Armbian OS

What does this project do?

Builds quarterly stable, daily rolling and weekly community Armbian OS images
Keeps build framework packages artifacts cache up to date to secure fast rebuild process
Keeps stable apt.armbian.com and nightly beta.armbian.com packages repository up to date
Keep synchronizing the selection of 3rd party applications with Armbian repositories
Reversion Firefox, Thunderbird and Chromium to higher (9) epoch version then its Snapd counterparts (1)
Tests install of all packages added onto stable and testing Debian and Ubuntu releases
Tests packages upgrade sucess on real hardware
Tests build supported and community supported desktops

How to enable images?

Build lists are generated automatic based on support policy and with help of templates, .blacklist and .map files.

Each kernel branch can have additional description which is stoed in kernel-description.json and automatically updated upon changes.

Artifacts cache is updated every eight hours, starting at 0:00 AM UTC
Repository update starts after artifacts cache update is done succesfully
Smoke tests starts once per day at 5:30 AM UTC
Nightly images are build once per day, at 2:00 AM UTC, or if build config / template is changed
Manually, when Armbian release manager executes a build action

All you need to do is:

Device has to be always on and easily accesible for you to re-image in case of failed upgrade.