Further investigation reveals that Amazon did release a firmware update to the KK in June: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_navbox_top

Further investigation reveals that Amazon did release a firmware update to the KK in June: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_navbox_top_kindlelg?nodeId=200529700 http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_n... They've still pretty much abandoned the K2 & DX users, but perhaps the userbase for those is so small it isn't worth supporting them: it would probably be cheaper to just send them all new Kindles, but I doubt Amazon will do that...