Flipper Devices says development of the Flipper Zero firmware will continue, albeit with a smaller internal team and greater reliance on community contributions.
The announcement comes as the gadget maker decided to focus on building new devices, like the Flipper One open Linux platform, for which the company turned to the community’s help to complete development.
There is also the newly launched Busy Bar device, designed to help people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) reduce distractions, slated for open sale on July 14 in the U.S., U.K., Europe, and Canada.
Flipper Devices stated that the official firmware for the Flipper Zero portable pen-testing device will still be maintained, but full-time feature development is now over.
Flipper Zero Firmware 1.0, the first major stable release, was announced in September 2024, following three years of development. The latest official stable release is version 1.4.3, available since December 2025.
At that point, the team felt the firmware had reached maturity, with a stable SDK and APIs and all promised features properly implemented.
In recent interviews and online discussions, the Flipper Devices team gave the impression that firmware development had stopped, triggering a strong backlash from the community.
To appease users, the team has developed a new approach for the project that relies on closer interaction with contributors to keep firmware development moving.
As such, the project will be maintained with limited resources and a new approach to interacting with the community and its contributions:
- Flipper Zero requests will be evaluated on a weekly basis
- Communication with the team will occur only through GitHub Discussions, where new requests will also be voted
- Community pull requests will be accepted, but with stricter review requirements
- Firmware changes will require mandatory integration and regression testing, which will be open to the community
The development team will maintain oversight of the development and will pay particular attention to AI-generated code that touches low-level functions and is hard to verify, as well as to changes that affect the user interface or require documentation changes.
According to the gadget maker, there are now more than one million Flipper Zero users who generate a volume of communication that the company’s small team can’t manage, which is why they disabled direct messages on all social media channels.
All requests will now be submitted to GitHub Discussions and prioritized based on the votes they receive from the community. This will give users the power to choose what comes next on Flipper Zero.
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