Armbian 26.2 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS, Expanded ARM and RISC-V Support - 9to5Linux
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Armbian 26.2 Linux distribution designed for ARM devices is now available for download with support for new boards and various other changes.

The Armbian team released Armbian 26.2 today as a major update to this Debian/Ubuntu-based distribution and build framework for ARM devices, enhancing performance, security, and hardware compatibility.

Coming three months after Armbian 25.11, the Armbian 26.2 release adds support for new ARM boards and chips, including SpacemiT MusePi Pro, Radxa Rock 4D, Orangepi RV2, OrangePi 4A, Odroid M2, Lamobo R1, Khadas Mind, Orange Pi 6 Plus, Minisforum MS-R1, NuMaker-IoT-MA35D1-A1, SpacemiT MUSE Book, Friendlyelec NanoPi Zero2, DG SVR 865 Tiny, and Radxa E24C.

Armbian 26.2 also introduces board-level extension to mask Wayland desktop sessions, Cinnamon desktop builds for UEFI, GNOME desktop builds for stable targets, edge branch support to community targets, support for KDE Neon desktop builds, RISC-V Xfce desktop support, and support for Linux kernel 6.18 LTS on stable targets, while the latest Linux 6.19 kernel is now supported on the edge branch.