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.

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'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.

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.