Release Notes & News

While many organizations have already upgraded to SFOS v19 to take advantage of all the great new SD-WAN, VPN, and quality-of-life improvements, we know many of you are possibly waiting for the first maintenance release for v19 before jumping in. Our...

Sophos Firewall firmware release follows a process as outlined below to ensure the best upgrade experience for as many devices as possible. If you don’t see a recently announced firmware release in your management console, the below shoul...

Jelan from Sophos Techvids walks you through the new SD-WAN features in Sophos Firewall version 19. SFOS v19 delivers greatly enhanced SD-WAN, VPN, and networking capabilities. In this video, Jelan will demonstrate how to set up an SD-WAN route with ...

Networking has evolved substantially over the last few years with more users working remotely, networks becoming more distributed, and cloud application usage exploding.  Sophos is ensuring you keep pace with new products like ZTNA for remote wo...

The product team is pleased to announce the latest maintenance release update for SFOS with important customer and partner requested features, as well as important security, performance, and reliability fixes. It is a critically important cybersecuri...

Jay from the Techvids Team goes over the fundamentals of the Sophos Connect Client, how to configure it in your environment, as well as best practices when implementing. Watch the full video: https://techvids.sophos.com/watch/MrZuLQPYESebVon9NWf...

Hi Community, The latest maintenance release (MR17) for SFOS v17.5 is now available for XG85(w) and XG105(w) models. What's new in v17.5 MR17: Resolved FragAttack Vulnerabilities discovered in the Wi-Fi specification for all internal and ad...

Sophos Firewall OS v18.5 MR2 (Build 380) is now available and includes a number of great features enhancements, security and performance optimizations, and field reported fixes. We encourage all customers to update their firewall to the latest firmwa...

Last year, we launched the new and greatly improved Sophos Connect v2 VPN client, therefore we are now announcing the End-of-Life of the old Sophos SSL VPN client for Windows effective January 31, 2022. Sophos SSL VPN clients will continue to functio...

Follow Jay in this two-part series as he goes over the fundamentals and configurations of High Availability. In part 1: Jay goes over the fundamentals and pre-requisites that you need to know before diving right into the configuration of High Availab...

As part of the continual refinement of our hardware products, Sophos Firewall v18.5 MR1-1 (Build 365) optimizes performance for the XGS 4300, XGS 4500, XGS 5500 and XGS 6500 models via an Xstream Flow Processor driver update. Optimization in v18.5 MR...

Hi Community! We have released RED firmware pattern update version 3.0.007. The firmware is immediately available for download and update. This is a maintenance release with several important security updates. A number of RED firmware components...

Sophos (XG) Firewall v18 Maintenance Release 6 is packed with bug fixes, troubleshooting enhancements and security fixes. What's new in v18 MR6: Resolved FragAttack Vulnerabilities recently discovered in the Wi-Fi specification for all int...

With all the enhancements over the last two years in Sophos Firewall v18.x, we are announcing the End-of-Life (EoL) of SFOS firmware v17.5 for all devices except the XG 85(w) and XG 105(w). The EoL for SFOS v17.5 will be effective Nov 30, 2021. End-o...

The product team is pleased to announce that v18.5 MR1 is now available. v18.5 MR1 is available for all SFOS form factors – XGS Series, XG Series, Virtual and Software appliances as well as all supported cloud platforms. SFOS v18.5 MR1 inc...

Hallo zusammen, Auf vielfachen Wunsch haben wir unserer Sophos (XG) Firewall-Community einen neuen Bereich hinzugefügt, in dem sich unsere deutschsprachigen Kunden und Partner austauschen können. https://community.sophos.com/sophos-xg-...

Hi Community!  The AP firmware 11.0.016 has been released for Sophos Firewall OS (SFOS). This pattern update has a fix for the recently discovered Wi-Fi vulnerabilities AKA FragAttacks.  In addition to the...

Sophos Firewall is now available as HA and AA deployment options from the AWS marketplace to support redundancy and zero downtime for your cloud deployments. Deployment models High Availability (HA) The goal of this deployment model is to increase av...

The product team is pleased to announce the early access program for SFOS v18.5 MR1 for all Sophos Firewall devices. v18.5 MR1 is available for all SFOS form factors – XGS Series, XG Series, Virtual and Software appliances as well as all suppor...

Hi Community! We have released RED firmware pattern update version 3.0.006. The firmware is immediately available for download and update. News:Maintenance Release Bugfixes: NRF-498 [Firmware] Provide Debug logging to Memory Sticks on SD-RED de...

Hi Community, The latest maintenance release (MR16) for SFOS v17.5 is now available! Important Issues Resolved in v17.5 MR16 NC-59149 [API Framework] CSC hangs as all 16 workers remains busy NC-59709 [Authentication] SSL-VPN RA authentication fail...

Hearing a lot about the all-new Sophos Firewall? Join Chris McCormack, Senior Product Marketing Manager of Sophos as he answers burning questions about the exciting updates and competitive advantage of the Sophos XGS Series Firewalls. This is a ...

The high-end 1U and 2U XGS Series models have started to arrive in some of our warehouses and will soon be available to order. As soon as the SKU status has changed, you will be able to quote and place orders for these models. Existing XGS Series cus...

Hi Community! We have released RED firmware pattern update version 3.005. This release is available for SFOS 18.0 MR5 and 18.5 GA. This release includes fixes for the following issues: NRF-429: Slow speed through SD-RED 60 NRF-445: RED is not a...