When can we expect a firmware update for Photon to fix I2C functionality?

[Moors7]

I answered here, before I saw this:

[Howto] Setup photon if docs step fail

A fix is currently being worked on and will be tested shortly. If that works, your best bet is to compile locally using that branch. You don’t really have to know how local compile works, as long as you can follow some relatively easy steps. It’s not a scary as it sounds. That said, there currently isn’t yet an approves I2C fix, so forcing an update wouldn’t make much of a difference. Even if so, you’d probably have to compile your user firmware to the new version as well, for which you’d have …

@wmjenk

I see mention (within the last 5 days) of some firmware updates that happen if your application needs them.

That would be that automatic system firmware upgrade system, which is being worked on very hard. At the very last minute some weird bugs popped up. Those really needed to be fixed before being able to push out the new system.

@wmjenk

When can we expect a firmware update to fix the I2C functionality?

It's being worked on, and tests are probably being done as we speak to test out new fixes.

Any thoughts, @mdma, @christine, @satishgn, @Dave ?