Some update news! There was a FW16 BIOS 3.05 beta release on 21st November 2024. This release was moved to stable on 5th December 2024.
Here’s the link to its thread:
Framework Laptop 16 Ryzen 7040 BIOS 3.05 Release
For extra context, I think they wrote on the announcement thread for the FW16 BIOS 3.04 beta that it wasn’t ever going to get a stable release, due to the issue about devices being connected to expansion cards during the update installation causing USB3/DP functionality to stop working until they are unplugged and replugged (or something like that).
Also, the BIOS 3.05 thread has a neat form you can use to subscribe via email to get notifications about Framework software updates. You can find it in the “Subscribing to release notifications” section of the post.