Fwupd 2.0.5 Firmware Updater Adds Support for More ELAN Fingerprint Readers
Coming two weeks after fwupd 2.0.4, this release introduces support for more ELAN fingerprint readers, support for emulating devices reading EFI keys, support for skipping device tests by CPU architecture, and support for the StarLite magnetic keyboard from Star Labs.
This release also fixes several bugs to clean up Dell Kestrel devices when disconnected, correctly build binary EFI_SIGNATURE_LIST objects, ignore BootXXXX entries that do not exist when checking the dbx, ignore EFI binaries that are zero-sized, or not well formed, and inhibit dbx updates if snapd is not available when using Ubuntu-style FDE.
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Fwupd 2.0.5 Brings Improved EFI Key Emulation
Only two weeks after its previous 2.0.4 release, Fwupd, an open-source utility designed to make updating firmware on Linux-based systems easier and more automatic, rolled out its new 2.0.5 version.
On the new features side, this release includes the ability to emulate devices that read EFI keys and an option to skip certain device tests by CPU architecture.
Moreover, the fwupd team has been busy squashing a range of bugs that previously impacted user workflows. Some of the most notable fixes involve...