Richard Hughes, a creator of the PackageKit project and an active participant in the GNOME development, has presented the release of the fwupd 1.8.0 package, which offers a background process for managing firmware updates and the fwupdmgr utility for managing firmware, checking for new versions, and downloading firmware. The project's code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv2.1 license. At the same time, it was announced that the LVFS project has reached the milestone of 50 million firmware updates delivered to users.
The project provides OEM manufacturers and firmware developers with a service for uploading firmware to a special centralized catalog LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service), which can be used in Linux distributions with the help of the fwupd tool. Currently, the catalog offers firmware for 829 types of devices (over 4000 firmware) from 120 manufacturers. The use of a centralized catalog relieves manufacturers from the need to create packages for distributions and allows firmware to be delivered in a '.cab' archive with additional metadata, which is also used when publishing firmware for Windows.
Fwupd supports both an automatic firmware update mode, requiring no action from the user, and performing the operation after confirmation or request from the user. Fwupd and LVFS are already being used in RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, SUSE, Debian, and many other distributions for automated firmware updates, and are supported in GNOME Software and KDE Discover applications. Additionally, fwupd is not limited to desktop systems and can also be used to update firmware on smartphones and tablets. szervereken és az IoT eszközökön.
Az új kiadásban:
- A new attribute has been added for CPUs supported in the HSI (Host Security ID) firmware protection mechanism.
- Parsers for the coSWID and uSWID identifiers have been added to libfwupdplugin, providing initial support for SBoM (Firmware Software Bill of Materials) for verifying firmware.
- New HSI attributes have been added for AMD platform support components (AMD PSP).
- The definition of the fwupd-efi version (org.freedesktop.fwupd-efi) has been added.
- The command 'fwupdmgr install' now provides the ability to install a specified version of firmware.
- The ability to restart the BMC controller (Baseboard Management Controller) after installing a firmware update has been ensured.
Forrás: opennet.ru
