It appears the new dbx rollout is going well. :) #fwupd

#Linux Weekly Roundup for June 8th, 2025: #Ubuntu Touch OTA-9, #VirtualBox 7.1.10, #RaspberryPi Imager 1.9.4, Rocky Linux 9.6, #Wireshark 4.4.7, #KDE Gear 25.04.2, #LibreOffice 25.2.4, Linux 6.16 RC, #LinuxMint 22.2 introduces new fingerprint authentication app, #fwupd 2.0.11, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-june-8th-2025

A few months ago we started asking permission to upload the number of bytes real users have saved while using #fwupd with Passim, on the logic we didn't know how effective it would really be in the real world.

#Fwupd 2.0.11 #Linux Firmware Updater Is Out with Support for Lenovo Thunderbolt 5 Smart Docks https://9to5linux.com/fwupd-2-0-11-linux-firmware-updater-supports-lenovo-thunderbolt-5-smart-docks

Two weeks after the last release, I give you #fwupd 2.0.11: https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/releases/tag/2.0.11

#Linux Weekly Roundup for May 25th, 2025: Linux kernel 6.15, #RHEL 10, #AlmaLinux OS 9.6, #NixOS 25.05, #PipeWire 1.4.3, #fwupd 2.0.10, #Fedora to remove X11 support from #GNOME #Wayland session, #KDE's Karton VM manager, new #Steam Client release, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-may-25th-2025

#Fwupd 2.0.10 #Linux Firmware Updater Is Out with Support for #Lenovo Legion Touchpad and #Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard https://9to5linux.com/fwupd-2-0-10-linux-firmware-updater-adds-support-for-lenovo-legion-touchpad

New #fwupd release just dropped: https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/releases/tag/2.0.10

It fixes the bug (mea culpa) where the KEK failed to deploy correctly. If you had a KEK deploy failure, please update to this release and try again. I'll re-upload the KEKs to the LVFS with the fwupd requirement set to 2.0.10.

There's also some other better stuff, so enjoy!

Anyone else getting fwupdmgr checksum errors right now?

$ fwupdmgr refresh --force
Updating lvfs
Downloading… [************************************** ]
Failed to update metadata for lvfs: checksum failure: failed to verify data, expected ffbee0c4af245985093489884ef435767f1fd919

#Linux Weekly Roundup for May 11th, 2025: #Mesa 25.1, #KDE Plasma 6.3.5, new #RaspberryPi OS release, #Ubuntu 25.10 adopting sudo-rs, #LinuxMint 22.2 and #LMDE 7 codenames, Slimbook Kymera Black, KDE Gear 25.04.1, Ubuntu 25.10 daily builds, #Calibre 8.4, KDE Frameworks 6.14, #Flatpak 1.16.1, #fwupd 2.0.9, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-may-11th-2025

Another month, another #fwupd release: https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/releases/tag/2.0.9 -- enjoy!

Notability this release allows us to roll out the KEK and db updates from the LVFS which is going to be required soon to make SecureBoot continue to work on Linux. There's some more information here: https://fwupd.github.io/libfwupdplugin/uefi-db.html

#Fwupd 2.0.9 #Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for #Intel Arc ‘Battlemage’ GPUs https://9to5linux.com/fwupd-2-0-9-linux-firmware-updater-adds-support-for-intel-arc-battlemage-gpus

GrapheneOS has serious problems with fwupd

GrapheneOS is a privacy-focused operating system for Android phones that aims to increase your privacy while maintaining basic Android functions. This is built for Google Pixel phones as they meet the project’s requirements.

The official GrapheneOS project has just recently released a statement on their official Mastodon account stating that they have become aware of an issue with the fwupd program, which is a firmware update service for computers that are running Linux, such as Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch Linux, and more. It has become evident that the fwupd program has been incorrectly connecting to random USB devices using the Fastboot protocol.

As a result, users will experience an error when trying to connect to the USB device because the system would be reporting that the USB device is already in use. The GrapheneOS project has considered this issue to be a group of fatal bugs, because they “can block an installation part of the way through and lead to an unusable device until the user fixes it.” They have also called this practice “wrong,” because the main use of Fastboot would be broken.

As a workaround, we recommend following the official guidelines to make sure that fwupd stops trying to connect to random USB devices that the project team have documented via the following pages:

• Web-based install
• CLI-based install

We hope that the fwupd program gets an update that will fix this bug.

What is the status on #firmware updates for #arm #Snapdragon Laptops?

Can they be updated with #fwupd, or do you need a Windows dualboot?

On #AsahiLinux you need a #MacOS partition to update the firmware. But the Snapdragon laptop firmware might be more open? Are there differences between manifacturers, like #Lenovo supporting fwupd normally?

@LinaroLtd
@ubuntu
@tuxedocomputers

#Linux Weekly Roundup for April 13th, 2025: #LMDE 7 getting OEM support, #Pinta 3.0 ported to GTK4, #DXVK 2.6.1 improves support for #AMD Vega GPUs and several games, #OpenSSL 3.5, #fwupd 2.0.8, #IPFire gets post-quantum cryptography support, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-april-13th-2025

#Fwupd 2.0.8 #Linux Firmware Updater Adds Two New Plugins to Update the UEFI Signature Database and KEK https://9to5linux.com/fwupd-2-0-8-adds-new-plugins-to-update-the-uefi-signature-database-and-kek

#fwupd 2.0.8 hot off the press: https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/releases/tag/2.0.8

Anyone want to do a few last minute translations for the #fwupd release tomorrow?

Please use https://explore.transifex.com/freedesktop/fwupd/ if so. There's also https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/rhughes/fwupd/ if you want to do some pre-release testing on Fedora.

Thanks!

#fwupd 2.0.7 #Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for More Lenovo and HP Devices https://9to5linux.com/fwupd-2-0-7-linux-firmware-updater-adds-support-for-more-lenovo-and-hp-devices