Confusing firmware updates

Passport
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When seeking to update firmware, Im up with a puzzle.

  1. The firmware update page offers me two update possibilities: Passport and Founders Edition. This is very confusing since the device is called Foundation Passport (yes I know “founders edition” and “foundation” are different, but not much there is plenty of room for confusion here). Which one I have? Where can I check it?

  2. The Github page where the update page links to shows that latest version is “Passport v1.1.0 Firmware”…strange, I thought it was 2.3.5 version?

  3. The Github page (if you go down of the tree, shows a folder that have this strange “passport2” folder…so is my passport device this passport2 in fact? Im not talking about software here, the device being named as passport2 makes me think that there is passport1 device (like, well Foundation Passport) and passport2 device (like, well Passport Prime maybe)! Is there? What does this mean? If software, then why is it named like this and where did the Software 1.1.0 dissappear now?

This is all very confusing. Im really not sure what or where I really should download and install to get the proper firmware and what do all these things even mean.

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Hey, @anonfinn

The most easy way to follow your device’s firmware updated version is by using Envoy and look for updates as soon as they arrive.

As for the options your mentioned, the firmware update page is up to date and is a great place to look for the manually way to update your device.
The GitHub page you linked for is from 2022, which is out dated and used for the previous generation of Passport. Passport Founder’s Edition repositoy been arcvhied and not used anymore.
The third link is FOUNDATION’s GitHub page with all of the repositories been built by them. Passport Founder’s Edition was the first generation of Passport and isn’t being sold anymore, Passport 2 is the current version and is called just “Passport”; If you want to follow firmware versions of it on GitHub you can use this page.

The current version of Passport firmware is 2.3.5, both for Passport and for Founder’s Edition.

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