Ah good to know. I wasn't following the other branch. My firmware progression since the end of last year has been 2023.27.7 (FSD v11.4.7.3) --> 2023.44.30.6 (FSD v11.4.9) --> 2023.44.30.7 --> 2023.44.30.8 --> 2023.44.30.25 (FSD v12.3.0) (downloaded but not installed yet). How significant are the improvements in the latest 2024.x firmware relative to our branch?
For the TLDR; crowd: It's a mixed bag.
If one goes over to
TeslaFi.com Firmware Tracker, lets it load, you'll see the 2024.2.whatever and the 2024.8.whatever releases. If one clicks on one of those releases at the top of the page, that'll take one to the teslafi page on that particular release; there's a release notes link that'll take one from there to
Tesla Software Updates & Release Notes - Latest Tesla Updates for that particular release, then one can scroll down through the nifty stuff that they're adding.
There's One Time Charge Limits, Danger Spots, Speed Cameras, fixes for the wiper washing functions, and it goes on and on. Nice stuff.
But none of that is FSD-b, where the car is driving itself around, more or less, with supervision.
FWIW, this is how it's been (Everybody Else getting nifty, shiny new stuff, but FSD-b getting newer, more capable software) for a looonnnggg time. Twice or thrice a year the FSD-b stuff gets caught up with shiny stuff that everybody else is getting.
Of course, all of the above is based upon observation and Whatever It Is That Tesla Did That Time. If they decide to change tactics, well, then that's on them.