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It's not clear what's happening on Amazon's webpage with the dx. When you click on the Kindle section in the upper left hand corner of the website, it isn't listed. However, when you click on any of the individual Kindles, it appears in the comparison table, and if you click on the DX from there, it takes you to a page to order the DX. Nothing on that page suggests that it is discontinued, unsupported, or an older version of the firmware.
Secondly, those of us here are "in the know"- we talk about K2, K3, K4, etc. Nowhere is that terminology used by Amazon itself, though. In fact, software version is NOT listed on the comparison table. So, if I wasn't following MobileRead, I wouldn't know which Kindle has which software on it, because that isn't reported on Amazon's website.
For what it's worth, that's actually why I ended up here. After the new K3 came out, I looked on Amazon's website, saw that there was also a new DX, and said, hey, the bigger screen will be more useful since I mostly read pdfs. Since they were both listed as "latest generation", I expected them to have the same software. (I'm not going to argue about whether that was reasonable or not.) When I was trying to figure out why my DX couldn't handle password protected pdfs, I ended up here, which is how I found out that "latest generation" for the DX meant second generation software, but for the 6th inch Kindle "latest generation" meant third generation software (at the time).
Now, I would like to note that the DX page no longer says "latest generation". The upshot is, in my humble opinion, that Amazon ought to add a column to the table for "software version", instead of relying on people to find sites like this to find out.
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