Richard Hughes

@hughsie
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I write free software. Firmware troublemaker.
Websitehttps://hughsie.com/
GitHubhttps://github.com/hughsie

I've just tagged a new #fwupd release: https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/releases/tag/2.1.3

There's nothing amazing here, but a few highlights are the progress bar is now buttery-smooth (moving from integer percentage to double precision) and that you now don't need to load all the crypto libs if you're just using libfwupd in your app.

There are a couple of regressions fixed too, so be sure to upgrade when your distro provides the update.

Okay, even I agree now. #GitHub is almost unusable for CI these days.

Both #Dell and #Lenovo have agreed to be premier sponsors for the #LVFS as part of our new sustainability effort. Over 145 million firmware updates have been deployed now, from over a hundred different vendors to millions of different Linux devices.

With the industry support from Lenovo and Dell (and #Framework, OSFF, and of course both the Linux Foundation and Red Hat) we can build this ecosystem stronger and higher than before; we can continue the great work we've done long into the future.

I'm at #PremDay at Paris and just walked past two people in the hallway I've never met in my life talking excitedly about #LVFS and #fwupd. I know it's an unusual niche open source project but it was a super proud moment for me.

Open source maintenance is 99% fixing bugs and little things like this make it all worthwhile. Thanks those 2 random people!

I've just tagged #fwupd 2.1.2, with lots of fixes, new hardware support and a few cool new features. See https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/releases/tag/2.1.2 for the list. Enjoy!

I'm super impressed with the reviews from @coderabbitai -- they're an order of magnitude better than Claude (and two orders of magnitude better than copilot) even with the latest models. And free for open source projects!

@coderabbitai how do I refer to you in a commit? e.g. "Co-Authored-By: coderabbitai" perhaps? Claude uses "Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <[email protected]>" if that helps.

We’re holding a live launch event on April 21 at 10:30am PT where we’ll be showing what we’ve been building.
We did it everyone! The impersonated account is gone. Thank you all for your help, it's much appreciated.

Does any of my network work for #GitHub? I'd like to ask if it's possible to make ticket ID 4303160 a priority. I'll happily swap it for some LVFS swag or to prioritise a specific fwupd bug!

Someone crazy is impersonating me and dragging my name and profile image into all kinds of crypto and illuminati stuff. Thanks!

In less-awesome news somebody is now impersonating me on GitHub. If you see anything from "Richard Hughes jr" with an AI version of me as a profile photo -- it's obviously not me.

I'm certainly not promoting any kind of cryptocurrency and I'm certainly not a believer in NWO or the Illuminati of all things. I wish I was making all this up... and what a weird timeline we live in.