SkiffOS

This mainline release corresponds to Buildroot 2022.05.1.

Changes since SkiffOS 2022.05:

• Buildroot: see Release notes
• Update Linux to 5.18.14
• Update rpi to 5.15.55
• Pine64: update kernel to megi-5.18.12
• Fixes for Odroid HC4, Pinebook, apple/macbook, riscv sv57 mode, qemu
• auvidea/j121: carrier board for Jetson TX2.
• util/adbd: new configuration layer for adb
• android-tools: update to 5.1.1
• Odroid N2 and M1: fix booting from emmc

New devices:

• pine64/book_a64: Older A64-based Pinebook
• starfive/visionfive: Riscv64 board

New contributors:

• @peterwilli made their first contribution in https://github.com/skiffos/SkiffOS/pull/217

This mainline and LTS release corresponds to Buildroot 2022.05.

Changes since SkiffOS 2022.02.1:

• Buildroot: see release notes
• Update linux to 5.17.3
• Update rpi to 5.15.44
• Update odroid to tb-5.18.1
• Switch default skiff/core to lightweight Debian XFCE from Snap-based Ubuntu.
• Add core/ubuntu and core/debian.
• Update core/gentoo significantly.
• Add support for Busybox configuration fragments.
• Add examples to README for wifi & ssh config.
• Improved support for skiff-init-squashfs on devices with very low RAM capacity.
• Added skiff-init-kexec experimental boot method.
• Fixed issues resizing the persist filesystem with skiff-init-squashfs.
• Pine64: completely switch to skiff-init-squashfs based boot.
• Fix an issue compiling the virt/wsl target.

New devices added:

• allwinner/nezha: Allwinner D1 Risc-V CPU in a Pi form factor.
• allwinner/licheerv: Allwinner D1 Risc-V CPU in a tiny form factor.
• beaglebone/ai: BeagleBone AI by BeagleBoard.
• beaglebone/black: BeagleBone Black by BeagleBoard.
• beaglebone/x15: BeagleBoard X15.
• freescale/wandboard: The FreeScale wandboard legacy device.
• odroid/hc4: The odroid HC4 "toaster" dual-SSD/HDD form factor device.
• odroid/m1: The odroid M1 by Hardkernel.
• pine64/book_a64: The old legacy Pinebook A64 1080p model by Pine64.

This mainline and LTS release corresponds to Buildroot 2022.02.1 LTS.

Changes since SkiffOS 2022.02:

• Buildroot: see release notes
• Update linux to 5.16.19
• Update rpi to 5.15.30-v8
• Update odroid to tb-5.16.19
• Enable seccomp
• Jetson: update kernel to 4.9.307
• pine64: use megi kernel for book, phone, rockpro64
• jetson: update l4t to 32.7.1

This mainline and LTS release corresponds to Buildroot 2022.02 LTS.

Changes since SkiffOS 2021.11.x:

• Buildroot: see release notes
• Update linux to 5.16.14
• Update rpi to 5.15.27
• Update odroid to tb-5.16.14, u-boot to 2022.01
• Add support for Odroid N2+
• Fix pi 3, pi 0, pi 0v2 boot config

This mainline release corresponds to Buildroot 2021.11.2.

SkiffOS 2021.02.9 is the current LTS release.

Changes since SkiffOS 2021.11.3:

• Update docker, runc, etc.
• Update linux to 5.16.11
• Update rpi to 5.10.95
• Update core/gentoo, core/alpine, skiff-core-ubuntu
• Update nvidia-drivers to 470.103.01
• Other minor fixes & tweaks

This LTS release corresponds to Buildroot 2021.02.10 LTS.

This mainline release corresponds to Buildroot 2021.11.1.

SkiffOS 2021.02.8 is the current LTS release.

Changes since 2021.11.2:

• Update docker to 20.10.12
• Update linux to 5.16.4
• Update rpi to 5.10.92
• Add apps/buildah layer
• Update skiff-core
• Add facetimehd driver and cleanup apple/macbook
• Update/cleanup pine64 common configs
• Update runc & other dependencies

This LTS release corresponds to Buildroot 2021.02.8 LTS.

This mainline release corresponds to Buildroot 2021.11.

SkiffOS 2021.02.7 is the current LTS release.

Changes since 2021.11:

• Fix rpi-firmware for all pi boards
• Update docker to 20.10.11
• Update linux to 5.15.11

See release 2021.08.3 for changes since 2021.08.2.

This mainline release corresponds to Buildroot 2021.02.8 LTS.

Significant changes:

• Upgrade odroid kernel to 5.15.7
• Upgrade kernel to 5.15.11 for many boards
• Odroid XU4: enable ttySAC0 uart port
• apps/portainer: new configuration
• Jetson: upgrade l4t to 32.6.1, kernel, and core images.
• Pi: upgrade to kernel 5.10.83
• Add experimental support for pi0v2

This mainline release corresponds to Buildroot 2021.08.3.

SkiffOS 2021.02.7 is the current LTS release.

Significant changes:

• Upgrade odroid kernel to 5.15.7
• Upgrade kernel to 5.15.11 for many boards
• Odroid XU4: enable ttySAC0 uart port
• apps/portainer: new configuration
• Jetson: upgrade l4t to 32.6.1, kernel, and core images.
• Pi: upgrade to kernel 5.10.83
• Add experimental support for pi0v2

This mainline release corresponds to Buildroot 2021.08.2.

SkiffOS 2021.02.6 is the current LTS release.

Significant changes:

• Switched to lz4 instead of gzip for kernel and initd
• Updated most boards to Linux 5.13.x
• Fixed pinephone and updated to u-boot 2021.10, arm-trusted-firmware v2.6-rc1
• Fixed pi3 boot
• Updates and fixes to all boards

This mainline release corresponds to Buildroot 2021.08.1.

SkiffOS 2021.02.6 is the current LTS release.

This release corresponds to Buildroot 2021.02.6 LTS.

Significant features / improvements in this release:

• upgraded kernel from 5.12 -> 5.14.11 on most configs
• security and bugfixes in many packages
• optimize building rpi images
• add pinebook manjaro kde core

SkiffOS and Buildroot 2021.02.x (LTS) is the current LTS branch.

2021.08 is the current "mainline" release branch.

This mainline release corresponds to Buildroot 2021.08 (2021-10-01).

SkiffOS 2021.02.4 is the current LTS release.

This mainline release corresponds to Buildroot 2021.05 (rev3).

SkiffOS 2021.02.4 is the current LTS release.

This is the final 2021.05.x release, now moving to 2021.08.x.

This mainline release corresponds to Buildroot 2021.05.

SkiffOS 2021.02.4 is the current LTS release.

This release corresponds to Buildroot 2021.02.3 LTS (rev2).

Significant features / improvements in this release:

• upgraded to kernel 5.12.13 for most configurations
• raspberry pi: upgrade kernel & firmware versions
• upgrades to docker, runc, go, and others.
• fix for compiling on arm64
• pinephone: upgrade to latest crust power-save firmware
• resize-persist: use go-based embiggen-disk tool

SkiffOS and Buildroot 2021.02.x (LTS) is the current LTS branch.

2021.05 will become the new "main" branch.

This release corresponds to Buildroot 2021.02.3 LTS.

Significant features / improvements in this release:

• upgraded to kernel 5.12.9 for most configurations
• raspberry pi: switched to vendor-recommended 5.10.x kernel
• security fixes to docker, runc, go, and others.

SkiffOS and Buildroot 2021.02.x (LTS) is the current LTS branch

This release corresponds to Buildroot 2021.02.2 LTS.