Canon has released firmware v1.0.1, which addresses some of the bugs that currently present in the camera. Though not all of the bugs we have read about are addressed with this release.

At the time of this post, the firmware update is available at Canon India.

Firmware Version 1.0.1 incorporates the following fixes:

  1. Fixes an issue in which movies captured in RAW/SRAW format may not play back properly on applications due to the attached lens and camera not communicating.
  2. Improves the stability of the touch operation control when the [Touch control] is set to [Sensitive].
  3. Fixes an issue in which the camera's LCD display may become abnormal after the camera resumes operations from the [Viewfinder off] state.
  4. Fixes an issue in which the camera may stop working properly when the shutter button is operated while the BUSY message is being displayed on the screen.
  5. Fixes an issue in which Err70 may be displayed when the display mode is switched between the LCD screen and viewfinder while the BUSY message is being displayed on the screen.
  6. Fixes an issue, in which the camera's LCD display becomes abnormal after using EOS Utility to capture and import movies.
  7. Fixes an issue, in which movies captured using EOS Utility may not be played back on the camera.
  8. Optimizes the auto white balance for specific environments when the Custom Picture function is set to [On].

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  1. Looking through the release notes, I don’t
    think any of those affected me and after updating the camera works just as well as before :)

    While updating the R5II, the phone app informed me that the R8 also has a new firmware.
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  2. Software update available for Canon R5,
    Thanks for the heads up - much appreciated. For us Mac users:
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  3. Canon has released firmware v1.0.1, which addresses some of the bugs that currently present in the camera. Though not all of the bugs we have read about are addressed with this release. At the time of this post, the firmware update is available at Canon India. Firmware Version 1.0.1 incorporates the following fixes: Download Canon

    See full article...
    Very strange. I searched for the Mac version, and it said no Firmware update available. I then searched under All Operating Systems, and it was found then.

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  4. Excuse my ignorance but don\'t macs support zip files?
    They do. But, if you log into the Canon site it automatically detects your operating system and tells you no firmware upgrade available.
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  5. Depending on how I interpret their kind of vague bug descriptions, this might actually fix the super-occasional crashes. I've only had it happen to me 3 times with maybe 40,000 exposures since I got mine, so I wasn't fretting about it. They mention a fixed bug involving the switching between viewfinder and back screen. Unless that was another bug I wasn't aware of, I suspect that kink is fixed.

    -tig

    PS: The early firmware on the Mark I of the R5 had a couple crash bugs that were devilishly hard to track to any specific causality. One odd thing I notice that is similar in this Mark II case versus the Mark I is that the crashes seemed to diminish over time without a firmware fix. Which isn't how electronics work. The few crashes I had with my Mark II were in the first few days, and I haven't had any issue in weeks. Chalked it up to coincidence with my Mark I cameras, but now that the Mark II behaved similarly, I figured I'd point it out as a weird observation. Probably just me.
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  6. They do. But, if you log into the Canon site it automatically detects your operating system and tells you no firmware upgrade available.
    Did it detect yours as macos 11 or the actual version you’re running? It picked 11 for me and manually moving it to 15 showed the firmware.
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  7. Did it detect yours as macos 11 or the actual version you’re running? It picked 11 for me and manually moving it to 15 showed the firmware.
    It detected 10, then I manually moved it to 15 with no success. Canon and Macs have their problems. I have had to set up a separate admin account to install DPP4 and utilities. Utilities 3 now conflicts with Preview and I have to quit that to download.
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  8. Software update available for Canon R6, R6 Mark 2, R8 and others,

    R3, https://sg.canon/en/support/0400989102?model=4895C
    R10, https://sg.canon/en/support/0400989502?model=5331C
    R6, https://sg.canon/en/support/0400988902?model=4082C
    R6 Mark II, https://sg.canon/en/support/0400989702?model=5666C
    R8, https://sg.canon/en/support/0400989902?model=5803C
    R50, https://sg.canon/en/support/0400990102?model=5812C
    R100, https://sg.canon/en/support/0400990302?model=6052C

    Also for the EOS R7:

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  9. Sorry, but usa.canon.com doesn\'t have these firmware updates listed (certainly not for the R7 at of the time of this post). So if THE BEST CANON WEBSITE IN THE WORLD doesn\'t have it, it doesn\'t exist.
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  10. They do. But, if you log into the Canon site it automatically detects your operating system and tells you no firmware upgrade available.

    If you follow the link for each camera and download the firmware file directly to your Mac, you can unzip it. An fir file is an fir file so no problem there. I just did. I'm a little wary to do an update with all the problems in the past, but I got them.
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  11. Kudos for fixing these rare bugs, but it would also be great if Canon homogenized features and user experience.
    Like why does a lower end camera like the R50 and R8 have lens breathing compensation and the R5, R6, R7 and R10 do not?
    Why do the R5 and R6 have older autofocus systems and never got updated - take notes from Fuji.
    Why can the R8 shoot with 1/16000 electronic shutter, and the R5 and R6 cannot although they all run on a Digic X?
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  12. Kudos for fixing these rare bugs, but it would also be great if Canon homogenized features and user experience.
    Like why does a lower end camera like the R50 and R8 have lens breathing compensation and the R5, R6, R7 and R10 do not?
    Why do the R5 and R6 have older autofocus systems and never got updated - take notes from Fuji.
    Why can the R8 shoot with 1/16000 electronic shutter, and the R5 and R6 cannot although they all run on a Digic X?
    I'm asking Canon not to take notes from Fuji, especially regarding AF.

    From what I can see, the R8 would be the ideal camera for you - it ticks a lot of boxes for you.
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