# About the balenalib base images migration category **URL:** \ **Category:** balenalib base images migration\ **Created:** [May 9, 2025, 10:03am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/about-the-balenalib-base-images-migration-category/374222 "2025-05-09T10:03:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jazzagi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@Jazzagi](https://forums.balena.io/u/Jazzagi)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 10:03am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/about-the-balenalib-base-images-migration-category/374222/1 "2025-05-09T10:03:11Z")
A place to discuss everything related to balenalib base images. We recently announced the end of updates for balenalib base images. Refer to our [blog post](https://blog.balena.io/deprecate-balenalib-images/) for migration guidance and recommended alternatives. Use this space to share migration tips, challenges, and solutions you found while migrating from balenalib base images. Get help from the community adapting your balenaCloud application to use official Docker images, and collaborate with others to get aligned with the modern trends of the wider container ecosystem. ---
**Author:** ![joelscho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@joelscho](https://forums.balena.io/u/joelscho)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 6:58am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/about-the-balenalib-base-images-migration-category/374222/2 "2025-05-23T06:58:11Z")
Can we get some guidance on porting the Balenalib UDEV functionality to other images? It would help a lot. ---
**Author:** ![alanb128](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/alanb128/32/2839_2.png) [@alanb128](https://forums.balena.io/u/alanb128)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 3:43am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/about-the-balenalib-base-images-migration-category/374222/3 "2025-05-29T03:43:18Z")
@joelscho here is a [link to the script](https://github.com/balena-io-library/base-images/blob/master/balena-base-images/aarch64/debian/buster/build/entry.sh) that was used by the balenalib base images for UDEV functionality. We haven’t documented this in our guide yet because we are looking into a more streamlined solution. In the meantime this script should hopefully get you started in the right direction. ---
**Author:** ![msherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc79bd/32.png) [@msherman](https://forums.balena.io/u/msherman)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/about-the-balenalib-base-images-migration-category/374222/4 "2025-07-10T16:18:05Z")
I’d like to bump this request, as the “magic udev script” is required in order to get libcamera and picamera2 to work. I should have a minimal working example repo soon, which I’m happy to contribute. ---
**Author:** ![henry-mytos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c0e974/32.png) [@henry-mytos](https://forums.balena.io/u/henry-mytos)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/about-the-balenalib-base-images-migration-category/374222/5 "2025-08-18T11:26:46Z")
Any updates on the more streamlined solution? We are looking to update our node version and currently the solution seems to be copy the linked `entry.sh` into each of our containers to use UDEV ---
**Author:** ![henry-mytos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c0e974/32.png) [@henry-mytos](https://forums.balena.io/u/henry-mytos)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 11:10am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/about-the-balenalib-base-images-migration-category/374222/6 "2026-01-13T11:10:38Z")
@alanb128 any updates on supporting people to move away from the Balena base images? We would like to upgrade our node version and ideally there would be an easy path that Balena can provide to support with moving away from base images. Otherwise we’ll manually add in the Udev rules ourselves.