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Release Notes

August 2026 (version 10.6)

Overview

The August 8th, 2026 release of DietPi v10.6 comes with new images for Orange Pi 4 Pro, Orange Pi Zero 3W, Odroid M1/M1S/M2, fixes petitboot support for Odroid N2 and HC4, and fixes stability issues on the Orange Pi Zero 2W, caused by its onboard WiFi driver.

The image shows a screenshot of the dietpi-benchmark results dialogue on an Orange Pi Zero 3W.

New images

  • Orange Pi 4 Pro, Orange Pi Zero 3W Support and images for these new SBCs with Allwinner A733 SoC have been added. Mainline Linux support for this SoC is still outstanding, hence Xunlong’s Linux 6.6 and U-Boot vendor sources are used.
  • Odroid M1/M1S/M2 Support and images for those Hardkernel SBCs Rockchip RK3568/RK3566/RK3588 SoC have been added.

Enhancements

  • Allwinner/Amlogic/Rockchip SBCs A driver for certain ASUS USB keyboards has been added to all our kernel builds. Many thanks to @rouilj for reporting the issue with one of these: https://dietpi.com/forum/t/25290
  • DietPi-Banner Our login banner received a significant number of new features and enhancements: It is now possible to see disk space usage stats of any mounted drive, including path patterns for e.g. dynamic mounts. Failed systemd services and active Fail2Ban bans can be shown, as well as network RX/TX usage stats, not only for the default interface, but for all Ethernet, WiFi, and VPN interfaces of all network namespaces. Multiple custom command entries can now be added, which can make use of the colour code variables, which can be changed in the config file /boot/dietpi/.dietpi-banner. The number of colour codes has been extended, using easier to remember named array indices. Many thanks to @timjolson for implementing these features: MichaIng/DietPi!8172
  • DietPi-Software | BirdNET-Go The path to the ONNX runtime library is now set on (re)install to enable access to the additional bird classifier models. This can be also applied manually, following the instructions in the next link. Many thanks to @oradke for reporting this issue: MichaIng/DietPi#8196
  • DietPi-Software | Kubo The IPFS Node install option has been enabled for RISC-V.

Bug fixes

  • Odroid N2/HC4 Support for petitboot has been fixed. Changes in our base boot script caused some petitboot workarounds to not be applied as intended. Many thanks to @vlix and @tigersky for reporting this issue: https://dietpi.com/forum/t/24902, https://dietpi.com/forum/t/25296
  • Orange Pi Zero 2W The stability of the system has been significantly increased by assuring the WiFi driver is loaded only when explicitly enabled, and adding CPU voltage ramp delays. Many thanks to @b3ll, @Totof, and many others for reporting the issue and testing many attempts to fix it. And many thanks to @EvilOlaf from Armbian for helping with debugging, and moving the driver from a complex patch series into a dedicated GitHub repository: MichaIng/DietPi#8220
  • DietPi-Tools | DietPi-Benchmark Resolved an issue where a /dietpi-benchmark_testfile directory was unintentionally created, if a “Full” benchmark was done first, and a “Custom Filesystem” Benchmark afterwards, for which no mount selection menu was shown either.
  • DietPi-Tools | DietPi-Config Resolved an issue where scanning for WiFi networks could result in an empty list, if a single hidden network (with an empty SSID) was in range. Many thanks to @miraz1300 for reporting this issue: MichaIng/DietPi#8199
  • DietPi-Tools | DietPi-Config Resolved a v10.5 regression where Bluetooth was always shown as enabled, hence could not be actually enabled anymore. Many thanks to @z3huti for reporting this issue: MichaIng/DietPi#8213
  • DietPi-Software | Immich Resolved an issue where the installation failed due to breaking changes in the recent Immich v3 release. Our code has been updated to support Immich v3. As always, existing instances can apply the update via dietpi-software reinstall 215 216, which includes Immich Machine Learning, (only) if installed.
  • DietPi-Software | BirdNET-Go Resolved an issue where the installer did not detect recent releases, since the URLs got an additional date suffix. Many thanks to @oradke for reporting this issue: MichaIng/DietPi?8215

As always, many smaller code performance and stability improvements, visual and spelling fixes have been done, too much to list all of them here. Check out all code changes of this release on GitHub: MichaIng/DietPi!8235