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OneAndOnlyRoot

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Registered: 2025-01-01

Posts: 21

edk2 packages are very out of date

I was planning on making a windows vm but nocticed that the following packages are quite heavily out of date:

edk2-aarch64
edk2-arm
edk2-ovmf
edk2-shell

Does anyone know of a valid reason they have not been updated, any breakage and such?
The newer versions do appear to have security fixes is all so seems like the new updates are important.

Debating if it is worth building from source.

Thanks!

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: edk2 packages are very out of date

Looking at https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/releases it seems there have been 2 updates , I wouldn't call that horribly behind .

Subscribe to / keep an eye on https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … -/issues/7

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OneAndOnlyRoot

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Registered: 2025-01-01

Posts: 21

Re: edk2 packages are very out of date

Looking at https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/releases it seems there have been 2 updates , I wouldn't call that horribly behind .

Subscribe to / keep an eye on https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … -/issues/7

Yeah maybe 2 updates isn't really that bad but I was more going off it being almost a yr since it matched upstream.
I will keep an eye on the gitlab issue, thanks.