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This Week in TUXEDO OS #33-2024

Hello TUXEDO fans and open source enthusiasts!

Our new column „This week in TUXEDO OS“ keeps you up to date on what has happened in the past week. You will find out what changes, updates and bug fixes have been made to TUXEDO OS and what is happening with the development of our in-house tools such as TUXEDO Control Centre and Tomte. We will also let you know what problems we are currently working on. In addition, we take a look beyond the horizon at important developments in Linux.

Enjoy reading, The TUXEDO OS Team

Updates TUXEDO OS

Firefox 129.0.1

  • Fixes a possible crash of the content process that could be triggered for users of some AMD GPUs by dragging and dropping a video file.
  • Fixes a problem related to Digital Rights Management (DRM) under Windows

Chromium 127.0.6533.119

Tomte 2.28

  • some messages in the log file have been adjusted and critical messages should also appear in log level 0
  • gfxmode was added for GRUB for all flavours
  • nokeyboardaftersuspendfix for Stellaris 16 Gen5 and kernel >= 6.8
  • Kernel linuxtuxedo22.04edge for Infinitybook 14 AMD/Intel Gen9 and Infinitybook 15 AMD/Intel Gen9 (customised 6.8 kernel) tuxedo-yt6801 has been adapted and is now installed on the devices where the corresponding PCI ID exists

TUXEDO Control Centre 2.1.13

  • Fixed a bug where saving the profile was not executed correctly due to Power Limit Slider
  • Adjustment of the power profile so that „Energy Save“ works for InfinityBook Pro 17 Gen6

Security updates

amd64-microcode updated to v4.20240710

  • Mitigates „Sinkclose“ CVE-2023–31315 (AMD-SB-7014) on AMD Epyc processors

Security updates Ubuntu

The Ubuntu security updates listed here flow directly into TUXEDO OS:

News

Interesting facts about TUXEDO Support

What else has happened?

More up-to-date kernels for Ubuntu

Canonical is softening its conservative policy on shipping kernels and moving as close as possible to upstream for Ubuntu releases.

Problem solutions

tuxedo-yt6801 Update

It was previously not possible to install this package in a WebFAI running on a device that uses yt6801. The chip is a Motorcomm Ethernet controller.

BIOS / EC Updates

There are new BIOS versions for:

  • Sirius 16 Gen1

  • Sirius 16 Gen2

  • Stellaris 17 Gen6