Richard Hughes, the creator of the PackageKit project and an active participant in the development of GNOME, announced the release of the fwupd package 1.8.0, offering a background process for organizing 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. Simultaneously, it was announced that the LVFS project has reached a 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 LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service) catalog, which can be used in Linux distributions through the fwupd toolkit. Currently, the catalog offers firmware for 829 types of devices (over 4000 firmware updates) from 120 manufacturers. Using a centralized catalog frees manufacturers from the need to create packages for distributions and allows them to deliver firmware in a '.cab' archive with additional metadata, which is also used when publishing firmware for Windows.
fwupd supports both automatic firmware update mode, requiring no action from the user, and performing the operation after user confirmation or request. Fwupd and LVFS are already used in RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, SUSE, Debian, and many other distributions for automated firmware updates and are supported in the GNOME Software and KDE Discover applications. Moreover, fwupd is not limited to desktop systems and can also be used for updating firmware on smartphones, tablets, serverima and Internet of Things devices.
U novom izdanju:
- A new attribute has been added for CPUs supported in the firmware protection mechanism HSI (Host Security ID).
- The libfwupdplugin now includes parsers for the coSWID and uSWID identifiers, providing initial support for SBoM (Firmware Software Bill of Materials) for firmware verification.
- New HSI attributes have been added for AMD platform support components (AMD PSP).
- The definition for fwupd-efi (org.freedesktop.fwupd-efi) has been added.
- The 'fwupdmgr install' command now provides the ability to install a specified firmware version.
- It is now possible to restart the BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) after firmware update installation.
Izvor: opennet.ru
