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Has anyone braved the update to 9.703 yet?

I am trying to find out how you have faired with the new firmware, after the last one bricked one of my firewalls, and I had to go into to work on a Bank Holiday Monday to fix it before the week started! not happy.

so please let me know if you have had any issues, I was holding off on this until I had heard some feedback, but I have not seen any, but then again I have not searched exhaustively across this forum.



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  • You don't really need to do an exhaustive search, just a simple 9.703 at the top of the forums will suffice.  I haven't had an issue with it since applying the update.

     https://search.sophos.com/#q=9.703&t=Support&sort=relevancy

    and, at the top of the page addressed the only issue anyone really pointed out about it, which has already been fixed.

    https://community.sophos.com/products/unified-threat-management/

    OPNSense 64-bit | Intel Xeon 4-core v3 1225 3.20Ghz
    16GB Memory | 500GB SSD HDD | ATT Fiber 1GB
    (Former Sophos UTM Veteran, Former XG Rookie)

  • Yes, I can see that it seems to be fixed with 9.703-3, but I wanted to find out if anyone had actually taken the plunge and installed it!

    one of the heading actually says "DO NOT INSTALL 9.703", but not which revision, although I do know it is the -2 revision (not the -3)

    I have had a number of issues which the response from Sophos (not their support section but the more senior level teams), leaves a lot to be desire of a professional Security Company.

    1. Red 50 problem that was fixed, then 6 months later (ish) it re-occurred - and they said both times that the issue has been fixed.

    2. release of both the SG and XG firmware which bricks your device - not what I want to hear really.

    3. Sophos released a feature for Central Wireless - which does not work, I am still waiting for the new firmware revision to be released - I believe the firmware update is due out next month.

    4. I have an issue regarding Country Blocking which has taken about a week just to escalate (this second ticket has been open since the start of May), and they are still unable to provide any time frames as to when the problem will be fixed (note that this issue affects both the SG and XG products) - this has been going on since at least end of march that I am aware of.

     

    I have lost faith in what Sophos says right now.

    apologies rant over

    XG & UTM Architect (Systems: XG v18 & UTM 9.7 - Virtual, HW & SW)
    Curious enough to take it apart, skilled enough to put it back together, Clever enough to hide the extra parts when I'm Done!

  • Thanks, the DO NOT INSTALL thread was one I started.  The problem was solved.  I'll go back and mention that in the thread.

    Cheers - Bob

     
    Sophos UTM Community Moderator
    Sophos Certified Architect - UTM
    Sophos Certified Engineer - XG
    Gold Solution Partner since 2005
    MediaSoft, Inc. USA
  • I'm actually going to have to remove 9.703-3 I think as I have been seeing issues with not being able to connect to the internet about every two hours since installing this update.  I have to reboot my hardware to get back online. 

    It wasn't apparent at first due to not very much traffic, but since spending some time at home this weekend, it was very apparent to the point of wanting to trash my provider.  Problem is, I don't believe it is them (this time).

    I've had this issue before with UTM and nothing showing up in logs.  I had to redo my UTM to a previous version and wait a firmware update for it to work right again.

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  • Well i have no idea what the legal terms are, but i would like to see a fork of the utm 9

    back to someone like astaro.

    if you had an issue and wrote to the forum and they could relay to it, you had an fix in "no time".

     

    the way it is for a security product like the utm9 now , is in now way acceptable.

     

     

    cheers from germany

     

     

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  • Well i have no idea what the legal terms are, but i would like to see a fork of the utm 9

    back to someone like astaro.

    if you had an issue and wrote to the forum and they could relay to it, you had an fix in "no time".

     

    the way it is for a security product like the utm9 now , is in now way acceptable.

     

     

    cheers from germany

     

     

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