This message is old so not sure if you already found your answer, but if you buy EPAS-4 V24, it will work on a controller with firmware version 22. The only thing you have to take care of is if you a altering or handling the program file for someone else that maybe has an older version of EPAS-4. For example, if someone gives you a EPAS-4 project file and he uses EPAS-4 version 22 and then you open the file with EPAS-4 V24 and save the file, the person with V22 will not be able to open the file anymore.