[BionicGecko]

Originally Posted by mergen3107

https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/20...17-1-released/

5.17.1 is out, but not for Scribe yet.

Nothing to note, really

Thanks for sharing the link. I do find this change slightly thought-provoking:

General Improvement: The “Whispersync for Books” setting within Device Options is now simply called “Sync”. There is no change to the underlying synchronization functionality.

I somehow find this revealing of the mindset at Amazon; the cloud services are no longer something special, just a “sync” you would expect from any modern device. This feels in line with the apparent decision to remove the Download and Transfer Via USB functionality from the new models.


This is perhaps interesting as well:

There’s actually two different 11th gen Kindles now, a 2022 version and a 2024 version, so that’s going to make things confusing moving forward. Will they have different links for firmware downloads? Mine arrived with software version 5.16.20.0.2, which was never available for the 2022 model.

It seems at least some of the new basic Kindles did ship with an unpublished, non-dot-zero version; I wonder what’s behind that, and more generally, the sharp jump from version 5.16.10.0.1 to 5.16.21 in officially released firmwares.