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Libreboot 20241206 Revision 10

This revision has GRUB security fixes, better LVM scanning, and non-root USB2 hub support.

Revision updates

GRUB released 73 patches to its main branch, fixing a large number of security issues. You can read about them here:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2025-02/msg00024.html

This updates GRUB to revision 4dc6166571645780c459dde2cdc1b001a5ec844c from 18 February 2025. Several OOB heap writes, buffer overflows, use after frees and so on, are now prevented with this update.

Feature changes

In addition to the security fixes, several out-of-tree fixes from Libreboot’s main branch have been merged for GRUB, fixing bugs in the xHCI driver, and adding support for non-root USB2 hubs on platforms that use the xhci GRUB tree.

Configuration changes

Changes to the GRUB configuration have been made, to make scanning of LVM volume/group names more reliable, including on full-disk-encryption setups. More such changes are planned for the next major release; the current changes are very minor.