diff --git a/.github/scripts/check-commit.sh b/.github/scripts/check-commit.sh
index d45ac6ff..b15c571d 100755
--- a/.github/scripts/check-commit.sh
+++ b/.github/scripts/check-commit.sh
@@ -91,11 +91,6 @@ dir="tools"
 branches=("master" "dev")
 search
 
-submodules=("firesim")
-dir="sims"
-branches=("master" "main" "dev" "1.13.x")
-search
-
 submodules=("fpga-shells")
 dir="fpga"
 branches=("main")
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 91aa07ef..0d68cf77 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -23,9 +23,8 @@ Chipyard is actively developed in the [Berkeley Architecture Research Group][ucb
 ## Resources
 
 * Chipyard Stable Documentation: https://chipyard.readthedocs.io/
-* Chipyard (x FireSim) Tutorial: https://fires.im/tutorial
-* Chipyard Basics slides: https://fires.im/isca22-slides-pdf/02_chipyard_basics.pdf
-* Chipyard Tutorial Exercise slides: https://fires.im/isca22-slides-pdf/03_building_custom_socs.pdf
+* Chipyard (x FireSim) Tutorial: https://fires.im/tutorial-recent/
+* Chipyard Basics slides: https://fires.im/asplos23-slides-pdf/02_chipyard_basics.pdf
 
 ## Need help?
 
@@ -74,6 +73,7 @@ These additional publications cover many of the internal components used in Chip
         * **FASED**: D. Biancolin, et al., *FPGA'19*. [PDF](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~biancolin/papers/fased-fpga19.pdf).
         * **Golden Gate**: A. Magyar, et al., *ICCAD'19*. [PDF](https://davidbiancolin.github.io/papers/goldengate-iccad19.pdf).
         * **FirePerf**: S. Karandikar, et al., *ASPLOS'20*. [PDF](https://sagark.org/assets/pubs/fireperf-asplos2020.pdf).
+        * **FireSim ISCA@50 Retrospective**: S. Karandikar, et al., *ISCA@50 Retrospective: 1996-2020*. [PDF](https://sites.coecis.cornell.edu/isca50retrospective/files/2023/06/Karandikar_2018_FireSim.pdf)
 * **Tools**
     * **Chisel**: J. Bachrach, et al., *DAC'12*. [PDF](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/chisel-dac2012.pdf).
     * **FIRRTL**: A. Izraelevitz, et al., *ICCAD'17*. [PDF](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8203780).
diff --git a/docs/Chipyard-Basics/Initial-Repo-Setup.rst b/docs/Chipyard-Basics/Initial-Repo-Setup.rst
index 610c7c6d..af57d6da 100644
--- a/docs/Chipyard-Basics/Initial-Repo-Setup.rst
+++ b/docs/Chipyard-Basics/Initial-Repo-Setup.rst
@@ -27,15 +27,8 @@ Conda allows users to create an "environment" that holds system dependencies lik
 
 .. Note:: Chipyard can also run on systems without a Conda installation. However, users on these systems must manually install toolchains and dependencies.
 
-First, Chipyard requires Conda to be installed on the system.
-Please refer to the `Conda installation instructions <https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/#download>`__ on how to install Conda with the **Miniforge** installer.
-Afterwards, verify that Conda is a sufficient version (we test on version 4.12.0 but higher is most likely fine).
-
-.. Note:: If you have installed conda separately from this documentation (i.e. from miniconda or full Anaconda), please ensure you follow https://conda-forge.org/docs/user/introduction.html#how-can-i-install-packages-from-conda-forge to use ``conda-forge`` packages without any issues.
-
-.. code-block:: shell
-
-    conda --version # must be version 22.11.1 or higher
+First, Chipyard requires the latest Conda to be installed on the system.
+Please refer to the `Conda installation instructions <https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/#download>`__ on how to install the latest Conda with the **Miniforge** installer.
 
 After Conda is installed and is on your ``PATH``, we need to install a version of ``git`` to initially checkout the repository.
 For this you can use the system package manager like ``yum`` or ``apt`` to install ``git``.
diff --git a/sims/firesim b/sims/firesim
index 56d30d55..7cade060 160000
--- a/sims/firesim
+++ b/sims/firesim
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 56d30d5536bdb1bcf6167103bd236b79d3cbd992
+Subproject commit 7cade06041e372f103c1b22fbb49aeb525aed871