Home Assistant 2026.7 Brings One-Step Raspberry Pi Firmware Updates
Home Assistant 2026.7 adds one-click Raspberry Pi EEPROM firmware updates and makes extensible, plain-language automation triggers the default for everyone.
devices CH32V006EVT
WCH CH32V006EVT Brings Zephyr and Open Tooling to a Sub-$15 RISC-V Board
Olimex's tiny CH32V006EVT pairs a 48MHz RISC-V MCU with 62KB flash, an upstream Zephyr board target, and open-source ch32fun tooling for about $11.
devices Bigme HiBreak Dual 2
Bigme HiBreak Dual 2 Pairs an E Ink Screen With a Full Android 16 Phone
The Bigme HiBreak Dual 2 combines a 6.13 inch E Ink display with a 5 inch color LCD, a Dimensity 8300 chip, stylus support, and Android 16 in one dual-SIM 5G phone.
Arduino's New Modulino Modules Push I2C to 30 Meters and Tame Address Conflicts
Arduino's Modulino Extender uses a single LTC4311 chip to stretch I2C up to 30 meters, while the Modulino Hub fans one bus out to 64 devices to kill address conflicts.
OpenWrt 25.12.5 Patches Critical DHCPv6 and LuCI Security Holes, Adds 11 New Routers
OpenWrt 25.12.5 patches a critical DHCPv6 buffer overflow and a 9.9-severity LuCI command injection, updates the kernel to 6.12.94, and adds 11 new routers.
Bazzite Gaming Update Ships Mesa 26.1.3, KDE Plasma 6.7 and a New Welcome Portal
Bazzite's latest stable image lands Mesa 26.1.3, KDE Plasma 6.7.1 and GNOME 50.3, plus a reworked Bazaar and Portal welcome flow on the gaming-tuned 7.0.9 kernel.
ONEXPLAYER X2 Handheld Pairs Intel Arc B390 Graphics With a Detachable-Controller Tablet
The ONEXPLAYER X2 handheld pairs Intel's 12-core Arc B390 graphics with a 27.8 cm 120 Hz tablet, 48GB RAM, and detachable hall-effect controllers.
Retroid Pocket Nova Pairs a 4:3 OLED Screen With Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Emulation Power
The Retroid Pocket Nova packs a native 4:3 OLED screen at 1280 x 960 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 2-class silicon, a handheld built to match the way classic consoles actually rendered.
CHUWI UniBook Opens Pre-Orders With Intel's Entry-Level Wildcat Lake Chip
CHUWI's UniBook is one of the first consumer laptops with Intel's penta-core Core 3 304 Wildcat Lake chip, and its Xe3 GPU and NPU are already supported in Linux 6.18 and Mesa 25.3.
Dasung Link 2 Pairs a 60Hz E Ink Touchscreen With Your Phone Over Wireless Casting
Dasung's Link 2 is a 6.7 inch, 300 ppi E Ink portable monitor that mirrors your phone over AirPlay or Miracast at up to 60 Hz, no cable required.
Firefly AIBOX-9075 Packs a 200-TOPS Qualcomm NPU and 36GB ECC RAM for On-Device LLMs
Firefly's fanless AIBOX-9075 runs Llama, Qwen, and DeepSeek-R1 locally on a 200-TOPS Qualcomm IQ-9075, with 36GB ECC RAM and Ubuntu plus Yocto on the Qualcomm Linux stack.
AYANEO Pocket Micro 2 Swaps MediaTek for Snapdragon 865, Opening the Door to Linux Firmware
AYANEO's Pocket Micro 2 ditches MediaTek for a Snapdragon 865 and Adreno 650, the same silicon that makes ROCKNIX and Batocera Linux firmware, with native Steam, run well.
Incus 7.2 Adds Per-Instance SELinux Confinement and Patches Six Critical CVEs
Incus 7.2 brings per-instance SELinux confinement with automatic MCS isolation, per-instance BGP routing, and patches six critical image-handling CVEs.
Orange Pi 6 Packs a 12-Core Armv9 CIX P1 Into a 90mm Board With Dual 2.5GbE
The Orange Pi 6 squeezes the 12-core Armv9 CIX P1 into a 90mm board with dual 2.5GbE, 45 TOPS of AI compute, and Ubuntu 26.04 plus Debian 13 support landing in mainline.
linux home assistant
Home Assistant OS 18 Jumps to Linux 6.18, Adds Raspberry Pi Firmware Updates
Home Assistant OS 18 moves every target to the Linux 6.18 kernel and lets you update Raspberry Pi bootloader firmware straight from the OS, with leaner images that flash faster.
Zabbix Adds Official Monitoring Integration for Proxmox VE
Zabbix's official Proxmox VE template monitors clusters, VMs, and LXC containers over the REST API using a read-only token, keeping the whole observability stack open source and self-hosted.
Kubuntu Focus Ar GEN 1 Pairs Intel Arc B390 Graphics With Kubuntu 26.04 LTS
The Kubuntu Focus Ar GEN 1 pairs Intel's Arc B390 Xe3 integrated graphics with Kubuntu 26.04 LTS, promising gaming-capable iGPU performance and up to 12 hours of battery in a 1.4 kg chassis.
Valve's Proton SDK Build Toolchain Moves to LLVM 22.1.8
Valve's Proton SDK now builds on LLVM 22.1.8, dropping upstreamed patches and adding a vararg exit thunk fix tied to its ARM64EC work for x86-on-ARM emulation.
devices rp2350
Bells&Whistles Board Pairs the RP2350B With an Onboard Debugger
An open-source RP2350B board that bakes a full RP2040 debug probe onto the same PCB, plus HDMI out, MicroSD, and optional 8 MB PSRAM, for $30.
LILYGO T-Impulse Plus Puts an nRF52840 LoRa Node on Your Wrist
LILYGO's T-Impulse Plus packs an nRF52840 and SX1262 LoRa radio into a wristband, the same hardware combo that powers most Meshtastic nodes, with GNSS and an OLED on board.