The Armbian team today released Armbian 22.11, the latest stable release of the Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution for ARM and embedded devices.
The Armbian 22.11 release comes just over three months after the Armbian 22.08 release, which introduces support for Banana Pi M5, ODROID-M1, and Rock Pi 4C+ single-board computers, support for RISC-V 64 UEFI builds, and support for Improved support for the Rockchip RK3308 single board computer based on the ROCK Pi S.
The release also adds ultra-minimalist images optimized for software deployment, improved stability with kernel upgrades frozen by default, Plymouth boot splash support for Linux kernel 5.19 or later, and support for ARMhf and AArch64 server and desktop images. Added support for the gpiod library for accessing GPIO pins/lines.
Among other noteworthy changes, Armbian 22.11 adds UEFI installation support in nand-sata-install, enables proper ES8316 audio on Rock Pi 4 single-board computers, adds ZFS repository, and postinst scripts for all existing A user added the SKEL distribution and added the Intel audio firmware to the desktop image.
On the software side, this release adds the initial configuration of the terminal emulator application, re-enables the Mozilla Thunderbird email client, and adds Codium IDE on Debian Sid-based images and replaces it on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS-based images. The controversial Ubuntu Pro ad in a terminal emulator.
There are many bug fixes in Armbian 22.11 to further improve support for existing boards, including Raspberry Pi, ODROID-XU4, PINE H64, NanoPi NEO3, JetHub D1, and ROCK Pi S.
Meanwhile, users can download Armbian 22.11 from the official website as a mirror based on Ubuntu 22.10 (Jammy Jellyfish) or Debian GNU/Linux Sid (Unstable) with pre-installed GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce, Cinnamon or Budgie desktop environments for various single board computer.
