Hi XG Community!

We're pleased to announce the public Early Access Program release of Sophos Connect 1.1!
The VPN Client is now available from within the WebAdmin of your XG Firewall.

What's New in EAP Sophos Connect 1.1 Auto connect on changes to Network Connectivity

Sophos Connect will automatically determine if the user is connected to an inside or outside (guest) network. If on the guest network, then the VPN…

Hi XG Community!

We've finished CFM v17.1.0 GA. 

What's New Key Features

• Shadow IT management across firewalls
• Improved alerting contents

• Comprehensive management of all features available in Sophos XG Firewall v17.1

Enhancements

• Added additional Settings to Authentication Servers -> RADIUS Server
• Shadow IT discovery support
• Configurable SSL VPN port
• Allow user to edit rule while double clicking on the…

Hi XG Community!

We've finished SFOS v17.5.0 GA. This release is available in stages. In first stage it will be available at MySophos. We then start with a small amount of slots and will increase those over time. Later it will be available to all other installations as well.

Please see the following link for further information regarding upgrade - KBA 123285 Sophos Firewall: How to upgrade the firmware.

What's New…

Hi XG Community!

We've finished SFOS v17.1.4 MR4. This release is available in stages. In first stage it will be available at MySophos. We then start with a small amount of slots and will increase those over time. Later it will be available to all other installations as well.

Please see the following link for further information regarding upgrade - KBA 123285 Sophos Firewall: How to upgrade the firmware.

Issues R…

Hi XG Community! The team is hard at work putting the finishing touches on the next major release of XG Firewall, and it is a huge release, bringing XG Firewall management to Sophos Central, new Synchronized Security features, Wireless APX support, a...

Hi XG Community!

We've finished Wireless Firmware 11.0.005. This firmware is available via pattern update.

Issues Resolved

• NC-37629 [Wireless] SSID not broadcasted on AP10/50 models

Hi XG Community!

We've finished SFOS v17.1.3 MR3. This release is available in stages. In first stage it will be available at MySophos. We then start with a small amount of slots and will increase those over time. Later it will be available to all other installations as well.

Please see the following link for further information regarding upgrade - KBA 123285 Sophos Firewall: How to upgrade the firmware.

 

Issues …

Hi XG Community!

We've finished SFOS v17.0.9 MR9. This release is available at MySophos.

Please see the following link for further information regarding upgrade - KBA 123285 Sophos Firewall: How to upgrade the firmware.

Issues Resolved

This is a specific maintenance release. The change will be available in an upcoming release of SFOS 17.1 as well.

• NC-36106 [Web] Increase default max scan size limit on 550/650/750 mo…

Hi XG Community!

We've finished SFOS v17.1.1 MR1. This release is available in stages. In first stage it will be available at MySophos. We then start with a small amount of slots and will increase those over time. Later it will be available to all other installations as well.

Please see the following link for further information regarding upgrade - KBA 123285 Sophos Firewall: How to upgrade the firmware.

Please note that…

Hi XG Community!

We now have SFOS v17.1.0 GA available. Here's everything you need to know.

Right now, the release is available as manual upgrade to all SFOS versions via MySophos portal.

Please see the following KBA - Sophos Firewall: How to upgrade the firmware: KBA 123285

On-the-box upgrade (new firmware available pop-up & Check for new Firmware) will be made available a little later. Also, On-the-box upgrade will…

Hi XG Community!

We've finished SFOS v17.0.8 MR8. This release is available in stages. In first stage it will be available at MySophos. We then start with a small amount of slots for v17.0 and will increase those over time. Later it will be available to v16.05 installations as well.

Update: SFOS v17.0.8 MR8 is now available to all SFOS installations. It's also available via SFM/CFM.

Notes

• On v16 to v17 update…

Hi XG Community!

We've finished SFOS v17.0.7 MR7. This release is NOT available from within your device as it contains only minor IPS engine optimizations. All changes are included in SF 17.0 MR8 as well.

Hi XG community,

We are giving customers advance notice of upcoming changes to Application signatures in XG Firewall.

These changes will take effect in the week beginning May 21, 2018. They will affect all versions of XG Firewall currently in use.

 

Application name changes

Several of our application signatures have names that are no longer appropriate for the applications they detect or that are inconsistent with our…

Hi XG Community!

We've finished CFM v17.0.0 GA. 

What's New Synchronised Application Control

CFM now has a Synchronized Application Control global summary page showing Apps detected by each Firewalls.

Firewall Rule improvements

The Firewall Rule creation supports the Service widget in Business Rules. The Firewall Rules view page is in sync with new slim look with rule details shown up upon mouse hover.

IKEv2 for…

Hi XG Community!

We've finished Sophos iView v2 - Release 3 (build 3.01.2.009). This release is available to Sophos iView users via our update servers.

Please find the more detailed release notes file here: community.sophos.com/.../Sophos-iView-v3-MR1_5F00_Release-notes.pdf

Issues Resolved

• NCR-2786 – Page gets stuck when device type is changed from Archive Search page.
• NCR-2754 – Reports are not generated for…

Hi XG Community!

We've finished SFM v17.0.0 GA. This release is available from within your device for all SFM installations as of now.

Beside that, the release is available via MySophos portal.

What's New Synchronised Application Control

SFM now has a Synchronised Application Control global summary page showing Apps detected by each Firewalls.

Firewall Rule improvements

The Firewall Rule creation supports the Service…

Hi XG Community!

We've finished SFOS v17.0.6 MR6. This release is available from within your device for all SFOS v17.0 installations as of now.

Besides that, the release is available to all SFOS version via MySophos portal.

Notes

• On v16 to v17 update, SFOS does not set SHA2 truncation on custom IPSec policy. Please see https://community.sophos.com/kb/127867

• Behavior change between SFOS v17.0 MR5 and v17.0 MR6 when…

Hi XG Community!

We've finished SFOS v17.0.5 MR5. This release is available from within your device for all SFOS v17.0 installations as of now.

Besides that, the release is available to all SFOS version via MySophos portal.

Note: There are a few edge cases where some customers may still experience issues using multiple subnets with a single IPSec connection.  The team is working on those and all the last known issues…

Hi XG Community!

We've finished SFOS v17.0.4 MR4. This release is used to pre-image new appliances during manufactoring only.

It is not available from within your device. Please update to SFOS v17.0.5 MR5 directly.

News

• Hardware support only

Issues Resolved

• NC-22666 [Firewall] SATC: Users in exclusion list browse the internet through identity based rule if "show Captive Portal" is enabled in firewall rule

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Hi XG Community!

We've finished SFOS v17.0.3 MR3. This release is available from within your device for all SFOS v17.0 installations as of now.

Besides that, the release is available to all SFOS version via MySophos portal.

Issues Resolved

• NC-25584 [IPsec] IPsec tunnel frequently gets disconnected after migration to v17
• NC-25597 [IPsec] Disabling DPD has no effect
• NC-25641 [IPsec] Improve IPsec failover behavior

…

Hi XG Community!

We've finished SFOS v17.0.2 MR2. This release is available from within your device for all SFOS v17.0 MR1 installations as of now.

Besides that, the release is available to all SFOS version via MySophos portal.

Issues Resolved

Hi XG Community!

We've finished SFOS v16.05.9 MR9. This release is available from within your device for all SFOS installations as of now.

The release is available to all SFOS version via MySophos portal as well.

Note: For customers currently using 16.5 MR8 or older on Azure and want to do a manual firmware update to 17.0 or newer need to install the 16.5 MR9 firmware first.

Issues Resolved

• NC-21428 [Base System

…