Today I released the first official tarball of Jcat, version 0.1.0. I’ve started the process to get the package into Fedora as it will almost certainly be a hard requirement in the next major version of fwupd.
Since I announced Jcat a few weeks ago, I’ve had a lot of positive feedback about the general concept and, surprisingly, even one hardware vendors suggested they might start self-signing their firmware before uploading to the LVFS (which is great!). More LVFS announcements coming soon I promise…
The LVFS has been including Jcat files in archives and generating them for metadata for about three weeks now, and we’ve had no issues reported. Once the package is available in Fedora 32 I’ll merge the fwupd pull request to make it a hard dep. All you other distro package maintainers, please go do your packaging thing!
If anyone finds any oddities or weird behavior, please file an issue. I’m not expecting to make API breaks now, but will if we find a design bug. Most of the code is imported from fwupd, and so I’m pretty comfortable with the general design. Comments welcome.
