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+intel-microcode (3.20140913.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+    This release drops support for automatically applying microcode
+    updates without a reboot.  The microcode updates can still be applied
+    without a reboot through manual action of the system administrator, at
+    his own risk.
+
+    Microcodes known to be dangerous have been renamed so that they will
+    not be found by the kernel.  This is a reactive blacklisting: it is
+    unlikely to be complete at any point in time.
+
+    The 3.x branch of the intel-microcode packages will only support Linux
+    kernels v3.10 and above.  For older kernels, you must use the 1.x
+    branch of the intel-microcode packages.
+
+    Refer to /usr/share/doc/intel-microcode/README.Debian for details.
+
+ -- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>  Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:27:57 -0300
+
+intel-microcode (1.20130222.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+    This release adds support for early microcode updates on Linux kernel
+    v3.9 and later.  It requires the kernel support for the feature to be
+    compiled in, the use of an initramfs, and also recent versions of the
+    iucode-tool and initramfs-tools packages.
+
+    Early microcode updates greatly reduce the chances of system
+    malfunction due to any issues that are corrected by the microcode
+    update.  The microcode will be updated while the kernel initializes
+    the boot processor, and before any other processors (in a multicore
+    system) are enabled.
+
+ -- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>  Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:03:30 -0300
+
+intel-microcode (1.20120606.4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+    The initramfs logic to automatically restrict the microcodes that have
+    to be installed using iucode-tool can fail in a very specific situation
+    when the intel-microcode package is installed for the first time at the
+    same time the _currently running_ kernel is being upgraded.
+
+    intel-microcode will warn you should that happen, and will install all
+    microcodes, resulting in a much larger initramfs image than expected.
+
+    If you did hit this failure mode and you believe the large initramfs
+    will cause problems for your system to reboot, please remove the
+    intel-microcode package to reduce the initramfs size, reboot to load
+    the upgraded kernel, and then reinstall the intel-microcode package.
+
+    Once the intel-microcode package is installed, it will cooperate with
+    the kernel packages and automatically avoid the issue on future
+    upgrades.
+
+ -- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>  Sat, 11 Aug 2012 19:02:20 -0300
+
+intel-microcode (1.20120606.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+    This major release update changes how Debian handles Intel system
+    processor microcode updates.  Initscripts and the old microcode.ctl
+    utility are not used to load microcode anymore.
+
+    Previously, microcode.ctl would be used to read the text file
+    distributed by Intel (microcode.dat), convert it to binary, and upload
+    to /dev/cpu/microcode.  This functionality has been deprecated in the
+    kernel upstream for a long time, the firmware loader and a sysfs
+    interface should be used instead.
+
+    The Intel microcode.dat file is now preprocessed using iucode-tool when
+    the intel-microcode package is built, and the resulting binary data
+    files for /lib/firmware/intel-ucode are shipped, ready for use by the
+    kernel.
+
+    The intel-microcode package now provides automation for autoloading
+    microcode from the initramfs, instead of relying on any initscripts.
+    Refer to the README files in /usr/share/ doc/intel-microcode for more
+    details; there is some limited support for /usr/share/misc/
+    intel-microcode.dat files.
+
+    If you don't use an initramfs for a custom-built kernel, please make
+    sure the microcode driver is a module, and to load it at a time
+    /lib/firmware is already available.  Adding it to /etc/modules is
+    usually enough.  In this specific case, /usr/share/misc/
+    intel-microcode.dat is not supported, refer to the README files for
+    more detail.
+
+    WARNING: if you have an old /usr/share/misc/intel-microcode.dat file,
+    it may cause problems because of the way Intel does microcode release
+    management.  As a rule, it is best to remove outdated microcode.dat
+    files from the system.
+
+ -- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>  Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:06:06 -0300