Fwupd 2.0.14 has been released today as the thirteenth maintenance update to the fwupd 2.0 series of this open-source Linux firmware update utility, adding support for more devices, new features, and bug fixes.
Coming about five weeks after fwupd 2.0.13, the fwupd 2.0.14 release adds support for updating the firmware on more hardware, including the SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3P gaming headset, ILITEK touch controllers, Framework QMK devices, and Egis MoC devices.
Fwupd 2.0.14 also adds support for ignoring the network connectivity requirement, build support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 systems, support for upgrading from a zero “empty” UEFI dbx, and support for unsetting HwID plugin context flags.
On top of that, the new fwupd release allows plugins to know the firmware version during update and UEFI capsule devices to opt out of Capsule-on-Disk. It also adds an automatic firehose counterpart to the QCDM modem device and enhances the firmware metadata generation in firmware_packager.
Starting with this release, fwupd now ensures Lexar NVMe drives use a proper version number, returns a sensible error when using build-cabinet wrong, removes CapsuleOnDisk HwID match for Dell devices, sets the firehose loader filename in a more permissive way, and updates the mapping for TPM vendor names.
Last but not least, fwupd now disables signature time checks when verifying firmware, no longer adds a vendor ID of UNKNOWN when the signature has no vendor, no longer discovers ThunderBolt retimer devices when running in single-shot mode, and verifies the checksum of the serialized data in tests.
Check out the release notes on the project’s GitHub page for more details about the changes included in fwupd 2.0.14, which you can download as a source tarball from the same location. Of course, it is recommended that you install fwupd from the stable software repositories of your GNU/Linux distribution.
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