Fwupd 2.0.9 is out today as the ninth maintenance update to the latest fwupd 2.0 release of this open-source Linux firmware update utility with support for more devices, new features, and bug fixes.

Coming a month after fwupd 2.0.8, this release introduces support for Intel Arc 'Battlemage' GPUs, the ability to allow installing multiple database certificate updates at the same time, support for showing what certificate signed the EFI authenticated variable, new documentation about updating the KEK and database, as well as the ability to use readline to look up inputs from user, and make it optional.

Fwupd 2.0.9 also adds several devices with broken firmware to the UEFI dbx blocklist, revamps the MEI code to allow devices to use multiple interfaces, rewrites the ModemManger plugin to be simpler and more supportable, simplifies the parsing of USB descriptors, and includes more output when using the fwupdtool get-devices --json command.

On top of that, this release also fixes a crash that occurred when installing some Wacom firmware types, a crash that occurred when parsing uevents that aren't KEY=VALUE, a parsing issue with the DFU descriptor when not using the libusb library, a PK and KEK enumeration failure on some systems, and SMBIOS parsing for ROM sizes equal to or larger than 16MiB.

Starting with this release, fwupd no longer enumerates non-updatable OptionROM devices, no longer exports Redfish backup partitions as devices, includes a resolution for more of the HSI failures, no longer allows updating updatable-hidden devices with the fwupdtool command.

It also now requires a reboot after updating Intel CVS devices, properly constructs the authenticated URI when using FirmwareBaseURI, recognizes very old dbx hashes to allow upgrades, and properly handles Redfish location redirects when installing firmware.

Check out the release notes on the project’s GitHub page for more details about the changes included in fwupd 2.0.9, which you can download as a source tarball from the same location. Of course, it is recommended that you install fwupd from the stable software repositories of your GNU/Linux distribution.

Image credits: fwupd project

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