2023.12 released
After some time not having update this blog, with the opportunity of a new release it is a good time to expose what is going on with the project. SWUpdate…
ELCE Talk about Delta Update published
Linux Foundation has published videos from last Embedded Linux Conference Europe (ELCE) in Dublin. One of them is about Delta Update with SWUpdate, and you can see it on YouTube.…
Delta handler for lightweight updates
Software is steadily increasing its complexity and this raises the size of a whole Update. SWUpdate allows incremental updates based on filesystem, and single file updates are possible. A good…
2021.11 Released !
2021.11 Latest Features: security: Add optional CMS single signer verification general: BUG: buffer overflow with semantic version > 50 Functions to detect automatically rootfs License: Completed REUSE compliant handlers: diskpart…
CIP SWUpdate Lua Round Robin Handler
The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP)’s Software Update Working Group, has announced the immediate availability of the CIP SWUpdate Lua Round Robin Handler: https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-sw-updates/swupdate-handler-roundrobin It is meant to augment SWUpdate’s…
2021.04 Released !
A new exciting SWUpdate was released ! A short changelog from previous release: security: first block decryption with pkcs11 general: merge install from file with OTA install extend -o option…
Add support to initialize filesystems
SWUpdate can be used to restore complete a device if it gets broken or it helps in the factory to install for the first time the software on a new…
Support for links in sw-description mainlined
The file sw-description is the central place to configure a release and to provide how a new sofware must be installed. Apart very simple cases, an update consists oft of…
2020.11 Released !
Proud to announce a new release for SWUpdate with exciting new features ! security: encryption of sw-description (aes-cbc-256). Even the meta description of the release can be encrypted, specially useful…
Update and Secure Boot
Siemens exposed how to combine secure boot and SWUpdate in this interesting talk (https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/ossna2020/17/Secure-OTA-Updates_elc-na-2020.pdf).