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apk decides whether to upgrade from the version string alone. Three recipes
pin an upstream version -- anvil-moonraker on ${MOONRAKER_VERSION#v},
anvil-klipper on the pinned commit, anvil-helixscreen on its tag -- and each
ships a payload/ of ours beside that upstream tree. Our half changes without
the string moving, so the feed serves new bytes under the name every printer
already holds and `apk upgrade` finds nothing to do. #16 did exactly that to
moonraker.conf, the file that moves Moonraker's config to
/usr/data/anvil-data/config.
PKG_RELEASE is that string's other half, and it is the release date now:
pkg_release_stamp, monotone, with the same-day letter as a trailing digit so
20260827b sorts between 20260827 and 20260828. Nobody has to notice that a
payload changed, which is the only version of this that holds.
PKG_STAMP_EXTRA="$(pkg_payload_hash)" is not this and reads as though it were.
It hashes payload/ so the BUILD rebuilds; it says nothing to a printer. All
three recipes had it, and all three would have shipped stale.
test_recipe_layout.py makes it the rule for recipes added later: a pinned
recipe with a payload/ must take pkg_release_stamp, and the failure names the
recipe and the line to write.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reforge
Custom firmware for the FlashForge Creator 5 and Creator 5 Pro.
It installs the way a normal FlashForge update does: copy one file to a USB stick, plug it in, power the printer on. No jailbreak, no soldering, no opening the case, no ssh needed to get started — the printer's own updater does the work.
Packages are published on the Releases page — two files per release, one per model, marked pre-release while the mod is young. Help and support: the Discord.
Unofficial and unaffiliated with FlashForge. It voids your warranty and you are responsible for your machine. See Status for what has actually been tried on hardware before you flash anything.
Status
It runs on real printers — both a Creator 5 Pro and a Creator 5 have been flashed and exercised; the pictured hardware is the Pro:
A checked box happened on that machine; an empty one has not, yet.
For everyone:
- Install and migration from stock firmware — the printer's own updater does it; your unit's factory calibration imports itself on the first boot
- Printing — gcode straight from the slicer, nothing edited
- Toolchanges — a current Klipper with real toolchanger support, in place of the 0.12-era tree FlashForge ships
- Nozzle-offset calibration
- Mainsail at
http://<printer-ip>/, with a current Moonraker behind it — anything that speaks the Klipper API works - Camera — mjpg-streamer, already on the printer; the mod just starts it
- Wifi
- HelixScreen on the printer's own screen
- Chamber heater — tested on the Creator 5 Pro; the regular Creator 5 correctly uses its heater-free chamber configuration
- Creator 5 (non-Pro) — package installed and exercised on hardware; see the feature-specific validation notes in the feature list
- Going back to stock — tested with the matching stock packages; the stock package restores everything it carries. Moonraker is not in it, so the mod's build stays and keeps working — see Support
For the tinkerer:
- ssh as root — a random password is chosen on the first install
and written to
anvil-password.txton your stick; updates keep it (make passwdbakes in your own)
What you give up
FlashForge's application is one binary, and replacing it takes everything
that lived inside it: the network API on :8898, and with it FlashPrint,
Orca's FlashForge profile and the mobile app. Moonraker's API takes over.
Flashing the stock package brings them back.
If your prints already come out the way you want and you like the printer's own screen, this mod is not for you. It trades FlashForge's polish for Klipper's reach, and it expects you to be comfortable with a Klipper config and an ssh session when something breaks — Is this for you is the honest version of that question.
Get it
Creator 5 and Creator 5 Pro are not interchangeable. The printer refuses a package built for the other model — the most common reason a flash "does nothing". Yours is in Settings → About.
| Your printer | The file on the Releases page |
|---|---|
| Creator 5 | Creator5-anvil-<date>.tgz |
| Creator 5 Pro | Creator5Pro-anvil-<date>.tgz |
Download the stock FlashForge package for your model before you begin. It is the undo button: flashing it back puts the printer as it was.
Start here
| Is this for you | Who should flash this, who should stay on stock, and what it asks of you |
| Installing | The flash, the first boot, your root password |
| Your first print | The go/no-go checks, calibration, and the two verification files |
| Support | The logs, and the way back to stock |
The full manual is at
reforge.readthedocs.io. If you want the
insides — one file, firmwareExe, with the stock boot scripts, updater and
recovery path left untouched — How it works is under
For contributors.
For the complete beta inventory and validation boundaries, see the feature list.
Credits
Built on the work of others: ghzserg/FF publishes the stock packages and factory image everything here starts from; Mainsail, Moonraker and HelixScreen are shipped as released; the toolchanger status API follows viesturz/klipper-toolchanger so tool-aware UIs work unchanged.