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ScooterC5 Posted at 2017-3-7 22:04
I'm actually surprised that either one of these companies even allow the software to run on non-tested firmwares. They should really lock the software to the latest 'tested' firmware or earlier. Once they test the software to work with the latest firmware release, they can then unlock the software (via an update) to work with that firmware. Granted, users should be aware not to use the software until they have confirmation from the vendor that it works with the latest firmware, but this method of locking the software would at least mitigate a lot of risk. No need for urgent bulletins hoping people see it before it's too late.
Being in the "firmware" game myself on different things, the challenge is that even if the developers of Litchi and Autopilot are given the beta or pre-releases of new firmware to test, they can only test so many different use cases before DJI is ready to release the firmware to the "wild". It would be difficult to say that a small handful of people using the new firmware will cover all cases.
I suspect that these vendors are forced into this mass email approach because once DJI releases the new firmware, thousands of users almost immediately upgraded. Many more then were tested by the developers.
While I hope Litchi and Autopilot would find the obvious problems quickly (again, assuming DJI provides them beta versions of the firmware), they won't catch everything. |
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