RAKPiOS is a custom operating system for RAKwireless gateways built on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module, based on Raspberry Pi OS. It integrates all necessary drivers, security updates, helper scripts, and Docker by default.
RAKPiOS v1.0.0 Release Note
This is the first RAKPiOS release built on Debian 13 (trixie). From this release on, the major version tracks the Debian base: every image built on trixie is 1.x, and the first release on the next Debian version becomes 2.0.0.
Added
| No. | Feature |
|---|
| 1 | Enable A/B bootloader updates on Raspberry Pi 5 and CM5 (dtoverlay=nospi10) |
| 2 | On the RAK7391, the GPIO16 power fault signal is bound to gpio-keys and reported as KEY_PROG1 on an input event device, so the OLED panel and the hardware test suite can both watch it |
Changed
| No. | Feature |
|---|
| 1 | Based on upstream 2026-06-18-raspios-trixie-arm64 with the default 6.12 kernel |
| 2 | Up to date mioty utility, with its dependencies |
| 3 | Refactored config.txt for compatibility |
| 4 | Building the image now requires qemu-user-binfmt instead of qemu-user-static |
| 5 | OLED info panel updated to 3.0.0 |
Removed
| No. | Feature |
|---|
| 1 | The standalone portainer script. Portainer is now deployed through rakpios-cli, and the portainer command points there |
Fixed
| Daily Build No. / Bug No. | Description |
|---|
| - | Image builds no longer fail in export-image on hosts with no loop device nodes yet, which usually meant the very first build after a reboot |
