It finally arrived.

We were waiting for this BIOS release since november, when it was announced as 2.14.0, later as 2.14.1.  Latest revision of DSA-2019-147 announces yet this BIOS release is proposed for july, but it finally arrived on june 18th.  I am not surprised about this delay considering the huge amount of changes included, fixing twenty-one CVEs and even providing a few new valuable enhancements.

It had been running on my workstation since the day it was released and, in my humble opinion, it is performing as expected.  Cannot say a lot about its microcode, as this Precision T3420 updates it early to revision 0xD6 at the operating system level to mitigate the SRBDS hardware vulnerability.  This one will be the microcode revision provided by the next system BIOS update (2.16.0) together a lot of fixes for CSME (the Intel® Converged Security and Management Engine) —at least the ones that can be fixed without replacing the hardware— proposed now for august.

Keep up the good work!