[Vocabulary] released in production

[jirickova]

Hello,
I am a bit confused about "released in production" in the following sentence: [FONT=&quot]Please be informed that a new Firmware for the DataCOLD 250 is now available and will be released in production in a few weeks.
Does it means that the production will only be started within few weeks or that the new firmware will be already launched, marketed within few weeks. The latter seems more probable to me.
Thanks for suggestions,

Marketa.
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[magimagicE]

Perhaps, it means something along these lines:

Please be informed that a new beta firmware for the DataCOLD 250 is now available and the production version will be released in a few weeks.

or,

Please be informed that a new firmware for the DataCOLD 250 is now available and will be released into production models in a few weeks.