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

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...

Lineage os for pixel 6 / pro / 7 - Official

Lineage os is out now for pixel 6, pixel 6a, pixel 6 pro, pixel 7 and pixel 7 pro

For more detailed instructions see here

You might've read online that the latest platform tools has issues. I recommend using the previous version

You're pixel will need to be on the latest official android 13 and the bootloader must be unlocked



Start a terminal in your platform tools folder and type the following

adb reboot bootloader

fastboot flash boot "path_to_boot.img"

fastboot flash dtbo "path_to_dbto.img"



fastboot flash vendor_boot "path_to_vendor_boot.img"

fastboot reboot recovery

This will flash lineage os own recovery. Format data factory reset in the advanced tab 

apply update from adb 

Tip: copy the path of the rom zip file by right clicking on it, copy as path

adb sideload "path_to_rom.zip"

Advanced > reboot recovery

For google apps use mindTheGapps

adb sideload "path_to_gapps.zip" 


If you want root access get the magisk app and rename it to "magisk.zip" 

Advanced > reboot recovery 

adb sideload "path_to_magisk.zip"

reboot to system

Enjoy 



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