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A fwupd security update has been released for Fedora 38.



[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: fwupd-1.9.6-1.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-48c43df788
2023-10-09 01:54:42.687400
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Name : fwupd
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 1.9.6
Release : 1.fc38
URL : https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd
Summary : Firmware update daemon
Description :
fwupd is a daemon to allow session software to update device firmware.

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Update Information:

This release adds the following features: * Add a launchd agent for macOS *
Add a new security attribute for BIOS capsule updates to be enabled * Add
functionality to fix specific host security attributes * Add global information
from the context into the report data * Add support for coSWID payload sections
* Add support for parsing the EDID * Allow adding only-quirk instance IDs from
quirk files * Install a sysusers.d systemd file when using -Dsystemd_unit_user
This release fixes the following bugs: * Allow devices to require a connected
display * Allow Wacom modules to specify a status polling interval * Do not
show Intel CET unsupported as success * Do not show multiple Genesys GL32xx
devices for the same physical device * Fix a fuzzing timeout in the HID
descriptor parser * Recalculate the SUPPORTED flag after adopting a child
device * Reduce the amount of memory used when chunking large firmware * Speed
up logitech-bulkcontroller firmware updates * Stop reading ownership and TPM
flashes left in Dell plugin * Try to use the LVFS when using report-history
--force * Write the coSWID TAG_ID as a bytestring when possible This release
adds support for the following hardware: * AMD dGPUs, Navi3x and above *
Foxconn SDX12, SDX55 and SDX6X devices * Google Rex Intel USB-4 retimers *
MediaTek DP AUX Scalers * Quectel EM160 module * Star Labs StarBook Mk VIr2 *
VLI VL105-VL109 * Wacom DTH134 and DTC121 Tablets
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Oct 6 2023 Richard Hughes [richard@hughsie.com] - 1.9.6-1
- New upstream release
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-48c43df788' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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