Version 8.2.8 of the BOINC client has been released for all platforms. Download it here. Release notes are here.

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I have BOINC client 8.2.8 now on a Raspberry Pi 4 B with 8GB RAM and Debian 12 (bookworm), but I also tried to install it on a Raspberry Pi 2 B with 1GB RAM using the instructions on https://boinc.berkeley.edu/linux_install.php?action=submit&os_num=0&version_num=2&build=alpha for Debian 11 (bullseye) armv7l, but that doesn't work since there is no armhf version. On both systems I could install Podman.

Hit:3 https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/linux/alpha/bullseye bullseye InRelease
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N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-armhf/Packages' as repository 'https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/linux/alpha/bullseye bullseye InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'armhf'

Will there be an armhf (e.g. armv7l) version of the latest boinc-client for Debian 11 or later?

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In reply to mobluse's message of 28 Dec 2025:

Will there be an armhf (e.g. armv7l) version of the latest boinc-client for Debian 11 or later?

I will check if this is something that we can provide.

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BOINC maintainer.
For any insight, check my BOINC Development Blog.

I have pushed into the nightly (important, nightly only: no alpha, no stable) channel packages for arm32.
Please use this instructions to install it: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/linux_install.php
Please report if anything doesn't work as intended.

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BOINC maintainer.
For any insight, check my BOINC Development Blog.

Thanks! It seems to work now on a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Rev 1.1 with Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) armv7l.

Notice from BOINC
The BOINC client version has changed from 7.16.16 to 8.3.0.
To see what's new, view the Client release notes .
Thu Jan 8 22:05:12 2026

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I update it and it gets updated, but now the boinc-client doesn't seem to run. It worked before and I could update it and the updated version worked, but for at least the last two nightly updates it doesn't work. I now have 8.3.0-3764. Version 8.3.0-3744 worked, and some later too, I believe. I updated using:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade

I tested if it runs using:

$ boinccmd --get_state
can't connect to local host

Also boinctui cannot connect.

OS: Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) armv7l
Host: Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Rev 1.1

Run this command and look for the errors:

journalctl -u boinc-client -n 100 -f

I suggest you to open a ticket on GitHub for better tracking and attach the log you receive from running the command above.

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BOINC maintainer.
For any insight, check my BOINC Development Blog.

Before I upgraded, but now I used apt purge, and had to reconfigure my boinc installation from scratch, and then boinc-client 8.3.0-3764 worked!

Maybe something in the configuration files or the data changed so that you need to purge and reinstall to get it to work.