NovaCustom V560TU Dasharo Release Notes
Following Release Notes describe status of open-source firmware development for NovaCustom V560TU
For details about our release process please read Dasharo Standard Release Process.
Update to 1.0.0 temporarily unavailable
The update to version 1.0.0 is temporarily disabled due to the risk of a critical issue. Please refer to this issue for more information.
v1.0.0 - 2025-09-18
Test results for this release can be found here.
Added
- Quiet boot/Fast boot
- FTDI controller support
- Dasharo TrustRoot (Intel Boot Guard) support
- Sleep-and-charge ports
- Sleep type option
- PCR-0 reconstruction
- ACPI driver
- UEFI Capsule Update support
- Fedora support
Changed
- coreboot rebased on 24.12
- EDK II rebased on edk2-stable202502
- UEFI DBX updated to 2025-06-13
- Owner GUID of Secure Boot DB and KEK to Microsoft recommended values
Fixed
- No HDMI output in FW on V540TU and V560TU
- Laggy behaviour on Manjaro (KDE) with open drivers
- Battery draining in sleep mode on Windows 11
- Small text in setup menu
- External boot file to USB flash drive not found after rebooting
- XFCE battery indicator keeps switching charge state when fully charged
- Laptop starts after shutting down if WiFi is firmware-disabled
- No HDMI output in firmware
- Integrated graphics driver does not load (Windows 11)
- Windows 11 fails to resume from hibernation
- BIOS settings are randomly reset
- Booting DTS v2.0.0 through iPXE has no internet
- Wrong serial number printed in console
- No external HDMI display (Firmware)
Known issues
- Previous power state restoration doesn't work
- Artifacts in video playback in some players using HW acceleration
- Only native resolution listed for internal panel
- Early DMA protection cannot be applied to NovaCustom MTL
- Spurious USB 3 disconnects with Sonnet Echo 11 Thunderbolt 4 dock
- Logo out of proportion
- GRUB installation fails sometimes
- Capsule Updates require ME to be manually disabled
- Capsule update signing is not enforced
- Microphone mute Fn key doesn't work in Windows
- 48GB SODIMMs get hot during MemTest86+
Binaries
novacustom_v56x_mtl_igpu_ec_v1.0.0.rom sha256 sha256.sig
novacustom_v56x_mtl_igpu_v1.0.0_btg_provisioned.cap sha256 sha256.sig
novacustom_v56x_mtl_igpu_v1.0.0_btg_provisioned.rom sha256 sha256.sig
To verify binary integrity with hash and signature please follow the instructions in Dasharo release signature verification using this key
SBOM (Software Bill of Materials)
- Dasharo coreboot fork based on 25.03 revision 91420dbc
- Dasharo EDKII fork based on edk2-stable202502 revision 1c50dad8
- Dasharo iPXE fork based on 2025.03 revision 6c7068fc
- vboot based on 3d37d2aafe revision f1f70f46
- Intel Management Engine version v18.0.10.2285
- Intel Firmware Support Package for Meteor Lake-H version 2024/04/30 v4122_12
- Intel Flash Descriptor version v1.0
- Intel microcode version MTL C0 0x00000020 0x25 19/03/2025
v0.9.0 - 2024-07-18
Test results for this release can be found here.
Added
- Support for NovaCustom Meteor Lake platform (integrated graphics)
- Vboot Verified Boot
- TPM Measured Boot
- Vboot recovery notification in UEFI Payload
- UEFI Shell
- UEFI Secure Boot
- Firmware update mode
- BIOS boot medium write-protection
- SMM BIOS write protection
- Early boot DMA protection
- Early Sign of Life display output
- Current limiting for USB-PD power supplies
- Setup menu password configuration
- Wi-Fi / Bluetooth module disable option in setup menu
- Built-in webcam disable option in setup menu
- USB stack disable option in setup menu
- Network stack disable option in setup menu
- Battery threshold options in setup menu
- Intel ME disable option in setup menu
- Block boot when battery is too low
- Power on AC option in setup menu
- Keyboard backlight level is restored after suspend or poweroff
- Fan profiles in setup Menu
- Fn lock hotkey feature
- Throttling temperature adjustment in setup menu
Known issues
- No HDMI output in FW on V540TU and V560TU
- Laggy behaviour on Manjaro (KDE) with open drivers
- V540TU: Option Previous power state restoration doesn't work
- Artifacts in video playback in some players using HW acceleration
- Only native resolution listed for internal panel
Binaries
novacustom_v56x_mtl_ec_v0.9.0.rom sha256 sha256.sig
novacustom_v56x_mtl_v0.9.0.rom sha256 sha256.sig
novacustom_v56x_mtl_v0.9.0_dev_signed.rom sha256 sha256.sig
To verify binary integrity with hash and signature please follow the instructions in Dasharo release signature verification using this key