Apple releases AirPort Express Firmware 6.1.1, AirPort Extreme Firmware 5.5.1

[Originally posted Monday, December 20th]

Apple has released firmware updates for both AirPort Express and AirPort Extreme Base Stations.

The new AirPort Express release includes all of the new functionality brought by the 6.1 update, as well as these enhancements:

• Hard reset behavior is improved. With this firmware version pressing and holding the reset button for more than 5 seconds will cause the LED to flash rapidly. This visual feedback lets you know you?ve held the button long enough to trigger a hard reset
• Improved reliability of WDS networks when using WPA security. If you had a WDS network secured by WDS and then removed any of the WDS nodes, this could cause a memory leak resulting in the need to reboot your WDS network nodes
• Resolved an issue with inbound passive FTP to a port-mapped computer on the network
• Resolved an issue with certain printers which were no longer recognized by the base station after the 6.1 firmware update was installed. With the 6.1.1 firmware these printers are again recognized by the base station.

The new AirPort Extreme release includes all of the new functionality brought by the 5.5 update, as well as all of the same aforementioned enhancements. Download links are as follows:

• AirPort Extreme Firmware Update 5.5.1 [1.27 MB]
• AirPort Express Firmware Update 6.1.1 [2.7 MB]

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