> TL;DR: We've allocated resources to maintain Flipper Zero firmware and support community contributions.

Is that the tldr? It sure sounds like it's still on minimal life support.

It is. As the article says, all development goals for FZ had been achieved and even overachieved - providing solid and feature-rich firmware, powerful SDK and developer tools. With that and development shift towards new products, updates to core firmare became infrequent - and we tried to address that.

Src: I'm one of the developers behind Flipper Zero.

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jagged-chisel 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why can't something be "done"?

	▲	bigiain an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Especially since, as that article describes, the "firmware" has a much more limited scope that it used to, now being mostly a loader for app rather that providing user functions. Worrying about firmware development resources for a Flipper Zero seems a bit like concentrating on your bios instead of ongoing updates to Linux and the applications you use. Yeah, it's important, but it's probably exceedingly rare for the firmware here to need to change much.
	▲	busymom0 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Was just reading something along those lines: https://infosec.exchange/@millie/115719943870742405 > We need to normalize declaring software as finished. Not everything needs continuous updates to function. In fact, a minority of software needs this. Most software works as it is written. The code does not run out of date. I want more projects that are actually just finished, without the need to be continuously mutated and complexified ad infinitum.

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ActorNightly an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Why would you need any support for things that are fully open source and flashable yourself?

Most everyone who has a flipper runs something like Unleashed firmware, and most of the functionality is in the apps that people built, not in the actual firmware.