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geojay
Jan 17, 2017Guide
Delay in new ReadyNAS OS version being available for update?
According to https://community.netgear.com/t5/ReadyNAS-Firmware-Release-Notes/ReadyNAS-OS-6-6-1-now-available/m-p/1201427#U1201427 6.6.1 was released on 4th January but only today (17th January) has ...
mdgm-ntgr
Jan 17, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
It was put on the update server last week.
- geojayJan 17, 2017Guide
I'm just curious why there was such a lag before it being announced as being available for download and the update function on the NAS being able to see it? I realise I could have downloaded it as soon as it was available and uploaded it to the NAS...
- StephenBJan 18, 2017Guru - Experienced User
geojay wrote:
I'm just curious why there was such a lag before it being announced as being available for download and the update function on the NAS being able to see it? I realise I could have downloaded it as soon as it was available and uploaded it to the NAS...
It'd be interesting to hear Netgear's take.
My impression is that the lag is a fail-safe - they see if there are any early issues that show up with the manual updates before pushing it out to the masses. That's just my impression though.
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