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balena production support for NVIDIA Jetpack 7.2 on Jetson Thor
balenaOS You may already know balena as the creators of Etcher, the open source software utility used by millions to flash OS images to storage media. Our platform also includes balenaOS which is a...
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Balena Appoints Leon Hurst as CEO as It Scales Platform for IoT and Edge AI
The following is the full text of today’s official announcement: Balena Appoints Leon Hurst as CEO as It Scales Platform for IoT and Edge AI Strategic transition enhances operational capabilities as...
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Scale and manage your robotics fleets without building custom edge...
Introduction The global robotics market reached $38B in 2026, a 34% year-over-year increase, as hardware turns into standard off-the-shelf components and innovation shifts to software and data. Over...
View ArticleThe next chapter in balena support
Nothing changes about how you reach us: you can still open a ticket the same way you always have, through the balenaCloud dashboard, the help center, email, or the forums. What’s changing is what...
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Balena cycle roundup –August 2026
This is what balena has been working on in our most recent Intentional Work Framework cycle: BalenaOS 8 released! BalenaOS 8 has now been released and the main change is that the default partition...
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Expanding balenaOS Secure Boot and Full Disk Encryption to ARM Devices
As edge computing and AI becomes more widely adopted in critical infrastructure, security at the edge becomes a fundamental requirement. No matter how secure your container stack is, when a device is...
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Queued OS updates, managed by the Supervisor
This post describes queued OS updates, the first new feature enabled by the re-architected Supervisor. A queued OS update works like a pinned application release. It can be scheduled even if a device...
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Supervisor improvements: Laying the foundation
With version 19, the balena device Supervisor begins its transition to a new foundation, the core-next service. This new service is implemented in a way that allows seamless, incremental replacement...
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Balena cycle roundup –July 2026
This is what balena has been working on in our most recent Intentional Work Framework cycle: Balena exhibits at Computex 2026 Balena’s Nicolas Lesconnec and Samuel Duffield at Computex 2026 Computex...
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The powerful balena device tag feature gets even better
About device tags Device tags are simply key-value pairs of data you can assign to a device. For each tag, you define a unique tag name (the key) and its corresponding value. That’s it. Example of...
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Incremental Improvements: Re-architecting the balena Supervisor
The balena Supervisor The Supervisor is a service that runs on every balena device and communicates with the balenaCloud back end. It’s responsible for monitoring and applying device changes such as...
View Article2026 Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) awareness and readiness report: Relevance to...
The European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) makes it clear: if your commercial product uses open source code, your company is legally considered the ‘manufacturer’ and is held responsible for its...
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Introducing balena support for NVIDIA Jetpack 7.2 on Jetson Thor
balenaOS You may already know balena as the creators of Etcher, the open source software utility used by millions to flash OS images to storage media. Our platform also includes balenaOS which is a...
View ArticleBalena Announces Remote Fleet Management for NVIDIA JetPack 7.2 and Jetson Thor
Balena today announces an update to its platform with a new balenaOS release to deliver immediate day-one integration for NVIDIA JetPack 7.2 and NVIDIA Jetson Thor single-board computer. This release...
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Balena cycle roundup –May 2026
This is what balena has been working on in our most recent Intentional Work Framework cycle: Balena-compatible device page We’ve built an experimental device page with the goal to make it easier to...
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Why balena Adopted AI Whitebox Penetration Testing for balenaCloud
Our Journey to Better Pentesting There is a massive amount of noise around artificial intelligence right now, especially in the security industry. We had a bold hypothesis: could an AI tool actually...
View ArticleIntroducing balenaOS v7: read-only root by design
The change closes off a long-standing class of bugs, meaningfully raises the security bar on every device running balenaOS, and sets the stage for one of the most exciting features we’ll be shipping...
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Release on balenaCloud Please
I’ve always found it challenging to maintain my train departure sign project due to the complexity introduced when taking advantage of the automated build and draft release functionality on...
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Balena Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 CRN IoT 50
We at balena are thrilled to be featured in the 2026 CRN Internet of Things (IoT) 50 list, recognised as one of the 10 coolest IoT software companies. The list honors the industry’s most noteworthy...
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Balena cycle roundup – March 2026
New and notable… Update balenaOS for Jetson Orin devices to Scarthgap Scarthgap is the latest LTS (Long Term Support) version of Yocto Linux, which is the foundation of balenaOS. Basing our OS on this...
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