Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 8.2 rolling releases are thoroughly tested — and can be installed today — anybody can build a beautiful digital library for their school, clinic or community:

See our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ.IIAB.IO) and consider installing today!

Why not build your own LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA with a $35 Raspberry Pi 4 or $60 Raspberry Pi 5 ?

Internet-in-a-Box brings the Internet's crown jewels and the very best of the World’s Free Knowledge (Wikipedia, Khan Academy, OpenStreetMap, E-Books, etc) to those who are burning for learning — but just happen to be offline.

Use drag-and-drop to customize this "Learning Hotspot" with local gems too — tailored to the needs of your school, your library, your prison, your region and/or your very own family!

Can you contribute a screencast or grassroots video to help Internet-in-a-Box teachers in all countries?

• IIAB lets you add YouTube and Vimeo videos (and local videos, e.g. from teachers' phones) to your Calibre-Web learning library! _{PR #3694}
• IIAB works with the latest 2024 OS's like Raspberry Pi OS "Bookworm", Debian 12 "Bookworm", Mint 21.3, and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" pre-releases! _#3662
• Kolibri Channels (and any Kolibri Channel subsets) should be selectable in advance, for faster installation of content (COMING SOON!) _{learningequality/kolibri#10384 PR iiab-admin-console#556}
• In 2024, the final release of IIAB 8.2 (GitHub Milestone, Roadmap Ideas) will build on IIAB 8.1. Please connect with your suggestions, and join us making this major release happen!

• Calibre-Web (introduction, upstream docs, upstream releases, IIAB commit log) allows you to build an e-book and audiobook library for your community or school. It's being refined to allow you to add YouTube and Vimeo videos (and local videos, e.g. from teachers' phones). Use it with customizable URLs like box/books, box/libros, box/livres _{PR #3503 PR #3694}
• Kolibri 0.16.1+ adds Haitian Creole (Kreyòl ayisyen) and fixes peer importing of channels from "Local network or internet" (changelog, blog, docs). IIAB now installs Kolibri with the PPA method, making it easy to upgrade using apt update etc. WARNING: Kolibri 0.17 pre-releases are required on Ubuntu 24.04, and other OS's with Python 3.12. Use Kolibri with URL box/kolibri _{#3227 PR #3327 PR #3490 PR #3514 PR #3722 learningequality/kolibri#11895}
• KA Lite (Khan Academy Lite) legacy option, even on the very latest 2024 OS's! _{PR #3527 PR #3535 PR #3587 PR #3718}
• Kiwix 3.7.0 (changelog), based on libzim 9.1.0 [soon 9.2.0] (changelog) and libkiwix 13.1.0 (changelog), with URL box/kiwix _{PR #3600}
• Moodle 4.4+ (announcement, technical announcement, release notes / changelog, release calendar, FAQ, docs) with URL box/moodle (NOTE that IIAB attempts to install the latest weekly pre-release of Moodle 4.5 if a bleeding-edge OS with PHP >= 8.3 is detected.) Moodle 4.5 ETA 2024-10-07. _{PR #3656}
• Nextcloud 29+ (changelog, release schedule, docs) requires PHP 8.1+. Nextcloud 30 is expected Q3 2024. Use Nextcloud with URL box/nextcloud _{PR #3670}
• WordPress 6.5.2+ (6.5 field guide, 6.4 field guide, 6.3 field guide, 6.2 field guide, 6.1 field guide, 6.0 field guide). WordPress 6.6 is expected 2024-07-16. WordPress 6.7 is expected 2024-11-12. With URL box/wordpress _{PR #3210}
• MediaWiki 1.41.1 (release notes, summary, changelog), with URL box/wiki _{PR #3725}
• Matomo 5.0.3+ (changelog, releases) is like Google Analytics, but emphasizes privacy and data ownership. With URL box/matomo _{PR #3460}
• JupyterHub 4.1.5+ (changelog) e.g. for data science students, with URL box/jupyterhub _{PR #3476}
• Sugarizer 1.8.0 (changelog) using Sugarizer Server 1.5.0 (changelog) with URL box/sugarizer (using MongoDB 5.0 on 64-bit ARM, and MongoDB 6.0 on x86_64) _{PR #3478 PR #3519 PR #3728}
• Minetest 5.8.0+ (changelog, releases) is like Minecraft, but open source! _{PR #3426}
• Node-RED 3.1.9+ (changelog, docs) with URL box/nodered _{PR #3248}
• AzuraCast 0.19.5+ (changelog, releases, docs) for radio-style MP3 streaming, with URL box:12080 _{PR #2946 PR #3384}
• Gitea 1.21.11+ (changelog, blog) lightweight self-hosted "GitHub" version control system, to learn to code collaboratively, with URL box/gitea _{PR #3671}
• Asterisk 21 and FreePBX 17 Beta telephony server (IIAB guide) run on Debian 12 Bookworm (PHP 8.2) and Ubuntu 24.04 (PHP 8.3). The Bookworm version of 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS (PHP 8.2) and Ubuntu 22.04 (PHP 8.1) are quite likely to work too. With URL box/freepbx (NGINX) and/or box:83/freepbx (Apache) _{PR #3674 PR #3675}
• Lokole 0.8.2 for rural/community email, with URL box/lokole _{PR ascoderu/lokole#593 PR #3276}
• Transmission 4.1.0-dev (changelog, commit log) overhauled BitTorrent infra for FAST content downloads, can be compiled live during IIAB install. _{PR #3690}
• Remote.It 5.1.4+ (desktop/mobile app download) to remotely support your IIAB — see also “How can I remotely manage my Internet-in-a-Box?” _{PR #3611}
• Node.js 20 (releases, changelog) support. Node.js 22 might be supported after it's released 2024-04-23. _{PR #3584}
• PHP 8.3 support, for 2024 OS's like Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. PHP 8.4 (expected 2024-11-21) will also work increasingly with most IIAB apps, in preparation for 2025 OS's. _{PR #3656}
• phpMyAdmin 5.2.1 (changelog) for remote administration of MySQL _{PR #3474}
• ansible-core 2.16 (changelog, end-of-life schedule; soon to be replaced by 2.17 ETA 2024-05-20) as implemented by scripts/ansible _{#3727 PR #3729}

• Problematic lines may appear at the bottom of /library/www/html/home/menu.json in some situations when Admin Console is used intensively, disabling your IIAB's home page: #3487 #3602
• The sudo iiab-network command doesn't cleanly recognize Wi-Fi routers (or Access Points) that you attach to IIAB with an Ethernet cable, with recent OS's like Ubuntu 22.04. Manual workarounds can help: #3330 #3385 (comment)
• A few residual issues may remain at: github.com/iiab/iiab/milestone/10