v9.20

New software

RustDesk Server | The signalling and relay server component for the RustDesk remote desktop system has been added to our software catalogue. Many thanks to @JappeHallunken for implementing this software option: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/pull/7842

Enhancement

Orange Pi 5/Max/Ultra | Our images ship now with all USB-A ports and, depending on model, one USB-C port enabled in host mode, making them functional for USB devices. This is done with a device tree overlay "dwc3-host". Removing it from /boot/dietpiEnv.txt reverts the affected port(s), which share one controller, to their default OTG mode, in which case attached USB devices are not detected or even powered. For existing instances, add dwc3-host to the overlays= line in /boot/dietpiEnv.txt to apply this change. Many thanks to @DiegoBM and @pavel-kamaev for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7738
Radxa ZERO 3 | New images will ship with Linux 6.12 mainline LTS kernel now, and the DietPi update migrates systems with legacy and vendor kernel to mainline LTS as well.
DietPi-Backup | A workaround for ACLs applied at an NFSv4 mount target has been applied. If ACLs are applied e.g. recursively at the NFS server, they are translated and exposed as special NFSv4 ACLs at the client, which is incompatible with POSIX ACLs. The cp -a/--archive used to special handle /etc/debian_version tries and hence fails to preserve them. rsync -a/--archive does not imply ACLs, hence does not suffer from the issue. It may be able to handle them better using its -A/--acls flag. However, ACLs applied at the NFS server of course must not be applied at the restored OS anyway, hence we just skip the cp -a flag now. The default root:root 0644 mode is anyway what /etc/debian_version is intended to be, and an updated mtime does not hurt. Preserving ACLs and xattr for system backups would be actually a good feature, but at least doing this for backups to NFS mounts hence is risky. For this, we'd first need to implement an option to create and transfer a tarball of the backup at the client, and compression as logical addition with it. tar has an --acls option as well. Many thanks to @miloit for reporting the related error: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7825
DietPi-Drive_Manager | Some output, dialogue and menu texts have been revised. Notably, the main menu now shows the device nodes on the left side as primary selector, and the mount target, only for mounted drives, on the right side. The partition or drive capacity is now additionally shown for unmounted or unformatted drives as well.
DietPi-Software | Portainer: On (re)installs, existing Portainer BE (Business Edition) instances are now detected and updated correctly. When entering a license key in Portainer CE (Community Edition), it upgrades itself to BE. dietpi-software however detected and updated CE instances only, causing a failure if it was upgraded to BE. Many thanks to @salieri for reporting this issue: https://dietpi.com/forum/t/24696
DietPi-Software | Aria2: File logging to /var/log/aria2.log is disabled. It is redundant, since Aria2 logs to console hence journalctl -u aria2 in any case, even with a higher default log level. Of course it can be re-enabled manually if you need logs in a plain text file.
DietPi-Software | Allo GUI: A new major version has been released with raised minimum PHP 7.4, updated dependencies with solved security vulnerabilities, and a major cleanup: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi-AlloGUI/releases/tag/v14.5, https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi-AlloGUI/releases/tag/v15.0. The DietPi update will upgrade the Allo GUI automatically.

Bug fixes

Orange Pi 5 | Resolved an issue where USB and M.2 SSD boots took very long or failed, and reboots failed, at least in some cases. Credits go to @efectn from Armbian for switching from vendor U-Boot to mainline U-Boot, which solved all issues. Many thanks to @Renoria for reporting this issue: https://dietpi.com/forum/t/24613
DietPi-Drive_Manager | Resolved a serious bug where a false partition or drive could have been formatted if a currently mounted drive was selected to be formatted. Many thanks to @Arimodu for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7852
DietPi-Drive_Manager | Resolved an issue where a doubled unmount attempt could have failed on full drive formats, if a currently mounted partition was selected.
DietPi-Software | BirdNET-Go: Resolved an issue where local sound cards were not detected due to too strict permissions. Many thanks to @miloit for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7828
DietPi-Software | ProFTPD: Resolved an issue where the service might have failed to start if the activation socket was enabled. Since we install a config with ProFTPD in standalone mode, the activation socket must be disabled, else both try to bind to the same port 21. Many thanks to @mdr92 for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7750
DietPi-Software | LazyLibrarian: Resolved an issue where using the web UI "Restart" button stopped the service to never come back up. Many thanks to @JappeHallunken for reporting this issue: https://dietpi.com/forum/t/24699/9
DietPi-Software | Fail2Ban: From Debian Trixie on, /etc/fail2ban/jail.d/defaults-debian.conf overrides the default ban action with nftables. This makes sense if otherwise the upstream default iptables was used, but it must not override any explicit admin choice or the dietpi-software default route action. More importantly, nftables requires the userland tools to be installed, otherwise bans cannot be applied. Installs via dietpi-software will now remove the config, all its other content is redundant, one change even a regression. Next DietPi update and our Trixie upgrade script will either remove the config, if it overrides an explicit choice, or will otherwise assure that nftables userland tools are installed, if it reasonably replaces the legacy iptables ban action.
DietPi-Software | Radarr: Resolved an issue on Bullseye systems where the service fails due to an incompatible embedded SQLite library, same as with Lidarr and Prowlarr earlier: https://wiki.servarr.com/radarr/faq#radarr-wont-start-on-debian-11-or-older-systems-due-to-sqlite-version. Many thanks to @tundrablasen for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7837
DietPi-Software | Portainer: Resolved an issue where with Docker 29.1.0 the CLI changed a way that our container image detection failed, so that dietpi-software reinstall 185 did not update Portainer anymore. Coincidentally, the Portainer BE support we previously added solves this issue as well. Many thanks to @Pi-Rate for reporting this issue: https://dietpi.com/forum/t/24688/12

New software

RustDesk Server | The signalling and relay server component for the RustDesk remote desktop system has been added to our software catalogue. Many thanks to @JappeHallunken for implementing this software option: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/pull/7842

Enhancement

Orange Pi 5/Max/Ultra | Our images ship now with all USB-A ports and, depending on model, one USB-C port enabled in host mode, making them functional for USB devices. This is done with a device tree overlay "dwc3-host". Removing it from /boot/dietpiEnv.txt reverts the affected port(s), which share one controller, to their default OTG mode, in which case attached USB devices are not detected or even powered. For existing instances, add dwc3-host to the overlays= line in /boot/dietpiEnv.txt to apply this change. Many thanks to @DiegoBM and @pavel-kamaev for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7738
Radxa ZERO 3 | New images will ship with Linux 6.12 mainline LTS kernel now, and the DietPi update migrates systems with legacy and vendor kernel to mainline LTS as well.
DietPi-Backup | A workaround for ACLs applied at an NFSv4 mount target has been applied. If ACLs are applied e.g. recursively at the NFS server, they are translated and exposed as special NFSv4 ACLs at the client, which is incompatible with POSIX ACLs. The cp -a/--archive used to special handle /etc/debian_version tries and hence fails to preserve them. rsync -a/--archive does not imply ACLs, hence does not suffer from the issue. It may be able to handle them better using its -A/--acls flag. However, ACLs applied at the NFS server of course must not be applied at the restored OS anyway, hence we just skip the cp -a flag now. The default root:root 0644 mode is anyway what /etc/debian_version is intended to be, and an updated mtime does not hurt. Preserving ACLs and xattr for system backups would be actually a good feature, but at least doing this for backups to NFS mounts hence is risky. For this, we'd first need to implement an option to create and transfer a tarball of the backup at the client, and compression as logical addition with it. tar has an --acls option as well. Many thanks to @miloit for reporting the related error: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7825
DietPi-Drive_Manager | Some output, dialogue and menu texts have been revised. Notably, the main menu now shows the device nodes on the left side as primary selector, and the mount target, only for mounted drives, on the right side. The partition or drive capacity is now additionally shown for unmounted or unformatted drives as well.
DietPi-Software | Portainer: On (re)installs, existing Portainer BE (Business Edition) instances are now detected and updated correctly. When entering a license key in Portainer CE (Community Edition), it upgrades itself to BE. dietpi-software however detected and updated CE instances only, causing a failure if it was upgraded to BE. Many thanks to @salieri for reporting this issue: https://dietpi.com/forum/t/24696
DietPi-Software | Aria2: File logging to /var/log/aria2.log is disabled. It is redundant, since Aria2 logs to console hence journalctl -u aria2 in any case, even with a higher default log level. Of course it can be re-enabled manually if you need logs in a plain text file.
DietPi-Software | Allo GUI: A new major version has been released with raised minimum PHP 7.4, updated dependencies with solved security vulnerabilities, and a major cleanup: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi-AlloGUI/releases/tag/v14.5, https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi-AlloGUI/releases/tag/v15.0. The DietPi update will upgrade the Allo GUI automatically.

Bug fixes

Orange Pi 5 | Resolved an issue where USB and M.2 SSD boots took very long or failed, and reboots failed, at least in some cases. Credits go to @efectn from Armbian for switching from vendor U-Boot to mainline U-Boot, which solved all issues. Many thanks to @Renoria for reporting this issue: https://dietpi.com/forum/t/24613
DietPi-Drive_Manager | Resolved a serious bug where a false partition or drive could have been formatted if a currently mounted drive was selected to be formatted. Many thanks to @Arimodu for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7852
DietPi-Drive_Manager | Resolved an issue where a doubled unmount attempt could have failed on full drive formats, if a currently mounted partition was selected.
DietPi-Software | BirdNET-Go: Resolved an issue where local sound cards were not detected due to too strict permissions. Many thanks to @miloit for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7828
DietPi-Software | ProFTPD: Resolved an issue where the service might have failed to start if the activation socket was enabled. Since we install a config with ProFTPD in standalone mode, the activation socket must be disabled, else both try to bind to the same port 21. Many thanks to @mdr92 for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7750
DietPi-Software | LazyLibrarian: Resolved an issue where using the web UI "Restart" button stopped the service to never come back up. Many thanks to @JappeHallunken for reporting this issue: https://dietpi.com/forum/t/24699/9
DietPi-Software | Fail2Ban: From Debian Trixie on, /etc/fail2ban/jail.d/defaults-debian.conf overrides the default ban action with nftables. This makes sense if otherwise the upstream default iptables was used, but it must not override any explicit admin choice or the dietpi-software default route action. More importantly, nftables requires the userland tools to be installed, otherwise bans cannot be applied. Installs via dietpi-software will now remove the config, all its other content is redundant, one change even a regression. Next DietPi update and our Trixie upgrade script will either remove the config, if it overrides an explicit choice, or will otherwise assure that nftables userland tools are installed, if it reasonably replaces the legacy iptables ban action.
DietPi-Software | Radarr: Resolved an issue on Bullseye systems where the service fails due to an incompatible embedded SQLite library, same as with Lidarr and Prowlarr earlier: https://wiki.servarr.com/radarr/faq#radarr-wont-start-on-debian-11-or-older-systems-due-to-sqlite-version. Many thanks to @tundrablasen for reporting this issue: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7837
DietPi-Software | Portainer: Resolved an issue where with Docker 29.1.0 the CLI changed a way that our container image detection failed, so that dietpi-software reinstall 185 did not update Portainer anymore. Coincidentally, the Portainer BE support we previously added solves this issue as well. Many thanks to @Pi-Rate for reporting this issue: https://dietpi.com/forum/t/24688/12

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