Armbian 26.8 released

Version 26.8 ofthe Armbian distribution for Arm hardware hasbeen released.

Most releases are a long list of small improvements. This one had threelarger pieces landing at roughly the same time, and all three touch parts ofArmbian that people use directly rather than parts they only read about inchangelogs.

The installer was rewritten. Armbian Imager reached 2.0. And our CI moved outof the repository it had outgrown into one built for the job. None of these wereplanned to coincide; they simply reached the point where postponing them againwould have cost more than doing them.

The installer rewrite is the one I expect people to notice first. It nowships as an armbian-config module, which means it is unit-tested, the same waythe rest of armbian-config is tested, rather than living as a script thateveryone was slightly afraid to touch. It can target SPI and MTD, treats eMMCand NVMe as separate flows instead of pretending they are the same thing, canflash a bootloader on its own, and - this one is overdue - reports when abootloader write fails instead of printing "Done." and leaving you to find outat the next boot.

See the release notesfor a full list of changes.