Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.12 Released with Sequential Writes via io_uring on Linux

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Marcus Nestor
Oct 22, 2026

Coming almost two months after Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.11, the Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.12 release improves the embedded Raspberry Pi network installer with support for waiting for a usable IP address rather than just a link being up, which previously caused slow-negotiating PHYs like the Raspberry Pi 5 Rev 1.2’s MXL86110 to be missed entirely at first poll.

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Marcus Nestor

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