The Armbian project has shipped version 26.5.1, the latest snapshot of the Debian and Ubuntu-based distribution built specifically for ARM single-board computers. This release leans into hardware breadth, pulling in new board images, refreshed firmware, and tighter integration with Ubuntu 26.04 'Resolute' across the project's already sprawling list of supported devices.
Among the more practical additions is support for the Intel AX210 wireless chipset, alongside a batch of driver and firmware updates that should help users running Armbian on mixed-architecture deployments. The Bianbu desktop has seen further refinements, and the build framework received modernization work targeting the project's CI pipelines and developer tooling, which matters less to end users but quite a bit to anyone maintaining custom images for niche boards.
For people who run Armbian on x86_64 hardware rather than ARM, the project continues to publish UEFI desktop builds based on Ubuntu 26.04 with a choice of Cinnamon, GNOME, KDE Plasma, MATE, or Xfce desktops, all running on a 7.0.9 kernel. Full details are in the release announcement and the changelog, and the full list of supported boards lives on the project's download page. Source code and build scripts are available on GitHub.
