January 1, 2021

#86 - Siemens new firmware release for S7-1500 and ET-200 CPUs

A few days ago Siemens released a new firmware version v2.8.3 for their S7-1500 and ET-200 CPUs. The details and files can be found on the following link.

Upgrading firmware is part of the activities typically performed by automation engineers, and it is a good opportunity to correct bugs on the devices, improve their performance and cyber-security, but also to have new functionalities on these devices.

Some of the changes are described on the link above under the section "Enhancement of the user experience" and the STEP7 software version required to perform this update is v16 or higher, as described here.

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