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Libreboot 26.11 Open-Source BIOS/UEFI Firmware Brings Various Improvements

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9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor
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Libreboot 26.11 has been released today as another hefty update to this open-source and free BIOS/UEFI firmware alternative with new features and improvements.

Coming a month after Libreboot 26.10, the Libreboot 26.11 release enables TPM 2.0 by default on Topton X2e N150, Supermicro X11SSH-F, ThinkPad X280, ThinkPad X270, ThinkPad T480/T480s, and ThinkPad T580 devices, enables EDK2 by default in Coreboot mkhelper, and adds a new naming scheme for ROMs.

Libreboot 26.11 also sets the FD size limit to 32MB in EDK2, uses defconfigs on Coreboot and U-Boot, adds backward compatibility to ./mk inject, adds support for randomizing MAC addresses by default on Intel IFD setups where GbE region is used, and updates Arch Linux dependencies.

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