I think you misunderstanding.. The user interface is at 1.1.7 can be used with the baseband firmware of 1.1.6 and 99% of things work. There are 2 sides to a firmware update, the User interface and the radio base firmware.?
If you flash the radio with 1.1.6 first, then INSERT ONLY the 1.1.7 SD card, the User interface will update to 1.1.7 (fixing some issues with WFSERVER and other things) "and" the base band firmware will remain at 1.1.6 (stable CAT control and CW decoder)...
The 1.1.7 base band firmware won't install unless you got into radio settings and ask it to.
The 1.1.7 base band break CAT control but fixed battery charging according to Oleg R1CBU. The batter voltage monitoring on 1.1.7 is reported to be finally correct - at the expense of CAT control.
According to FT8CN developer of the FT8 app, Xeigu told him a new firmware is arriving in Springtime ?that will finally fix the bluetooth audio routing issues.
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