edk2 (2025.02-5) unstable; urgency=medium The EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PROTOCOL is now enabled by default in the AAVMF_CODE.secboot.fd image. This is a security feature that will cause crashes for operating systems with bootloaders that do not observe proper memory access semantics. Users that experience issues with such bootloaders have the options to either append the following to the qemu-system-aarch64 command line: -fw_cfg name=opt/org.tianocore/UninstallMemAttrProtocol,string=y or switch to the no-secboot image, which uninstalls this protocol by default. -- dann frazier Fri, 28 Mar 2025 08:23:47 -0600 edk2 (2025.02-1) unstable; urgency=medium For security reasons, network boot options are no longer usable in guests that lack a random number generator. You can add a random number generator to QEMU guests with `-device virtio-rng-pci`, or by using the equivalent libvirt configuration: https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#random-number-generator-device -- dann frazier Sun, 09 Mar 2025 15:12:43 -0600