Armbian Imager 2.0.4

What's new in 2.0.4

Armbian Imager 2.0.4 is mostly about older Macs. Text input was broken there, and the app was eating a whole CPU core.

Older macOS

On macOS 12 you could not type in the search fields. No cursor, one character per click if you were lucky. WebKit before Safari 16 took the app's own styling to mean the field was not editable. Form fields are now exempt from that rule.

Same machines, second problem：a WebKit process above 100% CPU for as long as the window was in front. It was the small glowing dot next to the sidebar tip, animated in a way that repainted the whole panel every frame. It still glows, just when the tip changes now.

Animations you can turn down

New control in Settings, under Appearance. Auto follows the system, Full keeps everything as it is, Reduced stops the movement. Before this, exactly one animation in the app honoured Reduce Motion, so switching it on in macOS or GNOME did almost nothing.

Also in this release

• The confirm screen now shows the kernel branch and version under the OS name.
• 277 server images were showing up as "Minimal". They say Server now. Bianbu gets its own label, and KDE Neon is no longer lumped in with KDE.
• Saving a shorter autoconfig preset over a longer one left the tail of the old file behind. Fixed.
• GPL-2.0-or-later, with SPDX headers and a copyright file in the deb, rpm and AppImage.
• Dependency updates.

What's Changed

• chore(deps-dev)：bump js-yaml from 4.3.0 to 4.3.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/armbian/imager/pull/176
• fix(autoconfig)：replace existing preset contents by @Guflly in https://github.com/armbian/imager/pull/179
• chore(license)：declare GPL-2.0-or-later and add SPDX headers by @SuperKali in https://github.com/armbian/imager/pull/182
• feat(flash)：show the kernel version in the confirm summary by @SuperKali in https://github.com/armbian/imager/pull/184
• fix(images)：label server and bianbu variants instead of calling them minimal by @SuperKali in https://github.com/armbian/imager/pull/185
• fix(ui)：text input and repaint issues on older WebKit by @SuperKali in https://github.com/armbian/imager/pull/186

New Contributors

• @Guflly made their first contribution in https://github.com/armbian/imager/pull/179

Full Changelog：https://github.com/armbian/imager/compare/v2.0.3...v2.0.4

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