diff --git a/imager/make-imager-release b/imager/make-imager-release
index df95734..5b65a3e 100755
--- a/imager/make-imager-release
+++ b/imager/make-imager-release
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ script_dir=$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)
 ${script_dir}/make-release critical 2023-01-11 000138c0 "${script_dir}/2711-config" release-2711 rpi-boot-eeprom-recovery 2711
 
 # Pi5
-${script_dir}/make-release critical 2024-01-05 "" "${script_dir}/2712-config" release-2712 rpi-boot-eeprom-recovery 2712
+${script_dir}/make-release critical 2024-02-16 "" "${script_dir}/2712-config" release-2712 rpi-boot-eeprom-recovery 2712
diff --git a/rpi-eeprom-update b/rpi-eeprom-update
index 9f630b3..fb3ca1f 100755
--- a/rpi-eeprom-update
+++ b/rpi-eeprom-update
@@ -397,6 +397,8 @@ checkDependencies() {
       EEPROM_SIZE=2097152
       BOOTLOADER_AUTO_UPDATE_MIN_VERSION="${BOOTLOADER_AUTO_UPDATE_MIN_VERSION:-1704470260}"
       SPIDEV=/dev/spidev10.0
+      # Default is to use flashrom if availableon BCM2712
+      RPI_EEPROM_USE_FLASHROM=${RPI_EEPROM_USE_FLASHROM:-1}
    else
       chipNotSupported
    fi