Reverting firmware updates

Deployed a firmware image that doesn’t quite work? Made a mistake in development and don’t want to remove and reprogram the MicroSD card to go back? No problem. If the previous firmware image worked fine, then just revert back to it.

This is one of those features that has been possible since the beginning of the Nerves project, but we didn’t make it easy. That’s changing.

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Firmware Updates

Firmware updates are an important aspect to all parts of the device lifecycle, not just production. In development, they can save you time not burning SD cards by using mechanisms like pushing firmware bundles over the network. Network updates can also pave the way to automate executing canary tests using real hardware. Firmware updates are important to these stages because they are the only way to modify the contents of the read only filesystem. [Read More]