Interesting question, when the my question isn't about a fault and I wasn't planning to raise one for it, this is more a Service Request. ?
Thanks for asking tho, although I don't expect a resolution without an upgrade to 7.7.1, which is the minimum am I hoping for not a workaround.
* On the Touch : It continually demands to upgraded by the linkstation, on connecting it requests a firmware upgrade (Which is actually a downgrade! to 7.5.1)
* the Touch I believe is causing the linkstation to run in safe mode....not sure if thats because of the firmware difference, all I know is if I force it to take it out of safe mode, the linkstation squeezeserver crashes when connected to by the the touch.
* these problems don't occur on Windows running 7.7.1 and nor Ubuntu nor Readynas. I believe the other soho nas providers are on 7.6.* with an active community support.
This is the reason for my request, when will QV/WV catch up. If there are no plans to release an upgrade on the Linkstation, I will look for an alternative, or go down the customised root which I believe is being worked on elsewhere.