Fwupd 2.1.3 was released today as the latest maintenance update to the open-source firmware utility for Linux device updates via the Linux Vendor Firmware Service.
The most notable addition is support for Redfish bearer token authentication, a management standard used in server and enterprise hardware. The release also adds support for several XMC SPI chips and allows JCat files to be parsed directly in libfwupd without libjcat.
Moreover, this release fixes Redfish URI handling when a path prefix is configured, avoids firmware matching errors for Cat-6 and Cat-12 modems, and improves progress reporting by exporting a floating-point percentage value.
Several device-specific fixes are included as well. Fwupd 2.1.3 fixes force table support in Elan IC types 0x13 and 0x14, corrects the Raydium information check flow to avoid incorrect validation, and matches a specific Raydium device to prevent older hardware resets.
Thunderbolt handling is corrected, with fwupd fixing the reported Thunderbolt version number by ignoring reserved bits. Additionally, dbxtool loads well-known paths again to prevent regression, and Nordic USB devices using VID 0x1915 are no longer probed indiscriminately.
Other fixes include copying HIDRAW USB properties only when a DS-20 is provided, using CA1 for an SK Hynix NVMe drive, and avoiding a misleading clean remote success message when an operation is aborted.
Finally, fwupd 2.1.3 expands supported hardware with support for SHIFT6mq and SHIFTphone 8 devices.
More details are available in the project’s GitHub release announcement.
