Zwave firmware upgrade- what is it supposed to be fixing or adding?

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I just noticed that a Zwave firmware upgrade is available when I go to the Zwave details page. I believe the last Zwave firmware upgrade I did was well over a year ago when they finally fixed some of the longstanding bugs from the original release years ago.
I cant find anything stating what the upgrade revision is or what issues it will solve by downloading.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to see what this latest firmware upgrade is fixing?

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I believe it might be buried somewhere in there. Not positive.

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Yup...

Related to this:

Moving to Z-Wave JS is optional, and only recommended on C8-Pro hubs...its memory requirements can cause problems on other HE hubs.

And this may help...

https://community.hubitat.com/t/zwave-vs-zwavejs-questions/149990

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The release notes from SiLabs can be found here:

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To add a bit to danabw's post, here's a post some info from Bryan that details the version recommendation by hub...

link was to a beta post, so here's a copy/paste instead

"Because C-7 (700 series) is already on the recommended firmware version (7.18).

C-8/C-8 PRO (800 series) is recommended to be on 7.22."

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That page is restricted (possibly beta testers only?).

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Aaaaargh, when am I going to learn to check for that ??? :rofl:

I'll edit above post... one sec

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Oh but we enjoy your post gyrations so. :wink:

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Setting timer for @JasonJoel to pop in and say something about 7.23.x.

:wink: :rofl: I am so funny. :slight_smile:

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:man_shrugging:

I'm not even running 7.23.x on my main zwave js dev hub, so I don't REALLY know if it fixes anything or not.

But others in the zwave js forums and the SiLabs tissue tracking thread have reported it helped them, and the issue SiLabs cites as fixed in the release notes is the jammed issue tracking # - so it "should" help.

Who knows? I have 110 zwave items and never see jammed messages at all - I used to get thme a lot <7.22.x. So it's not like I can really test it.

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Thanks everyone for your quick replies. I am not nearly as technical as some of you folks. To the point that if my C7 Hub is asking to upgrade to new Zwave firmware, I would hope that would be because it is the right thing to do for that Hub.
From what I can gather from your responses , specifically from @hydro311 , if I have a C7 then I shouldnt upgrade but for my C8 I could (should?)

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I'm waiting for Zooz to make it available for the ZST39 and ZAC93. Rumors are that they will be releasing it within a few weeks.

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Probably. A beta has been available on request for a while, but it might have been 7.23.0... And I never install .0 firmware unless I have zero other options.

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Update the C8, I would not worry about it (yet) on the C7. where you are better off not using Z-WaveJS at this point.

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A C7 hub will not offer the 7.22 update at all, what it should be offering you is the 7.18 update which dropped a while back. 7.18 is the recommended zwave radio firmware for a 700 series radio chip.

Ignore everything else everyone has said, they assumed you had a C8 and enabled the new ZWaveJS feature, which then allows the 7.22 update on C8 hubs only.

Please see this info and the linked instructions. You can use the endpoint to confirm your current version before attempting the update. Post the output here if you are not sure how to read it.

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