What changed in balenaEtcher from 1 to 2
6 releases numbered after v1.19.25 up to and including v2.1.6, stable releases only. v1.19.25 and v2.1.6 are the newest stable releases of 1 and 2 we track; this page follows them as new ones ship.
6 changes across 6 releases
Added 1
- Informational notice about how to disable analytics collection
Changed 2
Fixed 3
- Fix MacOS x86 build by switching to the macos-14-large GH runner
- Fix Ubuntu 24 build and flash issues by bumping electron-forge to 7.8.1 and electron to 37.2.4, and stop producing broken appimage
- Fix Windows build and flash issues by downgrading flasher's node to 20.11.1 on Windows and bumping winusb-driver-generator to 2.1.9
2 releases in the range carry no categorized changes yet: v2.1.2v2.0.0. Their original notes, where the vendor published any, are below.
Original release notes, newest first
The list above is our reading of these notes; the originals from balena are here, one fold per release.
v2.1.6
(2026-05-13)
- Fix MacOS x86 build by switching to the macos-14-large GH runner [Thodoris Greasidis]
v2.1.5
(2026-05-07)
- Replace the EOL macos-13 test runners with macos-14 [Thodoris Greasidis]
- Add libgdk-pixbuf dependency alternatives to fix Ubuntu 26.04 installation [Thodoris Greasidis]
v2.1.4
(2025-07-29)
- patch: fix ubuntu 24 build and flash issues - bump electron-forge to 7.8.1 - bump electron to 37.2.4 - stop producing broken appimage [Edwin Joassart]
- patch: fix windows build and flash issues - downgrade flasher's node to 20.11.1 on windows - bump windows GHA runner to 2022 - bump winusb-driver-generator to 2.1.9 [Edwin Joassart]
- patch: refactor permission code [Edwin Joassart]
v2.1.2
(2025-05-08)
- patch: remove analytics [Edwin Joassart]
v2.1.0
(2025-02-27)
- Add informational notice about how to disable analytics collection [myarmolinsky]
v2.0.0
(2025-02-20)
- major: build on ubuntu 22 and macos 13 [Edwin Joassart]