| Introduction | Fwupd 1.9.6 Linux firmware upgrade tool has been released recently, supporting more hardware devices, new features and more than a dozen bug fixes. |
Fwupd 1.9.6 comes one month after fwupd 1.9.5 and introduces support for more hardware devices, including AMD dGPUs Navi3x and above, Star Labs StarBook Mk VIr2, Google Rex Intel USB-4 Retimers , Quectel EM160 module, Wacom DTH134 and DTC121 tablets, Foxconn SDX12, SDX55 and SDX6X devices, MediaTek DP AUX scaler and VLI VL105-VL109.
The new version of fwupd also adds several new features, namely support for new security attributes for BIOS capsule updates, support for coSWID payload parts, support for EDID parsing, new features to repair specific host security attributes, a launchd agent for macOS systems, and support for quirks. The ability to add an only-quirk instance ID to the file.
Additionally, fwupd 1.9.6 fixes several bugs, allowing Wacom modules to specify status polling intervals, allowing devices to ask for a monitor to be connected, no longer showing unsupported Intel CET as successful, and no longer showing multiple for the same physical device. Genesys GL32xx devices.
This release also speeds up logitech-bulkcontroller firmware updates, adds the ability to install the sysusers.d systemd file when using -Dsystemd_unit_user, adds the ability to recalculate the SUPPORTED flag after adopting a subdevice, and reduces the need to split large firmware Blocks the amount of RAM used and prevents reads from the ownership and TPM flash memory left in the Dell plug-in.
Last but not least, fwupd 1.9.6 implements a new feature to use the LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service) portal when using the report-history –force option, fixes an issue in the HID descriptor parser Obfuscated timeout issues and added the ability to write coSWID TAG_ID as a byte string when possible.
Fwupd 1.9.6 can be downloaded as a source code tarball from the project's GitHub page, and you will need to compile it on your own GNU/Linux distribution. However, we strongly recommend that you install or update fwupd from your distribution's stable repository.