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.