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Version 1.1.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2018-07-11
New Features:
- Add a initial Redfish support (Richard Hughes)
- Add a tool to mimic the original fwupdate CLI interface (Richard Hughes)
- Allow devices to assign a plugin from the quirk subsystem (Richard Hughes)
- Change the quirk file structure to be more efficient (Richard Hughes)
- Merge fwupdate functionality into fwupd (Richard Hughes, Mario Limonciello)
- Run a plugin vfunc before and after all the composite devices are updated (Richard Hughes)
- Support more Wacom tablets (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add release information for locked devices (Richard Hughes)
- Allow building with older meson (Mario Limonciello)
- Detect the EFI system partition location at runtime (Mario Limonciello)
- Do not use 8bitdo bootloader commands after a successful flash (Richard Hughes)
- Enable accesing downloaded files in flatpak and snap (Mario Limonciello)
- Fix a potential buffer overflow when applying a DFU patch (Richard Hughes)
- Fix downgrading older releases to devices (Richard Hughes)
- Fix flashing devices that require a manual replug (Richard Hughes)
- Fix several small memory leaks in various places (Richard Hughes)
- Fix the retrieval of Redfish version (Gary Lin)
- Fix unifying failure to detach when using a slow host controller (Richard Hughes)
- Set the Wacom device status when erasing and writing firmware (Richard Hughes)
- Show errors in the CLI if unable to access directory (Mario Limonciello)
- Use the parent device name for Wacom sub-modules (Richard Hughes)
Version 1.0.8
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2018-06-07
New Features:
- Add an plugin to update some future Wacom tablets (Richard Hughes)
- Add 'fwupdmgr get-topology' to show logical device tree (Richard Hughes, Mario Limonciello)
- Add support for creating a flatpak (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for creating a snap (Mario Limonciello, Richard Hughes)
- Add support for Motorola S-record files (Richard Hughes)
- Add the Linux Foundation public GPG keys for firmware and metadata (Richard Hughes)
- Show a translated warning when the server is limiting downloads (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add a firmware diagnostic tool called fwupdtool (Richard Hughes, Mario Limonciello)
- Adjust all licensing to LGPL 2.1+ (Mario Limonciello)
- Allow installing more than one firmware using 'fwupdmgr install' (Richard Hughes)
- Allow specifying hwids with OR relationships (Richard Hughes)
- Do not call fu_plugin_init() on blacklisted plugins (Richard Hughes)
- Do not require libcolorhug to build (Richard Hughes)
- Fix a crash in libfwupd where no device ID is set (Richard Hughes)
- Fix a potential DoS in libdfu by limiting holes to 1MiB (Richard Hughes)
- Fix a segfault that sometimes occurs during cleanup of USB plugins (Mario Limonciello)
- Fix Hardware-ID{0,1,2,12} compatibility with Microsoft (Gergely Risko)
- Hide devices that aren't updatable by default in fwupdmgr (Mario Limonciello)
- Search all UEFI GUIDs when matching hardware (Richard Hughes, Mario Limonciello)
- Stop matching Nintendo Switch Pro in the 8bitdo plugin (Mario Limonciello)
Version 1.0.7
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2018-04-30
New Features:
- Add enable-remote and disable-remote commands to fwupdmgr (Richard Hughes)
- Add fu_plugin_add_compile_version() for libraries to use (Richard Hughes)
- Allow requiring specific versions of libraries for firmware updates (Richard Hughes)
- If no remotes are enabled try to enable the LVFS (Mario Limonciello)
- Show a warning with interactive prompt when enabling a remote (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Check that EFI system partition is mounted before update (Mario Limonciello)
- Disable synapticsmst remote control on failure (Sjoerd Simons)
- Don't recoldplug thunderbolt to fix a flashing failure (Mario Limonciello)
- Fix SQL error when running 'fwupdmgr clear-offline' (Richard Hughes)
- Improve the update report message (Mario Limonciello)
- Only enumerate Dell Docks if the type is known (Sjoerd Simons)
- Only run certtool if a new enough gnutls is present (Mario Limonciello)
- Prevent a client crash if the daemon somehow sends invalid data (Richard Hughes)
- Reboot after scheduling using logind not systemd (Richard Hughes)
- Use the right encoding for the label in make-images (Niels Ole Salscheider)
Version 1.0.6
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2018-03-12
New Features:
- Add bash completion for fwupdmgr (Mario Limonciello)
- Add support for newest Thunderbolt chips (Andrei Emeltchenko)
- Allow all functions that take device arguments to be prompted (Mario Limonciello)
- Allow devices to use the runtime version when in bootloader mode (Richard Hughes)
- Allow overriding ESP mount point via conf file (Mario Limonciello)
- Delete any old fwupdate capsules and efivars when launching fwupd (Richard Hughes)
- Generate Vala bindings (Robert Ancell)
Bugfixes:
- Allow ctrl-d out of the prompt for devices (Mario Limonciello)
- Allow to create package out of provided binary (Andrei Emeltchenko)
- Correct handling of unknown Thunderbolt devices (Yehezkel Bernat)
- Correctly detect new remotes that are manually copied (Richard Hughes)
- Fix a crash related to when passing device to downgrade in CLI (Mario Limonciello)
- Fix running the self tests when no fwupd is installed (Richard Hughes)
- Fix Unifying signature writing and parsing for Texas bootloader (Ogier Bouvier)
- Only send success and failure reports to the server (Richard Hughes)
- Use a CNAME to redirect to the correct CDN for metadata (Richard Hughes)
- Use a longer timeout when powering back the Thunderbolt device (Richard Hughes)
Version 1.0.5
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2018-02-14
New Features:
- Offer to reboot when processing an offline update (Richard Hughes)
- Report the efivar, libsmbios and fwupdate library versions (Mario Limonciello)
- Report Thunderbolt safe mode and SecureBoot status (Mario Limonciello)
- Show the user a URL when they report a known problem (Richard Hughes)
- Support split cabinet archives as produced by Windows Update (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Be more careful deleting and modifying device history (Richard Hughes)
- Clarify which devices don't have upgrades (Mario Limonciello)
- Ensure the Thunderbolt version is xx.yy (Richard Hughes)
- Fix a daemon warning when using fwupdmgr get-results (Richard Hughes)
- Fix crasher with MST flashing (Mario Limonciello)
- Fix DFU detach with newer releases of libusb (Richard Hughes)
- Include the device VID and PID when generating the device-id (Richard Hughes)
- Set the RemoteId when using GetDetails (Richard Hughes)
- Stop matching 8bitdo DS4 controller VID/PID (Mario Limonciello)
- Use help2man for dfu-tool and drop docbook dependencies (Mario Limonciello)
- Use ngettext for any strings with plurals (Piotr Drąg)
- Use the default value if ArchiveSizeMax is unspecified (Richard Hughes)
Version 1.0.4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2018-01-25
New Features:
- Add D-Bus methods to get and modify the history information (Richard Hughes)
- Allow the user to share firmware update success or failure (Richard Hughes)
- Ask the user to refresh metadata when it is very old (Richard Hughes)
- Store firmware update success and failure to a local database (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add a device name for locked UEFI devices (Mario Limonciello)
- Allow each plugin to opt-in to the recoldplug action (Richard Hughes)
- Fix firmware downloading using gnome-software (Richard Hughes)
- Fix UX capsule reference to the one specified in efivar (Mario Limonciello)
- Never add two devices to the daemon with the same ID (Richard Hughes)
- Rescan supported flags when refreshing metadata (Richard Hughes)
Version 1.0.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2018-01-09
New Features:
- Add a new plugin to add support for CSR "Driverless DFU" (Richard Hughes)
- Add initial SF30/SN30 Pro support (Mario Limonciello)
- Support AppStream metadata with relative <location> URLs (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add more metadata to the user-agent string (Richard Hughes)
- Block owned Dell TPM updates (Mario Limonciello)
- Choose the correct component from provides matches using requirements (Richard Hughes)
- Do not try to parse huge compressed archive files (Richard Hughes)
- Fix a double-free bug in the Udev code (Philip Withnall)
- Handle Thunderbolt "native" mode (Yehezkel Bernat)
- Use the new functionality in libgcab >= 1.0 to avoid writing temp files (Richard Hughes)
Version 1.0.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-11-28
New Features:
- Add a plugin for the Nitrokey Storage device (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for the original AVR DFU protocol (Richard Hughes)
- Allow different plugins to claim the same device (Richard Hughes)
- Allow quirks to set common USB properties (Richard Hughes)
- Move a common plugin functionality out to a new shared object (Richard Hughes)
- Optionally delay the device removal for better replugging (Richard Hughes)
- Set environment variables to allow easy per-plugin debugging (Richard Hughes)
- Use a SHA1 hash for the internal DeviceID (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add quirk for AT32UC3B1256 as used in the RubberDucky (Richard Hughes)
- Disable the dell plugin if libsmbios fails (Mario Limonciello)
- Don't register for USB UDev events to later ignore them (Richard Hughes)
- Fix a possible buffer overflow when debugging ebitdo devices (Richard Hughes)
- Fix critical warning when more than one remote fails to load (Richard Hughes)
- Fix DFU attaching AVR32 devices like the XMEGA (Richard Hughes)
- Ignore useless Thunderbolt device types (Mario Limonciello)
- Refactor ColorHug into a much more modern plugin (Richard Hughes)
- Release the Steelseries interface if getting the version failed (Richard Hughes)
- Remove autoconf-isms from the meson configure options (Richard Hughes)
- Show a nicer error message if the requirement fails (Richard Hughes)
- Sort the output of GetUpgrades correctly (Richard Hughes)
Version 1.0.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-11-09
New Features:
- Add support for HWID requirements (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for programming various AVR32 and XMEGA parts using DFU (Richard Hughes)
- Add the various DFU quirks for the Jabra Speak devices (Richard Hughes)
- Allow specifying the output file type for 'dfu-tool read' (Richard Hughes)
- Move the database of supported devices out into runtime loaded files (Richard Hughes)
- Support the IHEX record type 0x05 (Richard Hughes)
- Use help2man to generate the man page at build time (Richard Hughes)
- Use the new quirk infrastructure for version numbers (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Catch invalid Dell dock component requests (Mario Limonciello)
- Correctly output Intel HEX files with > 16bit offset addresses (Richard Hughes)
- Do not try to verify the element write if upload is unsupported (Richard Hughes)
- Fix a double-unref when updating any 8Bitdo device (Richard Hughes)
- Fix crash when enumerating with Dell dock connected but with no UEFI (Mario Limonciello)
- Fix uploading large firmware files over DFU (Richard Hughes)
- Format the BCD USB revision numbers correctly (Richard Hughes)
- Guess the DFU transfer size if it is not specified (Richard Hughes)
- Include the reset timeout as wValue to fix some DFU bootloaders (Richard Hughes)
- Make the error message clearer when sans fonts are missing (Mario Limonciello)
- Support devices with truncated DFU interface data (Richard Hughes)
- Use the correct remote-specified username and passord when using fwupdmgr (Richard Hughes)
- Use the correct wDetachTimeOut when writing DFU firmware (Richard Hughes)
- Verify devices with legacy VIDs are actually 8Bitdo controllers (Richard Hughes)
Version 1.0.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-10-09
Notes:
- This release breaks API and ABI to remove deprecated symbols
- libdfu is now not installed as a shared library
New Features:
- Add a human-readable title for each remote (Richard Hughes)
- Add a method to return a list of upgrades for a specific device (Richard Hughes)
- Add an 'Summary' and 'Icons' properties to each device (Richard Hughes)
- Add FuDeviceLocker to simplify device open/close lifecycles (Richard Hughes)
- Add functionality to blacklist Dell HW with problems (Mario Limonciello)
- Add fu_plugin_check_supported() (Richard Hughes)
- Add fwupd_remote_get_checksum() to use in client programs (Richard Hughes)
- Add ModifyRemote as an easy way to enable and disable remotes (Richard Hughes)
- Add the plugin documentation to the main gtk-doc (Richard Hughes)
- Allow plugins to depend on each other (Richard Hughes)
- Disable the fallback USB plugin (Richard Hughes)
- Parse the SMBIOS v2 and v3 DMI tables directly (Richard Hughes)
- Support uploading the UEFI firmware splash image (Richard Hughes)
- Use the intel-wmi-thunderbolt kernel module to force power (Mario Limonciello)
Bugfixes:
- Only run SMI to toggle host MST GPIO on Dell systems with host MST (Mario Limonciello)
- Disable unifying support if no CONFIG_HIDRAW support (Richard Hughes)
- Do not auto-open all USB devices at startup (Richard Hughes)
- Do not fail to load the daemon if cached metadata is invalid (Richard Hughes)
- Do not use system-specific infomation for UEFI PCI devices (Richard Hughes)
- Fix a crash when using fu_plugin_device_add_delay() (Richard Hughes)
- Fix the libdfu self test failure on s390 and ppc64 (Richard Hughes)
- Fix various printing issues with the progressbar (Richard Hughes)
- Generate the LD script from the GObject introspection data (Richard Hughes)
- Never fallback to an offline update from client code (Richard Hughes)
- Only set the Dell coldplug delay when we know we need it (Mario Limonciello)
- Prefer to use HWIDs to get DMI keys and DE table (Mario Limonciello)
Version 0.9.7
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-09-01
New Features:
- Add a configure switch for the LVFS remotes (Richard Hughes)
- Add a FirmwareBaseURI parameter to the remote config (Richard Hughes)
- Add a firmware builder that uses bubblewrap (Richard Hughes)
- Add a python script to create fwupd compatible cab files from Microsoft .exe files (Max Ehrlich)
- Add a thunderbolt plugin for new kernel interface (Christian Kellner, Yehezkel Bernat)
- Allow plugins to get DMI data from the hardware in a safe way (Richard Hughes)
- Allow plugins to set metadata on devices created by other plugins (Richard Hughes, Mario Limonciello)
- Optionally install the LVFS PKCS7 root certificate (Richard Hughes)
- Optionally use GnuTLS to verify PKCS7 certificates (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add back options for HAVE_SYNAPTICS and HAVE_THUNDERBOLT (Mario Limonciello)
- Allow configuring systemd and udev directories (Mario Limonciello)
- Enable C99 support in meson.build (Philip Withnall)
- Fix an incomplete cipher when using XTEA on data not in 4 byte chunks (Richard Hughes)
- Fix minor const-correctness issues (Philip Withnall)
- Implement thunderbolt image validation (Yehezkel Bernat, Christian Kellner)
- Remove the confusing ALLOW_OFFLINE and ALLOW_ONLINE flags (Richard Hughes)
- Show a bouncing progress bar if the percentage remains at zero (Richard Hughes)
- Use a hwid to match supported systems for synapticsmst (Mario Limonciello)
- Use the new bootloader PIDs for Unifying pico receivers (Richard Hughes)
- When thunderbolt is in safe mode on a Dell recover using SMBIOS (Mario Limonciello)
Version 0.9.6
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-08-03
New Features:
- Add DfuPatch to support forward-only firmware patching (Richard Hughes)
- Add --version option to fwupdmgr (Richard Hughes, Mario Limonciello)
- Display all errors recorded by efi_error tracing (Mario Limonciello)
- Make building introspection optional (Patrick Ohly)
- Support embedded devices with local firmware metadata (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Check all the device GUIDs against the blacklist when added (Richard Hughes)
- Correct a memory leak in Dell plugin (Mario Limonciello, Richard Hughes)
- Default to "en" for UEFI capsule graphics (Mario Limonciello)
- Don't log a warning when an unknown unifying report is parsed (Richard Hughes)
- Enable test suite via /etc/fwupd.conf (Mario Limonciello)
- Fix a hang on 32 bit computers (Richard Hughes)
- Fix compilation of the policy on a variety of configurations (Mario Limonciello)
- Fix UEFI crash when the product name is NULL (Richard Hughes)
- Make flashing ebitdo devices work with fu-ebitdo-tool (Chris Lee)
- Make messages from installing capsules useful (Mario Limonciello)
- Make sure the unifying percentage completion goes from 0% to 100% (Richard Hughes)
- Run the plugin coldplug methods in a predictable order (Richard Hughes)
- Test UEFI for kernel support during coldplug (Mario Limonciello)
- Use new GUsb functionality to fix flashing Unifying devices (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.9.5
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-07-04
New Features:
- Add a get-remotes command to fwupdmgr (Richard Hughes)
- Add a plugin to get the version of the AMT ME interface (Richard Hughes)
- Add Arch Linux to CI (Bruno Pagani)
- Add some installed tests flashing actual hardware (Richard Hughes)
- Allow flashing Unifying devices in bootloader modes (Richard Hughes)
- Allow ordering the metadata remotes (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Do not check the runtime if the DFU device is in bootloader mode (Richard Hughes)
- Do not unlock devices when doing VerifyUpdate (Richard Hughes)
- Filter by Unifying SwId when making HID++2.0 requests (Richard Hughes)
- Fix downgrades when version_lowest is set (Richard Hughes)
- Fix the self tests when running on PPC64 big endian (Richard Hughes)
- Move the remotes parsing from the client to the server (Richard Hughes)
- Split up the Unifying HID++2.0 and HID++1.0 functionality (Richard Hughes)
- Store the metadata files rather than merging to one store (Richard Hughes)
- Use a longer timeout for some Unifying operations (Richard Hughes)
- Use the UFY DeviceID prefix for Unifying devides (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.9.4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-06-15
New Features:
- Add installed tests that use the daemon (Richard Hughes)
- Add the ability to restrict firmware to specific vendors (Richard Hughes)
- Enable Travis CI for Fedora and Debian (Richard Hughes, Mario Limonciello)
- Export some more API for dealing with checksums (Richard Hughes)
- Generate a images for status messages during system firmware update (Peter Jones)
- Show progress download when refreshing metadata (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Compile with newer versions of meson (Richard Hughes, Mario Limonciello)
- Ensure that firmware provides are legal GUIDs (Richard Hughes)
- Fix a common crash when refreshing metadata (Richard Hughes)
- Use the correct type signature in the D-Bus introspection file (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.9.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-06-07
New Features:
- Add a 'downgrade' command to fwupdmgr (Richard Hughes)
- Add a 'get-releases' command to fwupdmgr (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for ConsoleKit2 (Eric Koegel)
- Add support for Microsoft HardwareIDs (Richard Hughes)
- Allow downloading metadata from more than just the LVFS (Richard Hughes)
- Allow multiple checksums on devices and releases (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Allow to specify bindir (Timo Gurr)
- Correctly open Unifying devices with original factory firmware (Richard Hughes)
- Deprecate some of the old FwupdResult API (Richard Hughes)
- Do not copy the origin from the new metadata file (Richard Hughes)
- Do not expect a Unifying reply when issuing a REBOOT command (Richard Hughes)
- Do not re-download firmware that exists in the cache (Richard Hughes)
- Fix a problem when testing for a Dell system (Mario Limonciello)
- Fix flashing new firmware to 8bitdo controllers (Richard Hughes)
- Increase minimum required AppStream-Glib version to 0.6.13 (Chris Mayo)
- Make documentation and man pages optional (Chris Mayo)
- Make systemd dependency at least version 231 (Mario Limonciello)
- Only decompress the firmware after the signature check (Richard Hughes)
- Remove 'lib' prefix when looking for libraries (Mirco Tischler)
- Return the remote ID when getting updates about hardware (Richard Hughes)
- Send the daemon the remote ID when sending firmware metadata (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.9.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-05-22
New Features:
- Add support for Unifying DFU features (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Do not spew a critial warning when parsing an invalid URI (Richard Hughes)
- Ensure device is closed if did not complete setup (Richard Hughes)
- Ensure steelseries device is closed if it returns an invalid packet (Richard Hughes)
- Fix man page installation location (Mario Limonciello)
- Ignore spaces in the Unifying version prefix (Richard Hughes)
- Set HAVE_POLKIT_0_114 when polkit is newer than 0.114 (Moritz Kiefer)
Version 0.9.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-04-28
New Features:
- Add a config option to allow runtime disabling plugins by name (Richard Hughes)
- Add the Meson build system and remove autotools (Richard Hughes)
- Support signed Intel HEX files (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add DFU quirk for OpenPICC and SIMtrace (Richard Hughes)
- Create directories in /var/cache as required (Richard Hughes)
- Refactor the unifying plugin now we know more about the hardware (Richard Hughes)
- Set the source origin when saving metadata (Richard Hughes)
- Support proxy servers in fwupdmgr (Richard Hughes)
- Use a 60 second timeout on all client downloads (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.8.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-02-27
Bugfixes:
- Adjust systemd confinement restrictions (Mario Limonciello, Richard Hughes)
- Do not hardcode docbook2man path (Kai Krakow)
- Don't initialize libsmbios on unsupported systems (Mario Limonciello)
- Fix a crash when enumerating devices on a Dell WLD15 (Richard Hughes)
- Fix compiler warnings (Kai Krakow)
- Fix fwupdmgr timeout with missing pending database (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.8.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-02-08
New Features:
- Add a set of vfuncs that are run before and after a device update (Richard Hughes)
- Add Dell-specific functionality to allow other plugins turn on TBT/GPIO (Mario Limonciello)
- Add support for Intel Thunderbolt devices (Richard Hughes, Mario Limonciello)
- Add support for Logitech Unifying devices (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for Synaptics MST cascades hubs (Mario Limonciello)
- Add support for the Altus-Metrum ChaosKey device (Richard Hughes)
- Add VerifyUpdate to update the device checksums server-side (Richard Hughes)
- Allow the metadata to match a version of fwupd and the existing fw version (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add a new method for forcing a controller to flash mode (Mario Limonciello)
- Always make sure we're getting a C99 compiler (Richard Hughes)
- Close USB devices before error returns (Tsunghan Liu)
- Don't read data from some DfuSe targets (Richard Hughes)
- Include all debug messages when run with --verbose (Richard Hughes)
- Return the pending UEFI update when not on AC power (Richard Hughes)
- Use a heuristic for the start address if the firmware has no DfuSe footer (Richard Hughes)
- Use more restrictive settings when running under systemd (Richard Hughes, Mario Limonciello)
Version 0.7.5
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-10-19
New Features:
- Add a 'replace-data' command to dfu-tool (Richard Hughes)
- Use an animated progress bar when performing DFU operations (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add quirks for HydraBus as it does not have a DFU runtime (Richard Hughes)
- Don't create the UEFI dummy device if the unlock will happen on next boot (Richard Hughes)
- Enable hardening flags on more binaries (Mario Limonciello)
- Fix an assert when unlocking the dummy ESRT device (Richard Hughes)
- Fix writing firmware to devices using the ST reference bootloader (Richard Hughes)
- Match the Dell TB16 device (Mario Limonciello)
- Re-get the quirks when the DfuDevice gets a new GUsbDevice (Richard Hughes)
- Show the nicely formatted target name for DfuSe devices (Richard Hughes)
- Verify devices support updating in mode they are called (Mario Limonciello)
Version 0.7.4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-09-19
New Features:
- Add dfu_firmware_add_symbol() (Richard Hughes)
- Allow the argument to 'dfu-tool set-release' be major.minor (Richard Hughes)
- Load the Altos USB descriptor from ELF files (Richard Hughes)
- Support writing the IHEX symbol table (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add a fallback for older appstream-glib releases (Richard Hughes)
- Fix a possible crash when uploading firmware files using libdfu (Richard Hughes)
- Fix libfwupd self tests when a host-provided fwupd is not available (Richard Hughes)
- Show the human-readable version in the 'dfu-tool dump' output (Richard Hughes)
- Write the ELF files with the correct section type (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.7.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-08-29
New Features:
- Add a set-address and set-target-size commands to dfu-util (Richard Hughes)
- Add a small library for talking with 0bitdo hardware (Richard Hughes)
- Add Dell TPM and TB15/WD15 support via new Dell provider (Mario Limonciello)
- Add FU_DEVICE_FLAG_NEEDS_BOOTLOADER (Richard Hughes)
- Add fwupd_client_get_status() (Richard Hughes)
- Add fwupd_result_get_unique_id() (Richard Hughes)
- Add initial ELF reading and writing support to libdfu (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for installing multiple devices from a CAB file (Richard Hughes)
- Allow providers to export percentage completion (Richard Hughes)
- Show a progress notification when installing firmware (Richard Hughes)
- Show the vendor flashing instructions when installing (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add XPS 9250 to Dell TPM modeswitch blacklist (Mario Limonciello)
- Allow blacklisting devices by their GUID (Richard Hughes)
- Conditionally enable all providers based upon installed (Mario Limonciello)
- Display flashes left in results output when it gets low (Mario Limonciello)
- Do not attempt to add DFU devices not in runtime mode (Richard Hughes)
- Do not use the deprecated GNOME_COMPILE_WARNINGS (Richard Hughes)
- Don't fail while checking versions or locked state (Richard Hughes)
- Embed fwupd version in generated documentation (Mario Limonciello)
- Ensure the ID is set when getting local firmware details (Richard Hughes)
- Fix gtk-doc build when srcdir != builddir (Ting-Wei Lan)
- Fix libdfu hang when parsing corrupt IHEX files (Richard Hughes)
- Ignore devices that do not add at least one GUID (Richard Hughes)
- In get-details output, display the blob filename (Mario Limonciello)
- Save the unique ID in the pending database (Richard Hughes)
- Support the 'DEVO' cipher kind in libdfu (Richard Hughes)
- Switch to the Amazon S3 CDN for firmware metadata (Richard Hughes)
- Update fwupdmgr manpage for new commands and arguments (Mario Limonciello)
- Use a private gnupg key store (Richard Hughes)
- Use the correct firmware when installing a composite device (Richard Hughes)
- Use the SHA1 hash of the local file data as the origin (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.7.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-06-13
New Features:
- Add a GetDetailsLocal() method to eventually replace GetDetails() (Richard Hughes)
- Add fu_device_get_alternate() (Richard Hughes)
- Allow devices to have multiple assigned GUIDs (Richard Hughes)
- Allow metainfo files to match only specific revisions of devices (Richard Hughes)
- Show the DFU protocol version in 'dfu-tool list' (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Enforce allowing providers to take away flash abilities (Mario Limonciello)
- Only claim the DFU interface when required (Richard Hughes)
- Only return updatable devices from GetDevices() (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.7.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-05-13
New Features:
- Add a --force flag to override provider warnings (Mario Limonciello)
- Add device-added, device-removed and device-changed signals (Richard Hughes)
- Add dfu_image_get_element_default() (Richard Hughes)
- Add for a new device field "Flashes Left" (Mario Limonciello)
- Add fwupd_client_connect() (Richard Hughes)
- Add the 'monitor' debugging command for fwupdmgr (Richard Hughes)
- Add the 'supported' flag to the FuDevice (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add summary and name field for Rival SteelSeries (Mario Limonciello)
- Fix a critical warning when restarting the daemon (Richard Hughes)
- Fix BE issues when reading and writing DFU files (Mario Limonciello, Richard Hughes)
- Make the device display name nicer (Richard Hughes, Richard Hughes)
- Match the AppStream metadata after a device has been added (Richard Hughes)
- Remove non-interactive pinentry setting from fu-keyring (Mario Limonciello)
- Return all update descriptions newer than the installed version (Richard Hughes)
- Set the device description when parsing local firmware files (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.7.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-04-01
New Features:
- Add a version plugin for SteelSeries hardware (Richard Hughes)
- Add FwupdClient and FwupdResult to libfwupd (Richard Hughes)
- Generate gtk-doc documentation for libfwupd (Richard Hughes)
- Return the device flags when getting firmware details (Richard Hughes)
- Support other checksum kinds (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add Alienware to the version quirk table (Mario Limonciello)
- Allow the test suite to run in %check (Richard Hughes)
- Do not return updates that require AC when on battery (Richard Hughes)
- Do not use /tmp for downloaded files (Richard Hughes)
- Test that GPG key import actually was successful (Mario Limonciello)
Version 0.6.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-03-14
New Features:
- Add an unlock method for devices (Richard Hughes)
- Add a simple plugin infrastructure (Richard Hughes)
- Add ESRT enable method into UEFI provider (Mario Limonciello)
- Install the hardcoded firmware AppStream file (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Correct the BCD version number for DFU 1.1 (Richard Hughes)
- Do not use deprecated API from libappstream-glib (Richard Hughes)
- Ignore the DFU runtime on the DW1820A (Richard Hughes)
- Only read PCI OptionROM firmware when devices are manually unlocked (Richard Hughes)
- Require AC power before scheduling some types of firmware update (Richard Hughes)
- Show ignored DFU devices in dfu-util, but not in fwupd (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.6.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-02-12
New Features:
- Add 'Created' and 'Modified' properties on managed devices (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Fix get-results for UEFI provider (Mario Limonciello)
- Support vendor-specific UEFI version encodings (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.6.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-01-19
Bugfixes:
- Always persist ColorHug devices after replug (Richard Hughes)
- Do not misdetect different ColorHug devices (Richard Hughes)
- Only dump the profiling data when run with --verbose (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.6.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-12-07
Notes:
- This release adds a new GObject library called libdfu and a command line
client called dfu-tool. This is a low-level tool used to upgrade USB device
firmware and can either be shipped in the same package as fwupd or split off
as separate subpackages.
New Features:
- Add support for automatically updating USB DFU-capable devices (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Emit the changed signal after doing an update (Richard Hughes)
- Export the AppStream ID when returning device results (Richard Hughes)
- Fix compile with --disable-shared (Richard Hughes)
- Use new API available in fwup 0.5 (Richard Hughes, Mario Limonciello)
- Use the same device identification string format as Microsoft (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.5.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-11-05
Bugfixes:
- Avoid seeking when reading the file magic during refresh (Richard Hughes)
- Do not assume that the compressed XML data will be NUL terminated (Richard Hughes)
- Use the correct user agent string for fwupdmgr (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.5.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-10-28
New Features:
- Add profiling data to debug slow startup times (Richard Hughes)
- Support cabinet archives files with more than one firmware (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add the update description to the GetDetails results (Richard Hughes)
- Clear the in-memory firmware store only after parsing a valid XML file (Richard Hughes)
- Ensure D-Bus remote errors are registered at fwupdmgr startup (Richard Hughes)
- Fix verify-update to produce components with the correct provide values (Richard Hughes)
- Require appstream-glib 0.5.1 (Mirco Tischler)
- Show the dotted-decimal representation of the UEFI version number (Richard Hughes)
- When the version is from the 'FW' extension do not cache the device (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.5.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-09-21
Bugfixes:
- Fix the error message when no devices can be updated (Richard Hughes)
- Fix reading symlink to prevent crash with some compilers (Kalev Lember)
Version 0.5.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-09-15
New Features:
- Raise the dep on GLib to support and use g_autoptr() (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Do not merge existing firmware metadata (Richard Hughes)
- Do not reboot if racing with the PackageKit offline update mechanism (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.1.6
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-09-10
New Features:
- Remove fwsignd, we have the LVFS now (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add application metadata when getting the updates list (Richard Hughes)
- Depend on appstream-glib >= 0.5.0 (Richard Hughes)
- Don't apply firmware if something else is processing the update (Richard Hughes)
- Install fwupd into /usr/lib/$(triplet)/fwupd instead (Mario Limonciello)
- Simplify the version properties on devices to avoid complexity (Richard Hughes)
- Update the offline update service to invoke right command (Kalev Lember)
- Use the new secure metadata URI (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.1.5
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-08-12
Notes:
- For the device verification code to work correctly you need at least
libappstream-glib 0.5.0 installed.
New Features:
- Add a Raspberry Pi firmware provider (Richard Hughes)
- Add a simple config file to store the correct LVFS download URI (Richard Hughes)
- Make parsing the option ROM runtime optional (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Allow fwupd to be autostarted by systemd (Richard Hughes)
- Allow no arguments to 'fwupdmgr verify-update' and use sane defaults (Richard Hughes)
- Devices with option ROM are always internal (Richard Hughes)
- Do not pre-convert the update description from AppStream XML (Richard Hughes)
- Fix validation of written firmware (Richard Hughes)
- Move the verification and metadata matching phase to the daemon (Richard Hughes)
- Sign the test binary with the correct key (Richard Hughes)
- Use the AppStream 0.9 firmware specification by default (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.1.4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-07-25
Notes:
- In this release we've moved the LVFS website to the fwupd project and made
them work really well together. To update all the firmware on your system
is now just a case of "fwupdmgr refresh && fwupdmgr update"
- We've also added verification of BIOS and PCI ROM firmware, which may be
useful for forensics or to verify that system updates have been applied.
New Features:
- Actually parse the complete PCI option ROM (Richard Hughes)
- Add a 'fwupdmgr update' command to update all devices to latest versions (Richard Hughes)
- Add a simple signing server that operates on .cab files (Richard Hughes)
- Add a 'verify' command that verifies the cryptographic hash of device firmware (Richard Hughes)
- Allow clients to add new firmware metadata to the system cache (Richard Hughes)
- Move GetUpdates to the daemon (Richard Hughes)
- Move the LVFS website to the fwupd project (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Accept multiple files at one time when using fwupdmgr dump-rom (Richard Hughes)
- Automatically download metadata using fwupdmgr if required (Richard Hughes)
- Do not return NULL as a gboolean (Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen)
- Don't call efibootmgr after fwupdate (Mario Limonciello)
- Fallback to offline install when calling the update argument (Mario Limonciello)
- Fix Intel VBIOS detection on Dell hardware (Richard Hughes)
- Reload appstream data after refreshing (Mario Limonciello)
- Use the new LVFS GPG key (Richard Hughes)
- Fix build: libgusb is required even without colorhug support (Jussi Kukkonen)
Version 0.1.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-05-28
New Features:
- Get the firmware version from the device descriptors (Richard Hughes)
- Run the offline actions using systemd when required (Richard Hughes)
- Support OpenHardware devices using the fwupd vendor extensions (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add an UNKNOWN status so we can return meaningful enum values (Richard Hughes)
- Coldplug the devices before acquiring the well known name (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.1.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-04-22
- Add some guidelines for vendors to README (Richard Hughes)
- Only allow signed firmware to be upgraded without a password (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.1.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-03-23
New Features:
- Add a 'get-updates' command to fwupdmgr (Richard Hughes)
- Add and document the offline-update lifecycle (Richard Hughes)
- Create a libfwupd shared library (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Create runtime directories if they do not exist (Richard Hughes)
- Do not crash when there are no devices to return (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.1.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-03-16
Notes:
- fwupd is a simple daemon to allow session software to update firmware.