Raspberry Pi Imager 1.8.1 : compatible Raspberry Pi 5

2023-10-24 00:28:01

The Raspberry Pi Imager application has just received a major update with the release of version 1.8.1, a few days before the arrival of the Raspberry Pi 5 this week. Summary of new features.

What is Raspberry Pi Imager?

Raspberry Pi Imager is a application for installing a compatible operating system on a Raspberry Pi computer. The tool, developed since the end of 2020, includes a list of OS downloadable directly from the Raspberry Foundation website, but it is possible to install a personalized image.

L’application is available for Windows, Linux and for macOS.

Raspberry Pi Imager 1.8.1: what’s new?

The version 1.6 de Raspberry Pi Imager was released on October 19, 2023, with a burst of corrections, but the main new feature is compatibility with the Raspberry Pi 5 (the official release of which took place on October 23).

Other new features:

Home: Added a Raspberry Pi device selection mechanism Fixed multiple keyboard focuses
French translation updatesCatalan, Italian, German, Spanish and Russian
Linux : Workaround ArchLinux lsblk’s labeling of internal SD card drives (mmcblk0) as non-removable drives. Added drag and drop of image files to Imager. Windows: Fix support for .zst files

Installer Raspberry Pi Imager

Raspberry Pi Imager is a free cross-platform application, available for Windows, macOS, Ubuntu x86 and Raspberry Pi OS since this page.

The minimum supported version of Ubuntu is now 22.04. For macOS, it is version 10.15 (Catalina).

It is also possible toinstall Raspberry Pi Imager from command line with the following instruction:

sudo apt install rpi-imager

Development is centralized on Githubwhere you can find the source code of the application.

Buy a Raspberry Pi

If you wish to purchase a Raspberry Pi kit onlineyou can check out our handy guide, which will be updated for Pi 5 soon.

Raspberry Pi 4 or 3 kit online from €78.99 excluding tax

Once assembled, the kit will allow you to use Raspberry Pi Imager.

Installation guide (video)

And guide d’installation in video is available on Youtube.

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