Firmware releases
Release strategy
- Each year comes a long-term support (LTS) release which will be supplied with security enhancement and bug fixes (if necessary).
- Each quarter follows a feature release with additional capabilities.
- Those feature releases always contain the former features in full, so you can adapt your projects to new releases easily.
- Newer features will be included in the following LTS release.
This gives you the opportunity to develop your application or app always with the latest features.
Note: For applications, Phoenix Contact recommends to depend on LTS releases only, especially for applications related to certain approvals which always are examined for LTS releases only. For details, see the according Applications facet on PLCnext Control product pages.
Firmware releases on devices
Note: In the following table feature releases up to 2023.9 are left out intentionally. They are still available in the Firmware section of the product page on phoenixcontact.com. For easy access to the product page, use the links at the item no. in the table below. Those links lead you to that section for each product.
| PLCnext Control | 2019.0 LTS |
2020.0 LTS |
2021.0 LTS |
2022.0 LTS |
2023.0 LTS |
2024.0 LTS |
2024.6 | 2025.0 | 2025.6 | 2025.9 | 2026.0 LTS |
| AXC F 1152 (item no. 1151412) |
no product | ✔ (2020.0.1 LTS) |
✔ (2021.0.5 LTS) |
✔ (2022.0.8 LTS) |
✔ (2023.0.7 LTS) |
✔ (2024.0.9 LTS) |
✔ (2024.6.1) |
✔ (2025.0.3) |
✔ (2025.6.0) |
– | coming soon |
| AXC F 1252 (item no. 1646469) |
no product | no product | no product | no product | no product | no product | no product | no product | ✔ (2025.6.1) |
– | ✔ (2026.0.1 LTS) |
| AXC F 2152 (item no. 2404267) |
✔ (2019.0.4 LTS) |
✔ (2020.0.1 LTS) |
✔ (2021.0.5 LTS) |
✔ (2022.0.10 LTS) |
✔ (2023.0.7 LTS) |
✔ (2024.0.9 LTS) |
✔ (2024.6.1) |
✔ (2025.0.3) |
✔ (2025.6.0) |
– | coming soon |
| AXC F 3152 (item no. 1069208) |
no product | no product | ✔ (2021.0.5 LTS) |
✔ (2022.0.8 LTS) |
✔ (2023.0.7 LTS) |
✔ (2024.0.9 LTS) |
✔ (2024.6.1) |
✔ (2025.0.3) |
✔ (2025.6.0) |
– | ✔ (2026.0.1 LTS) |
| RFC 4072S (item no. 1051328) |
✔ (2019.0.0 LTS) |
✔ (2020.0.0 LTS) |
✔ (2021.0.6 LTS) |
✔ (2022.0.8 LTS) |
✔ (2023.0.7 LTS) |
✔ (2024.0.9 LTS) |
– | ✔ (2025.0.3) |
– | – | ✔ (2026.0.1 LTS) |
| RFC 4072R (item no. 1136419) |
no product | no product | no product | ✔ (2022.0.6 LTS) |
✔ (2023.0.7 LTS) |
✔ (2024.0.9 LTS) |
– | – | ✔ (2025.6.0) |
✔ (2025.9.0) |
✔ (2026.0.1 LTS) |
| BPC 9102S (item no. 1246285) |
no product | no product | no product | ✔ (2022.0.8 LTS) |
✔ (2023.0.7 LTS) |
✔ (2024.0.9 LTS) |
– | ✔ (2025.0.3) |
✔ (2025.6.0) |
✔ (2025.9.3) |
✔ (2026.0.1 LTS) |
| BPC 9202S (item no. 1839159) |
no product | no product | no product | no product | no product | no product | no product | no product | ✔ (2025.6.0) |
✔ (2025.9.3) |
✔ (2026.0.1 LTS) |
| EPC 1502 (item no. 1185416) |
no product | no product | ✔ (2021.0.7 LTS) |
✔ (2022.0.7 LTS) |
✔ (2023.0.6 LTS) |
✔ (2024.0.9 LTS) |
– | – | – | – | – |
| EPC 1522 (item no. 1185423) |
no product | no product | ✔ (2021.0.7 LTS) |
✔ (2022.0.7 LTS) |
✔ (2023.0.6 LTS) |
✔ (2024.0.9 LTS) |
– | – | – | – | – |
| PLCnext Engineer Simulation for AXC F xx52 devices (item no. 1046008) |
no product |
no product | no product | ✔ (2022.0.2 LTS) |
✔ (2023.0.4 LTS) |
– | – | ✔ (2025.0.4) |
– | – | coming soon |
| Virtual PLCnext Control 1000 | 2000 | 3000 and VL3 UPC 2440 EDGE (item nos. see Product range) |
no product |
no product | no product | no product |
no product | no product | no product | ✔ (2025.0.0) |
✔ (2025.6.0) |
– | coming soon |
Firmware updates
In the Firmware facet of the Downloads section of your device's product page on phoenixcontact.com you can always download all available firmware releases free of charge and without login to the website. For easy access to the product page, use the links at the item no. in the table below. Those links lead you to that section for each product.
- Download the Change Notes from the product page (see Hardware documentation for direct links)
- or open that .pdf file from the downloaded firmware .zip package
To update the firmware, see Operating system: Firmware Update.