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Fwupd 2.0.13 Released With New Hardware Support, Numerous Fixes

([LVFS] 6 Hours Ago Fwupd 2.0.13)


LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat today announced the availability of Fwupd 2.0.13 for handling firmware updates on modern Linux systems.

With Fwupd 2.0.13 there is some new hardware support for devices able to carry out firmware updates under this open-source software. The HP USB-C 100W G6 Dock, Logitech Bulk Controller peripherals, and more MediaTek scaler devices have all joined the growing supported hardware list for Fwupd and the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS).

Fwupd 2.0.13 also adds support for glob-aware version comparison requirements, now can target specific regions in the FMAP when using Flashrom, and other improvements. There are also a number of fixes such as around fwupdtool, Intel ME firmware handling, reading the Intel GPU SKU and SVN when using Battlemage graphics hardware, and more.

Fwupd 2.0.13 also brings a number of small changes that together speed the startup of Fwupd by around 60% and lower RSS by around 40%.

Fwupd 2.0.13 downloads and more details on today's release via [1]GitHub .



[1] https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/releases/tag/2.0.13


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Brief History Of Linux (#14)
Military Intelligence: Not an oxymoron in 1969

It was the Department Of Defense that commissioned the ARPANET in 1969, a
rare example of the US military breaking away from its official motto,
"The Leading Edge Of Yesterday's Technology(tm)".

In the years leading up to 1969, packet switching technology had evolved
enough to make the ARPANET possible. Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.
received the ARPA contract in 1968 for packet switching "Interface Message
Processors". US Senator Edward Kennedy, always on the ball, sent a
telegram to BBN praising them for their non-denominational "Interfaith"
Message Processors, an act unsurpassed by elected representatives until Al
Gore invented the Internet years later.

While ARPANET started with only four nodes in 1969, it evolved rapidly.
Email was first used in 1971; by 1975 the first mailing list, MsgGroup,
was created by Steve Walker when he sent a "First post!" messages to it.
In 1979 all productive use of ARPANET ceased when USENET and the first MUD
were created. In 1983, when the network surpassed 1,000 hosts, a study
showed that 90.4% of all traffic was devoted to email and USENET flame wars.