FYI: It appears to be the same versjon. After an erase with cfflasher, then verified that the contents was all F's and the board was "dead". Programmed using the uploaded srec file and got:
dBUG> ver
ColdFire MCF5223 on the M5223EVB
Firmware v4a.1b.1a (Built on Mar 23 2006 11:35:34)
Copyright 2006 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
However, v4a.1b.1a works fine with me.
P.S.
It would be nice if this was included in the kit as well as a dBUG reference manual...