DJI released aircraft firmware v01.00.1900 for the DJI Air 3S on November 13, 2026, 24 days after the drone’s last update. The release notes have one line under What’s New: “Fixed some known issues.” The update needs DJI Fly v1.21.18 on iOS and Android, and the four controller versions DJI lists are the same ones it listed in October.

DJI’s release notes put the same date on new firmware for six more drones: the DJI Mini 4 Pro, DJI Mini 5 Pro, DJI Mavic 4 Pro, DJI Avata 360, DJI Avata 2 and DJI Neo 2. None of them names a fix. The Mini 4 Pro had gone a year without an update.

At Least Seven DJI Drones Got Fix-Only Firmware on November 13

DJI has release notes dated November 13 for at least seven drones: Air 3S v01.00.1900, Mini 4 Pro v01.00.1200, Mini 5 Pro v01.00.0900, Mavic 4 Pro v01.00.1000, Avata 360 v01.00.0900, Avata 2 v01.00.0600 and Neo 2 v01.00.0900. Each requires DJI Fly v1.21.18 and lists only known-issue fixes.

The notes do differ on what the update does to your settings. The Mini 5 Pro and Mavic 4 Pro notes say camera settings reset after the update. The Avata 360, Avata 2 and Neo 2 notes say flight parameters such as RTH altitude and distance limits may reset.

The Air 3S notes carry no reset warning. Neither do the Mini 4 Pro notes, whose previous entry is v01.00.1100 from November 5, 2025.

The Air 3S Has Gone Seven Releases Without a Named Change

This is the fourth Air 3S firmware of 2026, after April 23, July 30 and October 20, and all four list only known-issue fixes. The last release to name a change was v01.00.0600 on December 5, 2024, which optimized flight performance. That was seven releases ago.

The October 20 release was part of a bigger batch that reached much older drones. The Mini 2 got its first update since March 2023 that day, and the original Avata got its first in nearly three years. US owners can still receive these updates because an FCC waiver for drones on the Covered List runs until at least January 1, 2029.

DroneXL’s Take

Two rounds of firmware in 24 days, across drones as old as the Mini 2, is a lot of maintenance at once, and the release notes don’t say what any of it fixes. My read is that DJI Fly is driving it, because every one of these releases is tied to a new app version and the app has moved from v1.21.16 to v1.21.18 in that time. That’s a guess, and DJI could end the guessing with a real changelog. On Thursday we covered a Matrice 4 owner who says a November 5 update grounded the drone on a third-party battery, and DJI’s notes for that release never mention batteries. Nothing connects that report to these consumer updates, but it shows what a one-line changelog can leave out. Nothing in the Air 3S notes says this update is urgent, so I’d write down my RTH altitude and camera settings first and update when I have time to check them afterward.

Sources: DJI Air 3S release notes, DJI Download Center.

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