[viraptor]

> ... Updating our tooling to automatically open issues for the team when new firmware updates are available will force us to review the changelogs against our environment.

That's an awesome idea. I wish all companies published the firmware releases in simple rss feeds, so everyone could easily integrate them with their trackers.

(If someone's bored, that may be a nice service actually ;) )

[vhost-]

This was one of the toughest things about admining hardware clusters. Firmware updates (and firmware issues) are so hard to track down. It's so annoying. I remember spending a week tracking down an issue with a RAID controller and then spending another day or two on the phone with the vendor trying to get a firmware update so we did not have 2 racks of hardware sitting on a ticking time-bomb.

[Cthulhu_]

I've played with the idea of some automated software update reporting site ages ago - it'd read rss feeds and scrape websites for the required info. It'd probably need adjustments for each hardware manufacturer / product though, and regular updating. But that could possibly be part of an open source project, give the firmware maintainers the opportunity to help out too.