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Fwupd 2.1.3 has been released as a new maintenance update for the open-source Linux firmware management utility that works with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS).
One of the key improvements in this version is the introduction of Redfish bearer token authentication support, which is commonly used in enterprise and server management environments. The update also expands compatibility by adding support for additional XMC SPI chips and enabling direct JCat file parsing within libfwupd, removing the dependency on libjcat.
The release addresses several bugs and reliability issues as well. Redfish URI handling has been improved for systems using configured path prefixes, while firmware matching problems affecting Cat-6 and Cat-12 modems have been resolved. Progress reporting has also been refined through the addition of floating-point percentage values for more accurate update tracking.
Fwupd 2.1.3 includes multiple hardware-specific fixes. Support for force tables in Elan IC types 0x13 and 0x14 has been corrected, and the Raydium validation workflow has been updated to prevent inaccurate checks. A dedicated match was also added for a particular Raydium device to avoid reset issues on older hardware revisions.
Thunderbolt support has been improved by correcting version detection and ignoring reserved bits that previously caused inaccurate reporting. In addition, dbxtool once again checks well-known paths to avoid regressions, and Nordic USB devices using VID 0x1915 are no longer unnecessarily probed.
Additional fixes include conditional copying of HIDRAW USB properties only when a DS-20 is available, switching to CA1 for a specific SK Hynix NVMe device, and preventing misleading success messages when clean remote operations are interrupted or canceled.
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.
