This release adds the following features:

• Add support for ignoring the network connectivity requirement
• Allow building on RHEL-9 and RHEL-10
• Allow plugins to know the firmware version during update
• Allow UEFI capsule devices to opt-out of Capsule-on-Disk
• Allow unsetting HwID plugin context flags
• Allow upgrading from a zero "empty" UEFI dbx

This release fixes the following bugs:

• Add an automatic firehose counterpart to the QCDM modem device
• Disable signature time checks when verifying firmware
• Do not add a vendor ID of UNKNOWN when the signature has no vendor
• Do not discover ThunderBolt retimer devices when run in single-shot mode
• Do not use deprecated libflashrom API
• Enhance firmware metadata generation in firmware_packager
• Ensure Lexar NVMe drives use a proper version number
• Fix parsing and writing UF2 extension sections
• Fix Synaptics RMI initialization for new devices
• Fix updating DFOTA and MBIM modem devices
• Move some vendor name fixups to the quirk file
• Remove CapsuleOnDisk HwID match for Dell
• Return a sensible error when using build-cabinet wrong
• Set the firehose loader filename in a more permissive way
• Update the mapping for TPM vendor names
• Verify the checksum of the serialized data in tests
• Work around a libmbim bug when detaching

This release adds support for the following hardware:

• Egis MoC devices
• Framework QMK devices
• ILITEK touch controllers
• SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3P