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Fwupd 2.0 Released To Drop Legacy & Deprecated Bits, Adds New Features


Richard Hughes of Red Hat just announced Fwupd 2.0 as a major release to this open-source firmware updating utility for Linux systems

Richard Hughes of Red Hat just announced Fwupd 2.0 as a major release to this open-source firmware updating utility for Linux systems. Fwupd 2.0 clears out a lot of long deprecated and legacy bits while adding new features and shipping many fixes. The major version bump allows for Fwupd 2.0 to remove long-deprecated legacy CLI tools, dropping old libraries, and other changes to reduce runtime memory use and CPU startup costs.

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