XG Firewall - Roadmap?

Forgot to put a follow up/bump here, on the road to XGv18 in two years.

SFOS 17.1.3 MR-3 released these days. Bug fix mostly.

Paul Jr

Hey Paul,

V17.5.b is supposed to be due this week.

Ian

Agreed, but I'm still holding out hope that Sophos will provide a single overview of bugs/features and their planned release. In other words, a roadmap. At the moment that information is all over the place and probably incomplete.

Hurray - another tidbit about 17.5 MR4:

Hello Val,

It does seem that the fix was not implemented on the previous MR. Your issue could be relavent for failed update from the logs on your system. We expect the fix in 17.5 MR-4 and it should be out by end of this month. 

Could you provide us access to your machine by enabling Support Access and PM me the ID, so I may have a quick look and diagnose the issue? 

REF:NC-40983

Regards,

Aditya Patel
Community Support Engineer | Sophos Technical Support

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25th of March and counting ... For those looking for a little thrill ...

Paul Jr

Just to keep the thrill alive :)

Two days left, and we are in April ... 

Paul Jr

My guess is Monday. 

Oh !!! LuCar Toni has a very good sense of humor after all ...

So we will get the SFOS v17.5.4 MR-4 on April Fool's day ?

Paul Jr

Now after midday, no sign of mr4.

Ian

It's 8am in Denmark, we´re still opportunistic ;-)

https://community.sophos.com/products/xg-firewall/b/xg-blog/posts/sfos-17-5-mr4-released

Ok.  That really was on the first of April.

The list of bugs fixes is particularly long and concern quite extensively mails and web filtering. Backups are being forced to have a password.  I would have preferred and "opt-out" button.

Besides that, not much new functions.

Installed on XG105 and XG210. Haven't see anything wrong after few hours. But our setup is simple since we are not using anything related to mails (mail gateway is back with Symantec), we have a single VPN, an only a single business rules.  Beware, milage may vary.

Paul Jr 

Ok.  That really was on the first of April.

The list of bugs fixes is particularly long and concern quite extensively mails and web filtering. Backups are being forced to have a password.  I would have preferred and "opt-out" button.

Besides that, not much new functions.

Installed on XG105 and XG210. Haven't see anything wrong after few hours. But our setup is simple since we are not using anything related to mails (mail gateway is back with Symantec), we have a single VPN, an only a single business rules.  Beware, milage may vary.

Paul Jr 

As far as I know.

~April 24, 2019 there is a large partner conference.

I presume that the event will include announcement, roadmaps, etc.

As far as I know there was also a partner meeting on March 1st, but no news was released after that...

hello

Just upgraded one of our branch office from 17.5.3 to 17.5.4, got some troubles with dhcp (devices doesn't get the gateway ip, ipconfig /renew very slow) and a pppoe connection doesn't came up till i disconnect and reconnect it manually...

Problems start to pop up on XGV17.5.4 MR-4 ...

On Google Chrome 73.0.3683.86, here is what firewall rules look like now :

It happened to me before.  But closing the web page and re-opening it would solve it.  Not this time.  It happens on all firewalls and is now permanent.

Paul Jr

Hi,

i had exactly the same error a while ago. In my case it helped to clear the cache data in Google Chrome. But i think it's the same with other browsers. [;)]

Oups !!!  I forgot to clear the cache this time.  Annoying to say the least.

I had to do it twice ... Meaning clearing the cache + closing app + testing = failed + clearing the cache again + closing app again + worked this time.

Paul Jr

Just a reminder that this is not the thread to post issues that you have with upgrades.