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The June 2026 Secure Boot Certificate Expiry: What You Need to Know

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If you dual-boot or run a Linux distribution with Secure Boot enabled, you may have heard about a major security deadline. The original Microsoft 2011 UEFI Third-Party Certificate Authority (CA) keys, which most Linux distributions rely on to sign their initial bootloaders (shim) on consumer PC hardware, expired at the end of June 2026 The expiration of a certificate doesn't invalidate already-installed, signed binaries on your system; firmware doesn't check expiration dates at boot time. However, moving forward, future Linux bootloader updates and security patches will be signed exclusively using the new Windows UEFI CA 2023 key . If your motherboard's firmware database isn't updated to trust this new 2023 key, your Linux system may eventually experience package management blocks or fail to apply critical bootloader updates. Before running updates, check if Secure Boot is active and see if your system already recognizes the 2023 certificate hierarchy. Open your termi...
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Enable DUMP permission in Wavelet

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Enhanced session detection

Disclaimer: Enhanced session detection is experimental and available only for Android 10 and up.
If you choose to activate enhanced session detection, Wavelet will actively listen for music sessions instead of relying on being notified when a session starts. The DUMP permission is required to allow Wavelet to filter the required information from the device system services needed to attach and release audio effects to audio sessions. The advantage of enhanced session detection is that there is no need to depend on other applications opening and closing their audio sessions properly, which means it should work properly with every media session.

Instructions to activate enhanced session detection:

  • Activate developer options and enable USB debugging on your device as instructed on https://developer.android.com/studio/debug/dev-options
    • On Xiaomi devices, it is mandatory to enable USB debugging (Security Settings)
    • On Realme and OPPO devices, it is mandatory to disable permission monitoring under settings - security center

Visit this website with your phone plugged into USB cable connected to the PC 

Tap on add and select your device in the panel 

You'll need to allow adb access in the confirmation dialogue on the phone

Navigate to interactive shell and copy/paste the following 

pm grant com.pittvandewitt.wavelet android.permission.DUMP


Also enable notification access in notification listener 





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