First impression and feedback

Hi All,

I migrated my home box from MR7 to v17 and all good.

In my case, the IPS did not start automatically after the reboot.

The other thing is the UI is faster than v16 but the Network menu is very slow compared to the others. I have only 2 NICs and 2 VLAN.

Last thing, where is the policy test?

  • When v17b is finished and in GA land I will have to rebuild my test box as a UTM again because so far the lack of fixes is disappointing.

    No IPv6 improvements, country blocking not fixed, MTA still not built correctly, reports well they are still broken, logs might get included in v17 GA or maybe MR1?, clienteles users still require an email address, hang on they are clientless. Waiting until tomorrow to see the change to daylight savings affects the report generation time? No-one appears to be tracking this bug?

    Ian

    XG115W - v20.0.3 MR-3 - Home

    XG on VM 8 - v21 GA

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  • Ian,

    I can confirm that with v17 I receive daily reports with 2 hours of delay.

  • ChrisKnight said:
    So realistically we're still years away from seeing feature parity with UTM

    My point was not to explain future velocity, and it would be completely misleading if you try to interpret it that way. I only meant to illustrate that new features are typically too expensive to develop during the timeline of a beta.

    We've been working on v17, since v16.5 shipped, with the exclusion of a period of several months, where we focused on increasing our ability release higher quality code. That means that what you see now, was developed during that period, and that's it. That's not to say that all of our engineering capacity was working on v17. Some of our development teams have in that same time, have already been working on the foundations of the next major version of XG, and we'll talk later, about what that brings, but I believe it will answer a number of important criticisms. 

    As for email specifically, you can expect any significant remaining gaps with UTM9, to be closed early 2018.

  • rfcat_vk said:
    country blocking not fixed

    What is broken in country blocking?

  • Speaking more generally to the many other recent replies, I understand that a number of you are disappointed with the improvements in this release. There are two general complaint buckets. One, is that you want more in v17. I was not planning on outlining what's coming next until the end of the beta, but Ill prepare something for later this week, to at least roughly outline what our next step plans are. I think it there is enough concern over feature velocity, that this is needed sooner than I hoped. The other main complaint, is that there are directional concerns, on why we're doing one thing over another. 

    As frustrating as raw feedback can be at times, I do always appreciate it. Rubbing a rough block of wood with silk, won't make the wood any smoother. I'll try to summarize and respond to some of those, in the near future, also. 

     

  • Here the thread:

    https://community.sophos.com/products/xg-firewall/f/firewall-and-policies/76238/country-blocking-not-working-for-a-wan-lan-rule/294125#pi2151=4

    Broken since April 2016 and no one from Sophos gave an official answer on this issue (only few days ago it seems).

    What else we can do AlanT to be heard?

    You should organize a webinar soon and invite some Sophos Partners to explain what you are doing more in depth than a single reply here.

    We are quite disappointed if we look back to 2015 and to this year 2017. In my opinion you should improve the base, first, make it solid and then add layers and layers.

    Regards

  • lferrara said:
    Broken since April 2016 and no one from Sophos gave an official answer on this issue

    yes, this looks like some poor communication, it seems, and I've now discussed this with engineering. It should be done for v17 GA. The problem was that the fix is a rather significant change, and  

    lferrara said:
    In my opinion you should improve the base, first, make it solid and then add layers and layers

    There are two areas that we are currently working on, that are effectively the "base" of the firewall.

    • Configuration and service management
    • UI Framework

    The reason for this, is not that they're unstable or broken, but we believe we can develop features faster, and with higher quality, if we make some significant improvements to these areas. Internally, this is called project Picasso, and development has been underway since before v17 started. Some projects can't be accelerated by doing more in parallel, and they just take time. That doesn't mean we stop innovating until its done, and it doesn't mean what we have today is not ready. We will release v17, then put out a couple more incremental feature updates to v17, before we get to v18, with the some "base" improvements. As I mentioned earlier, I'll outline a bit more about what those are, later this week. 

  • or someone on behalf you should report correctly issue reported here. Another issue is with Bookmarks.

    For the project Picasso, we should see something at the end of next year (I guess) and time goes by and in the meanwhile Sophos is losing credibility.

    XG has some nice and unique Features such as Heartbeat (but here another big issue, it works only with Sophos Cloud) but customers move to soemthing else as soon they discover the basic missing features.

    Make sure you are around more often and not only when a new beta comes out!

    Kind regards,

  • Hi folks,

    an update to the reporting bug that no-one really seems interested in.

    I updated the bios to the current time as previously reported so the report was being generated at approx 1am AEST. Now, last weekend we moved to AEDT and now the report is generated approx 1 hour later.

     

    Ian

    XG115W - v20.0.3 MR-3 - Home

    XG on VM 8 - v21 GA

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  • I know this is completely off topic, but I would like to give a shout out to my friend  . He follows XG more closely than most of the sophos staff on this board that like to mark every statement they make as answer to a legitimate question.  , if you want to know what people are generally asking for, ask Luk to send you his recommendations. I bet kudos and praises for XG will increase overnight if you implement even half of the stuff he recommends.

    Good job Luk.