Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support
Libreboot has released version 26.10, featuring full UEFI support and compatibility with over 200 Chromebook models. The release also introduces a strict anti-AI policy within its development repository.
Why it matters
This update significantly expands the reach of open-source firmware to mainstream hardware while highlighting growing ideological tensions regarding AI in open-source software development.
You can find today’s release in https://rsync.libreboot.org/stable/26.10/ or you can use one of the mirrors .
Libreboot is free, open source boot firmware replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware on supported Intel/AMD and ARM64 hardware. It initialises the hardware inside your computer such as the CPU or memory controller, configuring the machine in such a way as to enable use of an operating system like Linux or BSD at boot - and now Microsoft Windows is also compatible because Libreboot has added full UEFI support via MrChromebox EDK2 payload. Libreboot offers greater security and customisation compared to proprietary firmware; its goal, plainly, is to rid the world of proprietary software and to do that, we therefore try to provide firmware that is extremely easy for non-technical users to understand.
Today’s release changelog is relative to the previous Libreboot 26.01 release.
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