What's Changed

• README: Fix script name typo by @ahresse in #1114
• Updated Russian translations by @nafanz in #1118
• Italian language update by @bovirus in #1112
• 1.9.6: Fix roll-up by @tdewey-rpi in #1113
• Update ssh validation message to match regex by @tdewey-rpi in #1121
• Update error in README.md by @itsMattShull in #1119
• lupdate: Update translation reference strings by @tdewey-rpi in #1127
• README fix by @lurch in #1122
• Update second bad SSH key helper string by @tdewey-rpi in #1128
• Added Russian translation for new lines by @nafanz in #1120
• Update Simplified Chinese translation by @ykla in #1102
• WiFi country code validation by @tdewey-rpi in #1129
• Italian language update by @bovirus in #1124
• Update French translation by @martignoni in #1126
• Update Bengali and Irish translations: remove outdated error messages… by @tdewey-rpi in #1130
• meta: v1.9.6 by @tdewey-rpi in #1131

New Contributors

• @ahresse made their first contribution in #1114
• @nafanz made their first contribution in #1118
• @itsMattShull made their first contribution in #1119

Full Changelog: v1.9.5...v1.9.6

What's Changed

• Update german translation by @rejas in #1065
• Update French translation by @martignoni in #1072
• (il8n) Added Irish tranlsation by @aindriu80 in #1081
• Bangla Translations by @touhidurrr in #1088
• Fixed configure parsing by @bebon901 in #1103
• 1.9.5 Fix roll-up by @tdewey-rpi in #1084

New Contributors

• @aindriu80 made their first contribution in #1081
• @touhidurrr made their first contribution in #1088
• @bebon901 made their first contribution in #1103

Full Changelog: v1.9.4...v1.9.5

Headlines

The first 'official' 1.9.x series release, with a range of UI improvements, new translations, and bugfixes.

System Requirements

• Windows 10 x86_64 or later
• macOS 12* (Apple Silicon or Intel) or later
• ~Ubuntu 22.04 x86_64 or later
• ~Debian Bookworm aarch64 or later

What's Changed

• Update the issue templates for the latest release by @christian-heusel in #923
• Correcting a few minor errors in zh-CN (Simplified Chinese) translation by @ykla in #922
• Update german translation by @rejas in #921
• Update Catalan and Spanish translations by @JofreFaraudo in #891
• Update Slovak translation. by @jose1711 in #882
• Add syntax highlighting to readme by @ZevEisenberg in #925
• Added Hebrew translation by @yarons in #928
• Roll-up: v1.9.1 by @tdewey-rpi in #931
• Explicitly add '--tree' to the lsblk to remove partitions from top level output by @alkersan in #936
• CMake: Display v1.9.1 by @tdewey-rpi in #939
• v1.9.2 by @tdewey-rpi in #940
• feat(installer): add quiet uninstall for windows by @Rotzbua in #953
• Added Portuguese translation by @hugok79 in #948
• OS Customisation: Regex to match ssh public keys by @tdewey-rpi in #959
• deps: libarchive 3.7.{4->7} by @tdewey-rpi in #962
• deps: zlib: Remove preconfigured header by @tdewey-rpi in #963
• deps: cURL 8.{8->11}.0 by @tdewey-rpi in #964
• cmake: Build Windows binary unsigned by default by @tdewey-rpi in #971
• Make 'gigabytes' translatable by @tdewey-rpi in #970
• Filter system drives by user choice by @tdewey-rpi in #969
• AppImage: Disable Wayland support by @tdewey-rpi in #975
• embedded: Use blconfig alias to find bootloader config by @tdewey-rpi in #976
• Fix bug related to incorrect saving of long file names in Windows by @mgordel in #989
• fix: typo in Github issue template by @Rotzbua in #987
• Revert unnecessary changes to calculating the sizes of longFilename by @mgordel in #992
• Update and improve zh-TW Traditional Chinese locale by @PeterDaveHello in #1000
• Add new translation for korean by @RuffaloLavoisier in #1014
• v1.9.3: aarch64 release by @tdewey-rpi in #1018
• Windows: Switch to Inno Setup for installer
• Windows: Add signing for binaries, installer, and uninstaller
• Windows: Add administrator privileges and NSIS removal support
• macOS: Fix .app naming in .dmg packages
• macOS: Improve build reliability and programmatic copyright handling
• Linux: Hide system drives in destination popup
• all: Fix OptionsPopup not handling 'Esc' key
• all: Internal refactoring and QML code improvements
• all: Add support for more archive formats via libarchive
• all: Performance improvements in download/extract operations
• qml: Split main UI into multiple component files
• qml: Add Style singleton and ImCloseButton component
• qml: Make options popup modal and improve accessibility
• qml: Fix various QML linting warnings and unqualified accesses
• i18n: Updated Italian translation
• i18n: Added Georgian translation
• i18n: Make 'Recommended' OS string translatable
• packaging: Add custom AppImage build script with Qt detection
• packaging: Add custom Qt build script with unprivileged mode
• packaging: Include custom Qt 6.9.0
• packaging: Migrate dependencies to FetchContent system
• dependencies: Update to libarchive 3.8.0
• dependencies: Update to cURL 8.13.0
• dependencies: Update to nghttp2 1.65.0
• dependencies: Update to zstd 1.5.7
• dependencies: Update to xz/liblzma 5.8.1
• dependencies: Update to zlib 1.4.1.1
• cmake: Version requirement bumped to 3.22
• cmake: Various build system improvements and hardening
• build: Updated README with new build instructions
• OS customisation: Remove 'Show password' checkbox

New Contributors

• @christian-heusel made their first contribution in #923
• @ZevEisenberg made their first contribution in #925
• @yarons made their first contribution in #928
• @Rotzbua made their first contribution in #953
• @hugok79 made their first contribution in #948
• @mgordel made their first contribution in #989
• @NorwayFun made their first contribution in #999
• @marlop352 made their first contribution in #1024
• @Secretowo made their first contribution in #1035
• @sohnemann made their first contribution in #1030

Full Changelog: v1.9.0...v1.9.4

Headlines

• Imager now uses Qt 6.7.2, providing a lightly refreshed UI throughout on all platforms.
• Releases are now signed with the new Raspberry Pi Ltd signing key
• Linux builds are supplied as AppImages
• Dependencies are now intentionally included in this repo - providing a more uniform experience across platforms

System Requirements

• Windows 10 x86_64 or later
• macOS 11 (Apple Silicon or Intel) or later
• ~Ubuntu 22.04 x86_64 or later
• ~Debian Bookworm aarch64 or later

As ever, feedback is encouraged, and issues welcome.

What's Changed

• appstream metainfo: Fix appstream-builder generation by @joebonrichie in #792
• Add a message when there are no storage devices. Fixes #798 by @jedahan in #801
• Update Italian language by @bovirus in #802
• imagewriter: Use QCoreApplication::translate by @tdewey-rpi in #805
• Update Italian language by @bovirus in #806
• Exposing 'DRIVELIST_FILTER_SYSTEM_DRIVES' as a cmake variable by @MrSmoer in #816
• OS Customisation: Validate usernames by @tdewey-rpi in #819
• Update issue creation templates by @tdewey-rpi in #823
• Update French translation by @martignoni in #833
• cli: Add disable-eject by @tdewey-rpi in #860
• Corrected the spelling for Kyiv by @diminDDL in #871
• Fix timeout on systems with large numbers of loops by @waveform80 in #872
• localectl doesn't work on modern Debian/Ubuntu by @waveform80 in #867
• Update zh-CN (Simplified Chinese) translation by @ykla in #879
• BCM2712d0 support by @tdewey-rpi in #884
• Fix GPT signature test by @jadonk in #895
• Linux/OSX: Fix reversed fsync check by @ali1234 in #903
• v1.9.0: Roll-up by @tdewey-rpi in #920

New Contributors

• @joebonrichie made their first contribution in #792
• @jedahan made their first contribution in #801
• @MrSmoer made their first contribution in #816
• @diminDDL made their first contribution in #871
• @ykla made their first contribution in #879
• @jadonk made their first contribution in #895
• @ali1234 made their first contribution in #903

Full Changelog: v1.8.5...v1.9.0

• Retry on HTTP/2 errors.
• Linux: Fix display of application name and icon on GNOME desktop environment.
• Disable Link Time Optimization as precaution against hard to trace bugs.

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System requirements

Minimum operating system version needed:

• Windows 7
• Mac OS X 10.15
• Ubuntu 22.04

• OS customisation: Fixed first character being dropped when replacing existing password
• OS customisation: Impose character limits on usernames & hostnames
• i18n: Added Polish translation
• i18n: Updated Catalan, Japanese translations
• cli: Fixed local file passing via --repo

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System requirements

Minimum operating system version needed:

• Windows 7
• Mac OS X 10.15
• Ubuntu 22.04

• Home: Device filtering reworked to download OS list eagerly
• OS List: Fixed 'Recommended' tag annotation
• i18n: Added zh-TW Traditional Chinese translation
• i18n: Updated Korean, German, Ukranian, translations
• build: Linux: Fix libdrm dependency requirement on non-embedded
  build.
• Common: Disable QML caching entirely
• OS customisation: Allow use if only cloudinit payload available
• OS customisation: Allow empty PSK for 'Open' WiFi networks.
• OS List: Use ImageList v4 URL

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System requirements

Minimum operating system version needed:

• Windows 7
• Mac OS X 10.15
• Ubuntu 22.04

• Advanced options: Rename to OS customization
• OS customization: change to tabbed UI
• OS customization: make SSH public key field a textarea
• OS customization: add convenience button to run ssh-keygen
• OS customization: Enforce choice as part of write flow
• OS customization: Fixes for state consistency across UI
• Home: Add mechanism for selecting Raspberry Pi device
• Shared: Multiple keyboard focus fixes
• i18n: Adds Spanish/Ukrainian translations
• i18n: Updates French, Catalan, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian,
  Japanese translations
• i18n: Use en_US as reference string, and make en_GB a translation
• Linux: Workaround for ArchLinux's lsblk labeling internal SD card readers
  (mmcblk0) as non-removable storage.
• Allow drag-dropping image files to Imager.
• Local .xz files: parse uncompressed size for better progress reports.
• Windows: fix .zst support

Ubuntu version

Minimum supported Ubuntu version is now 22.04

Mac version

Minimum supported Mac OS X version that works out-of-the-box (without patching system files for TLS) is now 10.15 (Catalina).

• Windows: fix handling .zip files.
• Windows: allow Imager to start on Windows server editions that do not have "Wireless LAN service" role installed and are missing wlanapi.dll

(No changes from v1.7.4.1 for Linux and Mac other than version number)

Mac version

Raspberry.Pi.Imager.1.7.5.dmg is an Intel architecture build, and requires Rosetta 2 if run on Apple M1/M2 machines.
Raspberry.Pi.Imager.1.7.5.UNIVERSAL.BUILD.dmg is an universal build for both Intel and Apple M1/M2 architectures. It requires at least OS X 10.14.

• Advanced settings: fix creating files on FAT partition that are an exact multiple of cluster size.
• Advanced settings: allow end-of-directory marker to be missing in FAT32 root directory (fixes customizing Homebridge image)
• Do you want to apply saved settings window: offer 'no' option, without clearing settings.
• Linux: eject storage properly through udisks2.
• Windows/OSX: update dependencies libarchive/zlib/liblzma/zstd
• Windows: update libcurl and OpenSSL dependencies
• Add Russian translation

Mac version

Raspberry.Pi.Imager.1.7.4.1.dmg is an Intel architecture build, and requires Rosetta 2 if run on Apple M1/M2 machines.
Raspberry.Pi.Imager.1.7.4.1.UNTESTED.UNIVERSAL.BUILD.dmg is an universal build for both Intel and Apple M1/M2 architectures. It requires at least OS X 10.14 and has only been tested on Intel and M2 Mac Mini. This software has currently NOT been tested on M1 hardware, nor on Macbooks, and will not be officially released, until this is the case. Use at your own risk.