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Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration

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He had noticed a warning that came with " this month's Windows 11 cumulative update"; it talked about Secure Boot certificates that are scheduled to expire starting in June 2026. Berrangé noted that older versions of fwupd were unable to solve all of the problems, " but recent releases have been enhanced to handle the updates that Linux users will need to see, which should mitigate the worst of the impact". Since older hardware is something that Linux and distributions explicitly support, while the other vendors have long since moved on to the latest shiny, it was clearly going to lead to some tension there.

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