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18.1 ready?

Hey funsters,

I am running two XG Firewalls (XG230 and 450) and still on v17.5.10

I have been watching V18 and as these two XGs are in Production and used heavily I have been reluctant to load the V18 until at least MR1 - today I see MR1 but many users rolling back as WAF / IPS broken and other issues.

What is the general consensus - should I risk it and load v18.1?

I do a heap of Filtering and many FW rules etc so plenty to break....

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0 Bill Roland over 5 years ago

I'd stay away. I upgraded my Sophos "home" edition and it broke my SSL Site to Site back to my office. Log viewer is of course, useless as ever.
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0 M8ey over 5 years ago in reply to Bill Roland

Looking at the MR1 users I am positive I wont be loading it.... maybe MR2 will be the one...
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0 Big_Buck over 5 years ago

Well

The risk that it works is none. Traffic is killed with MR1. DO NOT UPGRADE TO V18 MR1 367 (HW-18.0.1_MR-1.SF300-367) !!!

Or upgrade to v18 354 (HW-18.0.0.SF300-354).

Paul Jr
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0 carbon15 over 5 years ago

Leave MR1 for now, updated a couple last night and one has gone belly up this morning after seemingly being ok for about 6 hours or so. The others are fine but I think I'll be reverting them at a suitable point just in case.

Regards
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0 TheBalmasque over 5 years ago in reply to Big_Buck

Yep, you should not upgrade. There is a major bug in V18 MR1....

After a few minutes the whole traffic gets killed...
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0 intrusus over 5 years ago

In productive environments (customers, etc.) I generally only update when the version has been out for some time and first feedback is given in the community. Here the first v18-GA is still running. Even in my private lab I went back to SFOS 18.0.0 GA-Build354 because SFOS 18.0.1 MR-1 was running unstable.

I would wait for an update, but in general you can say that v18 including new features is definitely preferable to v17.x. I had some unpleasant experiences with the 17.x, even lost a customer.

Update: Other guys seem to have problems with 18.0.1-MR1 too: community.sophos.com/.../v18-mr-1-killing-all-traffic
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0 Sophos User446 over 5 years ago

If you ask me the whole v18 experience so far has been complete pants. If you have a working 17.X stay with that for now.

QA has been terrible and support not much better

Adrian
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0 intrusus over 5 years ago in reply to Sophos User446

Haha so the exact opposite. Also interesting to hear. What exactly bothers you about the V18?
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0 Sophos User446 over 5 years ago in reply to intrusus

Its lack of QA mainly. Had issues with a new customer that nearly led to me losing them as quick as I got them.

It seems apparent that having 3 updates to v18 in a matter of 5 weeks is testament to general issues wouldn't you say.
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0 Big_Buck over 5 years ago in reply to Sophos User446

So far SFOS 18.0.0 GA-Build 354 seems stable.

What bothers me most is the lack of basic crucial features. A real log viewer. A full features DHCP. A NTP server/relay et.c.

Paul Jr
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