fwupd 2.1.1

What's new in 2.1.1

This release adds the following features:
- Add a new fwupd security check for HP Sure Start
- Add a new plugin to verify Intel CSME using SMBIOS data
- Add a new tpm-eventlog command to explain the TPM eventlog output
- Add CycloneDX and SPDX support to uSWID
- Add support for AMD Platform Secure boot
- Add support for changing AMD GPU UMA carveout size
- Add support for emulation for bluetooth devices
- Allow systems to use the udev event source without using systemd
- Disable the UEFI plugins on 32bit x86
- Drop support for GPG signing of metadata and firmware
- No longer depend on json-glib, libarchive or protobuf-c
- Remove the concept of blocked firmware
- Show translated problems when a device cannot be installed
This release fixes the following bugs:
- Add a timeout to the fwupd-refresh systemd unit
- Allow systemd service to access block-sr devices
- Always show the correct new firmware version in 'fwupdmgr get-history'
- Be more defensive with invalid Corsair device responses
- Cache the payload verification result to speed up installing modem firmware
- Check for integer overflow when constructing a partial stream
- Clear the remaining qc-firehose power reset logs
- Decompress a zip file in Aver HID rather than a bz2 archive
- Do not allow efivar update without TIME_BASED_AUTHENTICATED_WRITE_ACCESS
- Do not hang when parsing an invalid USB descriptor
- Do not include EV_NO_ACTION when calculating the TPM PCRs
- Do not return an error if the fastboot property is not provided
- Do not show all IDs as GUIDs if adding quirks after device setup
- Find shim when using systemd-boot and distro-specific locations
- Fix activation of dell-kestrel NVM when composite updates are completed
- Fix a dell-dock regression when enumerating the status component
- Fix a fuzzer timeout when parsing a Synaptics RMI SBL container
- Fix a missing error check when updating Genesys USB hubs
- Fix a potential heap OOB read in AMD Kria SOM EEPROM parser
- Fix a potential Logitech HID++ hang when parsing unexpected payload IDs
- Fix a potential out-of-bounds read in Dell dock
- Fix a regression causing MBIM QDU updates to fail
- Fix a regression when installing on the HP G5 dock
- Fix a small memory leak when removing a bluetooth device
- Fix an integer underflow when parsing a malicious PE file
- Fix get-updates --json silently skipping UPDATABLE_HIDDEN devices
- Fix the snapd-uefi request when multiple updates are processed …

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