2025.3 Update Spotted - First 2025...

[mudito]

So, we might be a couple of weeks away for a new release (spotted in electraFi)

According to my source, 0% chance of CarPlay being introduced on this one. Sorry to disappoint y'all..

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[mpshizzle]

According to my source, 0% chance of CarPlay being introduced on this one. Sorry to disappoint y'all..

Let this be the last we speak of this ?

 

[ThumprMN]

Let this be the last we speak of this ?

What?!? Did someone say CarPlay? ?

 

[COdogman]

 

[3wisemonkeyz]

Fremen support for the Dune edition?

 

[VSG]

Just speculation of course, but I feel 2025.3 is probably just an ad hoc release to support the new Dune Edition. New graphics etc.

The next release is supposed to be 2025.6, so having a new general-purpose release three weeks early is unlikely.

 

[mpshizzle]

The next release is supposed to be 2025.6, so having a new general-purpose release three weeks early is unlikely.

Is there a pattern here of which weeks get a release?? I've always thought it was kind of random what the release number was. All I've seen is generally week 2-3 of the month a new release will pop up on electrafi, then a week or two later it'll be general release - with the number formatting being YYYY.W (meaning this update was originally packaged on week 3 of 2025). Everything thus far seems to be matching their usual cadence unless I've missed something

 

[webfootdawg]

Any notes yet?

 

[VSG]

Is there a pattern here of which weeks get a release??

Absolutely. Going back three years now. Releases are every 4 weeks plus or minus a few days, and are numbered in increments of four based on the "starting" week (not the release week). A new release is "started" the same week the previous one is released.

But there's always an extra few weeks of gap at the beginning of the year, presumably for holiday vacation time. And there has been some (decreasing) irregularity in timing since the summer, when 2024.15 was skipped due to getting Gen2 launched, followed by some variance in the release timing for months after that, but the numbering was still every 4 weeks the entire last year. And the entire 2023. And the entire 2022.

See https://riviantrackr.com/history/

I place less weight on when something shows up on ElectraFi, because that's based on only a subset of beta tester vehicles, and those dates can vary depending on when the update is made available to beta testers and when the test vehicle owner gets around to installing the update. So there's only a fuzzy timeline if you're measuring from when it shows up on ElectraFi. The more reliable timeline is Rivian's own release schedule, which is clearly established to be every four weeks. Of course that may change, but that's the way it's been for three years now, so benefit of the doubt ...

Regardless, we already know about 2025.6 (Wassym announced it...so that's a pretty authoritative source). It's now week 8, so my expectation is we'll see the 2025.6 release in two weeks, at which point they'll open up 2025.10.

There's no reason to think that the 2025.3 release is anything other than a special-purpose release for Dune, because otherwise it would have been released last week and it would have showed up on ElectriFi sometime before that. The fact that we've heard nothing about it until today, two weeks or more from when we should have learned about it, and on the same day when the Dune Edition was released, plus the fact that they did this same sort of special-purpose release for Gen2 before they got back on track, implies, to me, that this is not a general release.

 

[mpshizzle]

Absolutely. Going back three years now. Releases are every 4 weeks plus or minus a few days, and are numbered in increments of four based on the "starting" week (not the release week). A new release is "started" the same week the previous one is released.

But there's always an extra few weeks of gap at the beginning of the year, presumably for holiday vacation time. And there has been some (decreasing) irregularity in timing since the summer, when 2024.15 was skipped due to getting Gen2 launched, followed by some variance in the release timing for months after that, but the numbering was still every 4 weeks the entire last year. And the entire 2023. And the entire 2022.

See https://riviantrackr.com/history/

I place less weight on when something shows up on ElectraFi, because that's based on only a subset of beta tester vehicles, and those dates can vary depending on when the update is made available to beta testers and when the test vehicle owner gets around to installing the update. So there's only a fuzzy timeline if you're measuring from when it shows up on ElectraFi. The more reliable timeline is Rivian's own release schedule, which is clearly established to be every four weeks. Of course that may change, but that's the way it's been for three years now, so benefit of the doubt ...

Regardless, we already know about 2025.6 (Wassym announced it...so that's a pretty authoritative source). It's now week 8, so my expectation is we'll see the 2025.6 release in two weeks, at which point they'll open up 2025.10.

There's no reason to think that the 2025.3 release is anything other than a special-purpose release for Dune, because otherwise it would have been released last week and it would have showed up on ElectriFi sometime before that. The fact that we've heard nothing about it until today, two weeks or more from when we should have learned about it, and on the same day when the Dune Edition was released, plus the fact that they did this same sort of special-purpose release for Gen2 before they got back on track, implies, to me, that this is not a general release.

Interesting - independently I went back and looked and found the 4 week pattern looking at riviantrackr. Incidentally 2025.3 IS perfectly in step w/ that 4 week pattern. What did wassym say about 2025.6? I must have missed that

---EDIT----
I see the article about it on Rivian Trackr - wheel swap options.. Nice!

So.. either they are doing a weird almost back to back SW release, or this is like the 2024.47 update with google cast where the inital wave of reporting go the release number wrong, and the wheel swap is going to be in this one as well

 

[VSG]

Incidentally 2025.3 IS perfectly in step w/ that 4 week pattern

True, but as I said the pattern has *always* been broken at the beginning of the year. One year it was 6 weeks, two other years it was 5 weeks. If you assume this is a holiday break, that would mean this year they cancelled all vacation and forced everyone to keep working in order to start work on 2025.3 exactly 4 weeks after 2024.51?

2025.6 is only 7 weeks after 2024.51, not 5 or 6 like previous years, and I assume the extra week or two is partly because they knew they had to squeeze in a small release for Dune (because the software release schedule needed to accommodate the vehicle launch date, not the other way around.) The software for the Dune release absolutely has to be ready before they ship the vehicles, so if they have to interrupt their regularly scheduled releases so be it. Shipping vehicles on time is far more important. The same thing happened with Gen2.

Planning to *accelerate* the next OTA release just to accommodate Dune would have been poor planning and poor engineering. But that's what they would have had to do to get a general purpose update out before today.

If 2025.3 is just graphics and stuff for the new color and new wheels and perhaps some new control code for the new tonneau, then that could be knocked out fairly quickly without having to skip vacation time - just delay the normal general release by an extra week.

 

[kyledmb]

I'm hoping for Gen2 software bug fixes galore. Specifically fixing the rear display lock, audio clipping in the 100-200hz range, the random "fasten your seatbelt" warning, and the broken motion cam for gear guard.

 

[Tim-in-CA]

Fremen support for the Dune edition?

With spice powered battery propulsion

 

[Dark-Fx]

, 0% chance of CarPlay

Carplay for President! King!

 

[MichaelT80550]

Let this be the last we speak of this ?

Agree!! Put this to rest and move on…

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