Hi folks,
I'm happy to announce that we finally got new point releases ready. The most important being v1.2.1 which updates the almost three-year- old v1.2. It's still in use by current OS distributions and some rot has already become visible: It has trouble to identify PCI devices when paired with an up-to-date libpci.
Another quite important change is present in all three point releases: For reliable operation on the newer Intel platforms, increased timeouts in the `ich_spi` driver became necessary.
Please refer to the full release notes [1-3] for more details. Tarballs and signatures [4] are available as usual on https://download.flashrom.org/releases/
One more, old hint for package maintainers: If you don't use Git and don't override flashrom's version string anyway, avoid the tarballs offered by tools like Cgit or Github. They don't contain any version information.
Best regards, Nico
[1] https://www.flashrom.org/Flashrom/1.2.1 [2] https://www.flashrom.org/Flashrom/1.1.1 [3] https://www.flashrom.org/Flashrom/1.0.2 [4] Signed with key 2853079C9C66AB7E82C64966A5C163B7E557CAEB