Addendum: A little more than a year after purchase (10/2020 - 12/2021) and both bulbs I have used so far flicker and are off, so basically as unreliable as the old version, brighter though... which one doesn't help if they don't work. They are way better than their previous generation LED bulbs which look like corn on the cob, they are better built, way brighter and don't flicker, I use them in an air vent. hood above my stove and they are in fact much better than previous bulbs from the same manufacturer.