diff --git a/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/arm-trusted-firmware/arm-trusted-firmware.hash b/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/arm-trusted-firmware/arm-trusted-firmware.hash
index 8b77e1f165..0bf70b5542 100644
--- a/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/arm-trusted-firmware/arm-trusted-firmware.hash
+++ b/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/arm-trusted-firmware/arm-trusted-firmware.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  c0f23ccc71c49989e9ad238acf334473c17b7c88f79a20c829c3d443e3794a22  arm-trusted-firmware-v2.11-git4.tar.gz
+sha256  6fd749e53c455aec3418288630544e7552bbffab4442ddc48b20ebef9aee87ff  arm-trusted-firmware-v2.14-git4.tar.gz
diff --git a/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/linux-headers/linux-headers.hash b/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/linux-headers/linux-headers.hash
deleted file mode 120000
index 5808d92afe..0000000000
--- a/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/linux-headers/linux-headers.hash
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../linux/linux.hash
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/linux/linux.hash b/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/linux/linux.hash
index 396c18dd5c..5810d3d580 100644
--- a/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/linux/linux.hash
+++ b/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/linux/linux.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # From https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/sha256sums.asc
-sha256  55e5bcbc68d66776fc46896291f0a24844beb57817345a854d65e3d055fa423e  linux-6.10.14.tar.xz
+sha256  f850139ca5f79c1bf6bb8b32f92e212aadca97bdaef8a83a7cf4ac4d6a525fab  linux-6.18.4.tar.xz
diff --git a/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/uboot/uboot.hash b/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/uboot/uboot.hash
index 904fa56c02..b6a925ea4e 100644
--- a/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/uboot/uboot.hash
+++ b/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/uboot/uboot.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  b28daf4ac17e43156363078bf510297584137f6df50fced9b12df34f61a92fb0  u-boot-2024.10.tar.bz2
+sha256  b60d5865cefdbc75da8da4156c56c458e00de75a49b80c1a2e58a96e30ad0d54  u-boot-2026.01.tar.bz2
diff --git a/board/pine64/rockpro64/readme.txt b/board/pine64/rockpro64/readme.txt
index de86970104..d2a865670a 100644
--- a/board/pine64/rockpro64/readme.txt
+++ b/board/pine64/rockpro64/readme.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ output/images
 ├── rk3399-rockpro64.dtb
 ├── rootfs.ext2
 ├── rootfs.ext4 -> rootfs.ext2
-├── rootfs.tar
 ├── sdcard.img
 ├── u-boot.bin
 └── u-boot.itb
diff --git a/configs/rockpro64_defconfig b/configs/rockpro64_defconfig
index d6c217e946..c31365ca6b 100644
--- a/configs/rockpro64_defconfig
+++ b/configs/rockpro64_defconfig
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 BR2_aarch64=y
 BR2_cortex_a72_a53=y
-BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_LINUX_HEADERS_CUSTOM_6_10=y
+BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL=y
+BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BOOTLIN=y
+BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BOOTLIN_AARCH64_GLIBC_STABLE=y
 BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR="board/pine64/rockpro64/patches"
 BR2_DOWNLOAD_FORCE_CHECK_HASHES=y
 BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_HOSTNAME="rockpro64"
@@ -10,7 +12,7 @@ BR2_ROOTFS_POST_IMAGE_SCRIPT="support/scripts/genimage.sh"
 BR2_ROOTFS_POST_SCRIPT_ARGS="-c board/pine64/rockpro64/genimage.cfg"
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION=y
-BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="6.10.14"
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="6.18.4"
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_USE_ARCH_DEFAULT_CONFIG=y
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CONFIG_FRAGMENT_FILES="board/pine64/rockpro64/linux.fragment"
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DTS_SUPPORT=y
@@ -19,17 +21,18 @@ BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_NEEDS_HOST_OPENSSL=y
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_NEEDS_HOST_PYTHON3=y
 BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2=y
 BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_4=y
-BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_SIZE="120M"
+BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_SIZE="128M"
+# BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_TAR is not set
 BR2_TARGET_ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE=y
 BR2_TARGET_ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE_CUSTOM_VERSION=y
-BR2_TARGET_ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="v2.11"
+BR2_TARGET_ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="v2.14"
 BR2_TARGET_ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE_PLATFORM="rk3399"
 BR2_TARGET_ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE_IMAGES=""
 BR2_TARGET_ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE_NEEDS_ARM32_TOOLCHAIN=y
 BR2_TARGET_UBOOT=y
 BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_BUILD_SYSTEM_KCONFIG=y
 BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION=y
-BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="2024.10"
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="2026.01"
 BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_BOARD_DEFCONFIG="rockpro64-rk3399"
 BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_NEEDS_DTC=y
 BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_NEEDS_PYLIBFDT=y