2026.05

simple-launcher: fix ghosting presses and improve rerendering

2026.04

[2026.04.01]

✨ Features

• psplash package added for graphical boards builds
• RetroArch cores remap support added
• htoprc default config added
• less package added (replaces BusyBox less which lacks proper ANSI escape support)
• Docker (containerization) package added to development boards builds
• libcurl and coreutils added to development boards builds

🔧 Improvements

• Raspberry Pi: updated defconfig, optimized config, updated to reflect graphical.target default
• WiFi manager: improved wifi-manager.sh
• systemd: set default graphical.target in with-graphical.fragment, configured default start/stop timeouts, trigger systemd-tmpfiles on all board builds
• simple-init: refactored to separate launcher from init service
• initramfs: support "quiet" option; updated BusyBox config to disable init utilities (using systemd); updated site mirror
• More CPU allocated for PICO-8
• Updated reboot command, .profile, .bashrc, set_env.sh

🏗 Refactoring

• Development boards refactored; utils packages added for dev boards
• Development files reorganized
• Scripts refactored
• Moved printk to sysctl; moved disable-bluetooth to firstboot.sh
• Moved some files from /root to /usr/share
• Removed pc_qemu_consoleonly board
• Removed ifupdown_scripts package (replaced by systemd network.service)

🐛 Fixes

• User creation via users_tables; fixed sudo binary
• Fixed user permissions for development boards
• Fixed GitHub Actions build

Full Changelog: 2026.03.18...2026.04

2026.03.18

Changelog [2026.03]

⬆️ Upgrades

• Linux kernel → 6.18.16, Buildroot → 2026.02
• TiniLinux toolchain → kernel headers 6.6.x

🆕 New Packages

• fake-08, fastfetch, install-nothing

✨ Features

• Raspberry Pi: ST7789V 240×240 LCD hat support, improved key handler & keymon, LCD optimizations
• simple-launcher now supports arguments
• setfont support in initramfs
• QEMU: Docker support, new pc_x86_64_efi_liveboot_defconfig, adjusted disk size & resolution
• Pi3B Docker target with persistent /var

🐛 Fixes

• RGB30 led-control.sh
• Pi3B boot cmdline
• Switched to mesa3d_no_llvm for QEMU PC target

🔧 Internal

• Reworked Pi3B configuration
• Package cleanup (removed dhcpcd, iptables, some Python3 packages)
• Moved dl/ to top-level directory; refactored qemu_common
• GitHub Actions: release automation, build caching

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Full diff: 2025.12.29...2026.03.11.18

2025.12

Change log:

• Upgrade Linux kernel to 6.18.2
• The root file system now uses squashfs
• Upgrade buildroot to 2025.11
• Improve build time
• Add qemu boards

Full Changelog: 2025.11.11...2025.12.29

2025.11

How to install:

• Download tinilinux-.img.zip
• Extract to get .img file
• Use Rufus (https://rufus.ie/en/) or a similar tool to flash the img file to a SD card

Changes:

• simple-terminal migrated from SDL1.2 to SDL2
• downgrade mesa3d to buildroot 2025.05.3 to avoid LLVM dependency for panfrost
• update firstboot.sh to reduce disk size and extend rootfs later
• add external toolchain defconfigs
• various improvements