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Release Notes

September 2026 (version 10.7)

Overview

The September 12th, 2026 release of DietPi v10.7 comes with new images for ARMv8 VMs, containers with virtual network, LubanCat 4 SBC, new software packages HomeBox and Scrypted, a new dietpi-network script,dietpi-banner improvements and further fixes for Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi 5/5B, Ampache, WiringPi and Roon Bridge.

The image shows a screenshot of the new tool dietpi-network with many interfaces.

New images

  • Containers with network We added support for containers with virtual network, providing images with network stack and SSH server pre-installed, which configure the network on first boot based on dietpi.txt choices, using DHCP on any first detected veth or VLAN interface by default. These work all e.g. for LXC containers Many thanks to @mews-se for implementing this feature to our build scripts: MichaIng/DietPi!8238
  • ARMv8 VMs We added support for ARM VMs, and will host a full set of images and virtualiser appliances. We could not test all of them yet. Let us know if you face any issues, or importing an appliance (OVA/VMX/UTM) fails. We might need to adjust the VM configurations a bit.
  • LubanCat 4 Support for this EmbedFire SBC with Rockchip RK3588S SoC has been added to DietPi, based on mainline Linux and U-Boot. Many thanks to @miskin-lee for implementing it: MichaIng/DietPi!8258

New software

New tools

  • dietpi-network The DietPi network configuration has gone through a rework. A new tool dietpi-network allows to configure multiple Ethernet(-like) and WiFi interfaces. This allows to e.g. configure one interface with gateway for Internet access, and another one with static IP and without gateway for LAN access.
    This works independently of the interface name, i.e. it does not need to be eth[0-9] or wlan[0-9], but the type is detected in other ways, which adds support for systemd’s “predictable interface names”, as well as virtual interfaces as provided in container guests. A CLI has been added to add, remove, or adjust individual interfaces.
    Configurations are stored in per-interface /etc/network/interfaces.d/<name>.conf drop-in config files, and also automatically migrated from the previously used /etc/network/interfaces when applying changes. These changes are a basis to allow configuring more complex network setups, like bridges, NAT, and e.g. more flexible WiFi-to-WiFi hotspots.

Enhancements

  • Allwinner SBCs USB DVB device drivers have been re-added to the kernel packages. They were lost for Allwinner boards between Linux 6.12 and 6.18. Now they are added to all kernel builds via post-config hook, i.e. independent of the used defconfig. Many thanks to @hamlet1601 for reporting this issue: MichaIng/DietPi#8218
  • DietPi Tools | dietpi-banner The Fail2Ban status now also counts bans for whole subnets in CIDR notation, which can be applied manually via fail2ban-client. The banner message now accordingly refers to “ban(s)” instead of “banned IP(s)”.
  • dietpi-timesync/boot/dietpi/func/run_ntpd has been renamed to /boot/dietpi/func/dietpi-timesync, for consistency, and since it does not make use of the nptd tools anymore since years. When time is synced, it does now restart systemd-timesyncd.service, to force a fresh connection attempt to the time servers in any case. Especially when the service starts during boot, it has been observed to give up for a while, if network connectivity has not been fully established yet. /boot/dietpi/func/dietpi-timesync is called at a later boot stage, and in the context of the dietpi-update check preceded by a general network connectivity check, so that systemd-timesyncd is more likely able to connect to time servers immediately. This change may hence speed up, or even avoid the timeout abortion of the initial time sync at boot, and following DietPi and APT update checks, if enabled.
  • dietpi-software | Chromium The low-end device mode flag and some other legacy flags, aiming to maximise Chromium performance at the cost of visual quality, have been removed from our config /etc/chromium.d/dietpi. These had some value at Raspberry Pi 1 times, but since some years, Chromium cannot be executed on ARMv6 SBCs anyway. For Chromium to be started as root, e.g. in some kind of minimal kiosk setup, the --no-sandbox flag is needed, and the --test-type flag hides a warning that skipping the sandbox is not recommended for security reasons. This is now applied only conditionally, if Chromium is really started as root user, otherwise sandboxing is used. Note that we generally do not recommend to start desktop sessions and GUI applications as root on a regular basis, and some, like Chromium and Mate, will throw respective warnings. Hence this is mainly aimed for direct Chromium starts from Linux console, where additional permissions are needed in any case, with trusted websites, like a fixed page in kiosk mode. Many thanks to @rmscode for making this a topic: https://dietpi.com/forum/t/25394

Bug fixes

  • Raspberry Pi Resolved an issue where dtparam entries in config.txt were ineffective, if DRM/KMS was enabled. Any dtparam entry sorted after any dtoverlay entry, is gets applied to the overlay, rather than the base device tree, that way becoming ineffective, or change/break the overlay. This particularly started to cause issues since DietPi v10.5, when we added dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d as commented line into the display section of our default config.txt, above all dtparam lines. As fast as KMS/DRM is enabled, which uncomments the line, all dtparam entries become ineffective. Onboard HDMI audio on the first port couldn’t be enabled along with KMS/DRM, since dtparam=audio=off (intended to disable the Broadcom analogue 3.5mm driver) got applied to dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d to become dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d,audio=off, which disables HDMI audio on the first HDMI port. Many thanks to @camrossi and @Infiltraitor for reporting this issue: MichaIng/DietPi#8202, https://dietpi.com/forum/t/25411
  • Orange Pi 5/5B Resolved a v10.5 regression where the USB 2.0 and Type-C ports were not functional, since we moved to mainline Linux where the respective device tree overlay changed its name. Without the overlay, they are running in OTG mode.
  • Orange Pi 3 LTS / ROCK 3A Resolved possible high package loss rates when using Ethernet. Many thanks to @lumathieu for reporting this issue: MichaIng/DietPi#8285, MichaIng/DietPi#8295
  • DietPi Tools | dietpi-banner Resolved an issue where the number of failed systemd services could not be obtained when logging in as non-root user, if D-Bus was not installed. Many thanks to @CA_Lobo for reporting this issue: https://dietpi.com/forum/t/25413
  • dietpi-software | Ampache Resolved an issue where detecting the latest version failed, since Ampache 8 requires PHP 8.5+. The latest version is now searched among all releases, so that latest Ampache 7 is downloaded on all supported Debian versions at time of writing.
  • dietpi-software | WiringPi Resolved an issue where the installation failed on Odroid SBCs since Debian Trixie, since an outdated package was tried to be installed. Also, support for all recently added Orange Pi boards was added. Many thanks to @LJPCODESTUDIO for reporting this issue: MichaIng/DietPi#8266
  • dietpi-software | Roon Bridge Resolved an issue where the latest version failed to start, due to a missing new dependency. Many thanks to @aposcic for fixing this issue: MichaIng/DietPi!8287
  • dietpi-software | Immich Resolved an issue where the install failed with recent pnpm, since the state directory cannot be set for local workspace basis anymore. Many thanks to @gilou for reporting this issue: https://dietpi.com/forum/t/25482

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!8265