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Version 0.7.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-04-01

New Features:
 - Add a version plugin for SteelSeries hardware (Richard Hughes)
 - Add FwupdClient and FwupdResult to libfwupd (Richard Hughes)
 - Generate gtk-doc documentation for libfwupd (Richard Hughes)
 - Return the device flags when getting firmware details (Richard Hughes)
 - Support other checksum kinds (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Add Alienware to the version quirk table (Mario Limonciello)
 - Allow the test suite to run in %check (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not return updates that require AC when on battery (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not use /tmp for downloaded files (Richard Hughes)
 - Test that GPG key import actually was successful (Mario Limonciello)

Version 0.6.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-03-14

New Features:
 - Add an unlock method for devices (Richard Hughes)
 - Add a simple plugin infrastructure (Richard Hughes)
 - Add ESRT enable method into UEFI provider (Mario Limonciello)
 - Install the hardcoded firmware AppStream file (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Correct the BCD version number for DFU 1.1 (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not use deprecated API from libappstream-glib (Richard Hughes)
 - Ignore the DFU runtime on the DW1820A (Richard Hughes)
 - Only read PCI OptionROM firmware when devices are manually unlocked (Richard Hughes)
 - Require AC power before scheduling some types of firmware update (Richard Hughes)
 - Show ignored DFU devices in dfu-util, but not in fwupd (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.6.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-02-12

New Features:
 - Add 'Created' and 'Modified' properties on managed devices (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Fix get-results for UEFI provider (Mario Limonciello)
 - Support vendor-specific UEFI version encodings (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.6.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-01-19

Bugfixes:
 - Always persist ColorHug devices after replug (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not misdetect different ColorHug devices (Richard Hughes)
 - Only dump the profiling data when run with --verbose (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.6.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-12-07

Notes:
 - This release adds a new GObject library called libdfu and a command line
   client called dfu-tool. This is a low-level tool used to upgrade USB device
   firmware and can either be shipped in the same package as fwupd or split off
   as separate subpackages.

New Features:
 - Add support for automatically updating USB DFU-capable devices (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Emit the changed signal after doing an update (Richard Hughes)
 - Export the AppStream ID when returning device results (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix compile with --disable-shared (Richard Hughes)
 - Use new API available in fwup 0.5 (Richard Hughes, Mario Limonciello)
 - Use the same device identification string format as Microsoft (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.5.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-11-05

Bugfixes:
 - Avoid seeking when reading the file magic during refresh (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not assume that the compressed XML data will be NUL terminated (Richard Hughes)
 - Use the correct user agent string for fwupdmgr (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.5.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-10-28

New Features:
 - Add profiling data to debug slow startup times (Richard Hughes)
 - Support cabinet archives files with more than one firmware (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Add the update description to the GetDetails results (Richard Hughes)
 - Clear the in-memory firmware store only after parsing a valid XML file (Richard Hughes)
 - Ensure D-Bus remote errors are registered at fwupdmgr startup (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix verify-update to produce components with the correct provide values (Richard Hughes)
 - Require appstream-glib 0.5.1 (Mirco Tischler)
 - Show the dotted-decimal representation of the UEFI version number (Richard Hughes)
 - When the version is from the 'FW' extension do not cache the device (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.5.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-09-21

Bugfixes:
 - Fix the error message when no devices can be updated (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix reading symlink to prevent crash with some compilers (Kalev Lember)

Version 0.5.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-09-15

New Features:
 - Raise the dep on GLib to support and use g_autoptr() (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Do not merge existing firmware metadata (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not reboot if racing with the PackageKit offline update mechanism (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.1.6
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-09-10

New Features:
 - Remove fwsignd, we have the LVFS now (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Add application metadata when getting the updates list (Richard Hughes)
 - Depend on appstream-glib >= 0.5.0 (Richard Hughes)
 - Don't apply firmware if something else is processing the update (Richard Hughes)
 - Install fwupd into /usr/lib/$(triplet)/fwupd instead (Mario Limonciello)
 - Simplify the version properties on devices to avoid complexity (Richard Hughes)
 - Update the offline update service to invoke right command (Kalev Lember)
 - Use the new secure metadata URI (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.1.5
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-08-12

Notes:
 - For the device verification code to work correctly you need at least
   libappstream-glib 0.5.0 installed.

New Features:
 - Add a Raspberry Pi firmware provider (Richard Hughes)
 - Add a simple config file to store the correct LVFS download URI (Richard Hughes)
 - Make parsing the option ROM runtime optional (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Allow fwupd to be autostarted by systemd (Richard Hughes)
 - Allow no arguments to 'fwupdmgr verify-update' and use sane defaults (Richard Hughes)
 - Devices with option ROM are always internal (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not pre-convert the update description from AppStream XML (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix validation of written firmware (Richard Hughes)
 - Move the verification and metadata matching phase to the daemon (Richard Hughes)
 - Sign the test binary with the correct key (Richard Hughes)
 - Use the AppStream 0.9 firmware specification by default (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.1.4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-07-25

Notes:
 - In this release we've moved the LVFS website to the fwupd project and made
   them work really well together. To update all the firmware on your system
   is now just a case of "fwupdmgr refresh && fwupdmgr update"
 - We've also added verification of BIOS and PCI ROM firmware, which may be
   useful for forensics or to verify that system updates have been applied.

New Features:
 - Actually parse the complete PCI option ROM (Richard Hughes)
 - Add a 'fwupdmgr update' command to update all devices to latest versions (Richard Hughes)
 - Add a simple signing server that operates on .cab files (Richard Hughes)
 - Add a 'verify' command that verifies the cryptographic hash of device firmware (Richard Hughes)
 - Allow clients to add new firmware metadata to the system cache (Richard Hughes)
 - Move GetUpdates to the daemon (Richard Hughes)
 - Move the LVFS website to the fwupd project (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Accept multiple files at one time when using fwupdmgr dump-rom (Richard Hughes)
 - Automatically download metadata using fwupdmgr if required (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not return NULL as a gboolean (Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen)
 - Don't call efibootmgr after fwupdate (Mario Limonciello)
 - Fallback to offline install when calling the update argument (Mario Limonciello)
 - Fix Intel VBIOS detection on Dell hardware (Richard Hughes)
 - Reload appstream data after refreshing (Mario Limonciello)
 - Use the new LVFS GPG key (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix build: libgusb is required even without colorhug support (Jussi Kukkonen)

Version 0.1.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-05-28

New Features:
 - Get the firmware version from the device descriptors (Richard Hughes)
 - Run the offline actions using systemd when required (Richard Hughes)
 - Support OpenHardware devices using the fwupd vendor extensions (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Add an UNKNOWN status so we can return meaningful enum values (Richard Hughes)
 - Coldplug the devices before acquiring the well known name (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.1.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-04-22
 - Add some guidelines for vendors to README (Richard Hughes)
 - Only allow signed firmware to be upgraded without a password (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.1.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-03-23

New Features:
 - Add a 'get-updates' command to fwupdmgr (Richard Hughes)
 - Add and document the offline-update lifecycle (Richard Hughes)
 - Create a libfwupd shared library (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Create runtime directories if they do not exist (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not crash when there are no devices to return (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.1.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-03-16

Notes:
 - fwupd is a simple daemon to allow session software to update firmware.