Please welcome HP to the LVFS

As some of you have successfully guessed, HP Inc have been testing the LVFS for a few months now. There are now a few devices by HP available in the stable metadata and there are many more devices planned. If you’ve got a Z2, Z6, Z8, Z440, Z640 or Z840 system then you might want to check for an update in the GNOME Software updates panel or using fwupdmgr update in the terminal. There are quite a few updates with important fixes for various CVEs. I don’t know how many different models of HP hardware they are planning to support, or the order that they will be uploaded but I’m happy with progress.

With the addition of HP, the LVFS now has most major OEMs uploading firmware. There are a few exceptions, but even seemingly-unlikely companies like Microsoft are still interested in shipping firmware on the LVFS in the future. If you want to know more about joining the LVFS, please just send me an email.

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Richard has over 10 years of experience developing open source software. He is the maintainer of GNOME Software, PackageKit, GNOME Packagekit, GNOME Power Manager, GNOME Color Manager, colord, and UPower and also contributes to many other projects and opensource standards. Richard has three main areas of interest on the free desktop, color management, package management, and power management. Richard graduated a few years ago from the University of Surrey with a Masters in Electronics Engineering. He now works for Red Hat in the desktop group, and also manages a company selling open source calibration equipment. Richard's outside interests include taking photos and eating good food.

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