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Richard Hughes announces
the fwupd 1.8.0 release and notes that the associated Linux Vendor Firmware Service has now shipped
a minimum of 50 million firmware updates.

Just 7 years ago Christian asked me to “make firmware updates work
on Linux” and now we have a thriving client project that respects
both your freedom and your privacy, and a thriving ecosystem of
hardware vendors who consider Linux users first class citizens. Of
course, there are vendors who are not shipping updates for popular
hardware, but they’re now in the minority — and every month we have
two or three new vendor account requests.