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Download a Haiku Image

If you have an earlier version of Haiku installed, see upgrade instructions below.

The provided images can be written directly to a USB flash drive, an empty disk, or written to DVD media.
You can boot directly from your chosen physical media and try out Haiku without needing to install it.

They can also be used in virtual machines such as QEMU, VMWare or VirtualBox.

Direct Download Locations

If you choose to download an image, please select from the list of available mirrors below. Mirrors are in no specific order.

Torrents

In order to assist with distribution, we have also created .torrent files that can be used to download and seed the release files for others.
Please continue seeding the torrents if you can!

• haiku-r1beta5-x86_gcc2h.torrent
• haiku-r1beta5-x86_64.torrent

Checksums

To make sure that you have got the right file and that it has not been corrupted during file transfer, it is always wise to ensure the integrity of your download. To that end, you can use the SHA256 checksums shown below to verify that what you have is the correct file.

22ae312a38e98083718b6984186e753d15806bd6ea44542144fdcef42c4dcb69  haiku-r1beta5-x86_64-anyboot.iso
bd6d5015ce1d94ab2c3fa2f4f685491249938bde9acc55345f76098eb2ea424f  haiku-r1beta5-x86_gcc2h-anyboot.iso

If you are in Haiku or Linux, you can use the sha256sum command from the Terminal to generate a checksum for your downloaded file and verify against those above. If you are in macOS, you can use the shasum -a 256 command. If you are in Windows, you can use the shell command certutil -hashfile (ISOFILE) SHA256.

Cryptographic Signatures

To further validate releases, you can also check the cryptographic signature of the release media against our public key using Minisign (available for Haiku, Windows, Linux, BSD, and OS X). The matching .minisig file needs to be placed next to the iso file on your filesystem.

• 32-bit minisig
• 64-bit minisig

$ ls
haiku-r1beta5-x86_64-anyboot.iso
haiku-r1beta5-x86_64-anyboot.iso.minisig

$ minisign -Vm haiku-r1beta5-x86_64-anyboot.iso -P RWTPfbfFRi5b+T02aw733p5dp/UI/1Z946YWBInmkPmBlx2Zy1Vyw9kP
Signature and comment signature verified
Trusted comment: timestamp:1726198843	file:haiku-r1beta5-x86_64-anyboot.iso	hashed

Upgrading from R1/beta4

There is an upgrade path available for users that are currently using Haiku R1/beta4. If you want to do this upgrade, you will have to use the Terminal to issue some commands. To do so,

The following commands will replace your existing “Haiku” and “HaikuPorts” repositories with their R1/beta5 equivalents:

pkgman add-repo https://eu.hpkg.haiku-os.org/haiku/r1beta5/$(getarch)/current
pkgman add-repo https://eu.hpkg.haiku-os.org/haikuports/r1beta5/$(getarch)/current

If this is successful, you may then run a full-sync (or just run SoftwareUpdater) to perform the actual upgrade:

pkgman full-sync

After that step has completed successfully, you should immediately reboot the system. You can do this from the Deskbar, or by running shutdown -r in Terminal.

Acknowledgments

We thank all the individuals, organizations and companies who make it possible for the Haiku project to continue its development over the years, including:

• generously providing the server space and bandwidth to mirror our releases;
• donating to Haiku Inc. to allow a developer to work on Haiku, pay for our infrastruture hosting costs, and our real-life events like coding sprints;
• or contributing in any other ways to the testing, advertising and development of Haiku.

Your help is very much appreciated!

If you are interested in mirroring our releases, Nightly builds or HaikuDepot packages, please don’t hesitate to drop us a line on the forums, IRC, or through our mailing list.