0061 of your bios should already include the microcode that is also available in the intel-microcode package. As such, on boot I'd expect a no-op when checking for newer microcode version. We definitely need to know microcode version your machine is reporting with both packages installed.
Is there any chance that linux-firmware got updated as well? I suspect linux-firmware to be the culprit over intel-microcode.
According to the bios changelog /downloadmirror .intel. com/26841/ eng/SY_ 0061_ReleaseNot es.pdf
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0061 of your bios should already include the microcode that is also available in the intel-microcode package. As such, on boot I'd expect a no-op when checking for newer microcode version. We definitely need to know microcode version your machine is reporting with both packages installed.
Is there any chance that linux-firmware got updated as well? I suspect linux-firmware to be the culprit over intel-microcode.