2024-12-23
This release has several improvements for battery lifetime, power saving, and fan behavior. No security updates.
You can check your current BIOS version following the steps here to determine if you are on the latest release.
After the beta release, we will monitor community feedback, and publish this release to our stable release channel after approximately one week if no major issues are reported.
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Battery Extender functionality
With the high energy density on the 61Wh battery, leaving it at 100% state of charge for an extended period of time can shorten the lifetime of the battery. To prevent this, we have added a new feature that automatically limits the maximum state of charge if the system is left plugged into power for more than 5 days. The timer is reset after the system is disconnected from a power adapter for more than 30 minutes.
| Battery Extender Duration | Battery State of Charge |
|---|---|
| 0-5< Days | 99% → 100% |
| 5-7 Days | 90% → 95% |
| >7+ Days | 85% → 87% |
This functionality also reduces cycling of the battery by allowing the battery to discharge by several percent before charging again. Note that in addition to this automatic setting, you can also manually set a lower charge limit on your battery in BIOS to further preserve battery longevity.
This feature can be disabled or enabled in the BIOS Advanced menu.
Battery Extender: This option is enabled by default. If disabled, the system will always keep the battery fully charged.
Battery Extender Trigger: This option sets the number of days that must pass before the battery state of charge is reduced automatically to extend the battery life.
Battery Extender Reset: This option sets the number of minutes that the system is running on battery before the extender is reset, causing the system to charge to 100% when attached to power again.
Downloads
Windows
| Download Link | SHA256 |
|---|---|
| Framework_Laptop_13_13th_Gen_Intel_Core_BIOS_3.06.exe | b7b9f0e6ed87114d2f83f93e71ba9c4caed336eb95e602342cc19ba270dbd78c |
Instructions for Windows Installer:
- Attach the system to AC power
- Run the .exe.
- Click yes to reboot.
If you have not updated your retimers. You can do so using the following retimer update after updating your BIOS by running the following one at a time:
| Retimer Download Links | SHA256 |
|---|---|
| Framework_Laptop_13_13th_Gen_Intel_Core_Retimer_port01_310.exe | 8d2045879c0a52adfed8b4573c8b297a727210d980b4a87ebd693424604ee9de |
| Framework_Laptop_13_13th_Gen_Intel_Core_Retimer_port23_310.exe | 180600b564a69274965d08e272f0aee78f4d29cb323f052ebe3d8a27b07c316c |
Please note that you must update with a charger attached.
Linux/LVFS
We found an issue with version reporting in 3.06, (The ESRT table still reported 3.05 after updating). And we are preparing a 3.07 release to fix this in the next few days
Updating via LVFS is available in the testing channel during the beta period.
You can enable updates from testing by running
fwupdmgr enable-remote lvfs-testing
Please note that you must update with a charger attached.
LVFS may not update if the battery is 100% charged. LVFS uses the battery status to determine if it is safe to apply updates. However if our battery is at 100% and the charger is off, we set the battery charging status to false. In this case you can discharge your battery a few percent, then plug in AC again and run fwupdmgr update.
Linux/Other/UEFI Shell update
| Download Link | SHA256 |
|---|---|
| https://downloads.frame.work/bios/Framework_Laptop_13_13th_Gen_Intel_Core_capsule_signed_allsku_3.06_EFI.zip | ac028eb5f59a3354d99338c43a8110b0acd57e5def8c03321686f75a0c9f46b2 |
Note that if you use the EFI shell update with Windows, you should suspend Bitlocker if enabled before updating using the EFI updater.
Instructions for EFI shell update:
- Extract contents of zip folder to a FAT32 formatted USB drive. Cleanly unmount the drive before physically removing it, otherwise the BIOS update may not function correctly.
- Boot your system while pressing F12 and boot from the thumb drive.
- Let startup.nsh run automatically.
- Follow the instructions to install the update.
Updating a Mainboard outside of a laptop
This release supports standalone updates without a battery attached. After rebooting, please follow the onscreen instructions to update your BIOS when in standalone mode, which will require moving the power source between both sides of the Mainboard to allow PD firmware to update correctly.
Security Fixes
None. Please see 3.05 release notes for security fixes in 3.05.
Enhancements
- Added battery lifetime extender functionality.
- Added USB4 measured boot option for external GPU devices. This will disable usb4 device updates to PCR measurements so bitlocker will not trigger when an external GPU is attached. This option must be manually enabled in the BIOS.
- Update fan and DTT tuning to decrease system noise.
- Backport retimer low power fixes. This will power off the retimer with HDMI (Gen 3), or DP cards running firmware 3.0.17.101 when no device is attached for additional power saving.
Fixes
- Fix issue where attached devices may not be recognized after updating the retimer.
- Fixed display name for Grub bootloader, now EFI\Boot\grubx64.efi will display as “GRUB Boot Loader”
Component Versions
This BIOS update is a bundle of updates to multiple embedded components in the system.
Not all of them use the same version number.
| BIOS | 3.06 | updated |
|---|---|---|
| EC | ec_306_acd8c0b | updated |
| PD | 0.1.2E | updated |
| Intel CSME | 16.1.30.2361v4 | Same |
Reporting Issues
To report issues we have created a public issue tracker on github. Issues · FrameworkComputer/SoftwareFirmwareIssueTracker · GitHub We hope that this is a better way to track issues with community involvement moving forward as we have found it difficult to both gather relevant information about issues people are reporting on the forums, and track the issues through their lifecycle in a transparent way.
If you do experience an issue with the update that is related to your system firmware, please post as complete a description as you can, including relevant system information, and external peripherals. Please note that we do not currently have a SLA for responding to issues on github, but we will be reviewing them through the bios release process, and will review them for future updates as well.
If you have an issue regarding hardware, broken devices, returns, etc, this is not the place, please contact support.
Known Issues
- When updating using the EFI update method, the update will fail if the internal SSD is formatted as MBR.
- If updating on Linux using LVFS. The update may not be available until you attach the system to a charger.
- If battery extender and battery charge limit are both enabled at the same time, the extender function may cause the battery to charge above the charge limit when the extender is triggered. It is suggested to enable either charge limit, or extender mode, but not both.