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 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...
View ArticleIncremental 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 ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleBalena 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...
View ArticleSupervisor 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...
View ArticleQueued 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...
View ArticleExpanding 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...
View ArticleBalena 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...
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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