DietPi

New images

• Orange Pi 4 LTS | Support and images for the LTS variant of this Orange Pi SBC with Rockchip RK3399 SoC have been added. Many thanks to @Gibbz for implementing this: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/pull/8057

New software

• Prometheus | This open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit has been added to the DietPi software catalogue (ID 218).

Removed software

• QuiteRSS | This package has been removed from Debian since Trixie, since it depends on an outdated library, and there was no development for over 5 years. We hence remove it as well from dietpi-software. It can be still installed manually on Bookworm systems with apt install quiterss (dietpi-software did nothing else), and similarly it can be removed with apt autopurge quiterss. Alternatively, RSS Guard can be used by installing it via apt install rssguard: https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard

Enhancements

• DietPi-AutoStart | An Amiberry-Lite autostart option has been added as ID 3, which enables the amiberry-lite.service to start it early at boot. This works like the Amiberry fast boot option. A "standard boot" option has not been added, since there should be no reason to use it. Many thanks to @thedaemon and @orbitalflower for opening the request: https://dietpi.com/forum/t/25025, https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/8061
• DietPi-Drive_Manager | Using the drive manager does not recreate /etc/fstab anymore. Instead it will only change, add, or remove a particular entry, when drives are mounted, unmounted, or options changed respectively. That way it is compatible with custom mount options or types manually added to /etc/fstab, and does not overwrite admin intentions.
• DietPi-Drive_Manager | A new USB auto-mount feature has been added. When enabled, a udev rule is installed that automatically mounts USB storage devices to /media/<uuid> when plugged in, and unmounts them on removal. Devices with an /etc/fstab entry are handled accordingly: entries with x-systemd.automount are left to systemd's lazy-mount mechanism, and entries with noauto are skipped entirely, respecting the admin's intention of manual-only mounting.
• DietPi-Display | Support for Odroid C1 and XU4 with /boot/boot.ini has been added.
• DietPi-Software | Home Assistant: We migrated from pyenv to uv for installing and managing the HA Python environment. That way, Python does not need to be compiled anymore, saving significant time and resources during (re)installs. Also, the existing Python environment is kept and updated as long as the Python version matches, so that a reinstall does not necessarily reinstall all Python modules. As alignment and to simplify the migration, the install directory has been moved from /home/homeassistant to /opt/homeassistant. The DietPi update does not enforce the Home Assistant migration. You can do this at your convenience via dietpi-software reinstall 157. As a consequential downside, support for ARMv6 has been removed, since uv's Python builds do not support this architecture, and it cannot be used to compile Python the way pyenv does.

Bug fixes

• Allwinner H5/H6 | Resolved a regression with a recent U-Boot build, which caused that only a single CPU core was used on those SoCs. A fixed U-Boot build is flashed during this DietPi update. Many thanks to @eggypesela for reporting this issue, and credits to the Armbian team for the fix: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7974
• Rockchip RK356x | Resolved an issue where PCIe devices were randomly not detected, like M.2 SSDs or 2.5 Gbit Ethernet adapters on NanoPi R5S/R5C. Many thanks to @InnovoDeveloper, @eggcllnt and others for reporting related issues: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7559, https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7517
• Orange Pi Zero 2W | Resolved an issue where the Ethernet adapter of the extension board stopped working after the upgrade to Linux 6.18, due to a missing driver. Many thanks to @Totof for reporting this issue: https://dietpi.com/forum/t/25125
• DietPi-AutoStart | Resolved an issue where switching away from the Amiberry fast boot option did not disable the service as intended. Many thanks to @orbitalflower for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/8059
• DietPi-Config | Resolved a DietPi v10.1 regression where WiFi SSID with spaces were only partially shown and applied. Many thanks to @Persie0 for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/8076
• DietPi-Dashboard | Resolved an issue where the software install/uninstall pages were empty if non-English locales were used. The underlying reason was a bug in dietpi-software, which assumes English locales for parsing memory sizes. dietpi-software list calls however do not enforce English locales and do not require the memory size info either. Many thanks to @Colossus5000 and @3rink for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/8044, https://dietpi.com/forum/t/25065
• DietPi-Software | Home Assistant: Resolved an issue where restoring backups failed, since /mnt/dietpi_userdata/homeassistant/deps was a symlink in our case, pointing to the pyenv Python environment, to deduplicate module installs. With uv, however, we use a venv now, which HA uses directly, hence /mnt/dietpi_userdata/homeassistant/deps is not needed anymore. It is hence removed when (re)installing Home Assistant, allowing to restore backups. Many thanks to @Dynamic5912 for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7733
• DietPi-Software | Worked around an issue where some services with an EnvironmentFile below /mnt/dietpi_userdata may have failed to start, if it has been moved to an external drive. Many thanks to @jcw for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/8070

New software

• Immich | This high performance self-hosted photo and video management solution has been added to our software catalogue. Available on x86_64 and ARMv8 only (ID 215).
• Immich Machine Learning | The machine learning server for Immich, enabling facial recognition and smart search via CLIP embeddings, has been added as a separate software option. It can be installed on the same system as Immich or on a remote machine. Available on x86_64 and ARMv8 only (ID 216).
• uv | This extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust, has been added as a standalone software option (ID 217).
• RustDesk Client | Client software for the RustDesk desktop sharing platform (ID 13). Fits perfect to our software package "RustDesk Server". X11 needs to be installed or will be installed during the RustDesk Client installation process.

Enhancements

• DietPi-Benchmark | The benchmark script has been moved to /boot/dietpi/dietpi-benchmark and a shell alias has been added, so it can now be called directly from the console as dietpi-benchmark without having to browse through dietpi-config first.
• DietPi-Servarr_to_RAM | The original script dietpi-arr_to_RAM was renamed to dietpi-servarr_to_ram, got Prowlarr support, and protection against malicious symlinks when creating files and directories.
• DietPi-Config | The performance options were expanded by a menu to select the CPU temperature sensor used across our scripts. It affects the CPU temperature shown in performance options, in "cpu" command output, the DietPi login banner, and elsewhere within our scripts and menus. Since the sysfs nodes for temperature sensors are not consistent across devices, the hardcoded logic we use does not always pick the right one. Now you can select from a list of detected sensor paths with their returned temperatures, or enter a custom path to read from. A related dietpi.txt setting CONFIG_CPU_TEMP_PATH has been added as well. Many thanks to @N7-BADA for adding this feature: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/pull/8012
• DietPi-Software | A desktop selection menu was added to make it clearer and easier to get started for those who require a graphical desktop environment. A new dietpi.txt setting AUTO_SETUP_DESKTOP allows to pre-select a desktop for first boot. It takes textual values like "lxde" and "xfce", and serves as better accessible alternative to numerical software ID selections like AUTO_SETUP_INSTALL_SOFTWARE_ID=23.
• DietPi-Software | Home Assistant: The Python version for the pyenv has been raised to latest 3.14, needed since Home Assistant v2026.3. Many thanks to @lukaszsobala for reporting the missing update: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/8003
• DietPi-Software | myMPD/UrBackup: Support for ARMv6 from Trixie on has been enabled. The openSUSE Build Service does now provide a Raspbian 13 suite, and respective myMPD and UrBackup packages, distributed via OBS, are available.
• DietPi-Software | Amiberry: Packages for the new Amiberry v8.0.0 with embedded SDL3 v3.4.2 are available. Note that this includes a bunch of major changes in both: Amiberry and the SDL backend library, hence expect some bugs and glitches. We patched some known issues our end, and Amiberry v8.0.1 will contain another a large number of fixes and polishing as well. You can always downgrade the package, if needed: apt install amiberry=7.1.1-dietpi1

Bug fixes

• DietPi-Globals | G_AG_CHECK_INSTALL_PREREQ: Resolved an issue where the package installation was skipped even if the package was removed with only config files left. Many thanks to @Sympatron for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7772
• DietPi-Software | Resolved an issue where the check for the newest software version could have failed, since the GitHub API started to return the JSON response as a single line by times. We use now a parsing method that works for single-line and multi-line responses the same way. Many thanks to @luminosity-design for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/8009
• DietPi-Software | phpBB: Resolved a DietPi v9.17 regression where the download failed since the URL was not forged correctly. Many thanks to @yetanotherlurkeree for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7971
• DietPi-Software | K3s: Resolved an issue there the the dietpi-k3s.yaml was not imported from the FAT partition of the image for an automated install on first boot. Many thanks to @grhawk for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7985
• DietPi-Software | MPD: Resolved an issue where systemctl restart mpd lead to a lost UNIX domain socket, since an active mpd.socket prevents mpd.service from recreating the socket on its own. The activation socket is now disabled and untied from the service. It has no purpose if the service is anyway started at boot, but causes mentioned issue. Many thanks to @k3ninho for reporting this issue, and enabling compatibility of our ympd package with a setup, that starts the MPD service only on demand (frontend/client access) via activation socket: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/pull/7986
• DietPi-Software | LXQt: Resolved an issue where LXQt was installed without full icon theme (Adwaita is not accepted anymore), and an invisible panel start menu (the package default is now a "fancymenu"). Many thanks to @Redek for reporting this issue: https://dietpi.com/blog/?p=4014#comment-6172
• DietPi-Software | PaperMC: Resolved an issue where on old build was installed because an old API endpoint was used to detect the latest version and build.
• DietPi-Software | Node-RED: Resolved an issue where the node-red-node-pi-gpio plugin failed to function with python3-rpi-lgpio, since the library tries to create a notification pipe file in the current directory. The node-red.service will now start in /mnt/dietpi_userdata/node-red, where it is write access. Many thanks to @devifast for reporting this issue: https://discourse.nodered.org/t/100595/25
• DietPi-Software | Moonlight (GUI): Resolved an issue where streaming switched back to the loading stream if the libgles2 was not installed. Many thanks to @daredevil2033 for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7885
• DietPi-Software | Home Assistant: Resolved an issue where the install could have failed on ARMv6 and RISC-V systems due to insufficient memory or /tmp tmpfs size, caused almost entirely by the grpcio wheel build. Parallel build jobs are now reduced and pip's temporary directory moved to disk if needed. Reduced swap space utilization usually speeds up the overall build, despite fewer parallel build processes and build dirs on disk. Many thanks to @frentemorao for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7449

New images

• NanoPi Zero2 | Support for this headless FriendlyELEC SBC with Rockchip RK3528 SoC has been added to DietPi.

New software

• WhoDB | This database management tool with AI-powered chat interface has been added to our software catalogue. Many thanks to @Joulinar for implementing this software option: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7818

Enhancements

• NanoPi R5C | Resolved an issue where the Ethernet network interface names could have swapped on reboots. They are now assigned with eth0 as LAN port and eth1 as WAN port. Many thanks to @firebox for reporting this issue: https://dietpi.com/forum/t/24845/24
• DietPi-Tools | DietPi-Banner: New option to output the Linux kernel version
• DietPi-Software | Navidrome: Support for RISC-V has been unlocked, as official builds have been added with the v0.60.0 release on GitHub.
• DietPi-Software | Python 3: All Python software options make now use of venvs, instead of being installed to the system site /usr/local/lib/python3.*/dist-packages. Recent pip has increasing issues managing modules there on distros which have own Python module packages. Modern setups almost require isolated environments like venv. Synapse, motionEye, and OctoPrint are reinstalled on DietPi update to perform the migration directly, preserving user data and plugins. The break-system-packages flag in /etc/pip.conf is consequently removed. If you need to manage packages via pip at the system site, add the --break-system-packages CLI flag to each call.
• DietPi-Software | MinIO: The console client mc is now installed along with the server, to make up with the lost administration functionalities of the community server web UI. A shell alias is generated to invoke it as minio-user user, using a pre-generated config file /mnt/dietpi_userdata/minio-data/.mc/config.json. It adds the local MinIO server instance as local alias. Additionally, the default credentials have been changed to username (access key) "dietpi" and the default software password as secret key. Since MinIO requires the password to be at least 8 characters long, the default software password is concatenated until 8 characters are reached. E.g. if "test" was used, it will be "testtest" for MinIO. However, don't try it and use a secure default software password of 12 characters or more on production systems 😉. Change it afterwards for the MinIO server in /etc/default/minio, and for the console client mc accordingly in /mnt/dietpi_userdata/minio-data/.mc/config.json.
• DietPi-Software | TigerVNC/RealVNC/XRDP: Those remote desktop servers do not actually require a desktop anymore, but just the X server. This allows lighter setups when using them to show an individual GUI application like Chromium only, instead of a full desktop. Many thanks to @fow0ryl for doing this suggestion: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7947

Bug fixes

• ZeroPi | Resolved an issue where images failed to boot because of a faulty bootloader update. Many thanks to @TimoAbt and @dan-hughes for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7715
• DietPi-Software | BirdNET-Go: Resolved an issue where the install failed since the initial call tries to create the logs directory in the working directory as unprivileged user, rather than in its home directory. Many thanks to @shagr4th for implementing a fix: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/pull/7929
• DietPi-Software | Chromium: Resolved a v10.0 regression where the kiosk mode dietpi-autostart option failed, since the script tried to call it with xinit/startx chromium, while it requires the full path xinit/startx /usr/bin/chromium. Many thanks to @PTXRM1980 and @binarypickle for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7923
• DietPi-Software | ADS-B Feeder: Resolved an issue where the setup could have failed on RISC-V and 32-bit ARM system due to missing dependencies for the Python cryptography module.
• DietPi-Software | Gogs: Resolved an issue where ARMv8 systems were not able to detect the latest version due to a changed asset name suffix in the GitHub releases for this architecture. Many thanks to @deeejas for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7945
• DietPi-Software | Plex Media Server: Resolved an issue where APT was throwing errors and package installs/upgrades failed because of a faulty key rotation done at the Plex APT repository. The old repository has been since shut down and a new one set up, which we use now. The migration is done automatically on DietPi update. Many thanks to @Krouwndouwn for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7925
• DietPi-Software | microblog.pub: Resolved an issue where the install failed since pyenv Python 3.11 or older builds require the patch package now. Many thanks to @gilou for reporting this issue: https://dietpi.com/forum/t/24975/2
• DietPi-Software | Pi-hole: Resolved an issue where Pi-hole's setup dialogs did print cryptic characters on input when selected for install during first run setup. dialog requires either STDOUT or STDOUT directly attached to a terminal, while dietpi-login calls dietpi-software with both streams piped into tee for login, on first login. Its STDOUT and STDERR are now redirected back to the parent shell file descriptors (terminal) via dialog wrapper function. Many thanks to @sheddyian for reporting this issue: https://dietpi.com/forum/t/24889