# balenaEtcher changelog

> Flash OS images to SD cards and USB drives.

- Vendor: balena
- Category: Productivity
- Platforms: Desktop
- Official site: https://etcher.balena.io
- Tracked by: What's New (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/balena-etcher)
- Harvested from: GitHub (balena-io/etcher)
- Entries below: 10 (newest first)

What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog.

## Releases

### v2.1.6

- Date: 2026-05-13
- Version: v2.1.6
- Original notes: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/tag/v2.1.6
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/balena-etcher/releases/v2.1.6
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

- **fixed** — Fix MacOS x86 build by switching to the macos-14-large GH runner

##### (2026-05-13)

* Fix MacOS x86 build by switching to the macos-14-large GH runner [Thodoris Greasidis]

### v2.1.5

- Date: 2026-05-07
- Version: v2.1.5
- Original notes: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/tag/v2.1.5
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/balena-etcher/releases/v2.1.5
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

- **changed** — Add libgdk-pixbuf dependency alternatives to fix Ubuntu 26.04 installation

##### (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

- Date: 2025-07-29
- Version: v2.1.4
- Original notes: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/tag/v2.1.4
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/balena-etcher/releases/v2.1.4
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

##### (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]

### v2.1.3

- Date: 2025-05-15
- Version: v2.1.3
- Original notes: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/tag/v2.1.3
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/balena-etcher/releases/v2.1.3
- Labels: Pre-release; Platforms: Desktop

##### (2025-05-15)

* Remove stale secrets [Anton Belodedenko]

### v2.1.2

- Date: 2025-05-08
- Version: v2.1.2
- Original notes: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/tag/v2.1.2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/balena-etcher/releases/v2.1.2
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

##### (2025-05-08)

* patch: remove analytics [Edwin Joassart]

### v2.1.1

- Date: 2025-05-05
- Version: v2.1.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/tag/v2.1.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/balena-etcher/releases/v2.1.1
- Labels: Pre-release; Platforms: Desktop

##### (2025-05-05)

* patch: fix signin windows artifacts [Edwin Joassart]

### v2.1.0

- Date: 2025-02-27
- Version: v2.1.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/tag/v2.1.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/balena-etcher/releases/v2.1.0
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

##### (2025-02-27)

* Add informational notice about how to disable analytics collection [myarmolinsky]

### v2.0.0

- Date: 2025-02-20
- Version: v2.0.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/tag/v2.0.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/balena-etcher/releases/v2.0.0
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

##### (2025-02-20)

* major: build on ubuntu 22 and macos 13 [Edwin Joassart]

### v1.19.25

- Date: 2024-10-10
- Version: v1.19.25
- Original notes: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/tag/v1.19.25
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/balena-etcher/releases/v1.19.25
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

##### (2024-10-10)

* patch: bump etcher-sdk to 9.1.2 [Edwin Joassart]

### v1.19.24

- Date: 2024-10-09
- Version: v1.19.24
- Original notes: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/tag/v1.19.24
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/balena-etcher/releases/v1.19.24
- Labels: Pre-release; Platforms: Desktop

##### (2024-10-09)

* patch: etcher-util is corrupted in RPM package [Richard Glidden]