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> Or shall we have the same firmware filename and simply query
> the firmware for a map of capabilities? Any other ideas?

Don't put the version into the filename. This is not a common 
practice for Linux / BSD / whatever systems. Usually you have 
a "kmail" file, not a kmail3.5, kmail4.0 and kmail4.2 file.

Versions or capability maps can be stored inside the firmware and 
queried at load time. E.g. the libertas driver does it that way.

If you make your firmware redistributable (which I recommend), 
the version will also be stored in the package metadata, e.g. 
the rpm or deb file and the infrastructure for rpm/yum deb/apt.

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