Are updates that rare now that a thread needs to be made when there's a new one?
If so then I don't know why people pay for these things if you don't even get updated more than once a month. I suppose they're trying to join up with blockchain.com and they have their ledger blue so they're a bit distracted but still they should have enough money to put on as many useful updates as possible. They're not adding any altciins yet either based on that article which is a bit disappointing, just preparing for some reason.
It is a firmware update, it makes no sense to update firmware every month. People pay for these things to prevent events like recent Electrum hack or any other desktop/online wallet hack. Ledger could be bought for 50 $ recently, and this can only be good investment for anyone who is concerned for security of coins.
Ledger is just made hardware wallet for blockchain.com, and that is good for security of their users - they will be able to trade with coins direct from hardware wallet, means no hacking/phishing of such user. Ledger is currently supports 1136 coins/tokens :
https://www.ledger.com/pages/supported-crypto-assetsWhat's interesting to me regarding to this firmware :
Additionally, the 1.5 firmware version is the first release to have been fully evaluated against the CSPN certification. CSPN stands for “Certification de Sécurité de Premier Niveau” (First Level Security Certification) and is issued by ANSSI, the French National Security Agency.
We expect the CSPN certification of the Ledger Nano S to be issued in the coming weeks, and we’ll come back with an announcement, including more details on this important milestone.
This means Ledger will have a certificate from French version of NSA.