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Hi XG Community!

We've finished SFOS v17.0.0 GA. We will publish the new release in stages. While we start with a small amount of slots and will increase those over time.

Beside that, the release is available to all SFOS version via MySophos portal without staging.

Sophos Firewall Manager (SFM) and Sophos Central Firewall Manager (CFM) are now compatible with SFOS 17.0.0 GA. A hot-fix has been released for the following SFM versions:

  • SFM 16.1 RC-1
  • SFM 16.5 GA
  • SFM 16.5 MR-1

What's New

Setup, Control Center and Navigation

  • Initial Setup Wizard
  • Synchronized App Control Widget
  • Unified Log Viewer and More Granular Logging
  • How-to Guides

Security and Control

  • Synchronized App Control
  • Web Keyword Monitoring and Enforcement
  • IPS Policy Enhancements and Smart Filters
  • App Control Policy Enhancements and Smart Filters
  • Web Filtering Enhancements
  • Streaming Media Enhancements

Management and Troubleshooting

  • Firewall Rule Management
  • Firewall Rule and Policy Test Simulator

Reporting

  • Synchronized Applications Report
  • Web Keyword Content Report
  • Security Audit Report (SAR)
  • Report Scheduling

Network and VPN

  • IKEv2 Support
  • VPN UI Enhancements
  • Wildcard Support for Domain Name Host Objects
  • NAT Rule Enhancements

Email Protection

  • Smart Host
  • Greylisting
  • Recipient Verification

Synchronized Security

  • Synchronized Security in Discover (TAP) Mode Deployments
  • Synchronized App Control

Deployment and Hardware

  • Microsoft Azure High Availability
  • New Hardware Support
  • Central Management

Notes

IPSec aggressive mode with PSK is no longer supported because of security reasons. This is due to a known weakness of the protocol. With aggressive mode, a hash of the pre-shared key is transmitted in clear-text.

Issues Resolved

  • NC-21736 [Base System] Upload of Azure firmware fails if up2date is larger than 300MB
  • NC-21045 [CR-to-CN_Migration] Support migration from CR10.6.6 to SF v17.0
  • NC-22582 [Firewall] NAT chain failed if DNAT rule configured using wildcard FQDN
  • NC-22657 [Firewall] Cyberoam to SF v17 migration fails when virtual hosts with portforwarding and firewall rule with DNAT are used
  • NC-22508 [IPS] Change button text from “Cancel” to “Don’t Upgrade Yet" in the firmware pop up
  • NC-22664 [IPsec] IPSec local id validation always failes if another connection uses external cert with remote gateway *
  • NC-22385 [Logging] Fix UI issues in new log viewer
  • NC-22523 [Logging] "Firewall Rule ID" label is sometimes displayed wrong as "Policy ID" in Logviewer
  • NC-22570 [Logging] "Copy_to Clipboard" text is added at the end of the log content copied
  • NC-22571 [Logging] Platform column details are not displayed properly under IPS logs
  • NC-22625 [Logging] Content match is not color coded if the match is a date
  • NC-22655 [Logging] Special chars need to be handled in the log viewer filter
  • NC-22656 [Logging] Results which match filter key are also highlighted
  • NC-22685 [Logging] Web filter icon showing red color even log sub type is allowed in some case
  • NC-22691 [Logging] In- and output interface show same name in logviewer standard view 'Firewall' log
  • NC-22612 [Mail Proxy] Control Center widget does not reflect email sandstorm activities
  • NC-22709 [Mail Proxy] SMTP connection issue with high latency mail servers
  • NC-22782 [Network Services] Remove *.cloudefront.net wildcard FQDN host
  • NC-21776 [Networking] MLM methods can be changed in HA via CLI from Auxiliary appliance
  • NC-22619 [Networking] Unicast route is removed from routing table after interface update
  • NC-22431 [nSXLd] Embedded URLs are categorized incorrectly
  • NC-22536 [Reporting] Manual filter is not working for application contain "\ & \\"
  • NC-22699 [Reporting] App details are missing for blocked applications
  • NC-22747 [Reporting] Report drill down stops working when using languages other than English
  • NC-22043 [Synchronized App Control] It is not possible to add new apps to application filter without customization
  • NC-22393 [Synchronized App Control] Synchronized Applications in reports doesn't display details for application
  • NC-22542 [Synchronized App Control] Use filename instead of full path in app list
  • NC-22719 [UI] Logviewer logs are not updated properly when switching between pages
  • NC-22130 [WAF] Issue with TLS settings for virtual webserver
  • NC-22610 [WAF] Logviewer does not show the affected entity name
  • NC-22654 [Web] Captive portal redirection does not work for iOS mobile devices
  • NC-22006 [Wireless] WPA2 KRACK vulnerability fixes (via pattern update)

Downloads

You can find the firmware for your appliance from in MySophos portal.

  • As far As SSLVPN clients,do they require and update post upgrade to this version?

  • For once I think I'll stick with 16.5 until these problems have been ironed out. I'm usually bit by being too trusting in new firmware versions on production equipment :) Several of these bugs would be absolutely devastating to us, so no thanks yet.

  • IPSEC Site-to-site VPN disconnects constantly. Also had the issue with the web GUI, authentication failed messages. Had to revert back to v16 MR8.

  • Update: Seems like the incorrect value in the field "Wait for response upto" under "Dead Peer Detection (DPD)" in the IPsec-Profile was not the real cause to the problem with the random disconnects on my system.

    After the connection was stable for about 3 hours it started to randomly disconnect again.

    Only difference is that the time span between the disconnects is now longer.

    It was about every 2 minutes before I changed the value, now it's something about 30 minutes.

  • I also had random disconnects on one IPSEC-Connection after updating to 17.0.0 GA.

    When I looked at the IPsec-Profile that I use for the connection, I discovered that the field "Wait for response upto" under "Dead Peer Detection (DPD)" was marked red.

    When I clicked on it a warning appeared saying something like "...value has to be between x and y".

    So I changed the value to the recommendations and since then the connection is stable.

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