DietPi 10.4 adds full support for an Orange Pi, plus Copy Fail mitigations

The DietPi development team has released DietPi 10.4 with several enhancements and updates. It's a relatively minor release, mostly enhancing existing support, patching security issues, and fixing some bugs.

What's new

• Full Orange Pi 5B support: There are now dedicated images for the Orange Pi 5B. You no longer have to use the Orange Pi 5 and manually enable its hardware.
• Vulnerability mitigations: The Copy Fail and Dirty Frag vulnerabilities have been fully mitigated with this release.

What's getting better

• Log placement: Persistent logs for the DietPi system have been moved from /var/tmp/dietpi/logs to /var/lib/dietpi/logs to be more in line with Debian Trixie's approach to logkeeping.
• Installation operations: If you had a special situation where a GRUB BIOS image exists on a GPT partition table but without a BIOS boot partition, then you won't see a bunch of warnings from GRUB on installation.
• Java, soju, and Unbound: Java on 64-bit images has been upgraded to Java 26, Unbound DNS resolver for DietPi now has its own DietPi-custom repository, and the soju IRC bouncer was updated to the latest version.
  • DietPi recommends that you upgrade soju with a reinstallation command, dietpi-software reinstall 213 .

What's going away

• Installation bugs in popular software: Several bugs that hobbled newly installed instances of Docker, Home Assistant, Immich, ownCloud Infinite Scale, and Synapse have been resolved.

Zooming out

Why this update matters: PC hardware costs are soaring, cloud privacy issues mount, and projects like DietPi continue to make self-hosting on cheap hardware easy.

My take: I'm updating my DietPi device as we speak, as I want all the vulnerabilities removed ASAP.

Diving in

The fineprint: See the release notes on GitHub for details and additional information.

Get it now: DietPi 10.4 images are available from the the DietPi download page. Just choose the device you own and click its Download Image link.