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Post subject: Mustang (v.2) 2.2 Firmware Date?
Posted: Thu May 12, 2016 11:37 am
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Contrary to what I thought, the current Mustang v.2 Version 2.2 firmware may be older than 2014. I am unable to find any specific version date information on Fender's site. The support area info only states that version 2.2 is the current version.

Nonetheless, when using Remuda to interrogate the amp's firmware the date of July 26, 2013 is displayed!

I'm not a frequent FUSE user. Does FUSE display the amp's firmware release date?

In an attempt to answer the question, I downloaded the zip file from Fender's site with the hope that the File Mgr utility on this Samsung Android Tablet would show the detail date of the zip file's content. Sadly the the File Manager on this tablet is not as robust as that on my PC. Thus, when I attempted to view the original file date of the version 2.2 firmware contained in the downloadable zip file, only today's date appears.

Does anyone have a moment to look at this with their PC, and post the date they see?

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Post subject: Re: Mustang (v.2) 2.2 Firmware Date?
Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 6:03 am
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I downloaded the zip file, and for the zip file itself, it showed today's date as the creation date. The .upd file, however, shows a creation date of 2/28/2014. Hope this helps. This was the update file for a Mustang III v.2.

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Post subject: Re: Mustang (v.2) 2.2 Firmware Date?
Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 11:24 am
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Thanks, Erik!

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Post subject: Re: Mustang (v.2) 2.2 Firmware Date?
Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 5:21 pm
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I'll you had to do is look at the sticky at the top of this page for the 2.2 firmware. That post announcing it was made in april 2014, so it;s very unlikely that it came out very far from that date. They likely posted it within a few days or weeks of it's release.


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Post subject: Re: Mustang (v.2) 2.2 Firmware Date?
Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 2:01 am
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ErikM wrote:
I downloaded the zip file, and for the zip file itself, it showed today's date as the creation date.

That's because there is no support for transferring the creation date or change date of a file, so your computer defaults to setting "now" as the time when it saves it.
(The modification date is part of web transfers and can be preserved, but very few web browsers do it.)


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Post subject: Re: Mustang (v.2) 2.2 Firmware Date?
Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 2:40 am
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oczad wrote:
I'll you had to do is look at the sticky at the top of this page for the 2.2 firmware. That post announcing it was made in april 2014, so it;s very unlikely that it came out very far from that date. They likely posted it within a few days or weeks of it's release.


This is a false assumption, which may or may not be correct, depending on the post.
In the past, Fender has modified their posts about release notes, and the phpBB software used here does not update the posting date when a post is modified. This was pointed out before, when a post from Fender with the latest release information was dated over a year before the software it described...

At any rate, the date inside the firmware itself is "Feb 10 2014".


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Post subject: Re: Mustang (v.2) 2.2 Firmware Date?
Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 11:16 am
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Regardless of what they may indicate regarding Fender's development of the Mustangs, there are several different dates!

The most recent may be the February 2014 and April 2014 events regarding the version 2.2 Firmware. Nonetheless, from Remuda's developer: "That {July 26, 2013} date comes straight from the startup packets sent by the Amp. It is presented as an ASCII character string, so right or wrong, it is what I receive." This date may be a sediment date reflecting the original base v.2 units. Both Mustangs I have are v.2 (MIII/MIV), purchased new long after firmware verison 2.2 was released and contained 2.2 Firmware installed from the factory.

Not that the above information matters much, but information is now out there.

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