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Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org>

site/docs/install/nvmutil.md

@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@ title: nvmutil manual
 x-toc-enable: true
 ...
 
-This software was inherited from Libreboot, when we forked it to create
-Censored Libreboot 20230710 and nonGeNUine Boot 20230717, which then became
-the Canoeboot 20231026 release; subsequent releases will be called Canoeboot.
-
 With this software, you can change the MAC address inside GbE regions
 on any system that uses an Intel Flash Descriptor.
 

site/news/canoeboot20231026.md

@@ -7,11 +7,7 @@ Introduction
 
 *This* new release, Canoeboot 20231026, released today 26 October 2023, is
 based on the [Libreboot 20231021](https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot20231021.html)
-release, porting changes in it on top of
+release.
-[nonGeNUine Boot 20230717](nongenuineboot20230717.md) as a base. The previous
-release was nonGeNUine Boot 20230717, released on 17 July 2023; the project
-named *nonGeNUine Boot* has been renamed to Canoeboot, in this release, which
-is the first ever release under the name *Canoeboot*.
 
 Canoeboot provides boot firmware for supported x86/ARM machines, starting a
 bootloader that then loads your operating system. It replaces proprietary
@@ -45,14 +41,16 @@ Policy](https://libreboot.org/news/policy.html).
 Work done since last release
 ============================
 
-No new mainboards have been added in Canoeboot 20231026, versus nonGeNUine
+The *following* mainboards added in Libreboot 20231021 have *been
-Boot 20230717, but a slew of build system enhancements and new features have
-been ported from Libreboot.
-
-However, the *following* mainboards added in Libreboot 20231021 have *been
 excluded* in this Canoeboot release, due to the GNU FSDG policy: HP
 EliteBook 2170p, HP EliteBook 8470p, Dell Precision T1650 and Dell
-Latitude E6430.
+Latitude E6430. Other non-FSDG compliant boards are also excluded,
+such as newer ThinkPads that require Intel ME.
+
+Canoeboot complies strictly with GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines,
+which means it does not contain binary blobs; as a result, it supports
+only a very restricted subset of hardware from Libreboot upon which it
+is based (Canoeboot is a GNU-friendly fork of Libreboot).
 
 GRUB LUKS2 now supported (with argon2 key derivation)
 ---------------------------------------------------
@@ -81,11 +79,6 @@ grateful to everyone who made this possible!
 Simplified commands (build system)
 -------------------------
 
-Simply put, cbmk (the Canoeboot build system) is now *easier to use* than
-gbmk (the nonGeNUine Boot 20230717 build system) was; there
-are only *9* shell scripts in this release, versus 50 or so in the
-nonGeNU 20230717 release, and the command structure has been simplified.
-
 You can find information about *using* the build system in
 the [Canoeboot build instructions](../docs/build/) and in the [cbmk
 maintenance manual](../docs/maintain/).
@@ -171,17 +164,6 @@ In Canoeboot 20231026 (*this release*):
 * SeaBIOS: commit ID `1e1da7a963007d03a4e0e9a9e0ff17990bb1608d`, 24 August 2023
 * U-Boot: commit ID `4459ed60cb1e0562bc5b40405e2b4b9bbf766d57`, 2 October 2023
 
-In nonGeNUine Boot 20230717 (*previous release*):
-
-* Coreboot (default): commit ID `e70bc423f9a2e1d13827f2703efe1f9c72549f20`, 17 February 2023
-* Coreboot (cros): commit ID `8da4bfe5b573f395057fbfb5a9d99b376e25c2a4` 2 June 2022
-* Coreboot (fam15h\_udimm): DID NOT EXIST
-* GRUB: commit ID `f7564844f82b57078d601befadc438b5bc1fa01b`, 14 February 2023
-* SeaBIOS: commit ID `ea1b7a0733906b8425d948ae94fba63c32b1d425`, 20 January 2023
-* U-Boot (for coreboot/cros): commit ID `890233ca5569e5787d8407596a12b9fca80952bf`, 9 January 2023
-
-As you can see, all revisions are quite new in this release.
-
 Build system tweaks
 ===================
 
@@ -205,9 +187,6 @@ Full list of changes (detail)
 These changes have been ported from the Libreboot 20231021 release, which are
 mostly the results of the two audits (mentioned above):
 
-* Much stricter, more robust error handling; too many changes to list here, so
-  check the git log. Also, errors that *are not errors* are no longer treated as
-  such; nonGeNUine Boot 20230717's build system was actually too strict, sometimes.
 * Most logic has been unified in single scripts that perform once type of task
   each, instead of multiple scripts performing the same type of talk; for
   example, defconfig-based projects now handled with the same scripts, and
@@ -409,9 +388,6 @@ mostly the results of the two audits (mentioned above):
 * Fixed coreboot-version file inserted into coreboot trees, when compiled
   on Canoeboot release archives.
 * Very general auditing has been done, finding and fixing bugs.
-* Reduced the number of scripts significantly. There were about 50 scripts in
-  the nonGeNUine Boot 20230717 build system. There are closer to *20* in today's
-  Canoeboot 20231026 revision.
 * Many scripts that were separate are now unified. For example: the scripts
   handling defconfigs files on SeaBIOS, u-Boot and coreboot have now been
   merged into a single script, performing the same work *better* in less code.
@@ -636,14 +612,6 @@ are *not* present in the Canoeboot 20231026 release:
   time.
 * Haswell (libre MRC) coreboot tree: fixed acpica downloads, which no longer
   work on the upstream URL. Old acpica binaries now hosted on Canoeboot rsync.
-* Blobutil: generally more reliable now at downloading vendor files, especially
-  under fault conditions; for example, if a download failed before, it'd try
-  a backup link, but now it also tries the backup link if main download succeeds
-  but checksum verification didn't; and SHA512 checksums are now used, for
-  greater security, whereas nonGeNUine Boot 20230717 used sha1sum (now we use
-  sha512sum). A user agent is specified in wegt, matching that used by Tor
-  Browser (which in turn mimics Firefox running on Windows). This is needed
-  for some vendors, which seem to dislike wget's default user agent.
 
 Excluded mainboards
 ===================