create a more efficient and reliable review process, including improved PR number handling [#8636], [#8629], [#8628], [#8627] and intelligent label removal upon approval.
• Enhanced video decoding: A significant update to the rkvdec driver for Rockchip64 systems enhances video decoding capabilities, adding support for HEVC and VDPU38X [#8574].
• Rockpi S Ethernet fix: A regression affecting 10Mbit built-in Ethernet on the Rockpi S has been addressed and fixed [#8575].

Other updates

• New features:
  • The NanoPi R76S [#8609] and ArmSOM-SiGe5 [#8585] boards now have edge kernel support.
  • RK3576 thermal sensor support was added for rockchip64-edge builds [#8614].
• Bug fixes:
  • IMX8 kernel 6.12.y compilation was fixed [#8616].
  • Corrected incorrect logging in the USB Gadget network setup script [#8601].
  • Resolved a typo in the KERNEL_TARGET variable for the armsom-sige5 board [#8599].
  • Addressed and restricted the RTW88 SDIO RF path detection fix to kernel 6.1 only [#8589], [#8587].
  • Repaired a broken GitHub Action responsible for adding labels when a PR is approved [#8620].
• Improvements:
  • RK3576 firmware was updated with the latest versions for DDR_BLOB and BL31 [#8600], [#8596].
  • Mainline U-Boot and kernel source are now configured to use mirrors, improving build speed [#8598], [#8597].
  • The RTL8852BS driver was updated to the latest main branch commit [#8595].
  • The RTW88 SDIO RF path fix was extended to include kernel 6.16 [#8608].
  • U-boot for the armsom-sige5 board now uses its own dtb for power negotiation [#8584].
  • BTRFS can now be built as a module [#8561].
  • The input nice value is now tracked and propagated to Docker [#8582].

Community contributions

A big thank you to this week's contributors for their hard work and dedication:

@igorpecovnik @armbianworker @Grippy98 @SuperKali @adeepn @leggewie @amazingfate @tabrisnet @chillymattster @HeyMeco @wei633