Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.9 has been released as a new pre-release build of the official Raspberry Pi flashing utility for preparing SD cards and USB storage with Raspberry Pi OS and other supported systems.
The most notable addition is a new wizard flow for registering devices into a Pi Connect organization. The new workflow includes on-device key signing through ConnectDeviceRegistrar over HTTPS, tracking organization enrolment tokens through ImageWriter, and device identity registration with Pi Connect after a Fastboot flash.
Compute Module 5 also receives attention, with Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.9 rewriting SecureBootProvisioner for in-place re-provisioning and adding a new CM5 re-provisioning pipeline in FirmwareManager.
It also adds a BootloaderImage TLV editor for pieeprom.bin, bootfile repacking support, config-sig handling, RSA public key extraction, bootcode2712 signing, and debug toggles for force-secure-boot and signed Fastboot gadget handling.
Fastboot support has been improved as well. The new version captures INFO and TEXT output from OEM commands, fixes command truncation, normalizes custom gadget paths to allow local files, chunks file_server bulk transfers, resolves cache entries before flashing, pauses drive scanning during auto-bootstrap, and tracks naked rpiboot devices separately in the drive list.
Cloud-init customization has also changed. Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.9 drops the older enable_ssh handling and now uses a systemctl runcmd. It also switches to a singular user configuration and fixes handling when the serial interface is disabled.
The user interface receives smaller refinements, including a reduced-motion option for users sensitive to animation, a scrollable AppOptionsDialog, relocation of telemetry settings to the bottom of the dialog, and styling alignment for the Secure Boot step container.
On Windows, Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.9 advertises long-path support, DPI awareness, and UTF-8 codepage support in the application manifest. It also propagates write errors through FileOperations, adds geometric backoff for volume locking, waits for clean completion, uses secure memory erase for Wi-Fi credentials, and changes the uninstaller so that it preserves user preferences while clearing cache and customization data.
On macOS, the release adds secure memory erase for Wi-Fi credentials. On Linux, Raspberry Pi Imager now prefers kreadconfig6 with fallback to kreadconfig5, selected through KDE_SESSION_VERSION.
For more details, see the changelog.
Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.9 is available now from the project’s GitHub releases page as a pre-release build.
