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July 2, 2026

Disk images flash directly in balenaEtcher, and Raspberry Pi Imager lists Anthias for the Pi 5

Flashing Anthias is easier in 2026.07.0, in 2 ways.

One format both flashing tools read

Release disk images are now compressed with xz and named like 2026-07-02-anthias-pi4-64.img.xz. They were .img.zst before, which balenaEtcher can't flash, so you had to decompress the image first. Raspberry Pi Imager and balenaEtcher both flash .img.xz directly.

The downloads are smaller too. The Raspberry Pi 4 image is 633 MB, against 907 MB in Anthias 2026.06.3, and the x86 image is 1.80 GB, against 1.88 GB.

Anthias in Raspberry Pi Imager on the Pi 5

Raspberry Pi Imager asks which Pi you have, then lists the operating systems made for it. Anthias images didn't say which Pi they were for, and once you picked a Raspberry Pi 5, Imager left Anthias out. Each image now names its board, so Anthias shows up for the Pi 2, Pi 3, Pi 4 and Pi 5, with names like "Anthias (Raspberry Pi 5)" in place of "Anthias (pi5)".

On the Pi 3, Imager offers the 64-bit image, pi3-64. The 32-bit pi3 image is still on the release page.