diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 238d4f86..dc2d39bd 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+livecd-rootfs (2.692) groovy; urgency=medium
+
+  * Create a 1GB swapfile for the raspi desktop images. 
+
+ -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak <lukasz.zemczak@ubuntu.com>  Thu, 15 Oct 2020 11:23:47 +0200
+
 livecd-rootfs (2.691) groovy; urgency=medium
 
   * Remove 68-del-part-nodes.rules from installer squashfs to work around it
diff --git a/live-build/ubuntu/hooks/099-ubuntu-image-customization.chroot b/live-build/ubuntu/hooks/099-ubuntu-image-customization.chroot
index 1363d677..d59d6c69 100644
--- a/live-build/ubuntu/hooks/099-ubuntu-image-customization.chroot
+++ b/live-build/ubuntu/hooks/099-ubuntu-image-customization.chroot
@@ -19,5 +19,12 @@ if [ "$IMAGEFORMAT" == "none" ]; then
 
         # Make the writable partition grow
         echo "LABEL=writable    /     ext4    defaults,x-systemd.growfs    0 0" >>/etc/fstab
+
+        # Create a 1GB swapfile
+        dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1G count=1
+        chmod 0600 /swapfile
+        mkswap /swapfile
+
+        echo "/swapfile         none  swap    sw    0 0" >>/etc/fstab
     fi
 fi